2014 Event A Van Gogh painting, 'Still Life, Vase with Daisies, and Poppies', sells for $61.8 million, exceeding its estimated worth of $50 million; the artist painted the work at his doctor's home shortly before his death 2014 Event Music curator and headphone maker Beats Electronics will become the latest acquisition of Apple, Inc.; Apple will pay $3 billion for the music company, started by music producer Jimmy Iovine and rap artist Dr. Dre 2013 Event In England, a man is arrested for charges related to the attack on 'The Hay Wain' painting, completed by artist John Constable in 1821; the work is considered one of England's greatest and most popular paintings 2013 Event At the annual Billboard Music Awards, Taylor Swift wins top album, top artist, and 6 other awards 2013 Event American Grammy-winning rap artist, Lil Wayne, suffers a seizure in California, and recovers at a Los Angeles hospital 2013 Event Artist Paul Emsley unveils the first official portrait of Catherine Duchess of Cambridge 2012 Event A Beijing court announces it will hear artist and dissident Ai Weiwei, held and gagged on tax evasion charges by the People's Republic of China 2012 Event French comic artist Jean Giraud, creator of 'Blueberry' and numerous influential science-fiction comics, dies at 73 2012 Event The film 'The Artist', wins four awards at the Spirit Awards which honors independent films 2012 Event Queen Elizabeth II appoints John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia, and artist David Hockney, to the Order of Merit 2011 Event A record $79 million auction price is paid for Chinese contemporary artist Zhang Xiaogang's 1988 'Forever Lasting Love' three-panel oil painting 2010 Event Pablo Picasso's electrician reveals 271 previously unknown works by the artist, claiming they were gifts 2009 Death Andrew Wyeth, American artist, dies at 91, after a brief illness 2007 Death Louis W. Ballard, Native American composer, author, artist, wrote 'Incident at Wounded Knee', dies of cancer in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at age 75 2005 Death Joe Grant, American Artist 2005 Death Dale Messick, American Artist 2005 Death Fritz Scholder, American Artist 2004 Death Tom Wesselmann, American Artist 2004 Death Agnes Martin, Canadian Artist 2004 Death John Hench, American Artist 2003 Death Conrad Hall, American Artist 2002 Death Ron Walotsky, fantasy artist, dies at 59 2002 Death Bill Peet, cartoon artist/writer, Disney's Peter Pan, dies at 87 2002 Death Kevyn Aucoin, make-up artist/writer, Making Face, dies at 40 2001 Death Marcelle Ferron, Canadian Artist 2001 Death Howard Finster, American Artist 2001 Death Morris Graves, American Artist 2000 Death Jacob Lawrence, American Artist 2000 Death Leonard Baskin, American Artist 2000 Death Gil Kane, American Artist 1999 Death Jean Shepherd, writer/radio artist, ", In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, ", dies at 78 1999 Death Saul Steinberg, cartoonist/modern artist, A View of the World from Manhattan, dies at 84 1999 Death Arthur Boyd, Australian Artist 1998 Death Bob Kane, American Artist 1998 Death Alex Schomberg, artist, dies at 91 1998 Death Luigi Veronesi, Italian abstract artist (Campo Grafico), dies at 90 1997 Death Tom Hudson, artist/teacher, dies at 75 1997 Death Marian Kratochwil, artist, dies at 91 1997 Death Denis Gerald Barrington, artist, dies at 67 1997 Event Artist Peter Max pleads guilty to tax fraud and time served 1997 Death Roy Lichtenstein, pop artist, dies of pneumonia at 73 1997 Death George Bryan Ingham, artist, dies at 61 1997 Death Malcolm Hughes, artist, dies at 77 1997 Death Susan Seddon Boulet, artist, dies of cancer 1997 Death Willem de Kooning, abstract artist, dead Alzheimer's at 92 1997 Death Martin Kippenberger, German Artist 1996 Death Hetta Empson, artist, dies at 81 1996 Death Quentin Bell, artist author/teacher, dies at 86 1996 Death Lin Onus, artist, dies at 47 1996 Death Ismond Rosen, psychoanalyst/artist, dies at 82 1996 Death Elizabeth Eyre de Lanaux, designer artist/writer, dies at 102 1996 Death Emily Kngwarreye, artist, dies at 86 1996 Death Abram Games, graphic artist, dies at 82 1996 Death John Christopherson, artist/collector, dies at 75 1996 Death Michael Wishart, artist, dies at 68 1996 Death Ray Howard-Jones, artist, dies at 93 1996 Death Paul Peter Piech, artist, dies at 76 1996 Death Mervyn Levy, artist/critic, dies at 81 1996 Death Louis Osman, artist/goldsmith/craftsman, dies at 82 1996 Death Helen Chadwick, born in Britain, conceptual artist, feminist perspective, dies at 42 1996 Death Burne Hogarth, strip-cartoon artist, dies at 84 1996 Death Roman Ciesiewicz, artist/graphic designer, dies at 65 1996 Death Bernard Baily, comic artist, dies at 79 1996 Death Eric Hebborn, artist/faker, dies at 61 1996 Death James Holland, artist/exhibition organiser, dies at 90 1996 Death Terence Tenison Cuneo, artist, dies at 88 1995 Death Mohyedin Alempour, tajik artist/journalist, dies at 50 1995 Death Boty Goodwin, artist, dies at 29 1995 Death Philip Rawson, artist/teacher, dies at 71 1995 Death Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher, dies at 67 1995 Death Lesley Sunderland, decorative artist, dies at 47 1995 Death Pierre Olaf, cabaret artist/clown, dies at 67 1995 Death Horst Janssen, graphic Artist, dies at 65 1995 Death Hugo Pratt, graphic artist, dies at 68 1995 Death Bob Ross, artist, dies at 52 1995 Death Al Hansen, Norwegian American artist, dies at 67 1995 Death Nancy Mayhew Youngman, artist/educator, dies at 88 1995 Death Frank Fidler, artist, dies at 84 1995 Death Peter John Norton, naval diplomat/artist, dies at 82 1995 Death Victor Reinganum, artist, dies at 87 1995 Death Michael Whalley Wickham, artist, dies at 91 1994 Death Leigh Bowery, designer, pop star, model, performance artist, influenced Boy George, Vivienne Westwood, dies at 33 1994 Death Al Levitt, American jazz artist, dies at 63 1994 Death Arthur Ballard, artist, dies at 79 1994 Death Alexander Hardie Williamson, artist, dies at 87 1994 Death Stanislaw Brunstein, artist, dies at 79 1994 Death Richard A Garland, artist photographer, dies at 60 1994 Death Joan Barbara Grigor, artist, dies at 50 1994 Death Warwick Hutton, illustrator, artist, author, created illustrations for children's books, worked with texts by Hans Christian Andersen, dies at 55 of cancer in Cambridge, England 1994 Death Henry William Collins, artist, dies at 84 1994 Death John Ernest, constructionist Artist, dies at 72 1994 Death Arthur Berry, playwright, artist, teacher, poet, studied, then taught at Burslem School of Art, absorbed by Stoke-on-Trent College of Art, which in 1971 became North Staffordshire Polytechnic, where he taught painting until 1985, dies at 69 1994 Death Mitacq, Michel Tacq, Belgian comic strip artist (Beaver Patrol), dies 1994 Death Oscar Sheldon A Williams, artist/critic, dies at 74 1994 Death Schmidt Hans Burkhardt, artist, dies at 89 1994 Death Keith Watson, British comic strip artist (Dan Dare), dies at 59 1994 Death Donald Judd, U.S. furniture maker/architect/artist, dies at 65 1994 Death Werner Schwab, writer, playwright, visual artist, dies at 35 1992 Death Jan Peeters, Dutch watercolorist/monument artist, dies 1992 Death Kees Spermon, Dutch painter/graphic artist, dies 1992 Death Bob the Moor, Flemish comic strip artist (Kuifje), dies 1992 Event Actress Barbara Hershey weds artist Stephen Douglas 1992 Death David Wojuarowicz, artist (U2 album cover), dies of AIDs at 37 1992 Death Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese rock artist, dies at 26 of pulmonary edema 1992 Death Martin Engelman, Dutch cartoonist/painter/graphic artist, dies 1992 Death Boris Arapov, composer, studied with Vladimir Shcherbachov at Leningrad Conservatory, taught at Leningrad Conservatory, received honor Peoples Artist of the USSR in 1976 and Order of Lenin honor in 1986 1991 Death Alex Graham, British cartoonstrip artist (Fred Basset), dies 1991 Death Lori Rae Matthews, crushed to death by an artist's 485 lb umbrella 1991 Death Hans Koetsier, sculptor artist (KLM-Schiphol), dies 1991 Death Jean Tinguely, Swiss sculptor artist (moving objects), dies 1991 Death Thomas C Lasorda, artist/son Dodger manager, dies of pneumonia at 33 1991 Death Ast Fonteyne, Flemish lecture artist, dies 1990 Death Dick Elffers, graphic artist, dies 1990 Death Keith Haring, artist/cartoonist (brilliant baby), dies of AIDs at 31 1988 Death Robert Gwathmey, artist, dies at 85 1988 Event Danny Spitz, heavy metal artist (Anthrax), weds Valerie 1987 Death Raphael Soyer, artist (Depression scenes in New York City), dies at 87 1987 Death Andre Masson, France, surrealist artist (Labyrinth), dies at 91 1987 Death Jean Helion, artist/author (Museum of Living Art), dies at 83 1987 Death Constantin Alajalov, Russian artist, dies at 86 1987 Death Myron Stout, U.S. abstract artist, dies at 79 1987 Event Geffen records sign their 1st artist, Donna Summer 1987 Death Andy Warhol, pop artist, dies of a heart attack at 58 1987 Death Erin Westmore, makeup artist (Hollywood Backstage), dies at 82 1987 Death Norman McLaren, Scottish Artist 1987 Event Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist Aretha Franklin 1986 Death Corita Kent, artist, educator, mediums include silkscreen, serigraphy, producing fine art with messages of love and peace, famous work includes the 1985 Love Samp and Rainbow Swash, dies of cancer 1986 Death Willem Klein, variety artist, dies at about 73 1986 Death Georgia O'Keeffe, American Artist 1986 Death Joseph Beuys, West German avant-garde artist/politician, dies at 64 1985 Death Jean Dubuffet, French Artist 1985 Death Eric Sloane, U.S. artist, dies at 80 1983 Event Highest price paid for painting by a living artist 960,200 pounds - Miro 1982 Death Albert TLCA Bird, lecture artist, dies 1981 Death Eppo Doeve, Dutch graphic artist/cartoonist/painter, dies at 73 1981 Death John Gnagy, artist (Learn to Draw), dies at 73 1981 Birthday Alicia Keys, born in New York City, New York, born Alicia Augello Cook, singer, recording artist, actress, debut album, 'Songs in A Minor', won five Grammy Awards 1980 Death Oskar Kokoschka, Austria/British painter/graphic artist, dies at 93 1979 Death Charles White, artist, dies at 61 in Los Angeles 1979 Birthday Norah Jones, born in Brooklyn, New York, musician, singer, jazz artist album, 'Come Away with Me', won five Grammy awards, sold more than 40 million albums worldwide 1978 Death Norman Rockwell, artist (Saturday Evening Post covers), dies at 84 1978 Death Harry Bertoia, Italian Artist 1978 Birthday Usher Raymond, born in Dallas, Texas, stage name, 'Usher', recording artist, actor, sold over 40 million albums worldwide, won five Grammy Awards, films include, 'In the Mix' 1978 Death Frans van Immerseel, Belgian graphic artist, dies at 68 1976 Death Man Ray, U.S. artist (dada), dies at 86 1976 Event 18th Grammy Awards: 'Love Will Keep Us Together' Record of the Year, Natalie Cole wins as best New Artist 1976 Birthday Brandon Boyd, born in Van Nuys, California, musician, artist, lead vocalist, member of Incubus rock band 1976 Death Chris Kenner, rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, recording artist, 1961 hit I Like It Like That was on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, song Land of a Thousand Dances was recorded by Patti Smith, and others, dies 1975 Death Josephine Baker, US/French revue artist (Folies-Bergere), dies at 68 1975 Death Heintje Davids, Hendrika David, Dutch cabaret artist, dies at 87 1975 Death Thomas Heart Benson, U.S. artist, dies at 85 1974 Birthday Aaron McGruder, American Artist 1973 Death Walt Kelly, U.S. comic strip artist (Pogo), dies at 60 1973 Death Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist 1973 Birthday David Blaine, born in Brooklyn, New York, illusionist, endurance artist, considered a modern-day Houdini, first television special titled, 'David Blaine; Street Magic' 1973 Death Murat B "Chic" Young, U.S. comic strip artist (Blondie), dies at 72 1972 Death Mississippi Fred McDowell, jazz artist, dies at 68 1972 Death Frank Tashlin, American Artist 1972 Death M. C. Escher, Dutch Artist 1972 Death Aad de Haas, Dutch religious painter/graphic artist, dies at 51 1972 Death Tom Manders, Dutch cabaret artist (Dorus), dies at 50 1971 Birthday Missy Elliot, born in Portsmouth, Virginia, actress, producer, recording artist, double platinum album 'Under Construction', produced music for Mya, Beyonce, Lil' Kim 1971 Death Rockwell Kens, U.S. artist/painter/illustrator, dies at 88 1970 Death Barnett Newman, American Artist 1969 Birthday Marjane Satrapi, Iranian Artist 1969 Event Blues artist Muddy Waters involved in a car crash that kills 3 1969 Birthday Gwen Stefani, born in Fullerton, California, singer, fashion designer, leader of band, No Doubt, named Billboard's 37th Hot 100 artist of the decade 1969 Death Otto Dix, German Artist 1969 Birthday Douglas Lee Mitchell, born in Miles, Michigan, heavy metal artist, Southgang 1969 Death Peter Alma, painter/graphic artist, dies at 83 1969 Death Benjamin Shahn, Lithuanian Artist 1968 Death Harold Gray, U.S. comic strip artist (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 74 1968 Birthday Kenny Chesney, born in Knoxville, Tennessee, country music artist, over 30 hits, 13 albums certified gold or higher by RIAA, albums include, 'When the Sun Goes Down' 1967 Birthday Chris Ware, American Artist 1967 Death Ad Reinhardt, American Artist 1967 Birthday Matthew Barney, American Artist 1966 Death Jean Arp, artist, sculptor, painter, poet, mediums include torn, pasted paper, founder, Dada movement in Zurich, dies in Basel, Switzerland at age 79 1966 Birthday Shabba Ranks, born in Sturgetown, St. Ann, Jamaica, born Rexton Rawlston Fernando Gordon, reggae singer, recording artist, sex symbol, popular dancehall DJ, toaster, successful U.S. crossover artist, became first Grammy-Award winning dancehall artist 1966 Death Alberto Giacometti, Swiss Artist 1965 Birthday Julie Doucet, Canadian Artist 1965 Birthday Chuckii Booker, born in Los Angeles, California, rocker, singer, songwriter, bandleader, rhythm and blues artist, musical director, recorded and produced with Barry White, Janet Jackson 1965 Birthday Steven Sweet, Wadsworth Ohio, heavy metal artist, Warrant-Cherry Pie 1965 Birthday Damien Hirst, born in Bristol, England, artist, richest living artist to date, 'For the Love of God' a diamond-encrusted scull sculpture, sold for 50 million pounds in 2007 1965 Death Paul Arntzenius, painter/graphic artist/etcher, dies at 81 1965 Death Milton Avery, American Artist 1964 Birthday Clinton Gregory, born in Martinsville, Virginia, singer, songwriter, recording artist, fiddler, country and bluegrass genres, recorded seven studio albums, chartered 11 Billboard Hot country Singles and Tracks, including Play, Ruby, Play, which reached no. 25 on the charts 1963 Death Remedios Varo, Spanish Artist 1963 Birthday Tracey Emin, English Artist 1963 Birthday Jet Li, born in Beijing, China, Li Lianjie, Chinese martial artist, actor, international film star, appeared in Lethal Weapon 4, with Jackie Chan in The Forbidden Kingdom, Wushu champion, studied Changquan, among other arts 1963 Birthday Brett Edward Garsed, born in Victoria Australia, heavy metal artist, Nelson 1962 Death Franz Kline, American Artist 1962 Death Willem Paerels, Netherlands/Belgian painter/graphic artist, dies at 83 1961 Birthday Leigh Bowery, born in Sunshine, Australia, designer, pop star, model, performance artist, influenced Boy George, Vivienne Westwood 1961 Birthday Todd McFarlane, Canadian Artist 1960 Birthday Jean-Michel Basquiat, Haiti/US graffiti artist/painter, Gray, SAMO 1960 Birthday Kasey Smith, Queens, New York, heavy metal artist, Danger Danger-Screw It 1960 Birthday Jaron Lanier, born in New York City, New York, visual artist, author, computer scientist, popularized the term, 'virtual reality' 1959 Death Stanley Spencer, English Artist 1959 Birthday Maya Lin, born in Athens, Ohio, artist, architect of Chinese descent, known for Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., sculpture, landscape art 1959 Death Gerard Hoffnung, artist/humorist/musician, dies 1958 Birthday Keith Haring, Kutztown, Pennsylvania, graffiti artist, Vanity Fair, Paris Review 1958 Birthday Bill Sienkiewicz, American Artist 1958 Birthday Werner Schwab, born in Austria, writer, playwright, visual artist, studied sculpture at Vienna's Akademie der bildenden Kunste in 1990, wrote sixteen plays, produced eight, controversial works in the Austrian Black comedy tradition 1958 Birthday Thomas Kinkade, American Artist 1957 Birthday Gilbert Hernandez, American Artist 1956 Death Jackson Pollock, abstract artist, dies in auto accident (East Hampton) 1956 Death Marie Laurencin, French Artist 1955 Birthday Robert ten Brink, Dutch TV host/cabaret artist 1955 Birthday John Kricfalusi, Canadian Artist 1955 Birthday Diamanda Galas, born America, composer, musician, politically charged performance artist, keyboardist, singer, has a voice range of three and a half octaves 1955 Birthday Eddie Campbell, Scottish Artist 1955 Death Max Pechstein, German painter/graphic artist (Oceania), dies at 73 1955 Birthday Jeff Koons, born in York, Pennsylvania, artist, known for large reproductions of ordinary objects, including brightly colored balloon animals made of stainless steel 1954 Death Henri Matisse, French Artist 1954 Death Evert Gorter, children artist (Kindergeneeskunde), dies at 72 1953 Death Francis Picabia, French Artist 1953 Birthday Alex Grey, born in Columbus, Ohio, sacred, visionary, psychedelic artist, co-founder, Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, author of 'Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics' 1953 Birthday Johnny Clegg, born in Rochdale, Lancashire, England, Jonathan 'Johnny' Clegg, musician, recording artist, Grammy-Award nominee, mbaqanga, Afro-pop genres, formed and performed with Juluka band, formed Savuka band, popular figure in South African music history 1953 Birthday Helen Chadwick, born in Britain, conceptual artist, feminist perspective 1953 Birthday Martin Kippenberger, German Artist 1952 Birthday Jim Woodring, American Artist 1952 Birthday Pat MacDonald, born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, singer, songwriter, guitarist, member of band, Timbuk 3, Grammy Award Nominee for Best New Artist, 1987 1952 Death Howard Chandler Christy, American Artist 1951 Death John French Sloan, American Artist 1951 Birthday Liz Phillips, born in New Jersey, composer, sound artist, interactive artist, creates sound installations relating to live forms, has held exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, collaborated with Merce Cunningham Dance Company 1950 Death Max Beckmann, German painter/graphic artist, dies at 66 1950 Birthday Rick Baker, Binghamton, New York, special effects makeup artist, Exorcist 1950 Death Jacobus J E Hondius, Dutch classicist/graphic artist, dies at 53 1950 Birthday Jenny Holzer, born in Gallipolis, Ohio, conceptual artist, abstract artist, known for use of words and ideas in public spaces 1949 Death Louis Davids, Simon David, cabaret artist, dies at 65 1949 Birthday Stanley Knight, country artist, Black Oak Arkansas-High on the Hog 1948 Birthday Lin Onus, born in Melbourne, Australia, born William McLintock Onus, of Jiradjuri descent, artist, painter, sculptor, print maker, used Maningride rarrk cross-hatching-based painting style 1948 Birthday Wayne Kramer, jazz artist, Dangerous Madness 1948 Death Helen Ernst, German poster artist/resistance fighter, dies at about 43 1948 Birthday Art Spiegelman, American Artist 1947 Birthday Lesley Sunderland, decorative artist 1947 Birthday Laurie Anderson, performance artist, O Superman, Excellent Birds 1947 Birthday Jim Nollman, born in Boston, Massachusetts, graduated from Tufts University, composer, musical theater, conceptual artist, environmental activist, recorded interspecies music with wolves, whales, dolphins, deer, elk, desert rats 1946 Birthday Carson Van Osten, born in America, musician, performed with Todd Rundgren and rock group 'Nazz', comics creator, artist of Disney comics 1946 Birthday Alexander Curly, Harm Breemer, Dutch artist 1946 Birthday Jamie Wyeth, Penn, artist, An American Vision-Boston 1946 Death Giorgio Morandi, Italian Artist 1946 Birthday Eddie Holman, born in Norfolk, Virginia, recording artist, rhythm and blues, gospel, pop, soul genres, known for hit 'Hey There Lonely Girl' 1946 Birthday Tony Ashton, born in Blackburn, England, singer, composer, rock pianist, producer, artist 1945 Birthday Gielijn Escher, Dutch postage stamp artist 1945 Death Kathe Kollwitz, German graphic artist, dies at 77 1945 Birthday Anselm Kiefer, German Artist 1945 Death Emily Carr, Canadian Artist 1944 Death Vassily Kandinsky, abstract artist (Dreamy Inspiration), dies at 78 1944 Death Wassily Kandinsky, Russian Artist 1944 Birthday Phil May, born in Wortley, England, artist, caricaturist, drawings published in The Bulletin, St. Stephens Review, The Graphic, regular staff member of Punch 1944 Death Joseph B "Aristide" Maillol, French sculptor/graphic artist, dies 1944 Death Aristide Maillol, French sculptor/graphic artist, dies in car crash at 82 1944 Birthday Joan Barbara Grigor, artist 1944 Death Gerrit John van de Peat, artist/resistance fighter, executed at 41 1944 Birthday Billy Cobham, Panama, jazz artist, Same Ole Love 1944 Birthday Jackie Torrence, story teller/artist 1943 Birthday Grover Washington, Jr., jazz artist, Mr Magic 1943 Birthday Judith Frost, British Columbia, artist, To Red, Dust Drawings 1943 Death Louis Schelfhout, Dutch painter/graphic artist, dies at 62 1943 Birthday Bert Jansch, born in Glasgow, Scotland, musician, folk artist, acoustic guitarist, singer, songwriter, member of the band Pentangle, winner, BBC Folk Awards, Lifetime Achievement Award 1943 Death Camille Claudel, French Artist 1943 Event 1st edition of illegal "The Free Artist" appears in Amsterdam 1943 Birthday Hugh Davies, born in Exmouth, England, composer, musicologist, invented musical instruments from household items, 1970's member of the Artist Placement Group 1942 Birthday Meredith Monk, Lima Peru, choreographer-composer-performing artist 1942 Birthday Tommy Roe, born in Atlanta, Georgia, singer, songwriter, guitarist, 1960's bubblegum artist, toured with Roy Orbison 1941 Death El Lissitzky, Russian Artist 1941 Birthday Bruce Nauman, American Artist 1941 Birthday Curtis Lee, born in Yuma, Arizona, singer, doo-wop and pop recording artist with Phil Spector, partnered with Tommy Boyce, sang 'Under the Moon of Love', 'Pretty Little Angel Eyes' 1941 Birthday Dale Chihuly, born in Tacoma, Washington, artist in glass, Louis Tiffany Award 1967 1941 Birthday Oda Mayumi, Tokyo, resident artist, Green Gulch Zen Center 1941 Birthday Jan Dibbets, sculptor/artist, Dutch Mountains 1941 Birthday Don Van Vliet, American Artist 1941 Birthday Boris Vallejo, Peruvian Artist 1941 Birthday Jorg Reme, German/Dutch painter/graphic artist 1940 Event Gestapo arrest German resistance fighter/poster artist Helen Ernst 1940 Death Florence Scovel Shinn, artist, book illustrator, metaphysical writer, wrote, 'The Game of Life and how to Play it", 1925, writings follow thought principles of Emma Curtis Hopkins, Myrtle Fillmore, Phineas Quimby, Charles Fillmore, dies 1940 Birthday Roy Ayers, Louisiana, disco jazz artist, Fever, You Send Me 1940 Death Edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist, dies 1940 Death Jean-Edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist, dies at 71 1940 Death Euphemia "Phemia" Molkenboer, Dutch author/poster artist, dies at 56 1940 Death Florrie Forde, music hall artist, dies 1940 Birthday H R Giger, artist, special effects designer, Alien 1940 Birthday H. R. Giger, Swiss Artist 1939 Birthday Dianne Arndt, artist/photographer 1939 Birthday Richard Serra, American Artist 1939 Birthday O. V. Wright, born in Leno, Tennessee, singer, sang gospel, considered southern soul artist, first pop recording, 'That's How Strong My Love Is' 1939 Death Arthur Rackham, artist/illustrator (Grimm's Fairy Tales), dies at 71 1939 Death Frederick Carl Frieseke, American Artist 1939 Birthday Saul Steinberg, artist, The Art of Living 1939 Birthday Judy Chicago, Cohen, Chicago, artist, Dinner Party 1939 Birthday Warwick Hutton, born in Britain, illustrator, artist, author, created illustrations for children's books, worked with texts by Hans Christian Andersen 1939 Birthday Peter Phillips, born in Birmingham, England, artist, painter, sculpture, screenprint, lithography, pioneer, Pop Art Movement 1938 Birthday Henricus G Wijmans, Dutch graphic artist 1938 Death Richard N Roland Holst, Dutch artist/painter, dies at 70 1938 Birthday Janet Hough Bryant, author/performing artist/educator 1937 Birthday Peter Max, psychadelic artist, Dynamite Chicken 1937 Birthday Fritz Scholder, American Artist 1937 Birthday Don Bluth, American Artist 1937 Death Walter Gay, artist, dies 1937 Birthday David Hockney, born in Bradford, England, artist, Pop Art 1937 Birthday Red Grooms, American Artist 1937 Birthday Yehuda Yannay, born in Romania, composer, film maker, performance artist, international figure in contemporary music 1937 Death Henry O Tanner, artist, dies 1936 Birthday Jennifer Dickson, artist/photographer 1936 Birthday Hans Haacke, Cologne Germany, artist, Right to Life, Dripper Boxes 1936 Birthday George Bryan Ingham, artist 1936 Birthday Gerald Scarfe, British Artist 1936 Birthday Frank Stella, American Artist 1935 Death Paul Signac, French Artist 1935 Birthday Jim Dine, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, pop artist, St. John the Divine 1935 Birthday Christo [Javacheff], Bulgaria, artist, wrapper, Running Fence 1935 Birthday Christo, Bulgarian Artist 1935 Birthday Christoph Meckel, born in Berlin, Germany, graphic artist, writer, author, works include 'Georg Heym: Gedichte' 1935 Birthday Ramsey Lewis, Chic, pop jazz artist, Hang on Sloopy 1935 Death Kazimir Malevich, Polish Artist 1935 Death Max Liebermann, Germany impressionist painter/graphic artist, dies at 87 1934 Birthday Aat Veldhoen, Dutch artist 1934 Birthday Dave Guard, born in San Francisco, California, singer, songwriter, recording artist, guitar and banjo player, founding member of The Kingston Trio 1934 Death Johan J Arch, graphic artist (houtgravures), dies at 63 1934 Birthday Richard A. Garland, artist/photographer 1934 Death John Collier, British Artist 1934 Birthday Eric Hebborn, artist/faker 1933 Birthday Jan van Ginkel, graphic artist/publisher, Perscombinatie 1933 Birthday Michelangelo Pistoletto, Italian artist, glass painter 1933 Birthday Philip Corner, born in America, composer, visual artist, taught by Fritz Jahoda, teacher, Modern Music at the New School for Social Research 1933 Birthday Hannes Postma, Dutch graphic artist 1933 Birthday Yoko Ono, born in Tokyo, Japan, vocalist and artist 1932 Birthday Joanne Battiste, artist, heroines 1932 Death Marie MJ Poupelet, French sculptor/poster artist, dies 1932 Birthday Al Levitt, born in New York City, New York, drummer, American jazz artist, studied under Irv Kuger, played in Europe with Peter Ind, Slide Hampton, Chet Baker, Wayne Marsh, James Moody 1932 Birthday Ronald B Kitaj, US/British painter/graphic artist, pop art 1932 Birthday Howard Hodgkin, British Artist 1932 Birthday Nam June Paik, born in Seoul, Korea, video artist, Medium is the Medium 1932 Birthday Graham Arnold, born in England, artist, founder of Brotherhood of Ruralists, other members include Jann Haworth, Sir Peter Blake, worked with oil and mixed media, realistic and surrealistic elements 1932 Death Frans Gailliard, Belgian painter/graphic artist (Egina), dies at 70 1932 Birthday Pieter Brattinga, Dutch graphic artist 1931 Birthday Cornelis de Wine, graphic artist 1931 Birthday Louis W. Ballard, born in Cherokee, Quapaw, Native American composer, author, artist, wrote 'Incident at Wounded Knee' 1931 Birthday David Shepherd, born in Britain, painter, artist, considered world's most famous conservationists, famous for paintings of wildlife 1931 Birthday Frank Auerbach, German Artist 1931 Birthday Tom Wesselmann, American Artist 1930 Birthday Denis Gerald Barrington, artist 1930 Birthday Faith Ringgold, American Artist 1930 Birthday Erica Pedretti, born in Sternberk, Czech Republic, author, writer, artist, painter, sculptress, awarded, Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 1930 Birthday Roman Ciesiewicz, artist/graphic designer 1929 Birthday Chris Kenner, born in Kenner, near New Orleans, Louisiana, rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, recording artist, 1961 hit I Like It Like That was on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart, song Land of a Thousand Dances was recorded by Patti Smith, and others 1929 Birthday Horst Janssen, graphic Artist 1929 Birthday Josef Suk, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, violinist, Artist of Merit-1977 1929 Birthday Li Yuan-chia, artist 1929 Death Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet, Austrian artist (React of P), dies at 54 1929 Birthday Claes Oldenburg, born in Stockholm, Sweden, U.S. pop artist, Alphabet/Good Humor 1928 Birthday Helen Frankenthaler, New York, abstract expressionist artist, Arden 1928 Birthday Robert Indiana, American Artist 1928 Birthday Sol LeWitt, born in Connecticut, artist, modern art pioneer, famous for wall drawings and "structures" 1928 Birthday Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher 1928 Birthday Michael Wishart, artist 1928 Death Jan [Jean] T Toorop, Dutch graphic artist (3 Brides), dies at 69 1928 Birthday Frank Frazetta, American Artist 1927 Birthday Mose Allison, Tippo Mississippi, jazz artist, Black Country Suite 1927 Birthday Al Hansen, born in New York City, New York, Norwegian American artist, member of the 1960's Flexus art movement that blended different artistic media and disciplines 1927 Birthday Andy Warhol, born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, artist/producer, Frankenstein, Bad 1927 Birthday Hugo Pratt, graphic artist 1926 Death Claude Monet, French Artist 1926 Birthday Conrad Hall, American Artist 1926 Death Joseph Pennell, artist/author, dies 1926 Birthday Gil Kane, American Artist 1925 Birthday Bob de Moor, Flemish comic strip artist, Kuifje, Lion of Flanders 1925 Birthday Robert Rauschenberg, born in Texas, artist, created "Combines", combinations of non-traditional materials and objects 1925 Birthday Jean Tinguely, Swiss sculptor artist, movement objects 1925 Birthday Edward Gorey, Chicago, author/artist, Curious Sofa 1925 Birthday Gerard Hoffnung, Berlin Germany, artist/humorist/musician 1925 Birthday Arthur Berry, born in Smallthorne, Stoke-on-Trent, England, playwright, artist, teacher, poet, studied, then taught at Burslem School of Art, absorbed by Stoke-on-Trent College of Art, which in 1971 became North Staffordshire Polytechnic, where he taught painting until 1985 1924 Birthday Kenneth Noland, American Artist 1924 Birthday Mart Kempers, Dutch graphic artist and sculptor 1924 Birthday Peter Baer, artist and printmaker 1924 Birthday Gunter Haese, German sculptor/graphic artist, Guggenheim prize 1967 1924 Birthday Marcelle Ferron, Canadian Artist 1924 Death Simon Abramsz, Dutch writer (Artist book), dies at 56 1924 Birthday Philip Rawson, artist/teacher 1923 Birthday Marcel Marceau, born in Strasbourg, France, mime artist and actor 1923 Birthday Morschi Mirando, Thomas Weiss, German/Dutch gypsy artist 1922 Birthday Lucian Freud, Berlin German, artist, Boy With a Rat 1922 Birthday Tom Hudson, artist/teacher 1922 Birthday John Ernest, constructionist artist 1921 Birthday Tom Manders, Dutch cabaret artist, Dorus 1921 Birthday John Christopherson, artist/collector 1921 Birthday Herman Berserik, Dutch painter/graphic artist 1921 Birthday Zao-Wou-Ki, Chinese/French painter/graphic artist 1920 Birthday Aad de Haas, Dutch religious painter/graphic artist/cartoonist 1920 Birthday Dave Bartholomew, Louisiana, jazz artist/songwriter, Blueberry Hill 1920 Birthday Malcolm Hughes, artist 1920 Birthday Marcel Maeyer, de Maeyer, Belgian sculptor/graphic artist 1920 Birthday Arthur Boyd, Australian Artist 1920 Death Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor, dies at 63 1920 Birthday Ray Harryhausen, movie special effect artist, Clash of Titans 1920 Birthday Paul Peter Piech, artist 1920 Event Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week with Kansas City Slide Co. 1919 Death Auguste Renoir, French Artist 1918 Birthday Corita Kent, born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, artist, educator, mediums include silkscreen, serigraphy, producing fine art with messages of love and peace, famous work includes the 1985 Love Samp and Rainbow Swash 1918 Death Egon Schiele, Austria painter/graphic artist, dies at 28 1918 Birthday June Wayne, artist, lithographer and teacher 1917 Birthday Lawrence Jacob, Atlantic City, New Jersey, artist, Sanitarium 1917 Birthday Christian Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor/artist 1917 Birthday Jacob Lawrence, American Artist 1916 Birthday Howard Finster, American Artist 1916 Birthday Bob Kane, American Artist 1916 Birthday Luc Peire, Flemish painter/graphic artist 1916 Birthday Bernard Baily, comic artist 1915 Birthday Hetta Empson, artist 1915 Death Albert Weisgerber, German painter/graphic artist, dies in battle 1915 Birthday Willy Dixon, blues artist, Mellow Down Easy 1915 Birthday Harry Bertoia, Italian Artist 1915 Birthday Mervyn Levy, artist/critic 1915 Birthday William Crosbie, artist 1915 Birthday Jack Levine, American Artist 1914 Death Eduard Jacobs, Dutch cabaret artist, dies at 47 1914 Birthday Stanislaw Brunstein, artist 1914 Birthday Ismond Rosen, psychoanalyst/artist 1914 Birthday Abram Games, graphic artist 1914 Birthday Norman McLaren, Scottish Artist 1914 Birthday Cornelis "Kees" Andrea, Dutch painter/graphic artist/carpet designer 1914 Birthday Louis Osman, architect/artist/goldsmith 1914 Birthday Louis Osman, artist architect goldsmith medallist/craftsman 1913 Birthday Ad Reinhardt, American Artist 1913 Birthday Frank Tashlin, American Artist 1913 Birthday Peter John Norton, naval diplomat/artist 1912 Birthday Jan Peeters, Dutch water colors painter/monumental artist 1912 Birthday Metten Koornstra, Dutch painter/graphic artist 1912 Birthday Agnes Martin, Canadian Artist 1911 Birthday Anna Russell, born in London, England, possibly born in London, Ontario, birth name Maida Vale, Anna Claudia Russell-Brown, composer, singer, comedian, recording artist 1911 Birthday Burne Hogarth, strip-cartoon artist 1910 Birthday Dick Elffers, Dutch graphic artist/painter, Holland Festival 1910 Death John LaFarge, American Artist 1910 Birthday Frank Fidler, artist 1910 Death Henri Rousseau, French Artist 1910 Birthday Morris Graves, American Artist 1910 Birthday Quentin Bell, artist author/teacher 1910 Death Francis S Haden, English surgeon/graphic artist, dies at 91 1910 Birthday Franz Kline, American Artist 1910 Birthday Henry William Collins, artist 1909 Death Frederic Remington, American Artist 1909 Birthday Jacob Kainen, artist/curator 1909 Death Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist (Elle), dies at 60 1909 Birthday French van Immerseel, Belgian graphic artist 1909 Birthday Carsten Nicolai, German Artist 1909 Birthday Karen Finley, American Artist 1909 Death Charles Conder, artist, dies 1908 Birthday Remedios Varo, Spanish Artist 1908 Death Peter Oliver, English Artist 1908 Birthday John Hench, American Artist 1908 Birthday Joe Grant, American Artist 1908 Birthday Peter Oliver, English Artist 1907 Birthday Terence Tenison Cuneo, artist 1907 Birthday Alexander Hardie Williamson, artist 1907 Birthday Victor Reinganum, artist 1906 Birthday Nancy Mayhew Youngman, artist/educator 1906 Birthday Dale Messick, American Artist 1906 Birthday Harry van Kruiningen, Henri A Janssen, painter/graphic artist 1905 Birthday James Holland, artist/exhibition organiser 1905 Birthday Boris Arapov, born in Poltava, Ukraine, composer, studied with Vladimir Shcherbachov at Leningrad Conservatory, taught at Leningrad Conservatory, received honor Peoples Artist of the USSR in 1976 and Order of Lenin honor in 1986 1905 Death Joseph Jefferson, American Artist 1905 Birthday Barnett Newman, American Artist 1904 Birthday Hans Burkhardt, artist 1904 Death Emile Galle, French glass/marble/ceramic artist dies at 56 1904 Birthday Agnes Yarnall, sculptor, artist, author laa, 1987 1904 Birthday Willie Mae "Mother" Smith, gospel singer/evangelist folk artist 1904 Birthday Salvador Dali, Figueras, Spain, surrealist artist, Crucifixion 1904 Birthday Willem De Kooning, born in Rotterdam Netherland, artist, North Atlantic Light 1904 Birthday Jean Helion, artist/author, They Shall Not Have Me 1904 Birthday Mississippi Fred McDowell, jazz artist 1903 Death Camille Pissarro, French Artist 1903 Birthday Michael Whalley Wickham, artist 1903 Death James Whistler, American Artist 1903 Birthday Ray Howard-Jones, artist 1903 Death Paul Gauguin, French Artist 1903 Birthday Robert Gwathmey, artist, Arts and Letters 1901 Birthday Jean Dubuffet, French Artist 1901 Birthday George Keyt, born in Sri Lanka, artist, modern painter, cubist style, influenced by Henri Matisse, celebrated for line drawing translation of Gita Govinda into English and Sinhalese 1901 Birthday Alexander Alexeieff, Russian/French painter and graphic artist 1901 Birthday Carl Barks, American Artist 1900 Death Peter S Koyer, Danish painter/sculptor/graphic artist, dies at 49 1900 Birthday Constantin Alajalov, Russia, artist, Ditters and Jitters 1899 Birthday Raphael Soyer, artist, Depression Scenes in New York City 1898 Birthday Benjamin Shahn, Lithuanian Artist 1898 Birthday M. C. Escher, Dutch Artist 1898 Birthday Maurits C Escher, Dutch graphic artist 1897 Birthday Jacobus J E Hondius, graphic artist 1897 Birthday Hendrik J Valk, painter/cartoonist/graphic artist 1896 Death Wyatt Eaton, artist, painter, portraitist, one of the founders of the Society of American Artists, dies from tuberculosis in Newport, Rhode Island 1896 Death Theodore Robinson, American Artist 1896 Birthday Andre Aime Rene Masson, French Surrealist artist, Labyrinth 1895 Death Berthe Morisot, French Artist 1894 Death Philip Gilbert Hamerton, English Artist 1894 Birthday Norman Rockwell, U.S., artist/illustrator, Sat Evening Post covers 1894 Birthday Henryk Stazewski, Polish abstract painter/graphic artist 1893 Death Barthelemy Menn, Swiss graphic artist/painter, dies at 77 1893 Birthday Beatrice Wood, potter, artist and author 1892 Death Edouard Joseph Stevens, Belgian painter/graphic artist, dies at 72 1891 Birthday Otto Dix, German Artist 1891 Birthday Stanley Spencer, English Artist 1890 Birthday Mark Tobey, American Artist 1890 Birthday El Lissitzky, Russian Artist 1890 Death Karel M M Verlat, Flemish painter/graphic artist, dies 1890 Death Willem Linnig, Jr., Flemish painter/graphic artist, dies 1890 Birthday Man Ray, U.S. statues artist/photographer/movie, dada 1890 Birthday Yves Alix, French painter/graphic artist 1890 Birthday Giorgio Morandi, Italian Artist 1890 Birthday Egon Schiele, Austrian painter/graphic artist 1889 Birthday Jean Cocteau, born in France, writer/artist/director, Le Potamak, Orphee 1889 Death William Roxby Beverly, artist, dies 1888 Birthday Josef Albers, German/U.S. graphic artist/painter/writer, Bauhaus 1887 Birthday Georgia O'Keeffe, American Artist 1887 Birthday Le Corbusier, born in Switzerland, architect, city planner, and artist, Urbanisme 1887 Birthday Marc Chagall, born in Vitebsk, Russia, artist, I and The Village 1887 Birthday Arnaut Colnot, painter/graphic artist 1886 Birthday Georges Vandertongerloo, Flemish artist, L'art et Son Avenir 1886 Birthday Jean Arp, born in Strasbourg, Germany, artist, sculptor, painter, poet, mediums include torn, pasted paper, founder, Dada movement in Zurich 1886 Birthday Constant Permeke, Flemish painter/statues artist, Sow 1886 Birthday Peter Alma, Dutch painter/graphic artist 1885 Birthday Milton Avery, American Artist 1884 Death Thomas Gold Appleton, American critic, writer, and artist, dies 1884 Birthday Max Beckmann, German painter/graphic artist 1883 Birthday Marie Laurencin, French Artist 1883 Birthday Euphemia "Phemia" Molkenboer, Dutch author/poster artist 1883 Birthday Paul Arntzenius, painter/graphic artist/etcher 1882 Death Phiz [Hablot Knight Browne], English artist (David Cupperfield), dies 1882 Birthday Rockwell Kent, artist/painter/illustrator, Canterbury Tales 1882 Birthday Georges Braque, French Artist 1881 Birthday Max Pechstein, German "entartet" painter/graphic artist, The Bridge 1881 Birthday Pablo Picasso, born in Malaga, Spain, artist, 3 Dancers, Guernica 1881 Birthday Louis Schelfhout, Dutch painter/graphic artist 1880 Birthday Viking Eggeling, Sweden, artist/film maker, Diagonal Symphony 1879 Death William Morris Hunt, American Artist 1879 Birthday Gerald Festus Kelly, artist 1879 Birthday Norman Lindsay, Creswick Victoria, artist/novelist 1878 Birthday Willem Paerels, Netherlands/Belgian painter/graphic artist 1878 Birthday Albert Weisgerber, German painter/graphic artist 1878 Birthday Kazimir Malevich, Polish Artist 1877 Death Gustave Courbet, French Artist 1877 Birthday Bela Schick, Hungarian/US children artist, Serum Krankheit 1876 Death Franz count of Pocci, German artist/composer (Alchemist), dies at 69 1874 Birthday Frederick Carl Frieseke, American Artist 1874 Birthday Harry Houdini, Budapest, magician/escape artist 1873 Birthday Howard Chandler Christy, American Artist 1872 Birthday Aubrey Beardsley, England, artist, Salome 1872 Birthday Piet Mondrian, Dutch Artist 1871 Birthday Emily Carr, Canadian Artist 1871 Birthday Florence Scovel Shinn, born in New Jersey, artist, book illustrator, metaphysical writer, wrote, 'The Game of Life and how to Play it", 1925, writings follow thought principles of Emma Curtis Hopkins, Myrtle Fillmore, Phineas Quimby, Charles Fillmore 1871 Birthday Johan J Arch, graphic artist, wood cutter 1871 Birthday John Sloan, American Artist 1871 Birthday John French Sloan, American Artist 1871 Birthday Jeanne Bougeois, La Mistinguette, artist, French revue 1868 Birthday Richard N Roland Holst, Dutch artist/painter 1868 Birthday Edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist 1867 Birthday Arthur Rackham, England, artist/illustrator, Grimm's Fairy Tales 1867 Birthday Emil Nolde, Hansen, German painter/graphic artist 1867 Birthday Eduard Jacobs, Dutch cabaret artist 1866 Birthday Roger Fry, English Artist 1866 Birthday Wassily Kandinsky, Russian Artist 1866 Birthday Charles de Souzy Ricketts, artist 1865 Birthday Akseli V Gallen-Kallela, Fins painter/graphic artist/illustrator 1864 Birthday Camille Claudel, French Artist 1864 Death John Leech, English Artist 1863 Birthday Paul Signac, French Artist 1861 Birthday Frederic Remington, U.S., artist/sculptor of American West 1860 Birthday Grandma Moses, American Artist 1859 Birthday Henry O Tanner, artist 1858 Birthday Jean/Johannes T "Jan" Toorop, Dutch painter/graphic artist, 3 Brides 1857 Birthday Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor 1852 Birthday Theodore Robinson, American Artist 1851 Death J. M. W. Turner, English Artist 1851 Death Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, French Artist 1851 Birthday Peter S Koyer, Danish painter/sculptor/graphic artist 1851 Birthday Ernst Josephson, Sweden, artist 1850 Birthday John Collier, British Artist 1849 Birthday Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist, La femme 1849 Birthday Wyatt Eaton, born in Philipsburg, Canada, artist, painter, portraitist, one of the founders of the Society of American Artists 1848 Birthday Cornelis A. Pekelharing, artist, fabric seller 1846 Birthday Emile Galle, French glass/marble/ceramic artist, Galle Glaze 1846 Birthday Kate Greenaway, born in England, artist/book illustrator, Under the Window 1844 Birthday Thomas Eakins, American Artist 1844 Birthday Henri Rousseau, French Artist 1842 Birthday Willem Linnig Jr., Flemish painter and graphic artist 1841 Birthday Auguste Renoir, French Artist 1841 Birthday Berthe Morisot, French Artist 1840 Death Caspar David Friedrich, German Artist 1838 Birthday Anton Mauve, painter/graphic artist/cousin of Vincent Van Gogh 1836 Birthday Archibald M Willard, U.S., artist, Spirit of '76 1835 Birthday John LaFarge, American Artist 1834 Birthday Philip Gilbert Hamerton, English Artist 1834 Birthday James McNeill Whistler, American Artist 1834 Birthday James Whistler, American Artist 1831 Death James Northcote, English Artist 1830 Birthday Camille Pissarro, French Artist 1829 Birthday Joseph Jefferson, American Artist 1828 Death Simon Paap, Dutch 56 cm long dwarf/cabaret artist, dies at 39 1825 Death Henry Fuseli, British Artist 1824 Birthday Karel M M Verlat, Flemish painter/graphic artist 1824 Birthday William Morris Hunt, American Artist 1823 Birthday Charles Keene, Hornsey, artist 1819 Birthday Edouard Joseph Stevens, Belgian animal painter/graphic artist 1819 Birthday Gustave Courbet, French Artist 1819 Birthday John Ruskin, writer/critic/artist/Gothic Revivalist, Prerafaelite 1818 Birthday Francis Seymour Haden, English surgeon/graphic artist 1817 Birthday John Leech, English Artist 1815 Birthday Barthelemy Menn, Swiss graphic artist/painter 1815 Death Jacob van Strij, Dutch cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 58 1812 Birthday Thomas Gold Appleton, born in Boston, Massachusetts, American critic, writer, and artist 1808 Birthday Daumier, Marseilles France, artist 1807 Death John Opie, born at Trevellas, England, teacher, artist, portraitist, historical works include, the Assassination of James I, Murder of Rizzio, dies at 45 in Berners Street, London 1805 Birthday Constantine Brumidi, artist, Myrtle Murdock 1802 Birthday Friedrich Wilhelm Schirmer, artist 1799 Birthday Titian Ramsey Peale, U.S., artist/naturalist, American Ornithology 1799 Birthday Karl Adolph von Basedow, German artist, Ziekte van Basedow 1787 Birthday Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, French Artist 1787 Birthday Johann D Passavant, German historian/painter/graphic artist 1786 Death Patience Wright, 1st U.S. woman pro artist, dies (birth date unknown) 1785 Birthday John James Audubon, Haiti, bird watcher/artist 1784 Death Allan Ramsay, artist 1782 Birthday John Sell Cotman, water color artist 1778 Birthday Juan Lovera, Venezuela, artist 1777 Birthday Alexander Orlowski, Polish painter, cartoonist and graphic artist 1775 Birthday J. M. W. Turner, English Artist 1775 Birthday Thomas Girtin, London, artist/watercolorist 1774 Birthday Caspar David Friedrich, German Artist 1763 Birthday George Morland, England, artist of rural landscapes 1761 Birthday John Opie, born at Trevellas, England, teacher, artist, portraitist, historical works include, the Assassination of James I, Murder of Rizzio 1756 Birthday Jacob van Strij, Dutch cartoonist/graphic artist 1753 Birthday Thomas Bewick, England, artist, British Birds, Aesop's Fables 1746 Birthday James Northcote, English Artist 1741 Birthday Henry Fuseli, British Artist 1738 Birthday John Singleton Copley, Massachusetts, finest colonial American artist 1721 Death Benott Audran, artist/engraver, dies 1721 Death Bernhard Albinus, Weiss, German artist (Frederik of Prussia), dies 1618 Birthday Bartolome Esteban Murillo, Spain, Baroque artist [baptized] 1593 Birthday Jacob Jordaens, Flemish barok artist 1591 Death Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51 1539 Birthday Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist/illustrator 1528 Death Albrecht Durer, German painter/graphic artist, dies in Germany at 56 1520 Death Raphael [Sanzio], artist (Sistine Madonna), dies on his 37th birthday 1519 Death Leonardo Da Vinci, artist/scientist, dies at 67 1507 Birthday Gentile Bellini, Italian artist, Sultan Mohammed II 1503 Birthday Francesco Parmigianino, Italian artist, Madonna with the Long Neck
