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| *[[1933]] – [[Juzo Itami]], Japanese filmmaker. | *[[1933]] – [[Juzo Itami]], Japanese filmmaker. | ||
| *[[1936]] – [[Ralph Steadman]], British cartoonist | *[[1936]] – [[Ralph Steadman]], British cartoonist | ||
| - | *[[1937]] – [[Trini Lopez|Trini López]], American musician | + | *[[1937]] – [[Trini Lopez|Trini López]], American musician. (d. 2020) |
| *[[1948]] – [[Brian Eno]], English musician and record producer | *[[1948]] – [[Brian Eno]], English musician and record producer | ||
| *[[1953]] – [[Mike Oldfield]], English composer | *[[1953]] – [[Mike Oldfield]], English composer | ||
| *[[1961]] – [[Melle Mel]], American musician | *[[1961]] – [[Melle Mel]], American musician | ||
| - | *[[1965]] – [[Jan Geerinck|My peephole]] opened on [[Saturday]], 1965. | + | *[[1965]] – [[Jan Geerinck|My peephole]] opened on [[Saturday]]. |
| ==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
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Events
- 1252 - Pope Innocent IV authorizes the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. Torture quickly gains widespread usage across Catholic Europe.
- 1525 - The battle of Frankenhausen ends the Peasants' War.
- 1863 - Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe by Manet first exhibited at the Salon des refusés
- 1871 - Paragraph 175 installed in Germany, which made male homosexuality a crime
- 1884 - First Salon des Indépendants in Paris
- 1897 - Magnus Hirschfeld founds the Scientific Humanitarian Committee to organize for gay rights and the repeal of Paragraph 175.
- 1905 – Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when 110 acres (0.4 km²), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
- 1920 - Les Mains d’Orlac, French serial first installment published.
- 1928- Mickey Mouse premiered in his first cartoon, Plane Crazy
- 1940 - first nylon stockings sold in U.S.
- 1980 - The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle film debuts in England.
- 1990 – Portrait of Doctor Gachet by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a record $82.5 million, the most expensive painting at the time.
- 1994 – Passages; Homage to Walter Benjamin by Israeli sculptor Dani Karavan inaugurated
Births
- 1862 – Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian dramatist and narrator (d. 1931)
- 1891 – Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer (d. 1940)
- 1905 – Joseph Cotten, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1909 – James Mason, English actor (d. 1984)
- 1911 – Max Frisch, Swiss author (d. 1991)
- 1915 – Mario Monicelli, Italian director and screenwriter
- 1923 – Richard Avedon, American photographer (d. 2004)
- 1926 – Anthony Shaffer, English playwright (d. 2001)
- 1930 – Jasper Johns, American painter
- 1933 – Juzo Itami, Japanese filmmaker.
- 1936 – Ralph Steadman, British cartoonist
- 1937 – Trini López, American musician. (d. 2020)
- 1948 – Brian Eno, English musician and record producer
- 1953 – Mike Oldfield, English composer
- 1961 – Melle Mel, American musician
- 1965 – My peephole opened on Saturday.
Deaths
- 1703 – Charles Perrault, French writer (b. 1628)
- 1886 – Emily Dickinson, American poet (b. 1830)
- 1935 – Kazimir Malevich, Polish/Ukrainian artist (b. 1878)
- 1940 – Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist (b. 1902)
- 1956 – Austin Osman Spare, English artist and magician (b. 1886)
- 1967 – Edward Hopper, American painter (b. 1882)
- 1998 – John Hawkes, avant garde American writer.(b. 1925)
- 2007 – Jerry Falwell, American evangelist (b. 1933)
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