Nelson Algren, American writer, born in 1909.
Dominique Aury, French writer, born in 1907.
James Baldwin, American writer, born in 1924.
Sylvia Beach, American bookseller and publisher, born in 1887.
Simone de Beauvoir, French philosopher and writer, born in 1908.
Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, born in 1906. Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969.
Saul Bellow, American writer, born in 1915. Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976.
Sonia Brownell-Orwell, British translator and publisher, born in 1918.
Art Buchwald, American journalist, born in 1925. Pulitzer Prize in 1982.
Alexander Calder, American sculptor, born in 1898.
Albert Camus, French writer, born in 1913. Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.
Jean Cocteau, French poet, born in 1889.
Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter, born in 1926.
Janet Flanner, American Paris correspondent for the New Yorker, born in 1892.
Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor and painter, born in 1901.
Juliette Gréco, French muse and chanteuse, born in 1927.
Jacques Jaujard, French director of the Louvre during the Second World War, born in 1895.
Ernst Jünger, German writer, born in 1895.
Ellsworth Kelly, American painter, born in 1923.
Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-born British writer, born in 1905.
Norman Mailer, American writer, born in 1923. Pulitzer Prize in 1969 and 1980.
Jean Marais, French actor, born in 1913.
Adrienne Monnier, French bookseller and publisher, born in 1892.
Jean Paulhan, French publisher, born in 1884.
Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, born in 1881.
Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, playwright, and writer, born in 1905. Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964.
Irwin Shaw, American writer and screenwriter, born in 1913.
Simone Signoret, French actress, born in 1921.
Edith Thomas, French writer and archivist, born in 1909.
Boris Vian, French jazz musician and writer, born in 1920.
Theodore H. White, American journalist, born in 1915. Pulitzer Prize in 1962.
Richard Wright, American writer, born in 1908.