December 22
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Art and culture
- 1849 - The execution of Fyodor Dostoevsky is called off at the last second.
- 1894 - The Dreyfus affair begins, in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason, on antisemitic grounds.
Births
- 1550 - Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (d. 1631)
- 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)
- 1937 - Eduard Uspensky, Russian writer
- 1960 - Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist (d. 1988)
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)
- 1989 - Samuel Beckett, Irish writer (b. 1906)
Notes
- 1880 - Stefan Zweifel
- 1880 - Becquer
- 1880 - Louis Filler
- 1880 - Max Bill
- 1880 - Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
- 1880 - Pierre Brasseur
- 1880 - Josef von Sternberg
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