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Born
(60)
Jorge Luis Borges
1899
Paulo Coelho
1947
John Green
1977
Stephen Fry
1957
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy
1817
Léo Ferré
1916
Orson Scott Card
1951
Alice Bradley Sheldon
1915
Howard Zinn
1922
A. S. Byatt
1936
Lavinia Fontana
1552
Jean Rhys
1890
Ali Smith
1962
George Stubbs
1724
Max Beerbohm
1872
Robert Herrick
1591
Graham Sutherland
1903
Alexander McCall Smith
1948
Alessandro Marcello
1673
Oscar Hijuelos
1951
Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
1963
Carlos Casares
1941
Ishikawa Goemon
1558
Albrecht von Eyb
1420
Hideo Kojima
1963
May Sinclair
1863
Narmadashankar Dave
1833
Paulo Leminski
1944
Linton Kwesi Johnson
1952
Peppino De Filippo
1903
Ruth Park
1917
Yannoulis Chalepas
1851
William Wilberforce
1759
Goran Marković
1946
Muhammad Yamin
1903
Rudolf Kner
1810
Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur
1603
Mike Huckabee
1955
Alex Colville
1920
Frank Craven
1881
Nancy Spero
1926
Frances MacDonald
1873
Vahur Afanasjev
1979
Adolf Wilbrandt
1837
Marion Bloem
1952
Guido Ceronetti
1927
Fritz Melbye
1826
Mason Williams
1938
Adam Gopnik
1956
Johan Fabricius
1899
Dick Lee
1956
Dana Gould
1964
Malcolm Cowley
1898
Bartolomé Hidalgo
1788
Nisim Aloni
1926
Erik Pontoppidan
1698
Lennart Nilsson
1922
Hubertus von Pilgrim
1931
Catherine Bernard
1663
Prince Philippe, Count of Paris
1838
Died
(60)
Simone Weil
1943
Parmigianino
1540
Lao She
1966
Michel Butor
2016
Su Shi
1101
Ambrogio Fogar
2005
Thomas Chatterton
1770
Kōgyoku
661
Emperor Saga
842
Ferenc Kölcsey
1838
Alfred Stevens
1906
Heo Gyun
1618
Zainab Biisheva
1996
Ernst Wiechert
1950
Lucien Rebatet
1972
Ewald Christian von Kleist
1759
Pentti Saarikoski
1983
Paolo Porpora
1673
Theodore Hook
1841
Anna Botsford Comstock
1930
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
2004
Constantin Negruzzi
1868
Alexei Mateevici
1917
Karel van de Woestijne
1929
Francisco Manuel de Melo
1666
Sergei Dovlatov
1990
Väinö Siikaniemi
1932
Diego de Saavedra Fajardo
1648
Kate Douglas Wiggin
1923
John William Polidori
1821
Gunnar Wennerberg
1901
Luiz Gama
1882
Frederick Carl Frieseke
1939
Henri Rivière
1951
Ciril Zlobec
2018
Friedrich Naumann
1919
Bjarni Thorarensen
1841
Ioan Budai-Deleanu
1820
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
1773
Jean François Paul de Gondi
1679
Wei Wei
2008
Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
1931
Morrie Ryskind
1985
Georges Achille-Fould
1951
Ahmad ibn Arabshah
1450
Dorothy Brett
1977
Max Haushofer
1866
Koffi Gahou
2019
Louis Moilliet
1962
Uri Katzenstein
2018
Enkū
1695
Musine Kokalari
1983
João Zeferino da Costa
1915
Nikolay Breshko-Breshkovsky
1943
Antun Kanižlić
1777
Shamaï Haber
1995
Gail Sheehy
2020
Bartolomeo Nazari
1758
Shigeharu Nakano
1979
Wilfred Thesiger
2003
Works published or unveiled
(5)
flag of Armenia
1990
Risshō Ankokuron
1260
Cheer Down
1989
Small Country
2016
Avant-Guerre
1983