December 20
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Art and culture
- 1963 - French release of Jean-Luc Godard's New Wave film Le Mépris.
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Births
- 1838 - Edwin Abbott Abbott, English writer (Flatland) (d. 1926)
- 1945 - Jürg Laederach, Swiss writer
- 1946 - Andrei Codrescu, Romanian-born American writer
- 1957 - Billy Bragg, English singer and songwriter
- 1969 - Alain de Botton, Swiss philosopher
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Deaths
- 1590 - Ambroise Paré, French physician (b. 1510)
- 1858 - Jan Toorop, Indonesian-born Dutch painter (d. 1928)
- 1968 - John Steinbeck, American writer (b. 1902)
- 1973 - Bobby Darin, American singer (b. 1936)
- 1974 - André Jolivet, French composer (b. 1905)
- 1997 - Juzo Itami, Japanese actor and director (b. 1933)
- 1999 - Riccardo Freda, Italian film director (I Vampiri) (b. 1909)
- 2001 - Léopold Sédar Senghor, first President of Senegal (b. 1906)
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