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Bauhaus – Anniversary of the establishment of the School in Dessau
Yves Tanguy, French surrealist painter was born
Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor was born
Samuel John “Lamorna” Birch,
English artist died
Amelia Earhart becomes the first aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, from Honolulu, Hawaii to Oakland, California.
Elvis Presley,
American singer and actor was born.
Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flemish painter, dies
Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy,
French-American painter belonging to the surrealist movement died
Jean-Francois Millet died
French Realist painter
Federico Fellini was born
Italian film director known for his distinct style
John Ruskin, British writer, painter, poet, restorer and art critic, dies
Christian Dior is born
French fashion designer
David Wark Griffith, American film director was born.
Amedeo Modigliani died.
Italian painter and sculptor
Winston Churchill died
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Liberation of the German concentration camp Auschwitz.
The Yalta War Conference was held between February 4th and February 11th 1945.
Arthur Miller dies
American playwright, essayist, and a major figure in the twentieth-century American theater
Alessandro Volta was born
the Italian inventor of the electric battery
Oskar Kokoschka dies
Austrian artist best known for his expressionists portraits and landscapes
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter, dies
Charles V of Habsburg, Holy Roman Emperor of the German Empire, is born
Sir John Tennie, was born
English graphic humorist, political cartoonist and famous for the illustrations of Alice in Wonderland
Berthe Morisot dies
French Impressionist Painter
Michelangelo Buonarroti,
Italian painter, sculptor, architect and poet was born
Sir Alexander Fleming dies
The man who first discovered the life-saving drug penicillin
William Robinson Leigh
American artist and illustrator died
The Mikado a light opera by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, had its first public performance in London.
Walter Crane dies
English artist and book illustrator
Nicolas De Staël
Russian painter naturalized French died
Jules Gabriel Verne,
French novelist, poet, and playwright
Huáng Bīnhóng Chinese literati painter and art historian died
Marc Chagall, the Russian-French painter, illustrator and graphic artist of Jewish origin, dies
Johann Sebastian Bach
German composer and musician was born
Hans Christian Andersen was born
Danish author, best known for his fairy tales
Giacomo Casanova is born, Italian adventurer, writer, poet, alchemist, esotericist, diplomat, scientist, philosopher and secret agent, citizen of the Republic of Venice.
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino known as Raphael, died
Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance
Gaspard-Félix Tournachon known by the pseudonym Nadar was born
French photographer
Eadweard J. Muybridge was born
English photographer and inventor
Franklin D. Roosevelt dies
the 32nd President of the United States
Josephine Baker dies
American-born French dancer, singer and actress
Jean de La Fontaine
French writer and poet died
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th U.S. President, was assassinated.
Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt
American painter died
Romain de Tirtoff dies
Russian-born French artist and designer known by the pseudonym Erté, from the French pronunciation of his initials
Odilon Redon was born
French symbolist painter
J.M.W Turner was born
British romantic landscape painter
Torquato Tasso,
Italian poet, writer, playwright and philosopher died
Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy until his downfall in 1943, has been killed by partisans along with his mistress, Clara Petacci, and some close.
Alfred Hitchcock dies
famous English film director and producer
WWII: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide
Rudolph Valentino, was born
Italian-American film actor and sex symbol of the 1920s
Orson Welles was born
American actor, writer and director
Sir James Matthew Barriewas born
1st Baronet, Scottish novelist who created Peter Pan
Kazimir Malevich dies
Russian painter and art theoretician
Victor Hugo,
French writer, poet, playwright and politician died
Filippo Romolo Neri
Italian priest and educator, beatified in 1615 and proclaimed a saint in 1622 died
Hans Makart was born
Austrian painter most well known for his influence on Gustav Klimt
Charles Dickens dies
English writer and social critic
Egon Schiele was born
One of the major figurative painters of the early 20th century
Paul Klee dies
Swiss-German artist whose style was influenced by movements that included Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism
Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
Lovis Corinth, German painter and printmaker, is born
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio dies
Italian painter
Giorgio Morandi was born
Italian still life painter and printmaker
Alphonse Mucha was born
Czech painter and graphic artist
Vincent van Gogh dies
Dutch Post-Impressionist painter
Andrea della Robbia, Italian sculptor and ceramist, dies
Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the Moon, is born.
The United States of America dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan.
The United States of America dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki in Japan.
William Adolphe Bouguereau, French painter, died
Sir Thomas Sean Connery was born
Scottish actor and producer
Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, philologist and essayist, dies
Mother Teresa MC was born
Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun, missionary and Saint
Man Ray was born
American-French modernist painter and photographer
Le Corbusier dies
Swiss-born French architect and city planner
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres was born
French Neoclassical painter
Ingrid Bergman was born
Swedish actress who won three Academy Awards
Willi Baumeister
German painter and graphic designer died
Agatha Christie was born
English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright
Albert Einstein publishes a paper in which he explains the equivalence of matter and energy (E=mc2).
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Britain’s first Woman doctor, gets a qualification.
Dorothea Lange dies
American documentary photographer and photojournalist
Margaret Thatcher, British politician, Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990, is born
Arthur Miller is born
American playwright and essayist
Jonathan Swift
Irish writer and poet, author of Gulliver’s Travels died
Johann Strauss, Austrian composer and conductor, is born
Katsushika Hokusai is born
Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period
Benvenuto Cellini, Italian sculptor, is born
Guido Reni, Italian painter and engraver was born
Senator John F Kennedy has won the election to become the youngest elected president of the United States.
Charles de Gaulle dies
Wartime hero and former president of France
Sir Jacob Epstein was born
American-British sculptor
Auguste René Rodin was born
Considered as one of the most remarkable sculptors of his time
Claude Monet was born
French painter and master of Impressionism
Sofonisba Anguissola, Italian painter, dies
Anselmo Bucci
Italian painter, engraver, writer and designer died
El Lissitzky was born
Russian painter, typographer, architect and designer
Roald Dahl diee
British author and scriptwriter, famous for novels such as “The BFG” or “Matilda”
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French painter was born
George Platt Lynes
American photographer died
Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel was born
German artist
Paolo Uccello dies
Italian painter and mathematician.
Mark Tobey was born
American abstract painter,
Frank Sinatra was born
American singer and actor
Édith Piaf was born
French singer and icon also known as “The Little Sparrow”
Jean-Michel Basquiat was born
American artist and one of the most significant painters of the 20th century
Heinrich Schliemann, archeologist who uncovered the city of Troy, dies.
Jacques-Louis David, French painter and politician, is born
The English writer Rudyard Kipling was born.
He is best known for his novels The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book
Sir John Lavery dies
Irish portrait and landscape painter
Benjamin Franklin, American scientist and politician, is born
Queen Victoria, queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 until her death, dies
Publius Aelius Trajan Hadrian, known as Hadrian, Roman emperor, is born
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer, is born
Patrick Caulfield is born
English painter and printmaker
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri,
Italian Baroque painter, best known as Guercino, was born.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born
French Impressionist painter
Giambattista Tiepolo is born
Italian painter and printmaker
Gianni Agnelli was born
Italian businessman and politician
Adeline Virginia Woolf died
English modernist writer
Georges Seurat dies
French Post-Impressionist painter and draftsman
Francisco Goya is born
Spanish painter and printmaker
Max Ernest dies
German painter and sculptor, naturalized French
Igor Stravinsky (Igor’ Fëdorovič Stravinskij) died
Russian-born composer and conductor
Charles Pierre Baudelaire born
French poet, writer, literary critic, art critic, journalist, philosopher, aphorist, essayist and translator
Filippo Brunelleschi dies
Italian architect, engineer, sculptor, mathematician, goldsmith and set designer
Elizabeth II is born
Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death on 8 September 2022
William Shakespeare dies
English playwright and poet
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra dies
Spanish writer, poet, playwright and soldier
Napoleon Bonaparte died
French politician and general
Christopher Columbus dies
Italian navigator and explorer
Marilyn Monroe is born
American actress, singer, model and film producer
Marie Laurencin dies
French painter, artist and illustrator
Mary Cassatt dies
American painter and printmaker
Enrico Prampolini dies
Italian painter and sculptor
Thomas Eakins dies
American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator
Nostradamus died
French astrologer, writer, pharmacist and apothecary
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
The first modern bikini two-piece swimsuit was born
Louis Daguerre dies
French artist, chemist and physicist, universally recognized as the inventor of the photographic process called daguerreotype
Emmanuel Pontremoli dies
French architect of Italian origin
George Bernard Shaw is born
Irish writer and playwright
Diane Arbus died
American photographer of Russian origin
Robert Schumann died
German composer, pianist and music critic
Franz Liszt died
Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor and organist
Fidel Castro is born
Cuban revolutionary, politician and military
Bertolt Brecht dies
German playwright, poet, theater director, writer and essayist
Umberto Boccioni died
Italian Futurist artist and sculptor
Galileo Chini died
Italian painter, decorator, graphic designer and ceramist
Anita Garibaldi was born
Brazilian revolutionary and wife of Giuseppe Garibaldi,
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec died
French painter
Jan Brueghel the Younger is born
Flemish painter
Dante Alighieri died
Italian poet, writer and politician
Aldo Moro is born
Italian politician and jurist
Grazia Deledda born
Italian writer winner of the 1926 Nobel Prize for Literature
Pietro Badoglio born
Italian general and politician
Pierre Corneille died
French playwright and writer
Nino Bixio born
Italian general and politician
Francis of Assisi dies
Italian cleric and poet
Hermann Göring dies
German politician, general and war criminal
Fëdor Michajlovič Dostoevskij born
Russian writer and philosopher
Man Ray dies
American painter, photographer, director and graphic designer
Jean Metzinger dies
French painter, writer and poet
Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix born
German painter and printmaker
Alexander Rodchenko dies
Russian painter, photographer and graphic designer
Claude Monet dies
French painter and one of the founders of the Impressionism movement
Diego Rivera is born
Mexican painter and muralist
Gustave Flaubert,
French novelist, was born
Donatello died
Italian sculptor, painter and architect
Vasilij Vasil’evič Kandinskij is born
Russian painter
William Turner dies
English painter and printmaker
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti is born
Italian poet, writer, playwright and soldier
Marlene Dietrich is born
German actress and singer neutralized by the US
Heinrich Schliemann was born
German businessman and archaeologist
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres dies
French Neoclassical painter
Molière is born, pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
French playwright and theatrical actor
Jack Kerouac is born
American writer, poet and painter
Stéphane Mallarmé is born
French poet, writer and playwright
Leonardo Da Vinci is born
Italian inventor, artist and scientist
Fernando Botero Angulo celebrates 90 years
Colombian painter, sculptor and draftsman
Leon Battista Alberti dies
Italian architect, writer, mathematician, humanist, cryptographer, linguist, philosopher, musician and archaeologist
Marlene Dietrich dies
German naturalized American actress and singer
Tsar Peter I the Great is born
Emperor of Russia May 30, 1672
Frida Kahlo dies
Mexican painter famous for her self-portraits
Alfred Henry Maurer dies
American modernist painter
Jacques Joseph Tissot dies
French painter and engraver
William Blake dies
English poet, painter, and printmaker
Edgar Degas dies
French painter and sculptor
Antonio Canova dies
Italian sculptor and painter
Gae Aulenti dies
Italian designer & architect
Auguste Rodin dies
French sculptor and painter
Sir Sidney Robert Nolan dies
Australian painter
William Blake Richmond dies
English portrait painter, sculptor and designer of stained glass and mosaic
Francesco Lazzaro Guardi died
Italian Painter
Louis Comfort Tiffany died
America artist and designer
Émile Jean Horace Vernet died
French painter and photographer
Pablo Picasso died
Spanish painter, sculptor and lithographer
Alfred Henry Maurer is born
American modernist painter
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner died
German painter and sculptor
Arshile Gorky died
American naturalized Armenian painter
Denis Diderot is born
french philosopher and writer
Maria Antonietta d’Asburgo-Lorena died
Queen consort of France
Frank Dicksee died
British painter and illustrator
Alfred Nobel is born
Swedish chemist, entrepreneur and philanthropist
Burt Lancaster is born
American actor, director, film producer and circus performer
Egon Schiele died
Austrian painter and grabber
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky died
Russian composer
John Fitzgerald Kennedy died
American politician and 35th President of the United States
Frank Dicksee is born
English Victorian painter and illustrator
Maria Callas was born
American-born Greek operatic soprano
Charles Rennie Mackintosh died
Scottish architect, designer and painter
The Communist revolutionary Fidel Castro led the Cubans to victory over Fulgencia Batista
Alfred Stieglitz is born
Photographer and promoter of modern art
Louis Daguerre announces the invention of the daguerreotype
Marco Polo dies,
Italian merchant, explorer and writer from the Republic of Venice
Paul Cezanne is born
French Post-Impressionist painter
Sophie Taeuber-Arp is born
Swiss artist and painter
Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Russian SFSR and premier of the Soviet Union, died.
Salvador Dalì dies
Spanish surrealist painter
Piet Mondrian dies
Dutch pioneer of abstract art
Gertrude Stein,
American writer and poet, was born.
Peter Alekseevič Romanov, known as Peter the Great, first emperor of Russia, dies
200 years after the appointment of Simon Bolivar as dictator of Peru
Ernest Henry Shackleton.
British explorer of Irish origin, was born
Michelangelo Buonarroti dies
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet
Sir John Tenniel dies
British illustrator and political cartoonist, best known for his work for Punch and Alice in Wonderland
Frank Gehry is born
Canadian-born American architect and designer
Asger Jorn is born
Danish painter and founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA
Birth of Yuri Gagarin,
Russian astronaut and Soviet pilot.
Alexej von Jawlensky is born
Russian expressionist painter active in Germany
William Morris is born
British artist and writer
Official opening of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, a world icon
Walter Gropius founded the Staatliche Bauhaus in Weimar
El Greco dies
Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance
Willem de Kooning is born
American Abstract Expressionist
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci dies
Universal genius Leonardo is considered one of the most ingenious and prolific minds of the Renaissance
Audrey Hepburn was born
Belgian-born British actress known for her radiant beauty and style
Salvador Dali,
painter, sculptor, and Spanish writer was born
Jean-Léon Gérôme,
French painter and sculptor was born
Max Oppenheimer,
Austrian painter and graphic designer died
Gustave Courbet dies
French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting
King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta.
Walter Gropius dies
German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School
170 years since the founding of Eastman Kodak Company
Alphonse Mucha dies
Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist
On board Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are the first two men to land on the moon.
Lavinia Fontana dies
Italian painter regarded as the first woman artist
Alfred Hitchcock, the British film director and producer, also known as the “Master of Suspense” was born.
Invasion of Poland by Germany, which marks the beginning of World War II
Caspar David Friedrich, German painter, exponent of romantic art was born
Arthur Rackham dies
English illustrator best known for his illustrations for Alice in Wonderland, The Christmas Carol and many others
Anton Mauve is born
Painter, graphic artist and cousin of Vincent van Gogh
Sophia Loren is born, iconic actress of Italian cinema
August Macke dies
German expressionist painter
Jean-Francois Millet is born
French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn dies
Prolific painter, draftsman, and etcher, usually regarded as the greatest artist of Holland’s “Golden Age”
Nicholas Roerich is born
Russian painter influenced by spirituality, a recurring theme in his philosophy and writings
Jean Antoine Watteau is born
French painter who profoundly influenced other artists thanks to his use of color
65 years since the opening of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York
William Hogarth dies
English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist
Henri Matisse dies
French artist and leader of the Fauvist movement
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is born
French artist
George Segal,
American sculptor and painter was born.
Eileen Agar is born
British painter and photographer associated with the Surrealist movement
Georges Pierre Seurat is born
French post-Impressionist painter and draftsman
Pierre-Auguste Renoir dies
French painter known throughout the world as a leader of Impressionism
Rudolf Hausner is born
Austrian painter, draftsman and sculptor described as the first psychoanalytic painter.
Mezquita Lopez Jose’ Maria,
Spanish painter died.
Claude Cahun dies,
French artist, photographer and writer.
Paul Cadmus is born
American painter and photographer
Wassily Kandinsky dies
Russian-born French artist known for his purely abstract work
Paul Klee is born
Swiss-German painter influenced by Expressionism, Cubism and Surrealism
Edward Redfield is born
American Impressionist landscape painter
Nancy Graves is born
conceptual sculpture artist
Frederic Remington dies
American painter, illustrator, sculptor and writer.
Andreas Vesalio is born
the Flemish physician who wrote and illustrated the first comprehensive textbook of human anatomy