December 28
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Illustration: screen shot from L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat
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Art and culture
- 1895 - The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station film screens in France.
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Births
- 1864 - Henri de Régnier, French symbolist poet (d. 1936)
- 1865 - Félix Vallotton, Swiss painter and graphic artist (d. 1925)
- 1887 - Walther Ruttmann, German experimental film director (d. 1941)
- 1888 - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, German film director (d. 1931)
- 1925 - Hildegard Knef, German actress (d. 2002)
- 1931 - Guy Debord, French writer (d. 1994)
- 1932 - Manuel Puig, Argentine writer (d. 1990)
- 1934 - Alasdair Gray, Scottish writer and artist (Lanark) (d. 2019)
- 1940 - Lonnie Liston Smith, American jazz, soul, and funk musician
- 1950 - Alex Chilton, American musician (Box Tops) (d. 2010)
- 1951 - Ian Buruma, Anglo-Dutch scholar and writer on Japan and the Far East.
- 1954 - Denzel Washington, American actor
- 1967 - Chris Ware, American cartoonist
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Deaths
- 1904 - Hori Tatsuo, Japanese writer, poet, and translator (d. 1953)
- 1924 - Léon Bakst, Russian artist (b. 1866)
- 1937 - Maurice Ravel, French composer (b. 1875)
- 1945 - Theodore Dreiser, American author (b. 1871)
- 1950 - Max Beckmann, German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer (b. 1884)
- 1963 - A. J. Liebling, American journalist (b. 1904)
- 1983 - Dennis Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1944)
- 1984 - Sam Peckinpah, American film director (b. 1925)
- 1986 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian film director (b. 1932)
- 1990 - Ed van der Elsken, Dutch photographer (b. 1925)
- 1999 - Pierre Clémenti, French actor (Belle de jour) (b. 1942)
- 2004 - Susan Sontag, American writer (b. 1933)
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