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From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

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Art and culture

• 1633 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
• 1881 - The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by activist Hubertine Auclert.
• 1894 - Auguste and Louis Lumière patent the Cinematographe, a combination movie camera and projector.
• 1914 - Copyright: In New York City the ASCAP (for American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
• 1920 - The Negro National League is formed.

Births

• 1766 - Thomas Robert Malthus Demographer and Political Economist (d. 1834)
• 1892 - Grant Wood, American painter (d. 1942)
• 1903 - Georges Simenon, Belgian writer (d. 1989)
• 1930 - Ernst Fuchs, Austrian artist
• 1933 - Costa Gavras, Greek-French filmmaker
• 1933 - Kim Novak, American actress
• 1938 - Oliver Reed, English actor (Women in Love, The Devils) (d. 1999)
• 1941 - Sigmar Polke, German painter
• 1961 - Henry Rollins, American musician

Deaths

• 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer
• 1571 - Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (b. 1500)
• 1883 - Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813)
• 1958 - Georges Rouault, French painter (b. 1871)

notes

• 1521 - Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (February 13, 1707 - April 12, 1777), was a French novelist best remembered for the libertine novel Le Sopha, conte moral (1742).
• 1521 - Paul Nougé (February 13, 1895 - November 6, 1967) was a Belgian poet and philosopher
• 1521 - Ewa Aulin (born 13 February 1950 Landskrona, Skåne län, Sweden) is a Swedish actress and one time winner of Miss Teen Sweden. She appeared in a number of American and Italian films in the 1960s and 1970s, most notably playing the title character in Candy
• 1521 - Carole Eastman (February 19, 1934 - February 13, 2004), was an American screenwriter. Among her relatively few credits were screenplays for Monte Hellman's The Shooting (1968), Bob Rafelson's Five Easy Pieces
• 1521 - Alphonse Bertillon (April 23, 1853—February 13, 1914) was a French law enforcement officer and biometrics researcher, who created anthropometry, an identification system based on physical measurements. Anthropometry was the first scientific system police used to identify criminals.
• 1521 - Charles Méryon Charles Méryon (November 23, 1821-February 13, 1868), was a French artist, who worked almost entirely in etching, as he suffered from colour-blindness.
• 1521 - Hartmann Schedel (February 13, 1440 – November 28, 1514), was a German physician, humanist and historian, one of the first cartographers to make use of the printing press. He was born in Nuremberg. Matheolus Perusinus served as his tutor.

Schedel is best known for his writing the text for the Nuremberg Chronicle,