April 19
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"The premiere on 19 April 1774 of Iphigénie en Aulide sparked a huge controversy, almost a war, such as had not been seen in the city since the Querelle des Bouffons. Gluck's opponents brought the leading Italian composer Niccolò Piccinni to Paris to demonstrate the superiority of Neapolitan opera, and the "whole town" engaged in an argument between "Gluckists" and "Piccinnists". The composers themselves took no part in the polemics, but when Piccinni was asked to set the libretto to Roland, on which Gluck was also known to be working, Gluck destroyed everything he had written for that opera up to that point."--Sholem Stein |
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Art and culture
- 1012 – Martyrdom of Alphege in Greenwich, London.
- 1927 – Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
- 1971 – Charles Manson is sentenced to death for the Sharon Tate murders.
- 1987 – The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show
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Births
- 1836 - Ferdinand Cheval, creator of the Palais idéal (d. 1924).
- 1926 - William Klein, American photographer and filmmaker. (d. 2022)
- 1928 – Alexis Korner, English musician (d. 1984)
- 1932 - Sergio Dangelo, Italian avant-garde artist
- 1932 – Fernando Botero, Colombian painter and sculptor (d. 2023)
- 1933 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (d. 1967)
- 1934 – Dickie Goodman, American producer of novelty songs (d. 1989)
- 1935 – Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian and composer (d. 2002)
- 1942 – Alan Price, English musician (The Animals, The Alan Price Set)
- 1944 – Bernie Worrell, American keyboardist (d. 2016)
- 1949 – Paloma Picasso daughter of artist Pablo Picasso
- 1953 – Ruby Wax, British television personality
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Deaths
- 1588 – Paolo Veronese, Italian painter
- 1768 – Canaletto, Italian artist (b. 1697)
- 1791 – Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (b. 1723)
- 1824 – George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (b. 1788)
- 1882 – Charles Darwin, English biologist (b. 1809)
- 1893 - John Addington Symonds, English poet and literary critic. (d. 1840)
- 1914 – Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher and mathematician (b. 1839)
- 1989 – Daphne du Maurier, British novelist (b. 1907)
- 1992 – Benny Hill, English comic actor (b. 1924)
- 1998 – Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
- 2007 – Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932)
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