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Born
(60)
Andrea del Sarto
1486
Ginger Rogers
1911
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
1796
Joshua Reynolds
1723
Roald Amundsen
1872
Naser al-Din Shah Qajar
1831
Robert Sheckley
1928
Alexander Ivanov
1806
Pierre Benoit
1886
Anita Brookner
1928
Georges Rodenbach
1855
Reinaldo Arenas
1943
Will Ferrell
1967
Volodymyr Vynnychenko
1880
Dag Solstad
1941
Tony Kushner
1956
Assata Shakur
1947
Josef Jungmann
1773
Sheri S. Tepper
1929
Barbara Stanwyck
1907
Denis Davydov
1784
Jokha al-Harthi
1978
Vincenzo Gemito
1852
Douglas Murray
1979
Charles Sheeler
1883
Corin Redgrave
1939
Milan Ohnisko
1965
Christopher Koch
1932
Leonid Agutin
1968
Otto Jespersen
1860
Kathleen Norris
1880
Marc René, marquis de Montalembert
1714
Georges Arnaud
1917
Mary Baker Eddy
1821
Ida B. Wells
1862
Zarina
1937
Yusuf III, Sultan of Granada
1376
Maher Zain
1981
Gustave Crauck
1827
Vasyl Barka
1908
Jacopo Ferretti
1784
Elke Krystufek
1970
José Rodrigues
1828
Andrey Dementyev
1928
Aizik Feder
1886
Scott Derrickson
1966
Theodoor Galle
1571
Linda Hogan
1947
Pia Colombo
1930
Frederick William Frohawk
1861
AnnaLynne McCord
1987
Edmond Hédouin
1820
Božidar Jakac
1899
Dimitrie Anghel
1872
Catherine Wilkening
1963
Jörg Fauser
1944
Paulus Hochgatterer
1961
Suki Lahav
1951
Abbondio Sangiorgio
1798
Leo Joseph Suenens
1904
Died
(60)
Heinrich Böll
1985
Pierre-Jean de Béranger
1857
Andreas Gryphius
1664
Edmond de Goncourt
1896
Tommaso da Modena
1379
Giuseppe Maria Crespi
1747
Hilaire Belloc
1953
Carol Shields
2003
Thomas Kyd
1594
Vyacheslav Ivanov
1949
Louis Couperus
1923
Dora Maar
1997
Innocent III
1216
Nicolás Guillén
1989
Stephen Spender
1995
Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
1833
Albert Anker
1910
Robert Motherwell
1991
Mariam Aslamazian
2006
Giovanni Biliverti
1644
Henri Le Sidaner
1939
Nikolai Aseev
1963
Alice Pike Barney
1931
Antonio Ghislanzoni
1893
Gyula Benczúr
1920
John P. Marquand
1960
Vira Vovk
2022
Jan Kupecký
1740
Nicaise de Keyser
1887
Théobald Chartran
1907
Hamo Sahyan
1993
George A. Romero
2017
Dmitri Prigov
2007
Anne Askew
1546
Nijō Yoshimoto
1388
Stephen Covey
2012
David Lindsay
1945
Henri-Pierre Picou
1895
Ellen G. White
1915
Alex Colville
2013
Teresa Feoderovna Ries
1956
Morris
2001
Ahmad al-Qalqashandi
1418
May Sarton
1995
Francis Cotes
1770
Ivan Šarić
1960
Pietro Consagra
2005
Alan Vega
2016
György Petri
2000
Ray Strachey
1940
August Harambašić
1911
Enrico Accatino
2007
Tosia Malamud
2008
Abraham Diepraam
1670
Mikhail Matusovsky
1990
Adèle d'Affry
1879
Henri Pourrat
1959
Simon Rodia
1965
Bernardino Maffei
1553
Janka Lučyna
1897
Works published or unveiled
(13)
The Catcher in the Rye
1951
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2005
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009
Eyes Wide Shut
1999
The Smurfs
2011
Space Jam: A New Legacy
2021
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
1982
The Shootist
1976
Pig
2021
Vortex
2021
Stuck in the Suburbs
2004
The Nickel Boys
2019
This Is How You Lose the Time War
2019