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Birthdays

1838 - Léon Gambetta (French statesman)

1840 - Émile Zola (French novelist and critic)

1928 - Serge Gainsbourg (French singer)

1959 - Badou Zaki (Moroccan soccer player and manager)

1962 - Pierre Carles (French documentarist)

1972 - Chico Slimani (Moroccan-British singer)

1984 - Nicolas Lapierre (French racing driver)

Deaths

1791 - Mirabeau (French statesman)

1936 - Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne (French general)

1974 - Georges Pompidou (President of France)

2001 - Charles Daudelin (Canadian artist)

Milestones/Events

1768 - Louis-Antoine de Bougainville resdiscovered Tahiti

1801 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Copenhagen

1992 - Pierre Bérégovoy became Prime Minister of France

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