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Born
(60)
Jaroslav Hašek
1883
Larry Niven
1938
Naomi Novik
1973
Hans Poelzig
1869
John Boyne
1971
Kaspar Hauser
1812
Burt Young
1940
Amanda Palmer
1976
Luigi Russolo
1885
Stephen Harper
1959
Philip de László
1869
Jacopo da Empoli
1551
Francesco Primaticcio
1504
Annie Dillard
1945
Juhan Liiv
1864
Beata Pozniak
1960
Yoshitoshi
1839
Herbert Ferber
1906
Juraj Jakubisko
1938
Jaume Cabré
1947
Gaston III, Count of Foix
1331
P. C. Cast
1960
Franz Defregger
1835
Ignazio Danti
1536
Alda da Graça
1926
Alessandro Barbero
1959
Jeroen Brouwers
1940
John Crowe Ransom
1888
Dorival Caymmi
1914
Travis Scott
1991
François Morellet
1926
Pontus de Tyard
1521
Kunal Nayyar
1981
Paula Ribó González
1990
James Grady
1949
Jac Ahrenberg
1847
José Amador de los Ríos
1818
David Manners
1900
Andrey Gubin
1974
Carolina Carlesimo
1867
Eva Illouz
1961
Jean-François Portaels
1818
Edmund Cooper
1926
Tony Harrison
1937
Gerda Lerner
1920
Luise Rinser
1911
Alice Babette Toklas
1877
Janina Konarska
1900
Sheldon Harnick
1924
Helen Vendler
1933
Johannes Spilberg
1619
Christian Weise
1642
Uladzimir Ceslier
1951
Uche Okeke
1933
Ulla Hahn
1945
Félix de Azúa
1944
Watse Cuperus
1891
Travis Mills
1989
Justine Greening
1969
Erni Krusten
1900
Died
(60)
Édouard Manet
1883
Paul Auster
2024
Lucan
65
Ernesto Sabato
2011
Georg Baselitz
2026
Nizar Qabbani
1998
Sergio Leone
1989
Anna de Noailles
1933
Jens Peter Jacobsen
1885
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
2006
Alfred Edward Housman
1936
Gustav Freytag
1895
Jean Moréas
1910
Kafū Nagai
1959
Jean-Baptiste Oudry
1755
Fran Krsto Frankopan
1671
Eustache Le Sueur
1655
Lyubov Panchenko
2022
Panos Terlemezyan
1941
Sarah Josepha Hale
1879
Jessie Redmon Fauset
1961
Marisol Escobar
2016
Richard Huelsenbeck
1974
Petar Zrinski
1671
Luis Muñoz Marín
1980
Paul Poiret
1944
Birger Sjöberg
1929
Peter Andreas Heiberg
1841
Xavier de Montépin
1902
Peter Huchel
1981
Richard Fariña
1966
Otto Jespersen
1943
Antoine Vitez
1990
August Hagborg
1921
Friedrich Kayssler
1945
Daniel Berrigan
2016
Vicente Risco
1963
Borys Oliynyk
2017
James Montgomery
1854
Philip Hermogenes Calderon
1898
Oskar Bye
1939
Marcus Thrane
1890
Beatrice Webb
1943
Zelda
1984
Kundanika Kapadia
2020
Yi Bangja
1989
Octave Pirmez
1883
Slava Zaitsev
2023
Georges Lagrange
2004
Christina Robertson
1854
Evald Okas
2011
Clara Campoamor
1972
Marsha Mehran
2014
Giovanni Domenico Cerrini
1681
Paul du Chaillu
1903
Junichi Watanabe
2014
Jirō Osaragi
1973
Richard Scarry
1994
Friedrich Lienhard
1929
Jacques Presser
1970
Works published or unveiled
(7)
Wolf Hall
2009
The Shelters of Stone
2002
Five Modern No Plays
1956
Blood Follows
2002
Unless
2002
The King of Kahel
2008
Metaphysical Dog
2013