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| - | * [[366]] - [[Alamanni]] cross the frozen [[Rhine River]] in large numbers, invading the [[Roman Empire]]. | ||
| - | * [[533]] - Mercurius becomes [[Pope]] [[Pope John II|John II]], the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the [[papacy]]. | ||
| - | *[[1492]] - [[Reconquista]]: [[Granada]], the last [[Moors|Moorish]] stronghold in [[Spain]], surrenders. | ||
| - | *[[1757]] - The [[United Kingdom]] captures [[Kolkata|Calcutta]], [[India]]. | ||
| - | *[[1788]] - [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] becomes the fourth state to ratify the [[United States]] [[United States Constitution|Constitution]]. | ||
| - | *[[1791]] - [[Big Bottom massacre]] in the [[Ohio Country]], marking the beginning of the [[Northwest Indian War]]. | ||
| - | *[[1793]] - [[Russia]] and [[Prussia]] partition [[Poland]]. | ||
| - | *[[1818]] - The British [[Institution of Civil Engineers]] is formed. | ||
| - | *[[1860]] - The discovery of the planet [[Vulcan (hypothetical planet)|Vulcan]] is announced at a meeting of the [[Académie des Sciences]] in [[Paris]]. | ||
| - | *[[1871]] - [[Amadeus I of Spain|Amadeus I]] becomes King of [[Spain]]. | ||
| - | *[[1872]] - [[Brigham Young]] is arrested on charges of [[polygamy|bigamy]] for having 25 wives. | ||
| - | *[[1879]] - [[Fred Spofforth]] claims the first [[hat-trick]] in [[test cricket]] on the [[Sydney Cricket Ground]] against [[England]]. | ||
| - | *[[1882]] - [[John D. Rockefeller]] unites his oil holdings into the [[Standard Oil]] [[Trust company|trust]]. | ||
| - | *[[1890]] - [[Alice Sanger]] becomes the first female staffer for the [[White House]]. | ||
| - | *[[1893]] - [[Webb C. Ball]] of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America introduces [[railroad chronometers]]. | ||
| - | *[[1900]] - [[John Hay]] announces the [[Open Door Policy]] to promote trade with [[China]]. | ||
| - | *[[1905]] - [[Russo-Japanese War]]: The [[Russia]]n fleet surrenders at [[Lüshunkou|Port Arthur]], [[China]]. | ||
| - | * 1905 - The American [[anarcho-syndicalist]] union known as the [[Industrial Workers of the World]] forms. | ||
| - | *[[1917]] - The [[Royal Bank of Canada]] takes over [[Quebec Bank]]. | ||
| - | *[[1920]] - The [[Palmer Raids]] begin in the United States. | ||
| - | *[[1921]] - The first religious [[radio]] broadcast ([[KDKA AM]] in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]]) . | ||
| - | *[[1923]] - [[United States|U.S.]] [[United States Secretary of the Interior|Interior Secretary]] [[Albert Fall]] resigns over the [[Teapot Dome scandal]]. | ||
| - | *[[1929]] - [[Canada]] and the [[United States]] agree on a plan to preserve [[Niagara Falls]]. | ||
| - | *[[1935]] - [[Bruno Hauptmann]] goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., infant son of aviator [[Charles Lindbergh]]. | ||
| - | *[[1941]] - [[World War II]]: [[Strategic Bombing During World War II|German bombing]] severely damages the [[Llandaff Cathedral]] in [[Cardiff]], [[Wales]]. | ||
| - | * 1941 - World War II: The U.S. government announces its [[Liberty ship]] program to build freighters in support of the war effort. | ||
| - | *[[1942]] - World War II: [[Manila]] is captured by [[Japan]]ese forces. | ||
| - | * 1942 - The [[United States Navy]] opens a [[blimp]] base at [[Lakehurst, New Jersey]]. | ||
| - | *[[1946]] - Unable to resume rule after [[World War II]], [[Zog of Albania|King Zog]] of [[Albania]] [[Abdication|abdicates]] but retains his claim to the [[King of Albania|throne]]. | ||
| - | *[[1949]] - [[Luis Muñoz Marín]] became the first democratically elected [[Governor of Puerto Rico]]. | ||
| - | *[[1955]] - [[Panama]]nian president [[Jose Antonio Remon]] is assassinated. | ||
| - | *[[1957]] - The [[Pacific Exchange|San Francisco Stock and Bond Exchange]] and [[Pacific Exchange|Los Angeles Oil Exchange]] merge. | ||
| - | *[[1959]] - The first artificial satellite to orbit the moon, [[Luna 1]], is launched by the [[U.S.S.R.]] | ||
| - | *[[1969]] - [[Luis Ferré]] becomes the first statehooder [[Governor of Puerto Rico]]. | ||
| - | * 1969 - Operation Barrier Reef began in [[Mekong Delta]], [[Vietnam]] | ||
| - | *[[1971]] - The second [[Ibrox disaster]] kills 66 fans at a [[Rangers F.C.|Rangers]]-[[Celtic F.C.|Celtic]] football game. | ||
| - | *[[1974]] - [[Richard Nixon]] signs a bill lowering the maximum [[United States|US]] [[speed limit]] to 55 [[mile per hour|MPH]] in order to conserve [[gasoline]] during an [[OPEC]] embargo. | ||
| - | *[[1991]] - [[Sharon Pratt Dixon]] is sworn in as mayor of [[Washington, DC]], becoming the first [[African American]] woman to lead a city of that size and importance. | ||
| - | *[[1993]] - Leaders of the three warring factions in [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]] meet to discuss peace plans. | ||
| - | *[[1998]] - [[Russia]] begins to circulate new [[Russian ruble|ruble]]s to stem [[inflation]] and promote confidence. | ||
| - | *[[1999]] - A brutal [[snowstorm]] smashes into the [[Midwest]]ern [[United States]], causing 14 inches (359 mm) of snow at [[Milwaukee, Wisconsin]], and 19 inches (487 mm) at [[Chicago]], where temperatures plunge to -13°F (-25°C); 68 deaths are reported. | ||
| - | *[[2001]] - [[Sila Calderón]] becomes the first female [[Governor of Puerto Rico]]. | ||
| - | * 2002 - [[Eduardo Duhalde]] is appointed interim [[President of Argentina]] by the Legislative Assembly. | ||
| - | *[[2004]] - [[Stardust (spacecraft)|Stardust]] successfully flies past [[Comet]] [[81P/Wild|Wild 2]], collecting samples that it will return to [[Earth]] two years later. | ||
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| ==Births== | ==Births== | ||
| - | *[[1642]] - [[Mehmed IV]], [[Ottoman Sultan]] (d. [[1693]]) | + | *[[1783]] - [[Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg]], Danish painter (d. [[1853]]) |
| - | *[[1647]] - [[Nathaniel Bacon]], English-born American colonist (d. [[1676]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1713]] - [[Marie Dumesnil]], French actress (d. [[1803]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1719]] - [[Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat]], French shipbuilder (d. [[1797]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1727]] - [[James Wolfe]], British general (d. [[1759]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1777]] - [[Christian Daniel Rauch]], German sculptor (d. [[1857]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1822]] - [[Rudolf Clausius]], German physicist (d. [[1888]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1827]] - [[Peter Semenov of Tian Shan]], Russian explorer (d. [[1914]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1833]] - [[Frederick A. Johnson]], American politician (d. [[1893]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1836]] - [[Mendele Moykher Sforim]], Jewish writer (d. [[1917]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1837]] - [[Mily Balakirev]], Russian composer (d. [[1910]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1870]] - [[Ernst Barlach]], German sculptor (d. [[1938]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1873]] - [[Thérèse de Lisieux]], French Roman-Catholic nun (d. [[1897]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1877]] - [[Slava Raskaj]], Croatian painter (d.[[1906]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1886]] - [[Florence Lawrence]], Canadian actress (d. [[1938]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1892]] - [[Seiichiro Kashio]], Japanese tennis player (d. [[1962]]) | + | |
| *[[1896]] - [[Dziga Vertov]], Russian filmmaker (d. [[1954]]) | *[[1896]] - [[Dziga Vertov]], Russian filmmaker (d. [[1954]]) | ||
| - | *[[1897]] - [[Jim Londos]], wrestler (d. [[1975]]) | + | *[[1902]] - [[Alfred H. Barr, Jr.]], American art historian (MoMA) (d. [[1981]]) |
| - | *[[1902]] - [[Dan Keating]], [[Irish republicanism|Irish republican]] (d. [[2007]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1904]] - [[Sally Rand]], American fan dancer (d. [[1979]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1905]] - [[Lev Schnirelmann]], Russian mathematician (d. [[1938]]) | + | |
| - | * 1905 - [[Michael Tippett]], English composer (d. [[1998]]) | + | |
| - | * 1905 - [[Luigi Zampa]], Italian film director and screenwriter (d. [[1991]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1910]] - [[Srirangam Srinivasarao]], also known as Sri Sri, Famous Modern Telugu Poet (d. [[1983]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1913]] - [[Anna Lee]], English actress (d. [[2004]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1917]] - [[Vera Zorina]], German dancer (d. [[2003]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1918]] - [[Willi Graf]], member of the [[White Rose]] (Weiße Rose) [[Widerstand|resistance]] group in [[Nazi Germany]] (d. [[1943]]) | + | |
| *[[1920]] - [[Isaac Asimov]], Russian-born author (d. [[1992]]) | *[[1920]] - [[Isaac Asimov]], Russian-born author (d. [[1992]]) | ||
| - | *[[1921]] - [[Glen Harmon]], Canadian ice hockey player (d. [[2007]]) | + | *[[1919]] - [[Charles Willeford]], American writer (''Miami Blues'') (d. [[1988]]) |
| - | *[[1925]] - [[William J. Crowe]], American admiral and ambassador (d. [[2007]]) | + | *[[1929]] - [[Charles Beaumont]], American writer (''The Intruder'') (d. [[1967]]) |
| - | *[[1928]] - [[Avie Bennett]], Canadian philanthropist | + | |
| - | * 1928 - [[Robert Goralski]], American journalist (d. [[1988]]) | + | |
| - | * 1928 - [[Daisaku Ikeda]], Japanese writer, president of [[Soka Gakkai International|SGI]] | + | |
| - | *[[1930]] - [[Julius LaRosa]], American singer | + | |
| - | *[[1933]] - [[Morimura Seiichi]], Japanese novelist | + | |
| - | *[[1935]] - [[Neil Downing]], Irish writer and musician | + | |
| - | *[[1936]] - [[Roger Miller]], American singer (d. [[1992]]) | + | |
| *[[1938]] - [[Ian Brady]], British serial killer | *[[1938]] - [[Ian Brady]], British serial killer | ||
| - | * 1938 - [[Hans Herbjørnsrud]], Norwegian author | + | *[[1938]] - [[Robert Smithson]], American artist (land art) (d. [[1973]]) |
| - | *[[1940]] - [[Jim Bakker]], American televangelist | + | *[[1938]] - [[David Bailey (photographer)|David Bailey]], British photographer |
| - | * 1940 - [[S. R. S. Varadhan]], Indian-American mathematician | + | *[[1961]] - [[Todd Haynes]], American film director |
| - | *[[1942]] - [[Dennis Hastert]], 59th [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives]] | + | |
| - | * 1942 - [[Hugh Shelton]], 15th [[Joint Chiefs of Staff#Chairman|Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff]] | + | |
| - | *[[1944]] - Prince [[Norodom Ranariddh]], Cambodian politician | + | |
| - | *[[1946]] - [[Richard Cole]], American tour manager | + | |
| - | *[[1947]] - [[Jack Hanna]], American zoologist | + | |
| - | * 1947 - [[Calvin Hill]], American football player | + | |
| - | *[[1949]] - [[Christopher Durang]], American playwright | + | |
| - | *[[1950]] - [[David Shifrin]], American classical clarinetist | + | |
| - | *[[1951]] - [[Alexander Pogrebinsky]], Russian-born painter | + | |
| - | *[[1954]] - [[Henry Bonilla]], American politician | + | |
| - | * 1954 - [[Dawn Silva]], American singer ([[The Brides of Funkenstein]], [[P-Funk]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1955]] - [[Tex Brashear]], American voice actor | + | |
| - | *[[1957]] - [[Joanna Pacula]], Polish actress | + | |
| - | *[[1958]] - [[Vladimir Ovchinnikov]], Russian pianist | + | |
| - | *[[1960]] - [[Naoki Urasawa]], Japanese [[manga]] author | + | |
| - | *[[1961]] - [[Gabrielle Carteris]], American actress | + | |
| - | * 1961 - [[Todd Haynes]], American film director | + | |
| - | *[[1963]] - [[David Cone]], American baseball player | + | |
| - | * 1963 - [[Edgar Martinez]], American baseball player | + | |
| - | *[[1964]] - [[Pernell Whitaker]], American boxer | + | |
| - | *[[1965]] - [[Greg Swindell]], American baseball player | + | |
| - | *[[1967]] - [[Tia Carrere]], American actress | + | |
| - | * 1967 - [[Jón Gnarr]], Icelandic comedian | + | |
| - | *[[1968]] - [[Cuba Gooding Jr.]], American actor | + | |
| - | * 1968 - [[Anky van Grunsven]], Dutch [[dressage]] champion | + | |
| - | * 1968 - [[Evan Parke]], Jamaican actor | + | |
| - | * 1968 - [[Goichi Suda]], CEO of Grasshopper Manufacture | + | |
| - | *[[1969]] - [[Tommy Morrison]], American boxer | + | |
| - | * 1969 - [[Christy Turlington]], American model | + | |
| - | * 1969 - [[Karl-Heinz Grasser]], Austrian politician | + | |
| - | * 1969 - [[Róbert Švehla]], Slovak ice hockey player | + | |
| - | * 1969 - [[Patrick Huard]], Quebec actor and comedian | + | |
| - | *[[1970]] - [[Royce Clayton]], American baseball player | + | |
| - | * 1970 - [[Robert Fertitta]], American opera singer | + | |
| - | * 1970 - [[Sanda Ladoşi]], Romanian singer | + | |
| - | *[[1971]] - [[Taye Diggs]], American actor | + | |
| - | * 1971 - [[Lisa Harrison]], American basketball player | + | |
| - | * 1971 - [[Renee Elise Goldsberry]], American actress and singer | + | |
| - | *[[1972]] - [[Hristos Meletoglou]], Greek triple jumper | + | |
| - | *[[1973]] - [[Lucy Davis]], British actress | + | |
| - | * 1973 - [[Will Kirby]], American actor | + | |
| - | *[[1975]] - [[Reuben Thorne]], New Zealand rugby union player | + | |
| - | * 1975 - [[Douglas Robb (musician)|Doug Robb]], American singer ([[Hoobastank]]) | + | |
| - | * 1975 - [[Chris Cheney]], Australian musician ([[The Living End]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1976]] - [[Cletidus Hunt]], American football player | + | |
| - | * 1976 - [[Danilo Di Luca]], Italian cyclist | + | |
| - | * 1976 - [[Paz Vega]], Spanish actress | + | |
| - | * 1976 - [[Hrysopiyi Devetzi]], triple jump & long jump athlete | + | |
| - | *[[1977]] - [[Ales Pisa]], Czech ice hockey player | + | |
| - | * 1977 - [[Scott Proctor]], American baseball player | + | |
| - | *[[1978]] - [[Toyoguchi Megumi]], Japanese seiyuu (voice actress) | + | |
| - | *[[1979]] - [[Suranne Jones]], British actress | + | |
| - | *[[1980]] - [[Mac Danzig]], American [[Mixed martial arts]] combatant | + | |
| - | * 1980 - [[Bill Alldredge]], American politician | + | |
| - | *[[1981]] - [[Hanno Balitsch]], German footballer | + | |
| - | * 1981 - [[Kirk Hinrich]], basketball player | + | |
| - | * 1981 - [[Maximiliano Rodríguez|Maxi Rodríguez]], Argentine footballer | + | |
| - | * 1981 - [[Ryan Garko]], American baseball player | + | |
| - | *[[1982]] - [[Athanasia Tsoumeleka]], Greek race walker | + | |
| - | *[[1983]] - [[Kate Bosworth]], American actress | + | |
| - | *[[1984]] - [[Colleen Taylor]], American journalist | + | |
| - | *[[1985]] - [[Heather O'Reilly]], American soccer player | + | |
| - | *[[1987]] - [[Loui Batley]], British actress | + | |
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| ==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
| - | *[[1512]] - [[Svante, Regent of Sweden]] (b. [[1460]]) | ||
| - | *[[1514]] - [[William Smyth]], English bishop and statesman (bc. [[1460]]) | ||
| *[[1557]] - [[Pontormo]], Italian painter (b. [[1494]]) | *[[1557]] - [[Pontormo]], Italian painter (b. [[1494]]) | ||
| - | *[[1685]] - [[Harbottle Grimston]], English politician (b. [[1603]]) | + | *[[1801]] - [[Johann Kaspar Lavater]], Swiss poet and physiognomist (''Essays on Physiognomy'') (b. [[1741]]) |
| - | *[[1694]] - [[Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington]], English politician (b. [[1651]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1726]] - [[Domenico Zipoli]], Italian composer (b. [[1688]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1892]] - [[George Airy]], British [[Astronomer Royal]] (b. [[1801]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1893]] - [[John Obadiah Westwood]], British entomologist (b. [[1805]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1904]] - [[James Longstreet]], American Confederate general (b. [[1821]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1913]] - [[Léon Teisserenc de Bort]], French meteorologist (b. [[1855]]) | + | |
| *[[1917]] - [[Edward Burnett Tylor]], English anthropologist (b. [[1832]]) | *[[1917]] - [[Edward Burnett Tylor]], English anthropologist (b. [[1832]]) | ||
| - | *[[1920]] - [[Paul Adam]], French novelist (b. [[1862]]) | + | *[[1971]] - [[Willard Maas]], American filmmaker and poet (''Blow Job'') (b. [[1906]] or [[1911]]) |
| - | *[[1924]] - [[Sabine Baring-Gould]], English composer and novelist (b. [[1834]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1939]] - [[Roman Dmowski]], Polish politician (b. [[1864]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1946]] - [[Joe Darling]], Australian cricketer (b. [[1870]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1950]] - [[Emil Jannings]], Swiss actor and the first winner of the [[Academy Award for Best Actor]] (b. [[1884]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1959]] - [[Chris van Abkoude]], Dutch-American writer and novelist (b. [[1880]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1960]] - [[Fausto Coppi]], Italian cyclist (b. [[1919]]) | + | |
| - | * 1960 - [[Paul Sauvé]], Canadian politician (b. [[1907]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1963]] - [[Dick Powell]], American actor (b. [[1904]]) | + | |
| - | * 1963 - [[Jack Carson]], American actor (b. [[1910]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1974]] - [[Tex Ritter]], American actor (b. [[1905]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1977]] - [[Errol Garner]], American musician (b. [[1921]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1986]] - [[Una Merkel]], American actress (b. [[1903]]) | + | |
| - | * 1986 - [[Bill Veeck]], baseball executive (b. [[1914]]) | + | |
| - | * 1986 - [[Dick James]], English music publisher ([[Northern Songs]]) (b. [[1920]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1990]] - [[Alan Hale Jr.]], American actor (b. [[1918]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1994]] - [[Dixy Lee Ray]], American politician (b. [[1914]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1995]] - [[Siad Barre]], [[President of Somalia]] (b. [[1919]]) | + | |
| - | * 1995 - [[Nancy Kelly]], American actress (b. [[1921]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1996]] - [[Karl Targownik]], Hungarian psychiatrist (b. [[1915]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1997]] - [[Randy California]], American guitarist & songwriter ([[Spirit (band)|Spirit]]) (b. [[1951]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1999]] - [[Sebastian Haffner]], German journalist and author (b. [[1907]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2000]] - [[Nat Adderley]], American musician and composer (b. [[1931]]) | + | |
| - | * 2000 - [[Patrick O'Brian]], British novelist (b. [[1914]]) | + | |
| - | * 2000 - [[Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.]], U.S. admiral (b. [[1920]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2001]] - [[Teri Diver]], American actress (b. [[1971]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2002]] - [[Armi Aavikko]], Finnish singer (b. [[1958]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2004]] - [[Lynn Cartwright]], American actress (b. [[1927]]) | + | |
| - | * 2004 - [[Jess Collins]], American artist (b. [[1923]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2005]] - [[Cyril Fletcher]], British comedian (b. [[1913]]) | + | |
| - | * 2005 - [[Frank Kelly Freas]], American artist (b. [[1922]]) | + | |
| - | * 2005 - [[Ronald 'Bo' Ginn]], American politician (b. [[1934]]) | + | |
| - | * 2005 - [[Maclyn McCarty]], American geneticist (b. [[1911]]) | + | |
| - | * 2005 - [[Edo Murtić]], Croatian painter (b. [[1921]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2007]] - [[Teddy Kollek]], Austrian-born mayor of Jerusalem (b. [[1911]]) | + | |
| - | * 2007 - [[Robert C. Solomon]], American scholar of continental philosophy (b. [[1942]]) | + | |
| - | * 2007 - [[Dan Shaver]], NASCAR driver and ARCA race car driver/owner (b. [[1950]]) | + | |
| - | * 2007 - [[David Perkins (geneticist)|David Perkins]], Stanford University geneticist (b. [[1919]]) | + | |
| - | * 2007 - [[Paek Nam-sun]], North Korean Foreign Affairs minister (b. [[1929]]) | + | |
| - | * 2007 - [[A. Richard Newton|Richard Newton]], Australian-born technology pioneer and professor (b. [[1951]]) | + | |
| - | * 2007 - [[Don Massengale]], American [[PGA Tour]] golf player (b. [[1937]]) | + | |
| - | * 2007 - [[Mauno Jokipii]], Finnish professor and [[World War II]] researcher (b. [[1924]]) | + | |
| - | * 2007 - [[Sergio Jiménez]], Mexican actor (b. [[1937]]) | + | |
| - | * 2007 - [[Elizabeth Fox-Genovese]], American historian (b. [[1941]]) | + | |
| - | * 2007 - [[Garry Betty]], American CEO of Earthlink (b. [[1957]]) | + | |
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| - | == Notes == | + | |
| - | Robert Smithson | + | |
| - | Dziga Vertov | + | |
| - | Pontormo | + | |
| - | Johann Kaspar Lavater | + | |
| - | Charles Beaumont | + | |
| - | Ian Brady | + | |
| - | Willard Maas | + | |
| - | David Bailey (photographer) | + | |
| - | Todd Haynes | + | |
| - | Isaac Asimov | + | |
| - | Al-Andalus | + | |
| - | Alfred H. Barr, Jr. | + | |
| - | Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg | + | |
| - | Edward Burnett Tylor | + | |
| - | Dirk Bikkembergs | + | |
| - | Charles Willeford | + | |
| - | Rutebeuf | + | |
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Births
- 1783 - Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Danish painter (d. 1853)
- 1896 - Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (d. 1954)
- 1902 - Alfred H. Barr, Jr., American art historian (MoMA) (d. 1981)
- 1920 - Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (d. 1992)
- 1919 - Charles Willeford, American writer (Miami Blues) (d. 1988)
- 1929 - Charles Beaumont, American writer (The Intruder) (d. 1967)
- 1938 - Ian Brady, British serial killer
- 1938 - Robert Smithson, American artist (land art) (d. 1973)
- 1938 - David Bailey, British photographer
- 1961 - Todd Haynes, American film director
Deaths
- 1557 - Pontormo, Italian painter (b. 1494)
- 1801 - Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss poet and physiognomist (Essays on Physiognomy) (b. 1741)
- 1917 - Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (b. 1832)
- 1971 - Willard Maas, American filmmaker and poet (Blow Job) (b. 1906 or 1911)
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