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Born
(60)
Guillaume Apollinaire
1880
Aleksandr Kuprin
1870
Charles Richet
1850
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
1819
Zemfira
1976
Nichi Vendola
1958
Antoine Lavoisier
1743
Christopher Isherwood
1904
Jules Romains
1885
Johann Heinrich Lambert
1728
John Buchan
1875
Paula Hawkins
1972
Boris Pahor
1913
Ayşe Kulin
1941
Julio Cortázar
1914
Barbara Ehrenreich
1941
Earl Derr Biggers
1884
Rufino Tamayo
1899
Katherine Johnson
1918
Zona Gale
1874
Oleksandr Murashko
1875
Melissa McCarthy
1970
Nina Companéez
1937
Léon Frédéric
1856
Benedict Anderson
1936
Marcellin Desboutin
1823
Thalía
1971
Nicaise de Keyser
1813
Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca
1914
Eleanor Dark
1901
Jean-Jacques Feuchère
1807
Édouard Joseph Dantan
1848
Eva Baltasar
1978
Rudolf Belling
1886
Ferdinand Bruckner
1891
Mimi Hafida
1965
Henry Mackenzie
1745
Richard Lerner
1938
Johan Fredrik Höckert
1826
Geraldine Ferraro
1935
Caroline Pafford Miller
1903
Sangharakshita
1925
Cesare Tallone
1853
José Villegas Cordero
1844
Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola
1562
Fernando Ribeiro
1974
Marcus du Sautoy
1965
Ludwig Michael Schwanthaler
1802
Sergey Gerasimov
1885
Jiří Pehe
1955
Janez Puhar
1814
Ernesto Treccani
1920
Georges Rouget
1783
Vladimir Gubarev
1938
Gwen Raverat
1885
Steinunn Sigurðardóttir
1950
John Mulaney
1982
Jo Freeman
1945
Jan de Quay
1901
Princess Alexandra of Bavaria
1826
Died
(60)
Frans Hals
1666
Franz Werfel
1945
Neil Simon
2018
Sesshū Tōyō
1506
Mika Waltari
1979
Hyman Bloom
2009
William James
1910
Nikolay Gumilev
1921
Irving Stone
1989
Ralph Vaughan Williams
1958
Daniel Varujan
1915
Theodor Körner
1813
Charles Lindbergh
1974
José María Velasco Gómez Obregón
1912
Georgy Ivanov
1958
Wolfgang Herrndorf
2013
Vladimir Tretchikoff
2006
Lotte Lehmann
1976
Teodor Axentowicz
1938
Sophia Parnok
1933
Taddeo di Bartolo
1422
Jan August Hendrik Leys
1869
Claes Corneliszoon Moeyaert
1655
Ruben Sevak
1915
Ludwig Thoma
1921
Mário Pinto de Andrade
1990
Mehdi Akhavan-Sales
1990
Raphael Patkanian
1892
Millosh Gjergj Nikolla
1938
Charles Hubert Millevoye
1816
Lon Chaney
1930
Maria Mauban
2014
Douglas Reed
1976
Tobe Hooper
2017
André-Paul Duchâteau
2020
Pierre Parrocel
1739
John Miller Adye
1900
Petrus Ramus
1572
Matthias Erzberger
1921
Atulprasad Sen
1934
Wolfgang Bauer
2005
Wojciech Żukrowski
2000
Michael Willmann
1706
Lajos Petri
1963
Alesʹ Razanaŭ
2021
Ismail al-Azhari
1969
Royall Tyler
1826
Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio
1565
Gerda Ahlm
1956
Alfonso Osorio
2018
H. A. Rey
1977
Roh Ogura
1990
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
1962
Raimon Panikkar
2010
Junio Valerio Borghese
1974
Fyodor Kamensky
1913
Jean Varin
1672
Francis Chichester
1972
Irena Bernášková
1942
Robert Fagan
1816
Works published or unveiled
(11)
Eragon
2003
The Last of the Mohicans
1992
Pather Panchali
1955
I Vitelloni
1953
The Merry Widow
1925
One-Way
1994
Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote
1998
Birth of a Bridge
2010
Que font les rennes après Noël ?
2010
D'après une histoire vraie
2015
Une poignée de gens
1998