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From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

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Art and culture

• 1897 - Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde in Paris.
• 1946 - The "Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals" began with the "Doctors' Trial", prosecuting doctors alleged to be involved in human experimentation.

Births

• 1608 - John Milton, English poet (d. 1674)
• 1927 - Pierre Henry, French composer
• 1929 - John Cassavetes, American actor and director (d. 1989)
• 1930 - Buck Henry, American actor
• 1953 - John Malkovich, American actor

Deaths

• 1964 - Dame Edith Sitwell, British poet and critic (b. 1887)

Notes

• 1608 - Juan Atkins (born December 9, 1962 in Detroit) is an American musician.
• 1608 - John Willie (December 9 1902 - August 5 1962), better known as John Willie, was a pioneering fetish photographer and bondage artist.
• 1608 - Donald Byrd (born December 9, 1932) is an American jazz and rhythm and blues trumpeter,
• 1608 - Ödön von Horváth (December 9 1901 - June 1 1938) was a German writer. Among Horvath's most enduringly popular works was Youth Without God,
• 1608 - Salome (opera) Richard Strauss to a German libretto by the composer, based on Hedwig Lachmann’s German translation of the French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde. It was first performed at the Hofoper in Dresden on December 9 1905.
• 1608 - Berenice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991), born Bernice Abbott, was an American photographer
• 1608 - A Love Supreme jazz album recorded by John Coltrane's quartet on December 9 1964 at the Van Gelder studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
• 1608 - Ennio de Concini (born 9 December 1923) is an Italian screenwriter and film director best-knonw for Divorce, Italian Style.