August 5
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Art and culture
- 1967 - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn released
- 1972, marriage of Guy Debord with Alice Becker-Ho
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Births
- 1850 - Guy de Maupassant, French author (d. 1893)
- 1862 - Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man (d. 1890)
- 1889 - Conrad Aiken, American writer (d. 1973)
- 1901 - Claude Autant-Lara, French film director (d. 2000)
- 1901 - Alexandre Alexeieff, Russian-born animator (d. 1982)
- 1906 - John Huston, American director (d. 1987)
- 1942 - Joe Boyd, American record producer
- 1962 - John Willie, American photographer (b. 1902)
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Deaths
- 1895 - Friedrich Engels, German philosopher (b. 1820)
- 1962 - Marilyn Monroe, American actress (b. 1926)
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