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Born
(60)
Charlotte Brontë
1816
Anthony Quinn
1915
Ulrich von Hutten
1488
Hippolyte Taine
1828
Alexandre Benois
1870
Elaine May
1932
Vlado Goreski
1958
John Muir
1838
Licio Gelli
1919
Hervé Le Tellier
1957
Nicolas Bedos
1979
John Mortimer
1923
Guity Novin
1944
Fredrik Bajer
1837
Reginald Heber
1783
Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg
1887
Friedrich Fröbel
1782
Petrus van Schendel
1806
Ilia Zdanevich
1894
John Cameron Mitchell
1963
Jacob van Swanenburgh
1571
Alistair MacLean
1922
Nelo Risi
1920
Peter Schneider
1940
François-Léon Sicard
1862
Claude Lefort
1924
Francesco de Mura
1696
Giorgio Pressburger
1937
Paolo Giovio
1483
Albert Weisgerber
1878
Josep Palau i Fabre
1917
Ramon Saizarbitoria
1944
Rollo May
1909
Alfred Maurer
1868
Sanora Babb
1907
Luke Harding
1968
Murathan Mungan
1955
Népomucène Lemercier
1771
Dieter Roth
1930
Ahmed Arif
1927
Johann Rudolf Huber
1668
Sílvio Romero
1851
Olbram Zoubek
1926
Ebiet G. Ade
1954
Jeannette Walls
1960
Josep Anselm Clavé
1824
Hilda Hilst
1930
Jean Hélion
1904
Robert Herrick
1868
Nils Aas
1933
Anselme Mathieu
1828
Charles Grodin
1935
Jaroslav Hutka
1947
Patrick Rambaud
1946
Simon de la Loubère
1642
Sam Vaknin
1961
Johanne Cathrine Krebs
1848
Eugène Siberdt
1851
Rose Maynard Barton
1856
Fritz von Wille
1860
Died
(60)
Mark Twain
1910
Jean Racine
1699
Peter Abelard
1142
Muhammad Iqbal
1938
Pope Francis
2025
Anselm of Canterbury
1109
Sohrab Sepehri
1980
Marie Corelli
1924
Thomas Rowlandson
1827
Boris Pilnyak
1938
Marcel Janco
1984
Mohammad-Taqi Bahar
1951
Alexander II
1073
Rihard Jakopič
1943
Marko Kropyvnytskyi
1910
Ibn al-Adim
1262
Robert Bridges
1930
Salah Jahin
1986
Shankha Ghosh
2021
Aldo Leopold
1948
Jean-François Lyotard
1998
Temistocle Solera
1878
Väinö Linna
1992
Henri Chapu
1891
Shakuntala Devi
2013
Guillaume Guillon-Lethière
1832
Alexander Shishkov
1841
Charles MacArthur
1956
Ľudovít Fulla
1980
Justine Favart
1772
Antonio Balestra
1740
Jan Boeckhorst
1668
Lady Ottoline Morrell
1938
James Kirkwood, Jr.
1989
Cynthia Plaster Caster
2022
Kemal Tahir
1973
Antoine Hamilton
1720
Henry Mosler
1920
Manuel Mujica Lainez
1984
Luis Puenzo
2026
Eduard Asadov
2004
Rihards Zariņš
1939
Gustave Van de Woestijne
1947
Josef Navrátil
1865
Erté
1990
Cornelis de Wael
1667
Bharathidasan
1964
Girolamo Parabosco
1557
Jón Gunnar Árnason
1989
Jerome Rothenberg
2024
María Luisa Pacheco
1982
Abdel Rahman el-Abnudi
2015
Vasile Conta
1882
Pierre Zaccone
1895
Antoine Godeau
1672
Astrid Hjertenæs Andersen
1985
David Mallet
1765
Pietro Della Valle
1652
F. C. Burnand
1917
Lucy Clifford
1929
Works published or unveiled
(6)
Shrek Forever After
2010
Elantris
2005
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
1999
Adams Apples
2011
Kartini
2017
Les Racines du mal
1995