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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]]. |
| - | *[[1927]] - First transatlantic [[telephone]] call - [[New York City]] to [[London]]. | + | *[[2015]] - [[Charlie Hebdo shooting]] |
| ==Births== | ==Births== | ||
| *[[1899]] - [[Francis Poulenc]], French composer (d. [[1963]]) | *[[1899]] - [[Francis Poulenc]], French composer (d. [[1963]]) | ||
| *[[1912]] - [[Charles Addams]], American cartoonist (d. [[1988]]) | *[[1912]] - [[Charles Addams]], American cartoonist (d. [[1988]]) | ||
| + | *[[1919]] - [[Robert Duncan (poet)|Robert Duncan]], American poet (d. [[1988]]) | ||
| *[[1938]] - [[Roland Topor]], French illustrator (d. [[1997]]) | *[[1938]] - [[Roland Topor]], French illustrator (d. [[1997]]) | ||
| *[[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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[edit]
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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