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Art and culture

Popular culture

• Gibson girl debuts in United States

Visual art

• La Sirène by Arnold Böcklin
• A Clinical Lesson at the Salpetriere by André Brouillet
• Gorilla Carrying off a Woman by Emmanuel Frémiet
• Bridge in the Rain by van Gogh
• Ruhender weiblicher Akt by Lovis Corinth

Academia

• Du Fétichisme dans l’amour by Alfred Binet
• Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft by Ferdinand Tönnies
• On the Genealogy of Morality by Nietzsche

Literature

• She: A History of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard
• The Horla by Guy de Maupassant
• The Autobiography of a Flea by anonymous
• La Marquise de Sade by Rachilde

Music

• Capriccio espagnol by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
• Satie: Sarabandes (unresolved consecutive ninth and seventh chords, modal)
• Fauré: Requiem

Births

• January 3 - August Macke, German painter (d. 1914)
• March 14 - Sylvia Beach, American publisher in Paris (d. 1952)
• March 23 - Juan Gris, Spanish-born painter and graphic artist (d. 1927)
• March 24 - Fatty Arbuckle, American actor (d. 1933)
• July 7 - Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (d. 1985)
• July 8 - Jean Ray, Belgian writer (d. 19545)
• June 20 - Kurt Schwitters, German painter (d. 1948)
• July 28 - Marcel Duchamp, French-born artist (d. 1968)
• August 17 - Marcus Garvey, American publisher, entrepreneur, and black nationalist (d. 1940)
• September 1 - Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (d. 1961)
• October 6 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965)
• November 23 - Boris Karloff, English actor (d. 1967)

Deaths

• August 20 - Jules Laforgue, French poet (b. 1860)
• December 28 - Walther Ruttmann German film director (b. 1941)