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2010 Event - Photographic negatives purchased at a garage sale prove to be early works by American photographer Ansel Adams

2005 Death - Fay Godwin, British photographer, noted for black-and-white landscapes of British coast and countryside, took portraits of literary figures, Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Anthony Powell, dies at age 74, in Hastings, England

2004 Death - Richard Avedon, photographer, dies at 80

2004 Death - Carl Mydans, photographer, Life, dies at 97

2004 Death - Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer, dies at 95

2004 Death - Helmut Newton, photographer, Vogue, dies at 83

2004 Death - Francesco Scavullo, photographer, dies at 82

2002 Death - Herb Ritts, photographer, dies at 50

2002 Death - Barbara Rowell, photographer, National Geographic, dies at 54

2002 Death - Galen Rowell, photographer, National Geographic, dies at 61

2002 Death - Yousuf Karsh, photographer, dies at 93

2001 Death - Berry Berenson, photographer/actress, dies at 53 - a 9/11 terrorist murder

2001 Death - Alberto Korda, Cuban Photographer

2001 Death - O. Winston Link, American Photographer

1999 Death - Harry Callahan, American Photographer

1998 Death - Roddy McDowall, actor/photographer, Planet of the Apes, dies at 70

1998 Death - Linda McCartney, photographer, organic businesswoman, dies at 56

1997 Death - John Hinde, photographer/circus promoter, dies at 81

1996 Death - Terence Daniel Donovan, photographer, dies at 60

1996 Death - Peter Gordon Dorrell, archaeologist/photographer, dies at 68

1996 Death - Henry Clarke, fashion photographer, dies at 75

1996 Event - Albert Belle shows off his arm by hitting Sports Illustrated photographer Tony Tomsic in the hand prior to a game

1995 Death - James Altgens, John F. Kennedy assassination photographer, dies at 76

1995 Death - Larry Bartlett, photographer, dies at 42

1995 Death - John Trevor Key, photographer, dies at 48

1995 Death - Stanley Devon, photographer, dies at 88

1995 Death - Fred Fehl, photographer, dies at 89

1995 Event - INXS' Michael Hutchence pleads guilty to punching a photographer

1995 Death - Alfred Eisenstaedt, American Photographer

1995 Death - Willem Noordhoek, photographer, dies at 78

1995 Death - Helmut Erich Robert Gernsheim, photographer/collector, dies at 82

1995 Death - Albert Hardy, photographer, dies at 82

1995 Death - Emile van Moerkerken, photographer (Ice Princess), dies at 78

1995 Death - Art Kane, photographer, dies at 69

1995 Death - Ian Ball, photographer, dies at 80

1994 Death - Chris Joyce, photographer, dies at 51

1994 Death - Richard A Garland, artist photographer, dies at 60

1994 Death - Deborah Bear, English still photographer (Pasolini/Fellini), dies at 44

1994 Death - Frits de Knight, photographer, dies of AIDS at 40

1994 Death - Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead at 32

1994 Death - Robert Doisneau, French photographer (The Kiss), dies at 81

1993 Death - Scott Heiser, U.S. photographer (Interview), dies at 44

1993 Death - Andrei Solovyiov, Russian photographer, dies in battle at 38

1993 Death - Mark Kolthoff, Dutch painter/photographer, dies at 92

1993 Death - Kees Scherer, Dutch photographer (World Press Photo), dies at 72

1992 Death - Barbara Morgan, photographer (Martha Graham), dies at 92

1992 Death - George Hurrell, Hollywood photographer, dies of cancer at 87

1991 Death - Berenice Abbott, U.S. photographer, dies at 93

1991 Death - Max Koot, royal photographer, dies

1990 Death - Ed van der Elsken, Dutch photographer (Sweet Life), dies at 65

1989 Death - Robert Mapplethorpe, U.S. photographer, dies at 42

1986 Death - Sem Presser, Dutch press photographer, dies at 68

1986 Death - Jacques-Henri Lartigue, French photographer, dies at 92

1985 Death - Andre Kertesz, Hungarian photographer and photojournalist, dies

1984 Death - Ansel Adams, U.S. photographer, dies at 82

1984 Death - Garry Winogrand, prolific photographer, known for 20th century portraits of America, focusing on social issues of the time, exhibited at Museum of Modern Art, published 'The Animals', 'Public Relations', dies of gallbladder cancer at age 56

1983 Death - Bill Brandt, British Photographer

1983 Death - James Van Der Zee, American Photographer

1980 Event - John and Yoko pose nude for photographer Allan Tannenbaum

1980 Death - Cecil Beaton, British photographer, dies at 76

1980 Death - Axel Springer, Jr., German photographer, commits suicide at 38

1976 Death - Minor White, American Photographer

1975 Death - Walker Evans, U.S. photographer (Fortune Magazine), dies at 71

1973 Death - G Paul H Schuitema, graphically designer/photographer, dies

1971 Death - Margaret Bourke-White, U.S. photographer, dies at 67

1971 Death - Diane Arbus, Nemerov, photographer (Vogue), commits suicide at 48

1968 Death - Weegee, also known as Arthur Fellig, American Photographer

1967 Death - Sanne Sannes, photographer, dies at 30

1965 Death - Dorothea Lange, American Photographer

1964 Death - August Sander, German Photographer

1962 Birthday - Daria Scagliola, Italian/Dutch photographer, vuurtorenpostzegels

1958 Death - Edward Weston, American Photographer

1956 Birthday - Koo Stark, Kathleen Dee-Anne, photographer/actress, Emily

1954 Death - Robert Capa, American Photographer

1954 Death - Werner Bischof, Swiss photographer, dies accidentally at 38

1954 Birthday - Cindy Sherman, American Photographer

1950 Birthday - Andres Serrano, American Photographer

1947 Birthday - John Trevor Key, photographer

1946 Birthday - Robert Mapplethorpe, U.S. photographer

1946 Death - Alfred Stieglitz, U.S. photographer/art dealer (Camera Work), dies at 82

1945 Birthday - Daniel Topolski, writer/photographer/rowing coach

1945 Birthday - Sam Abell, born in Toledo, Ohio, photographer, published in National Geographic, artistic photographic style, noted for transcendent qualities, graduate, University of Kentucky, photographic books include 'The Photographic Life', 'The Life of a Photograph'

1944 Death - Erich Salomon, German photographer, dies

1943 Birthday - Chris Joyce, photographer

1940 Death - Lewis Hine, American Photographer

1940 Birthday - Galen Rowell, American Photographer

1940 Birthday - Mary Ellen Mark, American Photographer

1939 Birthday - Dianne Arndt, artist/photographer

1939 Birthday - Richard earl of Lichfield, English photographer

1937 Birthday - Sanne Sannes, Dutch photographer

1936 Birthday - Jennifer Dickson, artist/photographer

1936 Birthday - Terence Daniel Donovan, photographer

1935 Birthday - Don McCullin, British photographer

1934 Birthday - Richard A. Garland, artist/photographer

1932 Birthday - Duane Michals, American Photographer

1931 Birthday - Bernhard Becher, photographer, industrialist builder 19th/20th

1931 Birthday - Fay Godwin, born in Berlin, Germany, British photographer, noted for black-and-white landscapes of British coast and countryside, took portraits of literary figures, Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Anthony Powell

1931 Birthday - Ron Galella, celebrity photographer, sued by Jackie O

1930 Birthday - Lord Snowdon, Anthony Armstrong-Jones, London, photographer

1929 Birthday - Jean Baudrillard, born in France, cultural theorist, philosopher, photographer, known for his concept of hyper-reality

1929 Birthday - Francesco Scavullo, Staten Island, New York, celebrity photographer

1928 Birthday - Alberto Korda, Cuban Photographer

1928 Birthday - Peter Gordon Dorrell, archaeologist/photographer

1928 Birthday - Garry Winogrand, born in New York City, New York, prolific photographer, known for 20th century portraits of America, focusing on social issues of the time, exhibited at Museum of Modern Art, published 'The Animals', 'Public Relations'

1925 Birthday - Maurice Binder, New York City, photographer/film titler, James Bond

1925 Birthday - Ed van der Elsken, movie photographer, Een liefdesgeschiedenis

1924 Birthday - Robert Frank, Swiss Photographer

1924 Birthday - Roloff Beny, Alberta, painter/photographer, A Time of Gods

1923 Birthday - Richard Avedon, U.S., photographer, 1957 ASMP award

1923 Birthday - Diane Arbus, New York City, photographer, Vogue/Harper's Bazaar

1923 Birthday - Diane Arbus, photographer and innovator

1921 Birthday - Ernst Haas, Austrian Photographer

1920 Birthday - Helmut Newton, German Photographer

1920 Birthday - John Howard Griffin, U.S., photographer/author, Black Like Me

1920 Birthday - Kees Scherer, Dutch photographer, World Press Photo

1918 Birthday - W. Eugene Smith, U.S. photographer, Saipan, Walk to Paradise Garden

1918 Birthday - Henry Clarke, fashion photographer

1918 Birthday - Arnold Newman, photographer of Faces USA

1917 Birthday - Sem Presser, Dutch press photographer

1917 Birthday - Jan Miner, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress, Crime Photographer

1917 Birthday - Irving Penn, American Photographer

1916 Birthday - Willem Noordhoek, photographer

1916 Birthday - John Hinde, photographer/circus promoter

1915 Birthday - Hans Namuth, German/U.S. photographer, Todos Santos, Guatemala

1914 Birthday - O. Winston Link, American Photographer

1914 Birthday - Ian Ball, photographer

1914 Birthday - 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 Birthday - Albert Hardy, photographer

1913 Birthday - Norman Parkinson, born in England, fashion photographer, Harper's Bazaar

1913 Birthday - Helmut Erich Robert Gernsheim, photographer and collector

1912 Birthday - Johannes D De Jong, Frisian poet/photographer, Kar ut twa

1912 Birthday - Harry Callahan, American Photographer

1912 Birthday - Alexander Liberman, editor/painter/photographer, 639

1912 Birthday - Broderick Vernon Chinnery-Haldane, photographer

1912 Birthday - Paul H F Brenneker, Netherlands/Antillian photographer/folklorist

1912 Birthday - Robert Doisneau, photographer

1910 Death - Felix Tournachon, Nadar, French writer/photographer, dies at 89

1908 Birthday - Yousuf Karsh, portrait photographer, Life Magazine

1908 Birthday - Henri Cartier-Bresson, born in Chanteloup, France, photographer

1908 Birthday - Minor White, American Photographer

1907 Birthday - Stanley Devon, photographer

1906 Birthday - Margaret Bourke-White, photographer, innovator and correspondent

1906 Birthday - Maria Arnoldo, Adrianus Broeders, photographer/writer

1906 Birthday - Fred Fehl, Austrian/US Broadway photographer

1905 Birthday - Ruth Bernhard, German Photographer

1905 Death - Jacob Olie, Dutch photographer, dies at about 70

1904 Death - Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer (horse trot), dies

1904 Birthday - Bill Brandt, British Photographer

1904 Birthday - Cecil Beaton, England, royal family photographer

1903 Birthday - Fritz Schmidt, German street photographer

1903 Birthday - Walker Evans, U.S., photographer, Fortune Magazine

1903 Birthday - Harold Edgerton, foremost high-speed photographer

1902 Birthday - Ansel Adams, photographer, 1966 ASMP Award

1901 Death - Henry Peach Robinson, British Photographer

1899 Birthday - Weegee, American Photographer

1899 Birthday - Arthur Fellig, American Photographer

1898 Birthday - Berenice Abbott, born in Springfield, Ohio, photographer, World of Atget

1897 Birthday - G Paul H Schuitema, graphic designer/photographer, System-O-Color

1896 Death - Matthew B Brady, U.S. photographer (Civil War), dies at about 72

1895 Birthday - Dorothea Lange, U.S. documentary photographer

1894 Birthday - Cliff Hall, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Crime Photographer

1894 Birthday - Andre Kertesz, born in Budapest, Hungary, Hungarian photographer and photojournalist

1894 Birthday - Jacques-Henri Lartigue, born in France, photographer

1890 Birthday - Paul Strand, New York City, photographer, Native Land-1942

1890 Birthday - Man Ray, U.S. statues artist/photographer/movie, dada

1886 Birthday - James Van Der Zee, American Photographer

1886 Death - Joseph Albert, German photographer (Albertotype), dies at 61

1886 Birthday - Erich Salomon, German photographer

1886 Birthday - Edward Weston, American Photographer

1884 Birthday - Martin Elmer Johnson, explorer/photographer

1883 Birthday - Imogen Cunningham, photographer, 1965 ASMP award

1879 Death - Julia Margaret Cameron, British Photographer

1876 Birthday - August Sander, German Photographer

1874 Birthday - Lewis Hine, American Photographer

1869 Death - Alexandrine Tinne, Dutch explorer/photographer, murdered at 30+

1864 Birthday - Alfred Stieglitz, U.S. photographer/art dealer, Camera Work

1846 Birthday - William Fox Talbot, pioneer photographer/inventor

1839 Event - 1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre)

1830 Birthday - Henry Peach Robinson, British Photographer

1825 Birthday - Joseph Albert, German photographer, albertotype

1815 Birthday - Julia Margaret Cameron, British Photographer

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