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Born
(60)
Guy de Maupassant
1850
John Huston
1906
Ivar Andreas Aasen
1813
Fath-Ali Shah Qajar
1772
Joseph Justus Scaliger
1540
Conrad Aiken
1889
Naum Gabo
1890
David Baldacci
1960
James Gunn
1966
İbrahim Şinasi
1826
Wendell Berry
1934
Tom Thomson
1877
Louis Wain
1860
Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin
1860
Eugène Guillevic
1907
Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes
1868
Per Wahlöö
1926
Élisabeth Vonarburg
1947
Krzysztof Charamsa
1972
Evgeny Chirikov
1864
Rolando Alarcón
1929
Al Alvarez
1929
Marcel Baschet
1862
Ferdinand Keller
1842
Andreu Alfaro
1929
Erik Lindegren
1910
Resurrección María de Azkue
1864
Steven Knight
1959
Zerrin Tekindor
1964
Baron Isidore Justin Séverin Taylor
1789
Rabia Djelti
1954
Giovanni Anselmo
1934
Sakae Tsuboi
1899
Princess Carina, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg
1968
Julia Codesido
1883
Henry Siddons Mowbray
1858
Matvei Zakharov
1898
Janusz Majewski
1931
Sadeq Chubak
1916
Claude Audran III
1658
Adelqui Migliar Icardi
1891
Roman Ondak
1966
Peter Viereck
1916
Julie Okoh
1947
Reid Hoffman
1967
Sergio Ramírez
1942
Larry Elmore
1948
Jose Garcia Villa
1908
Oʻtkir Hoshimov
1941
Solveig von Schoultz
1907
Robert Bevan
1865
John Eliot
1604
Richard Preston
1954
William Kamkwamba
1987
Vilhelm Bissen
1836
Danh Vō
1975
Mary Ritter Beard
1876
Gustave Lanson
1857
Efraim Zuroff
1948
Francesco Saverio Altamura
1822
Died
(60)
Toni Morrison
2019
Friedrich Engels
1895
Victoria, Princess Royal
1901
Ramón Pérez de Ayala
1962
František Čelakovský
1852
Ion Iliescu
2025
Antoine Pesne
1757
Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen
1661
Colin Higgins
1988
Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller
1811
Stanislaus Hosius
1579
Vasily Yan
1954
Miguel Antonio Caro Tobar
1909
Francisco Coloane
2002
Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha
1716
Jô Soares
2022
Budd Schulberg
2009
Antonio Tempesta
1630
Philip Sheridan
1888
Ana Luísa Amaral
2022
Májuska Puskás
1968
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
1929
Norah Lange
1972
Philipp Foltz
1877
Jean-Baptiste de Santeul
1697
Sasha Chorny
1932
Tenali Ramakrishna
1528
Jean-Marie Lustiger
2007
Adriaan Roland Holst
1976
Ivan Blatný
1990
Ana Hatherly
2015
Moa Martinson
1964
Julius Stinde
1905
Jennie Augusta Brownscombe
1936
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
1720
Emily Eden
1869
Eric Bentley
2020
Manuel Mur Oti
2003
Theodor Pištěk
1960
Lena Mukhina
1991
Biagio Bellotti
1789
Tatsuhiko Shibusawa
1987
Franco Lucentini
2002
Pierre Patel
1676
Oda Schottmüller
1943
Quido Mánes
1880
Frédéric Jacques Temple
2020
Gentil Theodoor Antheunis
1907
Willie Dunn
2013
Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová
1845
Jerzy Zagórski
1984
Emily Cumming Harris
1925
Teresa del Po
1713
Douglas Tilden
1935
Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes
1868
Didier Decoin
2026
Charles Harold Davis
1933
Francine Van Hove
2025
Johann Gottfried Auerbach
1753
Fanny Lewald
1889
Works published or unveiled
(9)
Magic: The Gathering
1993
Collateral
2004
The Butler
2013
Taxman
1966
Bad Feminist
2014
How I Live Now
2004
Confessions
2008
I'm Still Here
2015
The Child
1878