Events
Awards
Works
Births
January to June
Contents
2 January – Anton Lehmden, Slovakian-born Austrian painter, co-founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism (d. 2018)
8 January – Poul Kjærholm, Danish designer (d. 1980)
13 January – Roy Oxlade, English painter and critic (d. 2014)
26 January – Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist
28 January – Claes Oldenburg, Swedish-born American sculptor (d. 2022)
9 February – Clement Meadmore Australian-born American sculptor (d. 2005)
24 February – Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish painter, photographer and fantasy artist (d. 2005)
4 March – Wolfgang Hollegha, Austrian painter
22 March – Yayoi Kusama, Japanese visual artist.
31 March
Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer and entrepreneur (d. 2007)
Jay DeFeo, American visual artist (d. 1989)
5 April – Hugo Claus, Belgian novelist, poet, playwright, painter and film director (d. 2008)
7 April – Gabriel Caruana, Maltese artist (d. 2018)
23 May – Vladimír Preclík, Czech writer and sculptor (d. 2008)
31 May – Nicholas Krushenick, American pop art painter (d. 1999)
4 June – Davidee Itulu, Inuit artist (d. 2006)
July to December
13 July – René Laloux, French animator and film director (d. 2004)
25 July – Bryan Pearce, English naïve painter (d. 2007)
29 July – Jean Baudrillard, French cultural theorist, sociologist, philosopher, political commentator and photographer (d. 2007)
8 August – Josef Mikl, Austrian abstract painter (d. 2008)
4 September – Anne Dunn, painter
21 September – Edgar Valter, Estonian writer and illustrator of children's books (d. 2006)
4 November — Jane Davis Doggett, graphic designer (d. 2023)
Undated
Barrie Cook, English abstract painter (d. 2020)
Li Yuan-chia, Chinese-born artist, poet and curator (d. 1994)
Deaths
January 6 - Louisine Havemeyer, American art collector and philanthropist (b 1855)
January 12 – Arthur Diehl, English landscape painter (b. 1870)
January 13 – Emil Fuchs, Austrian American sculptor and painter (b. 1866)
January 18 – Maurice Bouchor, French poet and sculptor (b. 1855)
February 14 – Sydney Carline, English painter, war artist (b. 1888)
February 22 – Louise Upton Brumback, American landscape painter (b. 1867)
March 1
Vincenzo Gemito, Italian sculptor (b. 1852)
Ernst Oppler, German painter (b. 1867)
March 5 – Francesco Paolo Michetti, Italian painter (b. 1851)
April 22 – Henry Lerolle, painter and arts patron (b. 1848)
May 5 – Charles Grafly, sculptor (b. 1862)
May 9 – Kate Dickens Perugini, English painter (b. 1839)
June 13 – Margaret Forrest, art collector (b. 1844)
July 3 – Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret, painter (b. 1852)
July 12 – Robert Henri, painter, leader of the Ash Can School (b. 1865)
July 28 – Allen Hutchinson, sculptor (b. 1855)
August 9 – Heinrich Zille, photographer and illustrator (b. 1858)
October 1 – Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor (b. 1861)
October 26 – Aby Warburg, German art historian (b. 1866)
date unknown - Adelaïde Alsop Robineau, American painter and potter (b. 1865)