September 26
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Art and culture
- 1687 – Destruction of the Parthenon: The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who are besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.
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Births
- 1791 - Théodore Géricault, French painter (d. 1824)
- 1888 - T. S. Eliot, American writer (d. 1965)
- 1891 - Vicomte de Noailles, French aristocrat and art patron, (d. 1981)
- 1889 - Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (d. 1976)
- 1946 - Andrea Dworkin, American feminist (d. 2005)
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Deaths
- 1940 - Walter Benjamin, German philosopher (b. 1892)
- 1990 - Alberto Moravia, Italian author (b. 1907)
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