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Art and culture

• 1984 - The Terminator has been transported back in time from 2029 A.D. to May 12, 1984 to assassinate a woman named Sarah Connor

Births

• 1942 - Fred Bervoets, Belgian visual artist
• 1958 - Shannon, American electro funk vocalist
• 1930 - Jess Franco Spanish exploitation filmmaker
• 1921 - Joseph Beuys, German artist
• 1820 - Florence Nightingale, who is alleged to have said, I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women...no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

Deaths

• 1984 - Erich von Stroheim Austrian Jewish filmmaker
• 1984 - Joris-Karl Huysmans, French novelist