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Born
(60)
Bill Clinton
1946
Gene Roddenberry
1921
Pierre-Jean de Béranger
1780
Gustave Caillebotte
1848
Maurice Barrès
1862
Samuel Richardson
1689
Veronica Roth
1988
Frank McCourt
1930
Gulzar
1933
Ogden Nash
1902
Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana
1398
Matthew Perry
1969
Jerzy Andrzejewski
1909
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout
1621
Jonathan Coe
1961
James Nasmyth
1808
Arthur Waley
1889
Alexander Vampilov
1937
James Gould Cozzens
1903
Nandana Sen
1967
Edmond Privat
1889
Mary Doria Russell
1950
Shashi Deshpande
1938
Countess Emilie Juliane of Barby-Mühlingen
1637
Tamar Abakelia
1905
Arthur Fry
1931
Mirko Petrović-Njegoš
1820
Jane Wells Webb Loudon
1807
Mirvarid Dilbazi
1912
Jeanna Bauck
1840
Charles Montagu Doughty
1843
Kathrine Taylor
1903
Sema Kaygusuz
1972
Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux
1761
Agnes Strickland
1796
Adolf Černý
1864
Kazuki Nakashima
1959
İbrahim Abdülkadir Mazini
1889
Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena
1657
Radovan Zogović
1907
Robert Graham
1938
Auguste de Forbin
1777
Sudha Murthy
1950
Kume Kunitake
1839
Edward Moran
1829
Carlos Arévalo
1906
Francis Ledwidge
1887
Harold Frederic
1856
Bodil Malmsten
1944
Tanja Ostojić
1972
Angeliki Chadzimichali
1895
Maria Chekhova
1863
Simon Stone
1984
Giorgi Chanturia
1959
Milton Hatoum
1952
Kristína Royová
1860
Sergey Korovin
1858
Helga Ancher
1883
Abdi Beg Shirazi
1515
Kátya Chamma
1961
Died
(60)
Federico García Lorca
1936
Blaise Pascal
1662
Khalid ibn al-Walid
642
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
1905
Eduardo Chillida
2002
Brian Aldiss
2017
Andrea del Castagno
1457
Johann Balthasar Neumann
1753
Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
1889
Hugo Gernsback
1967
Frans Snyders
1657
Louis Anquetin
1932
Simin Behbahani
2014
Chuck Close
2021
George Gamow
1968
Jacob Epstein
1959
Ferdinand Cheval
1924
Marie-Denise Villers
1821
Spencer Fullerton Baird
1887
Alvan Clark
1887
Valentin de Boulogne
1632
Tevfik Fikret
1915
Theodor Aman
1891
Robert Rozhdestvensky
1994
Utpal Dutt
1993
Ippolita Maria Sforza
1488
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt
1783
Fritz Bleyl
1966
Thomas Wijck
1677
Ladislav Fuks
1994
Samih al-Qasim
2014
Georges Darien
1921
Janusz Głowacki
2017
Francesco Furini
1646
Altina Schinasi
1999
Francesco de Mura
1782
Gloria Coates
2023
David Bomberg
1957
Ettore Ferrari
1929
Isaac Deutscher
1967
Antonio Larreta
2015
Ardengo Soffici
1964
Oskar Moll
1947
Berthe Bénichou-Aboulker
1942
Karl Otto Götz
2017
Tatyana Mavrina
1996
Ikki Kita
1937
Jan Nisar Akhtar
1976
Ivan Kataev
1937
Raúl Ruiz
2011
Eduard Frankfort
1920
Egon Bahr
2015
Vahe Vahian
1998
Mirza Mohammad Reza Kalhor
1892
George Smith
1876
Antonio Veneziano
1593
Leonid Afremov
2019
József Borsos
1883
Köprülü Fazıl Mustafa Paşa
1691
Fredrik Ahlstedt
1901
Works published or unveiled
(8)
Lust for Life
1956
Ghostwritten
1999
Phantoms in the Brain
1998
The European Dream
2004
The Most Secret Memory of Men
2021
Moi les hommes, je les déteste
2020
Le Club des incorrigibles optimistes
2009
Le harem du roi
2024