August 12
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
(Difference between revisions)
Revision as of 15:50, 5 September 2007 WikiSysop (Talk | contribs) (→Deaths) ← Previous diff |
Revision as of 15:50, 5 September 2007 WikiSysop (Talk | contribs) (→Deaths) Next diff → |
||
Line 16: | Line 16: | ||
*[[1988]] - [[Jean-Michel Basquiat]], Haitian-American artist (b. [[1960]])) | *[[1988]] - [[Jean-Michel Basquiat]], Haitian-American artist (b. [[1960]])) | ||
*[[1992]] - [[John Cage]], American composer (b. [[1912]]) | *[[1992]] - [[John Cage]], American composer (b. [[1912]]) | ||
- | *[[1996]] - [[Robert Gravel]], French Canadian actor and theatrical director (b. [[1945]]) | ||
- | *[[1996]] - [[Mark Gruenwald]], American comic book writer and editor (b. [[1953]]) | ||
- | *[[1997]] - [[Luther Allison]], American musician (b. [[1939]]) | ||
- | *[[1999]] - [[Jean Drapeau]], Quebec politician, mayor of Montreal (b. [[1916]]) | ||
- | *[[2000]] - [[Loretta Young]], American actress (b. [[1913]]) | ||
- | *[[2002]] - [[Enos Slaughter]], American baseball player (b. [[1916]]) | ||
- | *[[2004]] - Sir [[Godfrey Hounsfield]], English electrical engineer and inventor, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel laureate]] (b. [[1919]]) | ||
- | * 2004 - [[Peter Woodthorpe]], British actor (b. [[1931]]) | ||
- | *[[2005]] - [[John Loder]], co-founder of the anarcho-punk band [[CRASS]] (b. [[1946]]) | ||
- | *[[2007]] - [[Merv Griffin]], American television host and game show creator (b. [[1925]]) | ||
- | * 2007 - [[Mike Wieringo]], American comic book artist (b. [[1962]]) | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == |
Revision as of 15:50, 5 September 2007
Related e |
Featured: |
Contents |
Art and culture
- 30 BC - Cleopatra commits suicide after her defeat and Mark Antony's defeat at the battle of Actium.
Births
- 1880 - Radclyffe Hall, British author (d. 1943)
- 1881 - Cecil B. DeMille, American director (d. 1959)
- 1912 - Samuel Fuller, American film director (d. 1997)
Deaths
- 30 BC - Cleopatra (b. 69 BC)
- 1827 - William Blake, English poet and artist (b. 1757)
- 1955 - Thomas Mann, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1875)
- 1964 - Ian Fleming, English novelist (James Bond) (b. 1908)
- 1988 - Jean-Michel Basquiat, Haitian-American artist (b. 1960))
- 1992 - John Cage, American composer (b. 1912)
Notes
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Marcellus Emants
- John Cage
- William Blake
- Thomas Mann
- Pierre Klossowski
- Samuel Fuller
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Jean-Jacques Ampère
- Radclyffe Hall
- Teruo Ishii
- Tony Allen (musician)
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "August 12" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.