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== Art and culture == == Art and culture ==
-== Births ==+*[[1795]] - [[France]] adopts the [[metre]] as the basic measure of length.
-== Deaths ==+*[[1933]] - ''[[Zéro de conduite]]'' premiers in France. It was subsequently banned in France until 1946.
 +==Births==
 +*[[1770]] - [[William Wordsworth]], English poet (d. [[1850]])
 +*[[1771]] - [[Madeleine Laure ]], daughter of Marquis de Sade and Renée-Pélagie de Montreuil (d. [[1844]])
 +*[[1772]] - [[Charles Fourier]], French philosopher (d. [[1837]])
 +*[[1803]] - [[Flora Tristan]], French feminist and socialist philosopher (d. [[1844]])
 +*[[1883]] - [[Gino Severini]], Italian painter (d. [[1966]])
 +*[[1884]] - [[Bronisław Malinowski ]], Polish anthropologist (''The Sexual Life of Savages'') (d. [[1942]])
 +*[[1907]] - [[Violette Leduc]], French writer (''La Bâtarde'' and ''Thérèse and Isabelle'') (b. [[1972]])
 +*[[1908]] - [[Percy Faith]], Canadian composer and musician (d. [[1976]])
 +*[[1911]] - [[Hervé Bazin]], French writer (d. [[1996]])
 +*[[1915]] - [[Billie Holiday]], American singer (d. [[1959]])
 +*[[1920]] - [[Ravi Shankar]], Indian sitar player
 +*[[1922]] - [[Mongo Santamaria]], Cuban musician (d. [[2003]])
 +*[[1924]] - [[Daniel Emilfork ]], French actor of Ukrainian-Jewish descent (d. [[2006]])
 +*[[1927]] - [[Babatunde Olatunji]], Nigerian drummer (d. 2003)
 +*[[1931]] - [[Donald Barthelme]], American author (d. 1989)
 +*[[1934]] - [[Ian Richardson]], Scottish actor (d. 2007)
 +*[[1938]] - [[Freddie Hubbard]], American jazz trumpeter (d. 2008)
 +*[[1939]] - [[Francis Ford Coppola]], American film director
 +*[[1945]] - [[Werner Schroeter]], German film director (d. 2010)
 +*[[1947]] - [[Florian Schneider]], German musician ([[Kraftwerk]])
 +*[[1948]] - [[Carol Douglas]], American singer
 +*[[1951]] - [[Janis Ian]], American singer and songwriter
 +*[[1954]] - [[Jackie Chan]], Hong Kong actor
 + 
 +==Deaths==
 +*[[1614]] - [[El Greco]], Greek-born artist (b. [[1541]])
 +*[[1836]] - [[William Godwin]], English political writer (b. [[1756]])
 +*[[1891]] - [[P. T. Barnum]], American circus impresario (b. [[1810]])
 +*[[1955]] - [[Theda Bara]], American film actress (b. [[1885]])
 +*[[1977]] - [[Jim Thompson ]], American writer (b. [[1906]])
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