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Born
(60)
Walter Scott
1771
Aurobindo Ghosh
1872
Edna Ferber
1885
Leonard Baskin
1922
Thomas De Quincey
1785
Luigi Pulci
1432
Laurits Andersen Ring
1854
Matthias Claudius
1740
Edith Nesbit
1858
Ivan Meštrović
1883
Ben Affleck
1972
Walter Crane
1845
Abram Arkhipov
1862
Yoweri Museveni
1944
Francesco Zuccarelli
1702
Julia Child
1912
Robert Bolt
1924
Bernardo Guimarães
1825
Jan Brzechwa
1898
Christoph von Schmid
1768
Hernando Colón
1488
Stieg Larsson
1954
Sylvain Maréchal
1750
Tony Robinson
1946
Kolë Idromeno
1860
Gianfranco Ferré
1944
Régine Deforges
1935
Sibylle Riquetti de Mirabeau
1850
Rudolf Kargus
1952
Siamanto
1878
Andres Serrano
1950
Peider Lansel
1863
Jan Mankes
1889
Luis Menéndez Pidal
1861
Janusz Zajdel
1938
Robert L. Forward
1932
Marion Woodman
1928
Eugène Flandin
1809
Rose Marie
1923
Carmen Conde
1907
Louis Carrogis Carmontelle
1717
Wolfgang Hohlbein
1953
Iva Despić-Simonović
1891
Jan Campert
1902
Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin
1759
Joaquín María López y López
1798
Syed Waliullah
1922
Adolf Hoffmeister
1902
Janina Ipohorska
1914
Michael Hainisch
1858
Vahagn Davtyan
1922
Phyllis Schlafly
1924
Sukanta Bhattacharya
1926
Ferdinand Bac
1859
Hans Ferdinand Massmann
1797
Christian Horneman
1765
Theodore William Achtermann
1799
Blanca de los Ríos
1859
Annie Le Brun
1942
Gottlieb Schick
1776
Died
(60)
René Magritte
1967
Grazia Deledda
1936
Viktor Tsoi
1990
Ibn Hazm
1064
Paul Signac
1935
Sławomir Mrożek
2013
Harry Harrison
2012
Giuseppe Parini
1799
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
1975
Olga Orozco
1999
Euclides da Cunha
1909
Li Yu
978
Vsevolod Ivanov
1963
Konrad Mägi
1925
Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema
1909
Johann Friedrich Naumann
1857
Karel Píč
1995
John Frederick Lewis
1876
Will Rogers
1935
Emperor Yizong of Tang
873
John Barclay
1621
Greg Iles
2025
Raymond Arthur Palmer
1977
Alexander Odoevsky
1839
Louis Scutenaire
1987
Stuart Christie
2020
Mir Emad Hassani
1615
Stanisława Przybyszewska
1935
Rastko Petrović
1949
Meïr Aron Goldschmidt
1887
Luigi Lunari
2019
Federico Gamboa
1939
Momoko Sakura
2018
Jacques Vergès
2013
Hans Jordaens III
1643
Mahadev Desai
1942
Ō no Yasumaro
723
Rafael Chirbes
2015
Elizabeth Gould
1841
Frederick Buechner
2022
Vasily Kurochkin
1875
Ida Gerhardt
1997
Julie Hausmann
1901
Pietro Ricchi
1675
Dr. Atl
1964
Stijn Streuvels
1969
Johann Adam Schall von Bell
1666
William Barak
1903
Elena Luksch-Makowsky
1967
Lovro Toman
1870
Agnes van den Bossche
1504
Caterina Percoto
1887
Pyotr Sokolov
1848
William Thoms
1885
Ruth Gavison
2020
Murtoza Bashir
2020
Adele-Anais Toudouze
1899
Milan Milovanović
1946
Karl Müller
1893
Frederick Dielman
1935
Works published or unveiled
(6)
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
2012
Libra
1988
Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
2010
Midaregami
1901
Home Fire
2017
The Judy Blume Diary
1981