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Events on Sunday 6 June 1948 1
1864 – 1948Louis Lumière (1864-1948)Died 6 June 1948, aged 83Louis Lumière, who with his brother Auguste invented the cinématographe and screened some of the first motion pictures in 1895, died on June 6, 1948. The Lumière brothers' early films of everyday life are considered the birth of cinema as a public art form. Louis continued to work on photographic and film technology throughout his life.