December 29
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Art and culture
- 1890 - United States soldiers massacre more than 400 men, women and children at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
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Births
- 1846 - Maurice Rollinat, French poet. (d. 1903)
- 1922 - William Gaddis, American writer (d. 1998)
- 1937 - Barbara Steele, British actress
- 1944 - Gilbert Adair, British author (A Void) (d. 2011)
- 1946 - Marianne Faithfull, British singer
- 1963 - Dave McKean, British artist and filmmaker
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Deaths
- 1825 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (b. 1748)
- 1834 - Thomas Malthus, English demographer (b. 1766)
- 1894 - Christina Rossetti, English poet (b. 1830)
- 1916 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (b. 1869)
- 1925 - Félix Vallotton, Swiss painter and graphic artist (b. 1865)
- 1926 - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian writer (b. 1875)
- 1972 - Joseph Cornell, American artist (Rose Hobart) (b. 1903)
- 1980 - Tim Hardin, American musician (b. 1941)
- 1998 - Jean-Claude Forest, writer and illustrator of comics (Barbarella) (b. 1930)
- 2022 – Ruggero Deodato, Italian film director, actor and screenwriter (b. 1939)
- 2022 - Vivienne Westwood, English fashion designer (b. 1941)
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