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*[[1893]] - [[Dorothy Parker]], American writer (d. [[1967]]) *[[1893]] - [[Dorothy Parker]], American writer (d. [[1967]])
*[[1902]] - [[Leni Riefenstahl]], German film director (d. [[2003]]) *[[1902]] - [[Leni Riefenstahl]], German film director (d. [[2003]])
 +*[[1903]] - [[René Wellek]], Czech-German literary theorist (d. [[1995]])
*[[1908]] - [[Henri Cartier-Bresson]], French photographer (d. [[2004]]) *[[1908]] - [[Henri Cartier-Bresson]], French photographer (d. [[2004]])
-*[[1917]] - [[John Lee Hooker]], American guitarist and singer (d. [[2001]]))+*[[1917]] - [[John Lee Hooker]], American guitarist and singer (d. 2001)
-*[[1928]] - [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], German composer+*[[1928]] - [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], German composer (d. 2007)
==Deaths== ==Deaths==
*[[1806]] - [[Jean-Honoré Fragonard]], French artist (b. [[1732]]) *[[1806]] - [[Jean-Honoré Fragonard]], French artist (b. [[1732]])
-*[[1818]] - [[Warren Hastings]], British Governor-General of India (b. [[1732]])+*[[1860]] - [[Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps]], French painter (''The Monkey Connoisseurs'') (b. [[1803]])
-*[[1828]] - [[Franz Joseph Gall]], Austrian neuroscientist (b. [[1758]])+*[[1904]] - [[Kate Chopin]], American author (b. [[1850]])
-*[[1850]] - [[Nikolaus Lenau]], Austrian poet (b. [[1802]])+*[[1920]] - [[Anders Zorn]], Swedish painter (b. [[1860]])
-*[[1861]] - [[Xianfeng Emperor|Xianfeng]], Emperor of China (b. [[1831]])+*[[1970]] - [[Vladimir Propp]], Russian structuralist scholar (b. [[1895]])
-*[[1891]] - [[Jan Neruda]], Czech author (b. [[1834]])+*[[1981]] - [[Glauber Rocha]], Brazilian filmmaker (''Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol'') (b. [[1938]])
-*[[1903]] - [[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1830]])+
-*[[1914]] - [[Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi]] bishop of Bergamo+
-*[[1918]] - [[Korbinian Brodmann]], German neurologist (b. [[1868]])+
-*[[1922]] - [[Michael Collins (Irish leader)|Michael Collins]], Irish revolutionary (b. [[1890]])+
-*[[1926]] - [[Charles William Eliot|Charles W. Eliot]], American President of Harvard University (b. [[1834]])+
-*[[1940]] - [[Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge]], English physicist, spiritualist, pioneer in wireless telegraphy (b. [[1851]])+
-*[[1942]] - [[Michel Fokine]], Russian choreographer and dancer (b. [[1880]])+
-*[[1950]] - [[Kirk Bryan (American Geologist)|Kirk Bryan]], American geologist (b. [[1888]])+
-*[[1953]] - [[Jim Tabor]], baseball player (b. [[1916]])+
-*[[1958]] - [[Roger Martin du Gard]], French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. [[1881]])+
-*[[1965]] - [[Ellen Church]], First American airline [[stewardess]] (b. [[1904]])+
-*[[1967]] - [[Gregory Goodwin Pincus]], American endocrinologist (b. [[1903]])+
-*[[1970]] - [[Vladimir Propp]], [[Russian Formalists|Russian structuralist]] scholar (b. [[1895]])+
-*[[1974]] - [[Jacob Bronowski]], Polish-English mathematician & TV presenter (b. [[1908]])+
-*[[1976]] - [[Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira]], President of Brazil (b. [[1902]])+
-* 1976 - [[Gina Bachauer]], Greek pianist (b. [[1913]])+
-*[[1977]] - [[Sebastian Cabot (actor)|Sebastian Cabot]], English-born actor (b. [[1918]])+
-*[[1978]] - [[Jomo Kenyatta]], first Prime Minister of Kenya (b. c. [[1892]])+
-*[[1979]] - [[James T. Farrell]], American novelist (b. [[1904]])+
-*[[1980]] - [[James Smith McDonnell]], American aircraft manufacturer (b. [[1899]])+
*[[1989]] - [[Huey P. Newton]], American activist (b. [[1942]]) *[[1989]] - [[Huey P. Newton]], American activist (b. [[1942]])
-*[[1991]] - [[Colleen Dewhurst]], Canadian actress (b. [[1924]]) 
-*[[1994]] - [[Gilles Groulx]], French Canadian film director (b. [[1931]]) 
-*[[2003]] - [[Arnold Gerschwiler]], Swiss-born figure skating trainer (b. [[1914]]) 
-* 2003 - [[Generosa Ammon]], widow of [[Ted Ammon]] (b. [[1956]]) 
-* 2003 - [[Imperio Argentina]], Argentinian singer and actress (b. [[1906]]) 
-*[[2004]] - [[Konstantin Aseev]], Russian chess player (b. [[1960]]) 
-* 2004 - [[Daniel Petrie]], Canadian-born television and movie director (b. [[1920]]) 
-* 2004 - [[Al Dvorin]], American announcer on Elvis Presley's shows (b. c.[[1923]]) 
*[[2005]] - [[Luc Ferrari]], French composer (b. [[1929]]) *[[2005]] - [[Luc Ferrari]], French composer (b. [[1929]])
-*[[2006]] - [[Bruce Gary]], American rock drummer, producer ([[The Knack]]) (b. [[1951]]) 
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-== Notes == 
-# David Reimer 
-# Kate Chopin 
-# Karlheinz Stockhausen 
-# Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe 
-# Claude Debussy 
-# Jean-Honoré Fragonard 
-# Henri Cartier-Bresson 
-# Glauber Rocha 
-# Leni Riefenstahl 
-* Vladimir Propp 
-# René Wellek 
-# Huey P. Newton 
-# Nikolaus Lenau 
-# Anders Zorn 
-# Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps 
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