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From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

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Events

• 1865 - In a letter written to Édouard Manet, Baudelaire said: "Rops is the one true artist"
• 1927 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is founded.
• 1987 – Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
• 2006 - Undercover Surrealism exhibition opens in London.

Births

• 1811 – Chang and Eng Bunker, famous conjoined twins (d. 1874)
• 1824 – Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (d. 1904)
• 1827 – Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (d. 1875)
• 1894 – Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1991)
• 1904 – Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter (d. 1989)
• 1928 – Yaacov Agam, Israeli sculptor
• 1928 – Marco Ferreri, Italian film director and screenwriter (d. 1997)
• 1935 – Francisco Umbral, Spanish novelist (d. 2007)
• 1941 – Eric Burdon, British singer (The Animals)
• 1948 – Shigeru Izumiya, Japanese folk musician
• 1952 – Renaud Séchan, French composer
• 1963 – Natasha Richardson, English-born actress (d. 2009)
• 1974 – Benoît Magimel, French actor
• 1978 – Laetitia Casta, French supermodel and actress

Deaths

• 1849 – Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Récamier, French socialite (b. 1777)
• 1952 – Eugène François Vidocq, French criminal and first detective (b. 1775)
• 1920 – William Dean Howells, American writer (b. 1837)
• 1973 – Lex Barker, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1976 – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (b. 1898)
• 1981 – Bob Marley, Jamaican singer and musician (b. 1945)
• 2001 – Douglas Adams, English author (b. 1952)
• 2004 – John Whitehead, American singer (McFadden & Whitehead) (b. 1949)
• 2023 – Kenneth Anger, American filmmaker (b. 1927)