January 26
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Art and culture
- 1531 - Lisbon, Portugal hit by an earthquake--thousands die.
- 1564 - The Council of Trent issued its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
- 1838 - Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
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Births
- 1781 - Achim von Arnim, German poet (d. 1831)
- 1818 - Amédée de Noé, French caricaturist and lithographer. (d. 1879)
- 1902 - Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist (d. 1940)
- 1921 - Eddie Barclay, French producer (Barclay Records) (d. 2005)
- 1925 - Paul Newman, American actor (d. 2008)
- 1928 - Roger Vadim, French film director and actor (d. 2000)
- 1932 - Coxsone Dodd, Jamaican record producer (Studio One) (d. 2004)
- 1935 – Paula Rego, Portuguese-born painter (d. 2022)
- 1941 - Henry Jaglom, English director
- 1943 - Thom Bell, American composer (d. 2022)
- 1947 - Patrick Dewaere, French actor (d. 1982)
- 1957 - Mikel Rouse, American composer
- 1961 - Daniele Luttazzi, Italian comedian, writer, satirist, illustrator and singer/songwriter
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Deaths
- 1824 - Théodore Géricault, French painter (b. 1791)
- 1828 - Lady Caroline Lamb, British novelist and aristocrat, one-time lover of Lord Byron (b. 1785)
- 1855 - Gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808)
- 1940 - Eduard Fuchs, Marxist cultural critic (b. 1870)
- 1973 - Edward G. Robinson, American actor (b. 1893)
- 1988 - Raymond Williams, British academic, novelist and critic (Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture) (b. 1921)
- 1991 - Karen Young , American singer("Hot Shot") (b. 1951)
- 1996 - Harold Brodkey, American author (b. 1930)
- 2000 - A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-born science fiction author (b. 1912)
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