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1564 died in Rome Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, commonly known as Michelangelo, great Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer.
2001 died Balthasar Kłossowski de Rola, known as Balthus, controversial Polish/French modern artist.
Khaled Al-Asaad, archeologist and former director of antiquities of Palmyra beheaded by ISIS
News - Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Khaled Al-Asaad, archaeologists and an expert on Palmyra, has been beheaded by Isis militants yesterday. He was 83. Al-Asaad was director of antiquities at the Unesco World Heritage Site from 1963 to 2003. His body was tied to an ancient column within the archaeological site and the murder has been denounced as a "horrific act" by Unesco.
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