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From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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Art and culture
- 1938 - a huge rally celebrating Hitler's visit to Mussolini in Rome. The chance meeting between two fictional characters in Un Giornata Particolare takes place.
Births
- 1895 - Edmund Wilson, American literary critic
- 1906 - Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director
- 1920 - Tom of Finland, fetish artist notable for his stylized homoerotic art
- 1920 - Saul Bass, filmmaker, best known for his film title design
- 1937 - Thomas Pynchon, American postmodern writer
- 1938 - Leon Thomas, American avant-garde jazz vocalist
- 1938 - Jean Giraud (Gir and Mœbius), French comics artist
Deaths
- 1830 - Eadweard Muybridge, British photographer and motion capturer
- 1873 - John Stuart Mill, English philosopher and classical liberal thinker
- 1880 - Gustave Flaubert, French writer best known for Madame Bovary.
- 1936 - Oswald Spengler, German historian and pessimist philosopher
- 1999 - Dirk Bogarde, British actor of controversial parts