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Born
(60)
Mary Shelley
1797
Jacques-Louis David
1748
Anna Politkovskaya
1958
Théophile Gautier
1811
Antonio da Correggio
1489
Theo van Doesburg
1883
Antony Gormley
1950
Rainis
1865
Camilla Läckberg
1974
Evelyn De Morgan
1855
Robert Crumb
1943
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
1727
Raymond Massey
1896
John Kani
1943
Leonor Fini
1907
François Cheng
1929
Gustave Le Gray
1820
Amy Sherald
1973
Aleksander Chodźko
1804
Lewis Black
1948
Siri Derkert
1888
Sara Ahmed
1969
Doppo Kunikida
1871
Willem Cornelisz Duyster
1599
Eugène Fichel
1826
J. Alden Weir
1852
George Minne
1866
Leonid Shvartsman
1920
Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria
1813
Mile Budak
1889
Gisela von Arnim
1827
Philipp Peter Roos
1657
Pierre-Jules Cavelier
1814
Georges Gasté
1869
Bruce Obomeyoma Onobrakpeya
1932
Nikolai Astrup
1880
Jiří Orten
1919
Thomas Hope
1769
Artus Quellinus the Elder
1609
John Gunther
1901
Abraham Govaerts
1589
Boris Zhitkov
1882
Marcelo H. del Pilar
1850
Lech Majewski
1953
Ray Cummings
1887
Alexander Polezhayev
1804
Peggy Lipton
1946
Eugène Burnand
1850
George Marion, Jr.
1899
Willem de Famars Testas
1834
Pavlo Hrabovskyi
1864
Jacques Raymond Brascassat
1804
Laurent de Brunhoff
1925
Alois Carigiet
1902
Leo Longanesi
1905
Ramón Acín
1888
Larisa Kadochnikova
1937
Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikyan
1891
Felice Ficherelli
1605
Esther Tusquets
1936
Died
(60)
Naguib Mahfouz
2006
Seamus Heaney
2013
Henri Barbusse
1935
Giovanni Fattori
1908
Ilia Chavchavadze
1907
Jean Tinguely
1991
Wes Craven
2015
Franz von Stuck
1928
Marjorie Boulton
2017
Marianne North
1890
Hermann Goldschmidt
1866
Charles Bronson
2003
John Ross
1856
Julius von Payer
1915
J. Lee Thompson
2002
Toru Dutt
1877
Alexander III
1181
Celso Emilio Ferreiro
1979
Oliver Sacks
2015
Taylor Caldwell
1985
Ivo Vojnović
1929
Nicolau Nasoni
1773
Valerie Harper
2019
Theodor Lessing
1933
Woutherus Mol
1857
Ad Reinhardt
1967
Sawako Ariyoshi
1984
Goliarda Sapienza
1996
Esther Inglis
1624
Victoria Santa Cruz
2014
Louise Hay
2017
Francis Baily
1844
John Banim
1842
Luís Fernando Veríssimo
2025
Sava Šumanović
1942
Maxim Vorobiev
1855
Louis Le Breton
1866
Ada Leverson
1933
John Willard
1942
Pietro Cossa
1881
Paul of Burgos
1435
Gilbert Abbott à Beckett
1856
Dara Shikoh
1659
Arsène Heitz
1989
Franco Columbu
2019
Pyotr Koshevoy
1976
István Szőnyi
1960
Tatiana Proskouriakoff
1985
Yosef Hayyim
1909
Gabriel-Marie Legouvé
1812
Rudolph II, Count of Neufchâtel
1196
Hermann Anschütz
1880
George Mikes
1987
Richard Mansfield
1907
Jean Sénac
1973
Tito Vespasiano Strozzi
1505
Harrie Geelen
2025
Ali Bey al-Abbasi
1818
Nicolas Liez
1892
Michael Jackson
2007
Works published or unveiled
(9)
Slumdog Millionaire
2008
The Black Dahlia
2006
To Rome with Love
2012
Highway 61 Revisited
1965
A Beautiful Lie
2005
Normal People
2018
Tuner
2025
Gustav Vasa statue
1924
Les Noces barbares
1985