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| == Art and culture == | == Art and culture == | ||
| *[[1849]] - The execution of [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] is called off at the last second. | *[[1849]] - The execution of [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] is called off at the last second. | ||
| + | *[[1894]] - ''[[Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune]]'' premieres in Paris. | ||
| *[[1894]] - The [[Dreyfus affair]] begins, in [[France]], when [[Alfred Dreyfus]] is wrongly convicted of [[treason]], on [[antisemitic]] grounds. | *[[1894]] - The [[Dreyfus affair]] begins, in [[France]], when [[Alfred Dreyfus]] is wrongly convicted of [[treason]], on [[antisemitic]] grounds. | ||
| ==Births== | ==Births== | ||
| *[[1550]] - [[Cesare Cremonini (philosopher)|Cesare Cremonini]], Italian philosopher (d. [[1631]]) | *[[1550]] - [[Cesare Cremonini (philosopher)|Cesare Cremonini]], Italian philosopher (d. [[1631]]) | ||
| + | *[[1639]] - [[Jean Racine]], French dramatist (d. [[1699]]) | ||
| *[[1858]] - [[Giacomo Puccini]], Italian composer (d. [[1924]]) | *[[1858]] - [[Giacomo Puccini]], Italian composer (d. [[1924]]) | ||
| *[[1876]] - [[Filippo Tommaso Marinetti]], Italian poet and editor (d. [[1944]]) | *[[1876]] - [[Filippo Tommaso Marinetti]], Italian poet and editor (d. [[1944]]) | ||
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| *[[1905]] - [[Kenneth Rexroth]], American poet (d. [[1982]]) | *[[1905]] - [[Kenneth Rexroth]], American poet (d. [[1982]]) | ||
| * 1905 - [[Pierre Brasseur]], French actor (d. [[1972]]) | * 1905 - [[Pierre Brasseur]], French actor (d. [[1972]]) | ||
| - | *[[1937]] - [[Eduard Uspensky]], Russian writer | + | *[[1908]] - [[Max Bill]], Swiss architect (d. [[1994]]) |
| *[[1960]] - [[Jean-Michel Basquiat]], American artist (d. [[1988]]) | *[[1960]] - [[Jean-Michel Basquiat]], American artist (d. [[1988]]) | ||
| - | * 1960 - [[Luther Campbell|Luther Campbell (Luke)]], American rap artist ([[2 Live Crew]]) | + | *[[1967]] - [[Stefan Zweifel]], Swiss writer, translator and journalist. |
| - | * 1960 - [[Patrick Fitzgerald]], American attorney | + | |
| - | *[[1961]] - [[Andrew Fastow]], American businessman | + | |
| - | *[[1962]] - [[Ralph Fiennes]], English actor | + | |
| - | *[[1963]] - [[Giuseppe Bergomi]], Italian footballer | + | |
| - | *[[1966]] - [[Dmitry Bilozerchev]], Soviet gymnast | + | |
| - | *[[1967]] - [[Dan Petrescu]], Romanian footballer | + | |
| - | * 1967 - [[Richey James Edwards]], Welsh musician ([[Manic Street Preachers]]) (disappeared in [[1995]]) | + | |
| - | * 1967 - [[Stéphane Gendron]], Quebec politician | + | |
| - | * 1967 - [[Paul Morris (motorsport)|Paul Morris]], Australian racing driver | + | |
| - | *[[1968]] - [[Dina Meyer]], American actress | + | |
| - | * 1968 - [[Lauralee Bell]], American actress | + | |
| - | *[[1969]] - [[Myriam Bédard]], Canadian athlete | + | |
| - | *[[1972]] - [[Big Tigger]], television host | + | |
| - | * 1972 - [[Vanessa Paradis]], French singer | + | |
| - | *[[1974]] - [[Heather Donahue]], American actress | + | |
| - | *[[1975]] - [[Crissy Moran]], American erotic actress | + | |
| - | * 1975 - [[Dmitri Khokhlov]], Russian footballer | + | |
| - | * 1975 - [[Stanislav Neckář]], Czech ice hockey player | + | |
| - | *[[1976]] - [[Brian A. Alexander]], American screenwriter and director | + | |
| - | *[[1977]] - [[Steve Kariya]], Canadian ice hockey player | + | |
| - | *[[1980]] - [[Lee Eun-ju]], South Korean actress (d. [[2005]]) | + | |
| - | * 1980 - [[Chris Carmack]], American actor | + | |
| - | *[[1983]] - [[Jennifer Hawkins]], Australian Miss Universe | + | |
| - | *[[1984]] - [[Jonas Altberg]], Swedish musician ([[Basshunter]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1987]] - [[SaTaN InSiDe]], Persian Hacker | + | |
| - | *[[1989]] - [[Jordin Sparks]], American singer and ''[[American Idol]]'' winner | + | |
| - | *[[1990]] - [[Jean-Baptiste Maunier]], French actor | + | |
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| ==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
| - | *[[1100]] - Duke [[Bretislaus II of Bohemia]] | ||
| - | *[[1550]] - [[Richard Plantagenet (Richard of Eastwell)]] possibly a son of Richard III | ||
| - | *[[1603]] - [[Mehmed III]], [[Ottoman Emperor]] (b. [[1566]]) | ||
| - | *[[1646]] - [[Peter Mogila]], Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (b. [[1596]]) | ||
| - | *[[1660]] - [[André Tacquet]], Flemish mathematician (b. [[1612]]) | ||
| - | *[[1681]] - [[Richard Alleine]], English Puritan clergyman (b. [[1611]]) | ||
| - | *[[1708]] - [[Hedwig Sophia, duchess of Holstein-Gottorp]], Swedish writer (b. [[1681]]) | ||
| - | *[[1738]] - [[Constantia Jones]], British prostitute (executed) | ||
| - | *[[1767]] - [[John Newbery]], English publisher (b. [[1713]]) | ||
| - | *[[1788]] - [[Percivall Pott]], English physician and surgeon (b. [[1714]]) | ||
| - | *[[1806]] - [[William Vernon]], American merchant (b. [[1719]]) | ||
| - | *[[1867]] - [[Jean-Victor Poncelet]], French mathematician (b. [[1788]]) | ||
| - | *[[1870]] - [[Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer]], Spanish poet and writer (b. [[1836]]) | ||
| - | *[[1828]] - [[William Hyde Wollaston]], English chemist (b. [[1766]]) | ||
| *[[1880]] - [[George Eliot]], English writer (b. [[1819]]) | *[[1880]] - [[George Eliot]], English writer (b. [[1819]]) | ||
| - | *[[1899]] - [[Dwight L. Moody]], American evangelist (b. [[1837]]) | ||
| *[[1902]] - [[Richard von Krafft-Ebing]], German psychiatrist (b. [[1840]]) | *[[1902]] - [[Richard von Krafft-Ebing]], German psychiatrist (b. [[1840]]) | ||
| - | *[[1917]] - [[Mother Cabrini]], first American citizen canonized by the Catholic Church (b. [[1850]]) | ||
| - | *[[1939]] - [[Ma Rainey]], American singer (b. [[1886]]) | ||
| *[[1940]] - [[Nathanael West]], American writer (b. [[1903]]) | *[[1940]] - [[Nathanael West]], American writer (b. [[1903]]) | ||
| *[[1942]] - [[Franz Boas]], German anthropologist (b. [[1858]]) | *[[1942]] - [[Franz Boas]], German anthropologist (b. [[1858]]) | ||
| - | *[[1943]] - [[Beatrix Potter]], English writer (b. [[1866]]) | + | *[[1969]] - [[Josef von Sternberg]], Austrian-American film director (b. [[1894]]) |
| - | *[[1944]] - [[Harry Langdon]], American silent film actor (b. [[1884]]) | + | *[[1989]] - [[Samuel Beckett]], Irish writer (b. [[1906]]) |
| - | *[[1947]] - [[Hans Aumeier]], German Nazi official and concentration camp commandant (b. [[1906]]) | + | *[[2022]] - [[Thom Bell]], American composer (b. 1943) |
| - | * 1947 - [[Therese Brandl]], Nazi concentration camp guard (b. [[1902]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1959]] - [[Gilda Gray]], Polish-born American dancer and actress (b. [[1901]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1965]] - [[Richard Dimbleby]], English journalist and broadcaster (b. [[1913]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1971]] - [[Godfried Bomans]], Dutch author and television personality (b. [[1913]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1979]] - [[Darryl F. Zanuck]], American producer (b. [[1902]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1985]] - [[D. Boon]], American singer and guitarist ([[The Minutemen (band)|The Minutemen]]) (b. [[1958]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1988]] - [[Chico Mendes]], Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist, and environmental activist (assassinated) (b. [[1944]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1989]] - [[Samuel Beckett]], Irish writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1906]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1992]] - [[Frederick Franz]], Watchtower president (b. [[1893]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1993]] - [[Don DeFore]], American actor (b. [[1913]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1995]] - [[Butterfly McQueen]], American actress (b. [[1911]]) | + | |
| - | * 1995 - [[James Meade]], English economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Bank of Sweden Prize]] winner (b. [[1907]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1998]] - [[Michelle Thomas]], American actress (b. [[1969]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2002]] - [[Desmond Hoyte]], [[President of Guyana]] (b. [[1929]]) | + | |
| - | * 2002 - [[Joe Strummer]], English musician ([[The Clash]]) (b. [[1952]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2003]] - [[Dave Dudley]], American singer (b. [[1928]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2004]] - [[Doug Ault]], American baseball player (b. [[1950]]) | + | |
| - | *[[2006]] - [[Galina Ustvolskaya]], Russian composer (b. [[1919]]) | + | |
| - | * 2006 - [[Dennis Linde]], American songwriter (b. [[1943]]) | + | |
| - | == Notes == | + | |
| - | # Richard von Krafft-Ebing | + | |
| - | # Stefan Zweifel | + | |
| - | # Becquer | + | |
| - | # Louis Filler | + | |
| - | # Filippo Tommaso Marinetti | + | |
| - | # Samuel Beckett | + | |
| - | # Edgard Varèse | + | |
| - | # Max Bill | + | |
| - | # Jean-Michel Basquiat | + | |
| - | # Nathanael West | + | |
| - | # Marc Allégret | + | |
| - | # Kenneth Rexroth | + | |
| - | # Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune | + | |
| - | # Pierre Brasseur | + | |
| - | * George Eliot | + | |
| - | * Josef von Sternberg | + | |
| - | * Cesare Cremonini (philosopher) | + | |
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Art and culture
- 1849 - The execution of Fyodor Dostoevsky is called off at the last second.
- 1894 - Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune premieres in Paris.
- 1894 - The Dreyfus affair begins, in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason, on antisemitic grounds.
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Births
- 1550 - Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (d. 1631)
- 1639 - Jean Racine, French dramatist (d. 1699)
- 1858 - Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer (d. 1924)
- 1876 - Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian poet and editor (d. 1944)
- 1883 - Edgard Varèse French-born composer (d. 1965)
- 1900 - Marc Allégret, French film director and screenwriter (d. 1973)
- 1905 - Kenneth Rexroth, American poet (d. 1982)
- 1905 - Pierre Brasseur, French actor (d. 1972)
- 1908 - Max Bill, Swiss architect (d. 1994)
- 1960 - Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist (d. 1988)
- 1967 - Stefan Zweifel, Swiss writer, translator and journalist.
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Deaths
- 1880 - George Eliot, English writer (b. 1819)
- 1902 - Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychiatrist (b. 1840)
- 1940 - Nathanael West, American writer (b. 1903)
- 1942 - Franz Boas, German anthropologist (b. 1858)
- 1969 - Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-American film director (b. 1894)
- 1989 - Samuel Beckett, Irish writer (b. 1906)
- 2022 - Thom Bell, American composer (b. 1943)
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