June 15
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Art and culture
- 1520 - Pope Leo X issues a rebuttal to Luther's 95 Theses, a papal encyclical titled Exsurge Domine.
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Births
- 1594 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter (d. 1665)
- 1835 - Adah Isaacs Menken, American sex symbol (d. 1868)
- 1927 - Hugo Pratt, Italian comic book creator (d. 1995)
- 1929 - Herschell Gordon Lewis, American exploitation filmmaker
- 1941 - Essy Persson, Swedish actress
- 1943 - Xaviera Hollander, Dutch author
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Deaths
- 1728 - Bernard de La Monnoye, French lawyer, poet, philologue and critic (b. 1641)
- 1752 - Charles-Antoine Coypel, French painter, art commentator, and playwright (b. 1694)
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