April 9
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Art and culture
- 1942 - New York Times Best Seller list published for the first time
- 1950 - Notre-Dame Affair in Paris France
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Births
- 1821 - Charles Baudelaire, French poet (d. 1867)
- 1830 - Eadweard Muybridge, English-born photographer and motion picture pioneer (d. 1904)
- 1887 - Xul Solar, Argentine painter, sculptor, writer (d. 1963)
- 1895 - Michel Simon, French actor (d. 1975)
- 1921 - George Weiss, American exploitation film producer
- 1926 - Hugh Hefner, American editor and publisher, founder of Playboy (d. 2017)
- 1928 - Tom Lehrer, American musician and mathematician
- 1931 - Leone Frollo, Italian illustrator (d. 2018)
- 1932 - Paul Krassner, American editor and frequent contributor to countercultural magazine The Realist (d. 2019)
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Deaths
- 1553 - François Rabelais, French writer (b. 1494)
- 1626 - Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher, statesman, and essayist (b. 1561)
- 1936 - Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (b. 1855)
- 1942 - Oliviero Toscani, Italian photographer, controversial advertising campaigns for Benetton
- 1959 - Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (b. 1867)
- 1988 - Valerie Solanas, American radical feminist (SCUM Manifesto) (b. 1936)
- 1991 - Martin Hannett, record producer (b. 1948)
- 2005 - Andrea Dworkin, American radical feminist and writer (b. 1946)
- 1996 - Richard Condon, American novelist (b. 1915)
- 2006 - Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish writer and film director
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