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| *[[1865]] - In a letter written to [[Édouard Manet]], [[Baudelaire]] said: "[[Rops]] is the one true artist" | *[[1865]] - In a letter written to [[Édouard Manet]], [[Baudelaire]] said: "[[Rops]] is the one true artist" | ||
| - | *[[2006]] - [[Undercover Surrealism]] exhibition opens in London. | ||
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| - | == Births == | ||
| - | *[[1824]] - [[Jean-Léon Gérôme]], French painter and sculptor of the Orientalist style | ||
| - | *[[1904]] - [[Salvador Dalí]], Spanish surrealist artist | ||
| - | *[[1928]] - [[Marco Ferreri]], Italian filmmaker (d. [[1997]]) | ||
| - | *[[1952]] - [[Renaud]], popular French singer | ||
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| - | == Deaths == | ||
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| - | *[[1952]] - [[Eugène François Vidocq]], French criminal and first detective | ||
| - | *[[1952]] - [[Bob Marley]], Jamaican reggae musician | ||
| - | *[[1952]] - [[Alvar Aalto]], Finnish modernist architect and designer | ||
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| - | ==Events== | ||
| *[[1927]] – The [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] is founded. | *[[1927]] – The [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] is founded. | ||
| *[[1987]] – [[Klaus Barbie]] goes on trial in [[Lyon]] for [[war crime]]s committed during World War II. | *[[1987]] – [[Klaus Barbie]] goes on trial in [[Lyon]] for [[war crime]]s committed during World War II. | ||
| + | *[[2006]] - [[Undercover Surrealism]] exhibition opens in London. | ||
| ==Births== | ==Births== | ||
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| * 1928 – [[Marco Ferreri]], Italian film director and screenwriter (d. 1997) | * 1928 – [[Marco Ferreri]], Italian film director and screenwriter (d. 1997) | ||
| *[[1935]] – [[Francisco Umbral]], Spanish novelist (d. 2007) | *[[1935]] – [[Francisco Umbral]], Spanish novelist (d. 2007) | ||
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| - | *[[1936]] – [[Carla Bley]], American musician and composer | ||
| - | *[[1939]] – [[Carlos Lyra]], Brazilian musician | ||
| - | * 1939 – [[Dante Tinga]], Filipino [[Supreme Court of the Philippines|Supreme Court]] jurist | ||
| - | *[[1940]] – [[Juan Downey]], Chilean video artist (d. 1993) | ||
| *[[1941]] – [[Eric Burdon]], British singer ([[The Animals]]) | *[[1941]] – [[Eric Burdon]], British singer ([[The Animals]]) | ||
| - | * 1941 – [[Graham Miles]], English snooker player | + | *[[1948]] – [[Shigeru Izumiya]], Japanese folk musician |
| - | *[[1942]] – [[Rachel Billington]], British author | + | *[[1952]] – [[Renaud Séchan]], French composer |
| - | *[[1943]] – [[Nancy Greene]], Canadian alpine skier | + | *[[1963]] – [[Natasha Richardson]], English-born actress (d. 2009) |
| - | * 1943 – [[Juliet Harmer]], English actress | + | *[[1974]] – [[Benoît Magimel]], French actor |
| - | *[[1946]] – [[Robert Jarvik]], American physician and inventor | + | |
| - | * 1946 – [[Plume Latraverse]], Quebec singer and musician | + | |
| - | *[[1947]] – [[Butch Trucks]], American drummer ([[The Allman Brothers Band]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1948]] – [[Nirj Deva]], Sri Lankan-British politician | + | |
| - | * 1948 – [[Shigeru Izumiya]], Japanese folk musician | + | |
| - | *[[1950]] – [[Dane Iorg]], American baseball player | + | |
| - | * 1950 – [[Jeremy Paxman]], British journalist and author | + | |
| - | *[[1952]] – [[Shohreh Aghdashloo]], Iranian actress | + | |
| - | * 1952 – [[Frances Fisher]], English-born actress | + | |
| - | * 1952 – [[Mike Lupica]], American sports journalist | + | |
| - | * 1952 – [[Renaud Séchan]], French composer | + | |
| - | * 1952 – [[Warren Littlefield]], American television executive | + | |
| - | *[[1953]] – [[David Gest]], American television producer | + | |
| - | * 1953 – [[Céline Lomez]], Quebec singer and actress | + | |
| - | *[[1954]] – [[John Gregory (footballer)|John Gregory]], English football manager | + | |
| - | * 1954 – [[Lubomir Stoykov]], Bulgarian journalist and broadcaster | + | |
| - | *[[1955]] – [[John DeStefano, Jr.]], American politician | + | |
| - | *[[1956]] – [[Theresa Burke]], Canadian journalist | + | |
| - | * 1956 – [[Alex Lester]], British broadcaster | + | |
| - | *[[1957]] – [[Peter North (porn star)|Peter North]], Canadian porn star | + | |
| - | *[[1958]] – [[Christian Brando]], American actor; son of [[Marlon Brando]] (d. 2008) | + | |
| - | * 1958 – [[Phil Smyth]], Australian basketball player | + | |
| - | * 1958 – [[Walt Terrell]], American baseball player | + | |
| - | *[[1959]] – [[Martha Quinn]], American television personality | + | |
| - | *[[1963]] – [[Gunilla Carlsson]], Swedish politician | + | |
| - | * 1963 – [[Masatoshi Hamada]], Japanese comedian | + | |
| - | * 1963 – [[Natasha Richardson]], English-born actress (d. 2009) | + | |
| - | * 1963 – [[Roark Critchlow]], actor | + | |
| - | *[[1964]] – [[John Parrott]], English snooker player | + | |
| - | * 1964 – [[Katie Wagner]], American television reporter | + | |
| - | * 1964 – [[Floyd Youmans]], American baseball player | + | |
| - | *[[1965]] – [[Greg Dulli]], American musician | + | |
| - | * 1965 – [[Monsour del Rosario]], Filipino martial artist and actor | + | |
| - | *[[1966]] – [[Christoph Schneider]], German drummer ([[Rammstein]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1968]] – [[Jeffrey Donovan]], American actor | + | |
| - | *[[1970]] – [[Nicky Katt]], American actor | + | |
| - | * 1970 – [[Glenn Hugill]], British television presenter and producer | + | |
| - | *[[1972]] – [[Anita Hegh]], Australian actress | + | |
| - | * 1972 – [[Daniel Ornellas]], Zimbabwean musician | + | |
| - | *[[1973]] – [[James Haven]], American actor | + | |
| - | *[[1974]] – [[Kevin Brown (ice hockey)|Kevin Brown]], English-born Canadian ice hockey player | + | |
| - | * 1974 – [[Stanley Gene]], Papua New Guinean rugby league footballer | + | |
| - | * 1974 – [[Billy Kidman]], American professional wrestler | + | |
| - | * 1974 – [[Benoît Magimel]], French actor | + | |
| - | * 1974 – [[Darren Ward (goalkeeper)|Darren Ward]], Welsh footballer | + | |
| - | *[[1975]] – [[Francisco Cordero]], Dominican baseball player | + | |
| - | *[[1977]] – [[Janne Ahonen]], Finnish ski jumper | + | |
| - | * 1977 – [[Gonzalo Colsa]], Spanish footballer | + | |
| - | * 1977 – [[Pablo García (footballer)|Pablo García]], Uruguayan footballer | + | |
| - | * 1977 – [[Victor Matfield]], South African rugby union footballer | + | |
| - | * 1977 – [[Matthew Newton]], Australian actor | + | |
| *[[1978]] – [[Laetitia Casta]], French supermodel and actress | *[[1978]] – [[Laetitia Casta]], French supermodel and actress | ||
| - | * 1978 – [[Perttu Kivilaakso]], Finnish Cellist ([[Apocalyptica]]) | ||
| - | *[[1979]] – [[Erin Lang]], Canadian musician | ||
| - | *[[1981]] – [[Lauren Jackson]], Australian basketball player | ||
| - | * 1981 – [[Daniel Ortmeier]], American baseball player | ||
| - | * 1981 – [[Austin O'Brien]], American actor | ||
| - | *[[1982]] – [[Jonathan Jackson (actor)|Jonathan Jackson]], American actor | ||
| - | * 1982 – [[Andrew Walter]], American football player | ||
| - | *[[1983]] – [[Matt Leinart]], American football player | ||
| - | * 1983 – [[Holly Valance]], Australian-born actress and singer | ||
| - | * 1983 – [[Frédéric Xhonneux]], Belgian decathlete | ||
| - | *[[1984]] – [[Gerald Clayton]], Dutch-American jazz pianist | ||
| - | * 1984 – [[Andres Iniesta]], Spanish football player | ||
| - | *[[1985]] – [[sifow]], Japanese pop star and business woman | ||
| - | * 1985 – [[Matt Giraud]], American singer | ||
| - | *[[1986]] – [[Abou Diaby]], French footballer | ||
| - | * 1986 – [[Miguel Veloso]], Portuguese footballer | ||
| - | * 1986 – [[Ronny Heberson Furtado de Araújo|Ronny]], Brazilian footballer | ||
| - | * 1986 – [[Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen]], Dutch Professional Gamer | ||
| - | *[[1987]] – [[Justin King (American football)|Justin King]], American football player | ||
| - | * 1987 – [[Louis Murphy]], American college football player | ||
| - | * 1987 – [[Monica Roşu]], Romanian gymnast | ||
| - | *[[1989]] – [[Giovani dos Santos]], Mexican footballer | ||
| - | * 1989 – [[Ace Hood]], American rapper | ||
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| ==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
| - | *[[912]] – [[Leo VI the Wise|Leo VI]], [[Byzantine Emperor]] (b. 866) | ||
| - | *[[1304]] – [[Mahmud Ghazan]], Mongol ruler (b. 1271) | ||
| - | *[[1610]] – [[Matteo Ricci]], Italian Jesuit missionary (b. 1552) | ||
| - | *[[1672]] – [[Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline]], English royalist (b. 1615) | ||
| - | *[[1708]] – [[Jules Hardouin Mansart]], French architect (b. 1646) | ||
| - | *[[1723]] – [[Jean Galbert de Campistron]], French dramatist (b. 1656) | ||
| - | *[[1777]] – [[George Pigot, Baron Pigot]], British governor of Madras (b. 1719) | ||
| - | *[[1778]] – [[William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham|William Pitt, the Elder]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. 1708) | ||
| - | *[[1812]] – [[Spencer Perceval]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (assassinated) (b. 1762) | ||
| - | *[[1848]] – [[Tom Cribb]], English boxer (b. 1781) | ||
| *[[1849]] – [[Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier]], French socialite (b. 1777) | *[[1849]] – [[Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier]], French socialite (b. 1777) | ||
| - | *[[1871]] – [[John Herschel]], British mathematician and astronomer (b. 1792) | + | *[[1952]] – [[Eugène François Vidocq]], French criminal and first detective (b. 1775) |
| - | *[[1887]] – [[Jean Baptiste Boussingault]], French chemist (b. 1802) | + | |
| - | *[[1891]] – [[A. E. Becquerel]], French physicist (b. 1820) | + | |
| - | *[[1916]] – [[Max Reger]], German composer (b. 1873) | + | |
| - | * 1916 – [[Karl Schwarzschild]], German astronomer and physicist (b. 1873) | + | |
| *[[1920]] – [[William Dean Howells]], American writer (b. 1837) | *[[1920]] – [[William Dean Howells]], American writer (b. 1837) | ||
| - | *[[1929]] – [[Jozef Murgaš]], Slovak inventor (b. 1864) | ||
| - | *[[1934]] – [[Blaise Diagne]], Sengalese politician (b. 1872) | ||
| - | * 1934 – [[Orest Khvolson]], Russian physicist (b. 1852) | ||
| - | *[[1939]] – [[Evgenii Miller]], Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1867) | ||
| - | *[[1955]] – [[Gilbert Laird Jessop|Gilbert Jessop]], English cricketer (b. 1874) | ||
| - | *[[1960]] – [[John D. Rockefeller, Jr.]], American philanthropist (b. 1874) | ||
| - | *[[1963]] – [[Herbert Spencer Gasser]], American physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate]] (b. 1888) | ||
| - | *[[1970]] – [[Johnny Hodges]], American musician (b. 1906) | ||
| *[[1973]] – [[Lex Barker]], American actor (b. 1919) | *[[1973]] – [[Lex Barker]], American actor (b. 1919) | ||
| *[[1976]] – [[Alvar Aalto]], Finnish architect (b. 1898) | *[[1976]] – [[Alvar Aalto]], Finnish architect (b. 1898) | ||
| - | *[[1979]] – [[Lester Flatt]], American bluegrass musician (b. 1914) | + | *[[1981]] – [[Bob Marley]], Jamaican singer and musician (b. 1945) |
| - | *[[1981]] – [[Odd Hassel]], Norwegian chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel laureate]] (b. 1897) | + | |
| - | * 1981 – [[Bob Marley]], Jamaican singer and musician (b. 1945) | + | |
| - | *[[1985]] – [[Chester Gould]], American cartoonist (b. 1900) | + | |
| - | *[[1986]] – [[Henry P. McIlhenny]], American philanthropist (b. 1910) | + | |
| - | * 1986 – [[Fritz Pollard]], American football player (b. 1894) | + | |
| - | *[[1988]] – [[Kim Philby]], British spy (b. 1912) | + | |
| - | *[[1994]] – [[Timothy Carey]], American actor (b. 1928) | + | |
| - | *[[1996]] – [[Ademir Marques de Menezes]], Brazilian footballer (b. 1922) | + | |
| - | * 1996 – [[Nnamdi Azikiwe]], [[President of Nigeria]] (b. 1904) | + | |
| - | *[[2000]] – [[Paula Wessely]], Austrian actress (b. 1907) | + | |
| *[[2001]] – [[Douglas Adams]], English author (b. 1952) | *[[2001]] – [[Douglas Adams]], English author (b. 1952) | ||
| - | * 2002 – [[Renaude Lapointe]], French Canadian journalist and senator (b. 1912) | + | *[[2004]] – [[John Whitehead (singer)|John Whitehead]], American singer ([[McFadden & Whitehead]]) (b. 1949) |
| - | *[[2003]] – [[Noel Redding]], English bassist ([[The Jimi Hendrix Experience]]) (b. 1945) | + | |
| - | *[[2004]] – [[Mick Doyle (rugby player)|Mick Doyle]], Irish rugby union footballer and coach | + | |
| - | * 2004 – [[John Whitehead (singer)|John Whitehead]], American singer ([[McFadden & Whitehead]]) (b. 1949) | + | |
| - | *[[2005]] – [[Michalis Genitsaris]], Greek [[rebetiko]] singer and composer (b. 1917) | + | |
| - | *[[2006]] – [[Floyd Patterson]], American boxer (b. 1935) | + | |
| - | * 2006 – [[Frankie Thomas]], American actor (b. 1921) | + | |
| - | * 2006 – [[Yossi Banai]], Israeli singer (b. 1932) | + | |
| - | *[[2007]] – [[Malietoa Tanumafili II]], Sovereign Ruler of [[Samoa]] (b. 1913) | + | |
| - | * 2007 – [[Bernard Gordon]], [[blacklisted]] American [[author]] (b. 1918) | + | |
| - | *[[2008]] – [[Dottie Rambo]], American gospel singer (b. 1934) | + | |
| - | * 2008 – [[John Rutsey]], Canadian [[drummer]], formerly for Canadian [[progressive rock]] band [[Rush (band)|Rush]] (b. 1953) | + | |
| - | * 2008 – [[Bruno Neves]], Portuguese cyclist (b. 1981) | + | |
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Events
- 1865 - In a letter written to Édouard Manet, Baudelaire said: "Rops is the one true artist"
- 1927 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded.
- 1987 – Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
- 2006 - Undercover Surrealism exhibition opens in London.
Births
- 1811 – Chang and Eng Bunker, famous conjoined twins (d. 1874)
- 1824 – Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (d. 1904)
- 1827 – Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (d. 1875)
- 1894 – Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1991)
- 1904 – Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter (d. 1989)
- 1928 – Yaacov Agam, Israeli sculptor
- 1928 – Marco Ferreri, Italian film director and screenwriter (d. 1997)
- 1935 – Francisco Umbral, Spanish novelist (d. 2007)
- 1941 – Eric Burdon, British singer (The Animals)
- 1948 – Shigeru Izumiya, Japanese folk musician
- 1952 – Renaud Séchan, French composer
- 1963 – Natasha Richardson, English-born actress (d. 2009)
- 1974 – Benoît Magimel, French actor
- 1978 – Laetitia Casta, French supermodel and actress
Deaths
- 1849 – Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier, French socialite (b. 1777)
- 1952 – Eugène François Vidocq, French criminal and first detective (b. 1775)
- 1920 – William Dean Howells, American writer (b. 1837)
- 1973 – Lex Barker, American actor (b. 1919)
- 1976 – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (b. 1898)
- 1981 – Bob Marley, Jamaican singer and musician (b. 1945)
- 2001 – Douglas Adams, English author (b. 1952)
- 2004 – John Whitehead, American singer (McFadden & Whitehead) (b. 1949)
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