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Born
(60)
Herta Müller
1953
V. S. Naipaul
1932
Mae West
1893
Ted Hughes
1930
Jonathan Franzen
1959
Robert De Niro
1943
Guillermo Vilas
1952
Sean Penn
1960
Jean-Jacques Sempé
1932
Roger Peyrefitte
1907
Julian Fellowes
1949
Mikhail Botvinnik
1911
Bronisława Wajs
1908
Johannes Valentinus Andreae
1586
Gustaf Lundberg
1695
Joyner Lucas
1988
Matthijs Maris
1839
Harald Slott-Møller
1864
Mykola Shmatko
1943
Andriy Kuzmenko
1968
Andrus Kivirähk
1970
Irene Solà
1990
Robert Sabatier
1923
William Carey
1761
Maureen O'Hara
1920
Patricia Grace
1937
Oliverio Girondo
1891
Gene Stratton-Porter
1863
Liberato Marcial Rojas
1870
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
1840
Oliver St John Gogarty
1878
Samuel Goldwyn
1882
Davy Crockett
1786
Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar
1864
Princess Mathilde of Bavaria
1877
Kurt Hiller
1885
Larry Rivers
1923
Fredrika Bremer
1801
Rachel Pollack
1945
Heðin Brú
1901
Elly Griffiths
1963
Jean Poiret
1926
Jaani Peuhu
1978
Mogol
1936
Lola Liivat
1928
Theodor Däubler
1876
Anatoly Kudryavitsky
1954
Raoul Follereau
1903
Richard von Volkmann
1830
Josef Dobrovský
1753
Mariam Hakobyan
1949
Anamika
1961
John Brahm
1893
Carlos Cruz-Diez
1923
Józef Wittlin
1896
Charles Hermans
1839
John Varley
1778
Oleg Tabakov
1935
Trina Robbins
1938
Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin
1936
Died
(60)
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
1987
Umberto Boccioni
1916
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
1935
Fernand Léger
1955
Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
1676
Lorenzo Da Ponte
1838
Irène Némirovsky
1942
Mariama Bâ
1981
Conrad Aiken
1973
Hans Gude
1903
Ira Gershwin
1983
Prince Eugen, Duke of Närke
1947
Arsen Dedić
2015
Petter Dass
1707
Alexander Vampilov
1972
Aldo Palazzeschi
1974
Pearl Bailey
1990
Svetozár Hurban-Vajanský
1916
Edwin Morgan
2010
Giuseppe Bazzani
1769
Sveinbjörn Egilsson
1852
John William Casilear
1893
Moufdi Zakaria
1977
Miodrag Pavlović
2014
Michel Mohrt
2011
Perucho Figueredo
1870
Gwen Bristow
1980
Gaspare Diziani
1767
Sig Arno
1975
Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros
1870
Alexander Alexeyevich Borisov
1934
Eugénio de Castro
1944
Eric Powell
1933
Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier
1824
John Hollander
2013
Richard Caton Woodville Jr.
1927
William Simpson
1899
Ludvík Kundera
2010
Shamsur Rahman
2006
Halima Xudoyberdiyeva
2018
Ruth First
1982
Antanas Vienuolis
1957
Howard Koch
1995
Thomas Faed
1900
Theodoros Georgios Orphanides
1886
Sultan Baysonqor Mirza
1499
Jack Spicer
1965
Thea Astley
2004
Tullio Kezich
2009
Grazyna Miller
2009
Kain Tapper
2004
Jun Takami
1965
Sirkka Selja
2017
Pierre Paulus
1959
Ioan Slavici
1925
Jaroslav Papoušek
1995
Kang Tongbi
1969
Alexander Shervashidze
1968
António Pedro
1966
Thomas Griffiths Wainewright
1847
Works published or unveiled
(8)
Animal Farm
1945
Superbad
2007
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
1976
The Stranger Beside Me
1980
Return to Killybegs
2011
Rien ne s'oppose à la nuit
2011
Triste tigre
2023
The Art of the Argument
2017