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Born
(60)
Dennis Hopper
1936
Henri Barbusse
1873
Jacint Verdaguer
1845
Martinus Rørbye
1803
Valie Export
1940
Craig Ferguson
1962
Valeriya Novodvorskaya
1950
Esaias van de Velde
1587
Jean Gabin
1904
Emily Henry
1991
Lev Oshanin
1912
Dorothy Richardson
1873
Alfonso Reyes
1889
Angelica Agurbash
1970
Anne Isabella Byron
1792
Maxime Maufra
1861
Lars Gustafsson
1936
Jean Vautrin
1933
Janez Drnovšek
1950
Martin Kukučín
1860
Niccolò Tribolo
1497
Gary Paulsen
1939
Pedro Lira Rencoret
1845
Dennis Potter
1935
Manuel Murguía
1833
Olivier Rolin
1947
Nicholas Wade
1942
Franz von Schober
1796
Aglaja Veteranyi
1962
F. Paul Wilson
1946
Kazimierz Dejmek
1924
Thérèse Steinmetz
1933
Mónica Ojeda
1988
Anagarika Govinda
1898
André Dauchez
1870
Agustí Querol Subirats
1860
Uldis Bērziņš
1944
Gene Gauntier
1885
Elena Shvarts
1948
Hakob Hakobyan
1866
John Patrick
1905
Georgette Agutte
1867
Teófilo Gutiérrez
1985
Ronald Wayne
1934
Uładzimir Žyłka
1898
Jānis Sudrabkalns
1894
Muhammad Ahmad Mahgoub
1908
Frédéric Montenard
1849
Abdurrahim bey Hagverdiyev
1870
Peter Høeg
1957
Julius Wellhausen
1844
Élisabeth Sonrel
1874
Isydor Vorobkevych
1836
Lucjan Rydel
1870
A. J. Casson
1898
Sebastian Kneipp
1821
Jien
1155
Juana Borrero
1877
Halima Xudoyberdiyeva
1947
Alexander Ivanovich Morozov
1835
Died
(60)
Sandro Botticelli
1510
Vangelis
2022
Herman Wouk
2019
Mario Benedetti
2009
Otto Wille Kuusinen
1964
Lloyd Alexander
2007
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
1839
Shin Saimdang
1551
Cass Gilbert
1934
Jules Supervielle
1960
Béla Balázs
1949
Guido von List
1919
Dirck Hals
1656
Domenico Tintoretto
1635
Armin T. Wegner
1978
Domenico Passignano
1638
Michel-Jean Sedaine
1797
Nahum Sokolow
1936
Leonello Spada
1622
Vincenzo Brenna
1820
Maggie Laubser
1973
David Octavius Hill
1870
Francisco Manuel Oller
1917
Cornelis de Heem
1695
Arpenik Nalbandyan
1964
Georg Engelhard Schröder
1750
Frank G. Slaughter
2001
Milena Jesenská
1944
Giacomo Zanella
1888
Zélia Gattai
2008
Dwijendralal Ray
1913
Richard Pipes
2018
Anton Maria Salvini
1729
Dorothea Biehl
1788
Roberta Marrero
2024
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
1994
Ignaty Potapenko
1929
Hermann Knackfuß
1915
Deng Tuo
1966
Bon Boullogne
1717
Carlo Carlone
1775
Henri Delaborde
1899
Walasse Ting
2010
Anton Kolig
1950
Irène Hamoir
1994
Konstantin Fofanov
1911
Samuel Clarke
1729
Abe Burrows
1985
Georges Dubois
1934
Piero Dorazio
2005
Léon Xanrof
1953
Raoul de Navery
1885
Gerður Helgadóttir
1975
Timothy Cole
1931
Mary Haas
1996
Jørgen Nash
2004
Thomas Prichard Rossiter
1871
Julo Levin
1943
Josef Beran
1969
Peter Dahl
2019
Works published or unveiled
(6)
Viridiana
1961
Padre Padrone
1977
Megalopolis
2024
The Brand New Testament
2015
Ram
1971
Love Lust Faith + Dreams
2013