January 3
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Art and culture
Births
- 106 BC - Cicero, Roman statesman and philosopher (d. 43 BC)
- 1887 - August Macke, German painter (d. 1914)
- 1892 - J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (d. 1973)
- 1911 - John Sturges, American director (d. 1982)
- 1929 - Sergio Leone, Italian director (d. 1989)
- 1956 - Mel Gibson, Australian actor
- 1964 - Bruce LaBruce, Canadian film-maker
Deaths
- 1944 - Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1873)
- 1950 - Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (b. 1884)
- 2002 - Juan García Esquivel, Mexican band leader (b. 1918)
- 2005 - Will Eisner, American comic book artist (b. 1917)
Notes
- 1887 - John Millington Synge (April 16, 1871 - March 24, 1909) was an Irish dramatist, poet, prose writer, and collector of folklore
- 1887 - Rudolf Koppitz (January 3 1884 in Schreiberseifen, Mährisch Schlesien - July 1936 in Perchtoldsdorf, Niederösterreich) was a Czech photographer
- 1887 - Milton Avery (March 7, 1885 – January 3, 1965) was an American modern painter.
- 1887 - Monique Wittig Monique Wittig (1935 - January 3, 2003) was a French author and feminist theorist, particularly interested in overcoming gender.
- 1887 - Jaroslav Hašek (April 30, 1883 – January 3, 1923) was a Czech humorist and satirist who became well-known mainly for his world-famous novel The Good Soldier Švejk
- 1887 - John M. Woolsey
- 1887 - Pola Negri
- 1887 - Bodil Joensen
- 1887 - Robert Thomas
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