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Born
(60)
Thomas Hardy
1840
Marquis de Sade
1740
Karl Adolph Gjellerup
1857
Domenico Ghirlandaio
1448
Carol Shields
1935
Grace Aguilar
1816
Paul-Albert Besnard
1849
Isaac van Ostade
1621
Richard Long
1945
Lester del Rey
1915
Barbara Pym
1913
Max Aub
1903
Ferenc Karinthy
1921
Lydia Lunch
1959
Tapio Wirkkala
1915
Michel-Jean Sedaine
1719
Francesc Ribalta
1565
Nicolau Nasoni
1691
Sibylle Berg
1962
Charles Landelle
1821
Dimitris Kitsikis
1935
Federico Zandomeneghi
1841
Bruno Schleinstein
1932
Marcel Reich-Ranicki
1920
Friedrich August von Kaulbach
1850
Dorothy West
1907
Heinrich Harder
1858
Yunna Morits
1937
Cornelis Rudolphus Theodorus Krayenhoff
1759
Cornel West
1953
Jalal Garyaghdi
1914
David Bezmozgis
1973
Genaro Estrada
1887
Makoto Oda
1932
Fredrik Backman
1981
Marie-Hélène Breillat
1947
Felix Weingartner
1863
Tony Buzan
1942
Shōzaburō Watanabe
1885
John Godfrey Saxe
1816
Dorothea Biehl
1731
Horacio Ferrer
1933
Blinky Palermo
1943
Hernando de Soto
1941
Marie Lenéru
1875
Émile Appay
1876
Peter Clarke
1929
John Bartram
1699
Walter Andreas Schwarz
1913
Vladislav Bajac
1954
Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster
1869
Raul Hilberg
1926
Ana Cristina Cesar
1952
Pepe Viyuela
1963
Abdelaziz Gorgi
1928
Sean Stewart
1965
Gideon Levy
1953
Caroline Link
1964
Edward Penfield
1866
Ivan Soshenko
1807
Died
(60)
Alexander Ostrovsky
1886
Madeleine de Scudéry
1701
Vita Sackville-West
1962
Giuseppe Garibaldi
1882
Alain
1951
Alfred Austin
1913
Adela Zamudio
1928
David Eddings
2009
George S. Kaufman
1961
Lucía Sánchez Saornil
1970
Yelü Chucai
1243
Tahar Djaout
1993
Cao Mao
260
Josef Václav Myslbek
1922
Fujiwara no Michitsuna no Haha
995
Anna Palm de Rosa
1924
Ogata Kōrin
1716
Fran Saleški Finžgar
1962
Orhan Kemal
1970
Wang Guowei
1927
Leon Garfield
1996
Wijnand Nuijen
1839
Stan Rogers
1983
Izz al-Din ibn Hibatullah ibn Abi l-Hadid
1258
Alexander Shulgin
2014
Mel Ferrer
2008
Tom Kristensen
1974
Émile Littré
1881
Anthony de Mello
1987
Erik Palmstedt
1803
Dom Moraes
2004
John Erskine
1951
Murong Chui
396
Anna Gardell-Ericson
1939
Edgardo Cozarinsky
2024
Caroline Bardua
1864
Ahmed Arif
1991
Józef Baka
1780
Elise Aun
1932
Ifeoma Aggrey-Fynn
2015
Sara Gómez
1974
Maroun Aboud
1962
Jesús Fernández Santos
1988
Wolfgang Hilbig
2007
Clotilde Tambroni
1817
Pierre Louis Rouillard
1881
Togrul Narimanbeyov
2013
Franz Eisenhut
1903
Raymond Franz
2010
Emil Boyson
1979
Josip Horvat Međimurec
1945
Vyacheslav Klykov
2006
Hans von Wolzogen
1938
Pierre Victor, baron de Besenval de Brünstatt
1791
Helen Jacobs
1997
Pastor Vega
2005
Joel Rosenberg
2011
Béni Ferenczy
1967
Elise Thérèse Koekkoek-Daiwaille
1881
Friedrich Kallmorgen
1924
Works published or unveiled
(6)
Mao: The Unknown Story
2005
The Strain
2009
The Man from Hong Kong
1975
A Monkey's Tale
1999
statue of Fredrika Bremer
1927
Los siete contra Tebes
2012