June 16
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- 1816 - Lord Byron, John Polidori and the Shelleys read aloud from the Tales of the Dead, a collection of horror tales, also called Fantasmagoriana.
- 1904, setting of James Joyce's Ulysses
- Enrico Baj (October 31, 1924- June 16 2003) was an Italian artist and art writer.
- Louis Aragon After the death of his wife on June 16, 1970, Aragon came out as bisexual, appearing at gay pride parades in a pink convertible (Ivry 1996, p.134).
- 1925 - Otto Muehl, Austian artist
- Raymond Pettibon June 16, 1957) is an American artist and sometime musician and lyricist.
- 1936 - André Breton delivers the Limites non Frontières du Surréalisme speech at the London International Surrealist Exhibition
- 1960 - Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho opens in New York.
- Robert Wiene (April 27, 1873, Breslau – June 16, 1938, Paris)
- 1997 Kenneth Goldsmith uses a dictaphone to note as much of as many of his body's movements as he can.
Births
- 1313 - Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer (d. 1375)
- 1938 - Joyce Carol Oates, American novelist
- 1901 - Henri Lefebvre, French philosopher (d. 1991)
- 1962 - Femi Kuti, Nigerian Afrobeat Musician
Deaths
- 1464 - Roger van der Weyden, Flemish painter (b. 1399)
- 1902 - Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (b. 1841)
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