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Born
(60)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
1880
Orson Welles
1915
Harry Martinson
1904
Gaston Leroux
1868
George Clooney
1961
Alain-René Lesage
1668
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
1918
Christian Morgenstern
1871
Ludwig Börne
1786
Àngel Guimerà
1845
Erich Fried
1921
James Turrell
1943
Pietro Bernini
1562
Ariel Dorfman
1942
Jeffery Deaver
1950
Yasushi Inoue
1907
Aristide Bruant
1851
Randall Jarrell
1914
Gian Paolo Lomazzo
1538
Stephen Gaghan
1965
Arvid August Afzelius
1785
Safvet beg Bašagić
1870
Maxim Fadeev
1968
Jakob Bogdani
1658
Willem Kloos
1859
Diego de Saavedra Fajardo
1584
Martha Nussbaum
1947
Rasul Rza
1910
Rehman Rahi
1925
Nestor Basterretxea
1924
Júlio César de Mello e Souza
1895
Mary Martha Sherwood
1775
Gregorio Martínez Sierra
1881
Tom Bergeron
1955
François Andrieux
1759
Eric Powell
1886
Yaeko Nogami
1885
Naela Chohan
1958
Marie-Aude Murail
1954
Martin R. Delany
1812
Max Ophüls
1902
Bedřich Hrozný
1879
Juan Donoso Cortés
1809
Jóannes Patursson
1866
Wilhelm Schirmer
1802
Charlotte de Rothschild
1825
Árpád Szenes
1897
Sujata Bhatt
1956
Theodore H. White
1915
Elizabeth Drew Stoddard
1823
Lastenia Larriva
1848
Frank Bramley
1857
Margaret Cole
1893
Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath
1932
Arvid Mörne
1876
Karl Christian Friedrich Krause
1781
Brian Froud
1947
Jesse Waugh
1974
Olga Broumas
1949
Max Eyth
1836
Died
(60)
Maurice Maeterlinck
1949
Henry David Thoreau
1862
L. Frank Baum
1919
Johan Ludvig Runeberg
1877
Alexander von Humboldt
1859
Dieric Bouts
1475
Konstantin Somov
1939
Franz von Lenbach
1904
Otto van Veen
1629
Adolph Freiherr Knigge
1796
Lucian Blaga
1961
Giulio Andreotti
2013
Carlo Bazzi
1947
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
1746
Jamal Naji
2018
Maria Lassnig
2014
Frans Francken the Younger
1642
María Luisa Bombal
1980
Patricia A. McKillip
2022
Farley Mowat
2014
Agnes Smedley
1950
Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
1922
François-Frédéric Lemot
1827
Anne Barnard
1825
Barry B. Longyear
2025
Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert
1790
Viktor Dragunsky
1972
François Pompon
1933
Bernard Leach
1979
Pim Fortuyn
2002
Paolo Ferrari
2018
Jeanne Galzy
1977
Haruo Satō
1964
Lola Liivat
2025
José Jiménez Aranda
1903
Dorothy B. Hughes
1993
Kuki Shūzō
1941
Bernard Pivot
2024
Carl Röchling
1920
Qian Liu
932
Shiv Kumar Batalvi
1973
Johann Caspar Füssli
1782
Nikolay Krymov
1958
Shanta Gandhi
2002
Badiozzaman Forouzanfar
1970
Lubna Agha
2012
Stevan Raičković
2007
Jean-Joseph Espercieux
1840
Carel Steven Adama van Scheltema
1924
John Watson
1907
Una Marson
1965
Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
1954
Judah P. Benjamin
1884
Barbra Ring
1955
Nathaniel Lee
1692
Nicolas-Pierre Loir
1679
Bertel Gripenberg
1947
Vagharsh Vagharshian
1959
Costantino Nivola
1988
Mammad Rahim
1977
Works published or unveiled
(8)
Shrek the Third
2007
All the Light We Cannot See
2014
Nayak
1966
Désert
1980
A Troublesome Inheritance
2014
Logico
2014
The Great Derangement
2008
The Devils
2025