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Born
(60)
John le Carré
1931
Miguel Ángel Asturias
1899
Philip Pullman
1946
Umberto Boccioni
1882
Marsilio Ficino
1433
John Adams
1735
John Lithgow
1945
Vinícius de Moraes
1913
Leigh Hunt
1784
Pierre Alechinsky
1927
Tracy Chevalier
1962
Jacqueline Marval
1866
Dimitris Lyacos
1966
Russell Kirk
1918
Antonio Corradini
1688
Gunnar Staalesen
1947
Joanni Maurice Perronnet
1877
Tom Taylor
1817
Alexander Galich
1918
Lewis Mumford
1895
Eugenió Montejo
1938
Francisque Joseph Duret
1804
Oscar Gustave Rejlander
1813
Thomas Browne
1605
Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius
1882
Jon Favreau
1966
Merle Jääger
1965
Theodoros Vryzakis
1814
Qaysin Quli
1917
Vincent Macaigne
1978
George Nader
1921
Andrew Vachss
1942
Angus Deaton
1945
Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy
1764
Lajos Tihanyi
1885
Jonathan Haidt
1963
Renata Adler
1938
Charles Robert Leslie
1794
Bram van Velde
1895
Amanda Jones
1835
Carlos de la Mota
1976
Agnès Jaoui
1964
Yakubu Gowon
1934
Adam Lindsay Gordon
1833
Louis-Nicolas Ménard
1822
Monika Herceg
1990
Peter Max
1937
Shanta Shelke
1922
Andreas Munch
1811
Charles Henri Joseph Cordier
1827
William Cheselden
1688
Keith Reid
1946
Evgenia Antipova
1917
Antanas Žmuidzinavičius
1876
John of Kronstadt
1829
Borisav Jović
1928
Emil Carlsen
1848
Binalakshmi Nepram
1974
Ekaterina Gordon
1980
Nurit Zarchi
1941
Died
(60)
Jonathan Swift
1745
Lu Xun
1936
Camille Claudel
1943
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1950
Nathalie Sarraute
1999
Godfrey Kneller
1723
Petar II Petrović-Njegoš
1851
Henri Michaux
1984
Mihail Sadoveanu
1961
Jan Wolkers
2007
Bonifazio Veronese
1553
Ludvig Karsten
1926
Samuel van Hoogstraten
1678
Christian Wilhelm Allers
1915
Alija Izetbegović
2003
Cesare Lombroso
1909
Mercy Otis Warren
1814
Oda Krohg
1935
Robert Hugh Benson
1914
N. C. Wyeth
1945
Marie-Thérèse Walter
1977
Ignazio Danti
1586
Thomas Browne
1682
Raphaël Collin
1916
Enzo Mari
2020
Leslie Bricusse
2021
Dymphna Cusack
1981
Unica Zürn
1970
Domenico Fiasella
1669
Carel Willink
1983
Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland
1639
Hatcher Hughes
1945
Georgi Vladimov
2003
Carl Grossberg
1940
Lucy Stone
1893
Huang Yong Ping
2019
Antoine Abel
2004
Boris Zhitkov
1938
Anatol Stern
1968
Agostino Masucci
1758
André Antoine
1943
Harold Frederic
1898
Johannes Josephus Aarts
1934
Manuel António Pina
2012
Hanna Winsnes
1872
José Rodrigues
1887
Eleanor Norcross
1923
Max Oppenheimer
1954
Sona Akhundova-Garayeva
1971
Edward Willis Redfield
1965
Dina Merhav
2022
Henry Kirke White
1806
Giovanni Maria Cecchi
1587
Giovanni Do
1656
Stanisław Lentz
1920
Lasse Berghagen
2023
Penelope Mortimer
1999
Leopoldo Metlicovitz
1944
Adolphe Roehn
1867
Hanka Krawcec
1990
Works published or unveiled
(5)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
A Scene at the Sea
1991
The Book of Dust
2017
Valley of Tears
2020
Vital Voices
2020