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Born
(60)
Jean de La Fontaine
1621
Artemisia Gentileschi
1593
Käthe Kollwitz
1867
Ljudevit Gaj
1809
Richard Aldington
1892
Marty Feldman
1934
Gian Giorgio Trissino
1478
Andrey Myagkov
1938
Walter Hasenclever
1890
Jean Ray
1887
Mourid Barghouti
1944
Shirley Ann Grau
1929
Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail
1829
Hanns Johst
1890
Erin Morgenstern
1978
Jean Cau
1925
Leonora Christina Ulfeldt
1621
Jules Adler
1865
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
1926
Josef Hora
1891
Majit Gafuri
1880
Julius Mosen
1803
Marianne Williamson
1952
Peter Orlovsky
1933
Veikko Antero Koskenniemi
1885
Heinrich Albert
1604
Maria Wine
1912
Hans Heyerdahl
1857
Heinrich von Angeli
1840
Carmen Mondragón
1893
Girija Vyas
1946
Diana Arbenina
1974
Slobodan Šnajder
1948
Oleh Olzhych
1907
Friedrich Kaulbach
1822
Ivan Franjo Jukić
1818
Gwendolyn B. Bennett
1902
Kōki Mitani
1961
Anna Quindlen
1952
J. Ottis Adams
1851
Fergus Hume
1859
John Ball
1911
Christiaen van Couwenbergh
1604
Louis Boullogne
1609
Branca de Gonta Colaço
1880
Stanton Macdonald-Wright
1890
Federico Beltrán Masses
1885
Mikhail Lozinsky
1886
Rouble Nagi
1980
Alec Waugh
1898
August Stöber
1808
William Lindsay Windus
1822
Guido Marzulli
1943
Sasaki Nobutsuna
1872
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Serov
1910
Jacques-Philippe Le Bas
1707
Barbara Morgan
1900
Kaii Higashiyama
1908
Karl Gützlaff
1803
Ithaka Darin Pappas
1966
Died
(60)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
1822
Gavrila Derzhavin
1816
Ghassan Kanafani
1972
Franz Xaver Winterhalter
1873
Alexander Grin
1932
Giovanni Papini
1956
Theobald I of Navarre
1253
Anthony Hope
1933
Tab Hunter
2018
Henry Raeburn
1823
Louis Hémon
1913
Brassaï
1984
Isa Miranda
1982
Roberts Blossom
2011
Tom Thomson
1917
Tommaso Landolfi
1979
Andrea Riccio
1532
Eugene III
1153
Gerardo Diego
1987
Betty Ford
2011
Axel Bakunts
1937
Karel Václav Rais
1926
Kurt Reidemeister
1971
Francesco Giuseppe Casanova
1803
Hablot Knight Browne
1882
Pier Paolo Vergerio the Elder
1444
George B. Seitz
1944
August Alle
1952
Rosemonde Gérard
1953
Agnes Strickland
1874
Ferdinand Keller
1922
Georg Neumark
1681
José Humberto Quintero
1984
Franz Fühmann
1984
Havelock Ellis
1939
Jaroslav Goll
1929
Vanna Bonta
2014
Sundri Uttamchandani
2013
August Cappelen
1852
Subhash Mukhopadhyay
2003
Jean Donneau de Visé
1710
Thomas Sigismund Stribling
1965
Christian Ruben
1875
James Tate
2015
Peder Als
1776
Fernão Mendes Pinto
1583
Diana Abgar
1937
Marco Solari
1405
Federiko Benković
1753
Benedetto Bonfigli
1496
Raja Rao
2006
Guillermo Valencia Castillo
1943
Crystal Eastman
1928
Luís Fróis
1597
Antun Saadeh
1949
Cecilio Acosta
1881
Eusebio Lillo
1910
FM-2030
2000
Dorothy Uhnak
2006
Abul Kalam Qasmi
2021
Works published or unveiled
(2)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2000
Victory of Eagles
2008