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Born
(60)
Rabindranath Tagore
1861
Władysław Reymont
1867
Robert Browning
1812
Olympe de Gouges
1748
Angela Carter
1940
Almudena Grandes
1960
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1927
Stanisław Przybyszewski
1868
Peter Carey
1943
Archibald MacLeish
1892
Leonid Leonov
1899
Marjorie Boulton
1924
Gene Wolfe
1931
Gary Cooper
1901
Willem Elsschot
1882
Anatoly Lukyanov
1930
Thomas Piketty
1971
Michael Rosen
1946
Effie Gray
1828
Marco Casagrande
1971
Anne Baxter
1923
Jenny Saville
1970
Dániel Berzsenyi
1776
Ilmari Kianto
1874
Iovianus Pontanus
1426
Horst Bienek
1930
Joseph Joubert
1754
Tawfiq Ziad
1929
Nirupama Devi
1883
Alfred Moquin-Tandon
1804
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
1847
Volker Braun
1939
Milo Moiré
1987
Boris Slutsky
1919
Veikko Huovinen
1927
Adolf von Harnack
1851
Alfred Edward Woodley Mason
1865
Fyodor Chesnokov
1896
Lorenzo Quinn
1966
János Vajda
1827
Jordi Bonet
1932
Renée Erdős
1878
Lluís Llach
1948
Layla Al-Attar
1944
Philippe Geluck
1954
Ruggero Deodato
1939
Isabelle de Montolieu
1751
Jenny Joseph
1931
Henri Pourrat
1887
Christian Sebastia
1974
François-Auguste Parseval-Grandmaison
1759
Evaristo Carriego
1883
Monika Sosnowska
1972
Thorvald Niss
1842
Karl Girardet
1813
Deborah Butterfield
1949
Denis Mandarino
1964
Zabihollah Safa
1911
Syreś Boläeń
1958
Thom Hartmann
1951
Died
(60)
Caspar David Friedrich
1840
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
1966
Josef Hoffmann
1956
Charles De Coster
1879
Ludovic Halévy
1908
Octavian Goga
1938
James Nasmyth
1890
Charles Jacque
1894
James George Frazer
1941
Charles Sheeler
1965
José María Heredia y Heredia
1839
Elbert Green Hubbard
1915
Richard Cumberland
1811
Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir
2010
Jacques Auguste de Thou
1617
Boris Ryzhy
2001
Ayn al-Quzat Hamadani
1131
George Topîrceanu
1937
Zanobi Machiavelli
1479
Harutyun Kalents
1967
Felix Weingartner
1942
Boris Savinkov
1925
Ray Harryhausen
2013
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
2000
Claude-Louis Châtelet
1795
Ermanno Olmi
2018
Franz von Pocci
1876
Sayakbay Karalaev
1971
Arnold van Gennep
1957
Haldun Taner
1986
Jean Vanier
2019
Anton Mussert
1946
Charles de Brosses
1777
Wilhelm Filchner
1957
Prince Kusakabe
689
Matthias Alexander Castrén
1852
Gottlieb Schick
1812
Gyula Háy
1975
Salmon P. Chase
1873
Margaret Cole
1980
Maks Velo
2020
Kanō Naonobu
1650
Durga Bhagwat
2002
Albert Meltzer
1996
Badura Afganli
2002
Guido Boggiani
1902
Cornelis Bos
1555
Johannes Meintjes
1980
Anton van den Wyngaerde
1571
Teodor Buchholz
1942
Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgeois
1832
Elaine Sturtevant
2014
Wiktor Tołkin
2013
Ion Ghica
1897
Sebastiano Bombelli
1719
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
1868
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon
2024
Raffi Lavie
2007
Angelo Rinaldi
2025
Adam Bahdaj
1985
Works published or unveiled
(7)
The Fifth Element
1997
The Fountainhead
1943
Fatherland
1992
The 5th Wave
2013
Pancawarna
1999
The Meursault Investigation
2014
Sarum
1987