October 22
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Featured visual The Swing (ca. 1767) by Fragonard One of the iconic images of French erotica. Notice the peeping tom lying at her feet trying to glare upskirt
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Art and culture
- 1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honour.
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Births
- 1811 - Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer (d. 1886)
- 1818 - Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle, French poet (d. 1894)
- 1870 - Lord Alfred Douglas, British writer and lover of Oscar Wilde (d. 1945)
- 1919 - Doris Lessing, British writer
- 1920 - Timothy Leary, American writer and professor (d. 1996)
- 1921 - Georges Brassens, French singer (d. 1981)
- 1925 - Robert Rauschenberg, American painter, sculptor, and graphic artist
- 1928 - Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Brazilian film director
- 1943 - Catherine Deneuve, French actress
- 1965 - Paul Tillich, German-American philosopher (b. 1886)
- 1969 - Spike Jonze, American director and film producer
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Deaths
- 1906 - Paul Cézanne, French painter (b. 1839)
- 1995 - Kingsley Amis, English writer (b. 1922)
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