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5月7： Marc Chagall, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, 周策縱，














出生
  • 1711 – David Hume, Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher (d. 1776)
1711年：休謨，英國哲學家。（1776年逝世）



1840年：彼得·伊里奇·柴科夫斯基，俄羅斯作曲家。（1893年逝世）


Pyotr Tchaikovsky was born on May 7th 1840. His body of work encompasses a huge range of styles, from the beloved ballets “The Nutcracker” and “Swan Lake” to symphonies, operas, concertos and folk melodies





Marc Chagall
Artist
Marc Zakharovich Chagall was a Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin. An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in virtually every artistic ...Wikipedia
Born: July 7, 1887, Vitebsk, Belarus
Died: March 28, 1985, Saint Paul de Vence, France
Periods: Surrealism, Cubism, Fauvism, Expressionism, Modern art
Spouse: Valentina Brodsky (m. 1952–1985), Bella Rosenfeld (m. 1915–1944)
Quotes
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
Great art picks up where nature ends.
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.


逝世


2007年：周策縱，中國歷史學家。（1916年出生）

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