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Born
(60)
Frédéric Mistral
1830
Ludovico Ariosto
1474
Alfred Jarry
1873
Feliza Bursztyn
1933
August Wilhelm Schlegel
1767
Clemens Brentano
1778
Eduard Mörike
1804
Rasul Gamzatov
1923
Carl Snoilsky
1841
Nikolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig
1783
Wilhelm Raabe
1831
Siegfried Sassoon
1886
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang
685
Catherine of Bologna
1413
Giacomo Quarenghi
1744
Mariano Benlliure
1862
Charles J. Guiteau
1841
Maria Lassnig
1919
Michael Frayn
1933
Alexander Neckam
1157
Joaquin Miller
1837
B. P. Koirala
1914
W. W. Jacobs
1863
François Just Marie Raynouard
1761
Grace Metalious
1924
Jean-Louis Barrault
1910
Ann Beattie
1947
Nestor Kukolnik
1809
Motiram Bhatta
1866
C. Robert Cargill
1975
Natalicio González
1897
Luisa Roldán
1652
Louis-Frederic Schützenberger
1825
David Arquette
1971
Poornachandra Tejaswi
1938
Lea Ypi
1979
Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg
1814
Max Blecher
1909
Valery Afanassiev
1947
Paul I, Prince Esterházy
1635
Boris Ryzhy
1974
Ozias Humphry
1742
Teresa Wilms Montt
1893
Mario Adorf
1930
Sivananda Saraswati
1887
Ansgar
801
Batszewa Dagan
1925
Bernardino of Siena
1380
Cristoforo Roncalli
1552
Lynn Abbey
1948
Béla Markó
1951
Edith Gyömrői Ludowyk
1896
Kiyoo Wadati
1902
Franz Karl Ginzkey
1871
Antoine de Favray
1706
Anne Catherine Emmerich
1774
Sid Caesar
1922
William Collins
1788
Tess Osonye Onwueme
1955
Rosearik Rikki Simons
1970
Died
(60)
Francisco Quevedo
1645
André Derain
1954
Maurice Genevoix
1980
Léon Bonnat
1922
Eileen Chang
1995
Ronald Harwood
2020
Ana Mendieta
1985
Moondog
1999
Alexandra David-Néel
1969
Camilo Sesto
2019
Juan Sánchez Cotán
1627
Carlo Cignani
1719
Jerry Pournelle
2017
William Morris Hunt
1879
Francis Quarles
1644
Julius Fučík
1943
Christian von Ehrenfels
1932
Paul Philippe Cret
1945
Hanka Ordonówna
1950
Tymko Padura
1871
Giuseppe Amisani
1941
Wilhelm Amberg
1899
Joseph Hall
1656
Halldis Moren Vesaas
1995
Joost Zwagerman
2015
Thomas Szasz
2012
Simon Frug
1916
Vilmos Huszár
1960
Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari
1727
Frederick Varley
1969
Prince Philippe, Count of Paris
1894
Sándor Ziffer
1962
Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah
1982
Pierre Bergé
2017
Cecilio Apóstol
1938
Sarah Mapps Douglass
1882
Emmanuel Mané-Katz
1962
Eyre de Lanux
1996
Michael Johann Joseph Brokoff
1721
Wilhelm August Rieder
1880
Emma Josepha Sparre
1913
Derrick Norman Lehmer
1938
Nicolas Faret
1646
Vexi Salmi
2020
Nazim Baykişiyev
2025
Frédéric Ozanam
1853
Derek Taylor
1997
Greta Zimmer Friedman
2016
Carmen Garayalde
2002
Vasily Sternberg
1845
Sophie de Condorcet
1822
Henri Meunier
1922
Carl Kuntz
1830
Aleksei Gan
1942
Milena Hübschmannová
2005
Jimmy Swinnerton
1974
Christopher Paudiß
1666
Charlotta Arfwedson
1862
Lazzaro Morelli
1690
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
1978
Works published or unveiled
(13)
American Beauty
1999
Jojo Rabbit
2019
Cujo
1981
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
2004
Air
2000
The Eagle Has Landed
1975
Into the Abyss
2011
Bunuel and King Solomon's Table
2001
Three Goodbyes
2025
Make Me
2015
Cold Comfort Farm
1932
A Place So Foreign and Eight More
2003
Black Belt Patriotism
2008