October 12
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Art and culture
- 1873 - Aurora Rümelin marries Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
- 1924 - Un cadavre pamphlet published
- 2007 - Seduced, Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now opens at the Barbican in London
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Births
- 1875 - Aleister Crowley, English occultist and author (d. 1947)
- 1935 - Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (d. 2007)
- 1939 - James Crumley, American author (d. 2008)
- 1939 - Carolee Schneemann, 79, American artist (d. 2019)
- 1955 - Brigitte Lahaie, French actress
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Deaths
- 1492 - Piero della Francesca, Italian painter (b. 1415)
- 1875 - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (b. 1827)
- 1924 - Anatole France, French author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1844)
- 1970 - Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky, Russian emigré illustrator (b. 1891 )
- 2006 - Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian film director (b. 1919)
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