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== Art and culture == == Art and culture ==
- +*[[1585]] – [[Eighty Years' War]]: [[Fall of Antwerp|Siege of Antwerp]] – [[Antwerp]] is captured by [[Spanish Empire |Spanish]] forces under [[Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma]], who orders [[Protestants]] to leave the city and as a result over half of the 100,000 inhabitants flee to the [[Dutch Republic|northern provinces]].
 +*[[1908]] - ''[[Fantasmagorie]]'', a film by French animator [[Émile Cohl]], premiers.
 +*[[1954]] - [[Michèle Bernstein]] marries [[Guy Debord]]
==Births== ==Births==
*[[1887]] - [[Marcus Garvey]], Jamaican-born Black rights activist (d. [[1940]]) *[[1887]] - [[Marcus Garvey]], Jamaican-born Black rights activist (d. [[1940]])
*[[1893]] - [[Mae West]], American actress (d. [[1980]]) *[[1893]] - [[Mae West]], American actress (d. [[1980]])
-*[[1932]] - [[V. S. Naipaul]], West Indian writer+*[[1925]] - [[John Hawkes]], United States American novelist (d. [[1998]])
 +*[[1892]] - [[Johannes Theodor Baargeld]], German painter and poet who, co-founder the Cologne Dada group (d. 1927)
 +*[[1932]] - [[V. S. Naipaul]], West Indian writer (d. 2018)
*[[1943]] - [[Robert De Niro]], American actor *[[1943]] - [[Robert De Niro]], American actor
*[[1959]] - [[Jonathan Franzen]], American author *[[1959]] - [[Jonathan Franzen]], American author
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==Deaths== ==Deaths==
*[[1676]] - [[Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen]], German novelist (b. [[1621]]) *[[1676]] - [[Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen]], German novelist (b. [[1621]])
 +*[[1799]] - [[Christian Heinrich Spiess]], German writer of Schauerromanen (b. [[1755]])
 +*[[1955]] - [[Fernand Léger]], French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. (b. [[1881]])
 +*[[1969]] - [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]], German architect. (b. [[1886]])
*[[1973]] - [[Conrad Aiken]], American author (b. [[1889]]) *[[1973]] - [[Conrad Aiken]], American author (b. [[1889]])
-== Notes ==+*[[2001]] - [[Anthony Earnshaw]], English anarchist, artist and writer (b. [[1924]])
-# [[Christian Heinrich Spiess]] (April 4, 1755 – August 17, 1799), German writer of Schauerromanen, the German equivalent of the gothic novel.+
-# [[John Hawkes]]+
-# [[Michèle Bernstein]]+
-# [[Fernand Léger]]+
-# [[Johannes Theodor Baargeld]]+
-# [[Barbara Rosenthal]]+
-# [[Yves Tanguy]]+
-# [[Émile Cohl]]+
-# [[Fantasmagorie]]+
-# [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]]+
-# [[Anthony Earnshaw]]+
-# [[Jean-Jacques Sempé]]+
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