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Born
(60)
Alois Jirásek
1851
Ephraim Kishon
1924
Serhiy Zhadan
1974
Arthur Adamov
1908
Marcel Schwob
1867
Edgar Lee Masters
1868
William Ernest Henley
1849
Georges Cuvier
1769
Nazik Al-Malaika
1922
Gene Kelly
1912
Gabriel von Max
1840
Kenneth Arrow
1921
Mel Bochner
1940
Eleftherios Venizelos
1864
Nelson Rodrigues
1912
Eugene Lanceray
1875
Mahmud Tarzi
1865
Allan Kaprow
1927
Gustaaf Wappers
1803
Jaume Plensa
1955
Madeleine Riffaud
1924
Willy Russell
1947
Henri Lucien Doucet
1856
Nelson DeMille
1943
Davyd Cherkaskyi
1931
Paul Otlet
1868
Queen Noor of Jordan
1951
Alfred Lichtenstein
1889
Dušan Jurkovič
1868
Osyp Makovei
1867
Dick Bruna
1927
Liudmyla Semykina
1924
Vladimir Beekman
1929
Alena Apina
1964
Wacław Szymanowski
1859
Stephen Miller
1985
Adolphe Appian
1818
Georges Perros
1923
Widji Thukul
1963
Alexander Milne Calder
1846
William Lane Craig
1949
Robert Irwin
1946
Jan Erazim Vocel
1802
Nikolai Starikov
1970
Richard Schechner
1934
Abdul Rauf Benawa
1913
Curtis Sittenfeld
1975
Tone Kralj
1900
Athena Farrokhzad
1983
José Luis Alonso de Santos
1942
Ernst Krenek
1900
Zofia Posmysz
1923
Jakob Friedrich Fries
1773
Charles Busch
1954
Elaine Sturtevant
1924
Ilija Trojanow
1965
Max Schmidt
1818
João Marques de Oliveira
1853
Sigismund von Herberstein
1486
Claudio Granzotto
1900
Died
(60)
Abu Bakr
634
Jean Molinet
1507
Abdülmecid II
1944
Luis de León
1591
Henryk Siemiradzki
1902
Naum Gabo
1977
Ferenc Kazinczy
1831
Oscar Hammerstein II
1960
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
1865
Juliette Adam
1936
Pietro Francavilla
1615
Adolf Loos
1933
Maria of Cleves
1487
Edward Hicks
1849
Sidney Howard
1939
Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriël
1903
Alexander Wilson
1813
Helen Churchill Candee
1949
Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero
1618
Charles-Joseph Natoire
1777
Irma Stern
1966
Ágnes Nemes Nagy
1991
Lee San-hae
1609
Hertha Ayrton
1923
Michał Elwiro Andriolli
1893
Princess Stéphanie of Belgium
1945
Paolo Volponi
1994
Ángel Atienza
2015
Takeuchi Seihō
1942
Jan Czeczot
1847
Artus Quellinus the Elder
1668
George David Weiss
2010
Felice Boselli
1732
Adolf von Becker
1909
Ludwig von Hofmann
1945
Marlow Moss
1958
Hans Cornelius
1947
Maso Finiguerra
1464
Viktor Zaretsky
1990
Gunilla Bergström
2021
Philip Henry Gosse
1888
Parviz Natel-Khanlari
1990
James White
1999
Marcelle Tinayre
1948
Ayyappa Paniker
2006
Ebussu'ud Efendi
1574
Eduardo Dalbono
1915
Serafín Avendaño
1916
June Wayne
2011
Menotti Del Picchia
1988
Raymond Harold Sawkins
2006
Aleksander Augustynowicz
1944
Jean-Marie Pirot
2018
Jan Antonín Baťa
1965
Sebastiano Filippi
1602
Mary Abbott
2019
Jessie Mackay
1938
Kuldip Nayar
2018
Galileo Chini
1956
Carl Ludwig Koch
1857
Works published or unveiled
(11)
Mary Poppins
1965
Eldest
2005
Babel
2022
The Eternal Zero
2006
Alabama Song
2007
Baisers de cinéma
2007
The Last Brother
2007
Plague and Cholera
2012
The Black Terrorist
2012
Happycracy
2018
Les lamentacions sur les maux de la France
1410