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Born
(60)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1828
Edward Lear
1812
Joseph Beuys
1921
Frederik Vermehren
1823
Florence Nightingale
1820
Andrei Voznesensky
1933
Alexei Savrasov
1830
Jens Juel
1745
Saneatsu Mushanokōji
1885
Frank Stella
1936
George Carlin
1937
Michael Ignatieff
1947
Claribel Alegría
1924
Luigi Vanvitelli
1700
Ferdinand von Schirach
1964
Bruce Boxleitner
1950
Joachim von Sandrart the Elder
1606
Massimo Bontempelli
1878
Rhea Seehorn
1972
Justus von Liebig
1803
Bertus Aafjes
1914
Ivan Marchuk
1936
Ian Dury
1942
Emilio Estevez
1962
Mahsati
1089
Frank Brangwyn
1867
Leslie Charteris
1907
Jan Frans van Bloemen
1662
Josef Mánes
1820
Oleksandr Korniichuk
1905
Fritz Kortner
1892
Erdmann Neumeister
1671
Domhnall Gleeson
1983
Elechi Amadi
1934
Farley Mowat
1921
Philip Wylie
1902
Magnus Stenbock
1665
Walenty Wańkowicz
1800
Manuel Alegre
1936
Bagrat Shinkuba
1917
Alexander Esenin-Volpin
1924
Misha Defonseca
1937
David A. R. White
1970
Johannes Carsten Hauch
1790
Barry B. Longyear
1942
Gabriel Byrne
1950
Taraneh Javanbakht
1974
Maurice Carême
1899
L. Neil Smith
1946
John Russell Hind
1823
Dieter Borst
1950
Mario Sironi
1885
Arthur John Arberry
1905
Albert Engström
1869
Pompeo Colonna
1479
Nan Hoover
1931
Carmen Blanco
1954
Jean-Baptiste de Santeul
1630
J. E. H. MacDonald
1873
Francine Rivers
1947
Died
(60)
Nelly Sachs
1970
Jean Dubuffet
1985
Emilia Pardo Bazán
1921
Joris-Karl Huysmans
1907
August Wilhelm Schlegel
1845
Frances Marion
1973
Louise Catherine Breslau
1927
Robert Rauschenberg
2008
George Chapman
1634
Minna Canth
1897
Amy Lawrence Lowell
1925
H. R. Giger
2014
John Masefield
1967
Miguel Fisac
2006
Maksim Bahdanovič
1917
Henry Becque
1899
Erich von Stroheim
1957
Willem Roelofs
1897
Roger Vailland
1965
Sylvester II
1003
Astrid Kirchherr
2020
Karl Vennberg
1995
Saul Steinberg
1999
Martin Lings
2005
Arthur Quiller-Couch
1944
Pieter Jelles Troelstra
1930
Charles Simon Favart
1792
Roger Planchon
2009
Anna Langfus
1966
Suchitra Bhattacharya
2015
Walenty Wańkowicz
1842
Frederick Schiller Faust
1944
Will Alsop
2018
Lambert Sigisbert Adam
1759
Frances Sargent Osgood
1850
Sergey Aksakov
1859
Ghazaleh Alizadeh
1996
János Batsányi
1845
Antonio Candido
2017
Christian Friedrich Tieck
1851
Lucas Achtschellinck
1699
Arkady Plastov
1972
Ujaku Akita
1962
Seamus Deane
2021
Henri-François-Alphonse Esquiros
1876
Fritz Mackensen
1953
Eutychius of Alexandria
940
Sarah Grand
1943
Hermann Lenz
1998
Johann Uz
1796
Nikos Gatsos
1992
Felix Steiner
1966
Vilhelm Thomsen
1927
Alexandre Jacovleff
1938
Louis Zukofsky
1978
Fedot Ivanovich Shubin
1805
Philippe-Auguste Hennequin
1833
Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford
1891
Robin Page
2015
Charles Kemper
1950
Works published or unveiled
(3)
Match Point
2005
The Ice Storm
1997
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
1955