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Born
(60)
Joseph Heller
1923
Guido Gezelle
1830
Joseph Addison
1672
Wes Anderson
1969
Karel van Mander the Elder
1548
José de Alencar
1829
Lucas van Leyden
1494
Giovannino Guareschi
1908
Yasmina Reza
1959
Yannis Ritsos
1909
Jules Breton
1827
Ignazio Silone
1900
Benjamin Henry Latrobe
1764
Theo Van Gogh
1857
Willem van Aelst
1627
Hugo Alfvén
1872
Raoul Servais
1928
Romaine Brooks
1874
Marie Corelli
1855
Rita Coolidge
1945
Cecilia Beaux
1855
George Inness
1825
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
1633
Viktor Astafyev
1924
Antal Szerb
1901
Christophe Plantin
1520
Al-Mustazhir
1078
Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt
1566
Marcel Prévost
1862
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
1881
Mary Harris Jones
1830
Frederick Sandys
1829
Lady Sarah Chatto
1964
Radoslav Rochallyi
1980
Werewere Liking
1950
Aleksander Wat
1900
Terry Southern
1924
Adelardo López de Ayala y Herrera
1828
J. Allen Hynek
1910
Marilar Aleixandre
1947
Athanasios Christopoulos
1772
Modest Tchaikovsky
1850
Judith Sargent Murray
1751
Jean-Joseph Weerts
1846
Vincenzo Cardarelli
1887
Adelsteen Normann
1848
Francesco Robba
1698
Jacek Dehnel
1980
Scott Carpenter
1925
Jemima Blackburn
1823
Percy French
1854
Ilyas Zhansugurov
1894
Karl Isidor Beck
1817
August Cappelen
1827
Akif İzzətulla oğlu Əsgərov
1940
Joanna Lumley
1946
Jacob Gordin
1853
Ambrosius Stub
1705
Agnes Börjesson
1827
Judith Scott
1943
Died
(60)
John Dryden
1700
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar
1896
Michael Psellos
1078
Gordon Lightfoot
2023
Willem van Aelst
1683
Princess Margaret of Connaught
1920
Niccolò Tommaseo
1874
David Livingstone
1873
Morteza Motahhari
1979
José Enrique Rodó
1917
T. M. Aluko
2010
Pieter Post
1669
Mihály Munkácsy
1900
Asger Jorn
1973
Nicolas Coustou
1733
Abbé Delille
1813
Alexandros Panagoulis
1976
Shams al-Din al-Sakhawi
1497
Dirck Barendsz.
1592
Epiphanius of Salamis
403
Ferdinand Gregorovius
1891
François de Troy
1730
Jacques de Vitry
1240
William II of Villehardouin
1278
Marinus II
946
Arturo Graf
1913
Louis Welden Hawkins
1910
Pietro Antonio Solari
1493
André Gill
1885
Butrus al-Bustani
1883
John Quincy Adams Ward
1910
Itzhak Katzenelson
1944
Sylvia Townsend Warner
1978
Delara Darabi
2009
Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel
1809
Kanō Sansetsu
1651
Jacques d'Arthois
1686
Everett Shinn
1953
Hobbe Smith
1942
Cristoforo Solari
1524
Thomas Cooper Gotch
1931
Anatoly Aleksin
2017
Robert Walter Weir
1889
Mammad Said Ordubadi
1950
Gayane Khachaturian
2009
Girija Vyas
2025
Christian Knorr von Rosenroth
1689
John Kells Ingram
1907
Pierre Jean François Turpin
1840
Joseph Csaky
1971
Julian Ochorowicz
1917
Johan Oscar Smith
1943
Christiana Mariana von Ziegler
1760
Alexandre-François Caminade
1862
Ludwig Büchner
1899
Takashi Nagai
1951
Denise Robins
1985
Alexander Kaufmann
1893
Ejler Bille
2004
Harold Nicolson
1968
Works published or unveiled
(60)
The Great Gatsby
2013
White Fang
1906
Irises
1889
Mansfield Park
1814
The Remains of the Day
1989
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
1992
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
2003
God Is Not Great
2007
Five Little Pigs
1942
The Dispossessed
1974
Good Omens
1990
Apur Sansar
1959
Caligula
1944
Toto the Hero
1991
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
2007
Zuleikha
2015
Babel-17
1966
A Suitable Boy
1993
All the Pretty Horses
1992
Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow
1790
The Shack
2007
Rant
2007
On the Trail of the Bremen Town Musicians
1973
What Is a Woman?
2022
Cyteen
1988
Dead Until Dark
2001
Zorro
2005
Nosaltres, els valencians
1962
Houston, Houston, Do You Read?
1976
The Murderbot Diaries
2017
The Inverted World
1974
A Bend in the River
1979
Pigeons from Hell
1938
Suttree
1979
The Poppy War
2018
Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
1965
Slave Labour
2012
Aranyak
1976
A River Runs Through It
1976
Eijitsu Shōhin
1910
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
2012
The Water Knife
2015
The Affirmation
1981
Ship Breaker
2010
Picking on Peach Blossom
1990
Le Baiser au lépreux
1922
The Obstacle Is the Way
2014
The Changeover
1984
We Need New Names
2013
Gran Elefant dret
2009
Frisk
1991
The Lazarus Project
2008
Interventions
2007
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
2000
Bone Dance
1991
Godplayer
1983
El carrer de les Camèlies
1966
Meridian
1976
De Niro's Game
2006
The path of the English
2003