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Born
(60)
Herman Melville
1819
Yves Saint Laurent
1936
Sophie Rostopchine, Comtesse de Ségur
1799
Sebastiano Ricci
1659
Meena Kumari
1933
Francis Scott Key
1779
Sugawara no Michizane
845
Ernst Jandl
1925
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
1744
Jan van Scorel
1495
Anne Hébert
1916
Abd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin Qushayri
986
Jim Carroll
1949
Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke
1865
J. Lee Thompson
1914
Ko Un
1933
Grigol Abashidze
1914
Maryana Marrash
1848
Robert James Waller
1939
Richard Wilson
1713
Catherine Parr
1512
Jaroslav Čermák
1830
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
1940
Luis Vélez de Guevara
1579
Tomi Adeyemi
1993
M. R. James
1862
Bernardino Poccetti
1548
Zoran Đinđić
1952
Richard Dadd
1817
Taylor Negron
1957
François le Métel de Boisrobert
1592
Iván Duque
1976
Gurgen Mahari
1903
Raymond Arthur Palmer
1910
Antonio Negri
1933
Maria Mitchell
1818
Stuart Merrill
1863
Stanley Middleton
1919
Jadwiga Łuszczewska
1834
Rose Macaulay
1881
Sakai Hōitsu
1761
Simone Schwarz-Bart
1938
Princess Bona Margherita of Savoy-Genoa
1896
Ali Podrimja
1942
Jeppe Hein
1974
Julie Bovasso
1930
Charles Rochussen
1814
Robert Eisenman
1937
James Gleick
1954
Alfred Hoche
1865
Raman Bandarenka
1989
Louis Royer
1793
David Gemmell
1948
Eunice de Souza
1940
Emily Shanks
1857
Olga Rapay-Markish
1929
Gego
1912
Tudor Gheorghe
1945
Philipp Spitta
1801
Vladimir Zakharov
1939
Died
(60)
Hieronymus Bosch
1516
Lesya Ukrainka
1913
Simone Martini
1344
Dosso Dossi
1542
Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
1787
Norbert Elias
1990
Sviatoslav Richter
1997
Lorenzo Valla
1457
Willem Claesz. Heda
1680
Franco Sacchetti
1400
Israel Zangwill
1926
Edwin Austin Abbey
1911
Theodore Roethke
1963
Jan Both
1652
Adrien Manglard
1760
Margarita Aliger
1992
Bartholomeus Spranger
1611
Yusuf Idris
1991
Zulfiya
1996
Joachim Wtewael
1638
Paddy Chayefsky
1981
Benedict I
579
Elizabeth Inchbald
1821
Reinier Nooms
1664
Gaston III, Count of Foix
1391
Jan Kasprowicz
1926
Leon Kruczkowski
1962
Girolamo da Carpi
1556
Hugo Lederer
1940
Francis de Miomandre
1959
Giovanni Santi
1494
John Michael Wright
1694
Pieter van der Aa
1733
Giovanni da Pian del Carpine
1252
Heinrich Laube
1884
Constant Nieuwenhuys
2005
Mah Laqa Bai
1824
Gerard Houckgeest
1661
Pola Negri
1987
Lambert Lombard
1566
Jacob Willemsz de Wet
1675
Edmund Charles Tarbell
1938
Hope Mirrlees
1978
Devaki Nandan Khatri
1913
Alfred Manessier
1993
Karel Škréta
1674
Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski
1889
Hugo Salmson
1894
Jean Prévost
1944
Ndre Mjeda
1937
Elías García Martínez
1934
Virgil Solis
1562
Ali Sardar Jafri
2000
Abraham de Verwer
1650
Richard Savage
1743
Hosoda Eishi
1829
Pietru Caxaro
1485
Olaus Magnus
1557
Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu
991
Diana Beauclerk
1808
Works published or unveiled
(60)
Guardians of the Galaxy
2014
The Handmaid's Tale
1985
American Graffiti
1973
The Green Mile
1996
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
1974
Atomised
1998
The Mist
1980
Obsession
1976
Anne of Ingleside
1939
Have Space Suit—Will Travel
1958
The Monkey Wrench Gang
1975
Your Erroneous Zones
1976
The Painted Man
2008
Throne of Glass
2012
Horton Hears a Who!
1954
Bentivoglio Altarpiece
1488
Ape and Essence
1948
Little, Big
1981
Militancy in the name of Islam
2006
The Scortas' Sun
2004
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
1903
Red Evil Hair
1878
The Eye of the Heron
1978
Slow River
1995
The Sheep Look Up
1972
The Heritage of Hastur
1975
A Wanted Man
2012
Female Chauvinist Pigs
2005
The Road to Mecca
1954
The Separation
2002
Marrow
2000
Native Tongue
1984
Gravel Heart
2017
Mitrofan and Dormidolski
1881
The Abolition of Britain
1999
The Luck of Roaring Camp
1868
Father There Is Only One
2019
Millie the Model
1945
Blood of Tyrants
2013
The Haunting
1982
The Draining Lake
2007
The Highwayman
1906
The Vampire Tapestry
1980
Beauty
1991
Vellum
2005
The Will to Happiness
1896
O divino sainete
1888
Prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane
1671
Une éducation libertine
2008
Pélagie-la-charrette
1979
Double Vision
2003
The Great Doctor
1866
Quark/4
1971
More Notes of a Dirty Old Man
2011
Adrian Mole: From Minor to Major
1991
Marchmont
1796
Servant of the Dragon
1999
Le Voyage en France
2001
Breathe
2001
Viator
2004