January 3, 1881 — Anna McNeill Whistler dies
Known to history as “Whistler’s Mother”, after the painting she was the subject of, Anna Matilda (née McNeill) Whistler was...
July 24, 2020
Neil Diamond
March 14, 1883 — Karl Marx dies
One of the most influential public intellectuals in the history of the world, Karl Marx, it should be noted, was...
July 9, 2020
September 2, 1910 — Henri Rousseau dies
A painter of the Post-Impressionist school, whose work was largely in the Naive or Primitivist manners, Henri Julien Félix Rousseau...
January 4, 2020
May 13, 1916 — Sholem Aleichem dies
Best known for his tales of Teyve the Dairyman, Sholem Aleichem was a Jewish writer born in Russia in 1859....
November 4, 2019
August 2, 1922 — Alexander Graham Bell dies
Alexander Graham Bell, best known as the inventor of the telephone, was 75 when he died, and still refused to...
August 19, 2019
August 13, 1946 — H. G. Wells dies
The man who basically invented the modern science fiction novel (Jules Verne himself insisted that this was the case), one...
September 29, 2018
January 4, 1960 — Albert Camus dies
Albert Camus was not an existentialist. He’d have been the first one to tell you that. He was mates with...
December 4, 2017
February 28, 1967 — Henry Luce dies
Henry Luce was an American magazine publisher, who rose to be a magnate in his industry and was called, with...
March 24, 2017
September 2, 1969 — Hồ Chí Minh dies
The first President of Vietnam, who died on the 24th anniversary of his accession to that role, Ho Chi Minh...
November 9, 2016
February 18, 1973 — Picasso draws his last known work, “Couple”
In his last years, Picasso’s productivity dropped off from the manic peaks of his youth. To be fair, he was...
February 19, 2016
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