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Born
(60)
Ivan Turgenev
1818
Francis Bacon
1909
Evelyn Waugh
1903
Erasmus
1466
Velimir Khlebnikov
1885
Ľudovít Štúr
1815
Ramón María del Valle-Inclán
1866
Jean-Marie Guyau
1854
James Connolly
1868
Mark Haddon
1962
Giulio Angioni
1939
Anne Perry
1938
Ahmet Kaya
1957
Lola Anglada
1892
Ayi Kwei Armah
1939
Anna Elizabeth Klumpke
1856
Park Kyung-ni
1926
Kārlis Zāle
1888
Peter Hitchens
1951
Uwe Tellkamp
1968
Franco Migliacci
1930
Grigol Robakidze
1882
Henry III
1016
Ayad Akhtar
1970
Auguste Escoffier
1846
Joe R. Lansdale
1951
Sister Nivedita
1867
Bartholomeus van Hove
1790
William Hodges
1744
Albert Maltz
1908
Adrien Decourcelle
1821
L. Birge Harrison
1854
Jane Alexander
1939
Ary Renan
1857
Moses Jacob Ezekiel
1844
Johannes Daniel Falk
1768
Carolina Benedicks-Bruce
1856
Ian Hamilton Finlay
1925
Maurice de Saxe
1696
Johann Georg Meyer
1813
John Hollander
1929
Cirilo Villaverde
1812
William Simpson
1823
Shmerke Kaczerginsky
1908
David Foenkinos
1974
Horst Antes
1936
Albert Dubois-Pillet
1846
Ali Shogentsukov
1900
Quatremère de Quincy
1755
Andy Richter
1966
Jones Very
1813
Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi
1928
Ján Chalupka
1791
Imre Csáky
1672
Bertha Müller
1848
Homer Dodge Martin
1836
Charlotte Posenenske
1930
Sebastià Juan Arbó
1902
Frédéric Martel
1967
Malwida Freiin von Meysenbug
1816
Died
(60)
John Locke
1704
Charlotte Turner Smith
1806
Korney Chukovsky
1969
Ted Hughes
1998
Taha Hussein
1973
Konstantinos Dimitriadis
1943
Rafael Alberti
1999
Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi
1921
Alphonse Allais
1905
André Masson
1987
Yacine Kateb
1989
Matthew Perry
2023
Abigail Adams
1818
Johann Karl August Musäus
1787
William Dobson
1646
Friedrich Max Müller
1900
John Braine
1986
Maria Clara Eimmart
1707
Suzanne Osten
2024
Charles Despiau
1946
Hendrick Cornelisz. van Vliet
1675
Jean Desmarets
1676
Agustín Moreto y Cavana
1669
Sándor Kisfaludy
1844
Shrilal Shukla
2011
Patrice de La Tour du Pin
1975
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
2013
Majit Gafuri
1934
Friedrich von Hagedorn
1754
Vasily Kapnist
1823
David Jones
1974
Nedîm
1730
Jiří Gruša
2011
Philippe de Commines
1511
Karl Goedeke
1887
Julia Kavanagh
1877
Sergio Tofano
1973
Galway Kinnell
2014
James Goldman
1998
Naghach Hovnatan
1722
Jean Benner
1906
Gigo Gabashvili
1936
Gilbert Emery
1945
Giovacchino Forzano
1970
Johann Peter Krafft
1856
Dina Cocea
2008
Paul Gasq
1944
Lajos Nagy
1954
Zenobia Camprubí
1956
Gil Mellé
2004
Jien
1225
Pietro Annigoni
1988
Antony Deschamps
1869
Milovan Vidaković
1841
Dimitry of Rostov
1709
Hermann Ungar
1929
Annada Shankar Ray
2002
Manuel Orazi
1934
Giuseppe Bisi
1869
Josaphat-Robert Large
2017
Works published or unveiled
(8)
Gulliver's Travels
1726
Tenebrae
1982
The Twelve Chairs
1970
Bloodlands
2010
The Slow Regard of Silent Things
2014
Free (Ypi book)
2021
Gema Bumantara
2025
Cremonini Live: Stadi 2022 + Imola
2022