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| # [[René Wellek]] (August 22, 1903—November 10, 1995) was a Czech-German comparative literary critic. | # [[René Wellek]] (August 22, 1903—November 10, 1995) was a Czech-German comparative literary critic. | ||
| # [[Anders Zorn]] (February 18, 1860, Mora – August 22, 1920) was a Swedish painter a | # [[Anders Zorn]] (February 18, 1860, Mora – August 22, 1920) was a Swedish painter a | ||
| - | # [[Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps]] | + | # [[Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps]] (March 3 1803–August 22 1860) was a French painter (''The Monkey Painter'') |
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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)
- 1970 - Vladimir Propp, Russian structuralist scholar (b. 1895)
- 1989 - Huey P. Newton, American activist (b. 1942)
- 2005 - Luc Ferrari, French composer (b. 1929)
Notes
- Kate Chopin February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904), was an American author
- Glauber Rocha (March 14, 1938–August 22, 1981) was an influential Brazilian film director, actor and writer, best known for his masterpiece movie "Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol" (i
- René Wellek (August 22, 1903—November 10, 1995) was a Czech-German comparative literary critic.
- Anders Zorn (February 18, 1860, Mora – August 22, 1920) was a Swedish painter a
- Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (March 3 1803–August 22 1860) was a French painter (The Monkey Painter)
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