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Born
(60)
John Galsworthy
1867
Steve Martin
1945
Danielle Steel
1947
Jean Gaston Darboux
1842
Lina Wertmüller
1928
Joseph Vernet
1714
Adolph Tidemand
1814
Pieter Coecke van Aelst
1502
Sayaka Murata
1979
Sibilla Aleramo
1876
Lynne Cheney
1941
René Goscinny
1926
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
1802
Julia Hartwig
1921
Ernest Thompson Seton
1860
Eric Grate
1896
Carle Vernet
1758
Nathan Alterman
1910
Richard von Krafft-Ebing
1840
Walter Besant
1836
Briton Rivière
1840
Alex van Warmerdam
1952
Leslie Marr
1922
Bryce Courtenay
1933
Georges d'Espagnat
1870
Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora
1645
Tom DiCillo
1953
Alexei Panshin
1940
Pietro Gori
1865
Natalya Sats
1903
Jurij Janowski
1902
Joan Slonczewski
1956
Bhargavi Rao
1944
Christian Friedrich Tieck
1776
Frederic Raphael
1931
Harald Kidde
1878
Antonis Samarakis
1919
Alice Rivaz
1901
Adolf von Becker
1831
Eduardo Mallea
1903
Erwin Strittmatter
1912
Benedetta Cappa
1897
Johannes Gumpp Roberto
1626
Leah Purcell
1970
Pietro Fragiacomo
1856
Alma Reville
1899
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
1892
Vida Ognjenović
1941
Eusebio Lillo
1826
Andriy Bondar
1974
Kuldip Nayar
1923
Willie Dunn
1942
Lúcio Cardoso
1913
Qian Hongzuo
928
Prince François, Prince of Joinville
1818
Carl Aarsleff
1852
Rosa Ramalho
1889
Brannon Braga
1965
Margaret Lindsay Huggins
1848
Joan i Teresa Vila i Grau
1932
Died
(60)
Bertolt Brecht
1956
Czesław Miłosz
2004
Elias Canetti
1994
Pius II
1464
Jules Romains
1972
Eduard Uspensky
2018
J. B. Priestley
1984
Isaak Brodsky
1939
Clark Ashton Smith
1961
Sarah Fuller Flower Adams
1848
Clifford Odets
1963
Leonard Woolf
1969
Hans Rottenhammer
1625
Klabund
1928
Diego Hurtado de Mendoza
1575
Lev Kerbel
2003
Maximilian Kolbe
1941
Richard Jefferies
1887
Frans Michael Franzén
1847
Simeon Solomon
1905
Larry Rivers
2002
Nazlı Ecevit
1985
George Colman the Elder
1794
Murilo Mendes
1975
Diego Fabbri
1980
Karol Kuzmány
1866
Zsigmond Kisfaludi Strobl
1975
Teofil Kwiatkowski
1891
H. C. McNeile
1937
Thomas Hovenden
1895
Fitz Henry Lane
1865
Fernando Estévez
1854
Svetozar Gligorić
2012
Yitzhak Orpaz
2015
Salah Abdel Sabour
1981
Anton Giulio Barrili
1908
Georg Ritter von Schönerer
1921
Raúl González Tuñón
1974
Mary Ritter Beard
1958
Alfred Hayes
1985
Shane Leslie
1971
Na. Muthukumar
2016
Uzo Egonu
1996
Olin Levi Warner
1896
Manolo Millares
1972
Oscar Levant
1972
Hermann Kant
2016
Eberhard Georg Friedrich von Wächter
1852
Victor Honoré Janssens
1736
Nicolae Dărăscu
1959
Francesco Alberoni
2023
Nesim Tahirović
2020
Alexey Troitsky
1942
Lina Heydrich
1985
Amrit Rai
1996
Marco Marcola
1793
Lucienne Bisson
1965
Maria Uhden
1918
Hansō Sōshitsu
2025
Alfons Karny
1989
Works published or unveiled
(6)
Stolen Kisses
1968
Where the Crawdads Sing
2018
The Sixth Extinction
2015
Not Everybody Lives the Same Way
2019
The Fire-Eaters
2003
Civilizations
2019