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Art and culture

Births

• 1797 - Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (d. 1828)
• 1872 - Zane Grey, American Western writer (d. 1939)
• 1902 - Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (d. 1968
• 1915 - Alan Lomax, American musicologist (d. 2002)
• 1923 - Norman Mailer, American writer and journalist (d. 2007)
• 1935 - Kenzaburo Oe, Japanese writer, Nobel laureate
• 1937 - Philip Glass, American composer
• 1942 - Derek Jarman, British director and writer (d. 1994)
• 1949 - Ken Wilber, American philosopher
• 1956 - John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten, English singer (Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd.)
• 1960 - Grant Morrison, British comic book author

Deaths

• 743 - Muhammad al-Baqir, Shia Imam (b. 676)
• 1398 - Emperor Sukō (b. 1334)
• 1435 - Xuande, Emperor of China (b. 1398)
• 1561 - Bairam Khan, Great Mughal General, regent for Akbar
• 1561 - Menno Simons, Dutch Mennonite leader (b. 1496)
• 1580 - Henry of Portugal (b. 1512)
• 1606 - Gunpowder Plot conspirators:
  • Guy Fawkes (b. 1570)
  • Ambrose Rokewood (b. c. 1578)
  • Thomas Wintour (b. 1571)
• 1615 - Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit (b. 1543)
• 1632 - Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (b. 1552)
• 1665 - Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (b. 1622)
• 1686 - Jean Mairet, French dramatist (b. 1604)
• 1720 - Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English privy councillor (c. 1654)
• 1729 - Jakob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (b. 1659)
• 1736 - Filippo Juvara, Italian architect (b. 1678)
• 1788 - Charles Edward Stuart, pretender to the British throne (b. 1720)
• 1790 - Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (b. 1718)
• 1794 - Marriott Arbuthnot, British admiral (b. 1711)
• 1815 - José Félix Ribas, Venezuelan independentist leader (b. 1775)
• 1828 - Alexander Ypsilantis, Phanariot Greek military commander and national hero of the Greek War of Independence (b.1792
• 1844 - Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general (b. 1773)
• 1888 - John Bosco, Italian priest, youth worker, educator, founder of the Salesian Society (b. 1815)
• 1892 - Charles Spurgeon, English preacher and evangelist (b. 1834)
• 1907 - Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store founder (b. 1834)
• 1923 - Eligiusz Niewiadomski, assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz (b. 1869)
• 1933 - John Galsworthy, English writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1867)
• 1942 - Henry Larkin, Baseball player (b. 1860)
• 1944 - Jean Giraudoux, French writer (b. 1882)
• 1945 - Eddie Slovik, American soldier (b. 1920)
• 1954 - Edwin Howard Armstrong, American electrical engineer and inventor of the FM radio (b. 1890)
• 1955 - John Mott, American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1865)
• 1956 - A. A. Milne, English author (b. 1882)
• 1966 - General Arthur Ernest Percival, British Army Officer (b. 1887)
• 1967 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete (b. 1908)
• 1969 - Meher Baba, Indian guru (b. 1894)
• 1970 - Slim Harpo, American singer (b. 1924)
• 1971 - Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian, linguist (b. 1891)
• 1973 - Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Norwegian economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
• 1974 - Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born film studio executive (b. 1882)
• 1976 - Ernesto Miranda, American litigant (b. 1941)
• 1981 - Cozy Cole, American jazz drummer (b. 1909)
• 1987 - Yves Allégret, French film director (b. 1907)
• 1990 - Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-born imam (b. 1935)
• 1995 - George Abbott, American stage director and producer (b. 1887)
• 1997 - John Joseph Scanlan, Irish Catholic prelate (b. 1930)
• 1999 - Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (b. 1929)
• 2000 - Gil Kane, Latvian-born comic book writer (b. 1926)
• 2001 - Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian writer (b. 1923)
• 2002 - Francis Gabreski, American fighter pilot (b. 1919)
• 2004 - Eleanor Holm, American swimmer (b. 1913)
• 2006 - Moira Shearer, Scottish actress (The Red Shoes) and ballerina (b. 1926)
• 2007 - Kirka Babitzin, Finnish singer (b. 1950)
• 2007 - Molly Ivins, American political columnist and author (b. 1944)
• 2007 - Lee Bergere, American actor (b. 1924)
• 2007 - Adelaide Tambo, South African activist and wife of Oliver Tambo (b. 1929)

Notes

• 1688 - Isidore Isou Isidore Isou (January 31, 1925 – July 28, 2007), born Ioan-Isidor Goldstein, was a Romanian-born French poet, film critic and visual artist known as the father of Lettrism and director of films such as Treatise on Slime and Eternity.

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