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Born
(60)
Ibn Khaldun
1332
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
1894
Dashiell Hammett
1894
Harlan Ellison
1934
Ivan Kramskoi
1837
Max Brod
1884
Arnold Bennett
1867
Herman Wouk
1915
Chris Colfer
1990
Henry Kissinger
1923
Rachel Carson
1907
John Cheever
1912
John Barth
1930
Christopher Lee
1922
Julia Ward Howe
1819
Georges Rouault
1871
Mathilde Bonaparte
1820
Emperor Dezong of Tang
742
Aleksa Šantić
1868
Georges Eekhoud
1854
Maria Clara Eimmart
1676
Vincent Price
1911
Bhalchandra Nemade
1938
Guadalupe Nettel
1973
Masashi Ueda
1947
Ivo Brešan
1936
Wols
1913
Lojze Grozde
1923
Tony Hillerman
1925
Louis Gossett Jr.
1936
Magda Portal
1900
Alexander Bashlachev
1960
Lawrence M. Krauss
1954
Philip Kotler
1931
Ottaplakkal Neelakandan Velu Kurup
1931
Frank Bidart
1939
Gabrielle Wittkop
1920
Adolf Erbslöh
1881
Louis Bouilhet
1821
Lorenzo Milani
1923
Peter Malkin
1927
Giovanni Antonio Guardi
1699
Enzo Siciliano
1934
Amelia Bloomer
1818
Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Duchess of Orléans
1652
Liu Bannong
1891
Manfred Sommer
1933
Helios Gómez
1905
Shalva Kikodze
1894
Miguel Cabrera
1695
Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski
1878
Rudolf Pannwitz
1881
Marijane Meaker
1927
Adolf Portmann
1897
Mare Kandre
1962
Juan Mayr
1952
Margrethe Munthe
1860
Juan Antonio de Ribera
1779
Anton Goubau
1616
Pedro Garfias
1901
Died
(60)
Jawaharlal Nehru
1964
Joseph Roth
1939
John Calvin
1564
Pellegrini Tiballdi
1596
Paul Gerhardt
1676
Gil Scott-Heron
2011
Arseny Tarkovsky
1989
Rifa'a at-Tahtawi
1873
Gaspard Dughet
1675
Samad Vurgun
1956
Gardner Dozois
2018
Srečko Kosovel
1926
Alessandro Vittoria
1608
Larry Kramer
2020
Kandukuri Vireshalingam
1919
Oscar Zeta Acosta
1974
Hagop Baronian
1891
János Pilinszky
1981
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
1762
François-Noël Babeuf
1797
Ilya Kabakov
2023
Werner Tübke
2004
Jeanna Bauck
1926
Pierre-Antoine Lebrun
1873
Fodéba Keita
1969
Fredrika Runeberg
1879
Chen Duxiu
1942
Michael Talbot
1992
Kobayashi Eitaku
1890
Norah Neilson Gray
1931
Joseph Bouchardy
1870
Mélanie Hahnemann
1878
Machiko Hasegawa
1992
Antonio Ligabue
1965
Gregg Allman
2017
René-Antoine Houasse
1710
José Carlos Schwarz
1977
Abuzar Aydamirov
2005
François Weyergans
2019
Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
1822
Olof Eriksson
1987
Claude Audran III
1734
Barbara Elisabeth van Houten
1950
Girolamo Maggi
1572
Tsendiin Damdinsüren
1986
Fritz von Dardel
1901
Thomas Bulfinch
1867
Wincenty Kasprzycki
1849
Nikolay Bestuzhev
1855
Colin McCahon
1987
Anna Barbara Bansi
1863
Homer Watson
1936
Richard Bruce Nugent
1987
Richard Oelze
1980
Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando
1954
Gisèle van Waterschoot van der Gracht
2013
Jaime Lerner
2021
Reidar Särestöniemi
1981
Mary L. Gow
1929
Delilah Pierce
1992
Works published or unveiled
(8)
Elemental
2023
The Flintstones
1994
Smokey and the Bandit
1977
Dragon Quest
1986
Desperate Living
1977
Huseyn Javid Monument
1993
Monsieur Lecoq
1868
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
2010