February 7
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Art and culture
- 1898 - Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'Accuse.
- 1914 - Charlie Chaplin first appears as "The Tramp", as his first film Kid Auto Races at Venice is released at Keystone Studios.
Births
- 1478 - Sir Thomas More, English statesman, humanist, and author (d. 1535)
- 1812 - Charles Dickens, English novelist (d. 1870)
- 1927 - Juliette Greco, French singer and actor
- 1932 - Gay Talese, American author
- 1957 - Richard Cook, British jazz writer (d. 2007)
- 1960 - James Spader, American actor
Deaths
- 1823 - Ann Radcliffe, English novelist (b. 1764)
- 1873 - Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (b. 1814)
- 1944 - Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano (b. 1874)
- 1979 - Dr. Josef Mengele, German, accused Nazi war criminal (b. 1911)
- 1823 - Henry Fuseli (February 7, 1741 - April 16, 1825) was a British painter, draughtsman, and writer on art, of German-Swiss origin.
- 1823 - Madame Bovary in a obscenity trial in January 1857 that made it notorious. After the acquittal on 7 February, it
- 1823 - Alejandro Jodorowsky (born February 7, 1929, in Tocopilla, Chile) is an actor, playwright, director, producer, composer, mime, comic book writer and psychotherapist. He is particularly known for having directed a handful of esoteric, surreal and shocking films such as El Topo. He once stated, "I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs."
- 1823 - Pall Mall Gazette The Pall Mall Gazette was an evening newspaper founded in London February 7 1865.
- 1823 - Jacques Tourneur
- 1823 - Charles Seeger
- 1823 - Berlin International Film Festival
- 1823 - Paul Sharits
- 1823 - Wilhelm Freddie
- 1823 - Ernst Bergmann (philosopher)
- 1823 - Minoru Yamasaki
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