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Born
(60)
Petrarch
1304
Cormac McCarthy
1933
Muḥammad ibn Ismaeel al-Bukhārī
810
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1864
Max Liebermann
1847
László Moholy-Nagy
1895
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach
1656
Giorgio Morandi
1890
Judy Chicago
1939
Nam June Paik
1932
Uwe Johnson
1934
Pavel Kohout
1928
Simin Behbahani
1927
Gisele Bündchen
1980
Frantz Fanon
1925
Carlos Saldanha
1968
Carlos Alazraqui
1962
Prvoslav Vujcic
1960
Richard Owen
1804
Oleg Anofriyev
1930
Magda Frank
1914
Thomas Friedman
1953
John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry
1844
Minas Avetisyan
1928
Francis Blanche
1921
Théobald Chartran
1849
Alistair MacLeod
1936
Lee San-hae
1539
Thomas Louis Berger
1924
Elías García Martínez
1858
Giovanni Battista Ramusio
1485
Hu Bo
1988
Nicolás Fernández de Moratín
1737
Stig Larsson
1955
Louisa Anne Meredith
1812
Herman Wildenvey
1885
Tim Ferriss
1977
Htin Kyaw
1946
Enrico Corradini
1865
Oksana Pochepa
1984
Adrian Păunescu
1943
Hanna Yablonska
1981
Misao Fujimura
1886
Anni Sinnemäki
1973
Rakuten Kitazawa
1876
George Johnston
1912
Nicolaas Heinsius the Elder
1620
Lyudmila Alexeyeva
1927
Suhayr al-Qalamawi
1911
Pierre de Larivey
1541
Antoine Destutt de Tracy
1754
Marie Petiet
1854
Augustin Daly
1838
Andrea Brustolon
1662
Kurt Seligmann
1900
Hermann von Keyserling
1880
Edward Żeligowski
1816
Tobeen
1880
Giambattista De Curtis
1860
Isidoro Bianchi
1581
Died
(60)
Paul Valéry
1945
Bruce Lee
1973
Sergei Parajanov
1990
Lucian Freud
2011
Dimitrios Vikelas
1908
Germaine Dulac
1942
Gerda Wegener
1940
Leo XIII
1903
Andrew Lang
1912
Paul Delvaux
1994
Robert Smithson
1973
René Bazin
1932
James Doohan
2005
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
2025
Federico Zuccari
1609
Mikhail Isakovsky
1973
Claude Rich
2017
Alessandro Varotari
1649
Johannes Vingboons
1670
Lado Gudiashvili
1980
Norah Borges
1998
Mirko Petrović-Njegoš
1867
Yannis Tsarouchis
1989
p’Bitek Okot
1982
Iwasa Matabē
1650
Calouste Gulbenkian
1955
Carol Grace
2003
Ludwig Beck
1944
Fikret Mualla Saygı
1967
Paul Troger
1762
Marisa Merz
2019
Ippolito Caffi
1866
Helen Thomas
2013
Urszula Kozioł
2025
Georgy Guryanov
2013
Jean Ingelow
1897
Isaac de Moucheron
1744
Maine de Biran
1824
Bijay Mohanty
2020
Reinhard Sorge
1916
Henri de Braekeleer
1888
Robert Smythe Hichens
1950
Charlotte de Rothschild
1899
Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikyan
1966
Jacqueline Lamba
1993
Ugo da Carpi
1523
Eyvind Earle
2000
Marie-Sœurette Mathieu
2023
Odet de Turnèbe
1581
Josefina de Vasconcellos
2005
Arshi Pipa
1997
Franz Werner Tamm
1724
Enguerrand de Monstrelet
1453
Ibn Muqla
940
Ernest Mandel
1995
Pope Timothy I of Alexandria
384
David Widhopff
1933
Joseph Mendes da Costa
1939
Utagawa Kunisada II
1880
Mikhail Katkov
1887
Works published or unveiled
(2)
Funny People
2009
L'Attentat
2005