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

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

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

1995 Rene Mable Neighbour Cloke, illustrator, dies at 90

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

1994 Janet Ahlberg, illustrator, dies at 50

1994 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 Jeanne Bieruma Oosting, Dutch painter/illustrator, dies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1957 Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican illustrator, dies

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

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

1944 Janet Ahlberg, illustrator

1940 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 Arthur Rackham, artist/illustrator (Grimm's Fairy Tales), dies at 71

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

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

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

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

1927 Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator

1927 Shirley Hughes, author/illustrator

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

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

1919 Richard McClure Scarry, children's author/illustrator

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

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

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

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

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

1914 David Langdon, cartoonist/illustrator

1911 Walter Goetz, illustrator cartoonist/painter

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

1904 Rene Mable Neighbour Cloke, illustrator

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

1901 John Wijga, painter/illustrator

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

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

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

1895 Massimo Campigli, Italian painter/illustrator

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

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

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

1883 Gustave Dore, French illustrator, dies at 51

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

1879 Umberto Brunelleschi, Italian cartoonist/illustrator, Candide

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

1878 Francis Picabia, French painter/illustrator

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

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

1871 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 George Cattermole, painter/illustrator, dies

1867 Pierre Bonnard, French painter/illustrator

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

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

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

1860 Sidney Paget, British illustrator, Sherlock Holmes

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

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

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

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

1845 Xavier Mellery, Belgian painter/illustrator

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

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

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

1817 John Gilbert, painter/illustrator

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

1784 Simon Fokke, book illustrator, dies at 71

1780 Jacobus Houbraken, engraver/illustrator, dies at 81

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

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

1712 Simon Fokke, Dutch book illustrator

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

1698 Jacobus Houbraken, Dutch engraver/illustrator

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

1615 Cornelis Galle II, Flemish engraver/illustrator, baptised

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


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