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| == Art and culture == | == Art and culture == | ||
| - | *[[1820]] - The [[Venus de Milo]] is discovered on the [[Aegean Sea|Aegean]] island of [[Melos]]. | + | *[[1820]] - The [[Venus de Milo]] is discovered. |
| *[[1867]] - The first [[World's Fair]] is inaugurated in [[Paris]]. | *[[1867]] - The first [[World's Fair]] is inaugurated in [[Paris]]. | ||
| + | *[[1966]] - "[[Is God Dead?]]" is the cover story for the news magazine ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' | ||
| + | *[[1990]] - [[Twin Peaks]] aired for the first time in the United States | ||
| + | *[[2007]] - [[ArtandPopularCulture.com]] founded | ||
| ==Births== | ==Births== | ||
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| - | *[[1320]] - King [[Peter I of Portugal]] (d. [[1367]]) | ||
| - | *[[1533]] - [[Claudio Merulo]], Italian composer (d. [[1604]]) | ||
| - | *[[1541]] - [[Michele Mercati]], Italian physician (d. [[1593]]) | ||
| - | *[[1605]] - King [[Philip IV of Spain]], (d. [[1665]]) | ||
| - | *[[1641]] - [[Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney]], English statesman (d. [[1704]]) | ||
| *[[1692]] - [[Giuseppe Tartini]], Italian composer (d. [[1770]]) | *[[1692]] - [[Giuseppe Tartini]], Italian composer (d. [[1770]]) | ||
| - | *[[1842]] - [[Elizabeth Bacon Custer]], wife of [[George Armstrong Custer]] (d. [[1933]]) | ||
| - | *[[1818]] - [[August Wilhelm von Hofmann]], German chemist (d. [[1892]]) | ||
| - | * 1818 - King [[Christian IX of Denmark]] (d. [[1906]]) | ||
| - | *[[1827]] - [[Ramón Emeterio Betances]], Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (d. [[1898]]) | ||
| *[[1859]] - [[Edmund Husserl]], Austrian philosopher (d. [[1938]]) | *[[1859]] - [[Edmund Husserl]], Austrian philosopher (d. [[1938]]) | ||
| - | *[[1865]] - [[Charles W. Woodworth]], American entomologist (d. [[1940]]) | + | *[[1872]] - [[Iwan Bloch]], German sexologist (d. [[1922]]) |
| - | *[[1869]] - [[Harvey Cushing]], American [[Neurosurgery|neuorosurgeon]] (d. [[1939]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1871]] - [[Clarence Hudson White]] American photographer (d. [[1925]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1874]] - [[Stanislaw Taczak|Stanisław Taczak]], Polish general (d. [[1960]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1875]] - King [[Albert I of Belgium]] (d. [[1934]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1889]] - Sir [[Adrian Boult]], British conductor (d. [[1983]]) | + | |
| *[[1892]] - [[Mary Pickford]], Canadian actress (d. [[1979]]) | *[[1892]] - [[Mary Pickford]], Canadian actress (d. [[1979]]) | ||
| - | * 1892 - [[Richard Neutra]], American architect (d. [[1970]]) | + | *[[1892]] - [[Richard Neutra]], American architect (d. 1970) |
| - | *[[1896]] - [[Yip Harburg]], American lyricist (d. [[1981]]) | + | *[[1911]] – [[Emil Cioran]], Romanian-French philosopher and academic (d. 1995) |
| - | *[[1904]] - [[John Hicks]], British economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Bank of Sweden Prize]] winner (d. [[1989]]) | + | *[[1926]] - [[Jean-Jacques Pauvert]], French publisher (d. 2014) |
| - | *[[1905]] - [[Helen Joseph]], South African anti-apartheid activist (d. [[1992]]) | + | *[[1929]] - [[Jacques Brel]], Belgian singer/composer (d. [[1978]]) |
| - | * 1905 - [[Erwin Keller]], German field hockey player (d. [[1971]]) | + | *[[1941]] - [[Vivienne Westwood]], English fashion designer (d. 2022) |
| - | *[[1906]] - [[Raoul Jobin]], French Canadian tenor (d. [[1974]]) | + | *[[1942]] - [[Douglas Trumbull]], American film director (d. 2022) |
| - | *[[1908]] - [[Hugo Fregonese]], Argentine film director (d. [[1987]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1910]] - [[George Musso]], American football player (d. [[2000]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1911]] - [[Melvin Calvin]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel laureate]] (d. [[1997]]) | + | |
| - | * 1911 - [[Emil Cioran]], Romanian philosopher and essayist (d. [[1995]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1912]] - [[Alois Brunner]], Austrian Nazi | + | |
| - | * 1912 - [[Sonja Henie]], Norwegian figure skater and actress (d. [[1969]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1914]] - [[María Félix]], Mexican actress (d. [[2002]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1918]] - [[Betty Ford]], [[First Lady of the United States]] | + | |
| - | * 1918 - [[Glendon Swarthout]], American author (d. [[1992]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1919]] - [[Ian Smith]], [[Prime Minister of Rhodesia]] | + | |
| - | *[[1920]] - [[Carmen McRae]], American jazz singer (d. [[1994]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1921]] - [[Franco Corelli]], Italian tenor (d. [[2003]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1923]] - [[George Fisher (cartoonist)|George Fisher]], American cartoonist (d. [[2003]]) | + | |
| - | * 1923 - [[Edward Mulhare]], Irish actor (d. [[1997]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1924]] - [[Frédéric Back]], Canadian short film director and screenwriter | + | |
| - | *[[1926]] - [[Henry N. Cobb]], American architect | + | |
| - | * 1926 - [[Shecky Greene]], American comedian | + | |
| - | * 1926 - [[Jürgen Moltmann]], German theologian | + | |
| - | *[[1928]] - [[Leah Rabin]], wife of [[Israeli Prime Minister]] [[Yitzhak Rabin]] (d. [[2000]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1929]] - [[Walter Berry (opera singer)|Walter Berry]], Austrian bass-baritone (d. [[2000]]) | + | |
| - | * 1929 - [[Jacques Brel]], Belgian singer/composer (d. [[1978]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1930]] - [[Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Duke of Parma]] | + | |
| - | *[[1931]] - [[John Gavin]], American actor and politician | + | |
| - | *[[1933]] - [[Fred Ebb]], American composer (d. [[2004]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1934]] - [[Kisho Kurokawa]], Japanese architect | + | |
| - | *[[1937]] - [[Seymour Hersh]], American journalist | + | |
| - | *[[1938]] - [[Kofi Annan]], Ghanaian [[United Nations Secretary General]] | + | |
| - | *[[1940]] - [[John Havlicek]], American basketball player | + | |
| - | *[[1941]] - [[Darlene Gillespie]], Canadian-born American [[Mickey Mouse Club|Mouseketeer]] | + | |
| - | * 1941 - [[The Lennon Sisters|Peggy Lennon]], American singer ([[The Lennon Sisters]]) | + | |
| - | * 1941 - [[Vivienne Westwood]], English fashion designer | + | |
| - | *[[1942]] - [[Roger Chapman]], British rock singer ([[Family (band)|Family]], [[Streetwalkers]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1943]] - [[Tony Banks, Baron Stratford|Tony Banks]], British politician (d. [[2006]]) | + | |
| - | * 1943 - [[Michael Bennett]], American dancer/choreographer (d. [[1987]]) | + | |
| - | * 1943 - [[Miller Farr]], American football player | + | |
| *[[1944]] - [[Odd Nerdrum]], Norwegian painter | *[[1944]] - [[Odd Nerdrum]], Norwegian painter | ||
| - | *[[1945]] - [[Derrick Walker]], British racing team owner | ||
| - | *[[1946]] - [[Catfish Hunter]], American baseball player (d. [[1999]]) | ||
| - | * 1946 - [[Stuart Pankin]], American actor | ||
| - | * 1946 - [[Tim Thomerson]], American actor | ||
| - | *[[1947]] - [[Tom DeLay]], American politician | ||
| - | * 1947 - [[Steve Howe (guitarist)|Steve Howe]], English guitarist ([[Yes (band)|Yes]], [[Asia]], [[GTR (band)|GTR]]) | ||
| - | * 1947 - [[Robert Kiyosaki]], American investor | ||
| - | * 1947 - [[Larry Norman]], American singer/songwriter | ||
| - | *[[1948]] - [[Michael Leshner]], Canadian lawyer and gay rights advocate | ||
| - | *[[1949]] - [[John Madden (director)|John Madden]], English film director | ||
| - | * 1949 - [[Brenda Russell]], American singer/songwriter | ||
| - | *[[1950]] - [[Grzegorz Lato]], Polish footballer | ||
| - | *[[1954]] - [[Gary Carter]], American baseball player | ||
| - | *[[1955]] - [[Ricky Bell (running back)|Ricky Bell]], American football player (d. [[1984]]) | ||
| - | * 1955 - [[Joolz Denby]], English poet and novelist | ||
| - | * 1955 - [[Barbara Kingsolver]], American novelist | ||
| - | *[[1956]] - [[Kane Hodder]], American actor and stuntman | ||
| - | *[[1957]] - [[Fred Smerlas]], American football player | ||
| - | *[[1960]] - [[John Schneider (television actor)|John Schneider]], American actor | ||
| - | *[[1962]] - [[Izzy Stradlin]], American musician ([[Guns N' Roses]]) | ||
| - | *[[1963]] - [[Julian Lennon]], English musician and singer | ||
| - | * 1963 - [[Alec Stewart]], English cricketer | ||
| - | *[[1964]] - [[Biz Markie]], American rapper/disc jockey | ||
| - | *[[1965]] - [[Michael Niko Jones]], former All Black & New Zealand rugby player | ||
| - | *[[1966]] - [[Robin Wright Penn]], American actress | ||
| - | * 1966 - [[Mazinho]], Brazilian footballer | ||
| - | * 1966 - [[Mark Blundell]], British racing driver | ||
| - | * 1966 - [[Bobby Ologun]], Nigerian television personality | ||
| - | *[[1968]] - [[Patricia Arquette]], American actress | ||
| - | * 1968 - [[Tracy Grammer]], American folk singer | ||
| - | *[[1970]] - [[Sami Lukis]], Australian journalist and television presenter | ||
| - | *[[1971]] - [[Chino XL]], American rapper | ||
| - | *[[1972]] - [[Paul Gray (Slipknot)|Paul Gray]], American bassist ([[Slipknot (band)|Slipknot]]) | ||
| - | *[[1973]] - [[Emma Caulfield]], American actress | ||
| - | * 1973 - [[Alex S. Gonzalez]], American baseball player | ||
| - | * 1973 - [[Khaled Badra]], Tunisian soccer player | ||
| - | *[[1974]] - [[Holger Hott Johansen]], Norwegian orienteerist | ||
| - | *[[1975]] - [[Timo Pérez]], Dominican baseball player | ||
| - | *[[1977]] - [[Mark Spencer]], computer programmer | ||
| - | *[[1978]] - [[Ana de la Reguera]], Mexican actress | ||
| - | *[[1979]] - [[Alexi Laiho]], Finnish guitarist and singer ([[Children of Bodom]]) | ||
| - | * 1979 - [[Jeremy Guthrie]], American baseball player | ||
| - | *[[1980]] - [[Manuel Ortega]], Austrian singer | ||
| - | * 1980 - [[Katee Sackhoff]], American actress | ||
| - | *[[1981]] - [[Brian Burres]], American baseball player | ||
| - | *[[1982]] - [[Judy Star]], Canadian porn star | ||
| - | *[[1983]] - [[Adrian Bellani]], American actor | ||
| - | * 1983 - [[Allu Arjun]], Indian film actor | ||
| - | *[[1984]] - [[Júlia Liptáková]], Slovakian model | ||
| - | * 1984 - [[Taran Noah Smith]], American actor | ||
| - | * 1984 - [[Kirsten Storms]], American actress | ||
| - | *[[1986]] - [[Igor Akinfeev]], Russian footballer | ||
| - | * 1986 - [[Félix Hernández]], Venezuelan baseball player | ||
| - | * 1986 - [[Erika Sawajiri]], Japanese actress and model | ||
| - | *[[1989]] - [[Hitomi Takahashi (singer)|Hitomi Takahashi]], Japanese singer | ||
| - | *[[1992]] - [[Shelby Young]], American actress | ||
| - | *[[2005]] - [[Leah Isadora Behn]], member of Norway's Royal Family | ||
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| ==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
| - | * [[217]] - [[Caracalla]], [[Roman Emperor]] (b. [[186]]) | + | |
| - | * [[956]] - [[Gilbert of Chalon]], [[Duke of Burgundy]] | + | |
| - | *[[1143]] - [[John II Comnenus]], [[Byzantine Emperor]] (b. [[1087]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1364]] - King [[John II of France]] (b. [[1319]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1461]] - [[Georg Purbach]], German mathematician and astronomer (b. [[1423]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1492]] - [[Lorenzo de Medici]], ruler of Florence (b. [[1449]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1586]] - [[Martin Chemnitz]], Lutheran reformer and theologian (b. [[1522]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1587]] - [[John Foxe]], English writer (b. [[1516]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1691]] - [[Carlo Rainaldi]], Italian architect (b. [[1611]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1697]] - [[Niels Juel]], Danish admiral (b. [[1629]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1704]] - [[Hiob Ludolf]], German orientalist (b. [[1624]]) | + | |
| - | * 1704 - [[Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney]], English statesman (b. [[1641]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1725]] - [[John Wise (clergyman)|John Wise]], English clergyman (b. [[1652]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1735]] - [[Francis II Rákóczi]], leader of the Hungarian uprising against the [[Habsburg]] (b. [[March 27]], [[1676]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1848]] - [[Gaetano Donizetti]], Italian composer (b. [[1797]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1857]] - [[Mangal Pandey]], Indian soldier | + | |
| - | *[[1861]] - [[Elisha Otis]], American elevator builder (b. [[1811]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1870]] - [[Charles de Bériot]], Belgian composer (b. [[1802]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1919]] - [[Loránd Eötvös]], Hungarian physicist (b. [[1848]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1920]] - [[Charles Tomlinson Griffes]], American composer (b. [[1884]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1931]] - [[Erik Axel Karlfeldt]], Swedish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel laureate]] (b. [[1864]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1936]] - [[Robert Bárány]], Austrian physician, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate]] (b. [[1876]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1938]] - [[Joe "King" Oliver]], American musician (b. [[1885]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1942]] - [[Kostas Skarvelis]], Greek songwriter (b. [[1880]]) | + | |
| *[[1950]] - [[Vaslav Nijinsky]], Polish-born ballet dancer (b. [[1890]]) | *[[1950]] - [[Vaslav Nijinsky]], Polish-born ballet dancer (b. [[1890]]) | ||
| - | *[[1965]] - [[Lars Hanson]], Swedish actor (b. [[1886]]) | ||
| *[[1973]] - [[Pablo Picasso]], Spanish artist (b. [[1881]]) | *[[1973]] - [[Pablo Picasso]], Spanish artist (b. [[1881]]) | ||
| - | *[[1974]] - [[James Charles McGuigan]], Catholic archbishop of Toronto (b. [[1894]]) | + | *[[1998]] - [[Anatole Dauman]], French film producer (b. [[1925]]) |
| - | *[[1978]] - [[Ford Frick]], American baseball commissioner (b. [[1894]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1981]] - [[Omar Bradley]], U.S. general (b. [[1893]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1984]] - [[Pyotr Kapitsa]], Russian physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|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 (musician)|Dead]], Norwegian [[black metal]] musician (b. [[1969]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1992]] - [[Daniel Bovet]], Swiss-born pharmacologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate]] (b. [[1907]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1993]] - [[Marian Anderson]], American contralto (b. [[1897]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1994]] - [[François Rozet]], French Canadian actor (b. [[1899]]) | + | |
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| - | *[[1996]] - [[Ben Johnson (actor)|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 (golf)|Bruce Edwards]], American golf caddy for [[Tom Watson (golfer)|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]]) | *[[2006]] - [[Gerard Reve]], Dutch writer (b. [[1923]]) | ||
| - | *[[2007]] - [[Bill Mescher]], American politician (b. [[1927]]) | + | *[[2021]] – [[Richard Rush (director) |Richard Rush]], American film director (''[[Psych-Out]]'') (b. 1929) |
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| - | *[[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 | + | |
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| - | == 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, ... | + | |
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| - | == 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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Art and culture
- 1820 - The Venus de Milo is discovered.
- 1867 - The first World's Fair is inaugurated in Paris.
- 1966 - "Is God Dead?" is the cover story for the news magazine Time
- 1990 - Twin Peaks aired for the first time in the United States
- 2007 - ArtandPopularCulture.com founded
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Births
- 1692 - Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer (d. 1770)
- 1859 - Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher (d. 1938)
- 1872 - Iwan Bloch, German sexologist (d. 1922)
- 1892 - Mary Pickford, Canadian actress (d. 1979)
- 1892 - Richard Neutra, American architect (d. 1970)
- 1911 – Emil Cioran, Romanian-French philosopher and academic (d. 1995)
- 1926 - Jean-Jacques Pauvert, French publisher (d. 2014)
- 1929 - Jacques Brel, Belgian singer/composer (d. 1978)
- 1941 - Vivienne Westwood, English fashion designer (d. 2022)
- 1942 - Douglas Trumbull, American film director (d. 2022)
- 1944 - Odd Nerdrum, Norwegian painter
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Deaths
- 1950 - Vaslav Nijinsky, Polish-born ballet dancer (b. 1890)
- 1973 - Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist (b. 1881)
- 1998 - Anatole Dauman, French film producer (b. 1925)
- 2006 - Gerard Reve, Dutch writer (b. 1923)
- 2021 – Richard Rush, American film director (Psych-Out) (b. 1929)
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