January 18
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Art and culture
- 1998 - Lewinsky scandal makes the news.
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Births
- 1689 - Montesquieu, French writer (d. 1755)
- 1743 - Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, French philosopher(d. 1803)
- 1779 - Peter Roget, British lexicographer (d. 1869)
- 1844 - Madeleine Laure, only daughter of Marquis de Sade (b. 1771)
- 1881 - Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (d. 1975)
- 1882 - A. A. Milne, English author (d. 1956)
- 1904 - Cary Grant, English actor (d. 1986)
- 1913 - Danny Kaye, American actor (d. 1987)
- 1925 - Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (d. 1995)
- 1932 - Robert Anton Wilson, American author (d. 2007)
- 1933 - John Boorman, Irish film director
- 1947 - Takeshi Kitano, Japanese actor and director
- 1949 - Philippe Starck, French designer
- 1954 - Kiki Smith, American artist
- 1955 - Kevin Costner, American actor
- 1955 - Frankie Knuckles, American DJ, record producer and remixer (d. 2014)
- 1969 - Jim O'Rourke, American musician and producer (Loose Fur and Wilco)
- 1982 - Joanna Newsom, American harpist/singer-songwriter
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Deaths
- 1873 - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English author (b. 1803)
- 1875 - Oscar Rejlander, Swedish-born art photographer (b. 1813)
- 1976 - Friedrich Hollaender, German composer (The Blue Angel) (b. 1896)
- 1936 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1865)
- 1980 - Sir Cecil Beaton, English fashion designer (b. 1904)
- 1996 - Leonor Fini, Argentine surrealist painter (b. 1907)
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