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Art and culture
Births
- 1800 - Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher
Jean-Claude Forest was the premier cover artist of the then-leading French science-fiction paperback imprint, Le Rayon Fantastique (Hachette-Gallimard). George Gallet, was the editor.
- 1813 - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher and avant la lettre existentialist
- 1818 - Karl Marx, German activist
- 1944 - Jean-Pierre Léaud, French actor of the nouvelle vague
Deaths
- 1958 - James Branch Cabell, American writer of fantasy fiction and author of Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice
- 1982 - Cal Tjader, American Latin jazz musician
- 2004 Sir Coxsone Dodd, Jamaican record producer and owner of Studio One
- 2004 David Reimer, sex change victim