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Born
(60)
Zhu Xi
1130
Pius II
1405
Heinrich von Kleist
1777
Martina Navratilova
1956
Canaletto
1697
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
1741
Luca Giordano
1634
Thomas Love Peacock
1785
Henri Bergson
1859
Avetik Isahakyan
1875
Sergey Bezrukov
1973
Kir Bulychev
1934
Ntozake Shange
1948
Luca Cambiaso
1527
Pierre Trudeau
1919
Juan Valera
1824
Tibor Déry
1894
Terry McMillan
1951
Dun Karm Psaila
1871
Lady Mary Wroth
1587
Zakir Naik
1965
Lindsey Vonn
1984
Isabel Briggs Myers
1897
Nic Pizzolatto
1975
Surendranath Dasgupta
1887
Melina Mercouri
1920
Amish Tripathi
1974
Chantal Thomas
1945
Lucas van Uden
1595
Wendy Wasserstein
1950
James Robert Baker
1946
Thomas Phillips
1770
Elizabeth F. Ellet
1818
Mihail Sebastian
1907
Jean Passerat
1534
Justus Lipsius
1547
John Vanderlyn
1775
D. T. Suzuki
1870
Yi Ik
1681
Graham Moore
1981
Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel
1850
Milcho Manchevski
1959
Milo Yiannopoulos
1984
Friedrich Hollaender
1896
Vytautas Landsbergis
1932
Katherine Kurtz
1944
Barry Gifford
1946
Carl Röchling
1855
H. L. Davis
1894
Fannie Hurst
1889
Edmond Haraucourt
1856
Jozef Gregor-Tajovský
1874
Jan Erik Vold
1939
Charles Frederic Ulrich
1858
Ryan Nelsen
1977
Johannes Linnankoski
1869
Norberto Bobbio
1909
Alfonso Balzico
1825
David Twohy
1955
Charles Stross
1964
Died
(60)
Charles Babbage
1871
Mikhail Nesterov
1942
Jacob Jordaens
1678
Koloman Moser
1918
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
2003
José Ortega y Gasset
1955
Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen
1533
August Malmström
1901
Viswanatha Satyanarayana
1976
Uhwudong
1480
Máirtín Ó Cadhain
1970
Roy Jacobsen
2025
Gamal El-Ghitani
2015
Suze Robertson
1922
Simon Jenko
1869
Saint-Pol-Roux
1940
Crane Wilbur
1973
Anthonie Blocklandt van Montfoort
1583
Casimiro de Abreu
1860
Lluïsa Vidal
1918
Nancy Spero
2009
Gaston Lachaise
1935
Andrea Zanzotto
2011
Norman Corwin
2011
Virgilio Piñera
1979
Einar Jónsson
1954
Alexandre Dechet
1830
Lesser Ury
1931
Virginia Vezzi
1638
Pietro Liberi
1687
Alfredo Oriani
1909
Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough
1744
August Gaul
1921
John Callcott Horsley
1903
Abraham Willaerts
1669
Ravuri Bharadhwaja
2013
Dita Kraus
2025
Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim
1853
Lev Lvovich Tolstoy
1945
Jill Paton Walsh
2020
Alexei Korzukhin
1894
António José da Silva
1739
Claude Ollier
2014
Yoshiki Hayama
1945
Franc-Nohain
1934
Mohammad Farrokhi Yazdi
1939
Kanō Takanobu
1618
Ladislav Šaloun
1946
Rafael Sánchez Mazas
1966
Franz Schrader
1924
François Kinson
1839
Arcangela Paladini
1622
Daniel Adam z Veleslavína
1599
Marie Collart-Henrotin
1911
Gabriel Pereira de Castro
1632
Ignacio Pinazo Camarlench
1916
Cherubino Alberti
1615
Imdadullah Muhajir Makki
1899
Efua Dorkenoo
2014
Petar I Petrović-Njegoš
1830
Works published or unveiled
(11)
Moby-Dick
1851
Persona
1966
Schindler's Ark
1982
Looking for Alaska
2019
Marley & Me
2005
It Starts with Us
2022
A Closed and Common Orbit
2016
The Daily Stoic
2016
What If It's Us
2018
Friedrich III. Denkmal
1911
Red Country
2012