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Born
(60)
Roberto Rossellini
1906
Thomas Pynchon
1937
Jean Giraud
1938
Pat Barker
1943
Roddy Doyle
1958
Henry Dunant
1828
Gary Snyder
1930
Sergei Gerasimov
1906
Giovanni Battista Gaulli
1639
Edward Gibbon
1737
Cristina Comencini
1956
José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior
1850
Edmund Wilson
1895
Darren Hayes
1972
Naomi Klein
1970
George Woodcock
1912
Tom of Finland
1920
Peter Benchley
1940
David Attenborough
1926
Kwame Anthony Appiah
1954
Aleksandr Deyneka
1899
Alphonse Legros
1837
Ludvig Karsten
1876
Candice Night
1971
Kazuo Koike
1936
Keiji Inafune
1965
Francis Quarles
1592
Jane Roberts
1929
Bertalan Székely
1835
Potap
1981
Georg Muche
1895
José María Pemán
1897
Mongane Wally Serote
1944
Andrea Vaccaro
1604
Antonie Sminck Pitloo
1790
Fulton J. Sheen
1895
Lubo Kristek
1943
Petru Dumitriu
1924
Sylvia Sleigh
1916
Charlotte Maria Tucker
1821
J. Meade Falkner
1858
Martino Altomonte
1657
Ana Hatherly
1929
Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
1835
Momoko Sakura
1965
Robert Ingersoll Aitken
1878
Beth Henley
1952
António José da Silva
1705
Adolphe-Basile Routhier
1839
André-Paul Duchâteau
1925
Nora Marks Dauenhauer
1927
Sloan Wilson
1920
Carlo Maria Maggi
1630
Nathaniel Dance-Holland
1735
Sophus Schandorph
1836
Andrea Alciato
1492
Mikko Rimminen
1975
William Walker
1824
André Obey
1892
Stanisław Trembecki
1739
Died
(60)
Gustave Flaubert
1880
Paul Gauguin
1903
John Fante
1983
Pietro Longhi
1785
John Stuart Mill
1873
Maurice Sendak
2012
Antoine Lavoisier
1794
Theodore Sturgeon
1985
Robert A. Heinlein
1988
Hugo Alfvén
1960
Ethel Smyth
1944
Sébastien Bourdon
1671
Kōji Suzuki
2026
Oswald Spengler
1936
Benedict II
685
John II
535
Augustin Pajou
1809
Boniface IV
615
José de Madrazo y Agudo
1859
Duncan Grant
1978
Christian August Lorentzen
1828
Elmer Rice
1967
Vittoria Aganoor
1910
Simon Hollósy
1918
Elena Fortún
1952
Avram Davidson
1993
Andrea Navagero
1529
Thomas Baines
1875
Jan Sluijters
1957
Uri Zvi Grinberg
1981
Bernard Picart
1733
Pita Amor
2000
Alcides Arguedas
1946
Kim Chi-ha
2022
Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras
1712
Elizabeth Robins
1952
Jean Carrière
2005
Rita Lee
2023
Itō Shinsui
1972
Taddeo Kuntze
1793
Vera Zasulich
1919
Gerolamo Rovetta
1910
Jones Very
1880
Paul Merwart
1902
Julia Codesido
1979
Taylor Mead
2013
Joseph Fiévée
1839
Francis Bruguière
1945
Władysław Szlengel
1943
Abdullah bin Faisal
2007
Sergey Obraztsov
1992
Menashe Kadishman
2015
Cesare Pascarella
1940
Carl Oscar Borg
1947
Rida Johnson Young
1926
Camille Bryen
1977
Ellen Churchill Semple
1932
Louis Aston Knight
1948
Charlotta Malm-Reuterholm
1845
Pitigrilli
1975
Works published or unveiled
(10)
The Princess and the Pea
1835
The Tinderbox
1835
The Sheep Detectives
2026
Bring Up the Bodies
2012
Phone Swap
2014
Empire Falls
2001
Home
2012
Jonas Deichmann - Breaking the Limit
2022
Versuch über Schiller
1955
2015 TCAF Butter Tart Map
2015