January 19
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Art and culture
- 1764 - John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel.
- 1829 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust Part 1 premieres.
- 1853 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore premieres in Rome.
- 1893 - Henrik Ibsen's play The Master Builder premieres in Berlin.
Births
- 1809 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and poet (d. 1849)
- 1839 - Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906)
- 1863 - Werner Sombart, German sociologist (d. 1941)
- 1921 - Patricia Highsmith, American author (d. 1995)
- 1932 - Richard Lester, British director
- 1943 - Janis Joplin, American singer (d. 1970)
- 1946 - Julian Barnes, English author
- 1946 - Dolly Parton, American singer and actress
- 1949 - Robert Palmer, English singer and guitarist (d. 2003)
- 1954 - Cindy Sherman, American artist
Deaths
- 1729 - William Congreve, English playwright (b. 1670)
- 1865 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French philosopher and anarchist (b. 1809)
- 1975 - Thomas Hart Benton, American painter (b. 1889)
- 1997 - James Dickey, American writer (b. 1923)
- 2000 - Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-born actress (b. 1913)
Notes
- 1916 - Brion Gysin (January 19, 1916 - July 13, 1986) was a Britishwriter, painter, and musician born outside of London, Taplow, Buckinghamshire.
- 1889 - Sophie Taeuber (January 19, 1889 - January 13, 1943) in English) was a Swiss artist, painter, and sculptor.
- 1867 - Jean Delville (January 19 1867 – 1953) was a Belgian symbolist painter, writer, and occultist.
- 1868 - Gustav Meyrink (January 19 1868 – December 4 1932) was an Austrian author, storyteller, dramatist, translator, banker and Buddhist, most famous for his novel The Golem.
- 1922 - Jerzy Kawalerowicz (January 19 1922 – December 27 2007) was a Polish film director, noted for Mother Joan of the Angels.
- 1858 - Eugène Brieux Eugène Brieux (January 19, 1858 - December 6, 1932), French dramatist, was born in Paris of poor parents. Two American films by the name Damaged Goods were based on his play Les Avariés (1901), forbidden by the censor, on account of its medical details on STDs, was read privately by the author at the Théâtre Antoine.
- 1729 - Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann (born 31 August 1777 in Braunschweig; died 25 January 1831 in Braunschweig) was a German writer. He is generally agreed to be the author of the 1804 novel Nachtwachen (Nightwatches) under the pseudonym Bonaventura.
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