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Born
(60)
Thornton Wilder
1897
Nick Hornby
1957
Mariama Bâ
1929
Taksin
1734
Hervé Bazin
1911
Jan Davidsz. de Heem
1606
Peter Doig
1959
George Seaton
1911
Eliza Acton
1799
Birgitta Jónsdóttir
1967
John Ford
1586
George Adamski
1891
Cynthia Ozick
1928
Henry Vaughan
1621
Camillo Sitte
1843
Jaime Torres Bodet
1902
William Gilmore Simms
1806
Regina Ghazaryan
1915
Giovanni Battista Riccioli
1598
Oton Iveković
1869
Simone Pignoni
1611
Robert Lefèvre
1756
Patrizia Cavalli
1947
Nicolas Louis François de Neufchâteau
1750
Adam František Kollár
1718
Robert Blair
1699
Frans Ykens
1601
Vasily Kamensky
1884
Thomas Vaughan
1621
Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
1912
Jens Adolf Jerichau
1816
Edmonde Charles-Roux
1920
Timothée de Fombelle
1973
Catherine Ryan Hyde
1955
Carol Rama
1918
Susan Fenimore Cooper
1813
John N. Gray
1948
Carl Wilhelm Oseen
1879
Irena Klepfisz
1941
Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
1794
Baptista Mantuanus
1447
Han Bennink
1942
Anton Wildgans
1881
María Cristina Vilanova
1915
Gyrithe Lemche
1866
Sherrie Levine
1947
Joseph Porphyre Pinchon
1871
Rudolf Wiegmann
1804
Ion Vinea
1895
Erín Moure
1955
J. Rodolfo Wilcock
1919
André Robert de Nerciat
1739
Karl Friedrich Henckell
1864
Jouko Turkka
1942
Semyon Shchedrin
1745
Valeriya
1968
Frans Luycx
1604
Pierre Assouline
1953
Loung Ung
1970
Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato
1812
Died
(60)
Gabriel García Márquez
2014
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
1695
Benjamin Franklin
1790
Aimé Césaire
2008
Piet Hein
1996
Proclus
485
Louise Nevelson
1988
Bessie Emery Head
1986
Jan van Kessel the Elder
1679
Jorge Isaacs
1895
Alf Sjöberg
1980
Inji Aflatoun
1989
Kazuo Koike
2019
Alan García
2019
Domenico Gnoli
1970
Ibn Zaydun
1071
László Mednyánszky
1919
Madame de Sévigné
1696
Chaim Herzog
1997
Aleksandr Golovin
1930
Jan Kotěra
1923
Louis-Frederic Schützenberger
1903
Hannah Webster Foster
1840
Yi Sang
1937
Joachim Camerarius
1574
Georges d'Espagnat
1950
Luigi Bienaimé
1878
Lucy Larcom
1893
Alexander Mackenzie
1892
Aminu Kano
1983
Geysar Kashiyeva
1972
Hans Purrmann
1966
Bogd Khan
1924
Basil Bunting
1985
William Henry Ireland
1835
Mikhail Tanich
2008
Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain
1795
Niko Lomouri
1915
Abraham César Lamoureux
1692
Manwel Dimech
1921
Ljubomir Simović
2025
Thomas Gold Appleton
1884
Johann Mattheson
1764
Rudolf Wiegmann
1865
Antonio Fontanesi
1882
Eleanor Greatorex
1908
Peter Anker
1832
Robert Atkins
2003
Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1933
Guglielmo Borremans
1744
Eugene von Guerard
1901
Edna Andrade
2008
Angelica Facius
1887
Anna Munthe-Norstedt
1936
Henri Testelin
1695
Rafael Yela Günther
1942
Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Raguenet
1793
Louis Gustave Vapereau
1906
Arthur Hertzberg
2006
Carlos Graça
2013
Works published or unveiled
(7)
Black Peter
1964
House of Suns
2008
Tango with Me
2011
L'hèroe
1903
To Our Friends
2015
Divisadero
2007
La longue marche des gays
2002