Anniversaries & Events

Coco Chanel dies

French designer

Sir John Lavery dies

Irish portrait and landscape painter

Agatha Christie, British writer, dies

Lyonel Feininger, American painter, dies

Berthe Morisot is born

French 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

The car is born

Clark Gable was born

American actor

Mary Shelley, British writer, dies

Fernand Léger, French painter was born

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri,

Italian Baroque painter, best known as Guercino, was born.

Martin Luther, German theologian, dies

John Keats died

English poet

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born

French Impressionist painter

Franz Marc dies

German painter

Giambattista Tiepolo is born
Italian painter and printmaker

Gianni Agnelli was born

Italian businessman and politician

Elizabeth Taylor dies

British-American actress

Josef Albers dies
German painter

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

Gustave Moreau is born

French painter

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

Emil Nolde dies
Danish painter

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

Josef Hoffmann dies
Austrian architect

Christopher Columbus dies
Italian navigator and explorer

Marilyn Monroe is born
American actress, singer, model and film producer

The Italian Republic is born

George Sand died
French writer and playwright

Marie Laurencin dies
French painter, artist and illustrator

Antoni Gaudí dies
Spanish architect

John Constable is born
English painter

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

Odilon Redon dies

French printmaker and painter

Louis Daguerre dies
French artist, chemist and physicist, universally recognized as the inventor of the photographic process called daguerreotype

Rembrandt is born
Dutch painter and printmaker

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

Ignatius of Loyola dies
Spanish religious

Franz Liszt died
Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor and organist

Louis Armstrong
American trumpeter

Nasce Mata Hari
Dutch dancer and secret agent

Vincenzo Scamozzi dies

Italian architect

Jackson Pollock
American painter

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

Salvatore Quasimodo is born
Italian poet

Galileo Chini died
Italian painter, decorator, graphic designer and ceramist

Frans Hals died

Dutch painter

Tiziano Vecellio died
Italian painter

Anita Garibaldi was born

Brazilian revolutionary and wife of Giuseppe Garibaldi,

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec died

French painter

Andrea Mantegna died
Italian 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

Enrico Fermi is born
Italian physicist

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

Paul Cezanne dies
French painter

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

Pope Leo X dies

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

Charles de La Fosse dies

French painter

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