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Born
(60)
Honoré de Balzac
1799
James Stewart
1908
Sigrid Undset
1882
Bernardo Bellotto
1722
Joseph Murphy
1898
Boris Akunin
1956
John Stuart Mill
1806
Pietro Bembo
1470
Hector Malot
1830
Wolfgang Borchert
1921
Annie M.G. Schmidt
1911
Henri-Edmond Cross
1856
Johann Gottfried Schadow
1764
Ottessa Moshfegh
1981
Margery Allingham
1904
Erri De Luca
1950
Gustaw Herling-Grudziński
1919
Maria Teresa Horta
1937
Astrid Kirchherr
1938
Max Euwe
1901
Petros Duryan
1851
Gosha Kutsenko
1967
Sumitranandan Pant
1900
Gerrit Achterberg
1905
Douglas Preston
1956
Ingvar Ambjørnsen
1956
Anton Janša
1734
Alfred Domett
1811
George John Romanes
1848
Luis Royo
1954
Michael Oren
1955
William Thornton
1759
Thomas D. Rice
1808
Walter Isaacson
1952
Dolley Madison
1768
Georges de Porto-Riche
1849
Gabriel François Doyen
1726
Gardner Fox
1911
David Octavius Hill
1802
Marcelino dos Santos
1929
Adela Rogers St. Johns
1894
Tommy Wieringa
1967
TJ Klune
1982
Francis Cotes
1726
Alan Zweibel
1950
Samuel Selvon
1923
Gabriel Ferrater
1922
Ben Goldacre
1974
Otokar Fischer
1883
Karl M. Baer
1885
Camillo Berneri
1897
Albert Steinrück
1872
Lev Lvovich Tolstoy
1869
Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya
1821
Walter Siti
1947
Barthélemy Menn
1815
Salman Mumtaz
1884
Elisa von der Recke
1754
Félix-Auguste Clément
1826
Christiane F.
1962
Died
(60)
Verner von Heidenstam
1940
Osman II
1622
Ray Manzarek
2013
Mary Lamb
1847
Nini Roll Anker
1942
Hector Guimard
1942
Barbara Hepworth
1975
Max Beerbohm
1956
Pierre Gamarra
2009
John Clare
1864
John I
526
Patricia Morison
2018
Stanko Vraz
1851
Varvara Stepanova
1958
Victoire Léodile Béra
1900
Yun Hyu
1680
Renato Carosone
2001
María Eugenia Vaz Ferreira
1924
Jean-Louis Vaudoyer
1963
Gilbert Murray
1957
Joseph Blanco White
1841
John Gould Fletcher
1950
Peter Michal Bohúň
1879
Francisco Brines
2021
Josip Jelačić
1859
Jayant Vishnu Narlikar
2025
Seyid Azim Shirvani
1888
Emma Amos
2020
Bernardino of Siena
1444
Jozef Gregor-Tajovský
1940
Alfred Schütz
1959
Charles Camoin
1965
Charles Bonnet
1793
Lucia Fairchild Fuller
1924
Oscar Wergeland
1910
Waldo Williams
1971
Emil Ábrányi
1920
Ivan Franjo Jukić
1857
Santiago Álvarez
1998
Gustav Friedrich Wilhelm Großmann
1796
Mohamed Bachir El Ibrahimi
1965
Hokkei
1850
Stepan Shevyryov
1864
Thomas Sprat
1713
Ingvar Cronhammar
2021
Dieter Schnebel
2018
Peter, Duke of Coimbra
1449
Jean Daniélou
1974
Bipin Chandra Pal
1932
Édouard Brandon
1897
Luis Andreoni
1936
Louis Hasselriis
1912
Pierre-Jules Mêne
1879
Karuś Kahaniec
1918
Károly Alexy
1880
Pedro Páez
1622
Karl Ludwig von Haller
1854
Jean-Louis de Rambures
2006
Syed Abdullah Khalid
2017
Johann Michael Sailer
1832
Works published or unveiled
(12)
Inglourious Basterds
2009
Great Seal of the United States of America
1782
Killers of the Flower Moon
2023
Borsalino
1970
Kikujiro
1999
Stroszek
1977
Ana and the Wolves
1973
The Return of the Condor Heroes
1959
The Little Giant
1933
A Case of Exploding Mangoes
2008
Empire of AI
2025
We Have Always Fought
2013