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Born
(60)
Aleister Crowley
1875
Eugenio Montale
1896
Pedro I of Brazil
1798
Richard Meier
1934
Ralph Vaughan Williams
1872
Ding Ling
1904
Henryk Siemiradzki
1843
Paula von Preradović
1887
Edward VI of England
1537
Charles Maurice Donnay
1859
Louis Hémon
1880
Alma Karlin
1889
Donna Williams
1963
Marina Lewycka
1946
Kamini Roy
1864
Edith Stein
1891
Rolan Bykov
1929
Abolqasem Lahouti
1887
Oğuz Atay
1934
Richard Price
1949
Infanta Amalia of Spain
1834
Carolee Schneemann
1939
Martin van Maële
1863
Chen Shui-bian
1950
Abraham van Calraet
1642
Konstantin Yuon
1875
Dan Abnett
1965
Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani
1939
Cosimo Fanzago
1591
Nísia Floresta
1810
NoViolet Bulawayo
1981
Ilya Selvinsky
1899
Soji Shimada
1948
Berthe Hoola van Nooten
1817
Max Kurzweil
1867
Serge Venturini
1955
Nida Fazli
1938
Iskandar Khatloni
1954
Theodore Earl Butler
1861
Lajos Parti Nagy
1953
Charles Paul Landon
1761
Jean-Charles Nicaise Perrin
1754
Félix María de Samaniego
1745
Al Held
1928
Curnonsky
1872
George Washington Cable
1844
Robert Mangold
1937
Oscar Wergeland
1844
Fernando Sabino
1923
Frances Dana Barker Gage
1808
Shaken Niyazbekov
1938
James Crumley
1939
Diana Abgar
1859
Charles Gordone
1925
Dionisio Ridruejo
1912
Hermann Anschütz
1802
Amin-Salim Jarjora
1886
Sulaiman Layeq
1930
Charles-Pierre Colardeau
1732
Gösta Knutsson
1908
Died
(60)
Anatole France
1924
Piero della Francesca
1492
Utagawa Hiroshige
1858
John Denver
1997
Dennis M. Ritchie
2011
Edwin Abbott Abbott
1926
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
1875
Carel Fabritius
1654
Dinah Craik
1887
Robert Herrick
1674
Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands
1837
Orest Kiprensky
1836
Oscar Hijuelos
2013
Honorius I
638
Kanō Eitoku
1590
Cecil Frances Alexander
1895
Ahmad Javad
1937
Pieter Codde
1678
Peter Wessel Zapffe
1990
Maria Valtorta
1961
Ruth Manning-Sanders
1988
Anna Louisa Karsch
1791
Márta Pán
2008
Giuseppe Adami
1946
Juan de Arellano
1676
Edith Cavell
1915
Serge Poliakoff
1969
Mercedes Cabello
1909
Claude Tillier
1844
Willem Schellinks
1678
Alfred Kerr
1948
Prince Oleg Konstantinovich of Russia
1914
Jalal al-Din Davani
1502
Yehoshua Kenaz
2020
Hu Bo
2017
Jan Zrzavý
1977
John Brahm
1982
Louis Dupré
1837
Gendun Chopel
1951
Ayako Miura
1999
Lonny Chapman
2007
Pierre Matthieu
1621
Mary Pinchot Meyer
1964
Pat Frank
1964
Belva Plain
2010
Josiah Gilbert Holland
1881
Matteo Civitali
1501
Jeanne-Philiberte Ledoux
1840
Liv Køltzow
2025
Paul Weber
1916
Elizabeth Fry
1845
Lilian Snelling
1972
Antonio Muñoz Degrain
1924
Samuel Scott
1772
Alberto Sanchez
1962
Bridget Bate Tichenor
1990
Natela Iankoshvili
2008
Ulisse Caputo
1948
Ali Mazrui
2014
Stefan Knapp
1996
Works published or unveiled
(4)
Twitches Too
2007
Trout Fishing in America
1967
Great House
2010
The Colors of Infamy
1999