December 13
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Art and culture
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Births
- 1720 - Carlo Gozzi, Italian dramatist (d. 1804)
- 1797 - Heinrich Heine, German poet (d. 1856)
- 1900 - Karel Teige, Czech graphic artist, photographer, and typographer (Devětsil) (d. 1951)
- 1911 - Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter (d. 1972)
- 1948 - Lester Bangs, American music journalist (d. 1982)
- 1949 - Tom Verlaine, American singer/guitarist of Television (d. 2023)
- 1956 - Marie Forså, Swedish actress
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Deaths
- 1721 - Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor and castaway (b. 1676)
- 1784 - Samuel Johnson, British writer and lexicographer (b. 1709)
- 1892 – Constantin Guys (b. 1802)
- 1923 - Théophile Steinlen, Swiss-born French Art Nouveau painter and printmaker. (b. 1859)
- 1931 - Gustave Le Bon, French psychologist (b. 1840)
- 1944 - Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born French artist (b. 1866)
- 1991 - André Pieyre de Mandiargues, French writer and erotomaniac (d. 1991)
- 1993 - Vanessa Duriès, French novelist (b. 1972)
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