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| *[[1806]] - [[Jean-Honoré Fragonard]], French artist (b. [[1732]]) | *[[1806]] - [[Jean-Honoré Fragonard]], French artist (b. [[1732]]) | ||
| *[[1850]] - [[Nikolaus Lenau]], Austrian poet (b. [[1802]]) | *[[1850]] - [[Nikolaus Lenau]], Austrian poet (b. [[1802]]) | ||
| - | *[[1861]] - [[Xianfeng Emperor|Xianfeng]], Emperor of China (b. [[1831]]) | ||
| - | *[[1891]] - [[Jan Neruda]], Czech author (b. [[1834]]) | ||
| - | *[[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]]) | *[[1970]] - [[Vladimir Propp]], [[Russian Formalists|Russian structuralist]] scholar (b. [[1895]]) | ||
| *[[1974]] - [[Jacob Bronowski]], Polish-English mathematician & TV presenter (b. [[1908]]) | *[[1974]] - [[Jacob Bronowski]], Polish-English mathematician & TV presenter (b. [[1908]]) | ||
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Art and culture
- 1911 - Theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered.
- 2004 - A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
Births
- 1822 - Virginia Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe (d. 1847)
- 1862 - Claude Debussy, French composer (d. 1918)
- 1893 - Dorothy Parker, American writer (d. 1967)
- 1902 - Leni Riefenstahl, German film director (d. 2003)
- 1908 - Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004)
- 1917 - John Lee Hooker, American guitarist and singer (d. 2001))
- 1928 - Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer
Deaths
- 1806 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (b. 1732)
- 1850 - Nikolaus Lenau, Austrian poet (b. 1802)
- 1970 - Vladimir Propp, 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, 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)
- 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)
- 2006 - Bruce Gary, American rock drummer, producer (The Knack) (b. 1951)
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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