Anniversaries & Events

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

Philip Johnson died

American architect

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

Keith Haring dies

American artist

Alessandro Volta was born

the Italian inventor of the electric battery

Fra Angelico, Italian painter, dies

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

Sandro Botticelli is born, Italian painter

Berthe Morisot dies

French Impressionist Painter

Comic genius Charlie Chaplin is knighted.

Michelangelo Buonarroti,

Italian painter, sculptor, architect and poet was born

Anselm Kiefer was born

German artist

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

Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipowner, dies

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

Emile Zola was born

French writer

Giacomo Casanova is born, Italian adventurer, writer, poet, alchemist, esotericist, diplomat, scientist, philosopher and secret agent, citizen of the Republic of Venice.

Karl Christian Ludwig Hofer
german painter died

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.

John Singer Sargent, American painter, dies

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

William Turner, English painter and engraver, dies

Torquato Tasso,
Italian poet, writer, playwright and philosopher died

Italy Liberation Day

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

George Inness, American painter was born

Alessandro Allori, Italian painter was born

Rudolph Valentino, was born

Italian-American film actor and sex symbol of the 1920s

Orson Welles was born

American actor, writer and director

Winston Churchill announced the end of the war.

Sir James Matthew Barriewas born

1st Baronet, Scottish novelist who created Peter Pan

Carlo Maratta, Italian painter, is born

Kazimir Malevich dies

Russian painter and art theoretician

Victor Hugo,
French writer, poet, playwright and politician died

Auguste Chabaud
French painter and sculptor 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

Peter Paul Rubens dies

Flemish Baroque painter

Charles Dickens dies

English writer and social critic

Egon Schiele was born

One of the major figurative painters of the early 20th century

The company Alfa Romeo is founded

Max Pechstein
German painter and engraver died

Paul Klee dies

Swiss-German artist whose style was influenced by movements that included Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism

Erik Satie, French composer and pianist, dies

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

Pietro Mascagni
Italian composer died

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.

Mary Fedden was born

British artist

Fernand Léger
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

Louis XIV, known as the Sun King died

End of World War II

Discovery of the Lascaux Cave

Agatha Christie was born

English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright

Vincenzo Bellini
italian composer died

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.

The American actor James Dean dies in car crash

Yosemite becomes a national park.

Julius Henry Marx, known as Groucho Marx was born

American comedian, film and television star

Nicolai Fechin
Russian-American painter died

Rosalba Carriera, Italian painter, is born

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

UNESCO is founded

First flight of the Hawker Hurricane.

Steve McQueen, American actor called “The King of Cool”, died.

Alain Delon, French actor and director, is 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

General Franco, Spanish dictator, dies.

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

William Adolphe Bouguereau, French painter, is born

Oscar Wilde, Irish writer, is born

María Izquierdo
mexican painter died

George Platt Lynes
American photographer died

Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel was born

German artist

Paolo Uccello dies

Italian painter and mathematician.

The one millionth Ford car is produced.

Mark Tobey was born

American abstract painter,

Frank Sinatra was born

American singer and actor

Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter, dies

Jane Austen is born

English novelist

Jane Austen, British writer, is born

Dorothea Sharp
british painter died

Édith Piaf was born

French singer and icon also known as “The Little Sparrow”

Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer, dies

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.

Max Beckmann, German painter, dies

Westminster Abbey is consecrated.

Félix Vallotton, Swiss painter, 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