Jane Avril

Jane Avril was a French can-can dancer made famous by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec through his paintings. Extremely thin, "given to jerky movements and sudden contortions", she was nicknamed La Mélinite, after an explosive.

9 June 1868

Born on the same birth day (9 June): André Racicot • Brian Taylor (basketball) • Carl Nielsen • Charles Joseph Bonaparte • Charles Wuorinen • David Koepp • Eric Hobsbawm • Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata • Harald Rosenthal • Hazard Stevens • James Newton Howard • Masoud Shojaei • Nandini Satpathy • Otto Addo • Otto Nicolai • Paul Hutchison (English cricketer) • Peter Kilfoyle • Robert Cummings • Robert Indermaur • Shandi Finnessey • Siegfried Graetschus • Uzi Hitman

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