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Born
(60)
Li Bai
701
Julius Evola
1898
Nora Ephron
1941
Mikhail Nesterov
1862
Jacob Jordaens
1593
Konstantin Paustovsky
1892
Elena Poniatowska
1932
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
1762
Girish Karnad
1938
Jodi Picoult
1966
Lorraine Hansberry
1930
Giovanni della Robbia
1469
Ashraf Ghani
1949
Mário de Sá-Carneiro
1890
Yusuf Idris
1927
Wilson Mizner
1876
Yahya Hassan
1995
Claude Vignon
1593
Jenny Berggren
1972
Kiera Cass
1981
James Gosling
1955
Adriaan de Lelie
1755
Baccio d'Agnolo
1462
Kitarō Nishida
1870
Stacey Milbern
1987
Francesca Archibugi
1960
Carl Akeley
1864
Man Haron Monis
1964
Benjamin Samuel Bolomey
1739
Walter Russell
1871
Júlio Dantas
1876
Prabodh Kumar Bandyopadhyay
1908
Daniel Guérin
1904
Johann Philipp Lemke
1631
Thierry Sandre
1890
Ruskin Bond
1934
Heinrich Gätke
1814
Ken Kelly
1946
Fidelia Bridges
1834
John Louis Esposito
1940
Maitena Burundarena
1962
Sarah Miriam Peale
1800
Rahel Varnhagen
1771
Kristin Dimitrova
1963
Charles Sorley
1895
Steingrímur Thorsteinsson
1831
Adelaide Claxton
1841
Paul Erdman
1932
Peter Wildeblood
1923
Margaret Lesley Bush-Brown
1857
Charles-Arthur Bourgeois
1838
Giola Gandini
1906
Milutin Bojić
1892
Roman Signer
1938
Max Clarenbach
1880
Johannes Meintjes
1923
David Wilkerson
1931
Alice Roberts
1973
Roland Bonaparte
1858
Daniel Glattauer
1960
Died
(60)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1864
Alcuin
804
José Martí
1895
Martin Amis
2023
Bolesław Prus
1912
Alice Bradley Sheldon
1987
Ferdinand Hodler
1918
Carl Snoilsky
1903
Maria Dąbrowska
1965
Li Qingzhao
1155
Philips Wouwerman
1668
Robert Indiana
2018
Ogden Nash
1971
Gabriele Münter
1962
T. E. Lawrence
1935
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
1994
John Betjeman
1984
Alexandre Astruc
2016
William Ewart Gladstone
1898
Booth Tarkington
1946
Valentín Paz-Andrade
1987
A. E. Waite
1942
Alphonse de Neuville
1885
Sebastiaen Vrancx
1647
Marmaduke Pickthall
1936
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon
1825
Tapio Wirkkala
1985
Ada Christen
1901
Samo Chalupka
1883
Dževad Karahasan
2023
Kristjan Raud
1943
Paul Schultze-Naumburg
1949
Marie Pujmanová
1958
James Boswell
1795
Antoine Guillemet
1918
Richard Anuszkiewicz
2020
Sir Richard Hoare, 2nd Baronet
1838
Vladimir II Monomakh
1125
Stacey Milbern
2020
Stanisław Szukalski
1987
Nanni Balestrini
2019
Walter Russell
1963
Insha Allah Khan
1817
Concha Espina
1955
Ingen
1673
Viking Eggeling
1925
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax
1715
Lola Ridge
1941
Batya Gur
2005
Rimma Kazakova
2008
Konstantin Trenyov
1945
Heinrich Lossow
1897
Vijay Tendulkar
2008
Rebecca Elson
1999
Ahmet Ağaoğlu
1939
Georges Lafenestre
1919
Dunstan
988
Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo
1912
María Mariño
1967
Evgeniy Vasilievich Khrunov
2000
Works published or unveiled
(11)
Frenzy
1972
The Virgin Suicides
1999
Barbapapa
1970
Horses of God
2012
Uprooted
2015
Felidae
1989
The Last of the Unjust
2013
Beach Read
2020
The Folding Star
1994
Portrait of Takami Senseki
1837
Il canto delle emozioni
2025