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| == Art and culture == | == Art and culture == | ||
| - | *[[1816]] - [[Gioachino Rossini]]'s ''[[The Barber of Seville]]'' debuts at [[Largo di Torre Argentina|Teatro Argentina]], with a ''fiasco''. | + | *[[1816]] - [[Gioachino Rossini]]'s ''[[The Barber of Seville]]'' debuts with a ''fiasco''. |
| *[[1872]] - In [[New York City]] the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] opens. | *[[1872]] - In [[New York City]] the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] opens. | ||
| - | + | *[[1909]] - Publication of the [[Futurist Manifesto]] in the French journal [[Le Figaro]]. | |
| - | + | *[[1932]] - ''[[Freaks (1932 film)|Freaks]]'' premieres in the United States. | |
| ==Births== | ==Births== | ||
| *[[1880]] - [[Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen]], French aristocrat and novelist (d. [[1923]]) | *[[1880]] - [[Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen]], French aristocrat and novelist (d. [[1923]]) | ||
| + | *[[1901]] - [[Louis Kahn]], American architect (d. [[1974]]) | ||
| *[[1902]] - [[Ansel Adams]], American photographer (d. [[1984]]) | *[[1902]] - [[Ansel Adams]], American photographer (d. [[1984]]) | ||
| - | *[[1925]] - [[Robert Altman]], American film director (d. [[2006]]) | + | *[[1925]] - [[Robert Altman]], American film director (d. 2006) |
| - | *[[1926]] - [[Richard Matheson]], American author | + | *[[1926]] - [[Richard Matheson]], American author (d. 2013) |
| *[[1950]] - [[Tony Wilson]], British journalist and impresario (d. [[2007]]) | *[[1950]] - [[Tony Wilson]], British journalist and impresario (d. [[2007]]) | ||
| *[[1967]] - [[Kurt Cobain]], American musician ([[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]]) (d. [[1994]]) | *[[1967]] - [[Kurt Cobain]], American musician ([[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]]) (d. [[1994]]) | ||
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| ==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
| - | * [[702]] - [[K'inich Kan B'alam II]], king of the Maya state of Palenque (b. [[635]]) | + | *[[1919]] - [[Kaita Murayama]], Japanese author (b. [[1896]]) |
| - | *[[1154]] - Saint [[Wulfric]] of [[Haselbury Plucknett]] | + | |
| - | *[[1171]] - [[Conan IV, Duke of Brittany]] (b. [[1138]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1194]] - King [[Tancred of Sicily]] | + | |
| - | *[[1258]] - [[Al-Musta'sim]], last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad | + | |
| - | *[[1408]] - [[Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland]], English statesman (b. [[1342]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1431]] - [[Pope Martin V]] (b. [[1368]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1524]] - [[Tecún Umán]], last leader of the [[Quiché]]-Maya | + | |
| - | *[[1579]] - [[Nicholas Bacon]], English politician (b. [[1509]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1618]] - [[Philip William, Prince of Orange]] (b. [[1554]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1626]] - [[John Dowland]], English composer and lutenist (b. [[1563]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1762]] - [[Tobias Mayer]], German astronomer (b. [[1723]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1771]] - [[Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan]], French geophysicist (b. [[1678]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1773]] - King [[Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia]] (b. [[1701]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1778]] - [[Laura Bassi]], Italian scholar (b. [[1711]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1790]] - [[Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor]] (b. [[1741]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1803]] - [[Marie Dumesnil]], French actress (b. [[1713]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1806]] - [[Lachlan McIntosh]], Scottish-born American military and political leader (b. [[1725]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1810]] - [[Andreas Hofer]], Tyrolean national hero (executed) (b. [[1767]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1871]] - [[Paul Kane]], Irish-born painter (b. [[1810]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1893]] - [[P.G.T. Beauregard]], American Confederate general (b. [[1818]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1895]] - [[Frederick Douglass]], American abolitionist writer (b. [[1818]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1905]] - [[Jeremiah W. Farnham]], American merchant captain | + | |
| - | *[[1907]] - [[Henri Moissan]], French chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1852]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1916]] - [[Klas Pontus Arnoldson]], Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1844]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1920]] - [[Robert Peary]], American explorer (b. [[1856]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1941]] - [[La Bolduc]], French Canadian singer and songwriter (b. [[1894]]) | + | |
| *[[1961]] - [[Percy Grainger]], Australian composer (b. [[1882]]) | *[[1961]] - [[Percy Grainger]], Australian composer (b. [[1882]]) | ||
| - | *[[1963]] - [[Ferenc Fricsay]], Hungarian conductor (b. [[1914]]) | + | *[[1987]] - [[Edgar P. Jacobs]], Belgian comic book creator (b. [[1904]]) |
| - | *[[1963]] - [[Jacob Gade]], Danish Composer(b. [[1879]]) | + | *[[1996]] - [[Tōru Takemitsu]], Japanese composer (b. [[1930]]) |
| - | *[[1966]] - [[Chester Nimitz]], American admiral (b. [[1885]]) | + | *[[1996]] - [[Audrey Munson]], American model and actress (b. [[1891]]) |
| - | *[[1968]] - [[Anthony Asquith]], British film director and writer (b. [[1902]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1969]] - [[Ernest Ansermet]], Swiss conductor (b. [[1883]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1970]] - [[Sophie Treadwell]], American playwright and journalist (b. [[1885]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1972]] - [[Maria Goeppert-Mayer]], German physicist, [[Nobel laureate]] (b. [[1906]]) | + | |
| - | * 1972 - [[Walter Winchell]], American journalist (b. [[1897]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1976]] - [[René Cassin]], French judge, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1887]]) | + | |
| - | * 1976 - [[Kathryn Kuhlman]], American evangelist (b. [[1907]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1981]] - Baron [[Nicolas de Gunzburg]], magazine editor, socialite (b. [[1904]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1983]] - [[Fritz Köberle]], Austrian-Brazilian physician (b. [[1910]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1985]] - [[Clarence Nash|Clarence "Ducky" Nash]], American voice actor (b. [[1904]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1992]] - [[Roberto D'Aubuisson]], Salvadoran politician (b. [[1944]]) | + | |
| - | * 1992 - [[Dick York]], American actor (b. [[1928]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1993]] - [[Ferruccio Lamborghini]], Italian automobile manufacturer (b. [[1916]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1996]] - [[Solomon Asch]], American psychologist (b. [[1907]]) | + | |
| - | * 1996 - [[Tōru Takemitsu]], Japanese composer (b. [[1930]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1997]] - [[Zachary Breaux]], American jazz guitarist (b. [[1960]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1999]] - [[Sarah Kane]], English playwright (b. [[1971]]) | + | |
| - | * 1999 - [[Gene Siskel]], American film critic (b. [[1946]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2000]] - [[Anatoly Sobchak]], Russian politician (b. [[1937]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2001]] - [[Rosemary DeCamp]], American actress (b. [[1910]]) | + | |
| *[[2003]] - [[Maurice Blanchot]], French author (b. [[1907]]) | *[[2003]] - [[Maurice Blanchot]], French author (b. [[1907]]) | ||
| - | * 2003 - [[Orville Freeman]], American politician (b. [[1918]]) | + | *[[2005]] - [[Hunter S. Thompson]], American journalist and author (b. [[1937]]) |
| - | * 2003 - [[Harry Jacunski]], American football player | + | |
| - | * 2003 - [[Ty Longley]], American guitarist ([[Great White (band)|Great White]]) (b. [[1971]]) | + | |
| - | * 2003 - [[Mushaf Ali Mir]], Pakistani [[Chief of the Air Staff]] (b. [[1947]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2005]] - [[Pam Bricker]], American jazz singer and [[Thievery Corporation]] vocalist (b. [[1954]]) | + | |
| - | * 2005 - [[Sandra Dee]], American actress (b. [[1944]]) | + | |
| - | * 2005 - [[John Raitt]], American actor (b. [[1917]]) | + | |
| - | * 2005 - [[Hunter S. Thompson]], American journalist and author (b. [[1937]]) | + | |
| - | * 2005 - [[Tom Willmore]], English geometer (b. [[1919]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2006]] - [[Curt Gowdy]], American sportscaster (b. [[1919]]) | + | |
| - | * 2006 - [[Lucjan Wolanowski]], Polish journalist, writer and traveller (b. [[1920]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2007]] - [[F. Albert Cotton]], American chemist (b. [[1930]]) | + | |
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| - | notes | + | |
| - | Robert Altman | ||
| - | Futurism (art) | ||
| - | Futurist Manifesto | ||
| - | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| - | Maurice Blanchot | ||
| - | Edgar P. Jacobs | ||
| - | Tony Wilson | ||
| - | Audrey Munson | ||
| - | Kaita Murayama | ||
| - | Ernest Ansermet | ||
| - | Tōru Takemitsu | ||
| - | Kurt Cobain | ||
| - | Richard Matheson | ||
| - | Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen | ||
| - | Vaginal Davis | ||
| - | Tony Wilson | ||
| - | Percy Grainger | ||
| - | Ansel Adams | ||
| - | Louis Kahn | ||
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[edit]
Art and culture
- 1816 - Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville debuts with a fiasco.
- 1872 - In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.
- 1909 - Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
- 1932 - Freaks premieres in the United States.
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Births
- 1880 - Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French aristocrat and novelist (d. 1923)
- 1901 - Louis Kahn, American architect (d. 1974)
- 1902 - Ansel Adams, American photographer (d. 1984)
- 1925 - Robert Altman, American film director (d. 2006)
- 1926 - Richard Matheson, American author (d. 2013)
- 1950 - Tony Wilson, British journalist and impresario (d. 2007)
- 1967 - Kurt Cobain, American musician (Nirvana) (d. 1994)
- 1969 - Vaginal Davis, American drag queen and performance artist
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Deaths
- 1919 - Kaita Murayama, Japanese author (b. 1896)
- 1961 - Percy Grainger, Australian composer (b. 1882)
- 1987 - Edgar P. Jacobs, Belgian comic book creator (b. 1904)
- 1996 - Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (b. 1930)
- 1996 - Audrey Munson, American model and actress (b. 1891)
- 2003 - Maurice Blanchot, French author (b. 1907)
- 2005 - Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (b. 1937)
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