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Born
(60)
Jhumpa Lahiri
1967
Luis de Góngora
1561
E. B. White
1899
Amitav Ghosh
1956
John Quincy Adams
1767
Léon Bloy
1846
Thomas Mitchell
1892
Suzanne Vega
1959
Jean-François Marmontel
1723
Robert Greene
1558
Tab Hunter
1931
Boris Grigoriev
1886
Karoline Luise of Hesse-Darmstadt
1723
Bardaisan
154
Jérôme Lalande
1732
Albert Sánchez Piñol
1965
Yul Brynner
1920
Conrad Vernon
1968
Karl Nordström
1855
Cordwainer Smith
1913
Charles-Antoine Coypel
1694
Yury Annenkov
1889
Joseph Blanco White
1775
Susan Warner
1819
Roger de La Fresnaye
1885
Mark Fisher
1968
Gabriel Sundukian
1825
Louis Leroy
1812
Harold Bloom
1930
Richard Beer-Hofmann
1866
Marie Lu
1984
Hendrik Jacobus Scholten
1824
Jaroslav Goll
1846
Shigeaki Katō
1987
Bernard Seurre
1795
Michael Rosenbaum
1972
Henry Abbey
1842
Dorothy Wilde
1895
Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder
1890
Shakarim Kudaiberdiev
1858
Benjamin Tammuz
1919
Mick Herron
1963
Jenny Hval
1980
Johann Matthäus Bechstein
1757
Caroline Matilda of Great Britain
1751
Muḥammad Ibn-ʿAlī aš-Šaukānī
1760
Jane Gardam
1928
Maya Burman
1971
Shoji Gatoh
1971
Craig Charles
1964
Bertina Lopes
1924
Jiří Krampol
1938
Richard Pipes
1923
Giacinto Gigante
1806
Frederick Buechner
1926
Zecharia Sitchin
1920
Shane Claiborne
1975
Pai Hsien-yung
1937
Norman Lebrecht
1948
Martin Wong
1946
Died
(60)
Milan Kundera
2023
George Gershwin
1937
Pär Lagerkvist
1974
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
1593
Mino da Fiesole
1484
Simon Newcomb
1909
Yevgeny Baratynsky
1844
Josef Kajetán Tyl
1856
Jean-Louis Forain
1931
Ross Macdonald
1983
William Ernest Henley
1903
John W. Campbell
1971
Nobuko Yoshiya
1973
Elisabeth Baumann
1881
Narai
1688
Adriaen Hanneman
1671
Martin Cruz Smith
2025
Muhammad Abduh
1905
Georges Rochegrosse
1938
Yitzhak Danziger
1977
Paul Nash
1946
Abbas Sahhat
1918
Bhisham Sahni
2003
Meša Selimović
1982
Maria Bilders-van Bosse
1900
Gerrit Lundens
1686
Adam of Saint Victor
1192
Susanna Hall
1649
Girolamo Genga
1551
Herman Brood
2001
Albert André
1954
Delmore Schwartz
1966
Magda Portal
1989
Rik Wouters
1916
Fritz Erler
1940
Andon Zako Çajupi
1930
Helmer Osslund
1938
Crockett Johnson
1975
Bartolomeo Cesi
1629
Ernst Curtius
1896
Carl Steffeck
1890
Delarivier Manley
1724
Stefano Ussi
1901
Philippe-Laurent Roland
1816
Richard Hildreth
1865
Rutger Kopland
2012
Lucy Terry
1821
Charles Macklin
1797
León de Greiff
1976
Albert Schickedanz
1915
Sophrony Sakharov
1993
Fazil Najafov
2023
Julius Rodenberg
1914
Gunnar Björling
1960
Salomon Franck
1725
Alexander Yashin
1968
C. F. Goldie
1947
Jyotsna Bhatt
2020
Pedro Mir
2000
Alfonso López Michelsen
2007
Works published or unveiled
(6)
To Kill a Mockingbird
1960
Contact
1997
Superman
2025
La Vallée
1972
Pieśń filaretów
1828
A Man Called Pirate
2012