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Born
(60)
Arthur Rimbaud
1854
Elfriede Jelinek
1946
Viggo Mortensen
1958
Isabelle de Charrière
1740
Andrea della Robbia
1435
Báb
1819
Kamala Harris
1964
John Dewey
1859
Stéphane Hessel
1917
Empress Michiko
1934
Aelbert Cuyp
1620
Alphonse Allais
1854
Ted Chiang
1967
Art Buchwald
1925
Bálint Balassi
1554
Dan Fogler
1976
Danny Boyle
1956
Ango Sakaguchi
1906
Peter Lamborn Wilson
1945
Janko Drašković
1770
Frits Thaulow
1847
Thomas Hughes
1822
Mariam Aslamazian
1907
Monica Ali
1967
Mustai Karim
1919
Nellie McClung
1873
Otfried Preußler
1923
Magdalena Tulli
1955
Michelle Malkin
1970
Mario Luzi
1914
Adam Naruszewicz
1733
Daniel Owen
1836
Govardhanram Tripathi
1855
Suzanne Duchamp
1889
Christopher Caudwell
1907
Michel Carré
1821
Lynn Flewelling
1958
Robert Pinsky
1940
Watanabe Kazan
1793
Giovanni di Bernardo Rucellai
1475
Oskar Pastior
1927
Jorge Carlos Fonseca
1950
Johan Georg Schwartze
1814
Michael McClure
1932
Qaani
1808
Ferdinand Deppe
1795
Marija Ujević-Galetović
1933
Crockett Johnson
1906
Akif Pirinçci
1959
Marc Newson
1963
Hajime Kawakami
1879
Marnix Gijsen
1899
Janet Jagan
1920
Pieter Cornelisz van Slingelandt
1640
Simon de Vos
1603
Daniil Andreyev
1906
Manmohan Acharya
1967
Peter Crüger
1580
Park Wan-suh
1931
Paul Kingsnorth
1972
Died
(60)
Muammar Gaddafi
2011
Richard Francis Burton
1890
Herbert Hoover
1964
Jacopo della Quercia
1438
Naim Frashëri
1900
Hiba Abu Nada
2023
Lydia Maria Child
1880
Giuliano da Sangallo
1516
Fethullah Gülen
2024
Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz
1902
Burt Lancaster
1994
Eva Ibbotson
2010
Jacques Copeau
1949
James Anthony Froude
1894
Harald Slott-Møller
1937
Barent Fabritius
1673
Ivan Martinov
1833
Koča Popović
1992
Hendrick Dubbels
1707
Charles Dudley Warner
1900
Nikolay Przhevalsky
1888
James Randi
2020
Korczak Ziolkowski
1982
Musō Soseki
1351
Cornelis Floris II
1575
Hieronymus Cock
1570
Eugene V. Debs
1926
Dildar
1948
Mary Chase
1981
Marie-Catherine de Villedieu
1683
Anthony Hecht
2004
Claude Deruet
1660
Tanomura Chikuden
1835
Michael Dahl
1743
Pak Chiwŏn
1805
José Luzan
1785
Makhambet Otemisuly
1846
William FitzGerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster
1804
Jean-Michel Folon
2005
Dane Zajc
2005
Anthony Quayle
1989
Mathilde Alanic
1948
Tone Pavček
2011
Andjar Asmara
1961
João de Barros
1570
Anton Donchev
2022
Robert Benayoun
1996
Archibald Pitcairne
1713
Christabel Marshall
1960
Robert Katz
2010
Rajam Krishnan
2014
Jan Maszkowski
1865
Anthony de Francisci
1964
Charles-Antoine Cambon
1875
Félix de Azara
1821
Annot
1981
Paul Kurtz
2012
Daniele Ranzoni
1889
Dimitar Talev
1966
Slavko Vorkapić
1976
Works published or unveiled
(9)
A Fistful of Dollars
1964
Youth Without Youth
2007
Gates of Fire
1998
Logicomix
2008
The Doomsday Machine
1967
Time Jam: Valerian & Laureline
2007
What the Dog Saw
2009
This Book Loves You
2015
Gene Boy Came Home
2007