Anniversaries 2008 January 01.01.1808 01.01.1928 06.01.1838 07.01.1938 Importation of slaves into the Samuel Morse's telegraph system is Loie Fuller (1862-1928), American Roland Topor (1938-1997), French United States is banned (200th demonstrated for the first time (170th dancer (80th Death Anniversary) illustrator (70th Birth Anniversary) Anniversary) Anniversary)
08.01.1948 09.01.1878 12.01.1848 12.01.1908 Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), The Sicilian revolution of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (1820- Jean Delannoy , screenwriter and film German painter (60th Death independence commences (160th 1878) (130th Death Anniversary) director (100th Birth Anniversary) Anniversary) Anniversary)
13.01.1898 14.01.1898 15.01.1998 16.01.1948 Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), English John Carpenter , American film Emile Zola's J'Accuse exposes the Junior Wells (1934-1998), American writer and mathematician (110th Death director, screenwriter and producer Dreyfus affair (110th Anniversary) musician (10th Death Anniversary) Anniversary) (60th Birth Anniversary)
18.01.1778 21.01.1938 23.01.1928 24.01.1848 Horace Wells (1815-1848), American James Cook discovers of the Jeanne Moreau , French actress, film Georges Méliès (1861-1938), French dentist who pioneered the use of Hawaiian Islands (230th director and screenwriter (80th Birth filmmaker (70th Death Anniversary) anaesthesia in dentistry (160th Anniversary) Anniversary) Death Anniversary)
24.01.1888 25.01.1308 25.01.1708 25.01.1858 Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" Jacob L. Wortman patents the Edward II (1307-1327) marries Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787), Italian 1st played, at wedding of Queen typewriter ribbon (220th Isabella of France (700th painter (300th Birth Anniversary) Victoria's daughter Princess Victoria Anniversary) Anniversary) (150th Anniversary)
26.01.1928 28.01.1938 30.01.1948 Roger Vadim (1928-2000), French Bernd Rosemeyer (1909-1938), Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi is murdered by Nathuram actor, film director and screenwriter German racing driver (70th Death Godse (60th Death Anniversary) (80th Birth Anniversary) Anniversary)
February 01.02.1788 03.02.1898 04.02.1498 Pollaiolo (1433-1498), Italian painter, Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patent the steamboat (220th Alvar Aalto (1898-1976), Finnish sculptor, engraver and goldsmith Anniversary) architect (110th Birth Anniversary) (510th Death Anniversary)
04.02.1938 05.02.1578 05.02.1878 06.02.1918 Adolf Hitler creates the Giambattista Moroni (1525-1578), André Citroën (1878-1935), French Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), Austrian Oberkommando der Italian painter (430th Death automobile pioneer (130th Birth painter (90th Death Anniversary) Wehrmacht (70th Anniversary) Anniversary) Anniversary)
07.02.1478 11.02.1868 13.02.1958 16.02.1918 Thomas Moore (1478-1535), Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (1819- Achille Castiglioni (1918-2002), Georges Rouault (1871-1958), French English statesman, humanist and 1868), French physicist (140th Death Italian architect and designer (90th painter (50th Death Anniversary) author (530th Birth Anniversary) Anniversary) Birth Anniversary)
18.02.1808 18.02.1898 19.02.1878 22.02.1908 Giuseppe Piermarini (1734- Enzo Ferrari (1898-1988), Italian The phonograph is patented by John Mills (1908-2005), English actor 1808), Italian architect (200th Death race car driver and automobile Thomas Edison (130th Anniversary) (100th Birth Anniversary) Anniversary) manufacturer (110th Birth Anniversary)
23.02.1818 23.02.1878 23.02.1918 24.02.1958 Antonio Fontanesi (1818-1882), Kazimir Severinovič Malevič First combat action of the Red Army Radio Rebelde , Castro’s rebels radio, italian painter (190th Birth (1878-1935), Russian painter (130th against the occupying Imperial German begins broadcasting from Sierra Anniversary) Birth Anniversary) Army (90th Anniversary) Maestra (50th Anniversary)
26.02.1808 29.02.1908 Honoré Daumier (1808-1879), French painter, illustrator and sculptor Balthus (1908-2001), French painter
(200th Birth Anniversary) (100th Birth Anniversary)
March March 1508-1512 Michelangelo begins painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling on a commission by Pope Julius II (500th Anniversary)
01.03.1848 01.03.1958 05.03.1908 07.03.1878 Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848- Rex Harrison (1908-1990), English Boris Kustodiev (1878-1927), Giacomo Balla (1871-1958), Italian 1907), Irish-born American sculptor theatre and film actor (100th Birth Russian painter (130th Birth painter (50th Death Anniversary) (160th Birth Anniversary) Anniversary) Anniversary)
07-09.03.1848 12.03.1728 12.03.1938 13.03.1898 Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-1779), Anschluss : German troops occupy Henry Hathaway (1898-1985), Revolution in Berlin (160th German painter (280th Birth Austria; annexation declared the American film director and producer Anniversary) Anniversary) following day (70th Anniversary) (110th Birth Anniversary)
13.03.1988 14.03.1948 16.03.1898 17.03.1848 Steno (1915-1988) Italian film Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898), Revolution in Venice and Billy Crystal , American actor and film director and screenwriter (20th English illustrator and author (11oth proclamation of San Marco Republic director (60th Birth Anniversary) Death Anniversary) Death Anniversary) (160th Anniversary)
17.03.1938 18-22.03.1848 19.03.1888 23.03.1898 Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993), “Five Days” of Milan , Austrian Titina De Filippo (1898-1963), Josef Albers (1888-1976), German Russian-born ballet dancers (7oth forces are expelled from the city (160th Italian theatre actress and paintress painter (120th Birth Anniversary) Birth Anniversary) Anniversary) (110th Birth Anniversary)
23.03.1908 25.03.1908 26.03.1808 27.03.1998 Joan Crawford (1908–1977), David Lean (1908-1991), English film Charles IV of Spain abdicates in Ferdinand A. E. Porsche (1909- Academy Award-winning American director, screenwriter and actor (100th favour of his son, Ferdinand VII (200th 1998), Austrian technical automobile actress (100th Birth Anniversary) Birth Anniversary) Anniversary) designer (10th Death Anniversary)
April 01.04.1918 03.04.1958 04.04.1758 Castro's revolutionary army begins its Pierre Paul Prud'hon (1758-1823), The Royal Flying Corps is replaced by Royal Air Force (90th Anniversary) attacks on Havana (50th French painter (250th Birth Anniversary) Anniversary)
04.04.1968 05.04.1908 05.04.1908 06.04.1528 Martin Luther King is Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989), Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), German Bette Davis (1908-1989), American assassinated at a motel in Memphis Austrian conductor (100th Birth painter and mathematician (480th actress (100th Birth Anniversary) (40th Anniversary) Anniversary) Death Anniversary)
07.04.1928 07.04.1938 07.04.1968 Suzanne Valadon (1867-1938), Jim Clark dies in a crash during a Alan J. Pakula (1928-1998), American film producer and director (80th French paintress (70th Death minor Formula 2 race (40th Birth Anniversary) Anniversary) Anniversary)
14.04.1868 15.04.1808 15.04.1938 16.04.1828 Peter Behrens (1868-1940), Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1746- Hubert Robert (1733-1808), French Claudia Cardinale , Tunisian-born German architect and designer 1828), Aragonese Spanish painter and painter (200th Death Anniversary) Italian actress (70th Birth Anniversary) (140th Birth Anniversary) printmaker (180th Death Anniversary)
17.04.1918 19.04.1588 19.04.1768 William Holden (1918-1981), Paolo Veronese (1528-1588), Italian Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768), better known as Canaletto , Venetian artist American actor (90th Birth painter of the Renaissance in Venice (240th Death Anniversary) Anniversary) (420th Death Anniversary)
20.04.1808 26.04.1798 28.04.1928 Napoleon III (1808-1873), Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863), Yves Klein (1928-1962), French Emperor of the French (200th Birth French Romantic painters (210th Birth abstract artist (80th Birth Anniversary) Anniversary) Anniversary)
May 01.05.1908 2-3.05.1808 03.05.1898 Giovannino Guareschi (1908- Golda Meir (1898-1978), Prime Peninsular War : the people of Madrid uprise against the French troops; the 1968), Italian writer (100th Birth Minister of Israel (110th Birth rebels are executed near Príncipe Pío hill the following day (200th Anniversary) Anniversary) Anniversary)
04.05.1858 05.05.1818 06.05.1758 06.05.1868 Aimé Bonpland (1773-1858), Karl Marx (1818-1883), German Maximilien Robespierre (1758- Nicholas II (1868-1918), last Tsar of French explorer and botanist (150th philosopher, political economist and 1794), French revolutionary (250th Russia (140th Birth Anniversary) Death Anniversary) revolutionary (190th Birth Anniversary) Birth Anniversary)
07.05.558 08.05.1828 10.05.1908 12.05.1828 Jean Henri Dunant (1828-1910), Swiss Mother's Day is observed for the first In Constantinople, the dome of the Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), businessman and social activist, time in Andrew's Methodist Church in Hagia Sophia collapses (1450th English poet, illustrator and painter. Founder of the Red Cross (180th Birth Grafton, West Virginia, USA (100th Anniversary) (180th Birth Anniversary) Anniversary) Anniversary)
14.05.1948 16.05.1898 19.05.1898 Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980), William Ewart Gladstone (1809- Israel declares its independence (60th Anniversary) Polish Art Deco painter (110th Birth 1989), British statesman and Prime Anniversary) Minister (110th Death Anniversary)
19.05.1928 20.05.1908 Colin Chapman (1928-1982), English automotive engineer, founder of Lotus James Stewart (1908-1997), American actor (100th Birth Anniversary) Cars (80th Birth Anniversary)
27.05.1988 28.05.1908 28.05.1968 30.05.1778 Ian Fleming (1908-1964), British Renato Salvatori (1933-1988), Kees Van Dongen (1877-1968), Voltaire (1694-1778), French author, journalist and Second World Italian actor (20th Death Dutch painter (40th Death Enlightenment writer and philosopher War Navy Commander (100th Birth Anniversary) Anniversary) (230th Death Anniversary) Anniversary)
12 June 03.06.1808 06.06.1508 06.06.1608 07.06.1848 Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), Bernardo Buontalenti (1536-1608), Maximilian I , Holy Roman Emperor President of the Confederate States Italian stage designer, architect, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), French is defeated in Friulia by Venetian forces of America (200th Birth theatrical designer, military engineer painter (160th Birth Anniversary) (500th Anniversary) Anniversary) and artist (400th Death Anniversary)
07.06.1868 14.06.1928 17.06.1898 18.06.1928 Charles Rennie Mackintosh Ernesto “Che” Guevara (1928- Roald Amundsen (1872-1928), Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), (1868-1958), Scottish architect 1967), Argentine-born Marxist Norwegian explorer of polar regions English artist (110th Birth Anniversary) (140th Birth Anniversary) revolutionary (80th Birth Anniversary) (80th Death Anniversary)
20.06.1978 21.06.1858 22-26.06.1848 24.06.1888 Mark Robson (1913-1978), Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964), Dutch Medardo Rosso (1858-1928), Italian Beginning of the June Days Uprising Canadian film director and producer architect and designer (120th Birth sculptor (150th Birth Anniversary) in Paris (160th Anniversary) (30th Death Anniversary) Anniversary)
28.06.1838 The coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom (170th Anniversary)
July 01.07.1858 01.07.1888 01.07.1948 03.07.1728 The joint reading of Charles Robert Adam (1728-1792), Scottish Alberto Magnelli (1888-1971), Italian Achille Varzi (1904-1948), Italian Darwin 's papers on evolution to the neoclassical architect and designer painter (120th Birth Anniversary) racing driver (60th Death Anniversary) Linnean Society (150th Anniversary) (280th Birth Anniversary)
03.07.1858 03.07.1898 08.07.1838 Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov Donald Healey (1898-1988), English Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917), founder of the Zeppelin Airship (1806-1858), Russian painter (150th motor engineer and race car driver Company (170th Birth Anniversary) Death Anniversary) (110th Birth Anniversary)
10.07.1888 10.07.1928 13.07.1918 14.07.1858 Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928), one Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978), Bernard Buffet (1928-1999), French Alberto Ascari (1918-1955), Italian of the founders of the British Italian painter (120th Birth painter (80th Birth Anniversary) race car driver (90th Birth Anniversary) suffragette movement (150th Birth Anniversary) Anniversary)
14.07.1918 17.07.1898 17.07.1918 By order of the Bolshevik Party, Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007), Swedish film, stage, and opera director Emperor Nicholas II of Russia and American photographer (110th Birth (90th Birth Anniversary) his immediate family were murdered Anniversary) (90th Death Anniversary)
18.07.1898 21.07.1858 21.07.1948 22.07.1898 Marie and Pierre Curie announce Arshile Gorky (1904-1948), Alexander Calder (1898-1976), the discovery of a new element and Lovis Corinth (1858-1925), German Armenian-born painter (60th Death American sculptor (110th Birth proposed to call it polonium (110th painter (150th Birth Anniversary) Anniversary) Anniversary) Anniversary)
25.07.1848 26.07.1928 30.07.1898 30.07.1898 Arthur Balfour (1848-1930), 33rd Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999), Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), 1st Henry Moore (1898-1986), English Prime Minister of the United Kingdom American film director Chancellor of the German Empire sculptor (110th Birth Anniversary) (160th Birth Anniversary) (80th Birth Anniversary) (110th Death Anniversary)
August 02.08.1788 04.08.1848 06.08.1928 11.08.1968 Thomas Gainsborough (1727- First Italian Independence War : Andy Warhol (1928-1987), American The last steam passenger train 1788), most famous portrait and Austrians armies of the Field Marshall artist (80th Birth Anniversary) service ran in Britain (40th landscape painters of 18th century Radetsky entered in Milan restoring Anniversary) Britain (220th Death Anniversary) Austrian rule (160th Anniversary)
12.08.1868 12.08.1988 13.08.1608 13.08.1888 George Stephenson (1781-1868), Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), John Logie Baird (1888-1946), English mechanical engineer, American painter (20th Death Giambologna (1529-1608), Italian Scottish engineer, inventor of the “father” of the steam locomotives Anniversary) sculptor (400th Anniversary) world's first working television system (140th Birth Anniversary) (120th Birth Anniversary)
14.08.1988 16.08.1858 16.08.1928 Enzo Ferrari (1898-1988), Italian U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph race car driver and automobile Ann Blyth , American actress and cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (150th manufacturer (20th Death singer (80th Anniversary) Anniversary) Anniversary)
21.08.1978 22.08.1908 22.08.1978 25.08.1918 Charles Eames (1907-1978), Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908- Jomo Kenyatta (1889-1978), first Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), American designer and architect 2004), French photographer (100th Prime Minister and President of Kenya American conductor and composer (30th Death Anniversary) Birth Anniversary) (30th Death Anniversary) (90th Birth Anniversary)
25.08.1958 26.08.1978 30.08.1748 30.08.1908 Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825), Tim Burton , American film Charles Boyer (1899-1978), French Giovanni Fattori (1825-1908), Italian French painter (260th Birth director (50th Anniversary) actor (30th Death Anniversary) painter (100th Death Anniversary) Anniversary)
30.08.1908 30.08.1908 31.08.1888 31.08.1928 Fred MacMurray (1908-1991), Leonor Fini (1908-1996), Argentine- Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is James Coburn (1928-2002), American actor (100th Birth born paintress (100th Birth the first of the Jack the Ripper 's American actor (80th Birth Anniversary) Anniversary) known victims (120th Anniversary) Anniversary)
September 03.09.1658 03.09.1928 04.09.1888 04.09.1908 Oliver Cromwell dies and his son Edward Dmytryk (1908-1999), Richard assumes his position as Lord Alexander Fleming discovers George Eastman registers the American film director (100th Birth Protector of England (350th Penicillin (80th Anniversary) trademark Kodak (120th Anniversary) Anniversary) Anniversary)
07.09.1968 12.09.1888 14.09.1928 Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), Maurice Chevalier (1888-1972), Frenc actor, singer and popular entertainer Alberto Korda (1928-2001), Cuban Argentine-born Italian painter and (120th Birth Anniversary) photographer (80th Birth Anniversary) sculptor (40th Death Anniversary)
21.09.1558 23.09.1938 24.09.1948 Emperor Charles V (1500-1588), Romy Schneider (1938-1982), Austrian-German actress (70th Birth The Honda Motor Company is ruler of the Holy Roman Empire Anniversary) founded (60th Anniversary) (450th Death Anniversary)
26.09.1898 29.09.1518 29.09.1758 Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), British George Gershwin (1898-1937), Tintoretto (1518-1594), Italian painter admiral, famous for his participation in American composer (110th Birth (490th Birth Anniversary) the Napoleonic Wars (250th Birth Anniversary) Anniversary)
October 01.10.1808 01.10.1908 01.10.1928 Laurence Harvey (1928-1973), Carl Gotthard Langhans (1732-1808), German architect (200th Death Ford puts the Model T car on the Lithuanian-born actor (80th Birth Anniversary) market (100th Anniversary) Anniversary)
01.10.1958 02.10.1968 03.10.1858 10.10.1858 Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), Maurice Prendergast (1858-1924), Robert Falk (1886-1958), Russian Eleonora Duse (1858-1924), Italian French painter and sculptor (40th American painter (150th Birth painter (50th Death Anniversary) actress (150th Birth Anniversary) Death Anniversary) Anniversary)
11.10.1958 12.10.1858 16.10.708 Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858), Maurice de Vlaminck (1876- Japanese ukiyo-e artist, and one of the After a report of the apparition of the archangel Michael, the island Mont Tombe 1958), French painter (50th Death last great artists in that tradition (150th is renamed Mont Saint-Michel (1300th Anniversary) Anniversary) Death Anniversary)
16.10.1978 17.10.1488 17.10.1918 18.10.1678 Karol Jozef Wojtyla becomes Baccio Bandinelli (1488-1560), Rita Hayworth (1918-1987), Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678), Flemish Pope John Paul II (30th Italian sculptor (520th Birth American actress (90th Birth Baroque painter (330th Death Anniversary) Anniversary) Anniversary) Anniversary)
24.10.1898 Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898), French painter (110th Death Anniversary)
24.10.1938 29.10.1908 31.10.1918 Ernst Barlach (1870-1938), Ing. C. Olivetti & Co. was founded in Egon Schiele (1890-1918), Austrian German sculptor and poet (70th Ivrea by Camillo Olivetti (100th painter (90th Death Anniversary) Death Anniversary) Anniversary)
November 04.11.1918 04.11.1968 05.11.1878 07.11.1598 World War I : Austria-Hungary Michel Kikoine (1892-1968), Domenico Induno (1815-1878), Francisco de Zurbaran (1598-1664), surrenders to Italy (90th Belarusian painter (40th Death Italian painter (130th Death Spanish painter (410th Birth Anniversary) Anniversary) Anniversary) Anniversary)
08.11.1998 09.11.1778 11.11.1868 11.11.1918 World War I ends : Germany signs an Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720- Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940), Jean Marais (1913-1998), French armistice agreement with the Allies in a 1778), Italian artist (230th Death French painter (140th Birth actor (10th Death Anniversary) railroad car outside of Compiègne in Anniversary) Anniversary) France (90th Anniversary)
13.11.1868 14-16.11.1848 14.11.1938 15.11.1908 Rome: Public disorder grew, with Gioacchino Rossini (1779-1868) Lorenzo Delleani (1840-1908), repeated riots; the Prime Minister Jean Seberg (1938-1979), American Italian composer (140th Death Italian painter (100th Death Pellegrino Rossi was murdered actress (70th Birth Anniversary) Anniversary) Anniversary) (160th Anniversary)
16.11.1908 17.11.1558 19.11.1828 20.11.1978 Raymond Peynet (1908-1999), Elisabeth I was Queen of England, Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Giorgio de Chirico , Italian painter French painter (100th Birth France (in name only), and Ireland Austrian composer (180th Death (1888-1978) (30th Death Anniversary) Anniversary) until her death (450th Anniversary) Anniversary)
21.11.1898 René Magritte (1868-1967), Belgian artist (110th Birth Anniversary)
24.11.1848 28.11.1908 30.11.1508 Pius IX escaped in disguise to Claude Lévi-Strauss , French Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), Italian Gaeta, leaving Rome to the radicals anthropologist (100th Birth architect (500th Birth Anniversary) and the mob (160th Anniversary) Anniversary)
December 02.12.1848 07.12.1598 08.12.1708 10.12.1848 Francis I of Lorraine (1708-1765), Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte is Franz Josef I becomes Emperor of Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke elected first President of the French Austria (160th Anniversary) Italian artist (410th Birth Anniversary) of Tuscany (300th Birth Anniversary) Second Republic (160th Anniversary)
10.12.1928 15.12.1918 21.12.1958 22.12.1808 Charles Rennie Mackintosh French presidential election: Charles Ludwig van Beethoven premieres (1868-1928), Scottish architect, Jeff Chandler (1918-1961), American de Gaulle is elected President of his Fifth Symphony as well as his Sixth designer, and illustrator (80th Death actor (90th Birth Anniversary) France (50th Anniversary) Symphony (200th Anniversary) Anniversary)
22.12.1858 22.12.1908 22.12.1908 23.12.1888 Vincent van Gogh cuts off the lower Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), Giacomo Manzù (1908-1991), best Max Bill (1908-1994), Swiss architect, part of his left ear and gives it to a Italian composer (150th Birth known Italian sculptor of the 20th artist, painter and graphic designer prostitute named Rachel (120th Anniversary) century (100th Birth Anniversary) (100th Birth Anniversary) Anniversary)
26.12.1898 30.12.1788 Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium (110th Francesco Zuccarelli (1702-1788), Italian painter (220th Death Anniversary) Anniversary)