January 23
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Art and culture
- 1546 - Having published nothing for eleven years, Francois Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel.
- 1656 - Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales.
- 1962 - French release of François Truffaut's New Wave film Jules et Jim.
- 1986 - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members.
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Births
- 1744 - Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (b. 1668)
- 1783 - Stendhal, French writer (d. 1842)
- 1832 - Edouard Manet, French artist (d. 1883)
- 1888 - Leadbelly, American blues and folk musician (d. 1949)
- 1898 - Sergei Eisenstein, Russian film director (d. 1948)
- 1910 - Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist (d. 1953)
- 1915 - Potter Stewart, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1985)
- 1928 - Jeanne Moreau, French actress (d. 2017)
- 1938 - Georg Baselitz, German painter and sculptor
- 1939 - Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor and martial artist (d. 2021)
- 1940 - Areski Belkacem, French composer, musician, actor and singer.
- 1944 - Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor (d. 2019)
- 1948 – Anita Pointer (The Pointer Sisters) (d. 2022)
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Deaths
- 1722 - Henri de Boulainvilliers, French writer and historian, noted for his theories on race (b. 1658)
- 1789 - John Cleland, English novelist (b. 1709)
- 1866 - Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (b. 1785)
- 1883 - Gustave Doré, French artist, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1832)
- 1889 - Alexandre Cabanel, French painter (b. 1823)
- 1923 - Max Nordau, Austrian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader (b. 1849)
- 1944 - Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (b. 1863)
- 1947 - Pierre Bonnard, French painter and printmaker (b. 1867)
- 1960 - Wolfgang Kayser, German literary theorist (The Grotesque in Art and Literature) (b. 1906)
- 1986 - Joseph Beuys, German artist (b. 1921)
- 1989 - Salvador Dalí, Catalan artist (b. 1904)
- 1991 - Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic(Anatomy of Criticism) (b. 1912)
- 1999 - Joe D'Amato, Italian director (Black Emmanuelle) (b. 1936)
- 2002 - Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (b. 1930)
- 2002 - Robert Nozick, American philosopher (b. 1938)
- 2004 - Helmut Newton, German-born photographer (b. 1920)
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