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Art and culture

Births

• 1840 - Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)
• 1906 - Louise Brooks, American dancer, actress, and movie historian (d. 1985)
• 1907 - Astrid Lindgren, Swedish writer (d. 2002)
• 1939 - Wendy Carlos, American composer

Deaths

• 565 - Justinian the Great, Byzantine Emperor (b. 483)
• 1226 - Frederick of Isenberg, German politician (executed) (b. 1193)
• 1263 - Alexander Nevsky, Grand Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir
• 1359 - Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessalonica (b. 1296)
• 1522 - Anne of France, Princess and Regent of France (b. 1461)
• 1556 - Giovanni della Casa, Italian poet (b. 1504)
• 1633 - William Ames, English philosopher (b. 1576)
• 1687 - Nell Gwynne, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1650)
• 1691 - Tosa Mitsuoki, Japanese painter (b. 1617)
• 1716 - Gottfried Leibniz, German philosopher and mathematician (b. 1646)
• 1734 - Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, French-born mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1649)
• 1746 - Georg Steller, German naturalist (b. 1709)
• 1817 - Policarpa Salavarrieta, Colombian revolutionary (b. 1795)
• 1825 - Jean Paul, German writer (b. 1763)
• 1829 - Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist (b. 1763)
• 1831 - Georg Hegel, German philosopher (b. 1770)
• 1831 - Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian-born French composer, music publisher and piano manufacturer (b. 1757)
• 1832 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton, American statesman (b. 1737)
• 1844 - John Abercrombie, British physician (b. 1780)
• 1866 - King Miguel of Portugal (b. 1802)
• 1872 - Pavel Kiselyov, Russian general and politician (b. 1788)
• 1907 - Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian politician (b. 1848)
• 1908 - The Guangxu Emperor of China, (b. 1871)
• 1914 - Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar, Malayalin journalist (b. 1861)
• 1915 - Booker T. Washington, American inventor (b. 1856)
• 1916 - Henry George, Jr., American politician (b. 1862)
• 1916 - Saki, British writer (b. 1870)
• 1937 - Jack O'Connor, American baseball player (b. 1869)
• 1944 - Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist (b. 1873)
• 1946 - Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (b. 1876)
• 1947 - Joseph Allard, French Canadian fiddler (b. 1873)
• 1971 - William Bendeck, Bolivian rally driver (b. 1934)
• 1972 - Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (b. 1900)
• 1974 - Johnny Mack Brown, American actor (b. 1904)
• 1977 - A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acarya of ISKCON (b. 1896)
• 1981 - Robert Bradford, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1941)
• 1991 - Tony Richardson, English film director (b. 1928)
• 1992 - Ernst Happel, Austrian football coach (b. 1925)
• 1994 - Tom Villard, American actor (b. 1953)
• 1996 - John A. Cade, American politician (b. 1929)
• 1997 - Eddie Arcaro, American jockey (b. 1916)
• 1997 - Jack Pickersgill, Canadian politician (b. 1905)
• 2000 - Robert Trout, American journalist (b. 1908)
• 2001 - Charlotte Coleman, British actress (b. 1968)
• 2001 - Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Argentine footballer (b. 1922)
• 2002 - Eddie Bracken, American film actor (b. 1915)
• 2003 - Gene Anthony Ray, American actor (b. 1962)
• 2004 - Michel Colombier, French composer (b. 1939)
• 2005 - Eddie Guerero, Mexican American WWE Wrestler (b. 1967)

Notes

1. Claude Monet
2. Friedrich Hegel
3. Malcolm Muggeridge
4. Tony Richardson
5. Wendy Carlos
6. Jacques Mesnil
7. August
8. Leonid Trauberg
9. Michel Colombier
10. Georg Wilhelm Steller
11. Olga Khokhlova
12. Caza
13. Moby-Dick

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