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Art and culture

• 1719 - Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is published.
• 1792 – Highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
• 1792 – La Marseillaise (French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
• 1874 - The word impressionniste was coined in The Exhibition of the Impressionists, a 25 April 1874 article by Louis Leroy which stated that "Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape."
• 1896 - publication, in Paul Fort's review Le Livre d'art, of Jarry's 5-act play Ubu Roi
• 1945 - Elbe Day

Births

• 1599 – Oliver Cromwell, English statesman (d. 1658)
• 1873 – Walter de la Mare, English poet (d. 1956)
• 1906 – William J. Brennan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1997)
• 1917 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (d. 1996)
• 1921 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter (d. 2006)
• 1923 – Albert King, American musician (d. 1992)
• 1925 – Max Pécas, French filmmaker (d. 2003)
• 1927 – Corín Tellado, Spanish romance novelist (d. 2009)
• 1930 – Paul Mazursky, American film director and writer (d. 2014)
• 1933 – Jerry Leiber, American composer (d. 2011)
• 1940 – Al Pacino, American actor
• 1941 – Bertrand Tavernier, French director, screenwriter and actor
• 1949 – James Fenton, British poet
• 1956 – Jaroslava Schallerová, Hungarian actress

Deaths

• 1472 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian artist, poet, and philosopher (b. 1404)
• 1595 – Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (b. 1544)
• 1911 – Emilio Salgari, Italian novelist (b. 1862)
• 1943 – Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian theatre director (b. 1858)
• 1972 – George Sanders, British actor (b. 1906)
• 1975 – Mike Brant, Israeli singer (b. 1947)
• 1976 – Carol Reed, British film producer and director (b. 1906)
• 1988 – Valerie Solanas, American radical feminist (b. 1936)
• 1990 – Dexter Gordon, American saxophonist (b. 1923)
• 1996 – Saul Bass, American graphics designer (b. 1920)
• 1998 – Wright Morris, American writer (b. 1910)
• 1999 – Roger Troutman, American musician (b. 1951)
• 1999 – Larry Troutman, American musician (b. 1944)
• 2006 – Jane Jacobs, American-born Canadian urbanist (b. 1916)