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Born
(60)
Ian Fleming
1908
Patrick White
1912
Maeve Binchy
1940
Carl Larsson
1853
Bülent Ecevit
1925
Thomas Moore
1779
Carroll Baker
1931
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
1883
Muriel Barbery
1969
Hans Makart
1840
Walker Percy
1916
Luigi Capuana
1839
Mina Witkojc
1893
Alexandre Calame
1810
Isabelle Carré
1971
Miljenko Jergović
1966
Franz von Bayros
1866
Vladislav Khodasevich
1886
Heinz G. Konsalik
1921
Xin Qiji
1140
Mir Taqi Mir
1723
José Craveirinha
1922
Oscar Milosz
1877
Rudy Giuliani
1944
Bernhard Severin Ingemann
1789
Louis Agassiz
1807
Frank Schätzing
1957
Louis Jean Desprez
1743
Richard A. Knaak
1961
Geoffrey A. Landis
1955
Park Hon-young
1900
Meg Wolitzer
1959
David Baddiel
1964
Richard Réti
1889
Luis César Amadori
1902
Ursula Vernon
1977
Fred Chappell
1936
Alexander von Kotzebue
1815
Fritz Hochwälder
1911
Roger Kumble
1966
Lai He
1894
Henri-Pierre Roché
1879
P. G. T. Beauregard
1818
Louis Mustillo
1958
Johann David Wyss
1743
N. T. Rama Rao
1923
Robert Arnauld d'Andilly
1589
Olga Niewska
1898
Olga Sacharoff
1881
K. Sachhidanandan
1946
Avery Hopwood
1882
Henri-Léon Gréber
1854
János Rombauer
1782
Fiona Tan
1966
Gavin Harrison
1963
Johann Weikhard von Valvasor
1641
Eric Von Schmidt
1931
Paul Flandrin
1811
Jean Schopfer
1868
Marc di Napoli
1953
Died
(60)
Maya Angelou
2014
Anne Brontë
1849
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
2025
Ivan Franko
1916
Kees van Dongen
1968
Antonio Gala
2023
Boris Kustodiev
1927
Jörg Immendorff
2007
Jacqueline Marval
1932
Tatsuo Hori
1953
Walter Abish
2022
Bertha Pappenheim
1936
Kálmán Mikszáth
1910
Katri Vala
1944
Pierre Subleyras
1749
Pencho Slaveykov
1912
François-Louis Français
1897
Zainul Abedin
1976
Giorgio Albertazzi
2016
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
1747
Consuelo de Saint Exupéry
1979
Noah Webster
1843
Eric Morecambe
1984
Ion Agârbiceanu
1963
Benoît Sokal
2021
Wulfstan
1023
Anne Seymour Damer
1828
George Washington Lambert
1930
Bernardino Fernández de Velasco, 14th Duke of Frías
1851
Bashir Badr
2026
Stefan Wyszyński
1981
William Herbert
1847
Jean Reboul
1864
Miroslav Sasek
1980
Edip Cansever
1986
Violette Leduc
1972
Jonathan Richardson
1745
Caterina Sforza
1509
Louis Vivin
1936
Margaret Preston
1963
Avigdor Dagan
2006
Anwar Shah Kashmiri
1933
Mallika Sengupta
2011
Freddy Buache
2019
Anton Reicha
1836
Baltasar Lopes da Silva
1989
Sophie de Choiseul-Gouffier
1878
Adolph Northen
1876
Lenrie Peters
2009
Francis Bebey
2001
Kicking Bear
1904
Jacques Normand
1931
Gracia Barrios
2020
Arifin C. Noer
1995
Henri Grégoire
1831
Johannes Aal
1551
Agustín Abarca
1953
Lanfranc
1089
Max Walter Svanberg
1994
Adolf Kußmaul
1902
Works published or unveiled
(2)
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
1999
The Laundry Files
2004