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Born
(60)
Thomas Keneally
1935
Rosalba Carriera
1675
Wilhelm Müller
1794
Amiri Baraka
1934
Sohrab Sepehri
1928
Sherman Alexie
1966
Enki Bilal
1951
Joe Hill
1879
Steven Erikson
1959
Diane Ackerman
1948
Natsuo Kirino
1951
Jacques Cazotte
1719
Tico Torres
1953
Jean Paul Riopelle
1923
Anni Blomqvist
1909
James Whitcomb Riley
1849
Henry A. Wallace
1888
John White Alexander
1856
John Marston
1576
Fereydoun Farrokhzad
1938
Catharine MacKinnon
1946
Sergei Sviatchenko
1952
Clive James
1939
Ulrike Meinhof
1934
Miren Agur Meabe
1962
Simon Cowell
1959
Felix Draeseke
1835
Magnus Brostrup Landstad
1802
Gustav Wentzel
1859
Bernardo Arévalo de León
1958
Novella Matveyeva
1934
Juan Benet
1927
Gabriel Alomar i Villalonga
1873
Kalju Lepik
1920
Anita Shreve
1946
Serhii Vasylkivsky
1854
Enrique Pinti
1939
Roger de Piles
1635
Simon Carmiggelt
1913
William Laud
1573
Walt Whitman Rostow
1916
Helen MacInnes
1907
Joy Behar
1942
Alfred Drake
1914
Marilyn Waring
1952
Henry Alford
1810
Fenia Chertkoff
1869
Erich Büttner
1889
Heinrich Eduard Jacob
1889
Nándor Wagner
1922
Fanie Eloff
1885
Mimmo Rotella
1918
Benjamín Jarnés
1888
Caroline von Briest
1773
Noel Nicola
1946
Otto Ernst
1862
Oliver North
1943
Xi Xi
1937
Oscar Cesare
1883
Rafik Khachatryan
1937
Died
(60)
Edgar Allan Poe
1849
Andrea del Verrocchio
1488
Anna Politkovskaya
2006
Oliver Wendell Holmes
1894
Guru Gobind Singh
1708
Michelozzo
1472
Natalia Ginzburg
1991
Alfred Deakin
1919
Siegfried Lenz
2014
Al-Mansur
775
Paul Sérusier
1927
Pedro Américo
1905
Daniel Chester French
1931
Radclyffe Hall
1943
Juntoku
1242
Giovanni Battista Guarini
1612
Isaac Israëls
1934
Raymond Duchamp-Villon
1918
Paul Bril
1626
Vyacheslav Ivanov
2017
Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta
1468
Antoine de Montchrestien
1621
Cyril Cusack
1993
Thomas Reid
1796
Giulia Lama
1747
Norman Angell
1967
William Wetmore Story
1895
Ferdinand Humbert
1934
Ture Nerman
1969
Thomas Woolner
1892
George Gascoigne
1577
Karl Schorn
1850
Vytautas Mačernis
1944
August Natterer
1933
D. V. Gundappa
1975
Arshak Fetvadjian
1947
C. R. W. Nevinson
1946
Oleg Pavlov
2018
Ivo Michiels
2012
William Barnes
1886
Qian Chu
988
Alexander Keirincx
1652
Patrice Chéreau
2013
Serhii Vasylkivsky
1917
Stanisław Żółkiewski
1620
Mongo Beti
2001
Mersad Berber
2012
Louise Seidler
1866
Charles Ricketts
1931
Louis Jules Trochu
1896
Harvey Williams Cushing
1939
Otakar Kubín
1969
Nicolaas Heinsius the Elder
1681
Henry Corbin
1978
Joanna Chmielewska
2013
Michele Gordigiani
1909
Joseph Opatoshu
1954
Jan Zahradníček
1960
William Smith
1893
Émile Appay
1935
Works published or unveiled
(14)
The French Connection
1971
The Lady Vanishes
1938
The Addams Family 2
2021
The Giving Tree
1964
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾
1982
Hannity & Colmes
1996
Fly by Night
2005
Konec punku v Helsinkách
2010
Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction
2004
Some Luck
2014
Lila
2014
Citizen: An American Lyric
2014
La Bataille de Toulouse
1966
Banzai
2017