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From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

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Art and culture

• 1709 - Alexander Selkirk is rescued from shipwreck on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
• 1922 - Ulysses by James Joyce published in Paris

Births

• 1600 - Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (d. 1653)
• 1861 - Solomon R. Guggenheim, American art collector and philanthropist (d. 1949)
• 1882 - James Joyce, Irish author (d. 1941)
• 1905 - Ayn Rand, Russian-born author and philosopher (d. 1982)
• 1923 - James Dickey, American poet and author (d. 1997)
• 1927 - Stan Getz, American musician (d. 1991)

Deaths

• 672 - Saint Chad
• 1124 - Bořivoj II of Bohemia
• 1218 - Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (b. 1186)
• 1250 - Eric XI of Sweden (b. 1216)
• 1461 - Owen Tudor, Welsh founder of the Tudor dynasty of England
• 1529 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer (b. 1478)
• 1580 - Bessho Nagaharu, Japanese retainer (b. 1558)
• 1594 - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (b. 1525)
• 1648 - George Abbot, English writer
• 1660 - Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (b. 1615)
• 1660 - Gaston, Duke of Orléans, French politician (b. 1608)
• 1661 - Lucas Holstenius, German humanist (b. 1596)
• 1688 - Abraham Duquesne, French naval officer (b. 1610)
• 1704 - Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital, French mathematician (b. 1661)
• 1712 - Martin Lister, English naturalist and physician
• 1714 - John Sharp, English Archbishop of York (b. 1643)
• 1768 - Robert Smith, English mathematician (b. 1689)
• 1769 - Pope Clement XIII (b. 1693)
• 1802 - Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, British statesman (b. 1713)
• 1804 - George Walton, Signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1749-50)
• 1895 - Archduke Albert, Austrian general (b. 1817)
• 1904 - William C. Whitney, American financier (b. 1841)
• 1907 - Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (b. 1834)
• 1918 - John L. Sullivan, American heavyweight boxer (b. 1858)
• 1922 - William Desmond Taylor, Irish film director (b. 1872)
• 1925 - Jaap Eden, Dutch skater and cyclist (b. 1873)
• 1926 - Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (b. 1848)
• 1932 - Agha Petros, Assyrian nationalist leader
• 1942 - Daniil Kharms, Russian playwright (b. 1905)
• 1945 - Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, German politician (b. 1884)
• 1948 - Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (b. 1894)
• 1948 - Thomas W. Lamont, American banker; father or Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned Lamont (b. 1870)
• 1950 - Constantin Carathéodory, Greek mathematician (b. 1873)
• 1956 - Charles Grapewin, American actor (b. 1869)
• 1956 - Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (b. 1876)
• 1957 - Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (b. 1890)
• 1969 - Boris Karloff, English actor (b. 1887)
• 1970 - Lawrence Gray, American actor (b.1898)
• 1970 - Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, English mathematician, writer and philosopher, Nobel laureate (b. 1872)
• 1973 - Hendrik Elias, Belgian politician (b. 1902)
• 1979 - Sid Vicious, English musician (Sex Pistols) (b. 1957)
• 1980 - William Howard Stein, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
• 1982 - Paul Desruisseaux, French Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician (b 1905)
• 1987 - Castilho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1927)
• 1987 - Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (b. 1922)
• 1988 - Marcel Bozzuffi, French film actor (b. 1929)
• 1989 - Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater (b. 1951)
• 1990 - Joe Erskine, Welsh boxer (b. 1934)
• 1992 - Bert Parks, American television host (b. 1914)
• 1995 - Fred Perry, British former tennis player (b. 1909)
• 1995 - Donald Pleasence, English actor (b. 1919)
• 1996 - Gene Kelly, American dancer, actor, and director (b. 1912)
• 1997 - Erich Eliskases, Austrian chess player (b. 1913)
• 1997 - Sanford Meisner, American actor (b. 1904)
• 1999 - David McComb, Australian musician (The Triffids) (b. 1962)
• 2002 - Paul Baloff, American singer (Exodus) (b. 1960)
• 2002 - Claude Brown, American writer (b. 1937)
• 2003 - Lou Harrison, American composer (b. 1917)
• 2004 - Bernard McEveety, American film director (b. 1924)
• 2005 - Max Schmeling, German boxer (b. 1905)
• 2007 - Vijay Arora, Indian film and television actor (b. 1944)
• 2007 - Billy Henderson, American singer (The Spinners) (b. 1939)
• 2007 - Joe Hunter, American pianist and bandleader of The Funk Brothers (b. 1927)
• 2007 - Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (b. 1967)
• 2007 - Masao Takemoto, Japanese gymnast (b. 1919)
• 2007 - Eric von Schmidt, American folk/blues singer-songwriter (b. 1931)

notes

Restif de la Bretonne Cabaret Voltaire (Zürich) Ulysses (novel) Sid Vicious Papin sisters Havelock Ellis Boris Karloff Les XX Gabriel Naudé Maurice Tourneur Jens Jørgen Thorsen Harold Rosenberg François Reichenbach Antti Aarne Martin Schongauer Baldassare Castiglione James Dickey Anthony Cox Solomon R. Guggenheim To Have Done With the Judgment of god James Joyce José Guadalupe Posada James Blood Ulmer Bertrand Russell Natalie Clifford Barney