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4 days ago · Vincent van Gogh (born March 30, 1853, Zundert, Netherlands—died July 29, 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, France) was a Dutch painter, generally considered the greatest after Rembrandt van Rijn, and one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists. The striking color, emphatic brushwork, and contoured forms of his work powerfully influenced ...
May 9, 2024 · Justin Bieber, Canadian singer and teen idol whose fresh-faced good looks and appealing pop songs sparked a global craze beginning in 2009. His albums included My World 2.0, Believe, Never Say Never: The Remixes, Under the Mistletoe, Purpose, and Changes. Learn more about Bieber’s life and career.
3 days ago · TikTok Star With Cancer Who Touched Millions Dead at 26. Gordon Ramsay (born November 8, 1966, Johnstone, Scotland) is a Scottish chef and restaurateur known for his highly acclaimed restaurants and cookbooks but perhaps best known in the early 21st century for the profanity and fiery temper that he freely displayed on television cooking programs.
May 17, 2024 · Frank Lloyd Wright, architect and writer, an abundantly creative master of American architecture. His ‘Prairie style’ became the basis of 20th-century residential design in the United States. Some of his best-known works included Unity Temple, Fallingwater, and the Guggenheim Museum.
May 7, 2024 · Tom Hayden (born December 11, 1939, Royal Oak, Michigan, U.S.—died October 23, 2016, Santa Monica, California) was an American activist and author.One of the preeminent activists of the 1960s, Hayden helped found Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and was arrested as one of the Chicago Seven indicted for conspiracy to incite the riots that accompanied the 1968 Democratic Convention in ...
2 days ago · Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky [n 1] ( / tʃaɪˈkɒfski / chy-KOF-skee; [2] 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) [n 2] was a Russian composer during the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical ...
May 9, 2024 · The Weeknd (born February 16, 1990, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian rhythm-and-blues singer and songwriter who was perhaps best known for his explicit songs about sex and drugs, many of which were autobiographical, and for his soaring falsetto and its singular tremolo. Tesfaye’s mother and grandmother immigrated in the 1980s to Canada ...
