August 26
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Art and culture
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Births
- 1880 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet and art critic (d. 1918)
- 1898 - Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (d. 1979)
- 1914 - Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (d. 1984)
- 1941 - Barbet Schroeder, Swiss film director
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Deaths
- 1795 - Alessandro Cagliostro, Italian traveler, occultist and freemason (b. 1743)
- 1930 - Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor (b. 1883)
- 1980 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (b. 1908)
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