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  • 1688 - Leslie Fiedler (March 8, 1917–January 29, 2003) was an American nobrow literary critic
  • 1688 - Katharina von Bora Katharina (Katherine) von Bora (January 29, 1499 – December 20, 1552) was a German Catholic nun who became the wife of Martin Luther, the leader of the Protestant Reformation, who often fondly called her "my Lord Katie."
  • 1688 - Nam June Paik Nam June Paik (July 20, 1932 - January 29, 2006) was a South Korean-born American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is credited for first working with video art.
  • 1688 - Leroy Sibbles (born January 29, 1949) is a reggae musician from Jamaica. He was the lead singer for The Heptones in the 1960-70s.
  • 1688 - Andrew Loog Oldham (born January 29 1944) is an English rock and roll producer, impresario and author. He was best known as the manager of The Rolling Stones in the 1960s, taking a flamboyant style inspired by his role model and friend Phil Spector.
  • 1688 - W. C. Fields (January 29, 1880 – December 25, 1946) was an American juggler, comedian, and actor.
  • 1688 - Elio Petri (January 29, 1929 - November 10, 1982) was a political Italian filmmaker.
  • 1688 - Marie-Laure de Noailles Marie-Laure, Vicomtesse de Noailles (31 October, 1902 - 29 January, 1970), was one of the 20th century's most daring and influential patrons of the arts,
  • 1688 - Elizabeth Malet John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester .

She was born the daughter of John Malet of Enmore Castle and Unton Hawley. John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester became infatuated with Elizabeth Malet and asked for her hand in marriage. She refused to marry the earl, and he attempted to abduct her on 26 May, 1665. She later forgave him and they were married on 29 January, 1667.

  • 1688 - Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator and writer known for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form which he popularised.
  • 1688 - N. F. Simpson (born 29 January, 1919) is an English playwright closely associated with the Theatre of the Absurd. To his friends, he is known as Wally Simpson, in comic reference to the abdication crisis of 1936.




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