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| == Art and culture == | == Art and culture == | ||
| - | + | *[[1894]] - [[Precursors of film]] - [[W. K. Dickson]] receives a patent for motion picture film. | |
| - | == Births == | + | *[[1927]] - First [[transatlantic]] [[telephone call]] - [[New York City]] to [[London]]. |
| - | *[[1325]] - [[Alfonso IV of Portugal|Alfonso IV]] becomes King of [[Portugal]]. | + | *[[2015]] - [[Charlie Hebdo shooting]] |
| - | *[[1558]] - [[France]] takes [[Calais]], the last continental possession of [[England]]. | + | |
| - | *[[1598]] - [[Boris Godunov]] seizes the throne of [[Russia]]. | + | |
| - | *[[1608]] - Fire destroys [[Jamestown, Virginia]]. | + | |
| - | *[[1610]] - [[Galileo Galilei]] observes the four largest moons of [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]] for the first time. He named them and in turn the four are called the [[Galilean moon]]s. | + | |
| - | *[[1735]] - [[Jerome, 2nd Count de Salis|Hieronimus de Salis]] marries hon. Mary ffane, at St. Margaret's Westminster. | + | |
| - | *[[1782]] - The first American commercial bank, [[Bank of North America]], opens. | + | |
| - | *[[1785]] - [[France|Frenchman]] [[Jean-Pierre Blanchard]] and [[United States|America]]n [[John Jeffries]] travel from [[Dover, England|Dover]], [[England]], to [[Calais]], [[France]], in a gas [[balloon]]. | + | |
| - | *[[1797]] - The current [[flag of Italy]] is first used. | + | |
| - | *[[1835]] - [[HMS Beagle]] anchors off the [[Chonos Archipelago]]. | + | |
| - | *[[1894]] - [[W.K. Dickson]] receives a [[patent]] for [[film|motion picture film]]. | + | |
| - | *[[1904]] - The [[distress signal]] "[[CQD]]" is established only to be replaced two years later by "[[SOS]]". | + | |
| - | *[[1922]] - [[Dáil Éireann]] ratifies the [[Anglo-Irish Treaty]] by a 64-57 vote. | + | |
| - | *[[1924]] - [[George Gershwin]] completes [[Rhapsody in Blue]]. | + | |
| - | * 1924 - The [[International Hockey Federation]] (FIH) is founded in [[Paris]] by seven member states: [[Austria]], [[Belgium]], [[Czechoslovakia]], [[France]], [[Hungary]], [[Spain]], and [[Switzerland]]. | + | |
| - | *[[1927]] - First transatlantic [[telephone]] call - [[New York City]] to [[London]]. | + | |
| - | * 1927 - The [[Harlem Globetrotters]] play their first game. | + | |
| - | *[[1935]] - [[Benito Mussolini]] and French Foreign Minister [[Pierre Laval]] sign the [[Franco–Italian Agreement]]. | + | |
| - | *[[1942]] - [[World War II]]: Siege of the [[Bataan Peninsula]] begins. | + | |
| - | *[[1945]] - [[World War II]]: [[United Kingdom|British]] General [[Bernard Montgomery]] holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the [[Battle of the Bulge]]. | + | |
| - | *[[1950]] - A fire at the Mercy Hospital in [[Davenport, Iowa]], kills 41 people. | + | |
| - | *[[1953]] - [[President of the United States|President]] [[Harry Truman]] announces that the [[United States]] has developed a [[hydrogen bomb]]. | + | |
| - | *[[1954]] - [[Georgetown-IBM experiment]], the first public demonstration of a [[machine translation]] system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM. | + | |
| - | *[[1959]] - The [[United States]] recognizes the new [[Cuba]]n government of [[Fidel Castro]]. | + | |
| - | *[[1972]] - [[Iberia Airlines]] [[Sud Aviation Caravelle|Caravelle 6-R]] [[History of Iberia Airlines#Accidents|crashed into Mont San Jose]] on approach to [[Ibiza Airport]] killing all 104 on board. | + | |
| - | *[[1973]] - [[Mark Essex]] fatally shot 10 people and wounded 13 others at [[Howard Johnson]]’s Hotel in [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]] before being shot to death by police officers. | + | |
| - | *[[1979]] - [[Phnom Penh]] fell to the advancing [[Vietnam]]ese troops, driving out [[Pol Pot]] and the [[Khmer Rouge]]. | + | |
| - | *[[1980]] - President [[Jimmy Carter]] authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out [[Chrysler Corporation]]. | + | |
| - | *[[1984]] - [[Brunei]] becomes the sixth member of the [[Association of Southeast Asian Nations]] (ASEAN). | + | |
| - | *[[1990]] - The interior of the [[Leaning Tower of Pisa]] is closed to the public due to safety concerns. | + | |
| - | *[[1993]] - The [[Fourth Republic]] of [[Ghana]] is inaugurated with [[Jerry Rawlings]] as President. | + | |
| - | *[[1996]] - The [[North American blizzard of 1996]] pounds the east coast of the [[U.S.]] with 1-4 feet of snow. | + | |
| - | *[[1999]] - The [[impeachment]] trial of [[President of the United States|President]] [[Bill Clinton]] begins. | + | |
| ==Births== | ==Births== | ||
| - | *[[1355]] - [[Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester]], son of [[Edward III of England]] (d. [[1397]]) | ||
| - | *[[1502]] - [[Pope Gregory XIII]] (d. [[1585]]) | ||
| - | *[[1528]] - [[Jeanne d'Albret]], Queen of Navarre (d. [[1572]]) | ||
| - | *[[1647]] - [[Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg]] (d. [[1677]]) | ||
| - | *[[1685]] - [[Jonas Alströmer]], Swedish industrialist (d. [[1761]]) | ||
| - | *[[1706]] - [[Johann Heinrich Zedler]], German publisher (d. [[1751]]) | ||
| - | *[[1718]] - [[Israel Putnam]], American [[Revolutionary War]] general (d. [[1790]]) | ||
| - | *[[1768]] - [[Joseph Bonaparte]], King of Naples (d. [[1844]]) | ||
| - | *[[1786]] - [[John Catron]], Justice of the U.S. Supreme COurt (d. [[1865]]) | ||
| - | *[[1796]] - [[Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales]] (d. [[1817]]) | ||
| - | *[[1800]] - [[Millard Fillmore]], 13th [[President of the United States]] (d. [[1874]]) | ||
| - | *[[1827]] - [[Sir Sandford Fleming]], Canadian engineer; introduced [[Universal Standard Time]] (d. [[1915]]) | ||
| - | *[[1830]] - [[Albert Bierstadt]], German-American painter (d. [[1902]]) | ||
| - | *[[1831]] - [[Heinrich von Stephan]], German labor organizer (d. [[1897]]) | ||
| - | *[[1834]] - [[Johann Philipp Reis]], German physicist and inventor (d. [[1874]]) | ||
| - | *[[1844]] - [[Bernadette Soubirous]], French saint (d. [[1879]]) | ||
| - | *[[1860]] - [[Emanuil Manolov]], Bulgarian composer (d. [[1902]]) | ||
| - | *[[1871]] - [[Émile Borel]], French mathematician and politician (d. [[1956]]) | ||
| - | *[[1873]] - [[Adolph Zukor]], Hungarian producer (d. [[1976]]) | ||
| - | * 1873 - [[Charles Péguy]], French poet and essayist (d. [[1914]]) | ||
| - | *[[1875]] - [[Gustav Flatow]], German gymnast (d. [[1945]]) | ||
| - | * 1875 - [[Thomas J. Hicks|Thomas Hicks]], American runner (d. [[1963]]) | ||
| - | *[[1891]] - [[Zora Neale Hurston]], American author (d. [[1960]]) | ||
| - | *[[1896]] - [[Arnold Ridley]], British playwright and actor (d. [[1984]]) | ||
| *[[1899]] - [[Francis Poulenc]], French composer (d. [[1963]]) | *[[1899]] - [[Francis Poulenc]], French composer (d. [[1963]]) | ||
| - | *[[1903]] - [[Warren Hull]], American actor (d. [[1974]]) | ||
| - | * 1903 - [[Alan Napier]], English actor (d. [[1988]]) | ||
| - | *[[1908]] - [[Red Allen]], American musician (d. [[1967]]) | ||
| - | *[[1910]] - [[Faiz Ahmed Faiz]], Pakistani poet (d. [[1984]]) | ||
| - | * 1910 - [[Orval Faubus]], Governor of [[Arkansas]] (d. [[1994]]) | ||
| - | *[[1911]] - [[Butterfly McQueen]], American actress (d. [[1995]]) | ||
| *[[1912]] - [[Charles Addams]], American cartoonist (d. [[1988]]) | *[[1912]] - [[Charles Addams]], American cartoonist (d. [[1988]]) | ||
| - | *[[1913]] - [[Johnny Mize]], American baseball player (d. [[1993]]) | + | *[[1919]] - [[Robert Duncan (poet)|Robert Duncan]], American poet (d. [[1988]]) |
| - | *[[1916]] - [[Paul Keres]], Estonian chess player (d. [[1975]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1922]] - [[Vincent Gardenia]], Italian-born actor (d. [[1992]]) | + | |
| - | * 1922 - [[Jean-Pierre Rampal]], French flutist (d. [[2000]]) | + | |
| - | * 1922 - [[Alvin Dark]], American baseball player and manager | + | |
| - | *[[1923]] - [[Hugh Kenner]], Canadian literary critic (d. [[2003]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1924]] - [[Pablo Birger]], Argentine racing driver (d. [[1966]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1925]] - [[Gerald Durrell]], British naturalist (d. [[1995]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1928]] - [[William Peter Blatty]], American screenwriter | + | |
| - | *[[1929]] - [[Terry Moore (actress)|Terry Moore]], American actress | + | |
| - | *[[1934]] - [[Charlie Jenkins]], American runner | + | |
| - | * 1934 - [[Jean Corbeil]], Canadian politician (d. [[2002]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1935]] - [[Kenny Davern]], American jazz clarinetist (d. [[2006]]) | + | |
| - | * 1935 - [[Tommy Johnson (session musician)|Tommy Johnson]], American tubist (d. [[2006]]) | + | |
| - | * 1935 - [[Valeri Kubasov]], Soviet cosmonaut | + | |
| - | *[[1937]] - [[Paul Revere & the Raiders|Paul Revere]], American musician | + | |
| *[[1938]] - [[Roland Topor]], French illustrator (d. [[1997]]) | *[[1938]] - [[Roland Topor]], French illustrator (d. [[1997]]) | ||
| - | * 1938 - [[Rory Storm]], British singer (d. [[1972]]) | ||
| - | * 1938 - [[Lou Graham]], American golfer | ||
| - | *[[1939]] - [[Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark]] | ||
| - | *[[1941]] - [[Iona Brown]], British violinist and conductor (d. [[2004]]) | ||
| - | * 1941 - [[John E. Walker]], English chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate | ||
| - | *[[1942]] - [[Vasily Alexeev]], Russian weightlifter | ||
| - | * 1942 - [[Danny Williams (musician)|Danny Williams]], South African singer (d. [[2005]]) | ||
| - | * 1942 - [[Jim Lefebvre]], American baseball player and manager | ||
| - | *[[1943]] - [[Sadako Sasaki]], World-famous victim of the [[atomic bomb]] when it was dropped on [[Hiroshima]] | ||
| - | *[[1944]] - [[Arne Scheie]], Norwegian sports commentator | ||
| - | *[[1945]] - [[Tony Conigliaro]], American baseball player (d. [[1990]]) | ||
| - | * 1945 - [[Dick Marty]], Swiss politician | ||
| - | *[[1946]] - [[Jann Wenner]], American publisher | ||
| - | *[[1947]] - [[Shobha De]], Indian writer | ||
| - | *[[1948]] - [[Kenny Loggins]], American singer | ||
| - | *[[1949]] - [[Marshall Chapman]], American singer/songwriter | ||
| - | * 1949 - [[Anne Schedeen]], American actress | ||
| - | * 1949 - [[Steven Williams]], American actor | ||
| - | *[[1950]] - [[Erin Gray]], American actress | ||
| - | * 1950 - [[Johnny Lever]], Indian actor | ||
| - | * 1950 - [[Juan Gabriel]], Mexican singer and songwriter | ||
| - | * 1950 - [[Ross Grimsley II|Ross Grimsley]], American baseball player | ||
| - | *[[1951]] - [[Helen Worth]], British actress | ||
| - | *[[1952]] - [[Sammo Hung]], Hong Kong actor | ||
| - | *[[1956]] - [[David Caruso]], American actor | ||
| - | * 1956 - [[Mike Liut]], Canadian ice hockey player | ||
| *[[1957]] - [[Nicholson Baker]], American novelist | *[[1957]] - [[Nicholson Baker]], American novelist | ||
| - | * 1957 - [[Katie Couric]], American television host | ||
| - | * 1957 - [[Julian Solis]], Puerto Rican boxer | ||
| - | *[[1959]] - [[Kathy Valentine]], American musician ([[The Go-Gos]]) | ||
| - | *[[1962]] - [[Aleksandr Dugin]], Russian politician | ||
| *[[1964]] - [[Nicolas Cage]], American actor | *[[1964]] - [[Nicolas Cage]], American actor | ||
| - | *[[1966]] - [[Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy]], American publicist (d. [[1999]]) | ||
| - | *[[1967]] - [[Mark Lamarr]], British comedian and broadcaster | ||
| - | * 1967 - [[Guy Hebert]], American ice hockey player | ||
| - | *[[1969]] - [[David Yost]], American actor | ||
| - | *[[1970]] - [[Doug E. Doug]], American actor | ||
| - | * 1970 - [[Joao Ricardo]], Angolan footballer | ||
| - | *[[1971]] - [[C.W. Anderson]], American professional wrestler | ||
| - | *[[1972]] - [[Donald Brashear]], American ice hockey player | ||
| - | *[[1973]] - [[Jonna Tervomaa]], Finnish singer | ||
| - | *[[1974]] - [[John Rich (musician)|John Rich]], American guitarist and bassist ([[Big & Rich]]) | ||
| - | *[[1976]] - [[Éric Gagné]], Canadian baseball player | ||
| - | * 1976 - [[Alfonso Soriano]], Dominican baseball player | ||
| - | *[[1977]] - [[Michelle Behennah]], British model | ||
| - | * 1977 - [[Dustin Diamond]], American actor | ||
| - | *[[1978]] - [[Kevin Mench]], American baseball player | ||
| - | *[[1979]] - [[Bipasha Basu]], Indian model | ||
| - | * 1979 - [[Mariangel Ruiz]], Venezuelan actress and model | ||
| - | *[[1981]] - [[Marquis Daniels]], American basketball player | ||
| - | * 1981 - [[Alex Auld]], Canadian ice hockey player | ||
| - | *[[1982]] - [[Francisco Rodríguez (baseball player)|Francisco Rodriguez]], Venezuelan baseball player | ||
| - | * 1982 - [[Hannah Stockbauer]], German swimmer | ||
| - | * 1982 - [[Ianina Zanazzi]], Argentine racing driver | ||
| - | *[[1983]] - [[Natalie Gulbis]], American golfer | ||
| - | *[[1984]] - [[Jon Lester]], American baseball player | ||
| - | *[[1985]] - [[Lewis Hamilton]], English F1 racing driver | ||
| - | *[[1986]] - [[Grant Leadbitter]], English footballer | ||
| - | *[[1988]] - [[Scott Pendlebury]], Australian rules footballer | ||
| - | *[[1990]] - [[Liam Aiken]], American actor | ||
| - | * 1990 - [[Elene Gedevanishvili]], Georgian figure skater | ||
| - | * 1990 - [[Camryn Grimes]], American actress | ||
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| ==Deaths== | ==Deaths== | ||
| - | *[[1400]] - [[Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey]], English politician (b. [[1374]]) | ||
| - | *[[1451]] - Count [[Amadeus VIII of Savoy]] (b. [[1383]]) | ||
| - | *[[1536]] - [[Catherine of Aragon]], consort of [[Henry VIII of England]] (b. [[1485]]) | ||
| - | *[[1566]] - [[Louis de Blois]], Flemish mystic (b. [[1506]]) | ||
| - | *[[1619]] - [[Nicholas Hilliard]], English painter (bc. [[1547]]) | ||
| - | *[[1625]] - [[Ruggiero Giovannelli]], Italian composer (bc. [[1560]]) | ||
| - | *[[1658]] - [[Theophilus Eaton]], American colonist (b. [[1590]]) | ||
| - | *[[1694]] - [[Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield]], English general (bc. [[1618]]) | ||
| - | *[[1700]] - [[Raffaello Fabretti]], Italian antiquarian (b. [[1618]]) | ||
| *[[1715]] - [[François Fénelon]], French-Catholic theologian and writer (b. [[1651]]) | *[[1715]] - [[François Fénelon]], French-Catholic theologian and writer (b. [[1651]]) | ||
| - | *[[1758]] - [[Allan Ramsay (1686-1758)|Allan Ramsay]], Scottish poet (b. [[1686]]) | + | *[[1886]] - [[Richard Dadd]], English painter (b. [[1817]]) |
| - | *[[1767]] - [[Thomas Clap]], 1st president of [[Yale University]] (b. [[1703]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1770]] - [[Carl Gustaf Tessin]], Swedish politician (b. [[1695]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1783]] - [[William Tans'ur]], English hymnist (b. [[1700]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1786]] - [[Jean-Étienne Guettard]], French physician and scientist (b. [[1715]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1830]] - [[Thomas Lawrence (painter)|Thomas Lawrence]], English painter (b. [[1769]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1864]] - [[Caleb Blood Smith]], 6th [[U.S. Secretary of the Interior]] (b. [[1808]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1872]] - [[James Fisk (financier)|James Fisk]], American entrepreneur (b. [[1834]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1876]] - [[Juste Olivier]], Swiss poet (b. [[1807]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1878]] - [[François-Vincent Raspail]], French chemist (b. [[1794]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1892]] - [[Tewfik Pasha]], Khedive of [[Egypt]] (b. [[1852]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1893]] - [[Joseph Stefan|Jožef Stefan]], Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. [[1835]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1913]] - [[Jack Boyle]], American baseball player (b. [[1866]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1919]] - [[Henry Ware Eliot]] American industrialist and philanthropist (b. [[1843]]) | + | |
| - | *[[1920]] - [[Edmund Barton]], 1st [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (b. [[1849]]) | + | |
| *[[1943]] - [[Nikola Tesla]], Serbian-born inventor and electrical engineer (b. [[1856]]) | *[[1943]] - [[Nikola Tesla]], Serbian-born inventor and electrical engineer (b. [[1856]]) | ||
| - | *[[1944]] - [[Napoleon Lapathiotis]], Greek poet (b. [[1888]]) | ||
| - | *[[1951]] - [[René Guénon]], French-Egyptian author (b. [[1886]]) | ||
| - | *[[1953]] - [[Osa Johnson]], American explorer (b. [[1894]]) | ||
| - | *[[1964]] - [[Cyril Davies]], American musician (b. [[1932]]) | ||
| *[[1967]] - [[David Goodis]], American writer (b. [[1917]]) | *[[1967]] - [[David Goodis]], American writer (b. [[1917]]) | ||
| - | *[[1972]] - [[John Berryman]], American poet (b. [[1914]]) | ||
| - | * 1972 - [[Eftichia Papagianopoulos]], Greek lyricist | ||
| - | *[[1980]] - [[Larry Williams]], American singer and songwriter (b. [[1935]]) | ||
| - | *[[1984]] - [[Alfred Kastler]], French physicist, [[Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1902]]) | ||
| - | *[[1986]] - [[Philip D. Eastman]], American children's book writer and illustrator (b. [[1909]]) | ||
| - | * 1986 - [[Juan Rulfo]], Mexican novelist (b. [[1917]]) | ||
| - | *[[1988]] - [[Trevor Howard]], English actor (b. [[1913]]) | ||
| - | * 1988 - [[Michel Auclair]], French actor (b. [[1922]]) | ||
| - | *[[1989]] - [[Hirohito]], [[Emperor of Japan]] (b. [[1901]]) | ||
| - | *[[1990]] - [[Bronko Nagurski]], American football player (b. [[1908]]) | ||
| - | * 1990 - [[Horace Stoneham]], American baseball executive (b. [[1903]]) | ||
| - | *[[1992]] - [[Richard Hunt (puppeteer)|Richard Hunt]], American puppeteer ([[The Muppets]]) (b. [[1951]]) | ||
| - | *[[1995]] - [[Murray Rothbard]], American economist (b. [[1926]]) | ||
| - | *[[1996]] - [[Tarō Okamoto]], Japanese avant-garde artist (b. [[1911]]) | ||
| - | * 1996 - [[Károly Grósz]], Hungarian politician (b. [[1930]]) | ||
| - | *[[1998]] - [[Vladimir Prelog]], Croatian chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1906]]) | ||
| - | * 1998 - [[Owen Bradley]], American record producer (b. [[1915]]) | ||
| - | *[[2000]] - [[Gary Albright]], American professional wrestler (b. [[1963]]) | ||
| - | * 2002 - [[Jon Lee]], Welsh musician ([[Feeder (band)|Feeder]]) (b. [[1968]]) | ||
| - | * 2002 - [[Avery Schreiber]], American actor (b. [[1935]]) | ||
| - | *[[2004]] - [[Ingrid Thulin]], Swedish actress (b. [[1926]]) | ||
| - | *[[2005]] - [[Pierre Daninos]], French novelist (b. [[1913]]) | ||
| - | * 2005 - [[Eileen Desmond]], Irish politician (b. [[1932]]) | ||
| - | *[[2006]] - [[Heinrich Harrer]], Austrian mountaineer (b. [[1912]]) | ||
| - | *[[2007]] - [[Bobby Hamilton]], [[NASCAR]] team owner (b. [[1957]]) | ||
| - | * 2007 - [[Magnús Magnússon]], Icelandic-born television presenter (b. [[1929]]) | ||
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| - | Roland Topor | ||
| - | Charles Addams | ||
| - | Robert Duncan (poet) | ||
| - | Francis Poulenc | ||
| - | François Fénelon | ||
| - | Precursors of film | ||
| - | Richard Dadd | ||
| - | David Goodis | ||
| - | Nicholson Baker | ||
| - | Nicolas Cage | ||
| - | Shōwa period | ||
| - | Charles De Coster | ||
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Art and culture
- 1894 - Precursors of film - W. K. Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
- 1927 - First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London.
- 2015 - Charlie Hebdo shooting
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Births
- 1899 - Francis Poulenc, French composer (d. 1963)
- 1912 - Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d. 1988)
- 1919 - Robert Duncan, American poet (d. 1988)
- 1938 - Roland Topor, French illustrator (d. 1997)
- 1957 - Nicholson Baker, American novelist
- 1964 - Nicolas Cage, American actor
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Deaths
- 1715 - François Fénelon, French-Catholic theologian and writer (b. 1651)
- 1886 - Richard Dadd, English painter (b. 1817)
- 1943 - Nikola Tesla, Serbian-born inventor and electrical engineer (b. 1856)
- 1967 - David Goodis, American writer (b. 1917)
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