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Born
(60)
Ray Bradbury
1920
Dorothy Parker
1893
Henri Cartier-Bresson
1908
Annie Proulx
1935
Gustaf Fröding
1860
Alexander Bogdanov
1873
Jules Michelet
1798
Jacques Lipchitz
1891
Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia
1858
Hooshang Seyhoun
1920
Lajos Bíró
1880
Tamori
1945
Regina Taylor
1960
Andrés Calamaro
1961
Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz
1851
Peter James
1948
Ladislav Klíma
1878
Alexander Liberman
1912
Valerie Harper
1939
Gorch Fock
1880
Gerard Hoet
1648
Yambo Ouologuem
1940
Wolfdietrich Schnurre
1920
Oscar Filho
1978
Gong Zizhen
1792
Ada Jafri
1924
Josef Abel
1764
Philip G. Epstein
1909
Georges de Scudéry
1601
James Kirke Paulding
1778
James Kirkwood, Jr.
1924
Jean-François Ducis
1733
André-Joseph Allar
1845
Francis Alÿs
1959
Richard Armitage
1971
Mohammad Ibrahim Zauq
1790
Samuel David Luzzatto
1800
Alfredo Oriani
1852
Steve Davis
1957
Ananda Coomaraswamy
1877
Enrico Accatino
1920
Sophia Tolstaya
1844
Emilie Mundt
1842
Jean Regnault de Segrais
1624
David Shimoni
1886
Willem Arondeus
1894
Julius von Blaas
1845
Þórarinn Eldjárn
1949
Constantin Kousnetzoff
1863
Ashfaq Ahmad
1925
Leiko Ikemura
1951
Catharina van Rees
1831
Diane Setterfield
1964
Georg Christoph Eimmart
1638
Arthur Holitscher
1869
Charles Francis Jenkins
1867
Amalie Skram
1846
Maurice Gee
1931
David Chase
1945
Johann August Nahl
1710
Died
(60)
Ivan Turgenev
1883
Roger Martin du Gard
1958
Jan Kochanowski
1584
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
1806
Jan Neruda
1891
Anders Zorn
1920
Kate Chopin
1904
Nikolaus Lenau
1850
Jacob Bronowski
1974
Félicien Rops
1898
Ignazio Silone
1978
Vasile Alecsandri
1890
Tōson Shimazaki
1943
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps
1860
Maria Cunitz
1664
Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
1893
Gregory IX
1241
Bulleh Shah
1757
Matthijs Maris
1917
Edmond Jaloux
1949
Nina Bawden
2012
Juscelino Kubitschek
1976
Mati Unt
2005
Elena Garro
1998
James Thomas Farrell
1979
Vladimir Propp
1970
Ernest Psichari
1914
Thomas Brock
1922
Liberato Marcial Rojas
1922
Mary Vaux Walcott
1940
U. R. Ananthamurthy
2014
Michel Fokine
1942
Ota Šik
2004
Sanzō Wada
1967
Rudolf Alexander Schröder
1962
Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora
1700
Lancelot Hogben
1975
Oliver Lodge
1940
Louis Agassiz Fuertes
1927
Vojtěch Hynais
1925
Alice Duer Miller
1942
Johann Heinrich Tischbein
1789
Alexandr Yakovlev
1989
Jacek Chmielnik
2007
Turgut Uyar
1985
Loriot
2011
Philadelphe de Gerde
1952
Jack Hirschman
2021
Pierre-Luc-Charles Ciceri
1868
Glauber Rocha
1981
Dinmukhamed Konayev
1993
Rudolf Medek
1940
Gilli Smyth
2016
George R. Stewart
1980
Giuseppe De Fabris
1860
Stanton Macdonald-Wright
1973
Anders Castus Svarstad
1943
Jan Henryk de Rosen
1982
Charles William Eliot
1926
Yann Goulet
1999
Works published or unveiled
(5)
The Sermon on the Fall of Rome
2012
No and me
2007
Le Chasseur Zéro
1996
Monument to Méndez Núñez, Vigo
1890
Les Honneurs perdus
1996