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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
Gustave Flaubert,
French novelist, was born
Donatello died
Italian sculptor, painter and architect