March 14
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"On 14 March 1963 Frank Zappa appeared on the Steve Allen Show on Channel 5. He had ... also with his jazz recordings, but they weren't interested until he came up with a gimmick: he would play a bicycle, a musical form he called 'Cyclophony'." --Frank Zappa (2014) by Barry Miles |
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Art and culture
- 1803 - From March 14 until April 27, 1803, Sade is an inmate at the Bicêtre Hospital.
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Births
- 1823 - Théodore de Banville, French writer (d. 1891)
- 1836 - Jules Joseph Lefebvre, French figure painter (d. 1911)
- 1853 - Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (d. 1918)
- 1869 - Algernon Blackwood, British writer (d. 1951)
- 1879 - Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
- 1887 - Sylvia Beach, American publisher (d. 1962)
- 1905 - Raymond Aron, French philosopher (d. 1983)
- 1908 - Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French phenomenological philosopher (d. 1961)
- 1909 - André Pieyre de Mandiargues,French writer and erotomaniac (d. 1991)
- 1922 - Les Baxter, American musician and composer (d. 1996)
- 1923 - Diane Arbus, American photographer (d. 1971)
- 1938 - Glauber Rocha, Brazilian film director, actor and writer (Black God, White Evil) (d. 1981)
- 1939 - Bertrand Blier, French film director and screenwriter
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Deaths
- 1883 - Karl Marx, German political theorist (b. 1818)
- 1915 - Walter Crane, English artist (b. 1845)
- 1932 - George Eastman, American inventor, and founder of Eastman Kodak (b. 1854)
- 1951 - Val Lewton Ukrainian-born American screenwriter and producer (b. 1904)
- 1968 - Erwin Panofsky, German Jewish art historian (b. 1892)
- 1972 - Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Italian activist and countercultural icon (b. 1926)
- 1976 - Busby Berkeley, American choreographer and director (b. 1895)
- 2002 - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (b. 1900)
- 2003 - Ivan Rassimov, Italian film actor (b. 1938)
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