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Born
(60)
Johann Gottfried Herder
1744
Tim Burton
1958
Martin Amis
1949
Taslima Nasrin
1962
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
1767
Frederick Forsyth
1938
Bret Harte
1836
Ludwig I of Bavaria
1786
Sean Connery
1930
Leonard Bernstein
1918
Álvaro Mutis
1923
Howard Jacobson
1942
Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato
1609
Dorothea Tanning
1910
Jacob Maris
1837
Kjeld Abell
1901
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
1934
Võ Nguyên Giáp
1911
Simon McBurney
1957
Giovanni Biliverti
1585
Santa Faustina Kowalska
1905
Judith Gautier
1845
Alberto Savinio
1891
Allan Edwall
1924
Ali Ashraf Darvishian
1941
Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo
1719
Brian Moore
1921
Filippo Lauri
1623
Boris Mikhailov
1938
Baldur Ragnarsson
1930
Waldo Frank
1889
Dominique Fernandez
1929
Louis Barthou
1862
Mel Ferrer
1917
Jeff Tweedy
1967
John Neal
1793
Ian Falconer
1959
Henrik Hertz
1797
Aslaug Vaa
1889
Inga Borg
1925
Margaret Maron
1938
Tufan Miñnullin
1935
Masumi Asano
1977
Tchicaya U Tam'si
1931
Marie Egner
1850
Roberto De Simone
1933
Charles Wright
1935
Yamada Bimyō
1868
Uladzimir Arloŭ
1953
Sergei Nilus
1862
Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš
1877
Thea Astley
1925
Robert Stolz
1880
Elizabeth Duval
2000
István Gyöngyösi
1629
João Zeferino da Costa
1840
Allan Pinkerton
1819
Larysa Khorolets
1948
Fikrat Goja
1935
Pavlo Zahrebelnyi
1924
Died
(60)
Friedrich Nietzsche
1900
Truman Capote
1984
Eyvind Johnson
1976
Aleksandr Kuprin
1938
Carl Barks
2000
David Hume
1776
Michael Faraday
1867
Henri Fantin-Latour
1904
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald
1882
John McCain
2018
Umberto Saba
1957
John Brunner
1995
Musa Cälil
1944
Silva Kaputikyan
2006
Adolph Tidemand
1876
Thomas Dekker
1632
Ahmad al-Mansur
1603
Leo Perutz
1957
Robert Pinget
1997
Thomas Moran
1926
Karl Leberecht Immermann
1840
Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrai
1797
Alfred Kinsey
1956
Philippe Léotard
2001
Symeon of Polotsk
1680
Samantha Smith
1985
Lev Kamenev
1936
Sophie Ristaud Cottin
1807
Johan Ludvig Heiberg
1860
Abdulla Avloniy
1934
Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer
1868
Johannes Voorhout
1717
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
1907
Ivan Bahrianyi
1963
Jacob van Lennep
1868
Abdulla Aliş
1944
Leopold August Abel
1794
Marcel Allain
1969
Dorothea Fairbridge
1931
Rakuten Kitazawa
1955
Celia Thaxter
1894
Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin
1807
Sonia Rykiel
2016
Ahmad Faraz
2008
David Joris
1556
Dorothy Coade Hewett
2002
Carl Richard Jacobi
1997
Charles Baudouin
1963
Helene Holzman
1968
Felipe de Castro
1775
Teodora Matejko
1896
Bhai Gurdas
1636
Max Eyth
1906
Niven Busch
1991
Martiros of Crimea
1683
Raymond Abrashkin
1960
Fujiwara no Michimasa
1054
Antoine Ignace Melling
1831
Adam van Vianen
1627
Wilson Irvine
1936
Works published or unveiled
(17)
Rashomon
1950
Zombi 2
1979
Obelisk of Montevideo
1938
The Tale of Despereaux
2003
Black Garden
2004
Legend of Lemnear
1989
NeuroTribes
2015
Tropic of Violence
2016
Nights of Rain and Stars
2004
Indians on Vacation
2020
Hate: A Romance
2008
Un brillant avenir
2008
In His Arms
2000
Laëtitia ou la Fin des hommes
2016
Le Zèbre
1988
"X"
2015
Sianida
2022