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Events

• 22 July - Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali is shot in London; he dies 28 August.

Awards

• Archibald Prize - William Robinson, Equestrian self-portrait

• Turner Prize - Richard Deacon

Shortlisted were: Patrick Caulfield, Helen Chadwick, Richard Long, Declan McGonagle and Thérèse Oulton.

Works

• Ernest Zobole - House Interior in Landscape

Births

• 24 February - Madeline Liwen Wong, Australian dancer.

Deaths

January to June

• 18 February - William Coldstream, English realist painter (b.1908).
• 22 February - Andy Warhol, American artist, director and writer (b.1928).
• 19 April - Milt Kahl, American animator (b.1909).

July to December

• 29 August - Naji al-Ali, Palestinian cartoonist (b. c1938).
• 4 October - Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (b.1947).
• 27 October - Jean Hélion, French painter (b.1904).
• 28 October - André Masson, French artist (b.1896).
• 4 November - Raphael Soyer Russian-born American painter, (b.1899).
• 15 November - Ernő Goldfinger, Hungarian-born architect and furniture designer (b.1902).

Full date unknown

• Roland Ansieau, French graphic artist (b.1901).
• Robert Filliou, French Fluxus artist (b.1926).
• Harry Holtzman, American artist (b.1912).
• Michel Tapié, French artist, critic, curator, and art collector (b.1909).