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From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

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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)
• 1926 - John Fowles, English author (d. 2005)
• 1932 - Nagisa Oshima, Japanese film director
• 1935 - Herb Alpert, American trumpeter and band leader
• 1936 - Marge Piercy, American writer
• 1939 - Volker Schlöndorff, German film director
• 1943 - Christopher Walken, American actor

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)
• 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)

Notes

• XXXX - Filip Dujardin (born July 14 1971) is a Belgian photographer.
• XXXX - Patrick Magee (actor) (31 March 1922 – 14 August 1982) was a Tony Award winning Northern Irish actor best known for his collaborations with Samuel Beckett and his role as the victimised writer Mr. Alexander in Stanley Kubrick's film A Clockwork Orange.
• XXXX - Christina Stead (17 July 1902—31 March 1983) was an Australian novelist and short-story writer noted for her satirical wit and psychological penetration