Anniversaries & Events

Francesco Lazzaro Guardi died

Italian Painter

Louis Comfort Tiffany died

America artist and designer

Émile Jean Horace Vernet died

French painter and photographer

Gustav Klimt died

Austrian painter

Suzanne Valadon died

French painter

Pablo Picasso died

Spanish painter, sculptor and lithographer

Canaletto died

Italian painter

Alfred Henry Maurer is born

American modernist painter

William James Glackens died

American painter

Artemisia Gentileschi died

Italian painter

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner died

German painter and sculptor

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida died

Spanish painter

Giuseppe Arcimboldo died

Italian painter

Arshile Gorky died

American naturalized Armenian painter

Thomas Gainsborough died

English painter

Matthias Grünewald died
German painter

Charles Percier died

French architect

Hieronymus Bosch is born

flemish painter

Denis Diderot is born

french philosopher and writer

Rosalba Carriera, Italian painter, is born

Vittorio Alfieri died

Italian playwright

Giuseppe Verdi is born

Italian composer

Edith Piaf died

French singer-songwriter

Allan Ramsay is born

British painter

Italo Calvino was born

Italian writer

Maria Antonietta d’Asburgo-Lorena died

Queen consort of France

Frank Dicksee died

British painter and illustrator

Alfred Nobel is born

Swedish chemist, entrepreneur and philanthropist

Ernst Barlach died

German sculptor and writer

Federico Fellini died

italiano director

Burt Lancaster is born

American actor, director, film producer and circus performer

Egon Schiele died

Austrian painter and grabber

Vivien Leigh is born

british actress

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky died

Russian composer

Martin Lutero is born

german theologian

Paul Signac is born

French painter

Elsa Schiaparelli died

Italian stylist

Camille Pissarro died

french painter

René Magritte is born

belgian painter

John Fitzgerald Kennedy died

American politician and 35th President of the United States

Frank Dicksee is born

English Victorian painter and illustrator

Maria Callas was born

American-born Greek operatic soprano

Charles Rennie Mackintosh died

Scottish architect, designer and painter