French sculptor and painter

Daniel Buren

Daniel Buren is a French conceptual artist, painter, and sculptor. He has won numerous awards including the Golden Lion for best pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1986), the International Award for best artist in Stuttgart (1991) and the prestigious Premium Imperiale for painting in Tokyo in 2007. He has created several world-famous installations, including "Les Deux Plateaux"(1985) in the Cour d'honneur of the Palais-Royal, and the Observatory of the Light in Fondation Louis Vuitton. He is one of the most active and recognised artists on the international scene, and his work has been welcomed by the most important institutions and sites around the world.

Born

1938

March 25

Died

Living

Era

1930s

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1938 Born

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410 The Southern Yan capital of Guanggu falls to the Jin dynasty general Liu Yu, ending the Southern Yan dynasty.
421 Italian city Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto.
708 Election of Pope Constantine following the death of Pope Sisinnius. He would be the last pope to visit Constantinople until 1967.
717 Theodosius III resigns the throne to the Byzantine Empire to enter a monastery, allowing Leo III to take the throne and begin the Isaurian dynasty.

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The world in 1938

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april 18 Superman debuts in Action Comics #1 (cover dated June 1938).
april 25 U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
april 5 Spanish Civil War: Two days after the Nationalist army occupied the Catalan city of Lleida, dictator Francisco Franco decrees the abolition of the Generalitat (the autonomous government of Catalonia), the self-government granted by the Republic, and the official status of the Catalan language.
august 18 The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States, with Ontario, Canada, over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Aly Michalka 1989– American singer-songwriter and guitarist Andronikos II Palaiologos 1259–1332 Byzantine emperor (born 1259) Arturo Toscanini 1867–1957 Italian cellist and conductor (born 1867) Béla Bartók 1881–1945 Hungarian pianist and composer (died 1945) Christopher Clavius 1538–1612 German mathematician and astronomer (born 1538) Ed Begley 1901–1970 American actor (born 1901) Hendrik Wortman 1859–1939 Dutch civil engineer (died 1939) Jenny Slate 1982– American comedian, actress and author John Ensign 1958– American physician and politician

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Alan Bond 1938–2015 English-Australian businessman (died 2015) Alberto Fujimori 1938–2024 Peruvian engineer, academic, and politician, President of Peru (died 2024) Andrew Clennel Palmer 1938–2019 British engineer (born 1938) Anthony Giddens 1938– English sociologist and academic Anthony James Leggett 1938– English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2026) Billy Shaw 1938–2024 American football player (died 2024) Caryl Churchill 1938– English-Canadian playwright Claudia Cardinale 1938– Italian actress (died 2025) David Eden Lane 1938– American white supremacist (died 2007)

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