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Art and culture

• 1869 - Folies Bergère, French cabaret, opens as the Folies Trévise

Births

• 1729 - Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia
• 1772 - Novalis, German Romanticist philosopher, poet and novelist
• 1859 - Jerome K. Jerome, English writer, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat
• 1873 - Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet, and translator

Deaths

• 1519 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance artist and scientist

• 1857 - Alfred de Musset, French dramatist, poet, and novelist, an important figure in the French Romantic literary movement.