Aleksandr Laktionov (painter)

Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov was a Socialist realism painter in the post-war Soviet Union. His meticulous and almost photo-real style was popular, but courted controversy among art critics and other artists.

16 May 1910

Born on the same birth date (16 May 1910): Higashifushimi Kunihide • Olga Bergholz

Born on the same birth day (16 May): Adrienne Rich • Betty Carter • Emilíana Torrini • Gustaaf Van Roosbroeck • Higashifushimi Kunihide • Kevin McDonald • Peter Onorati • Pierce Brosnan • Thomas Brodie-Sangster • Woody Herman

Born in the same month (May 1910): Artie Shaw • Constance Cummings • Dorothy Hodgkin • Edmund Bacon (architect) • Franz Kline • Harry Bernstein • Higashifushimi Kunihide • Hugh Casson • J. Allen Hynek • Jimmy Demaret • Johan Ferrier • Margaret Wise Brown • Ne Win • Olga Bergholz • Rachel Kempson • Ralph Metcalfe • Raya Dunayevskaya • Scatman Crothers • T-Bone Walker