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2005 Joe Grant, American Artist

2005 Dale Messick, American Artist

2005 Fritz Scholder, American Artist

2004 John Hench, American Artist

2004 Tom Wesselmann, American Artist

2004 Agnes Martin, Canadian Artist

2003 Conrad Hall, American Artist

2002 Ron Walotsky, fantasy artist, dies at 59

2002 Bill Peet, cartoon artist/writer, Disney's Peter Pan, dies at 87

2002 Kevyn Aucoin, make-up artist/writer, Making Face, dies at 40

2001 Morris Graves, American Artist

2001 Howard Finster, American Artist

2001 Marcelle Ferron, Canadian Artist

2000 Jacob Lawrence, American Artist

2000 Leonard Baskin, American Artist

2000 Gil Kane, American Artist

1999 Jean Shepherd, writer/radio artist, ", In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, ", dies at 78

1999 Saul Steinberg, cartoonist/modern artist, A View of the World from Manhattan, dies at 84

1999 Arthur Boyd, Australian Artist

1998 Alex Schomberg, artist, dies at 91

1998 Luigi Veronesi, Italian abstract artist (Campo Grafico), dies at 90

1998 Bob Kane, American Artist

1997 Tom Hudson, artist/teacher, dies at 75

1997 Hrvoje Horvatic, video artist, dies at 39

1997 Marian Kratochwil, artist, dies at 91

1997 Denis Gerald Barrington, artist, dies at 67

1997 Artist Peter Max pleads guilty to tax fraud and time served

1997 Roy Lichtenstein, pop artist, dies of pneumonia at 73

1997 George Bryan Ingham, artist, dies at 61

1997 Malcolm Hughes, artist, dies at 77

1997 Susan Seddon Boulet, artist, dies of cancer

1997 Willem de Kooning, abstract artist, dead Alzheimer's at 92

1997 Martin Kippenberger, German Artist

1997 Andrea Fisher, artist, dies at 21

1996 Hetta Empson, artist, dies at 81

1996 Quentin Bell, artist author/teacher, dies at 86

1996 Lin Onus, artist, dies at 47

1996 Ismond Rosen, psychoanalyst/artist, dies at 82

1996 Elizabeth Eyre de Lanaux, designer artist/writer, dies at 102

1996 Emily Kngwarreye, artist, dies at 86

1996 Abram Games, graphic artist, dies at 82

1996 John Christopherson, artist/collector, dies at 75

1996 Roger Tory Peterson, ornithologist/artist, dies at 87

1996 Michael Wishart, artist, dies at 68

1996 Ray Howard-Jones, artist, dies at 93

1996 Paul Peter Piech, artist, dies at 76

1996 Mervyn Levy, artist/critic, dies at 81

1996 Louis Osman, artist/goldsmith/craftsman, dies at 82

1996 Helen Chadwick, artist, dies at 42

1996 Burne Hogarth, strip-cartoon artist, dies at 84

1996 Roman Ciesiewicz, artist/graphic designer, dies at 65

1996 Bernard Baily, comic artist, dies at 79

1996 Eric Hebborn, artist/faker, dies at 61

1996 James Holland, artist/exhibition organiser, dies at 90

1996 Terence Tenison Cuneo, artist, dies at 88

1995 Mohyedin Alempour, tajik artist/journalist, dies at 50

1995 Boty Goodwin, artist, dies at 29

1995 Philip Rawson, artist/teacher, dies at 71

1995 Iri Maruki, artist, dies at 94

1995 Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher, dies at 67

1995 Lesley Sunderland, decorative artist, dies at 47

1995 Pierre Olaf, cabaret artist/clown, dies at 67

1995 Horst Janssen, graphic Artist, dies at 65

1995 Hugo Pratt, graphic artist, dies at 68

1995 Bob Ross, artist, dies at 52

1995 Al Hansen, artist, dies at 67

1995 Nancy Mayhew Youngman, artist/educator, dies at 88

1995 Frank Fidler, artist, dies at 84

1995 Peter John Norton, naval diplomat/artist, dies at 82

1995 Jim Gilbert, artist, dies at 61

1995 Victor Reinganum, artist, dies at 87

1995 Michael Whalley Wickham, artist, dies at 91

1995 Jonathan Zeitlyn, artist, dies at 43

1994 Arthur Ballard, artist, dies at 79

1994 Alexander Hardie Williamson, artist, dies at 87

1994 Stanislaw Brunstein, artist, dies at 79

1994 Richard A Garland, artist photographer, dies at 60

1994 Joan Barbara Grigor, artist, dies at 50

1994 Warwick Hutton, artist, dies at 55

1994 Nikos Ghika, artist, dies at 88

1994 Henry William Collins, artist, dies at 84

1994 John Ernest, constructionist Artist, dies at 72

1994 Arthur Berry, artist, dies at 69

1994 Felix Kelly, artist, dies at 80

1994 Mitacq, [Michel Tacq], Belg comic strip artist (Beaver Patrol), dies

1994 Vivien John, artist, dies at 79

1994 Helen Lessore, artist, dies at 86

1994 Oscar Sheldon A Williams, artist/critic, dies at 74

1994 Schmidt Hans Burkhardt, artist, dies at 89

1994 Keith Watson, British comic strip artist (Dan Dare), dies at 59

1994 Donald Judd, U.S. furniture maker/architect/artist, dies at 65

1992 Jan Peeters, Dutch watercolorist/monument artist, dies

1992 Kees Spermon, Dutch painter/graphic artist, dies

1992 Bob the Moor, Flemish comic strip artist (Kuifje), dies

1992 Actress Barbara Hershey weds artist Stephen Douglas

1992 David Wojuarowicz, artist (U2 album cover), dies of AIDs at 37

1992 Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese rock artist, dies at 26 of pulmonary edema

1992 Martin Engelman, Dutch cartoonist/painter/graphic artist, dies

1991 Alex Graham, British cartoonstrip artist (Fred Basset), dies

1991 Lori Rae Matthews, crushed to death by an artist's 485 lb umbrella

1991 Hans Koetsier, sculptor artist (KLM-Schiphol), dies

1991 Jean Tinguely, Swiss sculptor artist (moving objects), dies

1991 Thomas C Lasorda, artist/son Dodger manager, dies of pneumonia at 33

1991 Ast Fonteyne, Flemish lecture artist, dies

1990 Dick Elffers, graphic artist, dies

1990 Keith Haring, artist/cartoonist (brilliant baby), dies of AIDs at 31

1988 Robert Gwathmey, artist, dies at 85

1988 Danny Spitz, heavy metal artist (Anthrax), weds Valerie

1987 Raphael Soyer, artist (Depression scenes in New York City), dies at 87

1987 Andre Masson, France, surrealist artist (Labyrinth), dies at 91

1987 Jean Helion, artist/author (Museum of Living Art), dies at 83

1987 Constantin Alajalov, Russian artist, dies at 86

1987 Myron Stout, U.S. abstract artist, dies at 79

1987 Geffen records sign their 1st artist, Donna Summer

1987 Andy Warhol, pop artist, dies of a heart attack at 58

1987 Erin Westmore, makeup artist (Hollywood Backstage), dies at 82

1987 Norman McLaren, Scottish Artist

1987 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist Aretha Franklin

1986 Willem Klein, variety artist, dies at about 73

1986 Georgia O'Keeffe, American Artist

1986 Joseph Beuys, West German avant-garde artist/politician, dies at 64

1985 Jean Dubuffet, French Artist

1985 Eric Sloane, U.S. artist, dies at 80

1983 Highest price paid for painting by a living artist 960,200 pounds - Miro

1982 Albert TLCA Bird, lecture artist, dies

1981 Eppo Doeve, Dutch graphic artist/cartoonist/painter, dies at 73

1981 John Gnagy, artist (Learn to Draw), dies at 73

1980 Oskar Kokoschka, Austria/British painter/graphic artist, dies at 93

1979 Charles White, artist, dies at 61 in Los Angeles

1978 Norman Rockwell, artist (Saturday Evening Post covers), dies at 84

1978 Frans van Immerseel, Belgian graphic artist, dies at 68

1978 Harry Bertoia, Italian Artist

1976 Man Ray, U.S. artist (dada), dies at 86

1975 Josephine Baker, US/French revue artist (Folies-Bergere), dies at 68

1975 Heintje Davids, [Hendrika David], Dutch cabaret artist, dies at 87

1975 Thomas Heart Benson, U.S. artist, dies at 85

1974 Aaron McGruder, American Artist

1973 Walt Kelly, U.S. comic strip artist (Pogo), dies at 60

1973 Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist

1973 Murat B "Chic" Young, U.S. comic strip artist (Blondie), dies at 72

1972 Mississippi Fred McDowell, jazz artist, dies at 68

1972 Frank Tashlin, American Artist

1972 M. C. Escher, Dutch Artist

1972 Aad de Haas, Dutch religious painter/graphic artist, dies at 51

1972 Tom Manders, Dutch cabaret artist (Dorus), dies at 50

1971 Rockwell Kens, U.S. artist/painter/illustrator, dies at 88

1970 Barnett Newman, American Artist

1969 Blues artist Muddy Waters involved in a car crash that kills 3

1969 Otto Dix, German Artist

1969 Douglas Lee Mitchell, born in Miles, Michigan, heavy metal artist, Southgang

1969 Peter Alma, painter/graphic artist, dies at 83

1969 Benjamin Shahn, Lithuanian Artist

1969 Marjane Satrapi, Iranian Artist

1968 Harold Gray, U.S. comic strip artist (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 74

1967 Ad Reinhardt, American Artist

1967 Matthew Barney, American Artist

1967 Chris Ware, American Artist

1966 Boty Goodwin, artist

1966 Alberto Giacometti, Swiss Artist

1965 Steven Sweet, Wadsworth Ohio, heavy metal artist, Warrant-Cherry Pie

1965 Julie Doucet, Canadian Artist

1965 Paul Arntzenius, painter/graphic artist/etcher, dies at 81

1965 Milton Avery, American Artist

1963 Tracey Emin, English Artist

1963 Brett Edward Garsed, born in Victoria Australia, heavy metal artist, Nelson

1963 Remedios Varo, Spanish Artist

1962 Franz Kline, American Artist

1962 Willem Paerels, Neth/Belgian painter/graphic artist, dies at 83

1961 Joe Murray, American Artist

1961 Todd McFarlane, Canadian Artist

1960 Jean-Michel Basquiat, Haiti/US graffiti artist/painter, Gray, SAMO

1960 Kasey Smith, Queens, New York, heavy metal artist, Danger Danger-Screw It

1960 Jaron Lanier, American Artist

1959 Gerard Hoffnung, artist/humorist/musician, dies

1959 Stanley Spencer, English Artist

1958 Pam Tills, Country music artist

1958 Keith Haring, Kutztown, Pennsylvania, graffiti artist, Vanity Fair, Paris Review

1958 Bill Sienkiewicz, American Artist

1958 Hrvoje Horvatic, video artist

1958 Thomas Kinkade, American Artist

1957 Gilbert Hernandez, American Artist

1956 Jackson Pollock, abstract artist, dies in auto accident (East Hampton)

1956 Marie Laurencin, French Artist

1955 Robert ten Brink, Dutch TV host/cabaret artist

1955 John Kricfalusi, Canadian Artist

1955 Eddie Campbell, Scottish Artist

1955 Max Pechstein, German painter/graphic artist (Oceania), dies at 73

1955 Andrea Fisher, artist

1955 Jeff Koons, American Artist

1954 Henri Matisse, French Artist

1954 Evert Gorter, children artist (Kindergeneeskunde), dies at 72

1953 Francis Picabia, French Artist

1953 Alex Grey, American Artist

1953 Helen Chadwick, artist

1953 Martin Kippenberger, German Artist

1952 Howard Chandler Christy, American Artist

1952 Jim Woodring, American Artist

1951 Jonathan Zeitlyn, artist

1951 John French Sloan, American Artist

1950 Max Beckmann, German painter/graphic artist, dies at 66

1950 Rick Baker, Binghamton, New York, special effects makeup artist, Exorcist

1950 Jacobus J E Hondius, Dutch classicist/graphic artist, dies at 53

1950 Jenny Holzer, American Artist

1949 Louis Davids, [Simon David], cabaret artist, dies at 65

1949 Stanley Knight, country artist, Black Oak Arkansas-High on the Hog

1948 Lin Onus, artist

1948 Wayne Kramer, jazz artist, Dangerous Madness

1948 Helen Ernst, German poster artist/resistance fighter, dies at about 43

1948 Art Spiegelman, American Artist

1947 Lesley Sunderland, decorative artist

1947 Laurie Anderson, performance artist, O Superman, Excellent Birds

1946 Alexander Curly, [Harm Breemer], Dutch artist

1946 Jamie Wyeth, Penn, artist, An American Vision-Boston

1946 Giorgio Morandi, Italian Artist

1945 Gielijn Escher, Dutch postage stamp artist

1945 Kathe Kollwitz, German graphic artist, dies at 77

1945 Anselm Kiefer, German Artist

1945 Emily Carr, Canadian Artist

1944 Vassily Kandinsky, abstract artist (Dreamy Inspiration), dies at 78

1944 Joseph B "Aristide" Maillol, French sculptor/graphic artist, dies

1944 Aristide Maillol, Fr sculptor/graphic artist, dies in car crash at 82

1944 Joan Barbara Grigor, artist

1944 Gerrit John van de Peat, artist/resistance fighter, executed at 41

1944 Billy Cobham, Panama, jazz artist, Same Ole Love

1944 Jackie Torrence, story teller/artist

1944 Wassily Kandinsky, Russian Artist

1943 Grover Washington, Jr., jazz artist, Mr Magic

1943 Judith Frost, British Columbia, artist, To Red, Dust Drawings

1943 Louis Schelfhout, Dutch painter/graphic artist, dies at 62

1943 1st edition of illegal "The Free Artist" appears in Amsterdam

1943 Camille Claudel, French Artist

1942 Meredith Monk, Lima Peru, choreographer-composer-performing artist

1941 Dale Chihuly, born in Tacoma, Washington, artist in glass, Louis Tiffany Award 1967

1941 Oda Mayumi, Tokyo, resident artist, Green Gulch Zen Center

1941 Jan Dibbets, sculptor/artist, Dutch Mountains

1941 El Lissitzky, Russian Artist

1941 Don Van Vliet, American Artist

1941 Boris Vallejo, Peruvian Artist

1941 Bruce Nauman, American Artist

1941 Jorg Reme, German/Dutch painter/graphic artist

1940 Gestapo arrest German resistance fighter/poster artist Helen Ernst

1940 Roy Ayers, Louisiana, disco jazz artist, Fever, You Send Me

1940 Edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist, dies

1940 Jean-douard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist, dies at 71

1940 Euphemia "Phemia" Molkenboer, Dutch author/poster artist, dies at 56

1940 Florrie Forde, music hall artist, dies

1940 H R Giger, artist, special effects designer, Alien

1940 H. R. Giger, Swiss Artist

1939 Dianne Arndt, artist/photographer

1939 Arthur Rackham, artist/illustrator (Grimm's Fairy Tales), dies at 71

1939 Frederick Carl Frieseke, American Artist

1939 Saul Steinberg, artist, The Art of Living

1939 Judy Chicago, [Cohen], Chicago, artist, Dinner Party

1939 Warwick Hutton, artist

1939 Richard Serra, American Artist

1938 Henricus G Wijmans, Dutch graphic artist

1938 Richard N Roland Holst, Dutch artist/painter, dies at 70

1938 Janet Hough Bryant, author/performing artist/educator

1937 Peter Max, psychadelic artist, Dynamite Chicken

1937 Don Bluth, American Artist

1937 Walter Gay, artist, dies

1937 David Hockney, born in Bradford, England, artist, Pop Art

1937 Red Grooms, American Artist

1937 Henry O Tanner, artist, dies

1937 Fritz Scholder, American Artist

1936 Jennifer Dickson, artist/photographer

1936 Hans Haacke, Cologne Germany, artist, Right to Life, Dripper Boxes

1936 George Bryan Ingham, artist

1936 Gerald Scarfe, British Artist

1936 Frank Stella, American Artist

1935 Paul Signac, French Artist

1935 Jim Dine, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, pop artist, St. John the Divine

1935 Christo [Javacheff], Bulgaria, artist, wrapper, Running Fence

1935 Christo, Bulgarian Artist

1935 Ramsey Lewis, Chic, pop jazz artist, Hang on Sloopy

1935 Kazimir Malevich, Polish Artist

1935 Max Liebermann, Ger impressionist painter/graphic artist, dies at 87

1934 Aat Veldhoen, Dutch artist

1934 Johan J Arch, graphic artist (houtgravures), dies at 63

1934 Richard A. Garland, artist/photographer

1934 John Collier, British Artist

1934 Eric Hebborn, artist/faker

1933 Jim Gilbert, artist

1933 Jan van Ginkel, graphic artist/publisher, Perscombinatie

1933 Michelangelo Pistoletto, Italian artist, glass painter

1933 Hannes Postma, Dutch graphic artist

1933 Yoko Ono, [Mrs John Lennon], Tokyo, Japan, vocalist

1932 Joanne Battiste, artist, heroines

1932 Marie MJ Poupelet, French sculptor/poster artist, dies

1932 Ronald B Kitaj, US/British painter/graphic artist, pop art

1932 Howard Hodgkin, British Artist

1932 Nam June Paik, born in Seoul, Korea, video artist, Medium is the Medium

1932 Graham Arnold, artist

1932 Frans Gailliard, Belgian painter/graphic artist (Egina), dies at 70

1932 Pieter Brattinga, Dutch graphic artist

1931 Cornelis de Wine, graphic artist

1931 Frank Auerbach, German Artist

1931 Tom Wesselmann, American Artist

1930 Denis Gerald Barrington, artist

1930 Roman Ciesiewicz, artist/graphic designer

1930 Faith Ringgold, American Artist

1929 Horst Janssen, graphic Artist

1929 Josef Suk, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, violinist, Artist of Merit-1977

1929 Li Yuan-chia, artist

1929 Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet, Austrian artist (React of P), dies at 54

1929 Claes Oldenburg, born in Stockholm, Sweden, U.S. pop artist, Alphabet/Good Humor

1928 Helen Frankenthaler, New York, abstract expressionist artist, Arden

1928 Robert Indiana, American Artist

1928 Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher

1928 Michael Wishart, artist

1928 Jan [Jean] T Toorop, Dutch graphic artist (3 Brides), dies at 69

1928 Frank Frazetta, American Artist

1927 Mose Allison, Tippo Mississippi, jazz artist, Black Country Suite

1927 Al Hansen, artist

1927 Andy Warhol, born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, artist/producer, Frankenstein, Bad

1927 Hugo Pratt, graphic artist

1926 Claude Monet, French Artist

1926 Conrad Hall, American Artist

1926 Joseph Pennell, artist/author, dies

1926 Gil Kane, American Artist

1925 Bob de Moor, Flemish comic strip artist, Kuifje, Lion of Flanders

1925 Jean Tinguely, Swiss sculptor artist, movement objects

1925 Edward Gorey, Chicago, author/artist, Curious Sofa

1925 Gerard Hoffnung, Berlin Germany, artist/humorist/musician

1925 Arthur Berry, artist

1924 Kenneth Noland, American Artist

1924 Mart Kempers, Dutch graphic artist and sculptor

1924 Peter Baer, artist and printmaker

1924 Gunter Haese, German sculptor/graphic artist, Guggenheim prize 1967

1924 Marcelle Ferron, Canadian Artist

1924 Simon Abramsz, Dutch writer (Artist book), dies at 56

1924 Philip Rawson, artist/teacher

1923 Morschi Mirando, [Thomas Weiss], German/Dutch gypsy artist

1922 Stan Lee, writer, editor and co-creator of Spider-Man, Incredible Hulk, Fantastic Four and many more comic characters

1922 Lucian Freud, Berlin German, artist, Boy With a Rat

1922 Tom Hudson, artist/teacher

1922 John Ernest, constructionist artist

1921 Tom Manders, Dutch cabaret artist, Dorus

1921 John Christopherson, artist/collector

1921 Herman Berserik, Dutch painter/graphic artist

1921 Zao-Wou-Ki, Chinese/French painter/graphic artist

1920 Aad de Haas, Dutch religious painter/graphic artist/cartoonist

1920 Dave Bartholomew, Louisiana, jazz artist/songwriter, Blueberry Hill

1920 Malcolm Hughes, artist

1920 Marcel Maeyer, [de Maeyer], Belgian sculptor/graphic artist

1920 Arthur Boyd, Australian Artist

1920 Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor, dies at 63

1920 Ray Harryhausen, movie special effect artist, Clash of Titans

1920 Paul Peter Piech, artist

1920 Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week with Kansas City Slide Co.

1919 Auguste Renoir, French Artist

1918 Egon Schiele, Austria painter/graphic artist, dies at 28

1918 June Wayne, artist, lithographer and teacher

1917 Lawrence Jacob, Atlantic City, New Jersey, artist, Sanitarium

1917 Christian Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor/artist

1917 Jacob Lawrence, American Artist

1916 Luc Peire, Flemish painter/graphic artist

1916 Bernard Baily, comic artist

1916 Bob Kane, American Artist

1916 Howard Finster, American Artist

1915 Hetta Empson, artist

1915 Albert Weisgerber, German painter/graphic artist, dies in battle

1915 Arthur Ballard, artist

1915 Willy Dixon, blues artist, Mellow Down Easy

1915 Harry Bertoia, Italian Artist

1915 Vivien John, artist

1915 Mervyn Levy, artist/critic

1915 William Crosbie, artist

1915 Jack Levine, American Artist

1914 Eduard Jacobs, Dutch cabaret artist, dies at 47

1914 Stanislaw Brunstein, artist

1914 Ismond Rosen, psychoanalyst/artist

1914 Abram Games, graphic artist

1914 Norman McLaren, Scottish Artist

1914 Cornelis "Kees" Andrea, Dutch painter/graphic artist/carpet designer

1914 Felix Kelly, artist

1914 Louis Osman, architect/artist/goldsmith

1914 Louis Osman, artist architect goldsmith medallist/craftsman

1913 Frank Tashlin, American Artist

1913 Ad Reinhardt, American Artist

1913 Peter John Norton, naval diplomat/artist

1912 Jan Peeters, Dutch water colors painter/monumental artist

1912 Metten Koornstra, Dutch painter/graphic artist

1912 Agnes Martin, Canadian Artist

1911 Burne Hogarth, strip-cartoon artist

1910 Dick Elffers, Dutch graphic artist/painter, Holland Festival

1910 Frank Fidler, artist

1910 Henri Rousseau, French Artist

1910 Morris Graves, American Artist

1910 Quentin Bell, artist author/teacher

1910 Francis S Haden, English surgeon/graphic artist, dies at 91

1910 Franz Kline, American Artist

1910 Henry William Collins, artist

1910 John LaFarge, American Artist

1909 Frederic Remington, American Artist

1909 Jacob Kainen, artist/curator

1909 Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist (Elle), dies at 60

1909 French van Immerseel, Belgian graphic artist

1909 Carsten Nicolai, German Artist

1909 Karen Finley, American Artist

1909 Charles Conder, artist, dies

1908 Peter Oliver, English Artist

1908 John Hench, American Artist

1908 Joe Grant, American Artist

1908 Peter Oliver, English Artist

1908 Remedios Varo, Spanish Artist

1907 Terence Tenison Cuneo, artist

1907 Helen Lessore, artist

1907 Alexander Hardie Williamson, artist

1907 Victor Reinganum, artist

1906 Nancy Mayhew Youngman, artist/educator

1906 Dale Messick, American Artist

1906 Nikos Ghika, artist

1906 Harry van Kruiningen, [Henri A Janssen], painter/graphic artist

1905 James Holland, artist/exhibition organiser

1905 Joseph Jefferson, American Artist

1905 Barnett Newman, American Artist

1904 [Schmidt] Hans Burkhardt, artist

1904 Emile Galle, French glass/marble/ceramic artist dies at 56

1904 Agnes Yarnall, sculptor, artist, author laa, 1987

1904 Willie Mae "Mother" Smith, gospel singer/evangelist folk artist

1904 Salvador Dali, Figueras, Spain, surrealist artist, Crucifixion

1904 Willem De Kooning, born in Rotterdam Netherland, artist, North Atlantic Light

1904 Jean Helion, artist/author, They Shall Not Have Me

1904 Mississippi Fred McDowell, jazz artist

1903 Michael Whalley Wickham, artist

1903 James Whistler, American Artist

1903 Ray Howard-Jones, artist

1903 Paul Gauguin, French Artist

1903 Robert Gwathmey, artist, Arts and Letters

1903 Camille Pissarro, French Artist

1902 Mary Armour, artist

1901 Alberto Giacometti, Swiss/French painter/sculptor

1901 Jean Dubuffet, French Artist

1901 Iri Maruki, artist

1901 George Keyt, artist

1901 Alexander Alexeieff, Russian/French painter and graphic artist

1901 Carl Barks, American Artist

1900 Peter S Koyer, Danish painter/sculptor/graphic artist, dies at 49

1900 Constantin Alajalov, Russia, artist, Ditters and Jitters

1899 Raphael Soyer, artist, Depression Scenes in New York City

1898 Benjamin Shahn, Lithuanian Artist

1898 M. C. Escher, Dutch Artist

1898 Maurits C Escher, Dutch graphic artist

1897 Jacobus J E Hondius, graphic artist

1897 Hendrik J Valk, painter/cartoonist/graphic artist

1896 Theodore Robinson, American Artist

1896 Andre Aime Rene Masson, French Surrealist artist, Labyrinth

1895 Berthe Morisot, French Artist

1894 Norman Rockwell, U.S., artist/illustrator, Sat Evening Post covers

1894 Henryk Stazewski, Polish abstract painter/graphic artist

1894 Philip Gilbert Hamerton, English Artist

1893 Barthelemy Menn, Swiss graphic artist/painter, dies at 77

1893 Beatrice Wood, potter, artist and author

1892 Edouard Joseph Stevens, Belgian painter/graphic artist, dies at 72

1891 Stanley Spencer, English Artist

1891 Otto Dix, German Artist

1890 Mark Tobey, American Artist

1890 Karel M M Verlat, Flemish painter/graphic artist, dies

1890 Willem Linnig Jr, Flemish painter/graphic artist, dies

1890 Man Ray, U.S. statues artist/photographer/movie, dada

1890 Yves Alix, French painter/graphic artist

1890 Giorgio Morandi, Italian Artist

1890 Egon Schiele, Austrian painter/graphic artist

1890 El Lissitzky, Russian Artist

1889 Jean Cocteau, born in France, writer/artist/director, Le Potamak, Orphee

1889 William Roxby Beverly, artist, dies

1888 Josef Albers, German/US graphic artist/painter/writer, Bauhaus

1887 Georgia O'Keeffe, American Artist

1887 Le Corbusier, Switzerland, architect/city planner/artist, Urbanisme

1887 Jean/Hans Arp, French/Swiss statues artist/poet

1887 Marc Chagall, born in Vitebsk, Russia, artist, I and The Village

1887 Arnaut Colnot, painter/graphic artist

1886 Georges Vandertongerloo, Flemish artist, L'art et Son Avenir

1886 Jean Arp, Artist

1886 Constant Permeke, Flemish painter/statues artist, Sow

1886 Peter Alma, Dutch painter/graphic artist

1885 Milton Avery, American Artist

1884 Max Beckmann, German painter/graphic artist

1883 Euphemia "Phemia" Molkenboer, Dutch author/poster artist

1883 Paul Arntzenius, painter/graphic artist/etcher

1883 Marie Laurencin, French Artist

1882 Phiz [Hablot Knight Browne], English artist (David Cupperfield), dies

1882 Rockwell Kent, artist/painter/illustrator, Canterbury Tales

1882 Georges Braque, French Artist

1881 Max Pechstein, German "entartet" painter/graphic artist, The Bridge

1881 Pablo Picasso, born in Malaga, Spain, artist, 3 Dancers, Guernica

1881 Louis Schelfhout, Dutch painter/graphic artist

1880 Viking Eggeling, Sweden, artist/film maker, Diagonal Symphony

1879 William Morris Hunt, American Artist

1879 Gerald Festus Kelly, artist

1879 Norman Lindsay, Creswick Victoria, artist/novelist

1878 Willem Paerels, Neth/Belgian painter/graphic artist

1878 Albert Weisgerber, German painter/graphic artist

1878 Kazimir Malevich, Polish Artist

1877 Bela Schick, Hungarian/US children artist, Serum Krankheit

1877 Gustave Courbet, French Artist

1876 Franz count of Pocci, German artist/composer (Alchemist), dies at 69

1874 Frederick Carl Frieseke, American Artist

1874 Harry Houdini, Budapest, magician/escape artist

1873 Howard Chandler Christy, American Artist

1872 Aubrey Beardsley, England, artist, Salome

1872 Piet Mondrian, Dutch Artist

1871 Johan J Arch, graphic artist, wood cutter

1871 John Sloan, American Artist

1871 John French Sloan, American Artist

1871 Jeanne Bougeois, [La Mistinguette], artist, French revue

1871 Emily Carr, Canadian Artist

1868 Richard N Roland Holst, Dutch artist/painter

1868 Edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist

1867 Arthur Rackham, England, artist/illustrator, Grimm's Fairy Tales

1867 Emil Nolde, [Hansen], German painter/graphic artist

1867 Eduard Jacobs, Dutch cabaret artist

1866 Roger Fry, English Artist

1866 Charles de Souzy Ricketts, artist

1866 Wassily Kandinsky, Russian Artist

1865 Akseli V Gallen-Kallela, Fins painter/graphic artist/illustrator

1864 John Leech, English Artist

1864 Camille Claudel, French Artist

1863 Paul Signac, French Artist

1861 Frederic Remington, U.S., artist/sculptor of American West

1860 Grandma Moses, American Artist

1859 Henry O Tanner, artist

1858 Jean/Johannes T "Jan" Toorop, Dutch painter/graphic artist, 3 Brides

1857 Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor

1852 Theodore Robinson, American Artist

1851 J. M. W. Turner, English Artist

1851 Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, French Artist

1851 Peter S Koyer, Danish painter/sculptor/graphic artist

1851 Ernst Josephson, Sweden, artist

1850 John Collier, British Artist

1849 Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist, La femme

1849 Wyatt Eaton, artist

1848 Cornelis A. Pekelharing, artist, fabric seller

1846 Emile Galle, French glass/marble/ceramic artist, Galle Glaze

1846 Kate Greenaway, born in England, artist/book illustrator, Under the Window

1844 Thomas Eakins, American Artist

1844 Henri Rousseau, French Artist

1842 Willem Linnig jr, Flemish painter/graphic artist

1841 Auguste Renoir, French Artist

1841 Berthe Morisot, French Artist

1840 Caspar David Friedrich, German Artist

1838 Anton Mauve, painter/graphic artist/cousin of Vincent Van Gogh

1836 Archibald M Willard, U.S., artist, Spirit of '76

1835 John LaFarge, American Artist

1834 Philip Gilbert Hamerton, English Artist

1834 James McNeill Whistler, American Artist

1834 James Whistler, American Artist

1831 James Northcote, English Artist

1830 Camille Pissarro, French Artist

1829 Joseph Jefferson, American Artist

1828 Simon Paap, Dutch 56 cm long dwarf/cabaret artist, dies at 39

1825 Henry Fuseli, British Artist

1824 Karel M M Verlat, Flemish painter/graphic artist

1824 William Morris Hunt, American Artist

1823 Charles Keene, Hornsey, artist

1819 Edouard Joseph Stevens, Belgian animal painter/graphic artist

1819 Gustave Courbet, French Artist

1819 John Ruskin, writer/critic/artist/Gothic Revivalist, Prerafaelite

1818 Francis Seymour Haden, English surgeon/graphic artist

1817 John Leech, English Artist

1815 Barthelemy Menn, Swiss graphic artist/painter

1815 Jacob van Strij, Dutch cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 58

1808 Daumier, Marseilles France, artist

1805 Constantine Brumidi, artist, Myrtle Murdock

1802 Friedrich Wilhelm Schirmer, artist

1799 Titian Ramsey Peale, U.S., artist/naturalist, American Ornithology

1799 Karl Adolph von Basedow, German artist, Ziekte van Basedow

1787 Johann D Passavant, German historian/painter/graphic artist

1787 Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, French Artist

1786 Patience Wright, 1st U.S. woman pro artist, dies (birth date unknown)

1785 John James Audubon, Haiti, bird watcher/artist

1784 Allan Ramsay, artist

1782 John Sell Cotman, water color artist

1778 Juan Lovera, Venezuela, artist

1777 Alexander Orlowski, Polish painter, cartoonist and graphic artist

1775 J. M. W. Turner, English Artist

1775 Thomas Girtin, London, artist/watercolorist

1774 Caspar David Friedrich, German Artist

1763 George Morland, England, artist of rural landscapes

1761 John Opie, artist

1756 Jacob van Strij, Dutch cartoonist/graphic artist

1753 Thomas Bewick, England, artist, British Birds, Aesop's Fables

1746 James Northcote, English Artist

1741 Henry Fuseli, British Artist

1738 John Singleton Copley, Massachusetts, finest colonial American artist

1721 Benott Audran, artist/engraver, dies

1721 Bernhard Albinus, [Weiss], German artist (Frederik of Prussia), dies

1618 Bartolome Esteban Murillo, Spain, Baroque artist [baptized]

1593 Jacob Jordaens, Flemish barok artist

1591 Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51

1539 Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist/illustrator

1528 Albrecht Durer, German painter/graphic artist, dies in Germany at 56

1520 Raphael [Sanzio], artist (Sistine Madonna), dies on his 37th birthday

1519 Leonardo Da Vinci, artist/scientist, dies at 67

1507 Gentile Bellini, Italian artist, Sultan Mohammed II

1503 Francesco Parmigianino, Italian artist, Madonna with the Long Neck



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