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Born
(60)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
1803
Rosario Castellanos
1925
Robert Ludlum
1927
Raymond Carver
1938
Naim Frashëri
1846
Toghon Temür
1320
Carlo Dolci
1616
Jamaica Kincaid
1949
Eve Ensler
1953
Theodore Roethke
1908
Eugène Grasset
1845
Poppy Z. Brite
1967
Vladimír Franz
1959
Jean Wahl
1888
Jean-Charles Cazin
1841
John Michael Wright
1617
Madeleine Thien
1974
Cornelis Springer
1817
David Beck
1621
Raymond Smullyan
1919
Jean-Richard Bloch
1884
Max von der Grün
1926
Charlotte Berend-Corinth
1880
Amy Klobuchar
1960
Barry Windsor-Smith
1949
Oleg Dahl
1941
John Gregory Dunne
1932
U Nu
1907
Alastair Campbell
1957
Dmitri Zhilinsky
1927
Princess Helena of the United Kingdom
1846
Georgy Grechko
1931
Pierre Bergounioux
1949
Daagh Dehlvi
1831
Dhiruben Patel
1926
Gustave Jean Jacquet
1846
Sonia Rykiel
1930
Margaret Forster
1938
Jules Blanchard
1832
Roger Bowen
1932
Victor Orsel
1795
Ram Kinker Baij
1906
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
1879
Svetlana Baskova
1965
Adalbert Erdely
1891
Hippolyte Auger
1796
Kōtarō Isaka
1971
Christina Chalon
1749
Heikki Häiväoja
1929
František Ženíšek
1849
Haroldo Conti
1925
William Logsdail
1859
Alain Grandbois
1900
Agata Tuszyńska
1957
Vacłaŭ Ivanoŭski
1880
Boris Artzybasheff
1899
Florence Esté
1859
Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands
1966
Pelagio Palagi
1775
Died
(60)
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
1681
Madame de Lafayette
1693
Rosa Bonheur
1899
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi
986
Johann Nestroy
1862
Leonora Carrington
2011
Aldhelm
709
Lyubov Popova
1924
Paula von Preradović
1951
Demyan Bedny
1945
Gregory VII
1085
Édouard René Lefèbvre de Laboulaye
1883
James Montgomery Flagg
1960
Karl August Wittfogel
1988
Robert Capa
1954
Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
1983
Nils von Dardel
1943
Yang Jiang
2016
Asmus Jacob Carstens
1798
Marie Krøyer
1940
Symon Petliura
1926
Edmund Dulac
1953
Jane Dieulafoy
1916
Martin Kukučín
1928
Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria
1862
Malcom McLean
2001
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne
1778
Zoran Mušič
2005
Harry Bolus
1911
Donald Crisp
1974
Guillaume Dubufe
1909
Konrad Krzyżanowski
1922
Rupert Bunny
1947
Antoine Laurent Dantan
1878
Fyodor Chesnokov
1938
Júlio Dantas
1962
Steinn Steinarr
1958
Charles Errard
1689
Sloan Wilson
2003
Andrew Loomis
1959
Garrett Putnam Serviss
1929
Emilio Castelar
1899
Mather Brown
1831
Clara Ledesma
1999
Yevgenia Ginzburg
1977
William Paley
1805
Eugenio Agneni
1879
Konstantin Danil
1873
Wilhelm von Kügelgen
1867
Mari Yonehara
2006
Valens Acidalius
1595
Gitta Mallasz
1992
Joe Brainard
1994
Olga Niewska
1943
Dmytro Kremin
2019
Peter Andreas Munch
1863
František Xaver Svoboda
1943
Gyula Mészáros
1957
Gyula Kosice
2016
Vera Albreht
1971
Works published or unveiled
(7)
Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi
1983
Selfportrait at 6th wedding anniversary
1906
Friesenjung
2023
Breakfast on Pluto
1998
Index
1981
Mademoiselle Satán
1927
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (1st edition)
1993