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| - | == Art and culture == | + | *[[1936]] - ''[[Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism]]'' exhibition opens in New York |
| - | + | *[[1941]] - [[Nacht und Nebel]] (German for "Night and Fog") ratified in Nazi Germany | |
| + | *[[1941]] - [[Memoirs v. Massachusetts]] argued | ||
| ==Births== | ==Births== | ||
| - | *[[1598]] - [[Gian Lorenzo Bernini]], Italian artist (d. [[1680]]) | + | *[[1598]] - [[Gian Lorenzo Bernini]], Italian sculptor (''Ecstasy of St Theresa'') (d. [[1680]]) |
| + | *[[1872]] - [[Johan Huizinga]], Dutch cultural historian (d. [[1945]]) | ||
| *[[1910]] - [[Louis Prima]], American musician (d. [[1978]]) | *[[1910]] - [[Louis Prima]], American musician (d. [[1978]]) | ||
| *[[1928]] - [[Noam Chomsky]], American linguist and political writer | *[[1928]] - [[Noam Chomsky]], American linguist and political writer | ||
| *[[1932]] - [[Ellen Burstyn]], American actress | *[[1932]] - [[Ellen Burstyn]], American actress | ||
| *[[1949]] - [[Tom Waits]], American singer, composer, and actor | *[[1949]] - [[Tom Waits]], American singer, composer, and actor | ||
| - | *[[1973]] - [[Damien Rice]], Irish musician | ||
| ==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
| *[[43 BC]] - [[Cicero]], Roman politician and author (b. [[106 BC]]) | *[[43 BC]] - [[Cicero]], Roman politician and author (b. [[106 BC]]) | ||
| - | *[[283]] - [[Pope Eutychian]] | ||
| - | *[[983]] - [[Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor]] | ||
| - | *[[1254]] - [[Pope Innocent IV]] | ||
| - | *[[1279]] - King [[Boleslaus V of Poland]] (b. [[1226]]) | ||
| - | *[[1295]] - [[Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford]], English politician (b. [[1243]]) | ||
| - | *[[1498]] - [[Alexander Hegius von Heek]], German humanist | ||
| - | *[[1562]] - [[Adrian Willaert]], Flemish composer | ||
| - | *[[1649]] - [[Charles Garnier (missionary)|Charles Garnier]], French Jesuit missionary (b. [[1606]]) | ||
| - | *[[1672]] - [[Richard Bellingham]], English-born Massachusetts colonial magistrate (b. [[1592]]) | ||
| - | *[[1683]] - [[John Oldham (poet)|John Oldham]], English poet (smallpox) (b. [[1653]]) | ||
| - | * 1683 - [[Algernon Sydney]], English politician (b. [[1623]]) | ||
| - | *[[1723]] - [[Jan Santini Aichel]], Bohemian architect (b. [[1677]]) | ||
| - | *[[1725]] - [[Florent Carton Dancourt]], French dramatist and actor (b. [[1661]]) | ||
| - | *[[1775]] - [[Charles Saunders (admiral)|Charles Saunders]], British admiral | ||
| - | *[[1793]] - [[Joseph Bara]], French revolutionary (b. [[1780]]) | ||
| - | *[[1815]] - [[Michel Ney]], French marshall (executed) (b. [[1769]]) | ||
| - | *[[1817]] - [[William Bligh]], British naval officer (b. [[1745]]) | ||
| - | *[[1842]] - [[Thomas Hamilton (writer)|Thomas Hamilton]], Scottish writer (b. [[1789]]) | ||
| - | *[[1874]] - [[Constantin von Tischendorf]], German biblical scholar (b. [[1815]]) | ||
| - | *[[1894]] - [[Ferdinand de Lesseps]], French diplomat and entrepreneur ([[Suez Canal]]) (b. [[1805]]) | ||
| *[[1902]] - [[Thomas Nast]], German-born American cartoonist (b. [[1840]]) | *[[1902]] - [[Thomas Nast]], German-born American cartoonist (b. [[1840]]) | ||
| - | *[[1906]] - [[Élie Ducommun]], Swiss journalist, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1833]]) | + | *[[1973]] - [[Camilo Mori]], Chilean painter (b. [[1896]]) |
| - | *[[1913]] - [[Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano]], Italian Catholic churchman and last surviving cardinal of [[Pius IX]] (b. [[1828]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1917]] - [[Léon Minkus]], German/Czech Composer and violinist (b. [[March 23]], [[1826]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1941]] - ''Casualties of the Japanese [[Attack on Pearl Harbor]]'' | + | |
| - | :* 1941 - [[Mervyn S. Bennion]], United States Navy Captain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. [[1887]]) | + | |
| - | :* 1941 - [[Herbert C. Jones]], United States Navy, Medal of Honor recipient (b. [[1918]]) | + | |
| - | :* 1941 - [[Isaac C. Kidd]], United States Navy Rear Admiral, Medal of Honor recipient (b. [[1884]]) | + | |
| - | :* 1941 - [[Thomas J. Reeves]], United States Navy, Medal of Honor recipient (b. [[1895]]) | + | |
| - | :* 1941 - [[Franklin Van Valkenburgh]], United States Navy, Medal of Honor recipient (b. [[1888]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1947]] - [[Nicholas M. Butler]], American university president, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1862]]) | + | |
| - | * 1947 - [[Tristan Bernard]], French playwright and novelist (b. [[1866]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1956]] - [[Huntley Gordon]], Canadian actor (b. [[1887]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1960]] - [[Clara Haskil]], Swiss pianist (b. [[1895]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1969]] - [[Lefty O'Doul]], American baseball player (b. [[1897]]) | + | |
| - | * 1969 - [[Eric Portman]], English actor (b. [[1903]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1970]] - [[Rube Goldberg]], American cartoonist (b. [[1883]]) | + | |
| *[[1975]] - [[Thornton Wilder]], American playwright (b. [[1897]]) | *[[1975]] - [[Thornton Wilder]], American playwright (b. [[1897]]) | ||
| - | *[[1977]] - [[Peter Carl Goldmark]], Hungarian-born American engineer (b. [[1906]]) | + | *[[1981]] - [[Gordon Rattray Taylor]], British author (''Sex in History'') (b. [[1911]]) |
| - | *[[1978]] - [[Alexander Wetmore]], American ornithologist (b. [[1886]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1980]] - [[Darby Crash]], American punk-rock lengend (b. [[1958]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1983]] - [[Fanny Cano]], Mexican actress (b. [[1944]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1984]] - [[Lee Roy Yarbrough]], American race car (Nascar) driver (b. [[1938]]) | + | |
| *[[1985]] - [[Robert Graves]], British author (b. [[1895]]) | *[[1985]] - [[Robert Graves]], British author (b. [[1895]]) | ||
| - | * 1985 - [[Potter Stewart]], US Supreme Court Justice (b. [[1915]]) | + | * 1985 - [[Potter Stewart]], US Supreme Court Justice (Jacobellis v. Ohio) b. [[1915]]) |
| - | *[[1989]] - [[William Calhoun]], professional wrestler (b. [[1934]]) | + | *[[1990]] - [[Reinaldo Arenas]], Cuban writer (b. [[1943]]){{GFDL}} |
| - | *[[1990]] - [[Joan Bennett]], American actress (b. [[1910]]) | + | |
| - | * 1990 - [[Jean Duceppe]], Quebec stage, television and film actor (b. [[1923]]) | + | |
| - | * 1990 - [[Jean Paul Lemieux]], Quebec painter (b. [[1904]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1993]] - [[Félix Houphouët-Boigny]], [[President of Côte d'Ivoire]] (b. [[1905]]) | + | |
| - | * 1993 - [[Wolfgang Paul]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1913]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1994]] - [[J.C. Tremblay]], Canadian ice hockey player (b. [[1939]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1997]] - [[Billy Bremner]], Scottish former footballer (b. [[1942]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1998]] - [[Martin Rodbell]], American scientist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1925]]) | + | |
| - | * 1998 - [[John Addison]], British composer (b. [[1920]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2000]] - [[Vladimir Gotovac]], Croatian poet and politician (b. [[1930]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2001]] - [[Charles McClendon]], [[LSU Tigers]] head football coach (b. [[1923]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2003]] - [[Carl F. H. Henry]] American theologian and publisher (b. [[1913]]) | + | |
| - | * 2003 - [[Azie Taylor Morton]], [[Treasurer of the United States]] (b. [[1936]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2004]] - [[Frederick Fennell]], American conductor (b. [[1914]]) | + | |
| - | * 2004 - [[Jerry Scoggins]], American singer (b. [[1913]]) | + | |
| - | * 2004 - [[Dimebag Darrell]], Lead Guitarist For Pantera. (b. [[1966]]) | + | |
| - | * 2004 - [[Jay Van Andel]], co-founder and former chairman of Amway (b. [[1924]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2005]] - [[Bud Carson]], American football player and coach (b. [[1931]]) | + | |
| - | * 2005 - [[Lucy d'Abreu]], was the oldest living person in the United Kingdom from April 2004 until her death (b. [[1892]]) | + | |
| - | * 2005 - [[Rigoberto Alpizar]], airplane passenger fatally shot by U.S. Air Marshals after allegedly claiming he had placed a bomb aboard (b. [[1961]]) | + | |
| - | * 2005 - [[James Bastien]], American classical [[pianist]], [[composer]], [[teacher]], and author of a series of [[piano]] instruction books (b. [[1934]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2006]] - [[Jeane Kirkpatrick]], American ambassador (b. [[1926]]) | + | |
| - | * 2006 - [[Jay McShann]], American musician (b. ca. [[1910]]) | + | |
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| - | == Births == | + | |
| - | + | ||
| - | == Deaths == | + | |
| - | Gordon Rattray Taylor | + | |
| - | Reinaldo Arenas | + | |
| - | Potter Stewart | + | |
| - | Pornography by region | + | |
| - | Wanda Landowska | + | |
| - | Camilo Mori | + | |
| - | Thomas Nast | + | |
| - | Thornton Wilder | + | |
| - | Gian Lorenzo Bernini | + | |
| - | Nacht und Nebel | + | |
| - | Patti D'Arbanville | + | |
| - | Louis Prima | + | |
| - | Ellen Burstyn | + | |
| - | Johan Huizinga | + | |
| - | Robert Graves | + | |
| - | {{GFDL}} | + | |
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- 1936 - Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism exhibition opens in New York
- 1941 - Nacht und Nebel (German for "Night and Fog") ratified in Nazi Germany
- 1941 - Memoirs v. Massachusetts argued
Births
- 1598 - Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor (Ecstasy of St Theresa) (d. 1680)
- 1872 - Johan Huizinga, Dutch cultural historian (d. 1945)
- 1910 - Louis Prima, American musician (d. 1978)
- 1928 - Noam Chomsky, American linguist and political writer
- 1932 - Ellen Burstyn, American actress
- 1949 - Tom Waits, American singer, composer, and actor
Deaths
- 43 BC - Cicero, Roman politician and author (b. 106 BC)
- 1902 - Thomas Nast, German-born American cartoonist (b. 1840)
- 1973 - Camilo Mori, Chilean painter (b. 1896)
- 1975 - Thornton Wilder, American playwright (b. 1897)
- 1981 - Gordon Rattray Taylor, British author (Sex in History) (b. 1911)
- 1985 - Robert Graves, British author (b. 1895)
- 1985 - Potter Stewart, US Supreme Court Justice (Jacobellis v. Ohio) b. 1915)
- 1990 - Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban writer (b. 1943)
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