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Born
(60)
Marko Marulić
1450
Alain Robbe-Grillet
1922
Isaac Levitan
1860
Brian Aldiss
1925
Elsa Morante
1912
Andy Samberg
1978
Anna Ancher
1859
Nicole Krauss
1974
Roman Polanski
1933
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
1970
Victor Meirelles
1832
Winona LaDuke
1959
Shushanik Kurghinian
1876
Frances Bean Cobain
1992
Timothy Snyder
1969
Rosalynn Carter
1927
Martin Mull
1943
Edward Stachura
1937
Clémentine Hélène Dufau
1869
Ma Jian
1953
Shelley Winters
1920
Victoire Léodile Béra
1824
Johannes Warnardus Bilders
1811
Telemaco Signorini
1835
Idea Vilariño
1920
Sholem Schwarzbard
1886
Hans Hermann Behr
1818
Hugo Bettauer
1872
Adamson-Eric
1902
Adda Djørup
1972
Harbhajan Singh
1920
Josef Danhauser
1805
Juan Soriano
1920
Ahad Ha'am
1856
Armijn Pane
1908
Edgar Faure
1908
Percy Fawcett
1867
Olav Hauge
1908
Carlos Carrera
1962
Hannu Mäkelä
1943
Agustín Ibarrola
1930
Johannes Josephus Aarts
1871
Pieter Janssens Elinga
1623
Johann Karl Bähr
1801
Alfred Wallis
1855
Gaetano Kanizsa
1913
Luciano De Crescenzo
1928
Purita Campos
1937
Jean Guitton
1901
Mkrtichʻ Peshiktʻashlyan
1828
Amalia González Caballero de Castillo Ledón
1902
Vespasiano Bignami
1841
Pierre-Luc-Charles Ciceri
1782
Vincent Bugliosi
1934
Myrna Báez
1931
Hermann Finsterlin
1887
Jeanne Marni
1851
Saliha Abid Hussain
1913
Frédéric Jacques Temple
1921
Otto Ernst Remer
1912
Died
(60)
Honoré de Balzac
1850
Guido Reni
1642
Étienne de La Boétie
1563
Alain Delon
2024
Albert Edelfelt
1905
Maria Prymachenko
1997
Walafrid Strabo
849
Wanli Emperor
1620
Anita Loos
1981
Elmer Bernstein
2004
B. F. Skinner
1990
Leonhard Frank
1961
Subhas Chandra Bose
1945
Petar Preradović
1872
Kamal-ol-molk
1940
Tibor Déry
1977
Julio Caro
1995
Albert Samain
1900
Constant von Wurzbach
1893
James Beattie
1803
Archduke Wilhelm of Austria
1948
Jacques Roumain
1944
Josip Primožič
1985
Pyotr Yershov
1869
William Henry Hudson
1922
Erdmann Neumeister
1756
John P. Kennedy
1870
Dambudzo Marechera
1987
Theodore II Laskaris
1258
Richard Avenarius
1896
E. R. Eddison
1945
Peter Fleming
1971
Arent Arentsz
1631
Jill Murphy
2021
Sascha Schneider
1927
François Gaspard Adam
1761
Shichirō Fukazawa
1987
Felix Maria Davídek
1988
Ricardo de Madrazo
1917
Giovanni Domenico Ferretti
1768
Albert Dubois-Pillet
1890
Jan Damel
1840
Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo
1638
Carlos Botelho
1982
Ričardas Gavelis
2002
Alberto Hurtado
1952
Johannes Theodor Baargeld
1927
Hadrawi
2022
Hanoch Levin
1999
Alfred Boucher
1934
Madhav Prasad Ghimire
2020
Otto Wichterle
1998
Theodore Martin
1909
Watse Cuperus
1966
Nikolai Shin
2006
Nikolaus Pevsner
1983
Francisco Javier Alegre
1788
Anthony Christiaan Winand Staring
1840
Bénigne Gagneraux
1795
Ernest Lavisse
1922
Works published or unveiled
(9)
Suicide Squad
2016
Take the Money and Run
1969
Captain Fantastic
2016
The French Art of War
2011
The Seventh Function of Language
2015
The African Equation
2011
The Archipelago of Another Life
2016
Premier Sang
2021
De beryllo
1458