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Born
(60)
Shimon Peres
1923
Isabel Allende
1942
James Baldwin
1924
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
1834
Felix Philipp Kanitz
1829
Wes Craven
1939
Dmitry Merezhkovsky
1865
Rómulo Gallegos
1884
Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
1674
JD Vance
1984
Philippe Soupault
1897
Arthur Dove
1880
Peter O'Toole
1932
Yacine Kateb
1929
Jussi Adler-Olsen
1950
José Afonso
1929
Bei Dao
1949
John Sloan
1871
John II, Duke of Lorraine
1425
Nehemiah Persoff
1919
Samuel van Hoogstraten
1627
Kevin Smith
1970
Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman
1802
Marianne Weber
1870
Georges Rochegrosse
1859
Ernest Dowson
1867
Lawrence Wright
1947
Rose Tremain
1943
Robert Holdstock
1948
Michel del Castillo
1933
Caleb Carr
1955
Mstislav Dobuzhinsky
1875
Aino Kallas
1878
Francis Marion Crawford
1854
Félix Leclerc
1914
Adolf Friedrich von Schack
1815
Mary-Louise Parker
1964
Sin Sukchu
1417
John Tyndall
1820
Pierre Roche
1855
Kaspar von Stieler
1632
Luigi Arzuffi
1931
Gustave Van de Woestijne
1881
Marg Moll
1884
Jan Pieter van Suchtelen
1751
Theodor Wolff
1868
Maxwell Fry
1899
William Henry Ireland
1775
Ruth Barcan Marcus
1921
Junji Kinoshita
1914
Gérard Audran
1640
Henry Steel Olcott
1832
Chrystia Freeland
1968
Amy Roberta Ruck
1878
Maram al-Masri
1962
Graham Hancock
1950
Bertha Lutz
1894
Albert Bloch
1882
Shigeko Kubota
1937
Louis Pauwels
1920
Died
(60)
William S. Burroughs
1997
Thomas Gainsborough
1788
Lazare Carnot
1823
Wallace Stevens
1955
Bernardo Strozzi
1644
Raymond Carver
1988
Fritz Lang
1976
Adam Asnyk
1897
Pierre Auguste Cot
1883
Louise-Victorine Ackermann
1890
Oliver La Farge
1963
Oswald von Wolkenstein
1445
Paul Goodman
1972
František Langer
1965
Vasili Bazhenov
1799
James Krüss
1997
John Roddam Spencer Stanhope
1908
Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire
1880
Marcus Clarke
1881
Norman Maclean
1990
Kanō Masanobu
1530
Aileen Meagher
1987
Mikhail Mikhailov
1865
José Juan Tablada
1945
Francisco Rizi
1685
Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch
1880
Patricia Anthony
2013
Quirino Cristiani
1984
Donald Ogden Stewart
1980
Lasar Segall
1957
Horace Mann
1859
Winston Ntshona
2018
Wanda Chotomska
2017
Krystyna Krahelska
1944
Jóannes Patursson
1946
Adonias Filho
1990
Julius Leopold Klein
1876
Willem Wilmink
2003
Melissa Bank
2022
George Hitchcock
1913
Ram Kinker Baij
1980
Joseph Stevens
1892
Felka Płatek
1944
Charles Eyck
1983
Adolf Endler
2009
Roy Cohn
1986
Thomas Medwin
1869
Lorenzo Sabbatini
1576
Bernardino Zendrini
1879
Harry Braverman
1976
Patricia Moyes
2000
Benjamín Mendoza y Amor Flores
2014
Utagawa Yoshitsuya
1866
Max Karl Tilke
1942
Henryk Berlewi
1967
Clare Atwood
1962
Paul Kleinschmidt
1949
Robert Pötzelberger
1930
Raphael Kirchner
1917
Joseph Thomson
1895
Works published or unveiled
(10)
The Sixth Sense
1999
Interiors
1978
It Ends with Us
2016
The Underground Railroad
2016
One Armed Boxer
1972
The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
1984
Mélusine
2005
Runemarks
2007
Kafir: A Deal with the Devil
2018
The Flight of Dragons
1979