Anniversaries 2008

January 01.01.1808 01.01.1928 06.01.1838 07.01.1938

Importation of slaves into the United States is banned (200th

Anniversary)

Loie Fuller (1862-1928), American dancer (80th Death Anniversary)

Samuel Morse's telegraph system is demonstrated for the first time (170th

Anniversary)

Roland Topor (1938-1997), French illustrator (70th Birth Anniversary)

08.01.1948 09.01.1878 12.01.1848 12.01.1908 Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), German painter (60th Death

Anniversary)

Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (1820-1878) (130th Death Anniversary)

The Sicilian revolution of independence commences (160th

Anniversary)

Jean Delannoy, screenwriter and film director (100th Birth Anniversary)

13.01.1898 14.01.1898 15.01.1998 16.01.1948

Emile Zola's J'Accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair (110th Anniversary)

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), English writer and mathematician (110th Death

Anniversary)

Junior Wells (1934-1998), American musician (10th Death Anniversary)

John Carpenter, American film director, screenwriter and producer

(60th Birth Anniversary)

18.01.1778 21.01.1938 23.01.1928 24.01.1848

James Cook discovers of the Hawaiian Islands (230th

Anniversary)

Georges Méliès (1861-1938), French filmmaker (70th Death Anniversary)

Jeanne Moreau, French actress, film director and screenwriter (80th Birth

Anniversary)

Horace Wells (1815-1848), American dentist who pioneered the use of anaesthesia in dentistry (160th

Death Anniversary)

24.01.1888 25.01.1308 25.01.1708 25.01.1858

Jacob L. Wortman patents the typewriter ribbon (220th

Anniversary)

Edward II (1307-1327) marries Isabella of France (700th

Anniversary)

Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787), Italian painter (300th Birth Anniversary)

Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" 1st played, at wedding of Queen

Victoria's daughter Princess Victoria (150th Anniversary)

26.01.1928 28.01.1938 30.01.1948 Roger Vadim (1928-2000), French actor, film director and screenwriter

(80th Birth Anniversary)

Bernd Rosemeyer (1909-1938), German racing driver (70th Death

Anniversary)

Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi is murdered by Nathuram Godse (60th Death Anniversary)

February 01.02.1788 03.02.1898 04.02.1498

Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patent the steamboat (220th Anniversary)

Alvar Aalto (1898-1976), Finnish architect (110th Birth Anniversary)

Pollaiolo (1433-1498), Italian painter, sculptor, engraver and goldsmith

(510th Death Anniversary)

04.02.1938 05.02.1578 05.02.1878 06.02.1918 Adolf Hitler creates the Oberkommando der

Wehrmacht (70th Anniversary)

Giambattista Moroni (1525-1578), Italian painter (430th Death

Anniversary)

André Citroën (1878-1935), French automobile pioneer (130th Birth

Anniversary)

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), Austrian painter (90th Death Anniversary)

07.02.1478 11.02.1868 13.02.1958 16.02.1918 Thomas Moore (1478-1535),

English statesman, humanist and author (530th Birth Anniversary)

Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (1819-1868), French physicist (140th Death

Anniversary)

Georges Rouault (1871-1958), French painter (50th Death Anniversary)

Achille Castiglioni (1918-2002), Italian architect and designer (90th

Birth Anniversary)

18.02.1808 18.02.1898 19.02.1878 22.02.1908 Giuseppe Piermarini (1734-

1808), Italian architect (200th Death Anniversary)

Enzo Ferrari (1898-1988), Italian race car driver and automobile

manufacturer (110th Birth Anniversary)

The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison (130th Anniversary)

John Mills (1908-2005), English actor (100th Birth Anniversary)

23.02.1818 23.02.1878 23.02.1918 24.02.1958 Antonio Fontanesi (1818-1882),

italian painter (190th Birth Anniversary)

Kazimir Severinovič Malevič (1878-1935), Russian painter (130th

Birth Anniversary)

First combat action of the Red Army against the occupying Imperial German

Army (90th Anniversary)

Radio Rebelde, Castro’s rebels radio, begins broadcasting from Sierra

Maestra (50th Anniversary)

26.02.1808 29.02.1908 Honoré Daumier (1808-1879), French painter, illustrator and sculptor

(200th Birth Anniversary) Balthus (1908-2001), French painter

(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 (1848-1907), Irish-born American sculptor

(160th Birth Anniversary)

Giacomo Balla (1871-1958), Italian painter (50th Death Anniversary)

Rex Harrison (1908-1990), English theatre and film actor (100th Birth

Anniversary)

Boris Kustodiev (1878-1927), Russian painter (130th Birth

Anniversary)

07-09.03.1848 12.03.1728 12.03.1938 13.03.1898

Revolution in Berlin (160th Anniversary)

Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-1779), German painter (280th Birth

Anniversary)

Anschluss: German troops occupy Austria; annexation declared the following day (70th Anniversary)

Henry Hathaway (1898-1985), American film director and producer

(110th Birth Anniversary)

13.03.1988 14.03.1948 16.03.1898 17.03.1848 Steno (1915-1988) Italian film director and screenwriter (20th

Death Anniversary)

Billy Crystal, American actor and film director (60th Birth Anniversary)

Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898), English illustrator and author (11oth

Death Anniversary)

Revolution in Venice and proclamation of San Marco Republic

(160th Anniversary)

17.03.1938 18-22.03.1848 19.03.1888 23.03.1898 Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993),

Russian-born ballet dancers (7oth Birth Anniversary)

“Five Days” of Milan, Austrian forces are expelled from the city (160th

Anniversary)

Josef Albers (1888-1976), German painter (120th Birth Anniversary)

Titina De Filippo (1898-1963), Italian theatre actress and paintress

(110th Birth Anniversary)

23.03.1908 25.03.1908 26.03.1808 27.03.1998 Joan Crawford (1908–1977),

Academy Award-winning American actress (100th Birth Anniversary)

David Lean (1908-1991), English film director, screenwriter and actor (100th

Birth Anniversary)

Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favour of his son, Ferdinand VII (200th

Anniversary)

Ferdinand A. E. Porsche (1909-1998), Austrian technical automobile designer (10th Death Anniversary)

April 01.04.1918 03.04.1958 04.04.1758

The Royal Flying Corps is replaced by Royal Air Force (90th Anniversary) Castro's revolutionary army begins its

attacks on Havana (50th Anniversary)

Pierre Paul Prud'hon (1758-1823), French painter (250th Birth

Anniversary)

04.04.1968 05.04.1908 05.04.1908 06.04.1528 Martin Luther King is

assassinated at a motel in Memphis (40th Anniversary)

Bette Davis (1908-1989), American actress (100th Birth Anniversary)

Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989), Austrian conductor (100th Birth

Anniversary)

Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), German painter and mathematician (480th

Death Anniversary)

07.04.1928 07.04.1938 07.04.1968

Alan J. Pakula (1928-1998), American film producer and director (80th Birth Anniversary)

Suzanne Valadon (1867-1938), French paintress (70th Death

Anniversary)

Jim Clark dies in a crash during a minor Formula 2 race (40th

Anniversary)

14.04.1868 15.04.1808 15.04.1938 16.04.1828 Peter Behrens (1868-1940), German architect and designer

(140th Birth Anniversary)

Hubert Robert (1733-1808), French painter (200th Death Anniversary)

Claudia Cardinale, Tunisian-born Italian actress (70th Birth Anniversary)

Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), Aragonese Spanish painter and printmaker (180th Death Anniversary)

17.04.1918 19.04.1588 19.04.1768 William Holden (1918-1981),

American actor (90th Birth Anniversary)

Paolo Veronese (1528-1588), Italian painter of the Renaissance in Venice

(420th Death Anniversary)

Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768), better known as Canaletto, Venetian artist (240th Death Anniversary)

20.04.1808 26.04.1798 28.04.1928 Napoleon III (1808-1873),

Emperor of the French (200th Birth Anniversary)

Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863), French Romantic painters (210th Birth

Anniversary)

Yves Klein (1928-1962), French abstract artist (80th Birth Anniversary)

May 01.05.1908 2-3.05.1808 03.05.1898

Giovannino Guareschi (1908-1968), Italian writer (100th Birth

Anniversary)

Peninsular War: the people of Madrid uprise against the French troops; the rebels are executed near Príncipe Pío hill the following day (200th Anniversary)

Golda Meir (1898-1978), Prime Minister of Israel (110th Birth

Anniversary)

04.05.1858 05.05.1818 06.05.1758 06.05.1868 Aimé Bonpland (1773-1858),

French explorer and botanist (150th Death Anniversary)

Karl Marx (1818-1883), German philosopher, political economist and

revolutionary (190th Birth Anniversary)

Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794), French revolutionary (250th

Birth Anniversary)

Nicholas II (1868-1918), last Tsar of Russia (140th Birth Anniversary)

07.05.558 08.05.1828 10.05.1908 12.05.1828

In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses (1450th

Anniversary)

Jean Henri Dunant (1828-1910), Swiss businessman and social activist,

Founder of the Red Cross (180th Birth Anniversary)

Mother's Day is observed for the first time in Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia, USA (100th

Anniversary)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), English poet, illustrator and painter.

(180th Birth Anniversary)

14.05.1948 16.05.1898 19.05.1898

Israel declares its independence (60th Anniversary) Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980), Polish Art Deco painter (110th Birth

Anniversary)

William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1989), British statesman and Prime Minister (110th Death Anniversary)

19.05.1928 20.05.1908 Colin Chapman (1928-1982), English automotive engineer, founder of Lotus

Cars (80th Birth Anniversary) James Stewart (1908-1997), American actor (100th Birth Anniversary)

27.05.1988 28.05.1908 28.05.1968 30.05.1778

Renato Salvatori (1933-1988), Italian actor (20th Death

Anniversary)

Ian Fleming (1908-1964), British author, journalist and Second World War Navy Commander (100th Birth

Anniversary)

Kees Van Dongen (1877-1968), Dutch painter (40th Death

Anniversary)

Voltaire (1694-1778), French Enlightenment writer and philosopher

(230th Death Anniversary)

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June 03.06.1808 06.06.1508 06.06.1608 07.06.1848

Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), President of the Confederate States

of America (200th Birth Anniversary)

Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor is defeated in Friulia by Venetian forces

(500th Anniversary)

Bernardo Buontalenti (1536-1608), Italian stage designer, architect,

theatrical designer, military engineer and artist (400th Death Anniversary)

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), French painter (160th Birth Anniversary)

07.06.1868 14.06.1928 17.06.1898 18.06.1928 Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1958), Scottish architect

(140th Birth Anniversary)

Ernesto “Che” Guevara (1928-1967), Argentine-born Marxist

revolutionary (80th Birth Anniversary)

Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), English artist (110th Birth Anniversary)

Roald Amundsen (1872-1928), Norwegian explorer of polar regions

(80th Death Anniversary)

20.06.1978 21.06.1858 22-26.06.1848 24.06.1888 Mark Robson (1913-1978),

Canadian film director and producer (30th Death Anniversary)

Medardo Rosso (1858-1928), Italian sculptor (150th Birth Anniversary)

Beginning of the June Days Uprising in Paris (160th Anniversary)

Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964), Dutch architect and designer (120th Birth

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 Darwin's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society (150th Anniversary)

Alberto Magnelli (1888-1971), Italian painter (120th Birth Anniversary)

Achille Varzi (1904-1948), Italian racing driver (60th Death Anniversary)

Robert Adam (1728-1792), Scottish neoclassical architect and designer

(280th Birth Anniversary)

03.07.1858 03.07.1898 08.07.1838 Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806-1858), Russian painter (150th

Death Anniversary)

Donald Healey (1898-1988), English motor engineer and race car driver

(110th Birth Anniversary)

Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917), founder of the Zeppelin Airship Company (170th Birth Anniversary)

10.07.1888 10.07.1928 13.07.1918 14.07.1858

Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978), Italian painter (120th Birth

Anniversary)

Bernard Buffet (1928-1999), French painter (80th Birth Anniversary)

Alberto Ascari (1918-1955), Italian race car driver (90th Birth Anniversary)

Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928), one of the founders of the British

suffragette movement (150th Birth Anniversary)

14.07.1918 17.07.1898 17.07.1918

Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007), Swedish film, stage, and opera director (90th Birth Anniversary)

Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), American photographer (110th Birth

Anniversary)

By order of the Bolshevik Party, Emperor Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family were murdered

(90th Death Anniversary)

18.07.1898 21.07.1858 21.07.1948 22.07.1898 Marie and Pierre Curie announce the discovery of a new element and proposed to call it polonium (110th

Anniversary)

Lovis Corinth (1858-1925), German painter (150th Birth Anniversary)

Arshile Gorky (1904-1948), Armenian-born painter (60th Death

Anniversary)

Alexander Calder (1898-1976), American sculptor (110th Birth

Anniversary)

25.07.1848 26.07.1928 30.07.1898 30.07.1898 Arthur Balfour (1848-1930), 33rd

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (160th Birth Anniversary)

Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999), American film director

(80th Birth Anniversary)

Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), 1st Chancellor of the German Empire

(110th Death Anniversary)

Henry Moore (1898-1986), English sculptor (110th Birth Anniversary)

August 02.08.1788 04.08.1848 06.08.1928 11.08.1968

Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), most famous portrait and landscape painters of 18th century Britain (220th Death Anniversary)

First Italian Independence War: Austrians armies of the Field Marshall Radetsky entered in Milan restoring Austrian rule (160th Anniversary)

Andy Warhol (1928-1987), American artist (80th Birth Anniversary)

The last steam passenger train service ran in Britain (40th

Anniversary)

12.08.1868 12.08.1988 13.08.1608 13.08.1888 George Stephenson (1781-1868),

English mechanical engineer, “father” of the steam locomotives

(140th Birth Anniversary)

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), American painter (20th Death

Anniversary)

Giambologna (1529-1608), Italian sculptor (400th Anniversary)

John Logie Baird (1888-1946), Scottish engineer, inventor of the

world's first working television system (120th Birth Anniversary)

14.08.1988 16.08.1858 16.08.1928 Enzo Ferrari (1898-1988), Italian

race car driver and automobile manufacturer (20th Death

Anniversary)

U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (150th

Anniversary)

Ann Blyth, American actress and singer (80th Anniversary)

21.08.1978 22.08.1908 22.08.1978 25.08.1918 Charles Eames (1907-1978), American designer and architect

(30th Death Anniversary)

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004), French photographer (100th

Birth Anniversary)

Jomo Kenyatta (1889-1978), first Prime Minister and President of Kenya

(30th Death Anniversary)

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), American conductor and composer

(90th Birth Anniversary)

25.08.1958 26.08.1978 30.08.1748 30.08.1908

Tim Burton, American film director (50th Anniversary)

Charles Boyer (1899-1978), French actor (30th Death Anniversary)

Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825), French painter (260th Birth

Anniversary)

Giovanni Fattori (1825-1908), Italian painter (100th Death Anniversary)

30.08.1908 30.08.1908 31.08.1888 31.08.1928 Fred MacMurray (1908-1991),

American actor (100th Birth Anniversary)

Leonor Fini (1908-1996), Argentine-born paintress (100th Birth

Anniversary)

Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of the Jack the Ripper's known victims (120th Anniversary)

James Coburn (1928-2002), American actor (80th Birth

Anniversary)

September 03.09.1658 03.09.1928 04.09.1888 04.09.1908

Oliver Cromwell dies and his son Richard assumes his position as Lord

Protector of England (350th Anniversary)

Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin (80th Anniversary)

George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak (120th Anniversary)

Edward Dmytryk (1908-1999), American film director (100th Birth

Anniversary)

07.09.1968 12.09.1888 14.09.1928 Lucio Fontana (1899-1968),

Argentine-born Italian painter and sculptor (40th Death Anniversary)

Maurice Chevalier (1888-1972), Frenc actor, singer and popular entertainer (120th Birth Anniversary)

Alberto Korda (1928-2001), Cuban photographer (80th Birth Anniversary)

21.09.1558 23.09.1938 24.09.1948 Emperor Charles V (1500-1588), ruler of the Holy Roman Empire

(450th Death Anniversary)

Romy Schneider (1938-1982), Austrian-German actress (70th Birth Anniversary)

The Honda Motor Company is founded (60th Anniversary)

26.09.1898 29.09.1518 29.09.1758

George Gershwin (1898-1937), American composer (110th Birth

Anniversary)

Tintoretto (1518-1594), Italian painter (490th Birth Anniversary)

Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), British admiral, famous for his participation in

the Napoleonic Wars (250th Birth Anniversary)

October 01.10.1808 01.10.1908 01.10.1928

Carl Gotthard Langhans (1732-1808), German architect (200th Death Anniversary)

Ford puts the Model T car on the market (100th Anniversary)

Laurence Harvey (1928-1973), Lithuanian-born actor (80th Birth

Anniversary)

01.10.1958 02.10.1968 03.10.1858 10.10.1858

Robert Falk (1886-1958), Russian painter (50th Death Anniversary)

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), French painter and sculptor (40th

Death Anniversary)

Eleonora Duse (1858-1924), Italian actress (150th Birth Anniversary)

Maurice Prendergast (1858-1924), American painter (150th Birth

Anniversary)

11.10.1958 12.10.1858 16.10.708

Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958), French painter (50th Death

Anniversary)

Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858), Japanese ukiyo-e artist, and one of the last great artists in that tradition (150th

Death Anniversary)

After a report of the apparition of the archangel Michael, the island Mont Tombe is renamed Mont Saint-Michel (1300th Anniversary)

16.10.1978 17.10.1488 17.10.1918 18.10.1678 Karol Jozef Wojtyla becomes

Pope John Paul II (30th Anniversary)

Baccio Bandinelli (1488-1560), Italian sculptor (520th Birth

Anniversary)

Rita Hayworth (1918-1987), American actress (90th Birth

Anniversary)

Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678), Flemish Baroque painter (330th Death

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),

German sculptor and poet (70th Death Anniversary)

Ing. C. Olivetti & Co. was founded in Ivrea by Camillo Olivetti (100th

Anniversary)

Egon Schiele (1890-1918), Austrian painter (90th Death Anniversary)

November 04.11.1918 04.11.1968 05.11.1878 07.11.1598

World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy (90th

Anniversary)

Michel Kikoine (1892-1968), Belarusian painter (40th Death

Anniversary)

Domenico Induno (1815-1878), Italian painter (130th Death

Anniversary)

Francisco de Zurbaran (1598-1664), Spanish painter (410th Birth

Anniversary)

08.11.1998 09.11.1778 11.11.1868 11.11.1918

Jean Marais (1913-1998), French actor (10th Death Anniversary)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778), Italian artist (230th Death

Anniversary)

Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940), French painter (140th Birth

Anniversary)

World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in

France (90th Anniversary)

13.11.1868 14-16.11.1848 14.11.1938 15.11.1908

Gioacchino Rossini (1779-1868) Italian composer (140th Death

Anniversary)

Rome: Public disorder grew, with repeated riots; the Prime Minister Pellegrino Rossi was murdered

(160th Anniversary)

Jean Seberg (1938-1979), American actress (70th Birth Anniversary)

Lorenzo Delleani (1840-1908), Italian painter (100th Death

Anniversary)

16.11.1908 17.11.1558 19.11.1828 20.11.1978 Raymond Peynet (1908-1999),

French painter (100th Birth Anniversary)

Elisabeth I was Queen of England, France (in name only), and Ireland until her death (450th Anniversary)

Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Austrian composer (180th Death

Anniversary)

Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter (1888-1978) (30th Death 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

Gaeta, leaving Rome to the radicals and the mob (160th Anniversary)

Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist (100th Birth

Anniversary)

Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), Italian architect (500th Birth Anniversary)

December 02.12.1848 07.12.1598 08.12.1708 10.12.1848

Franz Josef I becomes Emperor of Austria (160th Anniversary)

Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), Italian artist (410th Birth Anniversary)

Francis I of Lorraine (1708-1765), Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany (300th Birth Anniversary)

Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte is elected first President of the French Second Republic (160th Anniversary)

10.12.1928 15.12.1918 21.12.1958 22.12.1808 Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928), Scottish architect,

designer, and illustrator (80th Death Anniversary)

Jeff Chandler (1918-1961), American actor (90th Birth Anniversary)

French presidential election: Charles de Gaulle is elected President of

France (50th Anniversary)

Ludwig van Beethoven premieres his Fifth Symphony as well as his Sixth

Symphony (200th Anniversary)

22.12.1858 22.12.1908 22.12.1908 23.12.1888

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), Italian composer (150th Birth

Anniversary)

Giacomo Manzù (1908-1991), best known Italian sculptor of the 20th century (100th Birth Anniversary)

Max Bill (1908-1994), Swiss architect, artist, painter and graphic designer

(100th Birth Anniversary)

Vincent van Gogh cuts off the lower part of his left ear and gives it to a prostitute named Rachel (120th

Anniversary)

26.12.1898 30.12.1788 Marie and Pierre Curie announce

the isolation of radium (110th Anniversary)

Francesco Zuccarelli (1702-1788), Italian painter (220th Death Anniversary)