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Born
(60)
Oscar Wilde
1854
Günter Grass
1927
Eugene O'Neill
1888
Arnold Böcklin
1827
Dino Buzzati
1906
Marc Levy
1961
Albrecht von Haller
1708
Pierre Puget
1620
Adolph Freiherr Knigge
1752
Kenneth Lonergan
1962
Otto Mueller
1874
Roger Vailland
1907
Emile Guillemin
1841
Armin T. Wegner
1886
Karl Kautsky
1854
Angela Lansbury
1925
Karl Ristikivi
1912
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki
1726
Wajdi Mouawad
1968
Frank Cadogan Cowper
1877
Vallathol Narayana Menon
1878
Prince Henri d'Orléans
1867
Sita Ram Goel
1921
Meg Rosoff
1956
Maik Yohansen
1895
Noah Webster
1758
Adolf Ziegler
1892
Lee Lawrie
1877
Bob Mould
1960
Christophe Maé
1975
Henri Vernes
1918
Dan Pagis
1930
Rembrandt Bugatti
1884
Karl Schorn
1803
Anna Waser
1678
Robert Ardrey
1908
Josip Jelačić
1801
Johann Heinrich von Dannecker
1758
Mary Daly
1928
Ray Johnson
1927
Suzanne Somers
1946
Ippolito Caffi
1809
Joan Manuel Gisbert
1949
Alice Oseman
1994
Robert Bringhurst
1946
Christian Stolte
1962
Ilya Lagutenko
1968
Helge Rode
1870
Klavdy Lebedev
1852
Edward Ardizzone
1900
Johan Ludwig Lund
1777
Andres Veiel
1959
Charles A. Platt
1861
Francis Bruguière
1879
Sona Akhundova-Garayeva
1898
Stig Blomberg
1901
Guadalupe Marín
1895
Wally Moes
1856
Femi Fani-Kayode
1960
Piergiorgio Colautti
1934
Died
(60)
Luca Signorelli
1523
Lucas Cranach the Elder
1553
Gaston Bachelard
1962
James A. Michener
1997
François de Malherbe
1628
Christian Krohg
1925
Flora Nwapa
1993
Andreas Vesalius
1564
Isaac van Ostade
1649
Farida of Egypt
1988
Johan Borgen
1979
Alfred Rosenberg
1946
Jakub Bart-Ćišinski
1909
Jan Wildens
1653
Ivan Nikitin
1861
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
1946
Rai San'yo
1832
Ralph Benatzky
1957
Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha
1730
Karel Hartmann
1944
Christian Matras
1988
Jacob van Swanenburgh
1638
Balys Sruoga
1947
Vladek Sheybal
1992
Paul Lacroix
1884
Raffaele Monti
1881
Jüri Arrak
2022
Thomas Harlan
2010
Robert Fergusson
1774
Walter Flex
1917
Eugène Lenepveu
1898
Auguste Toulmouche
1890
Miquel Costa y Llobera
1922
Théodore Barrière
1877
Louis Gallet
1898
Georg Bleibtreu
1892
Raimondo, Prince Montecuccoli
1680
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery
1679
Sergei Efron
1941
Joaquín Gutiérrez Mangel
2000
Aldo Capitini
1968
Horatio Spafford
1888
Suzuki Kiitsu
1858
Saint Gall
645
Dumile Feni
1991
Dagmar Normet
2008
Jean de Beaumetz
1396
Zeev Ben-Zvi
1952
Máire Mhac an tSaoi
2021
Abu al-Hasan al-Shushtari
1269
Cäsar Flaischlen
1920
Joseph Strutt
1802
M. Vasalis
1998
Paul-Louis Delance
1924
Sally von Kügelgen
1928
Hugh Latimer
1555
Ambrosius Francken I
1618
Emilio Pettoruti
1971
Adam Kennedy
1997
Julius Exter
1939
Works published or unveiled
(7)
Kill Bill: Volume 1
2003
Paper Towns
2008
Riddley Walker
1980
Memories of the Future
2006
Mirabile iubiri
2023
Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling
2007
Sarah Canary
1991