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| == Art and culture == | == Art and culture == | ||
| - | *[[1959]] - The ''[[Motown]]'' [[record label]] is founded in [[Detroit, Michigan]] by [[Berry Gordy]]. | ||
| *[[1979]] - Legendary [[punk rock]] group [[The Clash]] release ''[[London Calling]]'' in the UK, a landmark album in rock music. | *[[1979]] - Legendary [[punk rock]] group [[The Clash]] release ''[[London Calling]]'' in the UK, a landmark album in rock music. | ||
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| *[[1824]] - [[Pierre Puvis de Chavannes]], French painter (d. [[1898]]) | *[[1824]] - [[Pierre Puvis de Chavannes]], French painter (d. [[1898]]) | ||
| *[[1866]] - [[Roger Fry]], British artist and art critic (d. [[1934]]) | *[[1866]] - [[Roger Fry]], British artist and art critic (d. [[1934]]) | ||
| - | *[[1895]] - [[Paul Eluard]], French poet (d. [[1952]]) | + | *[[1887]] - [[Xul Solar]], Argentine painter, sculptor, writer (d. [[1963]]) |
| + | *[[1895]] - [[Paul Éluard]], French poet (d. [[1952]]) | ||
| *[[1911]] - [[Spike Jones]], American comedian and musician (d. [[1965]]) | *[[1911]] - [[Spike Jones]], American comedian and musician (d. [[1965]]) | ||
| *[[1916]] - [[Shirley Jackson]], American writer (d. [[1965]]) | *[[1916]] - [[Shirley Jackson]], American writer (d. [[1965]]) | ||
| - | *[[1923]] - [[Gerard Reve]], Dutch writer | + | *[[1923]] - [[Gerard Reve]], Dutch writer (d. [[2006]]) |
| *[[1946]] - [[Jane Birkin]], British-born actress | *[[1946]] - [[Jane Birkin]], British-born actress | ||
| ==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
| - | *[[1460]] - [[Guarino da Verona]], Italian humanist and translator (b. [[1370]]) | + | *[[1926]] - [[Théo van Rysselberghe ]], Belgian neo-impressionist painter, (b. [[1862]]) |
| - | *[[1510]] - [[Friedrich of Saxony (1473-1510)|Friedrich of Saxony]] (b. [[1473]]) | + | *[[1959]] - [[Stanley Spencer]], English painter. (b. [[1891]]) |
| - | *[[1542]] - King [[James V of Scotland]] (b. [[1512]]) | + | *[[1963]] - [[Gustav Machatý]], Czech film director, screenwriter and actor (''Ecstasy'') (b. [[1901]]) |
| - | *[[1553]] - [[Hanibal Lucić]], Croatian writer (b. [[1485]]) | + | *[[1987]] - [[Copi ]], Argentine writer, cartoonist, and playwright (b. [[1939]]) |
| - | *[[1591]] - [[Saint John of the Cross]], Spanish friar and poet (b. [[1542]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1624]] - [[Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham]], English statesman (b. [[1536]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1651]] - [[Pierre Dupuy]], French scholar (b. [[1582]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1713]] - [[Thomas Rymer]], English historian (b. [[1641]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1715]] - [[Thomas Tenison]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (b. [[1636]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1735]] - [[Thomas Tanner (bishop)|Thomas Tanner]], English bishop and antiquarian (b. [[1674]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1741]] - [[Charles Rollin]], French historian (b. [[1661]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1788]] - [[Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach]], German composer (b. [[1714]]) | + | |
| - | * 1788 - King [[Charles III of Spain]] (b. [[1716]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1799]] - [[George Washington]], first [[President of the United States]] (b. [[1732]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1838]] - [[Jean-Olivier Chénier]], French Canadian physician and [[Patriote]] (b. [[1806]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1860]] - [[George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1784]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1861]] - [[Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]], consort of [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]] (b. [[1819]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1865]] - [[Johan Georg Forchhammer]], Danish geologist (b. [[1794]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1873]] - [[Louis Agassiz]], Swiss-born American zoologist and geologist (b. [[1807]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1902]] - [[Julia Grant]], wife of [[President of the United States]] [[Ulysses S. Grant]] (b. [[1826]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1927]] - [[Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski]], Russian mathematician (b. [[1842]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1935]] - [[Stanley G. Weinbaum]], American science-fiction author (b. [[1902]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1947]] - [[Stanley Baldwin]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1867]]) | + | |
| - | * 1947 - [[Edward Higgins]], General of The Salvation Army (b. [[1864]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1956]] - [[Paasikivi|Juho Kusti Paasikivi]], president of Finland (b. [[1870]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1963]] - [[Dinah Washington]], American singer (b. [[1924]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1964]] - [[William Bendix]], American actor (b. [[1906]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1970]] - [[Franz Schlegelberger]], German Nazi politician (b. [[1876]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1971]] - [[Dick Tiger]], Nigerian-born boxer (b. [[1929]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1978]] - [[Salvador de Madariaga]], Spanish diplomat, writer, historian and pacifist (b. [[1886]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1984]] - [[Vicente Aleixandre]], Spanish writer and [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel laureate]] (b. [[1898]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1985]] - [[Catherine Doherty]], social justice activist (b. [[1896]]) | + | |
| - | * 1985 - [[Roger Maris]], American baseball player (b. [[1934]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1989]] - [[Andrei D. Sakharov]], Russian physicist, [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel laureate]] (b. [[1921]]) | + | |
| *[[1990]] - [[Friedrich Dürrenmatt]], Swiss writer (b. [[1921]]) | *[[1990]] - [[Friedrich Dürrenmatt]], Swiss writer (b. [[1921]]) | ||
| *[[1993]] - [[Myrna Loy]], American actress (b. [[1905]]) | *[[1993]] - [[Myrna Loy]], American actress (b. [[1905]]) | ||
| - | * 1993 - [[Jeff Alm]], American football player (b. [[1968]]) | ||
| - | *[[1996]] - [[Gaston Miron]], Quebec poet and editor (b. [[1928]]) | ||
| - | *[[1997]] - [[Kurt Winter]], Canadian musician ([[The Guess Who]]) (b. [[1946]]) | ||
| - | * 1997 - [[Stubby Kaye]], American actor (b. [[1918]]) | ||
| - | *[[1998]] - [[Norman Fell]], American actor (b. [[1924]]) | ||
| - | * 1998 - [[Annette Strauss]], American philanthropist (b. [[1924]]) | ||
| - | * 1998 - [[Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr.]], American civil rights activist and author (b. [[1928]]) | ||
| - | *[[2003]] - [[Jeanne Crain]], American actress (b. [[1925]]) | ||
| - | * 2003 - [[Blas Ople]], foreign minister of the Philippines (b. [[1927]]) | ||
| - | *[[2004]] - [[Rod Kanehl]], American baseball player (b. [[1934]]) | ||
| - | * 2004 - [[Fernando Poe, Jr.]], Filipino actor and presidential candidate (b. [[1939]]) | ||
| - | *[[2005]] - [[Trevanian|Dr. Rodney William Whitaker]], American author (b. [[1931]]) | ||
| - | *[[2006]] - [[Anton Balasingham]], chief political strategist of [[Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam]] (b. [[1938]]) | ||
| - | * 2006 - [[Ahmet Ertegün]], co-founder of Atlantic Records (b. [[1923]]) | ||
| - | * 2006 - [[Michael Jonas Evans|Mike Evans]], American actor (b. [[1949]]) | ||
| - | == Notes == | ||
| - | Spike Jones | ||
| - | Xul Solar | ||
| - | Paul Éluard | ||
| - | Gerard Reve | ||
| - | Myrna Loy | ||
| - | Shirley Jackson | ||
| - | Théo van Rysselberghe | ||
| - | Charles Seeger | ||
| - | Copi | ||
| - | Jane Birkin | ||
| - | Pierre Puvis de Chavannes | ||
| - | Gustav Machatý | ||
| - | Stanley Spencer | ||
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Art and culture
- 1979 - Legendary punk rock group The Clash release London Calling in the UK, a landmark album in rock music.
Births
- 1824 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (d. 1898)
- 1866 - Roger Fry, British artist and art critic (d. 1934)
- 1887 - Xul Solar, Argentine painter, sculptor, writer (d. 1963)
- 1895 - Paul Éluard, French poet (d. 1952)
- 1911 - Spike Jones, American comedian and musician (d. 1965)
- 1916 - Shirley Jackson, American writer (d. 1965)
- 1923 - Gerard Reve, Dutch writer (d. 2006)
- 1946 - Jane Birkin, British-born actress
Deaths
- 1926 - Théo van Rysselberghe , Belgian neo-impressionist painter, (b. 1862)
- 1959 - Stanley Spencer, English painter. (b. 1891)
- 1963 - Gustav Machatý, Czech film director, screenwriter and actor (Ecstasy) (b. 1901)
- 1987 - Copi , Argentine writer, cartoonist, and playwright (b. 1939)
- 1990 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (b. 1921)
- 1993 - Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905)
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