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| *[[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) | ||
| - | *[[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) | ||
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| *[[1931]] – [[David Belasco]], American theatrical producer (b. 1853) | *[[1931]] – [[David Belasco]], American theatrical producer (b. 1853) | ||
| * 1931 – [[Denys Finch Hatton]], English big-game hunter (b. 1887) | * 1931 – [[Denys Finch Hatton]], English big-game hunter (b. 1887) | ||
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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)
- 1931 – David Belasco, American theatrical producer (b. 1853)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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, 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)
- 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 laureate (b. 1916)
- 1997 – Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician (b. 1934)
- 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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