November 18
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Art and culture
- 1477 - William Caxton produces Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres, the first book printed on a printing press in England.
- 1881 - Le Chat noir opens in Paris
- 1915 - Inspiration premieres in New York, USA
- 1926 - George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
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Births
- 1522 - Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (d. 1568)
- 1787 - Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (d. 1851)
- 1836 - Cesare Lombroso, Italian psychiatrist and founder of criminology (d. 1909)
- 1882 - Wyndham Lewis, Canadian-born British painter and author. (d. 1957)
- 1891 - Gio Ponti, Italian architect and designer (d. 1979)
- 1898 - Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker (d. 1989)
- 1913 - Fornasetti Italian painter, sculptor, interior decorator and engraver (d. 1988)
- 1933 - Bruce Conner, United States artist (d. 2008)
- 1933 - Charlotte Moorman, American cellist and performance artist (d. 1991)
- 1936 - Don Cherry, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1995)
- 1939 - Margaret Atwood, Canadian writer
- 1953 - Alan Moore, British comic book writer and novelist
- 1955 - Carter Burwell, United States composer of film scores
- 1963 - Joost Zwagerman, Dutch writer, poet and essayist (d. 2015)
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Deaths
- 1806 - Claude Nicolas Ledoux, French Neoclassicist architect (d. 1736)
- 1827 - Wilhelm Hauff German poet and novelist (b. 1802)
- 1922 - Marcel Proust, French novelist (b. 1871)
- 1939 - Maurice Renard, French writer (Les Mains d’Orlac) (b. 1875)
- 1952 - Paul Éluard, French poet (b. 1895)
- 1962 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
- 1972 - Danny Whitten, American musician and songwriter (b. 1943)
- 1976 - Man Ray, American artist (b. 1890)
- 1981 - Fredric Wertham, United States moral crusader (b. 1895)
- 1994 - Cab Calloway, American bandleader (b. 1907)
- 1999 - Paul Bowles, American novelist (b. 1910)
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