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Born
(60)
François-Auguste-René de Chateaubriand
1768
Tommaso Campanella
1568
Antonin Artaud
1896
Juliusz Słowacki
1809
Richard Wright
1908
Al-Biruni
973
José Luís Peixoto
1974
Wanli Emperor
1563
Jan Švankmajer
1934
Oskar Schlemmer
1888
Phoebe Caryary
1824
L. J. Smith
1958
Leonhard Frank
1882
Mary Renault
1905
Constantijn Huygens
1596
Eilif Peterssen
1852
Aleksandar Deroko
1894
Daniel Burnham
1846
Joan Aiken
1924
Ikki Kajiwara
1936
Peter Fendi
1796
Ivan Illich
1926
Maksim Tank
1912
Claudia Rankine
1963
Yanka Dyagileva
1966
Ione Skye
1970
Vicent Andrés Estellés
1924
Anna Maria Ehrenstrahl
1666
Abdulla Qahhor
1907
Domiziana Giordano
1959
Carmen Boullosa
1954
Janko Kersnik
1852
Albert Joseph Moore
1841
Bernardino Zapponi
1927
Karl Seitz
1869
Anthony de Mello
1931
Asa Earl Carter
1925
Constancio C. Vigil
1876
Vinçens Prennushi
1885
John Dillon
1851
Sarah Solemani
1982
David Lagercrantz
1962
Louise Doughty
1963
Harold MacGrath
1871
Giovanni Andrea Sirani
1610
Alexandre del Valle
1968
Marek Krajewski
1966
Béla Czóbel
1883
Andrew Levitas
1977
Emil Boyson
1897
Trần Minh Tông
1300
Natalie Diaz
1978
Petr Král
1941
Eva Topelius
1855
Arpana Caur
1954
Pál Pusztai
1919
Erwan Berthou
1861
Achille Millien
1838
Per Olof Sundman
1922
Juan Carlos Cáceres
1936
Died
(60)
Georges Simenon
1989
Werner Bergengruen
1964
Aldo Rossi
1997
Marcel Achard
1974
Vasyl Stus
1985
Rūdolfs Blaumanis
1908
Jean-François Regnard
1709
Joan Rivers
2014
Hervé Villechaize
1993
Martin Johnson Heade
1904
Peter Straub
2022
Raimbaut de Vaqueiras
1207
Louis Adamic
1951
Bora Đorđević
2024
Dharamvir Bharati
1997
Hendrik Voogd
1839
Walter Kaufmann
1980
Tom Tryon
1991
Mary Elizabeth Barber
1899
Vladimir Arsenyev
1930
Maximilian Messmacher
1906
Pietro di Giovanni d'Ambrogio
1449
Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy
1846
Melchiorre Cafà
1667
Laco Novomeský
1976
Keith Waterhouse
2009
Ottavio Leoni
1630
Emperor Shang of Tang
715
Maurice Sand
1889
Jean Rostand
1977
Bartolomeo Bulgarini
1378
Baltasar Lobo
1993
Henri de Lubac
1991
Gerrit Kouwenaar
2014
Novella Matveyeva
2016
Jānis Sudrabkalns
1975
Herbert Eulenberg
1949
Margery Williams
1944
Mary Shepard
2000
John Home
1808
Matsumura Goshun
1811
Sushmita Banerjee
2013
Guy Bolton
1979
Émile Bin
1897
Edward Augustus Inglefield
1894
Auguste Fourès
1891
Carl-Henning Wijkmark
2020
Dai Tielang
2019
Léopold Flameng
1911
Sherali Joʻrayev
2023
Robert Jay Lifton
2025
Mohsen Hashtroodi
1976
Constance Gordon-Cumming
1924
Théodore Baron
1899
Dick Raaymakers
2013
Wolfhart Pannenberg
2014
José de Cañizares
1750
Józef Peszka
1831
Willard Scott
2021
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
1893
Works published or unveiled
(9)
Norwegian Wood
1987
The Bald Soprano
1950
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2009
Priscilla
2023
The Map and the Territory
2010
Tree of Smoke
2007
The Infinities
2009
Outline
2014
Eau de café
1991