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Art and culture

• 406 - Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gallia.
• 1687 - The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.

Births

• 1514 - Andreas Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (d. 1564)
• 1869 - Henri Matisse, French painter (d. 1954)
• 1894 - Pola Negri, Polish actress (d. 1987)
• 1924 - Taylor Mead, American actor
• 1928 - Siné, French cartoonist
• 1948 - Donna Summer, American singer

Deaths

• 1877 - Gustave Courbet, French painter (b. 1819)
• 1980 - Marshall McLuhan, Canadian writer (b. 1911)
• 1980 - Raoul Walsh, American film director (b. 1887)

Notes

• 1938 - List of authors banned during the Third Reich - Publication of list of 'damaging and undesirable writing'
• 1980 - Phil Andros (April 23, 1909 - December 31, 1993), also known by the pen name Phil Andros, was a novelist and tattoo artist based in Oakland, California.
• 1980 - Madame de Genlis Madame de Genlis, full name Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Aubin, comtesse de Genlis (January 25, 1746 - December 31, 1830) was a French writer and educator,
• 1980 - Joe Dallesandro (born December 31, 1948) in Pensacola, Florida) is an American actor.
• 1980 - Joseph Vacher (November 16, 1869, Beaufort, Isère - December 31, 1898, Bourg-en-Bresse, Ain) was a French serial killer
• 1980 - Paul Bilhaud (Allichamps, December 31, 1854 - Avon, 1933) was a French poet and dramatist who belonged to the French avant-garde group the Incoherents. He is the author of an all-black painting called Negroes Fighting in a Cellar at Night.

• 1980 - Robert Melville (art critic) (December 31 1905 - March 1986) was an English art critic and journalist.

• 1980 - Giovanni Boldini (December 31, 1842 – July 11, 1931) was an Italian genre and portrait painter, belonging to the Parisian school.
• 1980 - Francesco Alberoni (December 31, 1929) is an Italian sociologist, journalist and author, best-knonw for his 1979 book Falling in Love.
• 1980 - Ferdinand Springer (October 1 1907 in Berlin, Germany - December 31 1998 in Grasse, France) was German painter.
• 1980 - Olympe de Gouges December 31, 1745, – November 3, 1793) was a playwright and journalist whose feminist writings reached a large audience. A proponent of democracy, she demanded the same rights for French women that French men were demanding for themselves. In her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791),
• 1980 - Charles Garnier (6 November 1825 - 3 August 1898) was a French architect, designer of the Paris Opéra,
• 1980 - Richard Gordon (film producer)
• 1980 - Jacob Israël de Haan