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Born
(60)
Václav Havel
1936
Denis Diderot
1713
Jesse Eisenberg
1983
Eugène Pottier
1816
Clive Barker
1952
Francesco Guardi
1712
Brian O'Nolan
1911
Peter Ackroyd
1949
Maya Lin
1959
Magda Szabó
1917
Édouard Detaille
1848
Bing Xin
1900
Marie-Claire Blais
1939
Stig Dagerman
1923
José Donoso
1924
Joshua Logan
1908
Paul Fleming
1609
Guido von List
1848
A. R. Penck
1939
Michael Morpurgo
1943
Olja Ivanjicki
1931
John Addington Symonds
1840
Ágnes Gergely
1933
Pacita Abad
1946
Edward P. Jones
1950
Helen Churchill Candee
1858
Jonathan Edwards
1703
Ray Kroc
1902
Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudi
1839
Thomas Pollock Anshutz
1851
Ana Teresa Parra Sanojo
1889
Ellen Thesleff
1869
Bob Geldof
1951
Zaharia Stancu
1902
Duncan Regehr
1952
Marie Laforêt
1939
Ramalinga Swamigal
1823
Bohdan Ihor Antonych
1909
Jacqueline Pascal
1625
Ludwig Knaus
1829
Laura Borràs i Castanyer
1970
Francis William Reitz
1844
Roberto Juarroz
1925
Eldrid Lunden
1940
Eulabee Dix
1878
Max Ackermann
1887
Wilhelm Weitling
1808
Feri Lainšček
1959
John Erskine
1879
Wilhelm Blos
1849
Robert Adams
1917
Pierre Dansereau
1911
Bart D. Ehrman
1955
János Majláth
1786
Lothar Baumgarten
1944
Maxwell Armfield
1881
Chevalier d'Éon
1728
Fu Baoshi
1904
Manuel Orazi
1860
James Rizzi
1950
Died
(60)
Henning Mankell
2015
Motoori Norinaga
1801
Anne Wiazemsky
2017
Zalman Shazar
1974
Joachim Patinir
1524
Alexei Khomyakov
1860
Imre Madách
1864
Selma Rıza
1931
Bernard Clavel
2010
Ivan Yefremov
1972
Robert Coover
2024
Abdurrauf Fitrat
1938
Friedrich Wolf
1953
Santa Faustina Kowalska
1938
Jilly Cooper
2025
Albert Aurier
1892
Choʻlpon
1938
Adriaen van Utrecht
1652
Philippe Desportes
1606
J. Slauerhoff
1936
Francesco Bacchiacca
1557
Kamran Mirza
1557
Faizi
1595
George Desvallières
1950
Henry III
1056
Hans von Bartels
1913
Chantal Akerman
2015
Henry Carey
1743
Ernest-Eugène Hiolle
1886
Keith Roberts
2000
Christoffel Bisschop
1904
Guglielmo Ciardi
1917
Dorothy Tennant
1926
Giorgio Pressburger
2017
Georges Vantongerloo
1965
Mirjaqip Dulatuly
1935
Abdurehim Ötkür
1995
Alberto Lista
1848
Al-Nasir
1225
Neil Postman
2003
Jan Lenica
2001
Barry Cornwall
1874
Antonio Amorosi
1738
Józef Oleszkiewicz
1830
Urinboy Rahmonberdievich Rakhmonov
1980
António Diniz da Cruz e Silva
1799
Christopher Brennan
1932
Nicolai Fechin
1955
Matilde Salvador i Segarra
2007
Harry Emerson Fosdick
1969
Francis Grant
1878
Imagawa Sadayo
1420
José del Castillo
1793
António de Macedo
2017
Augustin Barruel
1820
Zygmunt Waliszewski
1936
Ōtomo no Yakamochi
785
Emilie Schindler
2001
Wilhelm Heine
1885
Krzysztof Jung
1998
Works published or unveiled
(7)
flag of North Macedonia
1995
Carmen Jones
1954
Love is in the Bin
2018
Koi
2016
The Roots of Heaven
1956
Imperial Ambitions
2005
Matrix
1998