Belgian-French poet and painter (died 1984)

Henri Michaux

Henri Michaux was a Belgian-born French experimental poet, writer and painter. Michaux is renowned for his strange, highly original poetry and prose, and also for his art: the Paris Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York had shows of his work in 1978. His autobiographical texts that chronicle his psychedelic experiments with LSD and mescaline include Miserable Miracle and The Major Ordeals of the Mind and the Countless Minor Ones. He is recognised for his idiosyncratic travelogues and books of art criticism.

Born

1899

May 24

Died

1984

Era

1890s

Country

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Henri, in brief

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Key dates

1899 Born
1984 Died

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The world in 1984

When Henri departed

april 1 Singer Marvin Gaye is shot to death by his father in his home in Arlington Heights, Los Angeles, California.
april 4 President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
april 6 Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
august 1 Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, England.

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Anthony Minichiello 1980– Australian rugby league player Artem Anisimov 1988– Russian ice hockey player Barry O'Farrell 1959– Australian politician, 43rd Premier of New South Wales Bartolo Colón 1973– Dominican-American baseball player Carmine Infantino 1925–2013 American illustrator (born 1925) Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686–1736 Polish-German physicist and engineer, developed the Fahrenheit scale (died 1736) Eduardo De Filippo 1900–1984 Italian actor and screenwriter (died 1984) Gerald Strickland 1861–1940 1st Baron Strickland, Maltese lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Malta (born 1861) Germanicus -15–19 Roman general (died 19)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1899

Albert Claude 1899–1983 Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1983) Alfred Blalock 1899– American surgeon and academic (died 1964) Alfred Hitchcock 1899–1980 English-American director and producer (born 1899) Andrei Platonov 1899–1951 Russian author and poet (died 1951) Andrija Artuković 1899–1988 Croatian politician, war criminal, and Porajmos perpetrator, first Minister of Interior of the Independent State of Croatia (born 1899) Billy Rose 1899–1966 American composer and songwriter (born 1899) Bruce Catton 1899–1978 American historian and journalist (born 1899) Chief Dan George 1899–1981 Canadian actor (died 1981) Corneliu Zelea Codreanu 1899– Romanian politician (died 1938)

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