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Jul 26, 2026
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July 26

More miscellaneous births and deaths from the fame-fecund month of July:

Baroque’s biggest bad boy, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, died on July 18, 1610. Possibly. Most things are possible about Caravaggio, the wildest, most rambunctious, amoral and angry painter there has ever been, which is going some. And an ar…

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