October 29
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Art and culture
- 1787 - Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
- 1945 - "Existentialism Is a Humanism" speech by Sartre
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Births
- 1880 - Otto Flake, German writer (biographical study of Sade) (d. 1963)
- 1899 - Akim Tamiroff, Russian actor (d. 1972)
- 1917 - Eddie Constantine, American actor/singer (d. 1993)
- 1930 - Niki de Saint Phalle, French sculptor (d. 2002)
- 1935 - Peter Watkins, English filmmaker
- 1938 - Ralph Bakshi, Israeli cartoonist
- 1947 - Richard Dreyfuss, American actor
- 1969 - Dante Tomaselli Italian-American filmmaker
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Deaths
- 1783 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (b. 1717)
- 1880 - Johann Nepomuk Geiger, Viennese artist of erotic art (b. 1805)
- 1937 - Elie Faure, French art historian and essayist.(b. 1873 )
- 1981 - Georges Brassens, French singer (b. 1921)
- 1995 - Terry Southern, American screenwriter (b. 1924)
- 1997 - Anton LaVey, American founder of the Church of Satan (b. 1930)
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