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| *[[1757]] - [[Edmund Curll]], English bookseller (b. [[1675]]) | *[[1757]] - [[Edmund Curll]], English bookseller (b. [[1675]]) | ||
| - | *[[1797]] - [[Richard Brocklesby]], English physician (b. [[1722]]) | ||
| - | *[[1840]] - [[Emperor Kokaku of Japan]] (b. [[1771]]) | ||
| - | *[[1880]] - [[Oliver Fisher Winchester]], American businessman and politician (b. [[1810]]) | ||
| - | *[[1892]] - [[William Milligan]], Scottish theologian (b. [[1821]]) | ||
| - | *[[1909]] - [[Innokenty Annensky]], Russian poet (b. [[1855]]) | ||
| - | *[[1918]] - [[Ivan Cankar]], Slovenian writer (b. [[1876]]) | ||
| - | *[[1920]] - [[Olive Schreiner]], South African writer (b. [[1855]]) | ||
| - | *[[1938]] - [[Christian Lous Lange]], Norwegian pacifist and recipient of [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1869]]) | ||
| - | *[[1941]] - [[John Gillespie Magee, Jr.]], American poet and aviator (b. [[1922]]) | ||
| - | * 1941 - [[Charles Émile Picard]], French mathematician (b. [[1856]]) | ||
| - | *[[1945]] - [[Charles Fabry]], French physicist (b. [[1867]]) | ||
| - | *[[1950]] - [[Leslie Comrie]], New Zealand astronomer (b. [[1893]]) | ||
| *[[1957]] - [[Musidora]] (Jeanne Roques), French actress (b. [[1889]]) | *[[1957]] - [[Musidora]] (Jeanne Roques), French actress (b. [[1889]]) | ||
| *[[1959]] - [[Jim Bottomley]], American baseball player (b. [[1900]]) | *[[1959]] - [[Jim Bottomley]], American baseball player (b. [[1900]]) | ||
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Art and culture
Births
- 1475 - Pope Leo X (d. 1521)
- 1801 - Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer (d. 1836)
- 1803 - Hector Berlioz, French composer (d. 1869)
- 1810 - Alfred de Musset, French poet (d. 1857)
- 1911 - Val Guest, British film director (d. 2006)
- 1912 - Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (d. 2007)
- 1913 - Jean Marais, French actor (d. 1998)
- 1926 - Big Mama Thornton, American singer (d. 1984)
- 1930 - Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor
- 1973 - Mos Def, American rapper and actor
Deaths
- 1757 - Edmund Curll, English bookseller (b. 1675)
- 1957 - Musidora (Jeanne Roques), French actress (b. 1889)
- 1959 - Jim Bottomley, American baseball player (b. 1900)
- 1964 - Sam Cooke, American singer (b. 1931)
- 1964 - Percy Kilbride, American actor (b. 1888)
- 1971 - Maurice "Mac" McDonald, American fast-food pioneer (b. 1902)
- 1978 - Vincent du Vigneaud, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
- 1978 - Paul O'Dea, Baseball player (b. 1920)
- 1983 - Sir Neil Ritchie, British General (b. 1897)
- 1984 - Oskar Seidlin, German-born American scholar (b. 1911)
- 1987 - G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) writer (b. 1923)
- 1989 - Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (b. 1895)
- 1991 - Robert Q. Lewis, American game show host and actor (b. 1921)
- 1991 - Artur Lundkvist, Swedish author and critic (b. 1906)
- 1994 - Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (b. 1900)
- 1993 - Elvira Popescu, Romanian-born French actress (b. 1894)
- 1996 - Willie Rushton, English cartoonist (b. 1937)
- 1998 - André Lichnerowicz, Polish-French physicist (b. 1915)
- 1998 - Lynn Strait, American singer (b. 1968)
- 1999 - Kami, Japanese drummer (Malice Mizer) (b. 1972)
- 2000 - Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani politician, diplomat and author (b. 1915)
- 2000 - David Lewis, American actor (b. 1916)
- 2003 - Ahmadou Kourouma, Côte d'Ivoire writer (b. 1927)
- 2004 - M.S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer (b. 1916)
- 2004 - José Luis Cuciuffo, Argentinian footballer (b. 1962)
- 2004 - Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand running coach (b. 1917)
- 2006 - Elizabeth Bolden, American, oldest verified person in the world at the time of her death (b. 1890)
Births
Deaths
Notes
- Edmund Curll
- Alfred de Musset
- The Happy Wanderer
- Musidora
- Hector Berlioz
- Christian Dietrich Grabbe
- Maurice Leblanc
- Cantique des Cantiques
- Memphis Group
- Pope Leo X
- Robert Briffault
- Perez Prado
- Alma Mahler
- Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba
- Robert de Montesquiou
- Paul Wegener
- Jean-Louis Trintignant
- Mos Def
- Jean Marais
- Sonia Brownell
- Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
- Sibel Kekilli
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