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| == Births == | == Births == | ||
| + | *[[1606]] - [[Rembrandt]], Dutch artist (d. [[1669]]) | ||
| + | *[[1892]] - [[Walter Benjamin]], German literary critic and writer (d. [[1940]]) | ||
| + | *[[1904]] - [[Rudolf Arnheim]], German-born author | ||
| + | *[[1914]] - [[Howard Vernon]], Swiss actor (d. [[1996]]) | ||
| + | *[[1919]] - [[Iris Murdoch]], Irish writer (d. [[1999]]) | ||
| + | *[[1930]] - [[Jacques Derrida]], French philosopher (d. [[2004]]) | ||
| + | *[[1933]] - [[Guido Crepax]], Italian comics artist (d. [[2003]]) | ||
| + | *[[1949]] - [[Trevor Horn]], British music producer, bassist and vocalist | ||
| + | *[[1956]] - [[Ian Curtis]], British musician, singer, and lyricist ([[Joy Division]]) (d. [[1980]]) | ||
| == Deaths == | == Deaths == | ||
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Art and culture
- 1099 - First Crusade: Christian soldiers take Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after a difficult siege.
- 1799 - Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta, by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard.
- 1927 - Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
- 1972 - “Modern architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri on July 15, 1972 at 3:32 pm when the infamous Pruitt-Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.” -- Charles Jencks
- 1995 - First item sold on Amazon.com
- 1997 - In Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.
Births
- 1606 - Rembrandt, Dutch artist (d. 1669)
- 1892 - Walter Benjamin, German literary critic and writer (d. 1940)
- 1904 - Rudolf Arnheim, German-born author
- 1914 - Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (d. 1996)
- 1919 - Iris Murdoch, Irish writer (d. 1999)
- 1930 - Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (d. 2004)
- 1933 - Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (d. 2003)
- 1949 - Trevor Horn, British music producer, bassist and vocalist
- 1956 - Ian Curtis, British musician, singer, and lyricist (Joy Division) (d. 1980)
Deaths
Notes
- Anton Chekhov
- Larry Cohen
- Rudolf Arnheim
- Walther Ruttmann
- Ian Curtis
- Guido Crepax
- Rembrandt
- Roky Erickson
1865, July 15: Death of James Miranda Barry (1795-1865) a Major General and Surgeon in the British Army with a highly distinguished career and a reputation as a rake who was known to flirt openly with the best looking women in the room. When a charwoman was preparing the body for burial it was discovered that the Major General was female. [Greif 82]
1944 July 15 Mrs. Irene Morgan arrested for not giving up Greyhound seat to white passenger on a ride from Virginia to Maryland (leads to 1946 Supreme Court ...
Howard Vernon (15 July 1914 - 25 July 1996), real name Mario Lippert, was a Swiss actor. He was born to a swiss father and an American mother and could ...
Walter Benjamin (July 15, 1892 – September 27, 1940) was a German Jewish Marxist literary critic and philosopher. He was at times associated with the ...
Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 - October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher of Jewish descent, considered the first to develop ...
Rudolf Arnheim (born July 15, 1904) is a German author and theorist of Gestalt perception. His major work is Art and Visual Perception, published in 1954. ...
Trevor Horn, born July 15, 1949 in Durham, England, is a pop music producer and musician. After playing double bass in big bands and producing little-known ...
Pierre_de_Bourdeille 1540 - July 15, 1614) was a French historian and biographer. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_de_Bourdeille,_seigneur_de_Brant%C3%B4me [Dec 2005] ...
