May 11
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Art and culture
In a letter written to Edouard Manet, May 11 1865, Baudelaire said: "Rops is the one true artist - what I and perhaps I alone mean by artist - that I have ...
Births
- 1824 - Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor of the Orientalist style
- 1904 - Salvador Dalí, Spanish surrealist painter
- 1928 - Marco Ferreri, Italian filmmaker best known for La Grande bouffe
- 1952 - Renaud, popular French singer
Deaths
Eugène François Vidocq (July 23, 1775 – May 11, 1857) was a French criminal who later became the first director of Sûreté Nationale and one of the first ...
Bob Marley (February 6, 1945 - May 11, 1981), better known as Bob Marley, was a singer, guitarist, songwriter and Rastafarian from the ghettos of ...
Alvar Aalto (February 3, 1898 - May 11, 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer. He was generally known as Alvar Aalto. ...
