December 17
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Art and culture
- 1914 - Harrison Narcotics Tax Act is voted in the United States
- 1989 - Premiere animated television series The Simpsons.
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Births
- 1770 - (Baptism) - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (d. 1827)
- 1830 - Jules de Goncourt, French publisher (d. 1870)
- 1873 - Ford Madox Ford, English writer (d. 1939)
- 1884 - Waldo Peirce, American painter, (b. 1970)
- 1903 - Erskine Caldwell, American author (d. 1987)
- 1907 - Alexandr Hackenschmied Austrian-born photographer and filmmaker (d. 2004)
- 1937 - John Kennedy Toole, American novelist (d. 1969)
- 1939 - Eddie Kendricks, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1992)
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Deaths
- 1830 - Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan-born liberator, six nations (b. 1783)
- 1833 - Kaspar Hauser, German foundling (b. 1812)
- 1897 - Alphonse Daudet, French writer (b. 1840)
- 1987 - Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian novelist (b. 1903)
- 1949 – Robert Eisler, Austrian Jewish polymath (b. 1882)
- 1999 - Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (b. 1943)
- 2004 - Tom Wesselmann, American pop artist (b. 1931)
- 2022 – Philip Pearlstein, American soldier and painter (b. 1924)
- 2022 - Mike Hodges, British director (b. 1932)
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