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Born
(60)
John Dryden
1631
Tove Jansson
1914
Leonid Andreyev
1871
P. L. Travers
1899
Thomas Telford
1757
Philip Larkin
1922
Daniel Keyes
1927
Robert Shaw
1927
John William Godward
1861
Armand Salacrou
1899
Kuroda Seiki
1866
Robert van Gulik
1910
Dmitry Chechulin
1901
Tommaso Landolfi
1908
John Varley
1947
Ramón Pérez de Ayala
1880
Vardges Petrosyan
1932
Oleksandr Ponomariov
1973
Jean Lorrain
1855
Thomas Lennon
1970
S. R. Ranganathan
1892
Paul Renner
1878
Gene Luen Yang
1973
Pierre Klossowski
1905
Pablo Hasél
1988
Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov
1894
Alicia Penalba
1913
Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos
1923
Emilio Vedova
1919
Yinka Shonibare
1962
Arlo Parks
2000
Jonathan Kellerman
1949
V. K. Gokak
1909
Jacob Campo Weyerman
1677
Salvatore Satta
1902
Theodoor van Thulden
1606
Charles-François Lebœuf
1792
Gerrit Kouwenaar
1923
Marta Brunet
1897
Roman Dmowski
1864
Gaston Paris
1839
Dalal Abu Amneh
1983
Graeme Gibson
1934
Ramon Pichot
1872
Heinrich Landesmann
1821
Joop den Uyl
1919
Aminu Kano
1920
Albert Isaac Bezzerides
1908
Frank M. Robinson
1926
Sheila Cussons
1922
Gamzat Tsadasa
1877
George Payne Rainsford James
1799
Mary Agnes Yerkes
1886
Sarala Debi
1904
Elisabeth Alida Haanen
1809
Ahmed Rami
1892
Éliane de Meuse
1899
Charlie David
1980
Inga Žolude
1984
Karol Sidon
1942
Died
(60)
Hermann Hesse
1962
Mahmoud Darwish
2008
Pierre d'Ailly
1420
Chaïm Soutine
1943
Friedrich Spee
1635
Frederick Marryat
1848
Ernst Haeckel
1919
Joe Orton
1967
Giacinto Scelsi
1988
José Lezama Lima
1976
Charles Cros
1888
Nicholas Evans
2022
Giorgi Leonidze
1966
Edith Stein
1942
Ernst Neizvestny
2016
Felix Nussbaum
1944
Ulrich Plenzdorf
2007
James Gould Cozzens
1978
Guido Gozzano
1916
Jerzy Żuławski
1915
Franca Valeri
2020
José Mármol
1871
Mahmoud Farshchian
2025
Heinrich Zille
1929
Emil František Burian
1959
Prince Henri d'Orléans
1901
Alexandre Alexeieff
1982
Jakob Balde
1668
Peter Danckerts de Rij
1661
Else Alfelt
1974
Eduard von Bauernfeld
1890
Jean-Baptiste Tuby
1700
Jakuren
1202
Takis
2019
Gösta Nystroem
1966
Jemima Blackburn
1909
May Ayim
1996
Aliye Berger
1974
Johan Daisne
1978
Ralph Albert Blakelock
1919
Olga Della-Vos-Kardovskaya
1952
Samuel Ferguson
1886
Emil Jakob Schindler
1892
Johann August Apel
1816
Chad Oliver
1993
Francisco Zúñiga
1998
Ivan Melezh
1976
Pieter de Jode I
1634
Antanas Žmuidzinavičius
1966
Frank Bramley
1915
Antonio Mira de Amescua
1644
Dionisio Lazzari
1689
Pedro Garfias
1967
Alfredo Andersen
1935
Seraphima Blonskaya
1947
Brice Marden
2023
Francisco Camilo
1673
Walter Bedell Smith
1961
Pietro di Francesco degli Orioli
1496
Lily Braun
1916
Works published or unveiled
(4)
Walden
1854
Basquiat
1996
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
2011
Radiant Motherhood
1920