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From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

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Art and culture

• 1754 - Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity.
• 1813 - Pride and Prejudice is first published in the United Kingdom.

Births

• 1706 - John Baskerville, English printer (d. 1775)
• 1873 - Colette, French writer (d. 1954)
• 1879 - Francis Picabia, French-born painter and poet (d. 1953)
• 1892 - Ernst Lubitsch, German-born film director (d. 1947)
• 1912 - Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956)
• 1927 - Ronnie Scott, British jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner (d. 1996)
• 1927 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (d. 2001)
• 1929 - Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-born artist
• 1933 - Jack Hill, American film director
• 1935 - David Lodge, English author
• 1936 - Alan Alda, American actor, writer, and director
• 1945 - Robert Wyatt, English musician
• 1953 - Chris Carter, English musician (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey)

Deaths

• 1939 - William Butler Yeats, Irish writer (b. 1865)
• 2002 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author (b. 1907)

Notes

• 1924 - Marcel Broodthaers (January 28 1924–January 28 1976) was a Belgian poet, filmmaker and artist with a highly literate and often witty approach to creating art works.

• 1934 - Armand Rassenfosse (6 August 1862 - 28 January 1934) was a Belgian painter and lithographer, born in Liège.
• 1868 - Adalbert Stifter Adalbert Stifter (23 October 1805 – 28 January 1868) was an Austrian writer, poet, painter,
• 1984 - Hervey M. Cleckley Dr. Hervey Milton Cleckley (1903 - January 28, 1984) was an American psychiatrist and pioneer in the field of psychopathy. He is the author of The Mask of Sanity and co-author of The Three Faces of Eve.
• 1956 - Suehiro Maruo Maruo Suehiro (Maruo Suehiro), born January 28, 1956 in Nagasaki, Japan, is a Japanese manga artist, illustrator, and painter.
• 1861 - Henri Murger Henri Murger (March 27 1822- Paris, January 28, 1861) was a French novelist and poet (Scènes de la Vie de Bohème)

• 1953 - Anicée Alvina January 28 1953, Boulogne-Billancourt, France to a French mother and an Iranian father - d. November 10 2006, Boncourt, Eure et Loir, France from cancer) was a French singer and actress.
• 1980 - Kroger Babb Howard W. "Kroger" Babb (December 30 1906–January 28 1980) was an American film and television producer.
• 1877 - Francis de Croisset Francis de Croisset (January 28, 1877 - November 8, 1937) was a French playwright and opera librettist.

• 1875 - Donald McGill l, (January 28 1875 – October 13 1962) was an English graphic artist whose name has become synonymous with a whole genre of saucy seaside postcards