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Natalie Merchant (b. 26 Oct 1963), American alternative rock singer-songwriter.

"Merchant joined 10,000 Maniacs in 1981, and was lead vocalist and primary lyricist for the band's first 7 albums. She began her solo career in 1993, releasing many outstanding albums."

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🎨 Swedish modernist painter, was 27 October 1885.

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Leo G. Carroll (25 Oct 1886 - 16 Oct 1972), English actor.

"In a career of more than forty years, he appeared in six Hitchcock films including 'Spellbound,' 1945, 'Strangers on a Train,' 1951, and 'North by Northwest,' 1959."

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Pablo Picasso (25 Oct 1881 - 8 Apr), Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer.

📷 Working on 'Guernica,' 1937.
📷 Lee Miller and Picasso in his studio, Liberation of Paris, Rue des Grands-Augustins Paris, France, 1944.

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🎨 Swedish post-impressionist painter, was 25 October 1888.

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Catherine Deneuve (b. 22 Oct 1943), French actress.

She co-starred with her sister Francois Dorleac in 'The Young Girls of Rochefort,' 1967, directed by one of her favorite filmmakers, Jacques Demy.

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Robert Rauschenberg (22 Oct 1925–12 May 2008), American painter, graphic artist.

"1948-50 he studied at Black Mountain College, North Carolina, under Bauhaus master Josef Albers."

📷 Dressing Ingeborg Svarc Lauterstein in one of his designs at Black Mountain College.

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Timothy Leary (22 Oct 1920 - 31 May 1996), American psychologist.

"Leading advocate for the use of LSD & psychoactive drugs, concluding they could be effective in transforming personality & expanding human consciousness."

📷 Millbrook, 1966/PL Gould
📷 Dennis Hopper

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🎨 Canadian landscape painter, was 23 October 1885.

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Birthday remembrance - artist, animator, designer Mary Blair

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Domenichino (21 Oct 1581 - 6 Apr 1641), Italian painter.

"Leading practitioner of Baroque classicism in Rome & Bologna. A towering figure of 17th century painting."

🎨 'Landscape with Moses and the Burning Bush,' 1610-16
🎨 'Samson Captured by the Philistines,' 1619

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Tommy Douglas (20 Oct 1904–24 Feb 1986), Scottish-born Canadian politician.

"As premier of Saskatchewan (1944-61), led Canada’s first socialist gov't, establishing state-run health care in the province. For this he's considered father of socialized medicine in Canada."

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Pierre Alechinsky (b. 19 Oct 1927), Belgian artist. Lives/works in France since 1951.

"His work is related to tachisme, abstract expressionism, and lyrical abstraction. Also, figurehead of the CoBrA movement."

📷📷 Alechinsky
🎨 'Sometimes It's the Opposite,' 1970.

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BOTD 1945 Harris Glenn Milstead AKA Divine!

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"We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles that surround us."
Umberto Boccioni Italian painter sculptor 🎂 born

♡ Everywhere I look, a miracle!

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Lee Harvey Oswald (18 Oct 1939 - 24 Nov 1963), American, accused assassin of US Pres. John F. Kennedy in Dallas, 22 Nov 1963.

"Evidence of what occurred that day remains highly debatable. Oswald himself was fatally shot 2 days later by Jack Ruby in Dallas County Jail."

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Klaus Kinski (18 Oct 1926 - 23 Nov 1991), intense, eccentric German actor of Polish descent.

"Kinski had a stage and film career of more than 40 years and was best known for his riveting performances in the films of Werner Herzog."

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