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2004 Death - Syd Hoff, cartoonist/children's book illustrator, The New Yorker, dies at 91

2003 Death - Robert McCloskey, writer/illustrator, Make Way for Ducklings, dies at 78

1999 Death - Harry Rossoll, illustrator, created Smokey Bear, dies at 89

1995 Death - Rene Mable Neighbour Cloke, illustrator, dies at 90

1995 Death - Walter Goetz, illustrator cartoonist/painter, dies at 83

1994 Death - Janet Ahlberg, illustrator, 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 - Jeanne Bieruma Oosting, Dutch painter/illustrator, dies

1994 Death - Richard Scarry, author/illustrator of children's books, dies at 74

1994 Death - Richard McClure Scarry, U.S. kid book illustrator/writer, dies at 74

1992 Death - James Marshall, illustrator/author (The Stupids), dies at 50

1991 Death - James Marshall, U.S. children's book writer/illustrator, dies at 50

1987 Death - Anton F Pieck, illustrator (1001 Nights), dies at 92

1987 Death - Peggy Bacon, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads), dies at 91

1971 Death - Massimo Campigli, Italian painter/illustrator, dies at 75

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

1957 Death - Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican illustrator, dies

1953 Death - Francis Picabia, French painter/illustrator, dies at 75

1947 Death - Pierre Bonnard, French painter/illustrator, dies at 79

1944 Birthday - Janet Ahlberg, illustrator

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

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

1939 Birthday - Warwick Hutton, born in Britain, illustrator, artist, author, created illustrations for children's books, worked with texts by Hans Christian Andersen

1933 Birthday - The Tjong King, Dutch illustrator of children books, Miep Diekman

1931 Death - Akseli V Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter/illustrator, dies at 65

1928 Birthday - Maurice Sendak, New York City, author/illustrator, Where The Wild Things Are

1927 Birthday - Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator

1927 Birthday - Shirley Hughes, author/illustrator

1921 Birthday - Allan Jaffee, comic strip cartoonist/illustrator, MAD Magazine

1921 Death - Xavier Mellery, Belgian painter/illustrator, dies at 75

1919 Birthday - Richard McClure Scarry, children's author/illustrator

1917 Birthday - Sidney Nolan, born in Australia, painter/illustrator, Ned Kelly

1915 Death - Walter Crane, English painter/cartoonist/illustrator, dies at 69

1914 Birthday - Cees [Cornelis A B] Bantzinger, Dutch cartoonist/illustrator

1914 Birthday - Saul Steinberg, Romania, cartoonist/illustrator, New Yorker

1914 Death - John Tenniel, British illustrator (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 93

1914 Birthday - David Langdon, cartoonist/illustrator

1911 Birthday - Walter Goetz, illustrator cartoonist/painter

1909 Death - Caran d'Ache, Emmanuel Poire, French illustrator, dies

1904 Birthday - Rene Mable Neighbour Cloke, illustrator

1902 Death - Jean Y. Y. Tissot, French painter/illustrator, dies

1901 Birthday - John Wijga, painter/illustrator

1898 Birthday - Kathleen Hale, British children book writer/illustrator, Orlando

1898 Death - Aubrey (Vincent) Beardsley, English illustrator (Salome), dies at 23

1896 Death - William Hamilton Gibson, illustrator/author/novelist, dies

1895 Birthday - Massimo Campigli, Italian painter/illustrator

1895 Birthday - Peggy Bacon, Ridgefield, Connecticut, author/illustrator, Off With Their Heads

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

1886 Birthday - Hugh Lofting, England, writer and illustrator, Dr. Dolittle

1883 Death - Gustave Dore, French illustrator, dies at 51

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

1879 Birthday - Umberto Brunelleschi, Italian cartoonist/illustrator, Candide

1878 Death - George Cruikshank, English illustrator (Grimm), dies at 85

1878 Birthday - Francis Picabia, French painter/illustrator

1877 Birthday - James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator, "I want you" Uncle Sam

1872 Birthday - William Heath Robinson, England, illustrator/cartoonist, Don Quixote

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

1868 Death - George Cattermole, painter/illustrator, dies

1867 Birthday - Pierre Bonnard, French painter/illustrator

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

1867 Birthday - Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator, drew "Gibson Girl"

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

1860 Birthday - Sidney Paget, British illustrator, Sherlock Holmes

1853 Birthday - Howard Pyle, illustrator, painter and author, King Stork

1846 Birthday - Randolph Caldecott, born in England, illustrator, Caldecott Medal namesake

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

1845 Birthday - Walter Crane, England, painter/illustrator, Beauty and Beast

1845 Birthday - Xavier Mellery, Belgian painter/illustrator

1839 Death - Joseph A Koch, Australia painter/cartoonist/etcher/illustrator, dies at 70

1832 Birthday - Gustave Dore, Strasbourg Fr, illustrator, Inferno, Ancient Mariner

1820 Birthday - John Tenniel, England, cartoonist/illustrator, Alice in Wonderland

1817 Birthday - John Gilbert, painter/illustrator

1815 Birthday - Phiz [Hablot Knight Browne], English illustrator, Pickwick Papers

1784 Death - Simon Fokke, book illustrator, dies at 71

1780 Death - Jacobus Houbraken, engraver/illustrator, dies at 81

1779 Death - Jan Punt, engraver/illustrator/actor (Gideonschool), dies at 68

1775 Birthday - Alexander Anderson, U.S., engraver/illustrator, Shakespeare

1712 Birthday - Simon Fokke, Dutch book illustrator

1711 Birthday - Jan Punt, Dutch engraver, illustrator and actor, Gideonschool

1698 Birthday - Jacobus Houbraken, Dutch engraver/illustrator

1678 Death - Cornelis Galle II, Flemish engraver/illustrator, dies at 63

1615 Birthday - Cornelis Galle II, Flemish engraver/illustrator, baptised

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

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