December 16
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Art and culture
- 2004 - One of the few surviving copies of Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery, presumably by John Wilmot, is sold by Sotheby's for £45,600.
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Births
- 1770 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (Is his supposed birthday, since he was baptized the following day it is believed his birthday is on the 16th.) (d. 1827)
- 1775 - Jane Austen, British writer (d. 1817)
- 1862 - Eugène Demolder, Belgian writer (d. 1919)
- 1866 - Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born French abstract painter (d. 1944)
- 1899 - Noel Coward, British playwright, actor and composer (d. 1973)
- 1901 - Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (d. 1978)
- 1917 - Arthur C. Clarke, British writer (d. 2008)
- 1928 - Philip K. Dick, American writer (d. 1982)
- 1938 - Liv Ullmann, Norwegian actress
- 1961 - Bill Hicks, American comedian (d. 1994)
- 1961 - Ron Athey, American artist associated with body art
- 1962 - Maruschka Detmers, Dutch actress
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Deaths
- 1745 - Pierre Desfontaines, French journalist, translator and popular historian, satirized as the fictional character Dom Bougre (b. 1685)
- 1859 - Wilhelm Grimm, German writer and folklorist (b. 1786)
- 1897 - Alphonse Daudet, French novelist and short story writer (b. 1840)
- 1916 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (b. 1869)
- 1921 - Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (b. 1835)
- 1965 - W. Somerset Maugham, British writer (b. 1874)
- 1988 - Sylvester James, American R&B singer, disco performer (b. 1948)
- 1989 - Aileen Pringle, American actress (b. 1895)
- 1989 - Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (b. 1930)
- 1990 - Jackie Mittoo, Jamaican keyboardist (b. 1948)
- 1993 - Charles Willard Moore, American architect (Piazza d'Italia) (b. 1925)
- 1998 - William Gaddis, American writer (b. 1922)
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