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| *[[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) | ||
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| - | *[[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
- 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.
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
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
Births
- 1265 – Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (d. 1321)
- 1727 – Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (d. 1788)
- 1771 – Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer (d. 1858)
- 1897 – Sidney Bechet, American musician (d. 1959)
- 1917 – Lou Harrison, American composer (d. 2003)
- 1931 – Alvin Lucier, American composer
- 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
- 1960 – Anne Clark, English singer
- 1969 – Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
- 1971 – Sofia Coppola, American director
- 1984 – Mark Zuckerberg, American internet entrepreneur
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)
- 1925 – H. Rider Haggard, English author (b. 1856)
- 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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