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Born
(60)
Richard Wagner
1813
Arthur Conan Doyle
1859
Mary Cassatt
1844
Charles Aznavour
1924
Gérard de Nerval
1808
Morrissey
1959
Jean Tinguely
1925
Sun Ra
1914
Johannes R. Becher
1891
Bernie Taupin
1950
Tsubouchi Shōyō
1859
Tavo Burat
1932
Hubert Robert
1733
Facundo Cabral
1937
Ted Kaczynski
1942
Hergé
1907
Peter Matthiessen
1927
Katie Price
1978
Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom
1770
Mikhail Larionov
1881
Catulle Mendès
1841
Fritz von Uhde
1848
Félix Bracquemond
1833
Marko Kropyvnytskyi
1840
John Flanagan
1944
Francis de Miomandre
1880
Marisol Escobar
1930
Harvey Milk
1930
Ram Mohan Roy
1772
Symon Petliura
1879
Margaret Mee
1909
Aston Webb
1849
François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis
1715
Daniel Gran
1694
Arthur Cravan
1887
Hildegard Thorell
1850
Herbert C. Brown
1912
Su Xun
1009
Jean-Louis Curtis
1917
Ahmed Fouad Negm
1929
Arnold Lobel
1933
Sumaira Abdulali
1961
Neige Sinno
1977
Willy Stöwer
1864
Worthington Whittredge
1820
Max Brooks
1972
Leopold of the Two Sicilies, Count of Syracuse
1813
Satine Phoenix
1980
Dominique Rolin
1913
Tom McCarthy
1969
Katrin Ottarsdóttir
1957
Eva Gore-Booth
1870
François Bon
1953
Gabriël Grupello
1644
Max Velthuijs
1923
Susan Strasberg
1938
Souad al-Sabah
1942
Ivan Akimov
1755
Robert Neumann
1897
Anders Castus Svarstad
1869
Died
(60)
Victor Hugo
1885
Alessandro Manzoni
1873
Maria Edgeworth
1849
Philip Roth
2018
Langston Hughes
1967
Nikolay Karamzin
1826
Jules Renard
1910
Ernst Toller
1939
Edward Bellamy
1898
Augusta, Lady Gregory
1932
Martin Gardner
2010
Francesco Guicciardini
1540
Bernt Notke
1509
Jane Addams
1935
Peter Lamborn Wilson
2022
Cecil Day-Lewis
1972
Claude McKay
1948
Lloyd Osbourne
1947
Adolf Born
2016
William James Glackens
1938
Wolff Schoemaker
1949
Edward Hodges Baily
1867
Júlio Pomar
2018
Jiří Mahen
1939
Robert Asprin
2008
Lilly Martin Spencer
1902
Misao Fujimura
1903
Baron Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen
1871
George Bacovia
1957
Gaspard Abeille
1718
Herman de Coninck
1997
Ernst Julius Hähnel
1891
Isaac Grünewald
1946
Abu Shudja Muhammad al-Rudhrawari
1096
Judith Kerr
2019
Hans Pfitzner
1949
Jan Willem Sluiter
1949
Jean Francis Auburtin
1930
Samuil Galberg
1839
Alicia Ghiragossian
2014
Boris Kalin
1975
Sæmundr fróði
1133
Albert Memmi
2020
Mordecai Manuel Noah
1851
Ștefan Dimitrescu
1933
Govind Chandra Pande
2011
Augustin Thierry
1856
Mohsen Fayz Kashani
1680
Bojan Stupica
1970
Balduin Baas
2006
Gane Todorovski
2010
Howard Russell Butler
1934
Zhao Puchu
2000
James Lloydovich Patterson
2025
Stevan Todorović
1925
Miss.Tic
2022
Alberto Dines
2018
Sidney Sime
1941
Johann Alexander Thiele
1752
Lulu von Thürheim
1864
Works published or unveiled
(8)
Mission: Impossible
1996
A Thousand Splendid Suns
2007
Russian Ark
2002
Choke
2001
Neither Blood Nor Sand
1941
Aikotoba
2013
La teoria dei colori
2012
Adventures of Wim
1986