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Born
(60)
Gerhart Hauptmann
1862
Georgia O'Keeffe
1887
J. G. Ballard
1930
Lento Goffi
1923
Madeleine de Scudéry
1607
Konstantin Simonov
1915
Johann Kaspar Lavater
1741
Anna de Noailles
1876
Marianne Moore
1887
Wolf Biermann
1936
Liane Moriarty
1966
Văn Cao
1923
William Hope Hodgson
1877
Balthasar Denner
1685
Tina Blau
1845
Cornelis Pietersz Bega
1630
Theodore Roszak
1933
José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi
1776
Cao Mao
241
Yuli Daniel
1925
Dimitrios Golemis
1874
Lucien Rebatet
1903
Charlotte Mew
1869
Pehr Henrik Ling
1776
Aniello Falcone
1607
Gesualdo Bufalino
1920
Johannes Secundus
1511
Richmal Crompton
1890
Luke Rhinehart
1932
Wojciech Fangor
1922
Yelena Polenova
1850
Aleksey Apukhtin
1840
René Guénon
1886
Wayne Thiebaud
1920
Cecco Bravo
1601
Susana Fortes
1959
Bernard Mandeville
1670
Tibor Fischer
1959
Jacques Hébert
1757
Adolf Bartels
1862
Antoni Słonimski
1895
Joanna Barnes
1934
Jacques Davy Duperron
1556
Fosco Maraini
1912
Bjørn Bjørnson
1859
Hermann Ottomar Herzog
1832
Intan Paramaditha
1979
Raymond F. Jones
1915
Tilly Losch
1903
Jaroslava Blažková
1933
Isak Saba
1875
Simon Frug
1860
Miriam Schapiro
1923
Hitoshi Ashida
1887
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
1940
Tamiki Hara
1905
Clemens J. Setz
1982
Ivan Padalka
1894
Heathcote Williams
1941
Bill Richardson
1947
Died
(60)
Henryk Sienkiewicz
1916
Empress Dowager Cixi
1908
Margaret Mead
1978
Johannes Kepler
1630
Albertus Magnus
1280
Aelbert Cuyp
1691
Wilhelm Raabe
1910
Tsangyang Gyatso
1706
Meret Oppenheim
1985
Mohamed Choukri
2003
Muhammad Husayn Tabatabaei
1981
George Romney
1802
John Amos Comenius
1670
Edith Durham
1944
Annemarie Schwarzenbach
1942
Vasyl Krychevsky
1952
Jean Gabin
1976
Leslie Feinberg
2014
Soumitra Chatterjee
2020
Eero Järnefelt
1937
Frank Weston Benson
1951
Frank M. Chapman
1945
Kolyu Ficheto
1881
Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo
1795
Jean-Marie Adiaffi
1999
Ignacio Aldecoa
1969
Charles Chesnutt
1932
Jakub Schikaneder
1924
Andrzej Bursa
1957
Julius Exner
1910
Sei Ito
1969
Vinoba Bhave
1982
Grace Hartigan
2008
William Zorach
1966
Frans Krajcberg
2017
Gisèle Prassinos
2015
Mannu Bhandari
2021
Kunwar Narayan
2017
Mickey Knox
2013
Angèle Christiane Rawiri
2010
Kärim Tinçurin
1938
Maja Fjæstad
1961
Jens Jørgen Thorsen
2000
Ivan Southall
2008
Jorge de Lima
1953
Luis Muñoz Rivera
1916
Eduardo Víctor Haedo
1970
Daisaku Ikeda
2023
István Nemere
2024
Jean-Antoine Alavoine
1834
Josef Barák
1883
Eileen Kramer
2024
Nándor Wagner
1997
Giocondo Albertolli
1839
Ercole Patti
1976
Mahjoubi Aherdane
2020
František Ženíšek
1916
Agnes Repplier
1950
Eda Nemoede Casterton
1969
Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria
1888
Works published or unveiled
(10)
Beowulf
2007
Who's That Knocking at My Door
1967
Madame de Sade
1965
Expelled from Paradise
2014
The Winds of War
1971
Best Christmas Pageant Ever
2024
Pyrrhus and Cineas
1944
Sand
2011
Young Men and Fire
1993
Bagus
2002