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Born
(60)
Alphonse Daudet
1840
Stevie Wonder
1950
Georges Braque
1882
Ronald Ross
1857
Daphne du Maurier
1907
Roger Zelazny
1937
Lazare Carnot
1753
Harvey Keitel
1939
Pancho Guedes
1925
Lorenzo Mascheroni
1750
Pavel Jozef Šafárik
1795
Alan Ball
1957
Alexei Khomyakov
1804
Bruce Chatwin
1940
Kōji Suzuki
1957
Vladimir Dzhanibekov
1942
Giuseppe Giusti
1809
Aleksei Arbuzov
1908
Adolf Muschg
1934
Jan Saudek
1935
Otl Aicher
1922
Stephen R. Donaldson
1947
Stella Rimington
1935
Teodor Axentowicz
1859
Lena Dunham
1986
Peter Hansen
1868
Zofia Stryjeńska
1891
Stephen Colbert
1964
Reinhold Schneider
1903
Panas Myrnyi
1849
Lima Barreto
1881
Armistead Maupin
1944
José Jiménez Lozano
1930
Juris Alunāns
1832
Francis Hayman
1818
Mehmet Emin Yurdakul
1869
Aleksander Lesser
1814
Hubertus van Hove
1814
Léopold Robert
1794
Jemal Karchkhadze
1936
Taisia Afonina
1913
Adolf Hölzel
1853
Cornelis Schut
1597
Sophia Lee
1750
Rigoberto López Pérez
1929
Janko Veselinović
1862
Elchin Afandiyev
1943
Murilo Mendes
1901
Natasha Lako
1948
John Kasich
1952
Eve Babitz
1943
Pedro Bonifacio Palacios
1854
Marco Denevi
1920
Sachidananda Routray
1916
Alain Gagnol
1967
Raimundo Correia
1859
Mike Gravel
1930
Heinrich XLV, Hereditary Prince Reuss of Gera
1895
Ilyas Afandiyev
1914
Buck Taylor
1938
Died
(60)
Alice Munro
2024
R. K. Narayan
2001
Sholem Aleichem
1916
Stanisław Ulam
1984
John Nash
1835
Fridtjof Nansen
1930
Gary Cooper
1961
Georges Cuvier
1832
Rolf Hochhuth
2020
Abd al-Aziz Ibn Baz
1999
Sibylle Lewitscharoff
2023
Emperor Ling of Han
189
Martial d'Auvergne
1508
Alfred Barye
1895
Mykola Khvylovyi
1933
Jason Miller
2001
Pier Francesco Mola
1666
Laurie Lee
1997
Katai Tayama
1930
Yakiv Holovatsky
1888
Jean Aicard
1921
Jaime Torres Bodet
1974
Sida Košutić
1965
Moritz Hartmann
1872
Alexander Fadeyev
1956
Milan Begović
1948
Fredric Westin
1862
Allal al-Fassi
1974
Hasrat Mohani
1951
Frances Hodgkins
1947
Edward Dodwell
1832
Friedrich von Hausen
1190
Badal Sarkar
2011
Sukanta Bhattacharya
1947
William Dobell
1970
Salvador Garmendia Graterón
2001
Rocco Marconi
1529
Gyula Aggházy
1919
William McGregor Paxton
1941
Miroslav Šutej
2005
Valery Jacobi
1902
Peter Viereck
2006
Luciano Lutring
2013
Sergey Gorshkov
1988
Jaroslav Pelikan
2006
Daniel Solander
1782
Arkady Kots
1943
Jill Adams
2008
Otto Maximilian Umbehr
1980
Chen Xiaoxu
2007
Maharaja Sir Kishen Pershad
1940
Louis-Abraham van Loo
1712
Sophus Jacobsen
1912
Louis Bourdaloue
1704
William Faithorne
1691
Charles Wilkins
1836
E. L. T. Mesens
1971
Richard Ellmann
1987
Helene Lange
1930
Kanaka Murthy
2021
Works published or unveiled
(8)
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2000
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
2010
The House of Sand
2005
No Place to Hide
2014
Moments
1979
Kanjin Honzon Shō
1273
Union Street
1982
performance of 'Space Oddity' during ISS Expedition 35
2013