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Events

Sir Roy Strong becomes Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Sam Fullbrook - Jockey Norman Stephens

Exhibitions

Works

• Enzo Plazzotta - Crucifixion

Births

• 31 May - Adrian Tomine, American cartoonist.
• 16 June - Paul Lee, English artist.
• 1 September - Jhonen Vasquez, American comic book artist, cartoonist and writer.
• 8 November - Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese mangaka.
• 7 December - Kang Full, South Korean webcomic artist.

Full date unknown

• Banksy, English graffiti artist.
• Amelie Chabannes, French painter and sculptor.
• Fabrice Lachant, French photographer.
• Bojan Šarčević, Bosnian-French visual artist.

Deaths

January to June

• 4 March - Adolph Gottlieb, American abstract expressionist painter and sculptor (b.1903).
• 9 March - Daniel O'Neill, Irish painter (b.1920).
• 5 April - A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (b.1882).
• 31 May - Juan Bautista Garcia, Puerto Rican painter (b.1904).
• 7 June - Milton Menasco, American painter and art director (b.1890).
• 22 June - Alain Saint-Ogan, French comics author and artist (b.1895).
• 30 June - Frank McKelvey, Irish painter (b.1895).

July to December

• 9 July - Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French writer and artist (b.1884).
• 11 August - Jan Tschichold, German typographer, book designer, teacher and writer (b.1902).
• August - André Edouard Marty, French artist (b.1882).
• 17 September - André Dunoyer de Segonzac, French painter and graphic artist (b.1884).
• 28 October - David Jones, English poet and painter (b.1895).
• 21 December - James Henry Govier, English painter (b.1910).
• 25 December - Harry Kernoff, Irish painter (b.1900).

Full date unknown

• Émilie Charmy, French artist (b.1878).