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| == Art and culture == | == Art and culture == | ||
| - | *[[1648]] - [[Native Americans in the United States|American Indian]] Battle of Tippycart | + | *[[1971]] - [[Wet Dream Film Festival|The Second Wet Dream Film Festival]] opens in Amsterdam |
| - | *[[1740]] - [[Maria Theresa of Austria|Maria Theresa]] takes the throne of [[Austria]]. [[France]], [[Prussia]], [[Bavaria]] and [[Saxony]] refuse to honour the [[Pragmatic Sanction]] and the [[War of the Austrian Succession]] begins. | + | |
| - | *[[1781]] - [[Patent of Toleration]], providing limited [[freedom of religion|freedom of worship]], was approved in [[Habsburg Monarchy]]. | + | |
| - | *[[1803]] - The [[United States Senate]] ratifies the [[Louisiana Purchase]]. | + | |
| - | *[[1818]] - [[Treaty of 1818|The Convention of 1818]] signed between the United States and the United Kingdom which, among other things, settled the US-Canada border on the 49th parallel for most of its length. | + | |
| - | *[[1824]] - [[William H. Seward]] and [[Frances Adeline Seward|Frances Adeline Miller Seward]] wed. | + | |
| - | *[[1827]] - [[Battle of Navarino]] - a combined [[Ottoman Empire|Turkish]] and [[Egypt]]ian armada is destroyed by an allied [[United Kingdom|British]], [[France|French]], and [[Russia]]n naval force in the port of Navarino in Pylos, [[Greece]]. The most important result of this battle is the end of the Greek Liberation War and the affirmation of independence of modern [[Greece]]. | + | |
| - | *[[1883]] - [[Peru]] and [[Chile]] signed the [[Treaty of Ancón]], by which the [[Tarapacá Region|Tarapacá]] province was ceded to the latter, bringing an end to Peru's involvement in the [[War of the Pacific]]. | + | |
| - | *[[1910]] - The hull of the [[RMS Olympic]], sister-ship to the ill-fated [[RMS Titanic]], is launched from the [[Harland and Wolff]] [[shipyard]] in [[Belfast]], [[Ireland]]. | + | |
| - | *[[1935]] - The [[Long March]] ends | + | |
| - | *[[1941]] - [[World War II]]: Thousands of civilians in [[Kragujevac]] in [[Nedić's Serbia|German-occupied Serbia]] are killed in the [[Kragujevac massacre]]. | + | |
| - | *[[1944]] - The [[Soviet army]] and [[Partisans (Yugoslavia)|Yugoslav Partisans]] liberate [[Belgrade]], the capital of [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] | + | |
| - | * 1944 - Liquid [[natural gas]] leaks from storage tanks in [[Cleveland]], then explodes; the explosion and resulting fire level 30 blocks and kill 130. | + | |
| - | * 1944 - [[General Douglas MacArthur]] fulfills his promise to return to the [[Philippines]] when he commands an Allied assault on the islands, reclaiming them from the [[Japan]]ese during the [[Second World War]]. | + | |
| - | *[[1947]] - The [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] begins its investigation into [[Communism|Communist]] infiltration of [[Hollywood]], resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years. | + | |
| - | *[[1951]] - The "[[Johnny Bright Incident]]" occurred in [[Stillwater, Oklahoma|Stillwater]], [[Oklahoma]] | + | |
| - | *[[1952]] - [[Colonial Heads of Kenya|Governor]] [[Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale|Evelyn Baring]] declared a [[state of emergency]] in [[Kenya]] and began arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the [[Mau Mau Uprising]], including [[Jomo Kenyatta]], the future first [[Heads of state of Kenya|President of Kenya]]. | + | |
| - | *[[1955]] - Publication of [[The Return of the King]], being the last part of [[The Lord of the Rings]] | + | |
| - | *[[1967]] - A purported [[bigfoot]] is filmed by [[Patterson-Gimlin film|Patterson and Gimlin]]. | + | |
| - | *[[1968]] - Former [[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]] [[Jacqueline Kennedy]] marries [[Greece|Greek]] shipping tycoon [[Aristotle Onassis]]. | + | |
| - | *[[1971]] - The [[Nepal]] stock exchange collapses. | + | |
| - | *[[1973]] - The [[Saturday Night Massacre]]: [[Richard Nixon|President Nixon]] fires [[Attorney General]] [[Elliot Richardson]] and [[Deputy Attorney General]] [[William Ruckelshaus]] after they refuse to fire [[Watergate scandal|Watergate]] prosecutor [[Archibald Cox]], who is finally fired by [[Robert Bork]]. | + | |
| - | * 1973 - The [[Sydney Opera House]] opens. | + | |
| - | *[[1976]] - The [[ferry]] [[MV George Prince ferry disaster|''George Prince'']] is struck by a ship while crossing the [[Mississippi River]] between [[Destrehan, Louisiana|Destrehan]] and [[Luling, Louisiana|Luling, LA]]. Seventy-eight passengers and crew died; only 18 people aboard the ferry survived. | + | |
| - | *[[1977]] - A plane carrying [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]] crashes in [[Mississippi]], killing lead singer [[Ronnie Van Zant]] and guitarist [[Steve Gaines]] along with backup singer [[Cassie Gaines]], road manager [[Dean Kilpatrick]], pilot [[Walter McCreary]], and co-pilot [[William Gray]]. | + | |
| - | *[[1979]] - The [[John F Kennedy]] library is opened in [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]. | + | |
| - | *[[1982]] - During the [[UEFA Cup]] match between [[FC Spartak Moscow]] and [[HFC Haarlem]] at least 63 and probably many more people are crushed to death in the [[Luzhniki disaster]]. | + | |
| - | *[[1984]] - The [[Monterey Bay Aquarium]] opens in [[Monterey Bay, California]]. | + | |
| - | *[[1991]] - The [[Oakland Hills firestorm]] kills 25 and destroys 3,469 homes and apartments, causing more than $2 billion in damage. | + | |
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| - | *[[2004]] - [[Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono]] is sworn in as the [[List of Presidents of Indonesia|President]] of [[Indonesia]]. | + | |
| - | * 2004 - The [[2004 Boston Red Sox season|Boston Red Sox]] of [[Major League Baseball]] become the first team in the history of the league to win a best-of-7 [[postseason]] series after trailing the series 3 games to 0, by defeating the [[2004 New York Yankees season|New York Yankees]] in Game 7 the [[2004 American League Championship Series|American League Championship Series]]. | + | |
| - | * 2004 - The first [[Ubuntu (Linux distribution)|Ubuntu]] [[Linux]] distribution is released. | + | |
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| == Births == | == Births == | ||
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| - | *[[1463]] - [[Alessandro Achillini]], Italian philosopher (d. [[1512]]) | ||
| - | *[[1496]] - [[Claude, Duke of Guise]], French soldier (d. [[1550]]) | ||
| - | *[[1616]] - [[Thomas Bartholin]], Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. [[1680]]) | ||
| - | *[[1620]] - [[Aelbert Cuyp]], Dutch painter (d. [[1691]]) | ||
| - | *[[1632]] - [[Christopher Wren|Sir Christopher Wren]], English architect (d. [[1723]]) | ||
| - | *[[1656]] - [[Nicolas de Largillière]], French painter (d. [[1746]]) | ||
| - | *[[1660]] - [[Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven]], English statesman (d. [[1723]]) | ||
| - | *[[1677]] - [[Stanislaus I Leszczyński, King of Poland]] (d. [[1766]]) | ||
| - | *[[1711]] - [[Timothy Ruggles]], American-born Tory politician (d. [[1795]]) | ||
| - | *[[1719]] - [[Gottfried Achenwall]], German statistician (d. [[1772]]) | ||
| - | *[[1759]] - [[Chauncey Goodrich]], U.S. Senator from Connecticut (d. [[1815]]) | ||
| - | *[[1780]] - [[Pauline Bonaparte]], princess Borghese, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. [[1825]]) | ||
| - | *[[1784]] - [[Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (d. [[1865]]) | ||
| - | *[[1785]] - [[George Ormerod]], English historian and antiquarian (d. [[1873]]) | ||
| - | *[[1808]] - [[Karl Andree]], German geographer (d. [[1875]]) | ||
| - | *[[1819]] - The [[Báb]], Persian founder of the Bábí Faith (d. [[1850]]) | ||
| - | * 1819 - [[Carl Mikuli]], Polish pianist (d. [[1897]]) | ||
| - | *[[1822]] - [[Thomas Hughes]], English novelist (d. [[1896]]) | ||
| - | *[[1832]] - [[Constantin Lipsius]], German architect (d. [[1894]]) | ||
| *[[1854]] - [[Arthur Rimbaud]], French poet (d. [[1891]]) | *[[1854]] - [[Arthur Rimbaud]], French poet (d. [[1891]]) | ||
| - | *[[1858]] - [[John Burns]], English politician (d. [[1943]]) | + | *[[1854]] - [[Alphonse Allais]], French writer (d. [[1905]]) |
| *[[1859]] - [[John Dewey]], American philosopher (d. [[1952]]) | *[[1859]] - [[John Dewey]], American philosopher (d. [[1952]]) | ||
| *[[1874]] - [[Charles Ives]], American composer (d. [[1954]]) | *[[1874]] - [[Charles Ives]], American composer (d. [[1954]]) | ||
| *[[1882]] - [[Bela Lugosi]], Hungarian-born actor (d. [[1956]]) | *[[1882]] - [[Bela Lugosi]], Hungarian-born actor (d. [[1956]]) | ||
| - | *[[1889]] - [[Margaret Dumont]], American actress (d. [[1965]]) | ||
| - | *[[1890]] - [[Jelly Roll Morton]], American composer (d. [[1941]]) | ||
| - | *[[1891]] - [[James Chadwick]], English physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1974]]) | ||
| - | * 1891 - [[Jomo Kenyatta]], [[President of Kenya]] (d. [[1978]]) | ||
| - | *[[1893]] - [[Charley Chase]], American comedian (d. [[1940]]) | ||
| - | *[[1894]] - [[Olive Thomas]], American actress (d. [[1920]]) | ||
| - | *[[1895]] - [[Rex Ingram (actor)|Rex Ingram]], American actor (d. [[1969]]) | ||
| - | *[[1897]] - Crown Prince [[Yi Un|Eun]] of Korea (d. [[1970]]) | ||
| - | *[[1900]] - [[Wayne Morse]], U.S. Senator from Oregon (d. [[1974]]) | ||
| - | *[[1904]] - [[Anna Neagle]], English actress (d. [[1986]]) | ||
| - | * 1904 - [[Tommy Clement Douglas]], Canadian politician (d. [[1986]]) | ||
| - | *[[1905]] - [[Ellery Queen]], pseudonym of two American writers (d. [[1982]]) | ||
| - | *[[1907]] - [[Arlene Francis]], American television personality (d. [[2001]]) | ||
| - | *[[1909]] - [[Sugiyama Yasushi]], Japanese painter (d. [[1993]]) | ||
| - | *[[1913]] - [[Grandpa Jones]], American banjo player and singer (d. [[1998]]) | ||
| - | *[[1914]] - [[Fayard Nicholas]], American dancer (d. [[2006]]) | ||
| *[[1917]] - [[Jean-Pierre Melville]], French director (d. [[1973]]) | *[[1917]] - [[Jean-Pierre Melville]], French director (d. [[1973]]) | ||
| - | *[[1918]] - [[Robert Lochner]], German journalist (d. [[2003]]) | + | *[[1937]] - [[Wanda Jackson]], American rock and rockabilly singer |
| - | *[[1922]] - [[John Anderson (actor)|John Anderson]], American actor (d. [[1992]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1925]] - [[Art Buchwald]], American humorist (d. [[2007]]) | + | |
| - | * 1925 - [[Tom Dowd]], American recording engineer (d. [[2002]]) | + | |
| - | * 1925 - [[Roger Hanin]], French actor | + | |
| - | * 1931 - [[Richard Caliguiri]], American politician (d. [[1988]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1931]] - [[Mickey Mantle]], American baseball player (d. [[1995]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1932]] - [[Rosey Brown]], American football player (d. [[2004]]) | + | |
| - | * 1932 - [[William Christopher]], American actor ([[M*A*S*H (TV series)|M*A*S*H]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1934]] - [[Eddie Harris]], American jazz saxophonist (d. [[1996]]) | + | |
| - | * 1934 - [[Empress Michiko of Japan|Michiko]], empress of Japan | + | |
| - | *[[1935]] - [[Jerry Orbach]], American actor (d. [[2004]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1937]] - [[Juan Marichal]], Dominican baseball player | + | |
| - | * 1937 - [[Wanda Jackson]], American rock and rockabilly singer | + | |
| - | *[[1938]] - [[Iain MacMillan]], ''[[Abbey Road (album)|Abbey Road]]'' photographer (d. [[2006]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1940]] - [[Kathy Kirby]], British singer | + | |
| - | * 1940 - [[Robert Pinsky]], American poet and [[Poet Laureate of the United States]] | + | |
| - | *[[1942]] - [[Earl Hindman]], American actor (d. [[2003]]) | + | |
| - | * 1942 - [[Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard]], German biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] | + | |
| - | * [[1943]] - [[Dunja Vejzovic]], Croatian soprano | + | |
| *[[1944]] - [[David Mancuso]], American disc jockey | *[[1944]] - [[David Mancuso]], American disc jockey | ||
| - | *[[1946]] - [[Elfriede Jelinek]], Austrian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate | + | *[[1946]] - [[Elfriede Jelinek]], Austrian writer |
| - | * 1946 - [[Lucien Van Impe]], Belgian cyclist | + | *[[1950]] - [[Elodie Lauten]], American composer |
| - | *[[1949]] - [[Valeri Borzov]], Ukrainian athlete | + | *[[1971]] - [[Snoop Dogg]], American rapper |
| - | *[[1950]] - [[Tom Petty]], American musician | + | |
| - | *[[1951]] - [[Claudio Ranieri]], Italian football player and manager | + | |
| - | * 1951 - [[Leif Pagrotsky]], Swedish politician | + | |
| - | *[[1953]] - [[Keith Hernandez]], American baseball player | + | |
| - | * 1953 - [[Bill Nunn]], American actor | + | |
| - | *[[1954]] - [[Steve Orich]], orchestrator | + | |
| - | *[[1955]] - [[Aaron Pryor]], American boxer | + | |
| - | * 1955 - [[David Profumo]], English novelist | + | |
| - | *[[1956]] - [[Danny Boyle]], English film director | + | |
| - | *[[1957]] - [[Susanna Haavisto]], Finnish actress and singer | + | |
| - | *[[1958]] - [[Dave Finlay]], Northern Irish professional wrestler | + | |
| - | * 1958 - [[Lynn Flewelling]], American fantasy author | + | |
| - | * 1958 - [[Scott Hall]], American professional wrestler | + | |
| - | * 1958 - [[Mark King (musician)|Mark King]], English musician | + | |
| - | * 1958 - [[Dave Krieg]], American football player | + | |
| - | * 1958 - [[Viggo Mortensen]], American actor | + | |
| - | * 1958 - [[Ivo Pogorelic]], Croatian pianist | + | |
| - | *[[1960]] - [[Konstantin Aseev]], Russian chess player (d. [[2004]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1961]] - [[Ian Rush]], Welsh footballer | + | |
| - | * 1961 - [[Michie Tomizawa]], Japanese voice actress | + | |
| - | *[[1962]] - [[Dave Wong]], Hong Kong/Taiwanese singer-songwriter | + | |
| - | *[[1963]] - [[Julie Payette]], Canadian astronaut | + | |
| - | * 1963 - [[Nikos Tsiantakis]], Greek footballer | + | |
| - | *[[1965]] - [[Mikhail Shtalenkov]], Russian ice hockey player | + | |
| - | * 1965 - [[William Zabka]], American actor | + | |
| - | *[[1966]] - [[Allan Donald]], South African cricketer | + | |
| - | * 1966 - [[Stefan Raab]], German entertainer | + | |
| - | * 1966 - [[Patrick J. Volkerding]], Founder and maintainer of the [[Slackware Linux]] distribution | + | |
| - | * 1966 - [[Abu Musab al-Zarqawi]], Al-Qaeda leader (d. [[2006]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1967]] - [[Luck Mervil]], [[Québécois]] actor and singer | + | |
| - | * 1967 - [[Marco Ngai]], Hong Kong actor | + | |
| - | *[[1969]] - [[Juan González (baseball player)|Juan González]], Puerto Rican baseball player | + | |
| - | * 1969 - [[Laurie Daley]], Australian rugby league footballer | + | |
| - | * 1969 - [[Lambros Papakostas]], Greek high jumper | + | |
| - | *[[1970]] - [[Chavo Guerrero, Jr.]], American professional wrestler | + | |
| - | * 1970 - [[Michelle Malkin]], American political commentator and author | + | |
| - | *[[1971]] - [[Dannii Minogue]], Australian singer | + | |
| - | * 1971 - [[Snoop Dogg]], American rapper | + | |
| - | *[[1972]] - [[Will Greenwood]], England rugby union player | + | |
| - | *[[1976]] - [[Tom Wisniewski]], American guitarist ([[MxPx]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1977]] - [[Matt Jansen]], English footballer | + | |
| - | *[[1978]] - [[Virender Sehwag]], Indian cricketer | + | |
| - | * 1978 - [[Paul Wilson (musician)|Paul Wilson]], Irish bass player ([[Snow Patrol]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1979]] - [[John Krasinski]], American actor | + | |
| - | * 1979 - [[Paul O'Connell]], Irish rugby player | + | |
| - | *[[1980]] - [[Jose Veras]], Dominican baseball player | + | |
| - | *[[1981]] - [[Willis McGahee]], American football player | + | |
| - | * 1981 - [[Dimitrios Papadopoulos]], Greek footballer | + | |
| - | *[[1982]] - [[Becky Brewerton]], Welsh golfer | + | |
| - | * 1982 - [[Yasser Al-Qahtani]], Saudi football player | + | |
| - | *[[1983]] - [[Alex Nackman]], musician | + | |
| - | * 1983 - [[Takayuki Yamada]], Japanese actor | + | |
| - | * 1983 - [[Luis Saritama]], Ecuadorian footballer | + | |
| - | *[[1984]] - [[Florent Sinama-Pongolle]], French footballer | + | |
| - | * 1984 - [[Andrew Trimble]], [[Northern Irish]] rugby player for [[Irish rugby team]] | + | |
| - | *[[1985]] - [[Jennifer Nicole Freeman]], American actress | + | |
| - | * 1985 - [[James Sutton (Racing Driver)|James Sutton]], British racing driver | + | |
| - | *[[1988]] - [[Risa Niigaki]], Japanese singer | + | |
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| == Deaths == | == Deaths == | ||
| - | * [[460]] - [[Aelia Eudocia]], Byzantine Empress | + | *[[1976]] - [[Slavko Vorkapich]], Serbian-American film director (b. [[1894]]) |
| - | *[[1139]] - [[Henry X, Duke of Bavaria]] | + | |
| - | *[[1570]] - [[João de Barros]], Portuguese historian (b. [[1496]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1631]] - [[Michael Maestlin]], German astronomer and mathematician (b. [[1550]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1640]] - [[John Ball (Puritan)|John Ball]], English Puritan clergyman (b. [[1585]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1652]] - [[Antonio Coello]], Spanish writer (b. [[1611]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1713]] - [[Archibald Pitcairne]], Scottish physician (b. [[1652]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1740]] - [[Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor]] (b. [[1685]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1842]] - [[Grace Darling]], English heroine (b. [[1815]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1865]] - [[Champ Ferguson]], Confederate guerilla (b. [[1821]]) | + | |
| *[[1890]] - [[Richard Francis Burton|Sir Richard Burton]], British explorer and writer (b. [[1821]]) | *[[1890]] - [[Richard Francis Burton|Sir Richard Burton]], British explorer and writer (b. [[1821]]) | ||
| - | *[[1900]] - [[Naim Frashëri]], Albanian poet (b. [[1846]]) | + | *[[2005]] - [[Jean-Michel Folon]], Belgian artist (b. [[1934]]) |
| - | *[[1907]] - [[Said Pasha Kurd]], Kurdish statesman (b.[[ 1834]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1910]] - [[David B. Hill]], Governor of New York (b. [[1843]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1926]] - [[Eugene Debs]], American labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate (b. [[1855]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1935]] - [[Arthur Henderson]], Scottish politician, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1863]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1936]] - [[Anne Sullivan]], American teacher (b. [[1866]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1964]] - [[Herbert Hoover]], 31st [[President of the United States]] (b. [[1874]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1967]] - [[Yoshida Shigeru]], [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (b. [[1878]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1968]] - [[Bud Flanagan]], British wartime entertainer (b. [[1896]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1972]] - [[Harlow Shapley]], American astronomer (b. [[1885]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1977]] - Members of the American rock group [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]] killed in a plane crash: | + | |
| - | ** [[Cassie Gaines]] (b. [[1948]]) | + | |
| - | ** [[Steve Gaines]] (b. [[1949]]) | + | |
| - | ** [[Ronnie Van Zant]] (b. [[1948]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1983]] - [[Peter Dudley]], British actor | + | |
| - | * 1983 - [[Yves Thériault]], French Canadian author (b. [[1915]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1984]] - [[Carl Ferdinand Cori]], Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1896]]) | + | |
| - | * 1984 - [[Paul Dirac]], English physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1902]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1987]] - [[Andrey Kolmogorov]], Russian mathematician (b. [[1903]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1988]] - [[Sheila Scott]], English aviatrix (b. [[1922]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1989]] - [[Anthony Quayle]], English actor (b. [[1913]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1990]] - [[Joel McCrea]], American actor (b. [[1905]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1993]] - [[Sugiyama Yasushi]], Japanese painter (b. [[1909]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1994]] - [[Burt Lancaster]], American actor (b. [[1913]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1995]] - [[Christopher Stone (actor)|Christopher Stone]], American actor (b. [[1942]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2001]] - [[Ted Ammon]], American financier (b. [[1949]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2002]] - [[Barbara Berjer]], American actress (b. [[1920]]) | + | |
| - | * 2002 - [[Bernard Fresson]], French actor (b. [[1931]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2003]] - [[Jack Elam]], American actor (b. [[1918]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2004]] - [[Anthony Hecht]], American poet (b. [[1923]]) | + | |
| - | * 2004 - [[Chuck Hiller]], American baseball player (b. [[1934]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2005]] - [[Shirley Horn]], American singer (b. [[1934]]) | + | |
| - | * 2005 - [[Endon Mahmood]], First Lady of Malaysia (breast cancer) (b. [[1941]]) | + | |
| - | * 2005 - [[Eva Svankmajerova]], Czech artist (b. [[1940]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2006]] - [[Jane Wyatt]], American actress (b. [[1910]]) | + | |
| - | == Notes == | + | |
| - | Arthur Rimbaud | + | |
| - | Alphonse Allais | + | |
| - | Richard Francis Burton | + | |
| - | Elodie Lauten | + | |
| - | Charleville-Mézières | + | |
| - | Wet Dream Film Festival | + | |
| - | Slavko Vorkapich | + | |
| - | Jean-Pierre Melville | + | |
| - | Charles Ives | + | |
| - | John Dewey | + | |
| - | Jean-Michel Folon | + | |
| - | Snoop Dogg | + | |
| - | Marnix Gijsen | + | |
| - | Elfriede Jelinek | + | |
| - | Danny Boyle | + | |
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Art and culture
- 1971 - The Second Wet Dream Film Festival opens in Amsterdam
Births
- 1854 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (d. 1891)
- 1854 - Alphonse Allais, French writer (d. 1905)
- 1859 - John Dewey, American philosopher (d. 1952)
- 1874 - Charles Ives, American composer (d. 1954)
- 1882 - Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1956)
- 1917 - Jean-Pierre Melville, French director (d. 1973)
- 1937 - Wanda Jackson, American rock and rockabilly singer
- 1944 - David Mancuso, American disc jockey
- 1946 - Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian writer
- 1950 - Elodie Lauten, American composer
- 1971 - Snoop Dogg, American rapper
Deaths
- 1976 - Slavko Vorkapich, Serbian-American film director (b. 1894)
- 1890 - Sir Richard Burton, British explorer and writer (b. 1821)
- 2005 - Jean-Michel Folon, Belgian artist (b. 1934)
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