September 5
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Featured: A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933) |
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Art and culture
- 1793 - In France, start of the Reign of Terror.
- 1965 - The term hippie is coined by Michael Fallon.
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Births
- 1774 - Caspar David Friedrich, German artist (d. 1840)
- 1896 - Antonin Artaud, French playwright (d. 1948)
- 1905 - Arthur Koestler, Hungarian writer (d. 1983)
- 1912 - John Cage, American composer (d. 1992)
- 1942 - Werner Herzog, German film director
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Deaths
- 1803 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (b. 1741)
- 1857 - Auguste Comte, French sociologist (b. 1798)
- 1926 - Martin van Maële (b. 1863)
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