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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,