October 7
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Art and culture
- 1571 – Battle of Lepanto: Spanish, Venetian, and Papal naval forces under Don John of Austria defeat the Turkish fleet of Ali Monizindade Pasha.
- 1849 - Edgar Allan Poe dies at 5:00 A.M. four days after being found in a Baltimore gutter.
- 1928 - Ras Tafari Makonnen crowned.
- 1935 - Contre-attaque, a left-wing French antifascist group founded.
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Births
- 1892 - Dwain Esper, director (d. 1982)
- 1927 - R. D. Laing, Scottish psychologist (d. 1989)
- 1934 - Ulrike Meinhof, German terrorist (d. 1976)
- 1934 - Amiri Baraka, American writer (d. 2014)
- 1942 - José Antonio Muñoz, Argentine artist
- 1951 - Enki Bilal, French graphic artist
- 1968 – Thom Yorke, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
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Deaths
- 1849 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (b. 1809)
- 1943 - Radclyffe Hall, British author (b. 1880)
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