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Born
(60)
Emilio Salgari
1862
Stephen Hillenburg
1961
Charb
1967
Lucius Shepard
1943
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
1725
Aubrey Beardsley
1872
Tignous
1957
Bo Burnham
1990
Megan Abbott
1971
Jean Rotrou
1609
Asher Brown Durand
1796
Gennadiy Aygi
1934
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz
1807
Yuri Entin
1935
Vyacheslav Ivanov
1929
Francis de Sales
1567
Lindsey Davis
1949
Ruth Manning-Sanders
1886
Serj Tankian
1967
Anthony Boucher
1911
Denise Mina
1966
Sabina Berman Goldberg
1955
Mário Pinto de Andrade
1928
Christian Schad
1894
Hashimoto Gahō
1835
Bohumil Kubišta
1884
Otto Bache
1839
Petr Zelenka
1967
Can Yücel
1926
Rik Wouters
1882
Robert Stone
1937
Melvin Van Peebles
1932
Gustaf von Paykull
1757
Géza Szőcs
1953
Pyotr Pletnyov
1792
Geovanny Vicente-Romero
1986
Pierre Fakhoury
1943
Hedwig Lachmann
1865
Hong Sheng
1645
Sharon Draper
1948
Cecilie Løveid
1951
Edvard Storm
1749
Irena Vrkljan
1930
Nikolai Valuev
1973
Alexander Chee
1967
Mart Crowley
1935
Hélène van Zuylen
1863
Thomas S. Monson
1927
Steve Alten
1959
Ismat Chughtai
1911
Jens Christian Djurhuus
1773
Mariano Salvador Maella
1739
James Paterson
1854
Jernej Kopitar
1780
Sara Omar
1986
Dmytro Kremin
1953
Joseph Louis Elzéar Ortolan
1802
Menashe Kadishman
1932
Ernst von Liphart
1847
Marianna Salzmann
1985
Died
(60)
Henrik Pontoppidan
1943
Leon Trotsky
1940
Adelbert von Chamisso
1838
Mary Wortley Montagu
1762
Jacopo Amigoni
1752
Mary Mapes Dodge
1905
Richard Crashaw
1649
Giuseppe De Nittis
1884
Juan Antonio Villacañas
2001
Conrad Martens
1878
Hanna Mina
2018
Abraham Grace Merritt
1943
Wolfgang Hildesheimer
1991
Christoph Schlingensief
2010
Budd Hopkins
2011
S. Yizhar
2006
Aston Webb
1930
Dahlia Ravikovitch
2005
Mikayil Abdullayev
2002
Vincent-Marie Viénot, Count of Vaublanc
1845
Bertalan Székely
1910
Alexander of Hales
1245
Dimitrie Cantemir
1723
Eugen Gomringer
2025
Eugène Dabit
1936
Alexei Panshin
2022
Lorenzo Coullaut Valera
1932
Josip Kozarac
1906
Frances Browne
1879
Benjamin Thompson
1814
Moritz Michael Daffinger
1849
David B. Steinman
1960
Osyp Makovei
1925
Camillo Procaccini
1629
Siobhan Dowd
2007
Alexandre O'Neill
1986
David Olère
1985
Réjean Ducharme
2017
Kanuty Rusiecki
1860
Sachidananda Routray
2004
Francesco Barzaghi
1892
Katherine Cameron
1965
Sobha Singh
1986
Ken Robinson
2020
Edith Tiempo
2011
Edmund Evans
1905
Qurratulain Hyder
2007
Alice Perry
1969
Christopher Wood
1930
Tatyana Snezhina
1995
Nell McCafferty
2024
Ādams Alksnis
1897
Juan de Tassis, 2nd Count of Villamediana
1622
Venya Drkin
1999
Giovanni Volpato
1803
Steingrímur Thorsteinsson
1913
Jerzy Harasymowicz
1999
Anna Sahlsten
1931
Vasile Aaron
1822
Vicente Verdú
2018
Works published or unveiled
(8)
Bambi
1942
War and Peace
1956
The Great Swindle
2013
Winter Journal
2012
Kotikatu
1995
Soif
2019
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
1989
Le Quatrième Mur
2013