02 December: today's birthdays

• Guy Bourdin - French fashion photographer, born Guy Louis Banarès. He was the protégé of American photographer Man Ray 
• Otto Dix - German painter and printmaker. He depicted the brutality of Weimar Republic and the cruelty of war
• Otto Fenichel - Austrian psychoanalyst. He was a supporter of Sigmund Freud and he was only 23, when he became a member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society
• Francis Jammes - French poet and novelist. La Prière, song by Georges Brassens, was taken by one of his poems 
• Richard Montgomery - Irish general
• Harry Reid - American politician
• Georges Seurat - French painter, born Georges-Pierre Seurat. Along with Paul Signac, he is considered the creator of a painting technique called Pointillisme.
• Jan Ullrich - Former German racing cyclist
• Gianni Versace - Italian fashion designer, founder of international fashion house Versace, now managed by his sister Donatella Versace

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