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| *[[2007]] - ''[[Un roman sentimental]]'', novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet | *[[2007]] - ''[[Un roman sentimental]]'', novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet | ||
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| - | *[[202 BC]] - The [[Battle of Zama]] results in the defeat of [[Carthage]] and [[Hannibal Barca|Hannibal]]. | ||
| - | * [[439]] - The [[Vandals]], led by King [[Gaiseric]], take [[Carthage]] in [[North Africa]]. | ||
| - | *[[1216]] - [[King John of England]] dies at [[Newark-on-Trent]] and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry. | ||
| - | *[[1453]] - The French recapture of [[Bordeaux]] brings the [[Hundred Years' War]] to a close, with the English retaining only [[Calais]] on French soil. | ||
| - | *[[1466]] - The [[Thirteen Years' War]] ends with the [[Peace of Toruń 1466|Second Treaty of Toruń]]. [[Gdansk Pomerania]] and [[Prussia]] as a whole are incorporated into [[Poland]]; the [[Teutonic Knights]] are allowed to rule its eastern part as Polish [[vassal]]s. | ||
| - | *[[1469]] - [[Ferdinand II of Aragon]] marries [[Isabella of Castile]], a marriage that paves the way to the unification of [[Aragon]] and [[Crown of Castile|Castile]] into a single country, [[Spain]]. | ||
| - | *[[1512]] - [[Martin Luther]] becomes a doctor of theology (''Doctor in Biblia''). | ||
| - | *[[1781]] - At [[siege of Yorktown|Yorktown, Virginia]], [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] commander [[Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis|Lord Cornwallis]] surrendered to a [[France|Franco]]-[[United States|American]] force led by [[George Washington]] and the [[Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau|comte de Rochambeau]], paving the way for the end of the [[American Revolutionary War]]. | ||
| - | *[[1789]] - Chief Justice [[John Jay]] is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the [[U.S. Supreme Court]]. | ||
| - | *[[1812]] - [[Napoleon I of France]] retreats from [[Moscow]]. | ||
| - | *[[1813]] - The [[Battle of Leipzig]] concludes, giving [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon Bonaparte]] one of his worst defeats. | ||
| - | *[[1822]] - In [[Parnaíba]]; Simplício Dias da Silva, João Cândido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of [[Piauí]]. | ||
| - | *[[1864]] - [[Battle of Cedar Creek]] - [[Union Army]] under [[Philip Sheridan]] destroys Confederate Army under [[Jubal Anderson Early|Jubal Early]]. | ||
| - | * 1864 - [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] raiders launch an attack on [[Saint Albans, Vermont]] from [[Canada]]. | ||
| - | *[[1873]] - [[Yale University|Yale]], [[Princeton University|Princeton]], [[Columbia University|Columbia]], and [[Rutgers University|Rutgers]] universities draft the first code of [[American football]] rules. | ||
| - | *[[1904]] - [[Polytechnic University of the Philippines]] founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the [[United States|American]] C.A. O'Reilley. | ||
| - | *[[1912]] - [[Italy]] takes possession of [[Tripoli]], [[Libya]] from the [[Ottoman Empire]]. | ||
| - | *[[1914]] - The [[First Battle of Ypres]] begins. | ||
| - | *[[1917]] - [[Dallas Love Field|Love Field]] in [[Dallas, Texas]] is opened. | ||
| - | *[[1921]] - Portuguese Prime Minister [[António Granjo]] and other politicians are murdered in a [[Lisbon]] coup. | ||
| - | *[[1933]] - [[Germany]] withdraws from the [[League of Nations]]. | ||
| - | *[[1935]] - The [[League of Nations]] places economic sanctions on [[fascist Italy]] for its invasion of [[Ethiopia]]. | ||
| - | *[[1943]] - [[Streptomycin]], the first [[antibiotic]] remedy for [[tuberculosis]], is isolated by researchers at [[Rutgers University]]. | ||
| - | *[[1944]] - [[United States]] forces land in the [[Philippines]]. | ||
| - | *[[1950]] - The military of the [[People's Republic of China]] takes control of the town of [[Chamdo]] in eastern [[Tibet]]. | ||
| - | *[[1952]] - [[John Bamford]], aged 15, rescues victims of a house fire and becomes the youngest person to have been awarded the [[George Cross]]. | ||
| - | *[[1953]] - [[Arthur Godfrey]] fires [[Julius LaRosa]] live on American national TV. | ||
| - | *[[1954]] - First ascent of [[Cho Oyu]] | ||
| - | *[[1960]] - The [[United States government]] decides to place an [[embargo]] on Communist [[Cuba]]. | ||
| - | *[[1967]] - The [[Philadelphia Flyers]] play the first ever hockey game at the new [[Spectrum]], defeating the [[Pittsburgh Penguins]] 1-0. | ||
| - | *[[1969]] - The first [[Prime Minister of Tunisia]] in [[1957|twelve years]], [[Bahi Ladgham]], is appointed by President [[Habib Bourguiba]]. | ||
| - | *[[1973]] - President [[Richard Nixon]] rejects an Appeals Court demand to turn over the [[Watergate tapes]]. | ||
| - | *[[1974]] - [[Niue Constitution Act 1974 (NZ)|Niue]] becomes self-govering colony of New Zealand | ||
| - | *[[1976]] - [[Battle of Aishiya]] in [[Lebanon]]. | ||
| - | *[[1982]] - [[John De Lorean]] is arrested for trafficking in [[cocaine]] (later acquitted). | ||
| - | *[[1983]] - [[Maurice Bishop]], [[Prime Minister of Grenada|Prime Minister]] of [[Grenada]], is overthrown and executed in a military [[coup d'état]] led by [[Bernard Coard]]. | ||
| - | *[[1985]] - The first [[Blockbuster Video]] store opens in [[Dallas, Texas]]. | ||
| - | *[[1986]] - [[Samora Machel]], President of [[Mozambique]] and a prominent leader of [[FRELIMO]], and 33 others died when their [[Tupolev 134]] plane crashed into the [[Lebombo Mountains]]. | ||
| - | *[[1987]] - In retaliation for [[Iran|Iranian]] attacks on ships in the [[Persian Gulf]], the [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]] disables three of Iran's offshore [[oil platform]]s. | ||
| - | * [[1987]] - ([[Black Monday (1987)|Black Monday]]) [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] falls by 22%. | ||
| - | *[[1989]] - [[Guildford Four]] convictions are quashed by the [[Appellate court|Court of Appeal]] - they had spent 15 years in prison through a [[miscarriage of justice]]. | ||
| - | *[[1991]] - 7.0 [[Richter Scale]] [[earthquake]] in Northern [[Italy]] - 2000 dead | ||
| - | *[[1998]] - The [[Earth Liberation Front]] sets fire to the Vail Mountain ski resort in [[Vail, Colorado]], causing $12 million in damage. | ||
| - | *[[2001]] - [[SIEV-X]], an [[Indonesia]]n fishing boat en-route to [[Christmas Island]], carrying over 400 [[asylum seekers]], sank in international waters with the loss of 353 people. | ||
| - | *[[2003]] - [[Mother Teresa]] is [[beatified]] by [[Pope John Paul II]]. | ||
| - | *[[2004]] - [[Myanmar]] prime minister [[Khin Nyunt]] is ousted and placed under house arrest by the [[Thailand|Thai]] government on charges of corruption. | ||
| - | *[[2004]] - [[Care International]] aid worker [[Margaret Hassan]] is kidnapped in [[Iraq]]. | ||
| - | *[[2005]] - [[Saddam Hussein]] goes on trial in Baghdad for [[crimes against humanity]]. | ||
| - | *[[2005]] - [[Hurricane Wilma]] becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb. | ||
| - | *[[2005]] - The last [[Major League Baseball]] game is played at [[Busch Memorial Stadium]]. | ||
| - | *[[2006]] - The [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] closes above the [[Closing milestones of the Dow Jones Industrial Average|12,000 mark for the first time]]. | ||
| ==Births== | ==Births== | ||
| - | *[[1276]] - [[Prince Hisaaki]], Japanese shogun (d. [[1328]]) | + | *[[1862]] - [[Auguste Lumière]], French film pioneer (d. [[1954]]) |
| - | *[[1433]] - [[Marsilio Ficino]], Italian philosopher (d. [[1499]]) | + | *[[1882]] - [[Umberto Boccioni]], Italian painter and sculptor (d. [[1916]]) |
| - | *[[1562]] - [[Archbishop George Abbot]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (d. [[1633]]) | + | *[[1899]] - [[Miguel Ángel Asturias]], Guatemalan writer and diplomat (d. 1974) |
| - | *[[1582]] - [[Dmitry Ivanovich]], Tsarevich (d. [[1591]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1605]] - [[Thomas Browne]], English writer (d. [[1682]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1610]] - [[James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde]], English statesman and soldier (d. [[1688]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1658]] - [[Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]] (d. [[1704]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1680]] - [[John Abernethy (minister)|John Abernethy]], Irish [[Protestant]] minister (d. [[1740]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1688]] - [[William Cheselden]], English surgeon and anatomist (d. [[1752]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1718]] - [[Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie]], Marshal of France (d. [[1804]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1720]] - [[John Woolman]], American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (d. [[1772]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1721]] - [[Joseph de Guignes]], French orientalist (d. [[1800]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1784]] - [[John McLoughlin]], Canadian fur trader (d. [[1857]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1810]] - [[Cassius Marcellus Clay]], American [[Abolitionism|abolitionist]] (d. [[1903]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1837]] - [[Jaap Eden]], Dutch skater and cyclist (d. [[1925]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1851]] - [[Empress Myeongseong]], Empress of Korea (d. [[1895]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1858]] - [[George Albert Boulenger]], Belgian naturalist (d. [[1937]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1862]] - [[Auguste Lumière]], French inventor (d. [[1954]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1873]] - [[Bart King|John Barton King]], American cricketer (d. [[1965]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1876]] - [[Mordecai Brown]], baseball player (d. [[1945]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1885]] - [[Charles Merrill]], American investment banker (d. [[1956]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1895]] - [[Lewis Mumford]], American historian (d. [[1990]]) | + | |
| - | * 1895 - [[Frank Durbin]] Last U.S veteran of the Battle of Verdun (d.[[1999]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1896]] - [[Bob O'Farrell]], baseball player (d. [[1988]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1897]] - [[Salimuzzaman Siddiqui]], Pakistani scientist and scholar (d. [[1994]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1899]] - [[Miguel Ángel Asturias]], Guatemalan writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1974]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1900]] - [[Bill Ponsford]], Australian cricketer (d. [[1991]]) | + | |
| - | * 1900 - [[Roy Worters]], Canadian ice hockey goaltender (d. [[1957]]) | + | |
| - | * 1900 - [[Erna Berger]], German soprano (d. [[1990]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1901]] - [[Arleigh Burke]], Naval commander (d. [[1996]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1907]] - [[Roger Wolfe Kahn]], American bandleader (d. [[1962]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1908]] - [[Geirr Tveitt]], Norwegian composer (d. [[1981]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1909]] - [[Cozy Cole]], American jazz drummer (d. [[1981]]) | + | |
| - | * 1909 - [[Marguerite Perey]], French physicist (d. [[1975]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1910]] - [[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar]], Indian-born physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1995]]) | + | |
| - | * 1910 - [[Paul Robert]], French [[lexicographer]] and publisher (d. [[1980]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1913]] - [[Vinicius de Moraes]], Brazilian poet and songwriter (d. [[1980]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1916]] - [[Jean Dausset]], French immunologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] | + | |
| - | * 1916 - [[Emil Gilels]], Ukrainian pianist (d. [[1985]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1920]] - [[Pandurang Shastri Athavale]], Indian philosopher (d. [[2003]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1922]] - [[Jack Anderson]], American journalist (d. [[2005]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1926]] - [[Joel Feinberg]], American moral philosopher (d. [[2004]]) | + | |
| - | * 1926 - [[Arne Bendiksen]], Norwegian singer and songwriter | + | |
| *[[1931]] - [[John le Carré]], English novelist | *[[1931]] - [[John le Carré]], English novelist | ||
| - | *[[1932]] - [[Robert Reed]], American actor (d. [[1992]]) | + | *[[1920]] - [[Harry Alan Towers]], British film producer (d. 2009) |
| - | *[[1937]] - [[Peter Max]], American artist | + | *[[1927]] - [[Pierre Alechinsky]], Belgian artist |
| - | * 1937 - [[Marilyn Bell]], Canadian long distance swimmer | + | *[[1931]] - [[John le Carré]], English writer |
| - | *[[1940]] - [[Michael Gambon]], Irish actor | + | |
| - | *[[1941]] - [[Simon Ward]], British actor | + | |
| - | *[[1942]] - [[Andrew Vachss]], American author and attorney | + | |
| - | *[[1943]] - [[Robin Holloway]], British composer | + | |
| - | * 1943 - [[Takis Ikonomopoulos]], Greek footballer | + | |
| *[[1944]] - [[Peter Tosh]], Jamaican musician, political activist (d. [[1987]]) | *[[1944]] - [[Peter Tosh]], Jamaican musician, political activist (d. [[1987]]) | ||
| * 1944 - [[George McCrae]], American soul singer | * 1944 - [[George McCrae]], American soul singer | ||
| + | *[[1945]] - [[Sharon Redd]], American singer (d. [[1992]]) | ||
| *[[1945]] - [[Divine (Glen Milstead)|Divine]], American actor (d. [[1988]]) | *[[1945]] - [[Divine (Glen Milstead)|Divine]], American actor (d. [[1988]]) | ||
| - | * 1945 - [[Patricia Ireland]], President of the [[National Organization for Women|NOW]] | + | *[[1950]] - [[Patrick Cowley]], American music producer (d. [[1982 ]]) |
| - | * 1945 - [[John Lithgow]], American actor | + | |
| - | * 1945 - [[Jeannie C. Riley]] American country and gospel singer | + | |
| - | *[[1946]] - [[Philip Pullman]], English writer | + | |
| - | *[[1947]] - [[Giorgio Cavazzano]], comics artist and illustrator | + | |
| - | *[[1948]] - [[Patrick Simmons]], American musician ([[The Doobie Brothers]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1949]] - [[Jamie McGrigor]], British politician | + | |
| - | *[[1951]] - [[Demetrios Christodoulou]], Greek mathematical physicist, recipient of the [[Bôcher Memorial Prize]] | + | |
| - | *[[1952]] - [[Verónica Castro]], Mexican actress and singer | + | |
| - | *[[1954]] - [[Sam Allardyce]], English football manager | + | |
| - | * 1954 - [[Deborah Blum]], American writer | + | |
| - | *[[1956]] - [[Carlo Urbani]], Italian physician (d. [[1993]]) | + | |
| - | * 1956 - [[Sunny Deol]], Indian actor | + | |
| - | * 1956 - [[Didier Theys]], Belgian racing driver | + | |
| - | *[[1957]] - [[Ray Richmond]], entertainment/media columnist | + | |
| - | *[[1958]] - [[Tiriel Mora]], Australian actor | + | |
| - | *[[1960]] - [[Jonathan FeBland]], English musician, writer and artist | + | |
| - | *[[1962]] - [[Tracy Chevalier]], American author | + | |
| - | * 1962 - [[Evander Holyfield]], American boxer | + | |
| - | *[[1963]] - [[Prince Laurent of Belgium]] | + | |
| - | *[[1964]] - [[Jorge Luis Gonzales]], Cuban-born American boxer | + | |
| - | *[[1965]] - [[Brad Daugherty]], American basketball player | + | |
| - | *[[1965]] - [[Ty Pennington]], American television carpenter | + | |
| - | *[[1966]] - [[Jon Favreau]], American actor, writer and director | + | |
| - | *[[1967]] - [[Yoko Shimomura]], Japanese composer | + | |
| - | *[[1969]] - [[Trey Parker]], American cartoonist, comedian, writer, and actor | + | |
| - | *[[1970]] - [[Chris Kattan]], American comedian and actor | + | |
| - | *[[1972]] - [[Pras]], American musician | + | |
| - | * 1972 - [[Keith Foulke]], American baseball pitcher | + | |
| - | *[[1973]] - [[Joaquin Gage]], Canadian ice hockey player | + | |
| - | *[[1974]] - [[Kevin Sullivan]], American Automation Engineer | + | |
| - | *[[1976]] - [[Michael Young (baseball player)|Michael Young]], baseball player | + | |
| - | * 1976 - [[Dan Smith (hockey player)|Dan Smith]], Canadian ice hockey player | + | |
| - | * 1976 - [[Desmond Harrington]], American actor | + | |
| - | *[[1977]] - [[Louis-José Houde]], Québec stand-up comic | + | |
| - | *[[1978]] - [[Enrique Bernoldi]], Brazilian [[Formula One]] driver | + | |
| - | * 1978 - [[Zakhar Dubenskiy]], Russian footballer | + | |
| - | *[[1980]] - [[Benjamin Salisbury]], American actor | + | |
| - | *[[1981]] - [[Heikki Kovalainen]], Finnish [[Formula One]] driver | + | |
| - | *[[1991]] - [[Jennifer Miller]], Scottish Model | + | |
| ==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
| - | * [[727]] - Saint [[Frideswide]] | ||
| - | *[[1187]] - [[Pope Urban III]] | ||
| - | *[[1216]] - [[John of England|King John]] | ||
| - | *[[1432]] - [[John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk]], English politician (b. [[1392]]) | ||
| - | *[[1587]] - [[Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany]] (b. [[1541]]) | ||
| - | *[[1608]] - [[Martin Delrio]], Flemish theologian and occultist (b. [[1551]]) | ||
| - | *[[1636]] - [[Marcin Kazanowski]], Polish politician | ||
| - | *[[1682]] - [[Thomas Browne]], English writer (b. [[1605]]) | ||
| - | *[[1723]] - [[Godfrey Kneller]], German-born painter (b. [[1646]]) | ||
| *[[1745]] - [[Jonathan Swift]], Irish author (b. [[1667]]) | *[[1745]] - [[Jonathan Swift]], Irish author (b. [[1667]]) | ||
| - | *[[1790]] - [[Lyman Hall]], American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. [[1724]]) | + | *[[1909]] - [[Cesare Lombroso]], Italian criminologist (b. [[1835]]) |
| - | *[[1813]] - [[Józef Antoni Poniatowski]], Polish prince and Marshal of France (friendly fire) (b. [[1763]]) | + | *[[1970]] - [[Unica Zürn]], German author and painter and companion of Hans Bellmer in (d. [[1916]]) |
| - | *[[1842]] - [[Aleksey Koltsov]], Russian poet (b. [[1808]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1851]] - [[Princess Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte|Marie Thérèse Charlotte]] (b. [[1778]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1889]] - King [[Louis of Portugal]] (b. [[1838]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1897]] - [[George Pullman]], American inventor and industrialist (b. [[1831]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1901]] - [[Carl Frederik Tietgen]], Danish financier and industrialist (b. [[1829]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1918]] - [[Harold Lockwood]], American actor (b. [[1887]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1936]] - [[Lu Xun]], Chinese writer (b. [[1881]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1937]] - [[Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson]], New Zealand physicist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] (b. [[1871]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1943]] - [[Camille Claudel]], French sculptor (b. [[1864]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1950]] - [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]], American poet (b. [[1892]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1956]] - [[Isham Jones]], American musician (b. [[1894]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1960]] - [[George Wallace (Australian comedian)|George Wallace]], Australian vaudevillian and film comedian (b. [[1895]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1973]] - [[Walt Kelly]], American cartoonist (b. [[1913]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1978]] - [[Gig Young]], American actor (b. [[1913]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1983]] - [[Maurice Bishop]], [[Prime Minister of Grenada]] (b. [[1944]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1985]] - [[Alfred Rouleau]], French Canadian businessman (b. [[1915]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1986]] - [[Dele Giwa]], Nigerian journalist | + | |
| - | * 1986 - [[Samora Machel]], President of [[Mozambique]] (b. [[1933]]) | + | |
| *[[1987]] - [[Jacqueline Du Pré]], English cellist (b. [[1945]]) | *[[1987]] - [[Jacqueline Du Pré]], English cellist (b. [[1945]]) | ||
| - | * 1987 - [[Hermann Lang]], German race car driver (b. [[1909]]) | ||
| - | *[[1988]] - [[Son House]], American musician (b. [[1902]]) | ||
| - | *[[1991]] - [[Jennifer Miller]], Scottish Model (b. [[1920]]) | ||
| - | *[[1994]] - [[Martha Raye]], American comedian and actress (b. [[1916]]) | ||
| *[[1995]] - [[Don Cherry (jazz)|Don Cherry]], American jazz trumpet player (b. [[1936]]) | *[[1995]] - [[Don Cherry (jazz)|Don Cherry]], American jazz trumpet player (b. [[1936]]) | ||
| - | *[[1997]] - [[Glen Buxton]], American guitarist (b. [[1947]]) | ||
| *[[1999]] - [[Nathalie Sarraute]], Russian-born French writer (b. [[1900]]) | *[[1999]] - [[Nathalie Sarraute]], Russian-born French writer (b. [[1900]]) | ||
| - | * 1999 - [[James C. Murray]], American politician (b. [[1917]]) | ||
| - | *[[2003]] - [[Alija Izetbegović]], President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (b. [[1925]]) | ||
| - | * 2003 - [[Margaret Murie]], American conservationist (b. [[1902]]) | ||
| - | * 2003 - [[Michael Hegstrand]], American professional wrestler (b. [[1957]]) | ||
| - | *[[2004]] - [[Kenneth E. Iverson]], Canadian computer scientist (b. [[1920]]) | ||
| - | *[[2005]] - [[Dallas Cook]], American musician ([[Suburban Legends]]) (b. [[1982]]) | ||
| - | * 2005 - [[Corinne Lévesque]], wife of quebec premier [[René Lévesque]] (b. [[1943]]) | ||
| - | *[[2006]] - [[James Glennon]], American cinematographer (b. [[1942]]) | ||
| - | == Notes == | ||
| - | Jonathan Swift | ||
| - | Pierre Alechinsky | ||
| - | Sir Charles Wheatstone | ||
| - | Cesare Lombroso | ||
| - | Harry Alan Towers | ||
| - | Expo '58 | ||
| - | Sharon Redd | ||
| - | Miguel Ángel Asturias | ||
| - | Patrick Cowley | ||
| - | Un roman sentimental | ||
| - | John le Carré | ||
| - | Don Cherry | ||
| - | Umberto Boccioni | ||
| - | Auguste and Louis Lumière | ||
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Art and culture
- 2007 - Un roman sentimental, novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Births
- 1862 - Auguste Lumière, French film pioneer (d. 1954)
- 1882 - Umberto Boccioni, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1916)
- 1899 - Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer and diplomat (d. 1974)
- 1931 - John le Carré, English novelist
- 1920 - Harry Alan Towers, British film producer (d. 2009)
- 1927 - Pierre Alechinsky, Belgian artist
- 1931 - John le Carré, English writer
- 1944 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician, political activist (d. 1987)
- 1944 - George McCrae, American soul singer
- 1945 - Sharon Redd, American singer (d. 1992)
- 1945 - Divine, American actor (d. 1988)
- 1950 - Patrick Cowley, American music producer (d. 1982 )
Deaths
- 1745 - Jonathan Swift, Irish author (b. 1667)
- 1909 - Cesare Lombroso, Italian criminologist (b. 1835)
- 1970 - Unica Zürn, German author and painter and companion of Hans Bellmer in (d. 1916)
- 1987 - Jacqueline Du Pré, English cellist (b. 1945)
- 1995 - Don Cherry, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1936)
- 1999 - Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-born French writer (b. 1900)
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