October 17
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Art and culture
- 1990 - Internet Movie Database started
- 2007 - Un roman sentimental, novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet
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Births
- 1719 - Jacques Cazotte, French writer (d. 1792)
- 1760 - Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, French philosopher (d. 1825)
- 1813 - Georg Büchner, German playwright (d. 1837)
- 1840 - André Gill, French caricaturist. (d. 1885)
- 1864 - Elinor Glyn, British author (d. 1943)
- 1893 - Richard Connell, American author (d. 1949)
- 1903 - Nathanael West, American writer (d. 1940)
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Deaths
- 1849 - Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French musician and composer (b. 1810)
- 2006 - Daniel Emilfork, French actor (b. 1924)
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