1. Dezember 1899 (116 Jahre)
Eileen Agar, British painter and photographer associated with the Surrealist movement, was born. 125 years.
1. Dezember 1916 (99 Jahre)
Charles de Foucauld, französischer Forscher, Priester und Mönch, stirbt.
1. Dezember 1955 (60 Jahre)
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person.
1. Dezember 1990 (25 Jahre)
Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed.
2. Dezember 1814 (201 Jahre)
The Marquis de Sade, the French aristocrat, writer and philosopher known for his perverse sexual preferences and violent erotica from which the term 'sadism' is derived, died.
2. Dezember 1859 (156 Jahre)
Georges Pierre Seurat, the French post-Impressionist painter noted for innovative usage of colour and drawing media, was born.
2. Dezember 1891 (124 Jahre)
Otto Dix, bedeutender deutscher Maler v.a. beeinflusst vom 1. Weltkrieg, wird geboren.
2. Dezember 1891 (124 Jahre)
Otto Dix, bedeutender deutscher Maler v.a. beeinflusst vom 1. Weltkrieg, wird geboren.
2. Dezember 1923 (92 Jahre)
Maria Callas, Greek-American soprano and one of the most influential opera singers of the 20th century was born in New York.
2. Dezember 1946 (69 Jahre)
Gianni Versace, italienischer Modeschöpfer und Gründer des Modelabels Versace, wird geboren.
2. Dezember 1950 (65 Jahre)
I, Robot, a collection of nine science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov, was published for the first time.
3. Dezember 1919 (96 Jahre)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, known worldwide as a leading painter in the impressionist style, died.
3. Dezember 1956 (59 Jahre)
Alexander Michailowitsch Rodtschenko, russischer Maler und Grafiker, Gründer des Konstruktivismus, stirbt.
4. Dezember 1914 (101 Jahre)
Rudolf Hausner, an Austrian painter, draughtsman, print maker and sculptor, was born. Hausner has been described as the first psychoanalytical painter.
5. Dezember 1443 (572 Jahre)
Pope Julius II, "The Warrior Pope", great patron for the arts (he commissioned the rebuilding of St. Peter's Basilica andMichelangelo's decoration of the Sistine Chapel) was born.
5. Dezember 1791 (224 Jahre)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, österreichischer Pianist und Komponist, stirbt.
5. Dezember 1839 (176 Jahre)
George Armstrong Custer, the American cavalry officer killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn, also known as Custer's Last Stand, was born.
5. Dezember 1926 (89 Jahre)
Claude Monet, französischer Maler und einer der Gründerväter des Impressionismus, stirbt.
5. Dezember 2013 (2 Jahre)
Nelson Mandela, South African lawyer, 1st President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate, died.
5. Dezember 2013 (2 Jahre)
Nelson Mandela, South African lawyer and politician, 1st President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate, died.
