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Born
(60)
Marina Tsvetaeva
1892
Frank Herbert
1920
Bella Thorne
1997
R. L. Stine
1943
Branislav Nušić
1864
Matt Damon
1970
Harriet Taylor Mill
1807
Jean-Jacques Beineix
1946
John Cowper Powys
1872
Faith Ringgold
1930
Yulian Semyonov
1931
Gottfried Helnwein
1948
Ivar Arosenius
1878
Michel Bampély
1974
Max Slevogt
1868
André Theuriet
1833
Giulio Monteverde
1837
Kitty Lange Kielland
1843
José Cadalso
1741
Fritz Bleyl
1880
Ewa Lipska
1945
Cornelis Troost
1696
Julia Navarro
1953
Pieter Gerardus van Os
1776
Ferdinand Humbert
1842
William Blair Bruce
1859
Cécile Tormay
1876
Tahmima Anam
1975
Philipp von Zesen
1619
Manuel García Ferré
1929
Jacques Auguste de Thou
1553
Nikolaus Becker
1809
Eeltsje Hiddes Halbertsma
1797
Yoshii Isamu
1886
Peter Swan
1936
Jakob Arjouni
1964
Teresa Pàmies i Bertran
1919
Louise Hay
1926
Paul Van Hoeydonck
1925
Julien Duvivier
1896
Zahari Zograf
1810
Benito Jerónimo Feijoo
1677
Abul Hasan Qutb Shah
1600
Chen Duxiu
1879
Sophie Bawr
1773
Terry Hayes
1951
Hippolyte Boulenger
1837
Tōru Takemitsu
1930
Thirunalloor Karunakaran
1924
John Hay
1838
Michel Baron
1653
Gavin Friday
1959
Marcelle Tinayre
1870
Alison Cockburn
1712
Martha Dodd
1908
Miquel Blay i Fàbregas
1866
Harvey Pekar
1939
Edgar Saltus
1855
Andrei Sinyavsky
1925
Pablo Palazuelo
1915
Died
(60)
Filippo Lippi
1469
Premchand
1936
Henry Fielding
1754
Maria Konopnicka
1910
Vittorio Alfieri
1803
Jean Giono
1970
Gabriel Marcel
1973
Felix Salten
1945
Remedios Varo
1963
Burt Young
2023
Théodore Chassériau
1856
Konstantinos Tsatsos
1987
Jacek Malczewski
1929
Jacques Derrida
2004
Jan Matsys
1575
Naftali Herz Imber
1909
Mary Beale
1699
Ricardo Güiraldes
1927
Mary Webb
1927
Marie-Guillemine Benoist
1826
Vítězslav Hálek
1874
George du Maurier
1896
Riccardo Bacchelli
1985
Ishikawa Goemon
1594
Louise Rayner
1924
Zośka Vieras
1991
Abraham Lambertsz van den Tempel
1672
Adriana Johanna Haanen
1895
Gustave De Smet
1943
Bruno Latour
2022
Elizabeth Nourse
1938
Konstantinos Andreou
2007
Isabella Bird
1904
E. Phillips Fox
1915
Magnus Brostrup Landstad
1880
Gu Cheng
1993
Adelaide Crapsey
1914
Gidget Gein
2008
Joaquín Francisco Pacheco y Gutiérrez-Calderón
1865
Miftahetdin Akmulla
1895
Mignon G. Eberhart
1996
Aleksandra Antonova
2014
Janus Dousa
1604
Julius Mařák
1899
Johann Jakob von Tschudi
1889
Ahmet Tevfik Okday
1936
Filippo Abbiati
1715
Eugène Demolder
1919
Claus de Werve
1439
Zhang Chongren
1998
Ran Bosilek
1958
Mikey Welsh
2011
Sergey Klychkov
1937
Wendell Willkie
1944
Johann Hermann
1800
Kanae Yamamoto
1946
Ostap Lutskyi
1941
Arvo Turtiainen
1980
Juan José Arévalo
1990
Saturnino Herrán Guinchard
1918
Works published or unveiled
(10)
Spartacus
1960
1492 – Conquest of Paradise
1992
Autumn Sonata
1978
Matilda
2017
Beloved
1998
2 States: The Story of My Marriage
2009
The Republic of Thieves
2013
Direct Action
2009
Hate Inc.
2019
Ninth House
2019