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Born
(60)
Jean Cocteau
1889
Marcel Achard
1899
Jean Raspail
1925
George Borrow
1803
Clara Zetkin
1857
Chuck Close
1940
Tin Ujević
1891
Mia Couto
1955
Felix Timmermans
1886
André Lhote
1885
P. T. Barnum
1810
Sébastien Japrisot
1931
Isa Miranda
1905
Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka
1853
Marcel Arland
1899
François Bourgeon
1945
James Herbert Brennan
1940
Louis-Léopold Boilly
1761
Blanka Teleki
1806
Boris Lavrenyov
1891
Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriël
1828
Veronica Guerin
1959
Barbara Frischmuth
1941
Michael Blake
1945
Sebastian Barry
1955
Hossein Rajabian
1984
Ernst Mayr
1904
Gary Shteyngart
1972
Antonio García Gutiérrez
1813
Ronald D. Moore
1964
Ondjaki
1977
Henri Le Fauconnier
1881
RZA
1969
Jillian Armenante
1968
Jill Murphy
1949
Ivana Bodrožić
1982
Inayat Khan
1882
Charles Mengin
1853
Hamdeen Sabahi
1954
Mustafa Al-Kadhimi
1967
William Thomas Stead
1849
Ravuri Bharadhwaja
1927
Claude Lafortune
1936
Giuseppe Caselli
1893
Stevan Raičković
1928
Salvador Jorge Blanco
1926
Sergey Glinka
1775
Ottó Tolnai
1940
Francesco Chiesa
1871
Carl Vogt
1817
Constantin Tănase
1880
Len Lye
1901
William Crotch
1775
Nancy Springer
1948
Claudio Castelucho Diana
1870
Scarlett Thomas
1972
Elisabeth Kulmann
1808
Sylvester Graham
1794
Ekaterina Gubareva
1983
Costantino Nivola
1911
Died
(60)
Georges Bernanos
1948
Jules Breton
1906
Alexander Roslin
1793
Austen Henry Layard
1894
Cy Twombly
2011
Jonas Lie
1908
Max Klinger
1920
Claude Lanzmann
2018
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
1994
Theodore Roszak
2011
Émile Souvestre
1854
Paul Cuvelier
1978
Carl Einstein
1940
Tawfiq Ziad
1994
Gerrit Komrij
2012
Ugo Gregoretti
2019
Aert Schouman
1792
Joseph Blanc
1904
Misak Metsarents
1908
Lady Flora Hastings
1839
Renato Simoni
1952
James Norman Hall
1951
Thirunalloor Karunakaran
2006
Maria Mercè Marçal
1998
Rachel Crothers
1958
Joachim Meisner
2017
Giovanni Carnovali
1873
Ādolfs Alunāns
1912
Irina Ratushinskaya
2017
Betty Paoli
1894
Daniel Garber
1958
Ivan Vitali
1855
Magnus von Wright
1868
Charles Baugniet
1886
Juan Pablo Rebella
2006
Howard Nemerov
1991
Ludwig Robert
1832
Antonio de Ulloa
1795
Peter Anton von Verschaffelt
1793
Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Elder
1754
Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso
1871
Antoine de Paris
1976
Kuno Fischer
1907
Vjekoslav Karas
1858
Bruce Fairchild Barton
1967
Joaquín Navarro-Valls
2017
Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza
2003
Nasr Abu Zayd
2010
Noel Counihan
1986
Wilhelm August Golicke
1848
Vincenzo Riolo
1837
María Simón
2009
Sandy van Ginkel
2009
Odile Crick
2007
Anton Schrodl
1906
Gerd Aretz
2009
Jakov Ignjatović
1889
Hans-Ulrich Wehler
2014
Desiré-Raoul Rochette
1854
William of Hirsau
1091
Works published or unveiled
(8)
Shrek
2001
Confessions of a Mask
1949
Radical: My Journey out of Islamist Extremism
2012
Les Fourmis
1949
Anak-Anak Borobudur
2007
Bu Olaiwy Diaries
1964
Onibi
1956
Il baritono verdiano
2021