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Art and culture
Literature
- Hell (1908) - Henri Barbusse
- The Way of a Man with a Maid
Visual art
- Ornament and Crime
- Danae (1907-08) - Gustav Klimt
- Cubism The term "cubism" is first used by the French art critic Louis Vauxcelles
Film
- Le Film d'Art founded in France
- Émile Cohl began drawing cartoon strips and created a film in 1908 called Fantasmagorie.
Births
- January 9 - Simone de Beauvoir, feminist philosopher
- February 29 - Balthus, Polish-French painter (d. 2001)
- May 28 - Ian Fleming, author
- August 22 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004)
- August 30 - Leonor Fini, Argentine artist (d. 1996)
- September 4 - Richard Wright, author (d. 1960)
- October 27 - Lee Krasner, painter (d. 1984)
- November 28 - Claude Lévi-Strauss
Deaths
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