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Born
(60)
Mary Wollstonecraft
1759
Samuel Finley Breese Morse
1791
Mumtaz Mahal
1593
Ulysses S. Grant
1822
Herbert Spencer
1820
Jules Lemaître
1853
Fethullah Gülen
1941
Cecil Day-Lewis
1904
Theodor Kittelsen
1857
Hovhannes Shiraz
1915
August Wilson
1945
Claudine Guérin de Tencin
1682
Jessie Redmon Fauset
1882
Gʻafur Gʻulom
1903
Arnulf Øverland
1889
Pencho Slaveykov
1866
Ludwig Bemelmans
1898
Claude Gillot
1673
Tim LaHaye
1926
Coretta Scott King
1927
Edwin Morgan
1920
Enzo Mari
1932
Frank Belknap Long
1901
Erik Pevernagie
1939
Zhang Jie
1937
Adamantios Korais
1748
François Béroalde de Verville
1556
Maurice Baring
1874
Catherine Webb
1986
Patricia Lockwood
1982
Edward Whymper
1840
Rachel Caine
1962
Claire Clairmont
1798
Stas Mikhaylov
1969
Didier Daeninckx
1949
Albert von Keller
1844
Benjamin Vautier
1829
Lyubomir Levchev
1935
Claude Farrère
1876
André Baillon
1875
Philip Abelson
1913
Emil Jakob Schindler
1842
Jack Klugman
1922
Jaroslav Róna
1957
Victoria, Lady Welby
1837
Astrid Roemer
1947
Aminata Sow Fall
1941
Elena Balletti
1686
Wlastimil Hofman
1881
Gabriel Orozco
1962
Marta Ehrlich
1910
Emilio Sala
1864
Karl Asplund
1890
Mai Dantsig
1930
William Light
1786
Hans Olde
1855
Séverine
1855
Nikolay Novikov
1744
George Petty
1894
Julian Stryjkowski
1905
Died
(60)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1882
Carlos Castañeda
1998
William Jones
1794
Kwame Nkrumah
1972
Gerard van Honthorst
1656
Jan van Goyen
1656
Antonio Gramsci
1937
Hart Crane
1932
Willem Frederik Hermans
1995
Vito Acconci
2017
Vivant Denon
1825
Manoj Das
2021
Dorothee Sölle
2003
Ion Heliade Rădulescu
1872
Charles Laval
1894
Dulce María Loynaz
1997
Julian Ashton
1942
George Alec Effinger
2002
C. J. Sansom
2024
Ilmari Kianto
1970
J. Allen Hynek
1986
Heo Mok
1682
Andrei Petrovich Ryabushkin
1904
Vasco Graça Moura
2014
Charles Alston
1977
Eavan Boland
2020
Girolamo Muziano
1592
Gabriel Ferrater
1972
Joaquín Mir Trinxet
1940
Otto Treßler
1965
Hendrik Bulthuis
1945
Aída Bortnik
2013
Ralston Crawford
1978
Antonio Vassilacchi
1629
Ernie Barnes
2009
Eduard Imhof
1986
Fríðrikur Petersen
1917
Feroz Khan
2009
Marie-Victoire Jaquotot
1855
Thomas Stothard
1834
Meir ben Baruch
1293
Leonardo Fea
1903
Charles de Mazade
1893
Ernst Hofmann
1945
Kazys Binkis
1942
Louis Joseph César Ducornet
1856
Émile de Girardin
1881
Harold Cohen
2016
Ernest Slingeneyer
1894
Leopold Buczkowski
1989
Ioannis Makriyannis
1864
David Wilkerson
2011
Hamo Beknazarian
1965
Gilles Grangier
1996
Gustav Ucicky
1961
Robert Velter
1991
Heinrich Altherr
1947
Alfred Sully
1879
Verena Loewensberg
1986
Henry Parkes
1896
Works published or unveiled
(4)
The Guns of Navarone
1961
Shoeshine
1946
A Day in the Life of America
2019
Siamnussati
1918