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| *[[1924]] - [[Léon Bakst]], Russian artist (b. [[1866]]) | *[[1924]] - [[Léon Bakst]], Russian artist (b. [[1866]]) | ||
| - | *[[1925]] - [[Sergei Yesenin]], Russian poet (b. [[1895]]) | ||
| - | *[[1932]] - [[Jack Blackham]], Australian cricketer (b. [[1854]]) | ||
| *[[1937]] - [[Maurice Ravel]], French composer (b. [[1875]]) | *[[1937]] - [[Maurice Ravel]], French composer (b. [[1875]]) | ||
| - | *[[1938]] - [[Florence Lawrence]], American actress (b. [[1886]]) | ||
| - | *[[1943]] - [[Steve Evans (baseball)|Steve Evans]], American baseball player (b. [[1885]]) | ||
| *[[1945]] - [[Theodore Dreiser]], American author (b. [[1871]]) | *[[1945]] - [[Theodore Dreiser]], American author (b. [[1871]]) | ||
| *[[1947]] - King [[Victor Emmanuel III of Italy]] (b. [[1869]]) | *[[1947]] - King [[Victor Emmanuel III of Italy]] (b. [[1869]]) | ||
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Art and culture
- 1895 - The Lumière brothers have their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines marking the debut of the cinema.
Births
- 1888 - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, German film director (d. 1931)
- 1925 - Hildegard Knef, German actress (d. 2002)
- 1931 - Guy Debord, French writer (d. 1994)
- 1932 - Manuel Puig, Argentine writer (d. 1990)
- 1950 - Alex Chilton, American musician (Box Tops)
- 1951 - Ian Buruma, Anglo-Dutch scholar and writer on Japan and the Far East.
- 1954 - Denzel Washington, American actor
- 1967 - Chris Ware, American cartoonist
Deaths
- 1924 - Léon Bakst, Russian artist (b. 1866)
- 1937 - Maurice Ravel, French composer (b. 1875)
- 1945 - Theodore Dreiser, American author (b. 1871)
- 1947 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (b. 1869)
- 1949 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (b. 1910)
- 1952 - Fletcher Henderson, American musician (b. 1897)
- 1962 - Kathleen Clifford, American actress (b. 1887)
- 1963 - Paul Hindemith, German composer (b. 1895)
- 1967 - Katharine McCormick, American women's rights activist (b. 1875)
- 1971 - Max Steiner, Austrian-born American film music composer (b. 1888)
- 1976 - Katharine Byron, American politician (b. 1903)
- 1976 - Freddie King, American musician (b. 1934)
- 1981 - Allan Dwan, Canadian-born film director (b. 1885)
- 1983 - William Demarest, American actor (b. 1892)
- 1983 - Jimmy Demaret, American golfer (b. 1910)
- 1983 - Dennis Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1944)
- 1984 - Sam Peckinpah, American film director (b. 1925)
- 1986 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian film director (b. 1932)
- 1989 - Hermann Oberth, German physicist (b. 1894)
- 1991 - Cassandra Harris, Australian actress (b. 1952)
- 1992 - Sal Maglie, American baseball player (b. 1917)
- 1994 - Jean-Louis Lévesque, French Canadian entrepreneur (b. 1911)
- 1999 - Clayton Moore, American actor (b. 1914)
- 2001 - Samuel A. Goldblith, American food scientist (b. 1919)
- 2001 - William X. Kienzle, American novelist (b. 1928)
- 2003 - Benjamin Hacker, American admiral (b. 1935)
- 2004 - Jerry Orbach, American actor (b. 1935)
- 2004 - Susan Sontag, American writer (b. 1933)
- 2006 - Jamal Karimi-Rad, Iranian Minister of Justice (b. 1956)
Notes
Susan Sontag
Guy Debord
A. J. Liebling
Walther Ruttmann
Chris Ware
Max Beckmann
Maurice Ravel
Félix Vallotton
Henri de Régnier
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Ian Buruma
The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station
Sam Peckinpah
Manuel Puig
Precursors of film
Theodore Dreiser
Lonnie Liston Smith
Léon Bakst
Alasdair Gray
Alex Chilton
Pierre Clémenti
Ed van der Elsken
Hori Tatsuo
Sensation (exhibition)
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