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Sir John Lavery dies
Irish portrait and landscape painter
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
Gianni Agnelli was born
Italian businessman and politician
Adeline Virginia Woolf died
English modernist writer
Georges Seurat dies
French Post-Impressionist painter and draftsman
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
Napoleon Bonaparte died
French politician and general
Mary Cassatt dies
American painter and printmaker
Thomas Eakins dies
American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator
The first modern bikini two-piece swimsuit was born
Diane Arbus died
American photographer of Russian origin
Umberto Boccioni died
Italian Futurist artist and sculptor
Anita Garibaldi was born
Brazilian revolutionary and wife of Giuseppe Garibaldi,
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec died
French painter
Dante Alighieri died
Italian poet, writer and politician
Grazia Deledda born
Italian writer winner of the 1926 Nobel Prize for Literature
Pietro Badoglio born
Italian general and politician
Nino Bixio born
Italian general and politician
Fëdor Michajlovič Dostoevskij born
Russian writer and philosopher
Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix born
German painter and printmaker
Claude Monet dies
French painter and one of the founders of the Impressionism movement
Donatello died
Italian sculptor, painter and architect
Heinrich Schliemann was born
German businessman and archaeologist
Molière is born, pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
French playwright and theatrical actor
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres dies
French Neoclassical painter
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 (350 years)
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
Mort de Auguste Rodin
Sculpteur et peintre français
Auguste Rodin dies
French sculptor and painter
Mort de Sir Sidney Robert Nolan
Peintre australien
Sir Sidney Robert Nolan dies
Australian painter
William Blake Richmond dies
English portrait painter, sculptor and designer of stained glass and mosaic
Muerte de William Blake Richmond
Retratista, escultor y diseñador inglés de vidrieras y mosaicos
Muerte de Theodore Rousseau
Pintor francés
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 dies
German expressionist painter and printmaker
Thomas Gainsborough dies
English portrait and landscape painter
Allan Ramsay is born
Scottish portrait-painter
Frank Dicksee dies
English Victorian painter and illustrator
Ernst Barlach dies
German expressionist sculptor and writer
Frank Dicksee is born
English Victorian painter and illustrator
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Scottish architect, designer, and painter
Francesco Lazzaro Guardi dies
Italian painter
The Communist revolutionary Fidel Castro led the Cubans to victory over Fulgencia Batista
Alfred Stieglitz is born
Photographer and promoter of modern art
Paul Cezanne is born
French Post-Impressionist painter
Sophie Taeuber-Arp is born
Swiss artist and painter
Salvador Dalì dies
Spanish surrealist painter
Piet Mondrian dies
Dutch pioneer of abstract art
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
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
Gustave Courbet dies
French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting
Walter Gropius dies
German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School
Alphonse Mucha dies
Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist
Lavinia Fontana dies
Italian painter regarded as the first woman artist
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
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
William Hogarth dies
English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is born
French artist
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
Henri Matisse dies
French artist and leader of the Fauvist movement
Rudolf Hausner is born
Austrian painter, draftsman and sculptor described as the first psychoanalytic painter.
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,