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== Art and culture == == Art and culture ==
==Births== ==Births==
 +*[[1746]] - [[Madame de Genlis]], French writer and educator (''Diners du Baron d'Holbach'') (d. [[1830]])
*[[1759]] - [[Robert Burns]], Scottish poet (d. [[1796]]) *[[1759]] - [[Robert Burns]], Scottish poet (d. [[1796]])
*[[1874]] - [[W. Somerset Maugham]], English writer (d. [[1965]]) *[[1874]] - [[W. Somerset Maugham]], English writer (d. [[1965]])
*[[1882]] - [[Virginia Woolf]], English writer (d. [[1941]]) *[[1882]] - [[Virginia Woolf]], English writer (d. [[1941]])
 +*[[1914]] - [[Jim Flora]], American designer (d. [[1998]])
 +*[[1936]] - [[Steve Reich]], American composer
*[[1938]] - [[Etta James]], American singer *[[1938]] - [[Etta James]], American singer
*[[1943]] - [[Tobe Hooper]], American film director *[[1943]] - [[Tobe Hooper]], American film director
 +*[[1944]] - [[Bernard Tschumi]], Swiss architect, writer, and educator
*[[1944]] - [[Anita Pallenberg]], Italian model *[[1944]] - [[Anita Pallenberg]], Italian model
 +*[[1951]] - [[Jack Vettriano]] is a Scottish painter.
 +*[[1962]] - [[Keith Farley]], American DJ and record producer
==Deaths== ==Deaths==
*[[1586]] - [[Lucas Cranach the Younger]], German painter (b. [[1515]]) *[[1586]] - [[Lucas Cranach the Younger]], German painter (b. [[1515]])
*[[1640]] - [[Robert Burton (scholar)|Robert Burton]], English scholar (b. [[1577]]) *[[1640]] - [[Robert Burton (scholar)|Robert Burton]], English scholar (b. [[1577]])
 +*[[1791]] - [[George Selwyn]], British politician, the archetypical British sadist (b. [[1719]])
 +*[[1831]] - [[Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann]], German writer (''Nightwatches'') (b. [[1777]])
 +*[[1861]] - [[Charles Philipon]], French lithographer, caricaturist and journalist (b. [[1800]])
 +*[[1891]] - [[Theo van Gogh (art dealer)]], Dutch art dealer, younger brother of Vincent van Gogh (b. [[1857]])
*[[1947]] - [[Al Capone]], American gangster (b. [[1899]]) *[[1947]] - [[Al Capone]], American gangster (b. [[1899]])
*[[1990]] - [[Ava Gardner]], American actress (b. [[1922]]) *[[1990]] - [[Ava Gardner]], American actress (b. [[1922]])
*[[2005]] - [[Philip Johnson]], American architect (b. [[1906]]) *[[2005]] - [[Philip Johnson]], American architect (b. [[1906]])
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-== Notes == 
-*[[1586]] - [[Madame de Genlis]] (January 25, 1746 - December 31, 1830) was a French writer and educator, known for such works as Diners du Baron d'Holbach  
-*[[1586]] - [[Charles Philipon]] (April 19 1800 – January 25 1861). Born in Lyon, he was a French lithographer, caricaturist and journalist. He was the editor of the La Caricature and of Le Charivari, both satirical political journals. 
-*[[1586]] - [[Theo van Gogh (art dealer)]] (May 1 1857 – January 25 1891) was the younger brother of the painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) and a successful art dealer.  
-*[[1586]] - [[Bernard Tschumi]] Bernard Tschumi (born January 25 1944 Lausanne, Switzerland) is an architect, writer, and educator 
-*[[1586]] - [[Keith Farley]] DJ and record producer of Chicago house music. His best-known composition is "Love Can't Turn Around"  
-*[[1586]] - [[Steve Reich]] Stephen Michael Reich (born October 3, 1936) is an American composer. He is a pioneer of minimalism, although his music has increasingly deviated from a purely minimalist style. 
-*[[1586]] - [[Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann]] (born 31 August 1777 in Braunschweig; died 25 January 1831 in Braunschweig) was a German writer. He is generally agreed to be the author of the 1804 novel Nachtwachen (Nightwatches) under the pseudonym Bonaventura. 
-*[[1586]] - [[Jack Vettriano]]  
-*[[1586]] - [[George Selwyn]]  
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