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Born
(60)
Ivo Andrić
1892
Harold Pinter
1930
Mercè Rodoreda
1908
R. K. Narayan
1906
Claude Simon
1913
Selim I
1470
Giuseppe Verdi
1813
Jean-Antoine Watteau
1684
Alberto Giacometti
1901
Aleksis Kivi
1834
Lin Yutang
1895
Ken Saro-Wiwa
1941
Nora Roberts
1950
Ed Wood
1924
James Clavell
1921
Jonathan Littell
1967
Han van Meegeren
1889
Fridtjof Nansen
1861
Benjamin West
1738
Radu Vasile
1942
Richard de Fournival
1201
Prince Charles, Count of Flanders
1903
Nicolas de Largillière
1656
Thomas Traherne
1636
Joan Maragall
1860
Johannes Lingelbach
1622
Nikolai Klyuev
1884
Léon Comerre
1850
Gavin Newsom
1967
Akiyuki Nosaka
1930
Chris Ofili
1968
Vernon Duke
1903
K. Shivaram Karanth
1902
Maurice Prendergast
1858
Amanda Filipacchi
1967
János Garay
1812
Rebecca Pidgeon
1965
Christophe Madihano
1995
Alan Bradley
1938
Andrea Zanzotto
1921
Gloria Coates
1933
Kåre Holt
1916
Ludmilla Tchérina
1924
Lambert Sigisbert Adam
1700
Evgeny Kissin
1971
Judith Mason
1938
Francis Perrin
1947
Jane Winton
1905
Marylise Ben-Haim
1928
Ogata Gekkō
1859
Atena Pashko
1931
Frederic George Stephens
1827
Wojciech Siudmak
1942
Peter Coyote
1941
Anna Gardell-Ericson
1853
Ada Leverson
1862
Xiao San
1896
Dick Ket
1902
Juliane Koepcke
1954
Daniel Pearl
1963
Died
(60)
Orson Welles
1985
Husayn ibn Ali
680
Germanicus
19
Antoine Coysevox
1720
Marie Luise Kaschnitz
1974
Ludwig von Mises
1973
Charles Fourier
1837
Thomas Traherne
1674
Charlotte Salomon
1943
Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart
1791
Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine
1853
Willem Maris
1910
Bernardino Baldi
1617
Isaac de Benserade
1691
Yul Brynner
1985
Philippe Hériat
1971
Bernardino Poccetti
1612
Attilâ İlhan
2005
William H. Seward
1872
Nikifor Krynicki
1968
Giorgio da Sebenico
1473
Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert
1714
Kazimierz Brodziński
1835
Eila Hiltunen
2003
Julius Mosen
1867
Pierre Decourcelle
1926
Thomas Crawford
1857
Jac Ahrenberg
1914
Konrad Bayer
1964
Scott Carpenter
2013
Antonio di Benedetto
1986
Jean Effel
1982
François Barois
1726
Fleur Adcock
2024
Pentti Holappa
2017
Pavel Landovský
2014
Karl August Varnhagen von Ense
1858
Hans Heyerdahl
1913
Siegmund von Hausegger
1948
August Kitzberg
1927
Takamura Kōun
1934
Hermann Kurz
1873
Vicente López y Planes
1856
Eddie Cantor
1964
Gustave Loiseau
1935
Javad Nurbakhsh
2008
Theresa Concordia Mengs
1806
Syed Waliullah
1971
Uragami Gyokudō
1820
Venny Soldan-Brofeldt
1945
Lea Grundig
1977
Delhy Tejero
1968
Terézia Vansová
1942
Ahmet Refik Altınay
1937
Carla Porta Musa
2012
Terenti Graneli
1934
Richard Jeranian
2019
Astri Aasen
1935
Fanny Fern
1872
Georges Ferdinand Bigot
1927
Works published or unveiled
(10)
Hugo
2011
Atlas Shrugged
1957
Rise of the Guardians
2012
Turtles All the Way Down
2017
Postman Pat: The Movie
2014
The Woman in Black
1983
The Emperor's Soul
2012
La Panthère des neiges
2019
Atraksion
2001
Man with a Knapsack
1873