2012 Event The Constitutional Council of France strikes down a plan to impose a 75 percent marginal income tax rate on the wealthy, calling the 'supertax' unconstitutional and unfair 1919 Death Madame C J Walker, wealthy cosmetics manufacturer, dies at 51 1837 Death Edouard viscount de Walckiers, very wealthy slave trader, dies 1823 Death Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, painter, studied in Italy and painted for wealthy Parisians in Paris, influenced by Romanticism and Neoclassicism dies 1758 Birthday Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, born in France, painter, studied in Italy and painted for wealthy Parisians in Paris, influenced by Romanticism and Neoclassicism
