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Contents 1 Art and culture 1.1 Film 1.2 Literature 1.3 Visual art 1.4 Music 1.4.1 Singles 1.4.2 Albums 2 Births 3 Deaths

Art and culture

Film

• Boogie Nights by Paul Thomas Anderson
• Funny Games by Michael Haneke
• The Postman by Kevin Costner
• Cube by Vincenzo Natali
• Conspirators of Pleasure by Jan Svankmajer
• Winter Sleepers by Tom Tykwer
• Gattaca by Andrew Niccol
• Open Your Eyes by Alejandro Amenábar
• Office Killer by Cindy Sherman
• Preaching to the Perverted by Stuart Urban

Literature

• Anthology of Black Humor first translated into English
• Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

Visual art

• Biomannerism by Stéphen Lévy-Kuentz and H. R. Giger
• The Bra Shop by John Currin

Music

Singles

• Watch Them Come by Roy Davis Jr feat. Peven Everett
• Song 2 by Blur
• The Prayer by Jepthé Guillaume
• Nuyorican Soul by Nuyorican Soul
• Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass by I-F
• Around the World by Daft Punk
• Blaze - My Beat
• Needin' U- David Morales & The Face
• Mateo & Matos - Home
• Kerri Chandler - Ladbroke Grove
• Underwater Love (Smoke City song)

Albums

• Super Rare Disco compilation series
• Dreams of Freedom: Ambient Translations of Bob Marley in Dub by Bill Laswell
• Sax for a Pack by Moondog
• Arkology by Lee Scratch Perry
• Nuyorican Soul

Births

Deaths

• William Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
• Roland Topor (1938 - 1997)
• Juzo Itami (1933 - 1997)
• Kathy Acker (1944 - 1997)
• Marco Ferreri (1928 - 1997)
• Fela Kuti (1938 - 1997)
• Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997)
• Allen Ginsberg (1926 - 1997)
• Samuel Fuller (1911 - 1997)
• Reuben Sturman (1924 - 1997)