Anniversaries

8th December 1922 (92 Years)

Lucian Freud, German-born English artist, was born.

8th December 1978 (36 Years)

Golda Meir, Ukrainian-Israeli educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Israel, died.

8th December 1980 (34 Years)

John Lennon shot dead outside his New York apartment.

9th December 1717 (297 Years)

Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German art historian and archaeologist, was born.

9th December 1899 (115 Years)

Jean de Brunhoff, writer and illustrator of the BarBar series, was born.

9th December 1916 (98 Years)

Kirk Douglas, American actor, producer, director, and author, was born.

10th December 1475 (539 Years)

Paolo Uccello, the Italian painter and mathematician, dies.

10th December 1915 (99 Years)

The one millionth Ford car is produced.

10th December 1928 (86 Years)

Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish painter and architect, died.

10th December 1936 (78 Years)

Luigi Pirandello, Italian author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate, died.

10th December 1936 (78 Years)

Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signed the Instrument of Abdication.

10th December 1967 (47 Years)

Otis Ray Redding, American singer, songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout, died.

11th December 1890 (124 Years)

Mark Tobey, American abstract painter, was born.

11th December 1917 (97 Years)

WWI: General Edmund Allenby enters the Old City after British victory in the Battle of Jerusalem.

11th December 1918 (96 Years)

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist and Nobel Prize winner, critic of the communism, the Soviet Union and the Gulag camp system, was born.

12th December 1791 (223 Years)

Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, second wife of Napoleon I and mother of his only heir, was born.

12th December 1863 (151 Years)

Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter and print maker, was born.

12th December 1915 (99 Years)

Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor, is born.

12th December 1928 (86 Years)

Helen Frankenthaler, American painter and academic, was born.

13th December 1466 (548 Years)

Donatello, Italian painter and sculptor, died.

13th December 1716 (298 Years)

Charles de La Fosse, French painter, one of the most noted pupils of Le Brun, dies.

13th December 1915 (99 Years)

Curd Jürgens, German-Austrian stage and film actor, is born.

13th December 1944 (70 Years)

Wassily Kandinsky, the Russian-born French artist known for his purely abstract work, died.

13th December 1944 (70 Years)

Wassily Kandinsky, the Russian-born French artist known for his purely abstract work, died.

14th December 1788 (226 Years)

Charles III, King of Spain and the Spanish Indies from 1759 to 1788, was born.

14th December 1866 (148 Years)

Roger Fry, English artist and art critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group is born.

14th December 1914 (100 Years)

The Battle of the Falkland Islands, a British naval victory over the Imperial German Navy, World War I.

14th December 1959 (55 Years)

Sir Stanley Spencer CBE RA, one of Britain's most renowned 20th century painters, died.

14th December 1993 (21 Years)

Myrna Loy, American actress and singer, died.

14th December 1995 (19 Years)

The Dayton Agreement ends the Bosnian war.

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