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Born
(60)
Arthur Miller
1915
Georg Büchner
1813
Miguel Delibes
1920
Robert Jordan
1948
Emanuel Geibel
1815
John Paul I
1912
Simon Vestdijk
1898
Nathanael West
1903
Cristofano Allori
1577
Mark Gatiss
1966
John Bowring
1792
Mikhail Naimy
1889
Elinor Glyn
1864
Childe Hassam
1859
Evel Knievel
1938
François-Édouard Picot
1786
Andrey Voronikhin
1759
Alan Garner
1934
Jodocus Hondius I
1563
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon
1760
Mak Dizdar
1917
Patrick Ness
1971
Adolphe-Félix Cals
1810
Pierre-Antoine Baudouin
1723
Montgomery Clift
1920
Ivan Drach
1936
Alfred Polgar
1873
André Gill
1840
Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Thiroux d'Arconville
1720
Yakiv Holovatsky
1814
Lalita Lajmi
1932
A. S. Neill
1883
Tarell Alvin McCraney
1980
Andrei Petrovich Ryabushkin
1861
Les Murray
1938
Dmitriy Ustinov
1908
Adam Michnik
1946
Kerry James Marshall
1955
Randall Munroe
1984
Leopold Kupelwieser
1796
Roderic O'Conor
1860
Hazem Al Beblawi
1936
Wiktor Gomulicki
1848
Jerry Siegel
1914
Yvor Winters
1900
George Mackay Brown
1921
Philippe Sands
1960
Nathan Field
1587
Irene di Spilimbergo
1538
Dan Franck
1952
Ștefana Velisar Teodoreanu
1897
Margo Jefferson
1947
Bruce Crane
1857
Dai Tielang
1930
Amalia of Cleves
1517
Paxton Whitehead
1937
Maciej Berbeka
1954
Vlada Urošević
1934
Marina Núñez del Prado
1908
László Darvasi
1962
Died
(60)
Nikolay Chernyshevsky
1889
Ingeborg Bachmann
1973
Philip Sidney
1586
Sylvia Kristel
2012
John Reed
1920
Palma il Giovane
1628
Natalia Goncharova
1962
May Ziadeh
1941
Elena Cazzulani
2005
Avetik Isahakyan
1957
Julia Ward Howe
1910
Albert Cohen
1981
Bernhard Kellermann
1951
Puyi
1967
Boniface II
532
Karl Kautsky
1938
Malak Hifni Nasif
1918
Frank Bernard Dicksee
1928
Raymond Aron
1983
Ninon de Lenclos
1705
Muhammad Yamin
1962
Hakim Said
1998
Lalon
1890
Carlo Michelstaedter
1910
Lucy Bacon
1932
Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini
1958
Roderich Menzel
1987
Kannadasan
1981
Julian May
2017
Adolf Hölzel
1934
Anders Bodelsen
2021
Ba Jin
2005
Antônio Parreiras
1937
Michał Bałucki
1901
Sara Troost
1803
Fujiwara no Nakamaro
764
Giuliano da Maiano
1490
Hélène van Zuylen
1947
George Colman the Younger
1836
Julius Kronberg
1921
Johann Ludwig Aberli
1786
Emilian Bukov
1984
Kurd Lasswitz
1910
Hermann Vogel
1918
Masaru Emoto
2014
Gillis Coignet
1599
Sarah Winnemucca
1891
David Edelstadt
1892
Jean Améry
1978
Zenon Przesmycki
1944
Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal
1907
Joachim Nielsen
2000
Maria Olga de Moraes Sarmento da Silveira
1948
Victor Segoffin
1925
Younoussi Touré
2022
Bernhard von Beskow
1868
Vicente Barrantes
1898
Lisa Wenger
1941
Joey Bishop
2007
Cornelis de Jode
1600
Works published or unveiled
(9)
Around the World in 80 Days
1956
'Salem's Lot
1975
The Color of Money
1986
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
1960
The Devil's Eye
1960
Liar's Poker
1989
Supernova 5: Gelombang
2014
Les proverbes moraux
1405
Sambalpuri Weavers
2017