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Born
(60)
Alexander Pushkin
1799
Peter Cushing
1913
Edmond de Goncourt
1822
Philippe de Champaigne
1602
Christen Købke
1810
Jack Kevorkian
1928
Alan Hollinghurst
1954
Nicolaus Zinzendorf
1700
John Wayne
1907
Vítězslav Nezval
1900
Alaa Al Aswany
1957
Alex Garland
1970
Isadora Duncan
1877
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
1938
Pierre Daninos
1913
Robert Morley
1908
Robert W. Chambers
1865
Sally Ride
1951
Natalya Gorbanevskaya
1936
Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
1904
Amélie Lundahl
1850
Sven Delblanc
1931
Julie Plec
1972
David Ignatius
1950
Vittoria Aganoor
1855
Moondog
1916
Radwa Ashour
1946
Merab Kostava
1939
Jules-Alexandre Grün
1868
Ilka Gedő
1921
André Devambez
1867
R. Tait McKenzie
1867
Hubert von Herkomer
1849
Susanna Hall
1583
Simon Armitage
1963
Olaf Gulbransson
1873
August Hagborg
1852
Maurice Dekobra
1885
Aaron Douglas
1899
Caitlín R. Kiernan
1964
August Kopisch
1799
Eduard von Grützner
1846
Artur Żmijewski
1966
Margit Sielska-Reich
1900
Aleksandr Shevchenko
1883
Maurice Rostand
1891
Jean Schlumberger
1877
Marie Rouanet
1936
Bobcat Goldthwait
1962
Vitaly Korotich
1936
Ernest L. Blumenschein
1874
Frederick Walker
1840
Raina Telgemeier
1977
Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov
1829
Sverker Johansson
1961
Doris Dörrie
1955
Constance Gordon-Cumming
1837
Mordecai Roshwald
1921
Spencer Gore
1878
Edward Whittemore
1933
Died
(60)
Martin Heidegger
1976
Abdelkader El Djezairi
1883
Alan Bean
2018
Jack Vance
2013
František Palacký
1876
Memos Makris
1993
Zeb-un-Nisa
1702
Jacques Lipchitz
1973
Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant
1902
Vincenzo Danti
1576
Vincent Voiture
1648
Constance Mayer
1821
Jónas Hallgrímsson
1845
Alice Tegnér
1943
Vissarion Belinsky
1848
Hooshang Seyhoun
2014
Jorge Icaza Coronel
1978
Francisque Joseph Duret
1865
Samuel Pepys
1703
Staka Skenderova
1891
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
1999
Francesco Berni
1535
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
1908
Francis Carco
1958
Jacob Riis
1914
Siddiq Hasan Khan
1890
Charles Sealsfield
1864
Kathleen Winsor
2003
Anne Anderson
1952
Alice Nordin
1948
Otto Muehl
2013
Heinrich Knirr
1944
Sebastian Münster
1552
Ruth Smith
1958
Pieter Mulier the Elder
1659
Aurélia de Souza
1922
Roser Bru
2021
Anthony James
2020
Francesco Morone
1529
Emil Braginsky
1998
Mykola Vinhranovskyi
2004
Moysey Fishbein
2020
Lincoln Ellsworth
1951
Robert Filmer
1653
Theodore William Achtermann
1884
Alexander Calandrelli
1903
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
1962
Louise Weiss
1983
Kaoru Kurimoto
2009
Orra White Hitchcock
1863
Svetlin Rusev
2018
Israel Epstein
2015
Dea Trier Mørch
2001
Adrian Zingg
1816
Alfred Hirv
1918
Hans-Peter Feldmann
2023
Jan Linsen
1635
José Caballero
1991
Anna Maria Hilfeling
1783
Áron Tamási
1966
Works published or unveiled
(5)
Dracula
1897
Portrait of landscape painter Frederic Sødring
1832
The Best Christmas Ever
2004
Grand Enfant (Afro-jazz vol.1)
2023
This is What America Looks Like
2020