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Born
(60)
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1887
Klaus Ebner
1964
Jostein Gaarder
1952
Godfrey Kneller
1646
Just Jaeckin
1940
Sara Teasdale
1884
Ferenc Kölcsey
1790
Mamoru Oshii
1951
Augustin Théodule Ribot
1823
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1896
Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat
1499
Alija Izetbegović
1925
Svetlana Savitskaya
1948
Louis Valtat
1869
Latifa al-Zayyat
1923
Théodore Gudin
1802
Alexis Minotis
1900
Joseph Roumanille
1818
Emilie Flygare-Carlén
1807
Robert Siodmak
1900
Matteo Rosselli
1578
Florence Merriam Bailey
1863
Bhisham Sahni
1915
Terry Nation
1930
Hitomi Kanehara
1983
Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury
1797
Yuriy Fedkovych
1834
Abdellah Taïa
1973
Paul Belmondo
1898
Thomas Anstey Guthrie
1856
Viktor Rozov
1913
Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
1863
Vladimir Sollogub
1813
Johann Christoph Adelung
1732
Johann Carl Loth
1632
Cornelis Vreeswijk
1937
Hieronymus van Alphen
1746
Francis Hutcheson
1694
Iain Pears
1955
Edip Cansever
1928
Alberto Granado
1922
David Kakabadze
1889
Sarah Dunant
1950
Bengt Erland Fogelberg
1786
Henry Fairfield Osborn
1857
Bruno Lauzi
1937
Vera Zasulich
1849
Zhao Zhiqian
1829
Nicolás Echevarría
1947
Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo
1736
Philippe Mora
1949
Connie Stevens
1938
Martin Brest
1951
Owen Jones
1984
Jacques Bergier
1912
Gertrude Himmelfarb
1922
Amalia Catherine of Waldeck-Eistenburg
1640
Arifur Rahman
1984
Birgit Vanderbeke
1956
Marino de Teana
1920
Died
(60)
Eugène Louis Boudin
1898
James Tissot
1902
Jaan Kaplinski
2021
Antoine Arnauld
1694
Shirley Jackson
1965
Leonid Leonov
1994
Joseph Maria Olbrich
1908
Juhani Aho
1921
Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato
1685
Walter Tevis
1984
Kunio Yanagita
1962
Vilhelm Moberg
1973
Ueda Akinari
1809
Jørgen Roed
1888
Michel Zevaco
1918
John Crowley
2026
Joaquín Torres-García
1949
Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko
1843
Cornelis Ketel
1616
Salomon Koninck
1656
George Canning
1827
Albert Namatjira
1959
John Henry Twachtman
1902
Nicholas Monsarrat
1979
Anton Denikin
1947
Alonso Sánchez Coello
1588
Félix Leclerc
1988
Franz Anton Maulbertsch
1796
Baldur von Schirach
1974
Pedro Casaldáliga
2020
André Corthis
1952
Antoine Chintreuil
1873
Tarquinia Molza
1617
Christoph Ludwig Agricola
1719
Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei
1992
Ahmed Deedat
2005
Carel de Vogelaer
1695
Janko Polić Kamov
1910
Alexander Roitburd
2021
Louise Brooks
1985
Francis Hutcheson
1746
Barbara Mertz
2013
Barbara Bel Geddes
2005
Stjepan Radić
1928
Bhupen Khakhar
2003
Rius
2017
White Watson
1835
Lothair II of Lotharingia
869
Antonis Samarakis
2003
Antonio Cánovas del Castillo
1897
Eduard Magnus
1872
Herbert Huncke
1996
Placide Cappeau
1877
Auguste-Barthélemy Glaize
1893
Carl Peter Thunberg
1828
Antonio Somma
1864
Michio Hoshino
1996
Frantz Charlet
1928
Friedrich August Wolf
1824
Friedrich Benjamin von Lütke
1882
Works published or unveiled
(6)
Stand by Me
1986
Five Nights at Freddy's
2014
Firefox
1977
Stargirl
2000
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
2019
Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash
2021