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Born
(60)
Pär Lagerkvist
1891
Maria Konopnicka
1842
Otto Lilienthal
1848
Joan Collins
1933
Carl Bloch
1834
Jewel
1974
Mitch Albom
1958
James Blish
1921
Giuseppe Parini
1729
Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne
1735
Ceija Stojka
1933
Thomas Hood
1799
Apollon Maykov
1821
Nicodemus Tessin the Younger
1654
Barbara Barrie
1931
Amalia Lindegren
1814
Annemarie Schwarzenbach
1908
Pavel Chistyakov
1832
Anatoly Karpov
1951
Susan Cooper
1935
Charles Jacque
1813
Andrea Appiani
1754
József Rippl-Rónai
1861
Scott O'Dell
1898
James Pradier
1790
Alan García
1949
Ryan Coogler
1986
André Schwarz-Bart
1928
Margaret Fuller
1810
Laurel Holloman
1971
Luis Ricardo Falero
1851
Douglas Fairbanks
1883
Richard Anuszkiewicz
1930
Michel Deguy
1930
Ramiro Ledesma Ramos
1905
Ephraim Moses Lilien
1874
Adile Sultan
1826
James Gleason
1882
Hermann Obrist
1862
Claude Mellan
1598
Friedrich Achleitner
1930
François Gaspard Adam
1710
George Osborne
1971
Margaret Wise Brown
1910
Karlheinz Deschner
1924
Henri-François-Alphonse Esquiros
1812
Adriaan Roland Holst
1888
Marisa Merz
1931
Kenneth Grant
1924
Felix Steiner
1896
Jaroslav Věšín
1859
Georgi Natanson
1921
Artie Shaw
1910
Bertholet Flémal
1614
Pieter Neefs the Younger
1620
Anja Snellman
1954
Gustaw Gwozdecki
1880
Amaldus Nielsen
1838
Eliane Brum
1966
André Bloc
1896
Died
(60)
Henrik Ibsen
1906
Ismail I
1524
Luis de Góngora
1627
Girolamo Savonarola
1498
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz
1947
José de Espronceda
1842
Sebastião Salgado
2025
Henri de Régnier
1936
Toghon Temür
1370
François Coppée
1908
Sterling Hayden
1986
Georges Moustaki
2013
Paulo Mendes da Rocha
2021
Cyprian Norwid
1883
Paul Nizan
1940
David Smith
1965
Leopold von Ranke
1886
Eric Carle
2021
Maxime Maufra
1918
Gustav Suits
1956
Joris van der Haagen
1669
Paul Dubois
1905
Abraham Wuchters
1682
Caleb Carr
2024
Heorhii Narbut
1920
George John Romanes
1894
Franciszka Urszula Wiśniowiecka
1753
Janko Kráľ
1876
Mona Freeman
2014
Zdenka Braunerová
1934
Louis Le Nain
1648
Abdias do Nascimento
2011
Adriaen Backer
1684
Aleksey Mozgovoy
2015
Jan Hillebrand Wijsmuller
1925
Affandi
1990
Ivan Kalyayev
1905
Fred Forbát
1972
Pierre Édouard Frère
1886
Jehan de Lescurel
1304
Bhargavi Rao
2008
Apollo Korzeniowski
1869
Vera Henriksen
2016
Adriano Cecioni
1886
Peter Alma
1969
Maria Velho da Costa
2020
Olav Hauge
1994
Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay
1930
Altiero Spinelli
1986
Władysław Łuszczkiewicz
1900
Atahualpa Yupanqui
1992
Lew Welch
1971
Pyotr Nilus
1943
Louis Artan
1890
Francis Bicknell Carpenter
1900
Mary Fairchild Low
1946
Utah Phillips
2008
Carl Nesjar
2015
Mark Lemon
1870
Giuseppe Santomaso
1990
Works published or unveiled
(4)
The Shining
1980
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
1973
Jumla: A Nurse's Story
2013
The Light
2008