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*[[1686]] - [[Thomas Ruff]] (born February 10, 1958) is a German photographer who lives and works in Düsseldorf. In 2003 Thomas Ruff published a photographic collection of "Nudes" with excerpts from Platform by the French author Michel Houellebecq. Ruff's images were based on internet pornography, digitally processed and obscured. This series was received very ambivalently. | *[[1686]] - [[Thomas Ruff]] (born February 10, 1958) is a German photographer who lives and works in Düsseldorf. In 2003 Thomas Ruff published a photographic collection of "Nudes" with excerpts from Platform by the French author Michel Houellebecq. Ruff's images were based on internet pornography, digitally processed and obscured. This series was received very ambivalently. | ||
*[[1686]] - [[Atsuko Tanaka]] Atsuko Tanaka (February 10, 1932 - December 3, 2005) was a pioneering Japanese avant-garde artist, best-known for her Electric Dress (1956). | *[[1686]] - [[Atsuko Tanaka]] Atsuko Tanaka (February 10, 1932 - December 3, 2005) was a pioneering Japanese avant-garde artist, best-known for her Electric Dress (1956). | ||
- | *[[1686]] - [[Jørgen Nash]] | + | *[[1686]] - [[Jørgen Nash]] (March 16, 1920 - May 17, 2004) was a Danish artist, writer and central proponent of situationism. |
*[[1686]] - [[Francesco Hayez]] | *[[1686]] - [[Francesco Hayez]] | ||
*[[1686]] - [[Max Pécas]] | *[[1686]] - [[Max Pécas]] | ||
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Births
- 1609 - John Suckling, English poet (d. 1642)
- 1795 - Ary Scheffer, French painter (d. 1858)
- 1890 - Boris Pasternak, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1960)
- 1898 - Bertolt Brecht, German author (d. 1956)
- 1898 - Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist (d. 1979)
- 1931 - Thomas Bernhard, Austrian author (d. 1989)
Deaths
- 1686 - William Dugdale, English antiquarian (b. 1605)
- 1755 - Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689)
- 1837 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and novelist (b. 1799)
- 1932 - Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1875)
- 1950 - Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (b. 1872)
- 2005 - Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)
notes
- 1686 - Honoré Daumier (February 26, 1808 – February 10, 1879), was a French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, sculptor, and one of the most gifted and prolific draftsmen of his time.
- 1686 - Lon Chaney, Jr. (February 10, 1906 – July 12, 1973) was an American character actor, well-known mainly for his roles in monster movies and as the son of silent film actor Lon Chaney.
- 1686 - Charles Henri Ford (February 10, 1913 - September 27, 2002) was a novelist, poet, filmmaker, photographer, and collage artist best known for his brilliant editorship of the avant-garde magazine, View, in New York in the 1940s, the co-author of The Young and Evil and as the partner of the artist Pavel Tchelitchew.
- 1686 - Thomas Ruff (born February 10, 1958) is a German photographer who lives and works in Düsseldorf. In 2003 Thomas Ruff published a photographic collection of "Nudes" with excerpts from Platform by the French author Michel Houellebecq. Ruff's images were based on internet pornography, digitally processed and obscured. This series was received very ambivalently.
- 1686 - Atsuko Tanaka Atsuko Tanaka (February 10, 1932 - December 3, 2005) was a pioneering Japanese avant-garde artist, best-known for her Electric Dress (1956).
- 1686 - Jørgen Nash (March 16, 1920 - May 17, 2004) was a Danish artist, writer and central proponent of situationism.
- 1686 - Francesco Hayez
- 1686 - Max Pécas
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