January 31
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Art and culture
- 1871 - The musical play A Sensation Novel opens in London.
- 1977 - Centre Georges Pompidou opens in Paris.
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Births
- 1797 - Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (d. 1828)
- 1799 - Rodolphe Töpffer, Swiss author, painter, cartoonist, and caricature artist (d. 1846)
- 1870 - Eduard Fuchs, Marxist cultural critic (d. 1940)
- 1872 - Zane Grey, American Western writer (d. 1939)
- 1902 - Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (d. 1968
- 1915 - Alan Lomax, American musicologist (d. 2002)
- 1923 - Norman Mailer, American writer and journalist (d. 2007)
- 1925 - Isidore Isou, Romanian-born French poet, film critic and visual artist (Treatise on Slime and Eternity) (d. 2007)
- 1929 - Andy Milligan, American playwright, screenwriter, and film director (d. 1991)
- 1935 - Kenzaburo Oe, Japanese writer, Nobel laureate
- 1937 - Philip Glass, American composer
- 1942 - Derek Jarman, British director and writer (d. 1994)
- 1949 - Ken Wilber, American philosopher
- 1949 - Serge Bramly, Tunisian-French writer and essayist
- 1956 - John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten, English singer (Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd.)
- 1960 - Grant Morrison, British comic book author
- 1999 - Fara Geerinck, The sweestest little girl in the world
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Deaths
- 1606 - Guy Fawkes (b. 1570)
- 1956 - A. A. Milne, English author (b. 1882)
- 1967 - Oskar Fischinger, German animator, filmmaker, and painter. (b. 1900)
- 1969 - Meher Baba, Indian guru (b. 1894)
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