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Born
(60)
Satyajit Ray
1921
Novalis
1772
Theodor Herzl
1860
Jerome K. Jerome
1859
Gottfried Benn
1886
Ichiyō Higuchi
1872
Charles Gleyre
1806
Serge Reggiani
1922
Lyuben Karavelov
1834
Edward Elmer Smith
1890
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
1860
Robert W. Wood
1868
Athanasius Kircher
1602
Henrik Steffens
1773
Lorenz Hart
1895
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
1950
Mon Laferte
1983
Zoé Valdés
1959
Hendrick Dubbels
1621
Hariton Pushwagner
1940
Nana Kitade
1987
John Galt
1779
Larisa Reisner
1895
Helene von Druskowitz
1856
Jacob Christoph Le Blon
1667
John André
1750
Albert Küchler
1803
Sherko Bekas
1940
Marten Toonder
1912
Yoram Kaniuk
1930
William Camden
1551
Hedda Hopper
1885
Fanny Geefs
1807
Ki Hajar Dewantara
1889
Urs Fischer
1973
Esther Freud
1963
Martha Grimes
1931
James Holmes
1924
Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy
1952
Norma Aleandro
1936
Ellie Kemper
1980
Maurice Estève
1904
Augustus Egg
1816
Amos Kenan
1927
Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni
1695
Bernard Slade
1930
Eva Aeppli
1925
Henri Delaborde
1811
Ernst Legal
1881
Ulla Poulsen Skou
1905
Heva Coomans
1860
Charlotte Armstrong
1905
Peggy Bacon
1895
Willi Bredel
1901
Vladimír Javorský
1962
Max von Gallwitz
1852
Adolf Hyła
1897
Edith Anna Somerville
1858
B. B. Lal
1921
Bosiljka Pušić
1936
Died
(60)
Leonardo da Vinci
1519
Alfred de Musset
1857
Paulo Freire
1997
Salomon Bochner
1982
Gustav Landauer
1919
Ruth Rendell
2015
Lynn Redgrave
2010
William Beckford
1844
Evelyn De Morgan
1919
Athanasius of Alexandria
373
Augusto Boal
2009
Mohammed Dib
2003
Veniamin Kaverin
1989
A. R. Penck
2017
Mary Moser
1819
Penelope Delta
1941
Marilyn French
2009
Marin Držić
1567
Blaga Dimitrova
2003
Antoni Malczewski
1826
Michael Blake
2015
Ibrāhīm tooqān
1941
Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria
1955
Valentin Yudashkin
2023
Antun Branko Šimić
1925
Blaise Alexandre Desgoffe
1901
Robert Arthur Jr.
1969
Petras Cvirka
1947
Izet Sarajlić
2002
Adolf Erbslöh
1947
Tokay Mammadov
2018
William Moulton Marston
1947
Theodore Earl Butler
1936
Tufan Miñnullin
2012
Elisabeth Cruciger
1535
Jan Štursa
1925
Hialmar Rendahl
1969
Alphonse de Châteaubriant
1951
Su Manshu
1918
Martin Desjardins
1694
Jules Blanchard
1916
Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo
1776
Abelardo Castillo
2017
Stjepan Gradić
1683
Julius Sturm
1896
Hermann Burmeister
1892
Paul Aler
1727
James Gates Percival
1856
Jack Kemp
2009
Bram Bogart
2012
Vieira Portuense
1805
Emile Habibi
1996
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll
1914
Florence Carlyle
1923
Jean Guillaume Moitte
1810
Žarko Petan
2014
Janus Kamban
2009
Edma Morisot
1921
Olle Bærtling
1981
Emil Wiesel
1943
Works published or unveiled
(6)
The History of Love
2005
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
2019
Moi, Antoine de Tounens, roi de Patagonie
1981
Digging to America
2006
The Lollipop Shoes
2007
La professionalità dell'insegnante di canto
2023