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From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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Art and culture
- 1897 - Magnus Hirschfeld founds the Scientific Humanitarian Committee to organize for gay rights and the repeal of Paragraph 175
- 1910 - Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein begin living together in Paris. --a compleat timeline of alternative sexuality
- 1922 - Freud first wrote about the motif of the decapitated Medusa's head in a brief set of notes
Births
- 1755 - George Barrington, Irish pickpocket who was mentioned in the 1959 film Pickpocket by Robert Bresson.
- 1868 - Magnus Hirschfeld, German physician, sexologist, and gay rights advocate
Deaths
- 1818 - Matthew Gregory Lewis, British author of gothic novel The Monk
- 1912 - August Strindberg, Swedish writer, playwright, and painter
- 1925 - H. R. Haggard, British writer of the Victorian era
- 1935 - Magnus Hirschfeld, German physician, sexologist, and gay rights advocate