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Born
(60)
H. P. Lovecraft
1890
Salvatore Quasimodo
1901
Bolesław Prus
1847
Laurent Fabius
1946
Alexander Radishchev
1749
Salomon Bochner
1899
Benjamin Harrison
1833
Misha Collins
1974
David Walliams
1971
Etgar Keret
1967
Vasily Aksyonov
1932
Charles De Coster
1827
Greg Bear
1951
Tarjei Vesaas
1897
Maria van Oosterwijck
1630
Alan Lee
1947
Innokenty Annensky
1855
Thomas Corneille
1625
Vilhelm Moberg
1898
Jacqueline Susann
1918
Albert Chmielowski
1846
Shaul Tchernichovsky
1875
Muhammad Husayn Haykal
1888
Jakub Bart-Ćišinski
1856
James Rollins
1961
Al Roker
1954
Giorgio Albertazzi
1923
Rita Chowdhury
1960
Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg
1613
Bernardo O'Higgins
1778
John Hiatt
1952
Alan Reed
1907
Vincenzo Brenna
1747
Eva García Sáenz de Urturi
1972
Dino Campana
1885
Yi Sang
1910
Jakub Deml
1878
Fredy Perlman
1934
Bogdan Bogdanović
1922
Tanja Stupar-Trifunović
1977
Eduard Suess
1831
Valentin Glushko
1908
Jean-Pierre Cortot
1787
Sergio Tofano
1886
Amalia Wilhelmina Königsmarck
1663
Mikio Naruse
1905
Colin MacInnes
1914
Leopold Infeld
1898
Nikola Petrov
1881
Ben Barnes
1981
David O. Russell
1958
Ivan Kliun
1873
George Tucker
1775
Jacob Glatstein
1896
Muhammad Idris Kandhlawi
1899
Larry Kudlow
1947
Sergey Zagraevsky
1964
Cora Coralina
1889
Jan Olszewski
1930
Július Satinský
1941
Died
(60)
Elmore Leonard
2013
Fred Hoyle
2001
Bernard of Clairvaux
1153
Ibn Tumart
1130
Jules Laforgue
1887
Martin Opitz
1639
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
1854
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle
1785
Alfred Kubin
1959
Jerry Lewis
2017
Walter Serner
1942
Herbert Ferber
1991
Amélie Lundahl
1914
Gustaf Cederström
1933
Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
1648
Yaqut al-Hamawi
1229
Keisai Eisen
1848
Gérard Chaliand
2025
Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov
1971
Christian Dotremont
1979
Leon Chwistek
1944
Alexander Roda Roda
1945
Johan de Witt
1672
B. K. S. Iyengar
2014
Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel
1799
Gopinath Mohanty
1991
Pedro de Madrazo
1898
Fujiwara no Michinobu
994
Yurii Lypa
1944
Nishikawa Sukenobu
1750
Vladimir Zakharov
2023
Ann S. Stephens
1886
Agnes Giberne
1939
Jacob Bidermann
1639
Joan Gale Robinson
1988
Uri Avnery
2018
Marion Greenwood
1970
Walter Battiss
1982
Ludwig Vogel
1879
Dimitrie Bolintineanu
1872
Nichifor Crainic
1972
Amin-Salim Jarjora
1975
Shahan Shahnour
1974
Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet
1701
Antonio Francesco Peruzzini
1724
Gaia Servadio
2021
A. M. Klein
1972
Edouard Agneessens
1885
Émile Ollivier
1913
William Rimmer
1879
Román Viñoly Barreto
1970
Aiko Miyawaki
2014
Eugeniusz Geno Malkowski
2016
Maria Occhipinti
1996
Kapu Rajaiah
2012
Carl Emil Doepler
1905
Olive Rush
1966
Jean Benoît
2010
Oleg Prokofiev
1998
Ragnhild Kaarbø
1949
Works published or unveiled
(8)
Cloud Gate
2007
2084: The End of the World
2015
Three Strong Women
2009
Où on va, papa ?
2008
The death of King Tsongor
2002
Brecht's Mistress
2003
Pesan di Balik Awan
2021
Le Cœur synthétique
2020