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Born
(60)
Martin Scorsese
1942
Bronzino
1503
Christopher Paolini
1983
Joost van den Vondel
1587
Germaine Dulac
1882
Julian
331
Gordon Lightfoot
1938
Rachel de Queiroz
1910
Rem Koolhaas
1944
Voltairine de Cleyre
1866
Pierre Mignard I
1612
Isamu Noguchi
1904
Petko Slaveykov
1827
Arman
1928
Rebecca Walker
1969
Eva Bonnier
1857
Danny DeVito
1944
Frans Post
1612
Mihály Csokonai Vitéz
1773
Bernard Montgomery
1887
Peter Cook
1937
Lola Mora
1866
Benedetto Luti
1666
Sophie Marceau
1966
Zanobi Strozzi
1412
Roger Vitrac
1899
Manuel Antônio de Almeida
1831
Becky Albertalli
1982
Curt Goetz
1888
François-Louis Français
1814
Elena Fortún
1886
Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj
1906
Dahlia Ravikovitch
1936
Jack Vettriano
1951
Dragoslav Mihailović
1930
Nöel-Nicolas Coypel
1690
Shelby Foote
1916
Crane Wilbur
1886
Charles Lock Eastlake
1793
Marianna Kiyanovska
1973
Qi Jiguang
1528
Klemens Janicki
1516
Eliza Farnham
1815
Olivier Clément
1921
Janko Polić Kamov
1886
Charlotte Wahlström
1849
Anatoly Dneprov
1919
Adam Ważyk
1905
Giovanni Battista Balbis
1765
Sofia Andrukhovych
1982
Julia Nyberg
1785
Albert Bertelsen
1921
Mato Celestin Medović
1857
Mario Soldati
1906
Natalia Toledo
1967
Sigurd Christiansen
1891
Luis Rafael Sánchez
1936
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart
1899
Esther Nirina
1932
Ellis Kaut
1920
Died
(60)
Auguste Rodin
1917
Doris Lessing
2013
Bernardo Bellotto
1780
Audre Lorde
1992
Jakob Wimpfeling
1528
Alain-René Lesage
1747
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
1494
Nikolay Dobrolyubov
1861
Ricarda Huch
1947
Mirra Alfassa
1973
Mervyn Peake
1968
Bal Thackeray
2012
Dora d'Istria
1888
Eric Gill
1940
Tullio Lombardo
1532
Joachim Ringelnatz
1934
Robert Owen
1858
Annibale Caro
1566
Jakob Böhme
1624
Andrejs Upīts
1970
Frank Cadogan Cowper
1958
Edwin Lord Weeks
1903
Ivan Kuratov
1875
William Blair Bruce
1906
Nabil Kanso
2019
Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda
1573
Ramsay Richard Reinagle
1862
Eileen Agar
1991
Immanuel Velikovsky
1979
Guy Rose
1925
John Mandeville
1372
Abba Eban
2002
James Ward
1859
Leopold Kupelwieser
1862
Gustave Crauck
1905
Guy Peellaert
2008
Gertrude the Great
1302
Jimmie Durham
2021
John Varley
1842
Edmond Haraucourt
1941
Margaret Yorke
2012
Maria Margaretha van Os
1862
Kristofer Janson
1917
Victor Serge
1947
Edward Simmons
1931
Agustín Ibarrola
2023
Haraprasad Shastri
1931
Lala Lajpat Rai
1928
Jan van Beers
1927
Bo Bergman
1967
Raffaellino del Colle
1566
Albert Bettannier
1932
Magdaléna Štrompachová
1988
Ebrahim Pourdavoud
1968
Gabriele Faerno
1561
Constant Roux
1942
Michał Grabowski
1863
Hanns Katz
1940
Manolo Hugué
1945
Joaquim Machado de Castro
1822
Works published or unveiled
(5)
Sleepy Hollow
1999
Happy Feet
2006
Cindai
1997
Tear Along the Dotted Line
2021
The Bead Collector
2018