Saturday 21st of May 1633 (+) — Composer Joseph Chabanceau de La Barre is born
Wednesday 17th of July 1793 (-) — Assassin Charlotte Corday is executed by the Guillotine
Tuesday 6th of January 1852 (-) — Inventor Louis Braille dies of tuberculosis
Tuesday 4th of October 1904 (-) — Sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi dies of tuberculosis
Friday 12th of July 1935 (-) — Artillery officer and presumed traitor Alfred Dreyfus dies of a heart attack
Monday 30th of November 1953 (-) — Cubist painter, poet and typographist Francis Picabia dies of unknown causes
Saturday 25th of November 1967 (-) — Sculptor Ossip Zadkine dies after undergoing abdominal surgery
Sunday 12th of May 1985 (-) — Art Brut artist Jean Dubuffet dies of emphysema
Saturday 4th of August 1990 (x) — Composer and bandoneon player Ástor Piazzolla suffers a cerebral hemorrhage
Piazzolla was left in a coma and never regained consciousness until his death on 4 July 1992.
Friday 25th of November 2016 (-) — Photographer and film director David Hamilton commits suicide by an overdose of medication
Hamilton was facing allegations of rape by his former model Flavie Flament.
Monday 23rd of July 2018 (-) — Artist and activist with Femen Oksana Shachko commits suicide by hanging
