February 3
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Art and culture
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Births
- 1809 - Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847)
- 1826 - Walter Bagehot, British businessman, essayist and journalist (d. 1877)
- 1874 - Gertrude Stein, American writer (d. 1946)
- 1889 - Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish film director (d. 1968)
- 1894 - Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (d. 1978)
- 1898 - Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (d. 1976)
- 1924 - E. P. Thompson, English historian (The Making of the English Working Class) (d. 1993)
- 1927 - Kenneth Anger, American filmmaker (d. 2023)
- 1932 - Stuart Hall, Jamaican-born cultural theorist and sociologist (d. 2014)
- 1941 - Neil Bogart, American record executive (d. 1982)
- 1947 - Paul Auster, American novelist
- 1956 - Lee Ranaldo, American musician (Sonic Youth)
- 1957 - Steven Stapleton, British musician (Nurse With Wound)
- 1961 - Jay Adams, American skateboarder (d. 2014)
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Deaths
- 1468 - Johannes Gutenberg, German publisher
- 1922 - Henri Pouctal, French silent film director (Count of Monte Cristo serials) (b. 1856)
- 1988 - Robert Duncan (poet), American poet (b. 1919)
- 1989 - John Cassavetes, American actor (b. 1929)
- 1997 - Bohumil Hrabal, Czech writer (b. 1914)
- 1999 - Gwen Guthrie, American singer and songwriter, (b. 1950)
- 2006 - Walerian Borowczyk, Polish film director (b. 1923)
- 2020 – George Steiner, French-American literary critic and essayist (b. 1929)
- 2023 - Paco Rabanne, Spanish fashion designer (b. 1934)
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