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Born
(60)
Karl Marx
1818
Søren Kierkegaard
1813
Henryk Sienkiewicz
1846
Nellie Bly
1864
Niko Pirosmani
1862
Eugène Labiche
1815
Hank Green
1980
Lance Henriksen
1940
Jerzy Skolimowski
1938
Don Juan Manuel
1282
Miklós Radnóti
1909
Sergey Solovyov
1820
Max Elskamp
1862
Pierre Schoendoerffer
1928
Christopher Morley
1890
Atsushi Nakajima
1909
Frans Francken the Younger
1581
Ants Laikmaa
1866
Scott Westerfeld
1963
Ahmad Javad
1892
Albert Aurier
1865
Stanislaus Hosius
1504
Catherynne M. Valente
1979
Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva
1871
Jessie Cave
1987
Dionisio Fierros
1827
Greg
1931
Todd Strasser
1950
Sylvia Pankhurst
1882
Ernest-Eugène Hiolle
1834
Leo Nardus
1868
Leo Lionni
1910
Soledad Acosta
1833
John William Draper
1811
Eugène Cormon
1810
Bernard Pivot
1935
Déborah Heissler
1976
Aleksandra Antonova
1932
Kyōsuke Kindaichi
1882
Kristofer Janson
1841
Pat Frank
1908
Hans Pfitzner
1869
Yurii Lypa
1900
Kenneth Cook
1929
Ibrayım Yusupov
1929
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
1898
Konstantin Gorbatov
1876
Jean-Louis Hamon
1821
Kamagurka
1956
Franz Nölken
1884
E. A. Mario
1884
Georges Lafenestre
1837
Guru Amar Das
1479
Sarah Choate Sears
1858
Louisa Aslanian
1906
Gyula Háy
1900
Francisco Villarroel
1965
Hamid Ismailov
1954
Horace de Vere Cole
1881
Halfdan Egedius
1877
Died
(60)
Bret Harte
1902
Mór Jókai
1904
Frithjof Schuon
1998
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
1664
Martiros Saryan
1972
Philippe Sollers
2023
Charles Gleyre
1874
Sarah Kirsch
2013
Ai Qing
1996
Eva Gonzalès
1883
James Branch Cabell
1958
Mikhail Botvinnik
1995
Georges Ohnet
1918
Henri Laurens
1954
Anton Buttigieg
1983
Park Kyung-ni
2008
Haidar Haidar
2023
Alberto Savinio
1952
Samuel Cooper
1672
Pierre Jean George Cabanis
1808
Isabel Briggs Myers
1980
Arthur Laurents
2011
Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti
1789
Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva
1955
Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury
1890
Michael Shaara
1988
Alfred Hermann Fried
1921
Henry Moret
1913
Szymon Szymonowic
1629
Sonja Åkesson
1977
Fujiwara no Ietaka
1237
Jacob Willemsz Delff
1601
Rosario de Acuña
1923
Charles Robert Leslie
1859
Etelka Kenéz Heka
2024
Olof Arenius
1766
Beatrice Harraden
1936
Chit Phumisak
1966
Novera Ahmed
2015
Guðmundur Kamban
1945
Julius Middelthun
1886
Camillo Berneri
1937
Mário Quintana
1994
Şeker Ahmed Paşa
1907
Jules Laurens
1901
Irmgard Keun
1982
Eugène Girardet
1907
Jean-Claude Pascal
1992
Hans Smidth
1917
Pudhumaipithan
1948
Alfred Grévin
1892
Carl Vogt
1895
Morris Graves
2001
Dorothea Maria Graff
1743
Tytus Czyżewski
1945
Erasmus Alberus
1553
Haroldo Conti
1976
Sophía Vári
2023
Nishiyama Sōin
1682
Marianne Hainisch
1936
Works published or unveiled
(8)
Gladiator
2000
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
2017
A Monster Calls
2011
A Widow for One Year
1998
Dark Places
2009
Ragged Dick
1868
Ursonate
1932
An American Novel
2014