July 15
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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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
- 1609 - Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (b. 1560)
- 1614 - Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, French historian and biographer
- 1890 - Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (b. 1819)
- 1904 - Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (b. 1860)
- 1933 - Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (b. 1865)
- 1959 - Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (b. 1880)
- 1997 - Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (b. 1946)
- 2003 - Roberto Bolaño, Chilean writer (b. 1953)
Notes
- Larry Cohen born Lawrence G. Cohen on July 15, 1938, New York, New York, USA)
- Walther Ruttmann (born December 28 1887 in Frankfurt am Main; died July 15 1941 in Berlin) was a German film director a
- Roky Erickson Roky Erickson (born Roger Kynard Erickson on July 15 1947) is an American singer,
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 ...
