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| *[[1973]] - [[Conrad Aiken]], American author (b. [[1889]]) | *[[1973]] - [[Conrad Aiken]], American author (b. [[1889]]) | ||
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| - | # [[Christian Heinrich Spiess]] | + | # [[Christian Heinrich Spiess]] (April 4, 1755 – August 17, 1799), German writer of Schauerromanen, the German equivalent of the gothic novel. |
| # [[John Hawkes]] | # [[John Hawkes]] | ||
| # [[Michèle Bernstein]] | # [[Michèle Bernstein]] | ||
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Art and culture
Births
- 1887 - Marcus Garvey, Jamaican-born Black rights activist (d. 1940)
- 1893 - Mae West, American actress (d. 1980)
- 1932 - V. S. Naipaul, West Indian writer
- 1943 - Robert De Niro, American actor
- 1959 - Jonathan Franzen, American author
- 1960 - Sean Penn, American actor and director
Deaths
- 1676 - Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, German novelist (b. 1621)
- 1973 - Conrad Aiken, American author (b. 1889)
Notes
- 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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