Happy birthday Rachmaninoff (April 1, 1873 - March 28, 1943)

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Happy birthday, Albert Einstein.

Here, a look at a famous picture taken in Albert Einstein’s Princeton office — exactly as he left it — mere hours after the great theoretical physicist and 20th-century icon died in 1955.

(Ralph Morse—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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Celebrating Jackson Pollock

“Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.”

- Jackson Pollock

Happy birthday Jackson Pollock! The pioneering Abstract Expressionist painter was born on this day in 1912, in Wyoming. 

After moving to New York City in 1930, he spent the next two decades creating Figural, Landscape, and Abstract paintings. 

In 1947, Pollock began to experiment with pouring paint directly from the can onto canvases placed on the floor. Sometimes, he used the assistance of sticks and other non-traditional materials, a technique with which he would become permanently identified. 

happy birthday to our resident rebel :)

Burgtheater, Vienna, where Mozart played the Piano Concerto No. 15 in 1784

Happy birthday Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791)

Image source: Sean Du, Rafael Neff

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Happy birthday Beethoven (December 16, 1770 - March 26, 1827)

Portraits of pianist Vladimir Horowitz at the piano with poodle following return to New York concert stage after 12 years (top images); Horowitz in his New York apartment with wife, Wanda, & pet poodles (bottom image), 1965

Photo by Gjon Mili - LIFE archive

Happy birthday Vladimir Horowitz (October 1, 1903 - November 5, 1989)

Happy birthday Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920 - March 9, 1994)

Charles Bukowski, c.1981, photo by Mark Hanauer