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Born
(60)
Enid Blyton
1897
Alex Haley
1921
Fernando Arrabal
1932
Alexander Grin
1880
Eiji Yoshikawa
1892
Marilyn vos Savant
1946
Ivan Mažuranić
1814
Angus Wilson
1913
Volin
1882
Charlotte Mary Yonge
1823
Hugh MacDiarmid
1892
Lidija Dimkovska
1971
Octave Feuillet
1821
Tomás António Gonzaga
1744
Bapsi Sidhwa
1938
Martin Johnson Heade
1819
Leon Benois
1856
Stuart Gordon
1947
Uku Masing
1909
Arturo Martini
1889
Ernst Stadler
1883
Chen Danqing
1953
Giacomo Favretto
1849
Róža Domašcyna
1951
Gottfried Kinkel
1815
Robert Green Ingersoll
1833
Gari Melchers
1860
Louise Bogan
1897
Pentti Holappa
1927
Giorgio Baffo
1694
Mavis Gallant
1922
Giuseppe Bossi
1777
Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun
1729
Jenő Heltai
1871
Jindřich Štyrský
1899
Teresa Mirzoyan
1922
Peter Eisenman
1932
Vladimir Veličković
1935
May Wilson Preston
1873
James B. Longacre
1794
Jah Wobble
1958
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
1778
Carl Möhner
1921
Marko Pogačnik
1944
Erwin Chargaff
1905
Hermann Knackfuß
1848
Teresa Bandettini
1763
David Henry Hwang
1957
Robert Genin
1884
Mary Fairchild Low
1858
Henri Cassiers
1858
Fritz Reck-Malleczewen
1884
Paul Hoecker
1854
Grisélidis Réal
1929
Joseph Nollekens
1737
Jim Lee
1964
Andre Dubus
1936
Hugh Martin
1914
Michelangelo Unterberger
1695
Oscar Oiwa
1965
Died
(60)
V. S. Naipaul
2018
Jackson Pollock
1956
Edith Wharton
1937
Hans Memling
1494
Nicholas of Cusa
1464
John Henry Newman
1890
Abdulhussain Abdulredha
2017
Peter Cushing
1994
Lavinia Fontana
1614
Andrew Carnegie
1919
Maximilian Voloshin
1932
Jean-Jacques Sempé
2022
J. G. Farrell
1979
Simon Leys
2014
Robert W. Wood
1955
Wilhelm Küchelbecker
1846
Ion Barbu
1961
Edouard Louis Dubufe
1883
Alphonse Osbert
1939
Aleksey Suvorin
1912
Irawati Karve
1970
Ladislav Stroupežnický
1892
Maurice Boitel
2007
Magdalena Sibylla of Hesse-Darmstadt
1712
Bruno Schleinstein
2010
Jiří Kolář
2002
Ferdinand Bellermann
1889
Rahat Indori
2020
George Furth
2008
John Howard Lawson
1977
Giacinto Mondaini
1979
Félix María de Samaniego
1801
Buffie Johnson
2006
Marie-Joseph Peyre
1785
Nicolaes van Verendael
1691
Kenneth White
2023
Agnes Goodsir
1939
Antonín Hudeček
1941
Amy Roberta Ruck
1978
Živko Čingo
1987
Geneviève Asse
2021
Jernej Kopitar
1844
Michel Carré
1945
Viktor Savin
1943
Benjamín Jarnés
1949
Luz Machado
1999
Charles-François Tiphaigne de la Roche
1774
Henry James Pye
1813
Augustus Toplady
1778
Jan Swerts
1879
Hendrik Haverman
1928
Mary Karooro Okurut
2025
Ramchundra
1880
Robert Breer
2011
Carlo Mense
1965
Constantin Zureiq
2000
Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
1885
Zhao Rukuo
1231
José Cruz Herrera
1972
Walther Klemm
1957
Works published or unveiled
(4)
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
2005
Skellig
1998
Yevshan-zillya
1899
Gerächt
1899