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Born
(60)
Graham Greene
1904
Mahatma Gandhi
1869
Hans Thoma
1839
Wallace Stevens
1879
Andreas Gryphius
1616
Antonio Gala
1930
Verka Serduchka
1973
Vernor Vinge
1944
Romina Power
1951
A. E. Waite
1857
Alice Prin
1901
Jack Parsons
1914
Fumiko Enchi
1905
Jack Finney
1911
Dimitri Verhulst
1972
Edward Burnett Tylor
1832
Margita Figuli
1909
Richard Hell
1949
Paul Goma
1935
Hannah Adams
1755
Ayumi Hamasaki
1978
Abdulah Sidran
1944
Henri Rouart
1833
Irma Stern
1894
Timrava
1867
Roy Campbell
1901
Fernando Sánchez Dragó
1936
Jacob van Strij
1756
Lena Hades
1959
Warren Spector
1955
Alfred Roller
1864
Matthew Pearl
1975
Gunnar Wennerberg
1817
John Sinclair
1941
Louis de Bonald
1754
Vera Duarte
1952
Kim Dong-in
1900
Elizabeth Jane Weston
1581
Grigol Orbeliani
1804
Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux
1619
Yokoyama Taikan
1868
Angelyne
1950
Sitor Situmorang
1924
Dmitry Pisarev
1840
Charles Ricketts
1866
Lisa St Aubin de Terán
1953
Achmat Dangor
1948
Alain Soral
1958
Carl Timoleon von Neff
1804
Isabelle Kaiser
1866
Frank Malina
1912
Augusto Cury
1958
Robert Frangeš-Mihanović
1872
Hans Smidth
1839
Louis Braquaval
1854
Jerzy Zawieyski
1902
Frans Wouters
1612
Christian Mali
1832
Rosaleen Norton
1917
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
1878
Died
(60)
Marcel Duchamp
1968
Raja Ravi Varma
1906
Vasily Shukshin
1974
Ernest Renan
1892
Maria Aurèlia Capmany
1991
Elizabeth Thompson
1933
Khurshidbanu Natavan
1897
Isaac Oliver
1617
François Arago
1853
August Wilson
2005
Brian Friel
2015
Heinz G. Konsalik
1999
Marie Stopes
1958
Benjamin Fondane
1944
John Marin
1953
Sabiha Bengütaş
1992
Fukuda Chiyo-ni
1775
Louis Hersent
1860
Xosé María Díaz Castro
1990
Ibn Quzman
1160
John André
1780
Nipsey Russell
2005
Georg Jensen
1935
Arnold Boonen
1729
Antoine-François Callet
1823
Oldřich Lajsek
2001
Timo Sarpaneva
2006
Arthur John Arberry
1969
Athalaric
534
Ina Seidel
1974
Gene Autry
1998
Dimcho Debelyanov
1916
Katharine Susannah Prichard
1969
Hermon Atkins MacNeil
1947
Shakarim Kudaiberdiev
1931
Stepan Charnetsky
1944
Petr Uspensky
1947
Anna Lesznai
1966
Aleksey Kivshenko
1895
Sarah Biffen
1850
Frans Francken I
1616
Eduard Bass
1946
Jan Monchablon
1904
Saionji Kintsune
1244
William Ellery Channing
1842
Johannes Murmellius
1517
Dobroslav Jevđević
1962
José Agostinho de Macedo
1831
Gunther Philipp
2003
Barbara Sanguszko (née Dunin)
1791
Lee Lozano
1999
Taha Muhammad Ali
2011
Benoît Audran the Elder
1721
Claude Vigée
2020
Marion Fairfax
1970
Pierre Christin
2024
David Teniers III
1685
Carl Seffner
1932
Veronica Fontana
1688
Alice Baber
1982
Works published or unveiled
(12)
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
1838
Julia
1977
A Brief History of Seven Killings
2014
Let It Snow
2008
Yajnaseni
2016
Kavyanjali
2016
The Round House
2012
Killing Kennedy
2012
Why Don't You Play in Hell?
2013
The Shadow Speaker
2007
Elena Knows
2007
Canillita
1903