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Born
(60)
Charles Bukowski
1920
Andrei Platonov
1899
Agostino Carracci
1557
Diana Wynne Jones
1934
Hugo Gernsback
1884
James Cameron
1954
Jules Laforgue
1860
Albert Cohen
1895
Georgette Heyer
1902
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany
1763
T. E. Lawrence
1888
Wilhelm Wundt
1832
Jean de La Bruyère
1645
Dora Gabe
1885
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
1904
Valeria Luiselli
1983
Reiner Kunze
1933
Carl Frederik von Breda
1759
Mary Gilmore
1865
Sheila
1945
Wybrand de Geest
1592
Wendell Meredith Stanley
1904
Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh
1925
Ferenc Juhász
1928
Catharine Trotter
1674
Ángel Zárraga
1886
Wolfgang Tillmans
1968
Steve Sem-Sandberg
1958
Jennifer Donnelly
1963
John Lewis Brown
1829
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
1954
Ronald Pope
1920
Kafui Danku
1982
Andrei Fajt
1903
Siegmund von Hausegger
1872
Bartolomeo Cesi
1556
Christopher Okigbo
1930
Yuriy Izdryk
1962
Jakob Emanuel Handmann
1718
António Nobre
1867
Solvej Balle
1962
Rafael Masó i Valentí
1880
Hal Foster
1892
Richard Leigh
1943
Augusto Giacometti
1877
Peter Burke
1937
Leslie Manigat
1930
Wallace Thurman
1902
Robert Culp
1930
Seth Peterson
1970
Fritz Stuckenberg
1881
Lew Welch
1926
Zayn al-Abidin Shirvani
1780
Aurora Luque
1962
Christos Papadimitriou
1949
Johann Siegwald Dahl
1827
Rudolf Greinz
1866
Marine Petrossian
1960
Hans Jenny
1904
Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller
1864
Died
(60)
Margaret Mitchell
1949
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
2018
José Maria de Eça de Queirós
1900
Johann Martin Schleyer
1912
Andrew Marvell
1678
Peter Fonda
2019
Margaret Stewart, Dauphine of France
1445
Antonín Sova
1928
Pieter Soutman
1657
Thomas Heywood
1641
Karl Nordström
1923
Richard Williams
2019
Vsevolod Nestaiko
2014
Masanobu Fukuoka
2008
Dorival Caymmi
2008
Gurdial Singh
2016
Tadeusz Gajcy
1944
Benny Andersen
2018
Nazeer Akbarabadi
1830
Theodor Pallady
1956
Giuliano Finelli
1653
Dorothy West
1998
Wilhelm Morgner
1917
Thomas Fuller
1661
Yi Bok-nam
1597
Henricus Hondius II
1651
Polyxena Solovyova
1924
Lydia Field Emmet
1952
Besim Bokshi
2014
Duško Radović
1984
Ardashes Harutunian
1915
William Daniell
1837
Marie Luplau
1925
Harriet Morgan
1907
Ralph Earl
1801
Shaken Niyazbekov
2014
Aïcha Fofana
2003
Anna Potocka
1867
John Cary
1835
Joseph Delaney
2022
Charles des Jamonières
1970
Rudolf Greinz
1942
Christian Friedrich Hunold
1721
Henry Céard
1924
Jaime Sáenz
1986
Pierre-Yves Trémois
2020
Peretz Hirschbein
1948
Bachir Yellès
2022
Frederic Marès i Deulovol
1991
Charles Grandison Finney
1875
Jules André
1869
Michel Corneille the Younger
1708
Marc Elder
1933
Charles Thomson
1824
Johann Wilhelm Cordes
1869
Gabriela Puzynina
1869
Mohamed Demagh
2018
Christine Swane
1960
Peter Scholl-Latour
2014
Ruben Zardaryan
1915
Works published or unveiled
(7)
flag of Cyprus
1960
The Dead Zone
1979
Ready Player One
2011
Frère d'âme
2018
Monument to Mikhail Lermontov
1889
Starbook
2007
Mécaniques du chaos
2017