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Born
(60)
Jacinto Benavente
1866
Cecil B. DeMille
1881
Robert Southey
1774
William Goldman
1931
George Bellows
1882
Stefano Benni
1947
LaKeith Stanfield
1991
Radclyffe Hall
1880
George Soros
1930
Samuel Fuller
1912
Miguel Torga
1907
Jim Beaver
1950
Akimi Yoshida
1956
Cantinflas
1911
Katharine Lee Bates
1859
Ann M. Martin
1955
Sue Monk Kidd
1948
Abbott Handerson Thayer
1849
Thor Vilhjálmsson
1925
Conrad Malte-Brun
1775
Sirikit
1932
Chris Bohjalian
1962
Aleksandr Gerasimov
1881
David Bergelson
1884
Fernando Collor de Mello
1949
Chen Kaige
1952
Mary Roberts Rinehart
1876
Domenico Fiasella
1589
Gabriel Matzneff
1936
Alfred Gilbert
1854
Jeff Abbott
1963
Dominique Papety
1815
Antonio Balestra
1666
Carlos Mesa
1953
Abraham Zacuto
1450
Bianca Pitzorno
1942
Aharon Megged
1920
Hans Haacke
1936
Réjean Ducharme
1941
Laurent Fignon
1960
Kerstin Thorvall
1925
Edith Hamilton
1867
Hans Urs von Balthasar
1905
Sofie Holten
1858
Martin Seligman
1942
Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz
1843
Albert Bettannier
1851
Nikolai Timkov
1912
Jiří Stránský
1931
Jean-Jacques Ampère
1800
Rodolphe Bresdin
1822
Jean-Pierre Talbot
1943
Carlos Rojas Vila
1928
Abel Paz
1921
Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein
1872
Étienne Hajdú
1907
Vito D'Ancona
1825
Samuel Bak
1933
Ambrose McEvoy
1878
Joseph Delattre
1858
Died
(60)
Thomas Mann
1955
William Blake
1827
Ian Fleming
1964
John Cage
1992
James Russell Lowell
1891
Jean-Michel Basquiat
1988
Philippe de Champaigne
1674
Rachel Ruysch
1750
Jozef Israëls
1911
Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak
1602
Lauren Bacall
2014
Henry Fonda
1982
Hendrik Petrus Berlage
1934
Antonio Corradini
1752
Olof von Dalin
1763
Helen Hunt Jackson
1885
Antonio Palomino
1726
Yigal Tumarkin
2021
Humayun Azad
2004
Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu
1907
Louisa Lawson
1920
Cornelius van Poelenburgh
1667
Elizabeth Murray
2007
Gilbert Cesbron
1979
Zhu Ziqing
1948
Liberale da Verona
1527
David Bergelson
1952
Pierre Klossowski
2001
Sándor Bródy
1924
Aino Pervik
2025
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
1901
Aimé Morot
1913
Nikolai Triik
1940
Esther Forbes
1967
Can Yücel
1999
Jean Carzou
2000
Peretz Markish
1952
Itzik Feffer
1952
Jean-Pierre Cortot
1843
Walter William Winans
1920
Paul Speratus
1551
Leib Kvitko
1952
Natalia LL
2022
Francisco Solano López
2011
Artur Alliksaar
1966
Arthur Griffith
1922
Francisco de Vitoria
1546
Serge Sudeikin
1946
Luca Longhi
1580
Lin Fengmian
1991
William Jackson Hooker
1865
Mykola Burachek
1942
Samir Amin
2018
André Bauchant
1958
Baron Raimund von Stillfried
1911
Paul Du Bois
1938
Paule Marshall
2019
Martin Wong
1999
Walter J. Ong
2003
Kenji Nakagami
1992
Works published or unveiled
(8)
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988
Green Eggs and Ham
1960
The Phantom Tollbooth
1961
The Secret of the Nagas
2011
Allah Is Not Obliged
2000
The Accidental Tourist
1985
The hanging of Vasil Levski (poem)
1875
Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?
1970