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Vincent van Gogh1 candle burning

Vincent van Gogh

1853 – 1890

The Buddha1 candle burning

The Buddha

-563 – -483

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

1452 – 1519

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo

1907 – 1954

Karl Marx

Karl Marx

1818 – 1883

Aristotle

Aristotle

-384 – -322

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

1564 – 1616

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

1890 – 1976

Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

1883 – 1924

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

1899 – 1961

Michelangelo

Michelangelo

1475 – 1564

J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

1892 – 1973

Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

1828 – 1910

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

1854 – 1900

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens

1812 – 1870

Anne Frank

Anne Frank

1929 – 1945

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

1802 – 1885

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

1844 – 1900

Jane Austen

Jane Austen

1775 – 1817

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

1809 – 1849

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

1927 – 2014

Homer

Homer

-900 – -800

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

1821 – 1881

Helen Keller

Helen Keller

1880 – 1968

Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen

1805 – 1875

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

1928 – 1987

Augustine of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo

354 – 430

Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Pushkin

1799 – 1837

B. R. Ambedkar

B. R. Ambedkar

1891 – 1956

Stan Lee

Stan Lee

1922 – 2018

Chuck Norris

Chuck Norris

1940 – 2026

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

1547 – 1616

Hermann Hesse

Hermann Hesse

1877 – 1962

Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels

1820 – 1895

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1918 – 2008

H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells

1866 – 1946

Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann

1875 – 1955

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry1 candle burning

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

1900 – 1944

Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

1821 – 1867

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

1931 – 2019

Diego Velázquez

Diego Velázquez

1599 – 1660

Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock

1912 – 1956

Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa

1936 – 2025

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

1898 – 1956

Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley

1797 – 1851

Federico García Lorca

Federico García Lorca

1898 – 1936

Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol

1809 – 1852

Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud

1854 – 1891

Emily Brontë

Emily Brontë

1818 – 1848

Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand

1905 – 1982

Ian Fleming

Ian Fleming

1908 – 1964

Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz

1911 – 2006

Yukio Mishima

Yukio Mishima

1925 – 1970

Thucydides

Thucydides

-460 – -395

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso

1881 – 1973

Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë

1816 – 1855

Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot

1713 – 1784

Mikhail Lermontov

Mikhail Lermontov

1814 – 1841

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

1857 – 1924

Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams

1952 – 2001

Lu Xun

Lu Xun

1881 – 1936

William James

William James

1842 – 1910

Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera

1929 – 2023

George Sand

George Sand

1804 – 1876

Titian

Titian

1490 – 1576

Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Bulgakov

1891 – 1940

Czesław Miłosz

Czesław Miłosz

1911 – 2004

René Magritte

René Magritte

1898 – 1967

Jan Hus

Jan Hus

1370 – 1415

Truman Capote

Truman Capote

1924 – 1984

Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell

1900 – 1949

Sergei Yesenin

Sergei Yesenin

1895 – 1925

Lope de Vega

Lope de Vega

1562 – 1635

Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno

1903 – 1969

Karel Čapek

Karel Čapek

1890 – 1938

Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain

1956 – 2018

Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

1939 – 2013

Grazia Deledda

Grazia Deledda

1871 – 1936

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

1904 – 1991

Marina Tsvetaeva

Marina Tsvetaeva

1892 – 1941

Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy

1933 – 2023

Alphonse Mucha

Alphonse Mucha

1860 – 1939

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

1892 – 1927

Alexander Blok

Alexander Blok

1880 – 1921

John le Carré

John le Carré

1931 – 2020

Herbert Marcuse

Herbert Marcuse

1898 – 1979

Georges Braque

Georges Braque

1882 – 1963

Hugo Grotius

Hugo Grotius

1583 – 1645

Colette

Colette

1873 – 1954

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat

1960 – 1988

Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal

1925 – 2012

Lesya Ukrainka

Lesya Ukrainka

1871 – 1913

Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

1860 – 1904

Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein

1874 – 1946

Gottlob Frege

Gottlob Frege

1848 – 1925

Snorri Sturluson

Snorri Sturluson

1179 – 1241

Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson

1572 – 1637

Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard

1943 – 2017

Michael Ende

Michael Ende

1929 – 1995

Bruce Lee1 candle burning

Bruce Lee

1940 – 1973