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| == Events == | == Events == | ||
| + | * [[1777]] - [[Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau ]] is imprisoned at the Vincennes prison | ||
| * [[1842]] - The first issue of the [[Illustrated London News]] is published. | * [[1842]] - The first issue of the [[Illustrated London News]] is published. | ||
| * [[1910]] - [[Alice B. Toklas]] and [[Gertrude Stein]] begin living together in Paris. --''[[Alternative sexuality|a compleat timeline of alternative sexuality]]'' | * [[1910]] - [[Alice B. Toklas]] and [[Gertrude Stein]] begin living together in Paris. --''[[Alternative sexuality|a compleat timeline of alternative sexuality]]'' | ||
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| *[[1962]] - ''[[The Intruder]]'', a Roger Corman film, has its world premiere in New York. | *[[1962]] - ''[[The Intruder]]'', a Roger Corman film, has its world premiere in New York. | ||
| *[[1970]] – The [[Red Army Faction]] is established in [[Germany]]. | *[[1970]] – The [[Red Army Faction]] is established in [[Germany]]. | ||
| - | == Births == | ||
| - | *[[1755]] - [[George Barrington]], Irish pickpocket who was mentioned in the 1959 film ''[[Pickpocket]]'' by [[Robert Bresson]]. | ||
| - | *[[1868 ]] - [[Magnus Hirschfeld]], German physician, sexologist, and gay rights advocate | ||
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| - | == Deaths == | ||
| - | *[[1818]] - [[Matthew Gregory Lewis]], British author of gothic novel ''[[The Monk]]'' | ||
| - | *[[1912]] - [[August Strindberg]], Swedish writer, playwright, and painter | ||
| - | *[[1925]] - [[H. R. Haggard]], British writer of the Victorian era | ||
| - | *[[1935]] - [[Magnus Hirschfeld]], German physician, sexologist, and gay rights advocate | ||
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| - | ==Events== | ||
| - | *[[1264]] – [[Battle of Lewes]]: [[Henry III of England]] is captured in [[France]] making [[Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester|Simon de Montfort]] the ''[[de facto]]'' ruler of [[England]]. | ||
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| ==Births== | ==Births== | ||
| *[[1265]] – [[Dante Alighieri]], Italian poet (d. 1321) | *[[1265]] – [[Dante Alighieri]], Italian poet (d. 1321) | ||
| *[[1727]] – [[Thomas Gainsborough]], English artist (d. 1788) | *[[1727]] – [[Thomas Gainsborough]], English artist (d. 1788) | ||
| + | *[[1755]] – [[George Barrington]], Irish pickpocket who was mentioned in the 1959 film ''[[Pickpocket]]'' by [[Robert Bresson]]. (d. 1804) | ||
| *[[1771]] – [[Robert Owen]], Welsh social reformer (d. 1858) | *[[1771]] – [[Robert Owen]], Welsh social reformer (d. 1858) | ||
| + | *[[1848]] – [[Albert Robida]], French illustrator and novelist (d. 1926) | ||
| + | *[[1868]] – [[Magnus Hirschfeld]], German physician, sexologist, and gay rights advocate (b. 1935) | ||
| *[[1897]] – [[Sidney Bechet]], American musician (d. 1959) | *[[1897]] – [[Sidney Bechet]], American musician (d. 1959) | ||
| *[[1917]] – [[Lou Harrison]], American composer (d. 2003) | *[[1917]] – [[Lou Harrison]], American composer (d. 2003) | ||
| - | *[[1931]] – [[Alvin Lucier]], American composer | + | *[[1931]] – [[Alvin Lucier]], American composer (d. 2021) |
| *[[1936]] – [[Bobby Darin]], American singer (d. 1973) | *[[1936]] – [[Bobby Darin]], American singer (d. 1973) | ||
| *[[1944]] – [[George Lucas]], American film director | *[[1944]] – [[George Lucas]], American film director | ||
| *[[1952]] – [[David Byrne (musician)|David Byrne]], Scottish-born American musician ([[Talking Heads]]) | *[[1952]] – [[David Byrne (musician)|David Byrne]], Scottish-born American musician ([[Talking Heads]]) | ||
| * 1952 – [[Robert Zemeckis]], American film director | * 1952 – [[Robert Zemeckis]], American film director | ||
| - | *[[1960]] – [[Anne Clark]], English singer | ||
| *[[1969]] – [[Cate Blanchett]], Australian actress | *[[1969]] – [[Cate Blanchett]], Australian actress | ||
| *[[1971]] – [[Sofia Coppola]], American director | *[[1971]] – [[Sofia Coppola]], American director | ||
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| ==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
| *[[1610]] – [[Henry IV of France]] (b. 1553) | *[[1610]] – [[Henry IV of France]] (b. 1553) | ||
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| - | *[[1643]] – [[Louis XIII of France]] (b. 1601) | ||
| - | *[[1649]] – [[Friedrich Spanheim]], Dutch theologian (b. 1600) | ||
| - | *[[1669]] – [[Georges de Scudéry]], French writer (b. 1601) | ||
| - | *[[1688]] – [[Antoine Furetière]], French writer (b. 1619) | ||
| - | *[[1754]] – [[Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée]], French writer (b. 1692) | ||
| - | *[[1761]] – [[Thomas Simpson]], British mathematician (b. 1710) | ||
| *[[1818]] – [[Matthew Gregory Lewis]], English novelist (b. 1775) | *[[1818]] – [[Matthew Gregory Lewis]], English novelist (b. 1775) | ||
| - | *[[1847]] – [[Fanny Mendelssohn]], German composer and pianist (b. 1805) | ||
| - | *[[1860]] – [[Ludwig Bechstein]], German writer (b. 1801) | ||
| - | *[[1873]] – [[Gideon Brecher]], Austrian physician and writer (b. 1797) | ||
| - | *[[1878]] – [[Ookubo Toshimichi]], [[Japan]]ese [[statesman]], [[samurai]], and one of the three great nobles who led the [[Meiji Restoration]] (b. 1830) | ||
| *[[1887]] – [[Lysander Spooner]], American philosopher (b. 1808) | *[[1887]] – [[Lysander Spooner]], American philosopher (b. 1808) | ||
| - | *[[1889]] – [[Volney E. Howard]], American politician (b. 1809) | ||
| - | *[[1893]] – [[Ernst Kummer]], German mathematician (b. 1810) | ||
| - | *[[1906]] – [[Carl Schurz]], German revolutionary and statesman (b. 1829) | ||
| *[[1907]] – [[Katharine Hepburn]] , American actress (d. 2003) | *[[1907]] – [[Katharine Hepburn]] , American actress (d. 2003) | ||
| - | *[[1912]] – [[Frederick VIII of Denmark]] (b. 1843) | + | *[[1912]] – [[August Strindberg]], Swedish author (b. 1849) |
| - | * 1912 – [[August Strindberg]], Swedish author (b. 1849) | + | |
| - | *[[1918]] – [[James Gordon Bennett, Jr.]], American newspaper publisher (b. 1841) | + | |
| - | *[[1919]] – [[Henry John Heinz]], founder of the [[H. J. Heinz Company]] (b. 1844) | + | |
| - | *[[1923]] – [[Charles de Freycinet]], French prime minister (b. 1828) | + | |
| *[[1925]] – [[H. Rider Haggard]], English author (b. 1856) | *[[1925]] – [[H. Rider Haggard]], English author (b. 1856) | ||
| - | *[[1931]] – [[David Belasco]], American theatrical producer (b. 1853) | + | *[[1935]] – [[Magnus Hirschfeld]], German physician, sexologist, and gay rights advocate (b. 1868) |
| - | * 1931 – [[Denys Finch Hatton]], English big-game hunter (b. 1887) | + | |
| - | *[[1934]] – [[Lou Criger]], American baseball player (b. 1872) | + | |
| - | *[[1936]] – [[Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby]], British general (b. 1861) | + | |
| *[[1940]] – [[Emma Goldman]], Lithuanian-born anarchist (b. 1869) | *[[1940]] – [[Emma Goldman]], Lithuanian-born anarchist (b. 1869) | ||
| *[[1943]] – [[Henri La Fontaine]], Belgian [[Nobel Peace Prize]] laureate (b. 1854) | *[[1943]] – [[Henri La Fontaine]], Belgian [[Nobel Peace Prize]] laureate (b. 1854) | ||
| - | *[[1945]] – [[Heber J. Grant]], seventh president of the [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (b. 1856) | ||
| - | *[[1954]] – [[Heinz Guderian]], German General (b. 1888) | ||
| *[[1957]] – [[Marie Vassilieff]], Russian artist (b. 1884) | *[[1957]] – [[Marie Vassilieff]], Russian artist (b. 1884) | ||
| *[[1959]] – [[Sidney Bechet]], American musician (b. 1897) | *[[1959]] – [[Sidney Bechet]], American musician (b. 1897) | ||
| - | *[[1962]] – [[Florence Auer]], American actress (b. 1880) | ||
| - | *[[1968]] – [[Husband E. Kimmel]], American admiral (b. 1882) | ||
| - | *[[1969]] – [[Frederick Lane]], Australian swimmer (b. 1888) | ||
| - | *[[1970]] – [[Billie Burke]], American actress (b. 1884) | ||
| - | *[[1973]] – [[Jean Gebser]], German-born author, linguist, and poet (b. 1905) | ||
| - | *[[1976]] – [[Keith Relf]], British singer and musician ([[The Yardbirds]]) (b. 1943) | ||
| - | *[[1978]] – [[Robert Menzies]], twelfth [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (b. 1894) | ||
| - | *[[1980]] – [[Hugh Griffith]], Welsh actor (b. 1912) | ||
| - | *[[1982]] – [[Hugh Beaumont (actor)|Hugh Beaumont]], American actor (b. 1909) | ||
| - | *[[1983]] – [[Roger J. Traynor]], American judge (b. 1900) | ||
| - | * 1983 – [[Miguel Alemán Valdés]], President of Mexico (b. 1900) | ||
| - | *[[1984]] – [[Walter Rauff]], German colonel (b. 1906) | ||
| - | *[[1985]] – Mei Ling [[Barbara Yung]], Hong Kong actress (b. 1959) | ||
| *[[1987]] – [[Rita Hayworth]], American actress (b. 1918) | *[[1987]] – [[Rita Hayworth]], American actress (b. 1918) | ||
| - | *[[1988]] – [[Willem Drees]], [[Prime Minister of the Netherlands]] (b. 1886) | ||
| - | *[[1991]] – [[Jiang Qing]], wife of [[Mao Zedong]] (b. 1914) | ||
| - | *[[1992]] – [[Lyle Alzado]], American football player (b. 1949) | ||
| - | * 1992 – [[Nie Rongzhen]], Chinese Communist military leader (b. 1899) | ||
| - | *[[1993]] – [[Patrick Haemers]], Belgian criminal (b. 1953) | ||
| - | * 1993 – [[William Randolph Hearst Jr.]], American newspaper magnate (b. 1908) | ||
| - | *[[1995]] – [[Christian B. Anfinsen]], American [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel laureate]] (b. 1916) | ||
| - | *[[1997]] – [[Harry Blackstone Jr.]], American magician (b. 1934) | ||
| *[[1998]] – [[Frank Sinatra]], American singer and actor (b. 1915) | *[[1998]] – [[Frank Sinatra]], American singer and actor (b. 1915) | ||
| - | * 1998 – [[Marjory Stoneman Douglas]], American conservationist (b. 1890) | ||
| - | *[[2000]] – [[Obuchi Keizo]], [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (b. 1937) | ||
| - | *[[2003]] – [[Dave DeBusschere]], American basketball player (b. 1940) | ||
| - | * 2003 – [[Wendy Hiller]], British actress (b. 1912) | ||
| - | * 2003 – [[Robert Stack]], American actor (b. 1919) | ||
| - | *[[2004]] – [[Anna Lee]], British actress (b. 1913) | ||
| - | *[[2006]] – [[Lew Anderson]], American actor and bandleader (b. 1922) | ||
| - | * 2006 – [[Stanley Kunitz]], American poet (b. 1905) | ||
| - | * 2006 – [[Eva Norvind]], Mexican actress (b. 1944) | ||
| - | *[[2007]] – [[Mary Goldsmith]], American ceramist (b. 1908) | ||
| - | * 2007 – [[Ülo Jõgi]], Estonian freedom fighter (b. 1921) | ||
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Events
- 1777 - Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau is imprisoned at the Vincennes prison
- 1842 - The first issue of the Illustrated London News is published.
- 1910 - Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein begin living together in Paris. --a compleat timeline of alternative sexuality
- 1912 - the Bonnot Gang besieged and apprehended in the Paris suburb of Nogent-sur-Marne
- 1922 - Freud first wrote about the motif of the decapitated Medusa's head in a brief set of notes
- 1925 – Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
- 1962 - The Intruder, a Roger Corman film, has its world premiere in New York.
- 1970 – The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.
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Births
- 1265 – Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (d. 1321)
- 1727 – Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (d. 1788)
- 1755 – George Barrington, Irish pickpocket who was mentioned in the 1959 film Pickpocket by Robert Bresson. (d. 1804)
- 1771 – Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer (d. 1858)
- 1848 – Albert Robida, French illustrator and novelist (d. 1926)
- 1868 – Magnus Hirschfeld, German physician, sexologist, and gay rights advocate (b. 1935)
- 1897 – Sidney Bechet, American musician (d. 1959)
- 1917 – Lou Harrison, American composer (d. 2003)
- 1931 – Alvin Lucier, American composer (d. 2021)
- 1936 – Bobby Darin, American singer (d. 1973)
- 1944 – George Lucas, American film director
- 1952 – David Byrne, Scottish-born American musician (Talking Heads)
- 1952 – Robert Zemeckis, American film director
- 1969 – Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
- 1971 – Sofia Coppola, American director
- 1984 – Mark Zuckerberg, American internet entrepreneur
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Deaths
- 1610 – Henry IV of France (b. 1553)
- 1818 – Matthew Gregory Lewis, English novelist (b. 1775)
- 1887 – Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (b. 1808)
- 1907 – Katharine Hepburn , American actress (d. 2003)
- 1912 – August Strindberg, Swedish author (b. 1849)
- 1925 – H. Rider Haggard, English author (b. 1856)
- 1935 – Magnus Hirschfeld, German physician, sexologist, and gay rights advocate (b. 1868)
- 1940 – Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist (b. 1869)
- 1943 – Henri La Fontaine, Belgian Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1854)
- 1957 – Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (b. 1884)
- 1959 – Sidney Bechet, American musician (b. 1897)
- 1987 – Rita Hayworth, American actress (b. 1918)
- 1998 – Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (b. 1915)
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