Culture
2,362 people, sorted by fame.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique IngresAugust 29, 1780 – January 14, 1867 · Culture
Thomas MoreFebruary 7, 1478 – July 6, 1535 · Culture
Toni MorrisonFebruary 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019 · Culture
Maurice MaeterlinckAugust 29, 1862 – May 6, 1949 · Culture
Antoni GaudíJune 25, 1852 – June 10, 1926 · Culture
Mario Vargas LlosaMarch 28, 1936 – April 13, 2025 · Culture
Mary WollstonecraftApril 27, 1759 – September 10, 1797 · Culture
Alice MunroJuly 10, 1931 – May 13, 2024 · Culture
Michel FoucaultOctober 15, 1926 – June 25, 1984 · Culture
Antonio GramsciJanuary 22, 1891 – April 27, 1937 · Culture
Herta MüllerAugust 17, 1953 – present · Culture
Zhu XiOctober 18, 1130 – April 23, 1200 · Culture
Ayn RandFebruary 2, 1905 – March 6, 1982 · Culture
Bjørnstjerne BjørnsonDecember 8, 1832 – April 26, 1910 · Culture
Elfriede JelinekOctober 20, 1946 – present · Culture
Emma GoldmanJune 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940 · Culture
Hannah ArendtOctober 14, 1906 – December 4, 1975 · Culture
Pliny the ElderAD 20s – AD 79 · Culture
Theodor MommsenNovember 30, 1817 – November 1, 1903 · Culture
Émile DurkheimApril 15, 1858 – November 15, 1917 · Culture
Gabriela MistralApril 7, 1889 – January 10, 1957 · Culture
Ivan BuninOctober 22, 1870 – November 8, 1953 · Culture
Joseph BrodskyMay 24, 1940 – January 28, 1996 · Culture
Nadine GordimerNovember 20, 1923 – July 13, 2014 · Culture
Yasunari KawabataJune 11, 1899 – April 16, 1972 · Culture
Edmund BurkeJanuary 12, 1729 – July 9, 1797 · Culture
Frédéric MistralSeptember 8, 1830 – March 25, 1914 · Culture
Lucretius94 BC – October 15, 55 BC · Culture
William JamesJanuary 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910 · Culture
Czesław MiłoszJune 30, 1911 – August 14, 2004 · Culture
Gerhart HauptmannNovember 15, 1862 – June 6, 1946 · Culture
Giosuè CarducciJuly 27, 1835 – February 16, 1907 · Culture
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeOctober 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834 · Culture
Sully PrudhommeMarch 16, 1839 – September 7, 1907 · Culture
Alexander PopeMay 21, 1688 – May 30, 1744 · Culture
Diogenes of Sinopecirca 400 BC – circa 323 BC · Culture
John GalsworthyAugust 14, 1867 – January 31, 1933 · Culture
Nagarjunacirca AD 150 – circa AD 250 · Culture
Octavio PazMarch 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998 · Culture
Svetlana AlexievichMay 31, 1948 – present · Culture
Wisława SzymborskaJuly 2, 1923 – February 1, 2012 · Culture
Grazia DeleddaSeptember 27, 1871 – August 15, 1936 · Culture
Heinrich BöllDecember 21, 1917 – July 16, 1985 · Culture
Ivo AndrićOctober 10, 1892 – March 13, 1975 · Culture
Kuan Yew LeeSeptember 16, 1923 – March 23, 2015 · Culture
Saul BellowJune 10, 1915 – April 5, 2005 · Culture
Sinclair LewisFebruary 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951 · Culture
William GoldingSeptember 19, 1911 – June 19, 1993 · Culture
François MauriacOctober 11, 1885 – September 1, 1970 · Culture
Kazuo IshiguroNovember 8, 1954 – present · Culture