July 8
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Art and culture
Events
- 1099 - First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders mock them.
- 1497 - Vasco da Gama sets sail on first direct European voyage to India.
- 1898 - The shooting death of crime boss Soapy Smith releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
Births
- 1593 - Artemisia Gentileschi, Italian painter (d. 1653)
- 1621 - Jean de la Fontaine, French writer (d. 1695)
- 1857 - Alfred Binet, French psychologist (d. 1911)
- 1882 - Percy Grainger, Australian composer (d. 1961)
- 1885 - Ernst Bloch, German philosopher (d. 1977)
- 1906 - Philip Johnson, American architect (d. 2005)
- 1908 - Louis Jordan, American saxophonist (d. 1975)
Deaths
- 1726 - John Ker, Scottish spy (b. 1673)
- 1822 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet (b. 1792)
- 1939 - Havelock Ellis, British physician (b. 1859)
Notes
Generally taken as Sade's first novel. Sade completed the work, writing 138 manuscript pages, in two weeks during his time in the Bastille, finishing on 8 July 1787. Sade reworked the novel in later versions; it was not published until 1930.
Artemisia Gentileschi (July 8, 1593 - 1653) was an Italian Early Baroque painter, today considered one of the most accomplished painters in the generation ...
Jenny Diski, born July 8, 1947 in London, British writer. She won the 2003 Thomas Cook Travel Book award for Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking ...
She was 58. --Thursday, July 8, 2004 Posted: 1:26 PM EDT (1726 GMT), via CNN.com. Syreeta (1970) - Syreeta [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK] ...
Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an influential American architect. The first director of the architecture department at the ...
Edgar Morin is a French philosopher and sociologist who was born in Paris on July 8, 1921 under his original name Edgar Nahoum. ...
Percy Aldridge Grainger (July 8, 1882 – February 20, 1961) was an Australian-born pianist, composer, and champion of the saxophone and the Concert band. ...
