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1994 Clement Greenberg, U.S. art critic (Art and Culture), dies at 85

1994 Christopher Lasch, author (Culture of Narcissism), dies at 61

1993 Nyamuisi Muvingi, Zaire minister of Culture, murdered

1976 Andre Malraux, Berger, author (Conquerors)/Minister of Culture, dies

1975 Max Lamberty, Flemish sociologist (What is Culture?), dies at 81

1961 Roy Hay, guitarist, Culture Club-Do You Really Want to Hurt Me

1961 "Boy George" O'Dowd, androgynous vocalist and druggie, Culture Club

1960 Mikey Craig, rock bassist, Culture Club-Do You Really Want to Hurt Me

1960 Michael Craig, rock bassist, Culture Club-Do You Want to Hurt Me

1957 Jon Moss, rock drummer, Culture Club

1957 Jon Moss, rock drummerer, Culture Club-Do You Really Want to Hurt Me

1948 Alfred Kerr, nickname, Culture Pope, writer, essayist, wrote, 'Die Harfe', dies at 80

1946 Helen Shapiro, Bethnal Green London, rock vocalist, Culture Club

1945 Johan Huizinga, Dutch culture historian (Homo Ludens), dies at 72

1942 Dutch actors protest obligatory membership of Culture Chamber

1940 Nazi occupiers present "New Dutch Culture" in German

1939 Marlos Nobre, born in Recife, Brazil, composer, pianist, conductor, commissioned by Free University of Music, Sao Paulo, Ministry of Culture

1936 EW Brundin and FF Lyon obtain patent on soilless culture of plants

1936 Karl Kraus, journalist, writer, aphorist, playwright, poet, satirist, essayist, known for witty criticisms of the press, politics, German culture, dies at 62

1930 Peter J Clase, South African minister of Education/Culture, 1985-

1929 1st U.S. nudist organization (American League for Physical Culture, New York City)

1925 Ernesto Cardenal, born in Granada, Nicaragua, Catholic priest, famous Nicaraguan Sandinista liberation theologian, served as culture minister, poet, established primitivist art community

1921 Mary Douglas, born in San Remo, Italy, British anthropologist, wrote about symbolism, human culture

1895 Frank Raymond Leavis, British literary critic, Culture and Environment

1893 Ralph Linton, U.S. cultural anthropologist, Tree of Culture

1888 Sigurd Erixon, Swedish etnologist, Atlas over Svensk Folk culture

1887 Ruth Benedict, U.S., anthropologist, Patterns of Culture

1883 Jose Clemente Orozco, Mexico, painter, Epic of Culture in New World

1874 Karl Kraus, born in Austria, journalist, writer, aphorist, playwright, poet, satirist, essayist, known for witty criticisms of the press, politics, German culture

1872 Johan Huizinga, Dutch culture historian, Homo Ludens

1868 Bernard MacFadden, publisher, Physical Culture, True Romances

1867 Alfred Kerr, born in Breslau, Silesia, nickname, Culture Pope, writer, essayist, wrote, 'Die Harfe'


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