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Born
(60)
John Paul II
1920
Omar Khayyám
1048
Ruđer Josip Bošković
1711
Bertrand Russell
1872
Tina Fey
1970
Ai Weiwei
1957
Charles Trenet
1913
Richard Brooks
1912
Francesco Maria Piave
1810
Michael Cretu
1957
Itzhak Peretz
1852
Konstantin Batyushkov
1787
Alejandro Rejón Huchin
1997
Yaryna Chornohuz
1995
Gunnar Gunnarsson
1889
W. G. Sebald
1944
Ali Zafar
1980
Frank Capra
1897
Lionel Shriver
1957
Fred Saberhagen
1930
Ernst Wiechert
1887
Yi Mun-yol
1948
Konstantinos VII
905
Gustave-Claude-Étienne Courtois
1852
Jan Veth
1864
Stefano della Bella
1610
Meredith Willson
1902
Hema Upadhyay
1972
Elena Guro
1877
Raghunath Murmu
1905
Halyna Sevruk
1929
Michele Tosini
1503
Ture Nerman
1886
Franziska zu Reventlow
1871
Hasui Kawase
1883
Johannes Glauber
1646
Johann Peter Hasenclever
1810
Oljas Süleimenov
1936
Diane Duane
1952
Behramji Malabari
1853
Affandi
1907
Kawanabe Kyōsai
1831
Suleyman Stalsky
1869
John Wilson
1785
Dean Tavoularis
1932
Joseph Butler
1692
Roger Gilbert-Lecomte
1907
İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi
1703
Jérôme Tharaud
1874
Yi Yuksa
1904
Batyrkhan Shukenov
1962
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
1913
Jacob L. Moreno
1889
Seo Jeong-ju
1915
Henry the Younger of Poděbrady
1452
R. H. Barlow
1918
Konstantin Fofanov
1862
Gaetano Rossi
1774
Don Bachardy
1934
Sergei Zavyalov
1958
Died
(60)
Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais
1799
Domenico Beccafumi
1551
William Saroyan
1981
Dobrica Ćosić
2014
George Meredith
1909
Ian Curtis
1980
Franco Battiato
2021
Marguerite Gérard
1837
Edoardo Sanguineti
2010
Eliza Orzeszkowa
1910
Mikhail Anikushin
1997
Heðin Brú
1987
Alan Bradley
2026
Avraham Shlonsky
1973
Tor Ulven
1995
Edwin Scharff
1955
Jacque Fresco
2017
May Wilson Preston
1949
Mahdi Amel
1987
Franz Skarbina
1910
Shusaku Arakawa
2010
Pietro Pomponazzi
1525
Muriel Box
1991
Robert Tournières
1752
Bob Neuwirth
2022
Pietro Cascella
2008
Johann Joachim Kändler
1775
Fritz Stuckenberg
1944
Leroy Anderson
1975
Gerard Portielje
1929
Vadim Shershenevich
1942
Jacob Fichman
1958
Mariyka Pidhiryanka
1963
Bernhard Plockhorst
1907
Susan Rothenberg
2020
Pietro Aldi
1888
James Truslow Adams
1949
Charles Grodin
2021
Pietro Fragiacomo
1922
Semyon Afanasyevich Chuikov
1980
Mary McLeod Bethune
1955
Maximilian Lenz
1948
Clarkson Frederick Stanfield
1867
Alexis Bouvier
1892
Friedrich Bury
1823
Ole Nydahl
2026
Türkan Saylan
2009
Charles Sprague Pearce
1914
İbrahim Kaypakkaya
1973
Ernesto Bazzaro
1937
Marilyn Bendell
2003
Yael Dayan
2024
Ernst Klee
2013
Casto Plasencia
1890
Onni Okkonen
1962
Raghunath Krishna Phadke
1972
Jo Benkow
2013
Ludwig Berger
1969
Güllü Mustafayeva
1994
Scipione Vannutelli
1894
Works published or unveiled
(3)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2000
Top Gun: Maverick
2022
Pranay Yog
2025