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Born
(60)
Leo Tolstoy
1828
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749
Al-Shafi'i
767
Edward Burne-Jones
1833
Jack Vance
1916
Daniel Stern
1957
Rita Dove
1952
Janet Frame
1924
Constant Troyon
1810
Jhaverchand Meghani
1896
Robertson Davies
1913
John Betjeman
1906
Rodolphus Agricola
1443
Rudolf von Alt
1812
Francisco de Sá de Miranda
1481
Liam O'Flaherty
1896
Yury Trifonov
1925
Philippe Léotard
1940
Sheridan Le Fanu
1814
Vonda N. McIntyre
1948
Kim Leine
1961
Firaq Gorakhpuri
1896
Johan Tobias Sergel
1740
Swarnakumari Devi
1855
Princess Sophia Hedwig of Denmark
1677
Jean-Baptiste Descamps
1714
Fernando Fernán Gómez
1921
Kanō Motonobu
1476
Clare Mackintosh
1976
Roger Tory Peterson
1908
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
1825
Claude Roy
1915
Bruno Bettelheim
1903
Karl Joseph Simrock
1802
Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
1919
Hienadz Buraukin
1936
Práxedis Guerrero
1882
Barbara Hambly
1951
Lidia Gueiler Tejada
1921
Ivor Gurney
1890
Gilad Shalit
1986
Michael Craig-Martin
1941
Julius Stinde
1841
Vance Palmer
1885
Giovanni Maria Benzoni
1809
Harro Harring
1798
Kyoko Hayashi
1930
Morris Graves
1910
Charles-Louis Clérisseau
1721
Antonio Somma
1809
Maša Haľamová
1908
Thomas Seddon
1821
Augustin Souchy
1892
William Cohen
1940
Francis Ebejer
1925
Sam Mirza
1518
Pavlo Makov
1958
Bernard Wolfe
1915
Clara Erskine Clement
1834
Jaime Balmes
1810
Died
(60)
Augustine of Hippo
430
Hugo Grotius
1645
Michael Ende
1995
John Huston
1987
Chadwick Boseman
2020
Konstantin Simonov
1979
Ruth Gordon
1985
Robert Shaw
1978
Elisabetta Sirani
1665
E. P. Thompson
1993
Leigh Hunt
1859
Willy Vandersteen
1990
Paolo Mantegazza
1910
Henri Harpignies
1916
Francisco Umbral
2007
Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy
1923
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
1590
Peter Fendi
1842
Benjamin Gerritsz Cuyp
1652
Wallerant Vaillant
1677
Donato Acciaioli
1478
Frederick Law Olmsted
1903
Giacomo Ceruti
1767
Julius Krohn
1888
Edmond Privat
1962
Guy Hocquenghem
1988
Peter Hacks
2003
Albrecht Adam
1862
Fritz Wotruba
1975
Giovanni Battista Zelotti
1578
Miguel Otero Silva
1985
Dimitris Kitsikis
2021
José Bergamín
1983
Joyce Mansour
1986
Shulamith Firestone
2012
Nikolaus Becker
1845
Juan Muñoz
2001
İlhan Berk
2008
Henry Sidgwick
1900
Aleksandr Shevchenko
1948
Theo van Hoytema
1917
Eva Figes
2012
Elvi Sinervo
1986
Josep Fontana
2018
Imre Csáky
1732
Clara Arnheim
1942
Jacob Binck
1569
Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš
1962
Sogyal Rinpoche
2019
Emilio Frugoni
1969
Alexander Coosemans
1689
Josef Wenzig
1876
Victor Uwaifo
2021
Julius Klaproth
1835
Idris II
828
Ernst Stern
1954
Leonid Vladimirovich Sherwood
1954
Mulford B. Foster
1978
Steve Silberman
2024
Lilias Trotter
1928
Works published or unveiled
(15)
From Here to Eternity
1953
The Killers
1946
Story of O
1975
The Zone of Interest
2014
Neoconservatism: Why We Need It
2006
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
2003
Tara Road
1998
Brown Girl Dreaming
2014
Naissance
2013
French Exit
2018
Les Filles du Calvaire
1991
L'Infortune
1990
Season of the shadow
2013
Evening Class
1998
UNE CERTAINE IDÉE DE L'AFRIQUE
2020