American artist

Don Maitz

Don Maitz is an American science fiction, fantasy, and commercial artist. He has twice won the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist, science fiction's highest honor for an artist, out of 21 nominations. His peers in the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists have honored him ten times with a Chesley Award for outstanding achievement, and he has received a Silver Medal of Excellence from the Society of Illustrators. Additionally he won the 1980 Artist World Fantasy Award and was a Guest of Honor at the 1996 World Horror Convention.

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1953

June 10

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1953 Born

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671 Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock (clepsydra) called Rokoku. The instrument, which measures time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu.
1190 Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem.
1225 Pope Honorius III issues the bull Vineae Domini custodes in which he approves the mission of Dominican friars to Morocco.
1329 The Battle of Pelekanon is the last attempt of the Byzantine Empire to retain its cities in Asia Minor.

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The world in 1953

When Don arrived

april 13 CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
april 24 Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
april 25 Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
april 27 Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defects with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.

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Bruno Bartoletti 1926–2013 Italian conductor (died 2013) Cora Agnes Benneson 1851–1919 American attorney (died 1919) Dan Fouts 1951– American football player and sportscaster Eugene Parker 1927– American astrophysicist and academic (died 2022) Frederick Cook 1865– American physician and explorer (died 1940) Gustave Courbet 1819–1877 French-Swiss painter and sculptor (born 1819) James Francis Edward Stuart 1688–1766 Jacobite pretender (born 1688) João Gilberto 1931–2019 Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist, pioneer of bossa nova music style (born 1931) Margarito Bautista 1878–1961 Nahua-Mexican evangelizer, theologian, and religious founder (born 1878)

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Alex Grey 1953– American visual artist and author Alex Lifeson 1953– Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Alister McGrath 1953– Irish priest, historian, and theologian Andy Partridge 1953– English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer Angélica Aragón 1953– Mexican film, television, and stage actress and singer Arielle Dombasle 1953– French-American actress and model Ben Bernanke 1953– American economist Benazir Bhutto 1953–2007 Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (born 1953) Ciarán Hinds 1953– Irish actor

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