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Born
(60)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792
Knut Hamsun
1859
Greta Gerwig
1983
Witold Gombrowicz
1904
Louis Armstrong
1901
Kishore Kumar
1929
Jojo Moyes
1969
Ivan Bilibin
1876
Jáchym Topol
1962
Walter Pater
1839
Don S. Davis
1942
Dennis Lehane
1965
Paul Avrich
1931
Michel Déon
1919
Béla Balázs
1884
Michel Verne
1861
Maurice de Guérin
1810
Augustin-Alexandre Dumont
1801
Charles-Louis Philippe
1874
Tim Winton
1960
Paul McCarthy
1945
Laura Knight
1877
John Harington
1560
John Henry Twachtman
1853
William Henry Hudson
1841
Gaspar Núñez de Arce
1832
David Seidler
1937
Liao Yiwu
1958
Ekaterina Ryabova
1997
Erich Weinert
1890
François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac
1604
Bernardo Dovizi
1470
Nicolas-Jacques Conté
1755
Charles de Groux
1825
Orhan Gencebay
1944
Chuck Hogan
1967
Francesco Paolo Michetti
1851
Altina Schinasi
1907
Adrien Bertrand
1888
Virgilio Piñera
1912
Stephan Sinding
1846
Tom Kristensen
1893
Evelyn Sharp
1869
Franco Brusati
1922
Hedda Sterne
1910
Turgut Uyar
1927
René Schickele
1883
Helen Thomas
1920
Anbara Salam Khalidy
1897
Robert William Buss
1804
Romeo Castellucci
1960
Sapphire
1950
Mani Matter
1936
Mahabaleshwar Sail
1943
Rutger Kopland
1934
Igor Savitsky
1915
Iceberg Slim
1918
Pierre-André Taguieff
1946
Angelica Balabanoff
1877
Enrico Castellani
1930
Died
(60)
Hans Christian Andersen
1875
Andrea della Robbia
1525
James Oppenheim
1932
Seichō Matsumoto
1992
Mihály Babits
1941
Ivan Mažuranić
1890
Lilya Brik
1978
Juan Ruiz de Alarcón
1639
Jules Lemaître
1914
François-André Vincent
1816
John Burgoyne
1792
Kristjan Jaak Peterson
1822
Vittore Grubicy de Dragon
1920
Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński
1944
Radoje Domanović
1908
Padma Sachdev
2021
Enver Pasha
1922
Émile Lévy
1890
Phan Thanh Gian
1867
Alberto Bayo
1967
Francisco Bayeu
1795
Tor Åge Bringsværd
2025
Veikko Antero Koskenniemi
1962
Sherko Bekas
2013
William Edmondstoune Aytoun
1865
Enrique Angelelli
1976
Ary Renan
1900
David Frischmann
1922
James Welch
2003
Leopold Carl Müller
1892
Halyna Zubchenko
2000
Turhan Sultan
1683
Johannes Hubertus Leonardus de Haas
1908
Alfred Maurer
1932
Marie Hamsun
1969
Bruce Goff
1982
Rudolf G. Binding
1938
Conrad Schnitzler
2011
John Dillon
1927
Amos Kenan
2009
Phoebe Anna Traquair
1936
Mathias Goeritz
1990
Yaakov Shabtai
1981
Giuseppe Chiarini
1908
Mikhail Savoyarov
1941
Siegfried Wagner
1930
Ernestine Rose
1892
Georg Maurer
1971
Kuzma Abramov
2008
Taco Mesdag
1902
John Burgon
1888
Nikiforos Vrettakos
1991
Raul Hilberg
2007
Helena Emingerová
1943
Alfred d'Orsay
1852
Francisc Șirato
1953
Ethel Anderson
1958
Marie-Alexandre Alophe
1883
Tony Johannot
1852
Izz al-Din ibn 'Abd al-Salam
1262
Works published or unveiled
(7)
Red Eye
2005
The Sense of an Ending
2011
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
2022
El Caballito
1802
Lucky
1999
Harrow the Ninth
2020
Mehr Meer: Erinnerungspassagen
2009