2013 Event The painting, 'Three Studies of Lucian Freud' by Sir Francis Bacon, sells for a record-high price of $142 million at Christie's auction in New York 2012 Event A painting by Francis Bacon sells at Christies for 21.3 million pounds; 'The Portrait of Henrietta Moraes' is the second most valuable post-war contemporary art sold at the auction house 1992 Event Kevin Bacon marries Kyra Sedgwick 1992 Death Francis Bacon, Irish/British abstract painter, dies at 82 1991 Death Mary Bacon, jockey, dying of cancer, commits suicide by gun at 43 1990 Death Ernst Bacon, composer, dies at 91 1987 Death Peggy Bacon, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads), dies at 91 1965 Death Irving Bacon, actor (Fort Ti, Petticoat Fever), dies at 71 1958 Birthday Kevin Bacon, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, actor, Diner, Footloose, She's Having a Baby 1955 Death Lloyd Bacon, director (Fuller Brush Girl, 42nd Street), dies at 65 1953 Birthday Nicholas Bacon, premier baronet of England 1940 Event Britain's 1st WW II rationing (bacon, butter and sugar) 1909 Birthday Francis Bacon, born in Ireland, painter, Study for a Pope 1898 Birthday Ernst Bacon, composer 1895 Birthday Peggy Bacon, Ridgefield, Connecticut, author/illustrator, Off With Their Heads 1893 Birthday Irving Bacon, born in St. Joseph, Missouri, actor, Branded Men, Fort Ti 1890 Birthday Lloyd Bacon, born in San Jose, California, actor, Charlie Chaplin 1866 Birthday Henry Bacon, architect, Lincoln Memorial 1864 Birthday Frank Bacon, actor/author, Lightnin 1802 Birthday Leonard Bacon, American Clergyman 1799 Death John Bacon, English sculptor, dies at 58 1740 Birthday John Bacon, English sculptor 1676 Death Nathaniel Bacon, rallied against Virginian government, killed at 29 1676 Event Rebels under Nathaniel Bacon set Jamestown Virginia on fire 1676 Event Nathaniel Bacon publishes "Declaration of People of Virginia" 1676 Event Nathaniel Bacon declared a rebel for assembling frontiersmen to protect settlers from Indians 1676 Event Bacon's Rebellion, frontiersmen vs Virginia government begins 1647 Birthday Nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Virginia, 1676 1627 Death Nathaniel Bacon, English painter, dies at 41 1626 Death Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans, statesman, dies 1621 Event Sir Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London for 1 night 1621 Event Francis Bacon accused of bribery 1618 Event Francis Bacon becomes English lord chancellor 1561 Birthday Francis Bacon, England, statesman/essayist, Novum Organum 1558 Birthday Robert Greene, Elizabethan dramatist, Friar Bacon
