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From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

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Art and culture

• 1983 - Dedalus Books established in the United Kingdom
• 2001 - Sade / Surreal exhibition opens in Zürich

Births

• 1508 - Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (d. 1580)
• 1667 - Jonathan Swift, Irish writer and satirist (d.1745)
• 1756 – Ernst Chladni, German physicist and author (d. 1827)
• 1825 - William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French academic painter (d. 1905)
• 1837 - Mother Jones, American labor organizer (d. 1930)
• 1907 - Jacques Barzun, French-born historian and author (d. 2012)
• 1937 - Ridley Scott, British film director
• 1933 - Jeanloup Sieff, Parisian-born Polish art photographer (Corset) (d. 2000)
• 1938 - Jean Eustache, French filmmaker (The Mother and the Whore) (d. 1981)
• 1941 - Rosalind E. Krauss, American art critic
• 1943 - Terrence Malick, American director and screenwriter.
• 1946 - Marina Abramović, Yugoslavian performance artist.
• 1965 - Ben Stiller, American actor
• 1978 - Gael García Bernal, Mexican actor

Deaths

• 30 BC - Cleopatra, Hellenistic ruler (b. 69 BC)
• 1900 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)
• 1935 - Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet (b. 1888)
• 1953 - Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (b. 1857)
• 1987 - James Baldwin, American novelist (Go Tell It on the Mountain) (b. 1924)
• 1994 - Guy Debord, French writer and filmmaker (b. 1931)
• 1996 - Tiny Tim, American entertainer (b. 1932)
• 1997 - Kathy Acker, American author (b. 1947)
• 1999 - Charlie Byrd, American jazz guitarist (b. 1925)
• 2003 - Walter Ong, American connoisseur of print culture (b. 1912)
• 2006 - Perry Henzell, Jamaican film director (The Harder They Come) (b. 1936)