1864
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Art and culture
- Notes from Underground (1864) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The 1864 edition of Webster's Dictionary published the first definition of pornography as ""licentious painting employed to decorate the walls of rooms sacred to bacchanalian orgies, examples of which exist in Pompeii."
- Gustave Moreau, Oedipus and the Sphinx; painting
- Charles Baudelaire meets Félicien Rops
Births
- January 1 - Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (d. 1946)
- January 24 - Marguerite Durand, French actress, journalist, and feminist leader (d. 1936)
- April 21 - Max Weber, German sociologist (d. 1920)
- June 11 - Richard Strauss, German composer (d. 1949)
- November 24 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter (d. 1901)
Deaths
- May 19 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (b. 1804)
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