August 22
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Art and culture
- 1911 - Theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered.
- 2004 - A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
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Births
- 1822 - Virginia Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe (d. 1847)
- 1862 - Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918)
- 1893 - Dorothy Parker, American writer (d. 1967)
- 1902 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003)
- 1903 - René Wellek, Czech-German literary theorist (d. 1995)
- 1908 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004)
- 1917 - John Lee Hooker, American guitarist and singer (d. 2001)
- 1928 - Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (d. 2007)
- 1965 – David Reimer, sex change patient in a famous gender identity case (d. 2004)
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Deaths
- 1806 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (b. 1732)
- 1860 - Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, French painter (The Monkey Connoisseurs) (b. 1803)
- 1904 - Kate Chopin, American author (b. 1850)
- 1920 - Anders Zorn, Swedish painter (b. 1860)
- 1970 - Vladimir Propp, Russian structuralist scholar (b. 1895)
- 1981 - Glauber Rocha, Brazilian filmmaker (Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol) (b. 1938)
- 1989 - Huey P. Newton, American activist (b. 1942)
- 2005 - Luc Ferrari, French composer (b. 1929)
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