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1997 Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate, dies at 89
1997 Jonathon Silver, entrepreneur/arts patron, dies at 47 1997 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 1996 Peter Dormer, arts writer, dies at 47 1996 Olga Maria Nicolis di Robilant, patron of the arts, dies at 96 1995 Lynette Roberts, poet, studied at London's Central School for Arts and Crafts, dies at 86 1991 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 1990 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 1989 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 1988 Bronx Museum for Arts opens 1987 Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director, dies at 90 1984 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 1983 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 1983 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 1981 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 1980 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 1977 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 1976 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation 1971 John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts opens in Washington D.C. 1969 101st Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Arts and Letters wins in 2:28.8 1969 Black Academy of Arts and Letters forms in Boston 1967 Palace of Fine Arts reopens (1st time during 1915 exposition) 1965 Alphons Arts, Dutch soccer player, Go Ahead Eagles 1963 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 1962 NY's Philharmonic Hall (since renamed Avery Fisher Hall) opens as 1st unit of Lincoln Center for Performing Arts 1961 Jay Aston, London, England, singer, youngest member of British pop group, Bucks Fizz, founded Jay Aston Theatre Arts School 1960 Robin Shou, martial arts actor, Mortal Kombat, Beverly Hills Ninja 1954 Tobias Picker, born in New York City, New York, composer, awarded Joseph H. Bearns Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, Award in Music from American Academy of Arts and Letters, composer-in-residence for Houston Symphony, 1985 - 1990, music publisher, Schott Music Corporation 1953 Carl Joseph Stone, born in America, composer, electronic music genre, minimalist, studied composition at California Institute of the Arts, served as President of the American Music Center 1949 Jonathon Silver, entrepreneur/arts patron 1949 Peter Dormer, arts writer 1947 Luke Rittner, Secretary-General, Arts Council 1945 Timothy Mason, consultant, British Arts Council 1943 WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, National Inst of Arts and Letters 1940 Chuck Norris, Carlos Ray, born in Oklahoma, martial arts actor, Missing in Action 1938 Yuji Takahashi, born in Japan, composer, author, pianist, performer, grant recipient, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists 1937 David Behrman, born in Salzburg, Austria, composer, producer, Music of Our Time series, Columbia Records, founding member, Sonic Arts Union 1932 Adrian Henri, poet and president, Liverpool Academy of Arts 1930 Ryohei Hirose, born in Hakodate, Japan, composer, professor, Kyoto University of Arts 1977 - 1996, composes music for shakuhachi, recorder, viola da gamba 1929 Oliver Neville, principal, Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts 1929 Adrienne Rich, born in Baltimore, Maryland, feminist writer, 'The Diamond Cutters' and 'Arts of the Possible' 1927 Louis B. Mayer forms Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 1927 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences forms 1926 Lee Hoiby, Madison Wisconsin, composer, 1957 Arts and Letters 1924 Ikuma Dan, born in Tokyo, Japan, composer, graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, studied under famous opera composer Kosaku Yamada 1924 Mark Bucci, New York City, composer, 1959 Arts and Letters Award 1923 Joseph Heller, born in Brooklyn, New York, novelist, Catch-22, 1963 Arts and Letters Award 1922 Ilja Hurnik, born in Poruba, Czechoslovakia, composer, essayist, studied at Prague Conservatory, Prague Academy of Arts, recorded 'sonata da camera', for flute, oboe, cello and harpsichord on Cedille Records 1915 Walter Trampler, Munich Germany, violist, Beaux Arts Trio 1914 Jack Delano, born in Kiev, Ukraine, attended Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, photographer for the Farm Security Administration, composer for Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra 1913 Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in SF 1913 National Institute of Arts and Letters founded 1911 Hortense Calisher, New York City, novelist, Arts and Letters 1967 1910 Dorothy Maynor, born in Norfolk, Virginia, soprano/founder, Harlem School of Arts 1910 Kitty Carlisle, born in Louisiana, American singer, spokeswoman for the arts, actress, 'To Tell The Truth' panelist 1910 National Institute of Arts and Letters incorporated by Congress 1909 Lynette Roberts, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Evelyn Beatrice Roberts, poet, studied at London's Central School for Arts and Crafts, Faber and Faber published works, 'Poems', 'Gods with stainless ears; a heroic poem' 1908 Lord Jenkins of Putney, British MP of Arts, Labour 1908 Dominique de Menil, arts patron/human rights advocate 1907 Julia Ward Howe is 1st woman elected to National Inst of Arts and Letters 1904 Isamu Noguchi, sculptor, 1963 Fine Arts Medal 1904 American Academy of Arts and Letters forms 1903 Robert Gwathmey, artist, Arts and Letters 1900 Olga Maria Nicolis di Robilant, patron of the arts 1898 Ben Shahn, painter, 1964 Arts and Letters 1897 Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director 1869 Carl G Carus, German arts/psychologist/philosopher, dies 1869 Hendrik P Marchant, Dutch minister of Education/Arts, VVD 1862 Bernard Maybeck, U.S. architect, Palace of Fine Arts, SF 1849 Max Nordau, German arts/writer/zionist leader 1805 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia 1780 2nd oldest learned society in U.S. (American Academy of Arts and Sciences) forms (Boston) 1780 American Academy of Arts and Science founded |
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