September 20
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Art and culture
- 1633 - Galileo Galilei is tried before the Inquisition for teaching that the Earth orbits the Sun.
- 1946 - The first Cannes Film Festival is held.
- 1959 - Brion Gysin makes his first cut-up in the Beat Hotel in Paris.
Births
- 1934 - Sophia Loren, Italian actress
- 1959 - Danny Devos, Belgian artist
- 1975 - Asia Argento, Italian actress
Deaths
- 1639 - Johannes Meursius, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1579)*1945 - William Buehler Seabrook, Writer, journalist, occultist and explorer (b. 1884)
- 1957 - Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer (b. 1865)
Notes
- Johannes Meursius
- Raymond Borde
- Sophia Loren
- Sylvester James
- Andrzej Munk
- Desire Unbound
- Jeanloup Sieff
- Joseph Breitbach
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