January 3
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Art and culture
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Births
- 106 BC - Cicero, Roman statesman and philosopher (d. 43 BC)
- 1884 - Rudolf Koppitz, Czech photographer (d. 1936)
- 1887 - August Macke, German painter (d. 1914)
- 1892 - J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (d. 1973)
- 1897 - Pola Negri, Polish actress and femme fatale (Woman of the World) (d. 1987)
- 1911 - John Sturges, American director (d. 1982)
- 1929 - Sergio Leone, Italian director (d. 1989)
- 1956 - Mel Gibson, Australian actor
- 1964 - Bruce LaBruce, Canadian film-maker
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Deaths
- 1923 - Jaroslav Hašek, Czech humorist and satirist (The Good Soldier Švejk) (b. 1883)
- 1944 - Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1873)
- 1950 - Emil Jannings, Swiss actor (b. 1884)
- 1965 - Milton Avery, American modern painter (b. 1885)
- 1985 - Bodil Joensen, Danish pornographic actress (A Summer Day) (b. 1944)
- 1989 - Robert Thomas, French writer, actor and film director. (8 femmes) (b. 1927)
- 2002 - Juan García Esquivel, Mexican band leader (b. 1918)
- 2003 - Monique Wittig, French author and feminist theorist (b. 1935
- 2005 - Will Eisner, American comic book artist (b. 1917)
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