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Born
(60)
Maurice Maeterlinck
1862
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
1780
John Locke
1632
Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809
Ivan Kotliarevskyi
1769
Chus Pato
1955
John McCain
1936
Robert Merle
1908
Valery Larbaud
1881
John Edward Williams
1922
Léon Cogniet
1794
Edward Carpenter
1844
Preston Sturges
1898
Sara Stridsberg
1972
Mieko Kawakami
1976
Hermann Nitsch
1938
Jack Butler Yeats
1871
Diamanda Galás
1955
Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset
1709
Aleijadinho
1730
Manuel Machado
1874
Olof von Dalin
1708
Daniele Ganser
1972
René Depestre
1926
Stephen Wolfram
1959
Émile Lévy
1826
Giovanni Battista Casti
1724
Chris Hadfield
1959
Vladimir Arsenyev
1872
Oleksandr Dovzhenko
1894
Han Yong-un
1879
Erik Henningsen
1855
Sorel Etrog
1933
Gillian Rubinstein
1942
Alfred Agache
1843
William Friedkin
1935
Temple Grandin
1947
John Hunter
1737
Hermann Löns
1866
Georg Friedrich Treitschke
1776
Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska
1868
S. Corinna Bille
1912
Jo Weil
1977
Grzegorz Ciechowski
1957
Florine Stettheimer
1871
Luis Candido Lopez
1840
Thom Gunn
1929
Aurelio Galleppini
1917
Pavel Brullov
1840
Hanna Winsnes
1789
Juan Bautista Alberdi
1810
Aka Akasaka
1988
Truus Menger-Oversteegen
1923
Albert Bartholomé
1848
Girolamo Michelangelo Grigoletti
1801
Karel Hlaváček
1874
Wu Guanzhong
1919
Edith Kramer
1916
Wilhelm Sohn
1830
Emil Schumacher
1912
Died
(60)
Sayyid Qutb
1966
Kazi Nazrul Islam
1976
Joseph Wright of Derby
1797
Ulrich von Hutten
1523
Vicki Baum
1960
Abu Tammam
846
Guido Cavalcanti
1300
John Fletcher
1625
Frigyes Karinthy
1938
Martinus Rørbye
1848
Alesso Baldovinetti
1499
Naji al-Ali
1987
Gene Wilder
2016
Charles Paul de Kock
1871
Pietro Bernini
1629
Manly P. Hall
1990
Mary Norton
1992
Matthias Bel
1749
Erzsébet Schaár
1975
Max Dauthendey
1918
Sanford Robinson Gifford
1880
John Steuart Curry
1946
Georges Sorel
1922
Georgina de Albuquerque
1962
Vladimír Vašíček
2003
Johan Georg Schwartze
1874
David Diop
1960
Wayne Dyer
2015
Josef Šroubek
1964
Oleksa Novakivsky
1935
Sebastian Klonowic
1602
Catharine Parr Traill
1899
Joel Asaph Allen
1921
Gerald Green
2006
Vladimir Veličković
2019
Lucas de Heere
1584
Beatrice of Nazareth
1268
Constantin Tănase
1945
Alfred Wallis
1942
Joseph Henry Sharp
1953
Motoyoshi-shinnō
943
Antonio Sicurezza
1979
Wang Jipeng
939
Ivan Lacković Croata
2004
Antonio Bellucci
1726
Youenn Gwernig
2006
Adelaide Claxton
1927
Bertalan Pór
1964
Herbert Abrams
2003
Jessica Dismorr
1939
Cyril Bouda
1984
Lizinska de Mirbel
1849
Selma Burke
1995
Brasse Brännström
2014
Conrad Marca-Relli
2000
Franco Basaglia
1980
Carilda Oliver Labra
2018
Nurcholish Madjid
2005
Nahum Goldmann
1982
Fritz Petzholdt
1838
Works published or unveiled
(6)
Lost in Translation
2003
The Silence of the Lambs
1988
4′33″
1952
Submission
2004
The Devotion of Suspect X
2005
The Housekeeper and the Professor
2003