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Contents 1 Events 2 Awards 3 Works 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Construction of the Centre Georges Pompidou begins.

[edit] Awards

• Archibald Prize: Clifton Pugh - Sir John McEwen

[edit] Works

• Hans Haacke - Real Time Social System
• Fritz Koenig - Great Spherical Caryatid ("The Sphere"), designed for the World Trade Center, now in Battery Park, NYC

[edit] Births

• 2 September - Arnold Arre, Filipino comic book writer and artist.
• 7 September - Sirpa Masalin, Finnish sculptor.
• 10 September - Pantea Rahmani, Iranian painter and sculptor.
• 13 September - Stella McCartney, English fashion designer.
• 4 October - Jeremy Blake, American digital artist and painter (d.2007).
• 27 October - Jade Arcade, American composer, musician and comic book artist.
• date unknown
  • Stéphane Breitwieser, French art thief.
  • Amanda Coogan, Irish performance artist.
  • Bernhard Gál, Austrian composer and artist.
  • Nicolas Ghesquière, French fashion designer.
  • Tsuyoshi Ōhashi, Japanese manga artist

[edit] Deaths

• 10 January - Coco Chanel, French fashion designer (b.1883)
• 3 April - Jacques Ochs, French artist, Olympic fencing gold medallist (b.1883).
• 11 April - Marcel Gromaire, French painter (b.1892)
• 14 June - Gerald Dillon, Irish painter (b.1916).
• 7 July - Ub Iwerks, American animator, cartoonist and special effects technician (b.1901).
• 12 July - Kiyoshi Yamashita, Japanese outsider artist (b.1922).
• 27 August - Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and photojournalist (b.1904).
• 9 November - Ceri Richards, Welsh painter (b.1903).
• 6 December - Jan Altink, Dutch painter (b.1885).