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Born
(60)
Joan Miró
1893
Harold Lloyd
1893
Odilon Redon
1840
Charles Maurras
1868
Arto Paasilinna
1942
Franz Xaver Winterhalter
1805
Henry de Montherlant
1895
Viktor Suvorov
1947
Crispin Glover
1964
Napoleon III
1808
Daniel Chester French
1850
Dinah Craik
1826
Daniel Varujan
1884
Aloysius Bertrand
1807
Lucas Rijneveld
1991
Michel Leiris
1901
Jean-François Raffaëlli
1850
Andy Serkis
1964
Peter S. Beagle
1939
Sebastian Faulks
1953
Spiridon Trikoupis
1788
George Takei
1937
Rachel Whiteread
1963
Pieter Jelles Troelstra
1860
Chiung Yao
1938
Eduardo Acevedo
1853
Bernar Venet
1941
Antoine Vollon
1833
Emmanuel Bove
1898
Paul Poiret
1879
Jurgis Baltrušaitis
1873
Toller Cranston
1949
Martinus Nijhoff
1894
Kang Gyeong-ae
1907
Wincenty Pol
1807
Jan Dobraczyński
1910
Aubrey de Grey
1963
Joseph Delteil
1894
Caresse Crosby
1892
Francesco Rustici
1592
Mari Yamazaki
1967
Dea Loher
1964
Augusto dos Anjo
1884
Rebecca Makkai
1978
Jan Cremer
1940
Vojislav Ilić
1860
Chrystabell
1978
John van de Ruit
1975
Taddeo Kuntze
1727
Gopinath Mohanty
1914
Philip Zilcken
1857
Felice Boselli
1650
Nikolay Krymov
1884
Leslie Phillips
1924
Kurd Lasswitz
1848
Mohammed Ghani Hikmat
1929
Sandro Chia
1946
Herman Bang
1857
Henry Theodore Tuckerman
1813
Friedrich von Sallet
1812
Died
(60)
Bram Stoker
1912
Canaletto
1768
Paul Celan
1970
Ljudevit Gaj
1872
Magdalena Abakanowicz
2017
Enrique Simonet
1927
Archibald MacLeish
1982
Cantinflas
1993
Paul Fort
1960
Alexandre-François Desportes
1743
Aleksei Arbuzov
1986
Salma Jayyusi
2023
Johan Henric Kellgren
1795
Erich Weinert
1953
Andrej Sládkovič
1872
Milovan Đilas
1995
Claudio Coello
1693
Alistair MacLeod
2014
Thomas Phillips
1845
Agnes Block
1704
Briton Rivière
1920
Roberto Bracco
1943
Pedro Lira Rencoret
1912
Anna Molka Ahmed
1994
Hyakken Uchida
1971
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian
2019
William Henry Holmes
1933
Aco Šopov
1982
Hélène Bertaux
1909
Charles Allan Gilbert
1929
Mary Beth Edelson
2021
Lizzy Mercier Descloux
2004
Sonam Gyatso
1588
Richard Ansdell
1885
Hubert-François Gravelot
1773
Zygmunt Vogel
1826
Alberto Magnelli
1971
Ferdinand Peroutka
1978
Antonio Cantafora
2024
Frank R. Stockton
1902
Seán Ó Faoláin
1991
Shakeel Badayuni
1970
Francesco Bissolo
1554
Carl Axel Gottlund
1875
Joseph Wolf
1899
Sergey Gerasimov
1964
Aleksandr Nepomnyashchiy
2007
Fumio Niwa
2005
Gustav Hermann Nachtigal
1885
Sara Jane Lippincott
1904
Luz Pozo Garza
2020
Vilhelm Bissen
1913
Mathieu Le Nain
1677
Shamil Asgarov
2005
Gerard ter Borch the Elder
1662
Ado Vabbe
1961
Christopher Robin Milne
1996
Purvis Young
2010
Lujo Bezeredi
1979
Muhammad al-Fadl ibn Ashur
1970
Works published or unveiled
(3)
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
1841
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
1936
The Murder in the Honjin
1973