December 23
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Art and culture
- 1493 - Georg Alt's German translation of Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle is published.
- 1888 - Vincent van Gogh cuts off the lower part of his left ear, takes it to a brothel, and gives it to a prostitute named Rachel.
- 1920 - La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler premieres in Berlin
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Births
- 245- Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra
- 1800 - Frédéric Soulié, French writer (The Devil's Memoirs) (d. 1847)
- 1804 - Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French literary critic (d. 1869)
- 1888 - Christa Winsloe, Hungarian writer and sculptor (Mädchen in Uniform). (d. 1944)
- 1891 - Alexandr Rodchenko, Russian painter and photographer (d. 1956)
- 1896 - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Italian writer (The Leopard) (d. 1957)
- 1922 - Jonas Mekas, Lithuanian-born filmmaker and curator (d. 2019)
- 1926 - Robert Bly, American poet
- 1929 - Chet Baker, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1988)
- 1935 - Esther Phillips, American singer (d. 1984)
- 1941 - Tim Hardin, American musician (d. 1980)
- 1949 - Adrian Belew, American musician
- 1963 - Donna Tartt, American author
- 1968 - Carla Bruni, Italian-French model, songwriter and singer
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Deaths
- 1793 - Antoine François Prévost, French author and novelist (b. 1697)
- 1834 - Thomas Malthus, English demographer and economist (b. 1766)
- 1944 - Charles Dana Gibson, American graphic artist ("Gibson Girl") (b. 1867)
- 1979 - Ernest B. Schoedsack, American filmmaker(The Most Dangerous Game (1932) and King Kong (1933). (b. 1893)
- 1979 - Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (b. 1898)
- 1992 - Eddie Hazel, American guitarist (Funkadelic) (b. 1950)
- 1993 - Sylvia Maklès, French actress, wife to Georges Bataille and Jacques Lacan (b. 1908)
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