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Born
(60)
Albrecht Dürer
1471
Alexander Pope
1688
Romain Gary
1914
Henri Rousseau
1844
Emile Verhaeren
1855
Édouard-Henri Avril
1849
Marcel Breuer
1902
Lisa Edelstein
1966
Harold Robbins
1916
Tudor Arghezi
1880
Miriam Toews
1964
Charles Paul de Kock
1793
Luc-Olivier Merson
1846
Stanisław Witkiewicz
1851
Nadine Dorries
1957
Noel Fielding
1973
Robert Creeley
1926
Michel Lentz
1820
Nikifor Krynicki
1895
Diana Der Hovanessian
1934
Bjørn Nørgaard
1947
Gabriele Wohmann
1932
Louis Janmot
1814
Ermolao Barbaro
1453
Suzanne Lilar
1901
Al Franken
1951
Ayo Ayoola-Amale
1970
Nadia Khiari
1973
Janet Dailey
1944
Lucien Bonaparte
1775
Princess Stéphanie of Belgium
1864
Manly Wade Wellman
1903
Konstantin Trenyov
1876
Gunnar Berg
1863
Hermann Lotze
1817
Ernst Raupach
1784
Maryline Desbiolles
1959
Rudolf Koller
1828
Anatole Litvak
1902
Nick Cassavetes
1959
Maria Semple
1964
Jean Dewasne
1921
Lina Brockdorff
1930
Nikola Avramov
1897
Alla Nazimova
1879
Barbara Jeppe
1921
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
1813
Otto Hupp
1859
Maria Innocentia Hummel
1909
Philip Leslie Hale
1865
Dumile Feni
1942
Dorothy Coade Hewett
1923
Elizabeth Fry
1780
Ferdinand Schmutzer
1870
Conrad Felixmüller
1897
Anne Bremer
1868
Adolf Heinrich Lier
1826
Adolf Böttger
1815
Mathurin Méheut
1882
Olga Savary
1933
Died
(60)
Tommaso Campanella
1639
Niki de Saint Phalle
2002
Barbara Cartland
2000
Klaus Mann
1949
Eleanor H. Porter
1920
Wang Anshi
1086
Annie M.G. Schmidt
1995
Tahir Teimurovitsch Salakhov
2021
Carlo Emilio Gadda
1973
René Daumal
1944
Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft
1647
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
1841
Victor Segalen
1919
Alexander Vertinsky
1957
George Frampton
1928
Thomas Warton
1790
Eric Hoffer
1983
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose
1650
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
1929
Fulvio Tomizza
1999
Flora Thompson
1947
Arab Shamilov
1978
Andrés Eloy Blanco
1955
Bruce Geller
1978
Terenzio, Count Mamiani della Rovere
1885
Arthur Dinter
1948
Giovanni Andrea Sirani
1670
Einar Hjörleifsson Kvaran
1938
Kenneth Clark
1983
Tudor Vianu
1964
Jeremiah Clemens
1865
Raoul Barré
1932
Jaroslav Marvan
1974
'Ubaydallah ibn 'Abdallah ibn Tahir
913
Chevalier d'Éon
1810
Giovanni Baratta
1747
William Walcot
1943
Dominique Venner
2013
Alice Nahon
1933
Şamil Alâdin
1996
Tito Colliander
1989
Huseyn Aliyev
1991
Sultanmahmut Toraygirov
1920
Binyavanga Wainaina
2019
Yolanda Bedregal
1999
John Eliot
1690
Edwin Holgate
1977
Herbert Adams
1945
Richard Ellis
2024
Eduardo de Martino
1912
Archduke Heinrich Ferdinand of Austria
1969
Nikodim Silivanovich
1919
Gustaf von Numers
1978
Louis Moinet
1853
Gustav Lærum
1938
Kamal Dzjamal ogli Alekperov
2009
Ricard Opisso
1966
Vasilis N. Triantafillidis
2018
Aase Texmon Rygh
2019
Aleksandr Askoldov
2018
Works published or unveiled
(5)
Pulp Fiction
1994
Now You See Me
2013
The Great Beauty
2013
And the Mountains Echoed
2013
Q11488120
2010