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| - | *[[1923]] - [[Adonis Kyrou]](Athens, October 18, 1923 - Paris November 4, 1985) | + | *[[1923]] - [[Adonis Kyrou]], French film critic (d. [[1985]]) |
| - | *[[1955]] - [[José Ortega y Gasset]] (May 9, 1883 - October 18, 1955) was a Spanish philosopher | + | *[[1955]] - [[José Ortega y Gasset]], Spanish philosopher (b. [[1883]]) |
| - | *[[1918]] - [[Koloman Moser]] Koloman Moser (March 30, 1868 – October 18, 1918) | + | *[[1918]] - [[Koloman Moser]] (b. [[1868]]) |
| - | *[[1940]] - [[Jacques Higelin]] Jacques Joseph Victor Higelin (born 18 October 1940 in Brou-sur-Chantereine, Seine-et-Marne, France) | + | *[[1940]] - [[Jacques Higelin]], French singer |
| - | *[[1687]] - [[Pietro Liberi]] (1605- 18 October, 1687) was an Italian painter | + | *[[1687]] - [[Pietro Liberi]], Italian painter(b. [[1605]]) |
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Art and culture
- 1775 - African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery.
- 1857 - Charles Baudelaire publishes his studies on Gustave Flaubert in Lartisge
- 1851 - Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
- 1977 - German Autumn: a set of events revolving around the kidnapping of Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the hijacking of a Lufthansa flight by the Red Army Faction (RAF) comes to an end when Schleyer is executed and various RAF members allegedly commit suicide. The West German government states that it would never again negotiate with terrorists.
Births
- 1634 - Luca Giordano, Italian artist (d. 1705)
- 1741 - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d. 1803)
- 1777 - Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (d. 1811)
- 1785 - Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (d. 1866)
- 1859 - Henri Bergson, French philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 1941)
- 1904 - A. J. Liebling, American journalist (d. 1963)
- 1926 - Chuck Berry, American musician
- 1926 - Klaus Kinski, German actor (d. 1991)
- 1939 - Lee Harvey Oswald, purported American assassin of John F. Kennedy (d. 1963)
Deaths
- 1678 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (b. 1593)
- 1871 - Charles Babbage, English mathematician and inventor (b. 1791)
- 1911 - Alfred Binet, French psychologist (b. 1857)
- 1931 - Thomas Edison, American inventor (b. 1847)
- 1977 - Red Army Faction Stammheim Prison suicides
- Andreas Baader (b. 1943)
- Gudrun Ensslin (b. 1940)
- Jan-Carl Raspe (b. 1944)
- 1984 - Henri Michaux, French painter and poet (b. 1899)
- 2000 - Julie London, American singer and actress (b. 1926)
Notes
- 1923 - Adonis Kyrou, French film critic (d. 1985)
- 1955 - José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (b. 1883)
- 1918 - Koloman Moser (b. 1868)
- 1940 - Jacques Higelin, French singer
- 1687 - Pietro Liberi, Italian painter(b. 1605)
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