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Born
(60)
Salman Rushdie
1947
James VI and I
1566
Blaise Pascal
1623
José Rizal
1861
Radovan Karadžić
1945
Osamu Dazai
1909
Muammar Gaddafi
1942
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
1897
Aung San Suu Kyi
1945
Vera Mukhina
1889
Chico Buarque
1944
Tobias Wolff
1945
John Heartfield
1891
Gustav Schwab
1792
Johan Hendrik Weissenbruch
1824
Edmond Jaloux
1878
Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta
1417
His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa Orgyen Trinley Dorje
1985
Mór Than
1828
Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois
1749
Elbert Green Hubbard
1856
John R. Saul
1947
Thomas Sully
1783
George Voskovec
1905
Charles Spurgeon
1834
George Călinescu
1899
Anneliese Rothenberger
1919
Boris Parygin
1930
Moses ter Borch
1645
Mario Duplantier
1981
Félicité de La Mennais
1782
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes
1884
John Gibson
1790
Vasil Bykaŭ
1924
Jóhann Sigurjónsson
1880
Alphonse Asselbergs
1839
Josef Nesvadba
1926
Yuri Galanskov
1939
Anders Olsson
1949
František Gellner
1881
André Glucksmann
1937
Cornelius Krieghoff
1815
Pauline Kael
1919
Francesco Dall'Ongaro
1808
Pavel Otdelnov
1979
Sarah Kay
1988
Frank Johnston
1888
Joaquim Machado de Castro
1731
Kirill Medvedev
1975
Henryka Łazowertówna
1909
Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
1809
Angie Sage
1952
Reza Kianian
1951
Arcadia Olenska-Petryshyn
1934
John Barrow
1764
Baby Halder
1973
Carl Seffner
1861
Jagoda Kaloper
1947
Joseph-François Michaud
1767
Rudolf Kremlička
1886
Died
(60)
William Golding
1993
J. M. Barrie
1937
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
2020
Ali Shariati
1977
Betti Alver
1989
Matthäus Merian
1650
Lee Krasner
1984
Ludwig Richter
1884
Sargis Baghdasaryan
2001
Jijé
1980
Vladimir Nazor
1949
Alessandro Marcello
1747
Pierre-Joseph Redouté
1840
Fan Zhongyan
1052
James Salter
2015
Aggelos Sikelianos
1951
Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée
1805
Jean Wahl
1974
Ivan Drach
2018
Zabel Sibil Asadour
1934
Harald Sohlberg
1935
Maria Wiik
1928
Jules Janin
1874
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
1902
Vince Flynn
2013
Brandon Thomas
1914
Ilka Gedő
1985
Claes Janszoon Visscher II
1652
Johann Gustav Droysen
1884
Elizabeth of Schönau
1164
Jean Henri Jaume Saint-Hilaire
1845
Vladimir A. Obruchev
1956
George W. M. Reynolds
1879
Diego de Torres Villarroel
1770
Joseph Paelinck
1839
Marie Vieux-Chauvet
1973
Ramón López Velarde
1921
Francisco de Holanda
1584
Adrienne Monnier
1955
Jan Cremer
2024
Piramerd
1950
Aaly Tokombaev
1988
Osmar Schindler
1927
Josip Račić
1908
Wilhelmina Lagerholm
1917
Juan Bautista Alberdi
1884
Peter Ochs
1821
Mario Soldati
1999
Gailard Sartain
2025
Esther Nirina
2004
Filip Topol
2013
Stanley Cavell
2018
Louis Etienne Watelet
1866
Tadeusz Rittner
1921
Ferenc Futurista
1947
John-Étienne Chaponnière
1835
Philip Fruytiers
1666
Elena Popea
1941
Józef Hecht
1951
József Egry
1951
Works published or unveiled
(5)
Inside Out
2015
The Cannonball Run
1981
The Long Earth
2012
Manon des sources
1952
Fox in Socks
1965