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Born
(60)
Bob Dylan
1941
Joseph Brodsky
1940
Pontormo
1494
Kazi Nazrul Islam
1899
James Oppenheim
1882
Michael Chabon
1963
Eduardo De Filippo
1900
William Trevor
1928
Henri Michaux
1899
Michael Lonsdale
1931
Emanuel Leutze
1816
Philips Wouwerman
1619
Lilli Palmer
1914
Arnold Wesker
1932
George Tabori
1914
Seishi Yokomizo
1902
Jean-Pierre Bacri
1951
Walter Moers
1957
Marcel Janco
1895
Oleh Skrypka
1964
Arthur Wing Pinero
1855
Nathacha Appanah
1973
Harold Budd
1936
Ivan Aguéli
1869
Priscilla Presley
1945
Joan Micklin Silver
1935
Albert André
1869
Premendra Mitra
1904
Demetrio Aguilera Malta
1909
William Whewell
1794
Georg Rafael Donner
1693
Jens Lapidus
1974
Rainald Goetz
1954
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
1878
Jan Christiaan Smuts
1870
Erlend Loe
1969
Cynthia Plaster Caster
1947
Étienne-Jules Ramey
1796
Bärbel Bohley
1945
Florence Dixie
1855
Joseph Anthony
1912
Madeleine Lemaire
1845
Jean-Baptiste Pillement
1728
Alfonso Sanches
1289
Theodor Hagen
1842
Gina Pane
1939
George Lakoff
1941
Mona Caird
1854
Rustam Khamdamov
1944
Hakob Hakobyan
1923
George Grey Barnard
1863
Moissey Kogan
1879
Luciano Minguzzi
1911
Jan Willem Sluiter
1873
Phoebe Anna Traquair
1852
Prince Louis of Battenberg
1854
Greg Berlanti
1972
Tommy Chong
1938
Jean de La Varende
1887
Seijun Suzuki
1923
Died
(60)
Nicolaus Copernicus
1543
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
1848
Benedetto da Maiano
1497
Denis Johnson
2017
Henry Ossawa Tanner
1937
Raicho Hiratsuka
1971
Charlotte Mary Yonge
1901
Pylyp Orlyk
1742
Amado Nervo
1919
Samuel Palmer
1881
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
1872
Tanith Lee
2015
Joseph Roumanille
1891
Zacharie Astruc
1907
Jane Porter
1850
Juan Meléndez Valdés
1817
Peter David
2025
Harriet Löwenhjelm
1918
Laura Bridgman
1889
George Maharis
2023
Abdulla Qahhor
1968
John Wain
1994
Anneliese Rothenberger
2010
José Asunción Silva
1896
Majrooh Sultanpuri
2000
François Émile Michel
1909
Banira Giri
2021
David Datuna
2022
Ouka Leele
2022
William Lloyd Garrison
1879
Armand Toussaint
1862
José Luis Zorrilla de San Martín
1975
James Peale
1831
Lois Pereiro
1996
Konstantin Gorbatov
1945
Granville Redmond
1935
Edward Armitage
1896
Susan Brownmiller
2025
Joseph Bau
2002
Eugen Relgis
1987
Henry Kingsley
1876
Ted White
2026
Brand Whitlock
1934
Emilio Oribe
1975
Tahia Halim
2003
Fulton Oursler
1952
Joseph Crawhall
1913
Basinio Basini
1457
Jens Rosing
2008
Walter Kappacher
2024
Lucio Muñoz
1998
Vladimir Becić
1954
Oʻtkir Hoshimov
2013
Charles Lucien Léandre
1934
Jorge González Camarena
1980
Minako Ōba
2007
Huguette Marcelle Clark
2011
Hermann Kauffmann the Elder
1889
Elisa de Lamartine
1863
John Closterman
1711
Works published or unveiled
(7)
Braveheart
1995
Thelma & Louise
1991
A View to a Kill
1985
Marie Antoinette
2006
The Beguiled
2017
Capricious Summer
1968
Monument to Saints Cyril and Methodius
1992