January 14
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Art and culture
- 1832 - American author Edgar Allan Poe publishes his first short story, "Metzengerstein".
Births
- 1836 - Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter (d. 1904)
- 1892 - Hal Roach, American film producer (d. 1992)
- 1896 - John Dos Passos, American author (d. 1970)
- 1905 - Cecil Beaton, English photographer (d. 1980)
- 1909 - Joseph Losey, American theatre and film director (d. 1984)
- 1921 - Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (d. 2006)
- 1925 - Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer (d. 1970)
- 1933 - Stan Brakhage, American filmmaker (d. 2003)
- 1963 - Steven Soderbergh, American director
- 1968 - LL Cool J, American rapper and actor
Deaths
- 1753 - George Berkeley, Irish theologian (b. 1685)
- 1867 - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (b. 1780)
- 1898 - Lewis Carroll, English writer and mathematician (b. 1832)
- 1957 - Humphrey Bogart, American actor (b. 1899)
- 1977 - Anaïs Nin, French author (b. 1903)
- 2003 - Koloman Sokol, Slovak painter (b. 1902)
- 2005 - Conroy Maddox, English painter (b. 1912)
- 2006 - Shelley Winters, American actress (b. 1920)
Notes
- 1753 - Douglas Sirk (April 26, 1900 – January 14, 1987) was a film director
- 1753 - Yukio Mishima (January 14, 1925–November 25, 1970), was a Japanese author
- 1753 - Fritz Kahn Fritz Kahn (Halle, Germany September 29, 1888 - Lugano, Switzerland January 14, 1968) was a German writer and illustrator in the 1920s who specialized in illustrating the physical processes of human bodies as though they were machine powered.
- 1753 - Rodolphe Bresdin Rodolphe Bresdin (1822 in Montrelais - January 14 1885 in Sèvres), also known as Chien-Caillou); was a French graphic artist who celebrated the fantastic, eccentric and the visionary. Odilon Redon studied with him. He was a precursor to Romanticism and the surrealists.
- 1753 - Norris Embry (January 14 1921- February 17 1981) was an American artist called "the first American German Expressionist".
- 1753 - Richard F. Outcault (January 14, 1863-September 25, 1928) was an American comic strip scriptwriter, sketcher and painter. Outcault was the creator of the series The Yellow Kid,
- 1753 - Jean Dutourd
- 1753 - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- 1753 - Harriet Andersson
- 1753 - Jerzy Grotowski
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