August 16
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Art and culture
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Births
- 1557 - Agostino Carracci, Italian artist (d. 1602)
- 1645 – Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (d. 1696)
- 1880 - Edith Maude Hull, British writer (The Sheik) (d. 1947)
- 1860 - Jules Laforgue, French poet (d. 1887)
- 1884 - Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born science fiction publisher (d. 1967)
- 1888 - T. E. Lawrence, English writer and soldier (d. 1935)
- 1920 - Charles Bukowski, American poet (d. 1994)
- 1942 - Les Krims, United States photographer
- 1944 - Kevin Ayers, English music maker (d. 2013)
- 1954 - James Cameron, Canadian film director
- 1958 - Madonna, American singer and actress
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Deaths
- 1721 - Menantes, German author (b. 1680)
- 1893 - Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist (Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital) (b. 1825)
- 1916 - Umberto Boccioni, Italian futurist painter and sculptor (b. 1882)
- 1927 - Johannes Theodor Baargeld, German dada artist (b. 1892)
- 1956 - Bela Lugosi, Hungarian actor (b. 1882)
- 1972 - Pierre Brasseur, French actor (Eyes Without a Face) (b. 1905)
- 1977 - Elvis Presley, American singer and actor (b. 1935)
- 1997 - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician (b. 1948)
- 2004 - Acquanetta, United States actress (b. 1921)
- 2007 - Max Roach, American percussionist, drummer, and composer (b. 1924)
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