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Born
(60)
William Makepeace Thackeray
1811
Hunter S. Thompson
1937
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
1933
Hyacinthe Rigaud
1659
Roald Hoffmann
1937
Nathalie Sarraute
1900
Elizabeth Gilbert
1969
Johann Martin Schleyer
1831
Ricarda Huch
1864
Giacomo Balla
1871
Hermann of Reichenau
1013
Tristan Corbière
1845
Heinrich Bullinger
1504
Maria Antonia Walpurgis of Bavaria
1724
Hume Cronyn
1911
Lucien Simon
1861
Red Skelton
1913
Franca Rame
1929
Clifford Odets
1906
Anna Chromý
1940
Gene Lockhart
1891
Paul Dubois
1829
Wendy Williams
1964
Hampton Fancher
1938
Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar
1919
Edward Bond
1934
Sarat Chandra Das
1849
Maria Pacôme
1923
Tania Bruguera
1968
Margaret Laurence
1926
Kristiina Ehin
1977
Elizabeth Jennings
1926
Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra
1610
Franciszek Żmurko
1859
Angelo Morbelli
1853
Saverio Bettinelli
1718
Bobby Henderson
1980
Josette Abondio
1949
Tokay Mammadov
1927
Stephen Holden
1941
Katarzyna Grochola
1957
Vladimir Medinsky
1970
Simon Vinkenoog
1928
Kenneth Armitage
1916
Vahan Totovents
1894
Alphonse Rabbe
1784
Alfian Sa'at
1977
Elin Pelin
1877
Bishnu Dey
1909
Manuel Gálvez
1882
Hugo Riemann
1849
Per Petterson
1952
Anna Timiryova
1893
Elizabeth Gould
1804
Gilbert White
1720
Louis de Geer the Elder
1818
Marino Moretti
1885
Lee Jaijin
1979
Stella Skopal
1904
David Pierre Giottino Humbert de Superville
1770
Died
(60)
Jane Austen
1817
Caravaggio
1610
Jean-Antoine Watteau
1721
Juan Marsé
2020
Claes Oldenburg
2022
Àngel Guimerà
1924
Emanuel Leutze
1868
Vasily Polenov
1927
Jean Negulesco
1993
Horatio Alger
1899
Mahmud Pasha
1474
John XVIII
1009
Godfrey of Bouillon
1100
João Ubaldo Ribeiro
2014
Gilberto Freyre
1987
Roman Jakobson
1982
Bernhard Hoetger
1949
Marius Bauer
1932
Ephraim Moses Lilien
1925
Johann Gabriel Seidl
1875
Marc Camoletti
2003
Vladimir Paley
1918
Margaret Neilson Armstrong
1944
Karl Joseph Simrock
1876
Louis Bouilhet
1869
Heiti Talvik
1947
Refik Halit Karay
1965
Vaali
2013
André Vingt-Trois
2025
Vahan Totovents
1938
José Ángel Valente
2000
Luciano De Crescenzo
2019
William Pimm
1952
Lubin Baugin
1663
Franz Deutmann
1915
Carl Ferdinand Appun
1872
Salo Flohr
1983
Charlotte Armstrong
1969
Keith Sonnier
2020
Julian Bell
1937
Milan Lasica
2021
Elias of Nisibis
1046
Ned Buntline
1886
António Vieira
1697
Antonio Franchi
1709
Max Gallo
2017
Sally Salminen
1976
Lydia Becker
1890
Philippe Mercier
1760
Hans Feibusch
1998
Rex Whistler
1944
Valéria Dénes
1915
Robert Kurz
2012
Thomas Sturge Moore
1944
Guy Pène du Bois
1958
Weldon Kees
1955
Alice Colonieu
2010
Dietmar Schönherr
2014
Franz Weissmann
2005
Gabriel Ellison
2017
Works published or unveiled
(2)
A Little Pretty Pocket-Book
1744
Toki Pona Dictionary
2021