Anniversaries & Events

Ellis Island opens to begin processing immigrants into the United States

Jacopo Carucci dies

Italian Painter

Heinrich Schliemann was born
German businessman and archaeologist

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres dies

French Neoclassical painter

Molière is born, pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin

French playwright and theatrical actor

Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor and one of the most acclaimed musicians of the late 19th and of the 20th century, died

Pope Benedict XV dies

Pierre Bonnard died

French painter

Adeline Virginia Woolf, English modernist writer, was born

The Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture in Paris, called “Beaubourg” opens

Mary, Queen of Scots, dies

Thomas Edison, American inventor and businessman, is born

Grant Wood, American artist, dies.

Giosuè Carducci dies

Poet and Nobel Prize winner for literature

First ship passed through Suez Canal

Ansel Adams, American scenic photographer, is born.

Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter, dies

Jack Kerouac is born

American writer, poet and painter

Charles Haslewood Shannon dies

English 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

Percy Bysshe Shelley dies

British poet

Frida Kahlo dies

Mexican painter famous for her self-portraits

Gustav Klimt is born

Austrian painter

Francesco Borromini dies

Italian architect

Alfred Henry Maurer dies

American modernist painter

Jacques Joseph Tissot dies

French painter and engraver

William Blake dies

English poet, painter, and printmaker

Diana Spencer dies

Princess of Wales

Edgar Degas dies

French painter and sculptor

Antonio Canova dies

Italian sculptor and painter

Gae Aulenti dies

Italian designer & architect

Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, was born

Andrea Appiani dies

Italian painter

Auguste Rodin dies

French sculptor and painter

Marcel Proust dies

French novelist

Sir Sidney Robert Nolan dies

Australian painter

William Blake Richmond dies

English portrait painter, sculptor and designer of stained glass and mosaic

Theodore Rousseau dies

French painter