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Art and culture

• 1942 - New York Times Best Seller list published for the first time
• 1950 - Notre-Dame Affair in Paris France

Births

• 1921 - George Weiss (April 9, 1921) is an American film producer who specialized in Z-Movies during the 1950s. Some the movies he made were Test Tube Babies and ...

• 1821 - Charles Baudelaire, French poet, critic and translator.

• 1830 - Eadweard Muybridge (April 9, 1830–May 8, 1904) was a British-born photographer, known primarily for his early use of multiple cameras to capture motion. ...

• 1932 - Paul Krassner (born April 9, 1932) was editor and frequent contributor to the Freethought magazine The Realist, which, first published in 1958,

Deaths

• 1553 - François Rabelais, French Renaissance writer

• 2005 - Andrea Dworkin, American radical feminist and writer.

• 2006 - Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish writer and film director.