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Born
(60)
Edgar Rice Burroughs
1875
Blaise Cendrars
1887
C. J. Cherryh
1942
Willem Frederik Hermans
1921
Annie Ernaux
1940
Roger Casement
1864
Joaquín Balaguer
1906
Ibn Jubayr
1145
Zoe Lister-Jones
1982
Emanuel Schikaneder
1751
Mustafa Balel
1945
António Lobo Antunes
1942
Steven Pressfield
1943
Tarsila do Amaral
1886
Timothy Zahn
1951
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
1896
Per Kirkeby
1938
Martha Wells
1964
Johan Lundbye
1818
Missak Manouchian
1906
Tony Robert-Fleury
1837
Eleanor Burford
1906
Leslie Feinberg
1949
Gerard de Lairesse
1641
Michiel Sweerts
1618
Gloria Estefan
1957
Taddeo Zuccari
1529
Carmelo Bene
1937
Eugène Boch
1855
Lily Tomlin
1939
Anna Botsford Comstock
1854
Roderick Thorp
1936
Engelbert Humperdinck
1854
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
1789
George Maharis
1928
Allen Jones
1937
Emma Stebbins
1815
Rex Beach
1877
Phil McGraw
1950
James Shirley
1596
Clark Mills
1815
Harold Lamb
1892
Tie Ning
1957
Dinko Šimunović
1873
Aya Kōda
1904
Lydia Sigourney
1791
Nathan Juran
1907
Jacob Abels
1803
Miquel Navarro
1945
Willem de Heusch
1612
Adolph de Meyer
1868
Padma Lakshmi
1970
Habib Tanvir
1923
Vijaydan Detha
1926
Wei Zhuang
836
Saida Menebhi
1952
Nitobe Inazō
1862
Aristotelis Valaoritis
1824
Jacobus Johannes Cremer
1827
Hilda Rix Nicholas
1884
Died
(60)
François Mauriac
1970
Zeami Motokiyo
1443
Hans Baldung Grien
1545
Abraham Isaac Kook
1935
Siegfried Sassoon
1967
Richard Steele
1729
Jimmy Buffett
2023
Jan Brueghel the Younger
1678
Edmund Blair Leighton
1922
Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī
1621
Saunders Lewis
1985
Alonso Berruguete
1561
Barbara Ehrenreich
2022
Liviu Rebreanu
1944
Giuseppe Giacosa
1906
François Girardon
1715
Gavin Douglas
1522
Vincenzo Catena
1531
Sebastiano Conca
1764
Faddey Bulgarin
1859
Otl Aicher
1991
W. W. Jacobs
1943
Thomas Lodge
1625
Vladislav Krapivin
2020
Nellie McClung
1951
György Faludy
2006
Étienne Pasquier
1615
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
1920
Wols
1951
Cornelis de Man
1706
Arthur Streeton
1943
Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty
1776
Gysbert Japiks
1666
Gül Baba
1541
Ishaq al-Mawsili
850
Richard Westmacott
1856
Katherine MacLean
2019
Jan Gruter
1627
Giovanni de' Bardi
1612
Frank Craven
1945
August Stramm
1915
Domenico Gagini
1492
Jiří Orten
1941
Bernard Lazare
1903
Sōgi
1502
Hendrik van Steenwijk I
1603
Charles A. Beard
1948
Bastiano Mainardi
1513
Fritz Cremer
1993
Andrea Bregno
1503
Yumeji Takehisa
1934
Cornelis Pronk
1759
Abbas Maroufi
2022
Guru Amar Das
1574
Bill Richardson
2023
Robert Genin
1941
María de la Cruz
1995
Léon Gozlan
1866
Auguste Magdalene of Hessen-Darmstadt
1674
Margit Sandemo
2018
Works published or unveiled
(60)
The Old Man and the Sea
1952
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
1900
The Satanic Verses
1988
Watchmen
1986
Martin Eden
1909
East of Eden
1952
Café Terrace at Night
1888
A Room of One's Own
1929
The Stand
1978
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
1963
Beloved
1987
The English Patient
1992
The 48 Laws of Power
2000
The Famous Five
1942
The Time Traveler's Wife
2003
The Secret Agent
1907
The Secret History
1992
Palace of Peace and Reconciliation
2006
The Wicker Man
2006
Ham on Rye
1982
Contact
1985
The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years
1983
Another Green World
1975
The Stepford Wives
1972
The Prestige
1995
The Windup Girl
2009
A nude woman doing her hair before a mirror
1841
Cutie Honey
1973
The Midnight Library
2020
Startide Rising
1983
The Corrections
2001
Ending Aging
2007
Stand on Zanzibar
1968
The Burning Plain and Other Stories
1953
Alias Grace
1996
Damned
2011
The Iron Dream
1972
The Code Book
1999
The Strangers: Chapter 2
2025
The Shape of Things to Come
1933
Cat's Eye
1988
Mythago Wood
1984
The Year of the Flood
2009
Naoko
1998
Millions of Cats
1928
Sarah's Key
2006
Something Happened
1974
Bored of the Rings
1969
Gregor the Overlander
2003
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
2019
The Mass Psychology of Fascism
1933
Habibi
2011
The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
2007
The Far Pavilions
1978
Enemy Mine
1979
Thendara House
1983
American Born Chinese
2006
Déjà Dead
1997
Seclusion Near a Forest
1976
The Tale of Two Bad Mice
1904