March 1
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Art and culture
- 1562 - Several Huguenots are massacred by Catholics in Wassy, France, marking the start of the French Wars of Religion.
- 1692 - Beginning of what would become known as the Salem witch trials.
- 1788 - Sade starts writing Eugénie de Franval
- 1925 - Viking Press, publisher of On the Road is founded
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Births
- 40 - Martial, Latin poet (d. 102)
- 1810 - Frédéric Chopin, Polish-French composer and pianist (d. 1849)
- 1848 - Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Irish-born American sculptor (d. 1907)
- 1858 - Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1918)
- 1863 - Fyodor Sologub, Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, playwright and essayist (d. 1927)
- 1886 - Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter and poet (d. 1980)
- 1922 - William Gaines, American publisher (d. 1992)
- 1927 - Harry Belafonte, American musician and activist
- 1928 - Jacques Rivette, French film director (d. 2016)
- 1934 - Jean-Michel Folon, Belgian artist, illustrator, painter, and sculptor (b. 2005)
- 1939 - Tzvetan Todorov, Franco-Bulgarian philosopher (The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre)
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Deaths
- 1633 - George Herbert, English poet and orator (b. 1593)
- 1875 - Tristan Corbière, French poet (b. 1845)
- 1935 - William Degouve de Nuncques, Belgian Symbolist artist (b. 1867)
- 1938 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian writer, war hero, and politician (b. 1863)
- 1950 - Alfred Korzybski, Polish linguist (b. 1879)
- 1958 - Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (b. 1871)
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