Irving Stone died 20 years ago

Irving Stone was born on July 14, 1903 as Irving Tennenbaum in San Francisco, California. He wrote the novels Lust for Life (about the painter Vincent van Gogh) and The Agony and the Ecstasy (about Michelangelo)... Mr. Stone died on August 26, 1989 in Los Angeles, California.

Michelangelo died today – 444 years ago

Painter and sculptor Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born on March 6, 1475 near Arezzo, in Caprese, Tuscany, Italy. He said, “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark." [But how does one know where that point is?]... Michelangelo died on February 18, 1564 in Rome, Italy.