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Born
(60)
J. M. Barrie
1860
Bulat Okudzhava
1924
Charles Simic
1938
Lucian Blaga
1895
Anton von Werner
1843
Alan Bennett
1934
José Ortega y Gasset
1883
Candice Bergen
1946
Joy Harjo
1951
Lars Norén
1944
Halina Poświatowska
1935
Luigi Illica
1857
Sonja Sohn
1964
Ron Mueck
1958
Manfred Eigen
1927
William Tenn
1920
Hans Baluschek
1870
Gamal El-Ghitani
1945
Geoff Ryman
1951
Paul Lynch
1977
Michael Levitt
1947
James Collinson
1825
Grete Stern
1904
Benjamin Graham
1894
Cesare Maccari
1840
Baldur von Schirach
1907
Mona Van Duyn
1921
Leopold Andrian
1875
Johann Anton Leisewitz
1752
Adebayo Salami
1952
Rosario Dawson
1979
François Pompon
1855
James L. Brooks
1940
Mike Wallace
1918
Lorena Gale
1958
Abraham van Diepenbeeck
1596
Daniel Berrigan
1921
Leonid Martynov
1905
Gregory Bateson
1904
János Batsányi
1763
Elizabeth Magie
1866
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
1866
Andreu Martín
1949
Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi
1773
Gayane Khachaturian
1942
Sho Madjozi
1992
Jan Dibbets
1941
William Moulton Marston
1893
Richard McKenna
1913
Fay Kanin
1917
Roger Hargreaves
1935
Tallapaka Annamacharya
1408
Kim de l'Horizon
1992
Annalee Newitz
1969
Louis-Denis Caillouette
1790
John Wolcot
1738
Hiroki Azuma
1971
Charles Nègre
1820
Shalva Dadiani
1874
Susie M. Barstow
1836
Died
(60)
Friedrich Schiller
1805
al-Ma'arri
1057
Agrippa d'Aubigné
1630
Nicolaus Zinzendorf
1760
James Jones
1977
Nelson Algren
1981
George Coșbuc
1918
Per Kirkeby
2018
Cornelis de Vos
1651
René Maran
1960
Jens Bjørneboe
1976
José Manuel Caballero
2021
Mercedes de Acosta
1968
Anni Albers
1994
Luis de Morales
1586
Yanka Dyagileva
1991
Arif Malikov
2019
Kristina Lugn
2020
Ulrike Meinhof
1976
George Maciunas
1978
Heinrich Campendonk
1957
Kate Perugini
1929
Roger Corman
2024
Giuseppe Impastato
1978
Giuseppe Bonito
1789
Lambert van Haven
1695
Pieter Wouwerman
1682
Jerzy Ficowski
2006
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
1911
Max Kurzweil
1916
Marie Cardinal
2001
Pachomius the Great
348
Lidia Gueiler Tejada
2011
Ivan Ivanji
2024
Carit Etlar
1900
Alf Henrikson
1995
Giovanni Prati
1884
Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
1909
Jaroslav Věšín
1915
Albert Laprade
1978
Fredrik Wilhelm Scholander
1881
Yakov Chernikhov
1951
Theodore H. White
1986
Raghunath Mohapatra
2021
Abdul Hai Habibi
1984
Hōmei Iwano
1920
François de La Mothe Le Vayer
1672
Ivo Pešák
2011
Shirley Conran
2024
Bratislav Petković
2021
Rashid Yasemi
1951
Pietro Garinei
2006
Miriam Yalan-Shteklis
1984
Abraham Palatnik
2020
Arrigo Minerbi
1960
William Bradford
1657
Edward Lamson Henry
1919
Wilhelmina van Idsinga
1819
Joseph Edward Davies
1958
Alan King
2004
Works published or unveiled
(4)
Moulin Rouge!
2001
An Outline Plan for the Reorganization of Japan
1923
The Juliette Society
2013
Après moi (Henri Bernstein)
1909