April 5
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Art and culture
- 1930 - In an act of civil disobedience, Mohandas Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making salt.
- 1932 - Alcohol prohibition in Finland ended. Alcohol sales started in Alko liquor stores.
- 1957 - The Creative Act, speech by Marcel Duchamp
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Births
- 1526 – Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian painter (d. 1566)
- 1588 - Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (d. 1679)
- 1732 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (d. 1806)
- 1837 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (d. 1909)
- 1901 - Melvyn Douglas, American actor (d. 1981)
- 1908 - Bette Davis, American actress (d. 1989)
- 1926 - Roger Corman, American film director
- 1929 - Hugo Claus, Belgian writer (d. 2008)
- 1941 - Michael Moriarty, American actor
- 1942 - Peter Greenaway, Welsh film director
- 1973 - Pharrell Williams, American music producer (The Neptunes)
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Deaths
- 1712 - Jan Luyken , Dutch poet, illustrator and engraver (b. 1649)
- 1765 - Edward Young, English poet (b. 1683)
- 1801 - Vincenzo Gioberti, Italian philosopher, publicist and politician (d. 1852)
- 1923 - George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier (b. 1866)
- 1928 - Jane Ellen Harrison, British classical scholar, linguist and feminist (b. 1850)
- 1976 - Howard Hughes, American aviator (b. 1905)
- 1989 - Karel Zeman, Czech animator and filmmaker (b. 1910)
- 1994 - Kurt Cobain, American musician (Nirvana (band)) (b. 1967)
- 1995 - Rita Cadillac, French dancer and actress (b. 1936)
- 1997 - Allen Ginsberg, American poet (b. 1926)
- 2005 - Saul Bellow, Canadian-born writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1915)
- 2006 - Allan Kaprow, American painter, assemblagist and performance artist (b. 1927)
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