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| == Art and culture == | == Art and culture == | ||
| - | *[[1889]] - The [[Eiffel Tower]] is inaugurated. | + | *[[1889]] - The [[Eiffel Tower]] is inaugurated in Paris. |
| *[[1930]] - The [[Hays Code|Motion Pictures Production Code]] is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of [[sex]], [[crime]], [[religion]] and [[violence]] in [[film|motion pictures]] for the next thirty eight years. | *[[1930]] - The [[Hays Code|Motion Pictures Production Code]] is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of [[sex]], [[crime]], [[religion]] and [[violence]] in [[film|motion pictures]] for the next thirty eight years. | ||
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| *[[1885]] - [[Pascin]], Bulgarian painter (d. [[1930]]) | *[[1885]] - [[Pascin]], Bulgarian painter (d. [[1930]]) | ||
| *[[1914]] - [[Octavio Paz]], Mexican diplomat and writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel laureate]] (d. [[1998]]) | *[[1914]] - [[Octavio Paz]], Mexican diplomat and writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel laureate]] (d. [[1998]]) | ||
| - | *[[1926]] - [[John Fowles]], English author (d. [[2005]]) | + | *[[1922]] - [[Patrick Magee (actor)]], Northern Irish actor (''A Clockwork Orange'') (d. [[1982]]) |
| - | *[[1932]] - [[Nagisa Oshima]], Japanese film director | + | *[[1926]] - [[John Fowles]], English author (d. 2005) |
| + | *[[1932]] - [[Nagisa Oshima]], Japanese film director (d. 2013) | ||
| *[[1935]] - [[Herb Alpert]], American trumpeter and band leader | *[[1935]] - [[Herb Alpert]], American trumpeter and band leader | ||
| *[[1936]] - [[Marge Piercy]], American writer | *[[1936]] - [[Marge Piercy]], American writer | ||
| *[[1939]] - [[Volker Schlöndorff]], German film director | *[[1939]] - [[Volker Schlöndorff]], German film director | ||
| *[[1943]] - [[Christopher Walken]], American actor | *[[1943]] - [[Christopher Walken]], American actor | ||
| - | + | *[[1971]] - [[Filip Dujardin]], Belgian photographer | |
| ==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
| *[[1727]] - [[Sir Isaac Newton]], English mathematician and physicist (b. [[1643]]) | *[[1727]] - [[Sir Isaac Newton]], English mathematician and physicist (b. [[1643]]) | ||
| - | *[[1741]] - [[Pieter Burmann the Elder]], Dutch classical scholar (b. [[1668]]) | ||
| - | *[[1783]] - [[Nikita Ivanovich Panin]], Russian statesman (b. [[1718]]) | ||
| *[[1837]] - [[John Constable]], English painter (b. [[1776]]) | *[[1837]] - [[John Constable]], English painter (b. [[1776]]) | ||
| - | *[[1850]] - [[John C. Calhoun]], 7th [[Vice President of the United States]] (b. [[1782]]) | ||
| *[[1855]] - [[Charlotte Brontë]], English author (b. [[1816]]) | *[[1855]] - [[Charlotte Brontë]], English author (b. [[1816]]) | ||
| - | *[[1877]] - [[Antoine Augustin Cournot]], French mathematician (b. [[1801]]) | + | *[[1945]] - [[Anne Frank]], German-born diarist (b. [[1929]]) |
| - | *[[1880]] - [[Henryk Wieniawski]], Polish composer (b. [[1835]]) | + | *[[1983]] - [[Christina Stead]], Australian novelist and short-story writer (b. [[1902]]) |
| - | *[[1885]] - [[Franz Wilhelm Abt]], German composer (b. [[1819]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1913]] - [[J. P. Morgan|John Pierpont Morgan]], American financier (b. [[1837]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1917]] - [[Emil Adolf von Behring]], German physician, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate]] (b. [[1854]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1915]] - [[Wyndham Halswelle]], Scottish athlete (b. [[1882]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1927]] - [[Borisav Stanković|Borisav "Bora" Stanković]], [[Serbia]]n writer (b. [[1875]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1931]] - [[Knute Rockne]], American football coach (b. [[1888]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1945]] - [[Hans Fischer]], German chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel laureate]] (b. [[1881]]) | + | |
| - | * 1945 - [[Anne Frank]], German-born diarist (b. [[1929]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1952]] - [[Wallace H. White, Jr.]], American politician (b. [[1877]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1956]] - [[Ralph DePalma]], Italian-American race car driver (b. [[1884]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1968]] - [[Grover Lowdermilk]], American baseball player (b. [[1885]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1972]] - [[Meena Kumari]], Indian actress (b. [[1932]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1976]] - [[Paul Strand]], American photographer (b. [[1890]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1978]] - [[Charles Best]], Canadian medical scientist (b. [[1899]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1980]] - [[Vladimír Holan]], Czech poet (b. [[1905]]) | + | |
| - | * 1980 - [[Jesse Owens]], American athlete (b. [[1913]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1981]] - [[Enid Bagnold]], British playwright (b. [[1889]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1984]] - [[Ronald Clark O'Bryan]], American murderer (b. [[1944]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1985]] - [[Jeanine Deckers]], Belgian nun (b. [[1933]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1986]] - [[O'Kelly Isley, Jr.]], American singer ([[The Isley Brothers]]) (b. [[1937]]) | + | |
| - | * 1986 - [[Jerry Paris]], American actor (b. [[1925]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1988]] - [[William McMahon]], 20th [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (b. [[1908]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1993]] - [[Brandon Lee]], American actor (b. [[1965]]) | + | |
| - | * 1993 - [[Mitchell Parish]], American lyricist (b. [[1900]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1995]] - [[Selena]], American singer (b. [[1971]]) | + | |
| *[[1996]] - [[Jeffrey Lee Pierce]], American singer, songwriter and guitarist ([[The Gun Club]]) (b. [[1958]]) | *[[1996]] - [[Jeffrey Lee Pierce]], American singer, songwriter and guitarist ([[The Gun Club]]) (b. [[1958]]) | ||
| - | *[[1998]] - [[Bella Abzug]], American politician (b. [[1920]]) | + | *[[2005]] - [[Terri Schiavo]], American figure in [[right to die]] case (b. [[1963]]) |
| - | * 1998 - [[Tim Flock]], American race car driver (b. [[1924]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1999]] - [[Yuri Knorozov]], Russian linguist (b. [[1922]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2001]] - [[Clifford Shull]], American physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel laureate]] (b. [[1915]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2002]] - [[Barry Took]], British comedian (b. [[1928]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2003]] - [[H.S.M. Coxeter]], English-born geometer (b. [[1907]]) | + | |
| - | * 2003 - [[Tommy Seebach]], Danish singer (b. [[1949]]) | + | |
| - | * 2003 - [[Anne Gwynne]], American film actress (b. [[1918]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2005]] - [[Stanley J. Korsmeyer]], American oncologist (b. [[1951]]) | + | |
| - | * 2005 - [[Frank Perdue]], American poultry farmer (b. [[1920]]) | + | |
| - | * 2005 - [[Terri Schiavo]], American figure in [[right to die]] case (b. [[1963]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2006]] - [[Jackie McLean]], American jazz saxophonist (b. [[1931]] or [[1932]]) | + | |
| - | * 2006 - [[Angela Devi]], American adult model (b. [[1975]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2007]] - [[Paul Watzlawick]], Communications & Constructivism Theorist (b. [[1921]]) | + | |
| - | ==Notes== | ||
| - | Production Code | ||
| - | René Descartes | ||
| - | Nagisa Oshima | ||
| - | John Fowles | ||
| - | Angela and Luciana Giussani | ||
| - | Jeffrey Lee Pierce | ||
| - | Volker Schlöndorff | ||
| - | Eliel Saarinen | ||
| - | Marge Piercy | ||
| - | Sergei Diaghilev | ||
| - | Octavio Paz | ||
| - | Paul Strand | ||
| - | Christopher Walken | ||
| - | Jules Pascin | ||
| - | Terri Schiavo | ||
| - | The Matrix | ||
| - | Georges Lévis | ||
| - | Willem Kloos | ||
| - | Sir Isaac Newton | ||
| - | Herb Alpert | ||
| - | Filip Dujardin | ||
| - | Eiffel Tower | ||
| - | John Constable | ||
| - | Patrick Magee (actor) | ||
| - | Christina Stead | ||
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Art and culture
- 1889 - The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.
- 1930 - The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in motion pictures for the next thirty eight years.
Births
- 1596 - René Descartes, French mathematician (d. 1650)
- 1872 - Serge Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario (Ballets Russes) (d. 1929)
- 1885 - Pascin, Bulgarian painter (d. 1930)
- 1914 - Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
- 1922 - Patrick Magee (actor), Northern Irish actor (A Clockwork Orange) (d. 1982)
- 1926 - John Fowles, English author (d. 2005)
- 1932 - Nagisa Oshima, Japanese film director (d. 2013)
- 1935 - Herb Alpert, American trumpeter and band leader
- 1936 - Marge Piercy, American writer
- 1939 - Volker Schlöndorff, German film director
- 1943 - Christopher Walken, American actor
- 1971 - Filip Dujardin, Belgian photographer
Deaths
- 1727 - Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1643)
- 1837 - John Constable, English painter (b. 1776)
- 1855 - Charlotte Brontë, English author (b. 1816)
- 1945 - Anne Frank, German-born diarist (b. 1929)
- 1983 - Christina Stead, Australian novelist and short-story writer (b. 1902)
- 1996 - Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (The Gun Club) (b. 1958)
- 2005 - Terri Schiavo, American figure in right to die case (b. 1963)
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