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Born
(60)
Salvador Dalí
1904
Mikhail Sholokhov
1905
Camilo José Cela
1916
Richard Feynman
1918
Jean-Léon Gérôme
1824
Ethel Lilian Voynich
1864
Saadat Hasan Manto
1912
Rubem Fonseca
1925
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
1827
Justinian I
482
Tim Blake Nelson
1964
Rose Ausländer
1901
Yaacov Agam
1928
Đorđe Balašević
1953
Concha Buika
1972
Fang Fang
1955
Alfred Stevens
1823
Francisco Umbral
1932
Gata Cattana
1991
Eva Schloss
1929
Mariano Fortuny
1871
Petrus Camper
1722
Paul Nash
1889
Kārlis Baumanis
1835
Sue Gardner
1967
Joan Margarit i Consarnau
1938
Samih al-Qasim
1939
Géza Röhrig
1967
Baron Munchausen
1720
Charles W. Fairbanks
1852
Eva Menasse
1970
Konstantin Meladze
1963
William P. Young
1955
Mykhailo Stelmakh
1912
Peter Sís
1949
Einar Jónsson
1874
Philipp Foltz
1805
Hilda Dresen
1896
Ettore Roesler Franz
1845
Kamau Brathwaite
1930
Niels Fredrik Dahl
1957
Richard Ansdell
1815
Karl Pärsimägi
1902
Filippo De Pisis
1896
Gladys Casely-Hayford
1904
Ernst Meyer
1797
László Polgár
1946
Olga Xirinacs Díaz
1936
Isabelle Mergault
1958
J. H. Leopold
1865
Renaud
1952
Anton Mussert
1894
Ralph Earl
1751
Leo Stein
1872
Sibila Petlevski
1964
Ida Gerhardt
1905
Aidi Vallik
1971
Zacharias Wagenaer
1614
Giovanni Cristoforo Romano
1456
Magsud Ibrahimbeyov
1935
Died
(60)
Douglas Adams
2001
Juan Gris
1927
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
1881
Sait Faik Abasıyanık
1954
John Frederick William Herschel
1871
William Dean Howells
1920
Salomon de Bray
1664
Giorgos Zongolopoulos
2004
Richard Wilson
1782
Pedro Henríquez Ureña
1946
Aleko Konstantinov
1897
Sakutarō Hagiwara
1942
Nils Kreuger
1930
Gérard Genette
2018
Joaquim Manuel de Macedo
1882
Jeroen Brouwers
2022
Surjit Patar
2024
Rafał Wojaczek
1971
François Morellet
2016
Catharine Trotter
1749
Nika Turbina
2002
Jozef Murgaš
1929
Ed Ricketts
1948
Aidan Chambers
2025
Venedikt Yerofeyev
1990
Nicolás Fernández de Moratín
1780
L. Birge Harrison
1929
Eugène François Vidocq
1857
Thomas Buchanan Read
1872
Robert Benton
2025
Gerard van Spaendonck
1822
Vilhelm Kyhn
1903
Florine Stettheimer
1944
David Avidan
1995
Peggy Lipton
2019
Jean Galbert de Campistron
1723
Mary Astell
1731
Juliette Récamier
1849
Torii Kiyomitsu
1785
Zenna Henderson
1983
Dyre Vaa
1980
Edith Archibald
1936
Marianne Loir
1783
Ginevra Cantofoli
1672
Katherine Dunn
2016
Kenneth Anger
2023
Andreas Bloch
1917
Jerzy Kossak
1955
John Trumbull
1831
Johann Arndt
1621
Mohammad-Ali Sepanlou
2015
Sven Holm
2019
José Delgado Guerra
1801
Virgilia D'Andrea
1933
Thorvald Niss
1905
Henriëtte Gesina Numans
1955
Ku Sang
2004
Bradley Walker Tomlin
1953
George Stanley
1970
Jacqueline Comerre-Paton
1955
Works published or unveiled
(7)
Midnight in Paris
2011
M
1931
Dom-2
2004
The Enemy
2004
People We Meet on Vacation
2021
The Broken Compass: How British Politics Lost its Way
2009
While Justice Sleeps
2021