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2012 Event - Ballerina Natalia Makarova, blues legend Buddy Guy, actor Dustin Hoffman, American television host David Letterman, and surviving members of Led Zeppelin, receive 2012 Kennedy Center Honors for their contributions to American culture

2011 Event - The House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee recalls four News International executives for further examination of phone hacking within the organization

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

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

1993 Death - Nyamuisi Muvingi, Zaire minister of Culture, murdered

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

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

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

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

1961 Birthday - Boy George, born in Eitham, England, singer, songwriter, successful band, Culture Club, hit song, 'Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?', 'Karma Chameleon'

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

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

1957 Birthday - Jon Moss, rock drummer, Culture Club

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

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

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

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

1942 Event - Dutch actors protest obligatory membership of Culture Chamber

1940 Event - Nazi occupiers present "New Dutch Culture" in German

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1872 Birthday - Johan Huizinga, Dutch culture historian, Homo Ludens

1868 Birthday - Bernard MacFadden, publisher, Physical Culture, True Romances

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

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