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Born
(60)
Le Corbusier
1887
Janet Gaynor
1906
Yaşar Kemal
1923
David Brin
1950
Maria Dąbrowska
1889
Meret Oppenheim
1913
Helen Wills
1905
Ellen Kushner
1955
Kálmán Kalocsay
1891
Yury Tynyanov
1894
Thor Heyerdahl
1914
Marie de Gournay
1565
Mikhail Kuzmin
1872
Gilles Clément
1943
Adolf von Hildebrand
1847
Johan Herman Wessel
1742
Elizabeth Shoumatoff
1888
Ebele Okoye
1969
Joseph Finder
1958
Joseph d'Arbaud
1874
Zakes Mda
1948
Britt Ekland
1942
Franciszek Smuglewicz
1745
Louis Begley
1933
Sergei Chavain
1888
Paula Scher
1948
Stanley Ellin
1916
Melvyn Bragg
1939
Winston Ntshona
1941
John Webber
1751
Lucidor
1638
Bo Bergman
1869
Louis Moilliet
1880
Hugh Henry Breckenridge
1870
Leonard Marconi
1835
Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal
1865
Elizabeth Gray Vining
1902
Barbie Hsu
1976
Mikhail Chekhov
1865
Enid Yandell
1869
Wolfgang Liebeneiner
1905
Romero Britto
1963
Brett Gelman
1976
Maryam Palizban
1981
Mountstuart Elphinstone
1779
Georges Gaudy
1872
Petar Omčikus
1926
Shana Alexander
1925
Ivan Dmitrievich Ermakov
1875
Klara Johanson
1875
Wolfgang Langhoff
1901
Aimo Tukiainen
1917
François-Bernard Lépicié
1698
Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Jacobs
1764
Margaret Fulton
1924
Ljubinka Jovanović
1922
Charles Lapicque
1898
Thomas Falkner
1702
Sergey Kalmykov
1891
Gerhard Lamprecht
1897
Died
(60)
Alfred Tennyson
1892
Vera Mukhina
1953
Elizabeth Bishop
1979
Igor Talkov
1991
Ford Madox Brown
1893
Árpád Göncz
2015
Paul Scarron
1660
Jules Dupré
1889
Igor Mitoraj
2014
Paavo Haavikko
2008
Charles the Bald
877
Rolan Bykov
1998
William Tyndale
1536
Nadezhda Teffi
1952
Ricardo Palma
1919
Peter Hansen
1928
Wilson Tucker
2006
Kōuchi Jun'ichi
1970
Christine Arnothy
2015
Johannes Jelgerhuis
1836
Emil Filla
1953
Frances Trollope
1863
Heinrich Albert
1651
Francisco Acuña de Figueroa
1864
Julian Przyboś
1970
Charles Rivière Dufresny
1724
Ilse Weber
1944
Tod Browning
1962
Kâtip Çelebi
1657
Shadhli ibn Jadid
2012
Bernard Germain de Lacépède
1825
José Cabanis
2000
Pierre du Ryer
1658
Bruno of Cologne
1101
Lorenzo Aguirre
1942
Džore Držić
1501
Bernard Berenson
1959
Fadhéla Dziria
1970
Antonio Cisneros
2012
Jean Bardin
1809
Nikolay Makovsky
1886
William Henry Powell
1879
Guru Har Rai
1661
Margaret Wilson
1973
Vilhelm Melbye
1882
Jeong Do-jeon
1398
Caspar Wolf
1783
Cg'ose Ntcox'o
2013
Atta Kwami
2021
Ciaran Carson
2019
Miguel de Barrios
1701
William Light
1839
Juriaen Pool
1745
Diane Cilento
2011
Damat Ferid Paşa
1923
Émile Mâle
1954
Sylvia Beach
1962
Veniamin Borisov
2014
Pádraic Ó Conaire
1928
Baltazar Fontana
1733
Works published or unveiled
(9)
Rocco and His Brothers
1960
The Universe in a Nutshell
2001
Destiny
1921
Taxi
2004
How to Make an American Quilt
1995
Leviathan
2009
The Ministry for the Future
2020
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
2020
La Prison maritime
1961