May 11
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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
- 1928 - Marco Ferreri, Italian filmmaker best known for La Grande bouffe.
Renaud Séchan, known as Renaud, (born in Paris on May 11, 1952) is a popular French singer. His early work is characterized by a volatile temperament, ...
Jean-Léon Gérôme (May 11, 1824 - 1904) was a French painter and sculptor who produced many works in a historical, Orientalist style. ... Salvador Dalí (May 11, 1904 - January 23, 1989) was an important Catalan-Spanish painter, best known for his surrealist works. ...
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. ...