April 8
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Art and culture
- 1820 - The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
- 1867 - The first World's Fair is inaugurated in Paris.
Births
- 1692 - Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer (d. 1770)
- 1859 - Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher (d. 1938)
- 1892 - Mary Pickford, Canadian actress (d. 1979)
- 1892 - Richard Neutra, American architect (d. 1970)
- 1929 - Jacques Brel, Belgian singer/composer (d. 1978)
- 1941 - Vivienne Westwood, English fashion designer
- 1944 - Odd Nerdrum, Norwegian painter
Deaths
- 1950 - Vaslav Nijinsky, Polish-born ballet dancer (b. 1890)
- 1973 - Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist (b. 1881)
- 1974 - James Charles McGuigan, Catholic archbishop of Toronto (b. 1894)
- 1978 - Ford Frick, American baseball commissioner (b. 1894)
- 1981 - Omar Bradley, U.S. general (b. 1893)
- 1984 - Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1894)
- 1985 - J. Fred Coots, American songwriter (b. 1897)
- 1986 - Yukiko Okada, Japanese idol singer (b. 1967)
- 1990 - Ryan White, American AIDS activist (b. 1971)
- 1991 - Dead, Norwegian black metal musician (b. 1969)
- 1992 - Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1907)
- 1993 - Marian Anderson, American contralto (b. 1897)
- 1994 - François Rozet, French Canadian actor (b. 1899)
- 1996 - Ben Johnson, American actor (b. 1918)
- 1996 - George W. Jenkins, American businessman (b. 1907)
- 1997 - Laura Nyro, American singer and composer (b. 1947)
- 2000 - Claire Trevor, American actress (b. 1910)
- 2002 - María Félix, Mexican actress (b. 1914)
- 2004 - Bruce Edwards, American golf caddy for Tom Watson (b. 1954)
- 2005 - Eddie Miksis, American baseball player (b. 1926)
- 2005 - Onna White, Canadian choreographer (b. 1924)
- 2006 - Gerard Reve, Dutch writer (b. 1923)
- 2007 - Bill Mescher, American politician (b. 1927)
- 1990 - Twin Peaks aired for the first time in the United States
- 1966 - Death of God as pronounced (with question mark) by American Time magazine.
- 2007 - ArtandPopularCulture.com founded
Births
- 1929 - Jacques Brel, Belgian French-speaking author-composer, considered by many a poet as well.
Deaths
- 1998 - Anatole Dauman, a French film producer who produced films by Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Bresson, Wim Wenders, ...
Notes
- Giuseppe Tartini
- Pablo Picasso
- Jean-Jacques Pauvert
- Gerard Reve
- Waldemar Fydrych
- Odd Nerdrum
- John Millington Synge
- Douglas Trumbull
- Edmund Husserl
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