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Born
(60)
Juan Rulfo
1917
Adrienne Rich
1929
Tamara de Lempicka
1898
Friedrich Rückert
1788
Maximilian Voloshin
1877
Janet Jackson
1966
Desanka Maksimović
1898
Johann Voldemar Jannsen
1819
Yuri Shevchuk
1957
Henry Fonda
1905
Olga Bergholz
1910
Pierre Cuypers
1827
Jean Fautrier
1898
Germain Boffrand
1667
Arturo Uslar Pietri
1906
Alina Szapocznikow
1926
Claudio Baglioni
1951
John Sell Cotman
1782
Sorj Chalandon
1952
John Opie
1761
Jakob van Hoddis
1887
Nathan Birnbaum
1864
Laura Wheeler Waring
1887
William H. Seward
1801
Alfred Pellan
1906
Margret Rey
1906
Mario Cereghini
1903
Jónína Leósdóttir
1954
Clark Gregg
1923
Milutin Milanković
1879
H. E. Bates
1905
Antonín Slavíček
1870
Susanna Alakoski
1962
Joan Salvat-Papasseit
1894
Catherine Cusset
1963
Guillaume Dubufe
1853
Willem de Zwart
1862
Mehmet Murat İldan
1965
Stein Mehren
1935
Alexander Vesnin
1883
Liberace
1919
Berthe Bénichou-Aboulker
1886
Bernhard Pankok
1872
Karl Lehmann
1936
Studs Terkel
1912
Ida Baccini
1850
Anton Francesco Doni
1513
Peder Als
1725
Tiziano Scarpa
1963
Juan Calzadilla
1930
Apel·les Fenosa
1899
Iakob Nikoladze
1876
Juan Félix Sánchez
1900
Olaf Isaachsen
1835
Robert Jay Lifton
1926
Marian Aguiló
1825
Thomas Hirschhorn
1957
Béla Iványi-Grünwald
1867
Camille Doucet
1812
Anne Bonnet
1908
Died
(60)
Charles Perrault
1703
Felicia Hemans
1835
Pietro da Cortona
1669
Saadia Gaon
942
James Agee
1955
Irwin Shaw
1984
Henri-Edmond Cross
1910
John Henry Mackay
1933
Igor Grabar
1960
Liu Ji
1375
Edmund Gosse
1928
Anne Isabella Byron
1860
Dirck van Delen
1671
Ferdinand de Braekeleer the Elder
1883
Albert Paris Gütersloh
1973
Kitamura Tokoku
1894
Lev Mei
1862
Jacob Christoph Le Blon
1741
Mihkel Veske
1890
Mikhail Clodt von Jürgensburg
1902
George Ade
1944
Andy Kaufman
1984
Frederick Arthur Verner
1928
Alfred Hoche
1943
Jan Tarnowski
1561
Luigi Bartolini
1963
Jan Baptist van der Hulst
1862
Vladislav Petković Dis
1917
Carmen Berenguer
2024
Andrzej Szczypiorski
2000
Miguel Cabrera
1768
François Bréda
2018
Clemens Krauss
1954
Kate Bisschop-Swift
1928
Dezső Ákos Hamza
1993
Anuradha Ramanan
2010
Giovanni Rosini
1855
Hryhorii Chubai
1982
Patricia Aakhus
2012
Ivan Mrkvička
1938
Kawamura Kiyoo
1934
Gabrielle Soumet
1886
Simon Agopyan
1921
Albert Nikolayevitch Benois
1936
Carl Adolf Otth
1839
Firmin Massot
1849
Catherine Wiley
1958
Andrei Mylnikov
2012
Nicola Ghiuselev
2014
Vicente Rocafuerte
1847
Albert Londres
1932
Henri-Auguste Patey
1930
Kamala Markandaya
2004
Dobroslav Chrobák
1951
Nesta Helen Webster
1960
Marin Preda
1980
Théodore Strawinsky
1989
Gudrun Løchen Drewsen
1946
Jean-Jacques Scherrer
1916
Grace Elliott
1823
Works published or unveiled
(8)
Mulholland Drive
2001
Moonrise Kingdom
2012
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
2008
The Bling Ring
2013
Irrational Man
2015
The Day of the Locust
1939
The Hard Way
2006
The Janissary Tree
2006