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Born
(60)
José Saramago
1922
Chinua Achebe
1930
Alexander Blok
1880
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
1717
Beatriz González
1932
Karel Hynek Mácha
1810
Guo Moruo
1892
Michio Mado
1909
Ibn al-Khatib
1313
Jónas Hallgrímsson
1807
George S. Kaufman
1889
Anne Holt
1958
Christos Kapralos
1909
Thomas Schütte
1954
Léon Daudet
1867
Étienne Pivert de Senancour
1770
Robin McKinley
1952
Hugo Lederer
1871
Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi
1894
Ajit Cour
1934
Burgess Meredith
1907
Paula Vogel
1951
Yikuang, Prince Qing
1838
François-Joseph Navez
1787
Dennis Kelly
1970
Andrei Mureșanu
1816
Alexander Chavchavadze
1786
Peter Andreas Heiberg
1758
Joan Lindsay
1896
Henri Bosco
1888
Marc Camoletti
1923
Jan Bucquoy
1945
Louise Jopling
1843
Alexander Opekushin
1838
Henri Charrière
1906
Arvid Järnefelt
1861
Tor Åge Bringsværd
1939
Michael Arlen
1895
Akbar Allahabadi
1846
Tahir Shah
1966
Henry Cros
1840
Gavriil Troyepolsky
1905
Louis-Honoré Fréchette
1839
William Kent Krueger
1950
Karol Kuzmány
1806
Lasha Bugadze
1977
Terence McKenna
1946
Henry de Groux
1866
Hisashi Inoue
1934
William De Morgan
1839
Francis Danby
1793
Şeşpĕl Mišši
1899
Petronella Moens
1762
Andrea Barrett
1954
John Bright
1811
André Abbal
1876
Maurice Bouchor
1855
Norman Gimbel
1927
Tom Frantzen
1954
Mykhailo Parashchuk
1878
Died
(60)
Ibn Arabi
1240
Sofonisba Anguissola
1625
Charles Maurras
1952
A. S. Byatt
2023
William Goldman
2018
Carl von Clausewitz
1831
Mirza Shafi Vazeh
1852
Vincas Kudirka
1899
Đura Jakšić
1878
Ahmet Kaya
2000
Dora Gabe
1983
Fran Levstik
1887
Dominikus Zimmermann
1766
Godfried Schalcken
1706
Camillo Sitte
1903
Louis Riel
1885
Alan Watts
1973
Pierre-Louis Ginguené
1816
Louis Desprez
1870
Nicolas Joseph Laurent Gilbert
1780
Albert Engström
1940
Sezai Karakoç
2021
Isidor Kaufmann
1921
Katarina Zrinska
1673
Mohammad Ibrahim Zauq
1854
Samuel Hopkins Adams
1958
Anton Dominik Fernkorn
1878
Karel Klíč
1926
Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos
1925
Jacques d'Agar
1715
Gabriele Reuter
1941
Eugen Bracht
1921
Leopold Horovitz
1917
Bernard-Joseph Saurin
1781
Esaias Boursse
1672
Pierre Charron
1603
Zbyněk Hejda
2013
Josef Kainar
1971
Adolf Böttger
1870
Kaarlo Sarkia
1945
Charles Gordone
1995
Jovan Ćirilov
2014
Georges de Peyrebrune
1917
J. H. Erkko
1906
Enevold De Falsen
1808
Amalie Bensinger
1889
Emma Ciardi
1933
Giacomo del Pò
1726
Yvonne Keuls
2025
Margaret Lesley Bush-Brown
1944
Carlo Dossi
1910
Marcellin Marbot
1854
John Joseph Enneking
1916
Edna Clarke Hall
1979
Theodore Poulakis
1692
Pablo Amaringo
2009
Albijn Van den Abeele
1918
Lucien Daudet
1946
Georg Tappert
1957
Reinhard Sebastian Zimmermann
1893
Works published or unveiled
(4)
Alexander
2004
Mortal Engines Quartet
2001
Wonder
2017
À Nos Amours
1983