René Bull

René Bull was a British illustrator and photographer. He was born in Dublin on 11 December 1872 to a French mother and an English father. He went to Paris to study engineering, but embarked on an artistic career after meeting and taking drawing lessons from the French satirist and political cartoonist Caran d'Ache. Bull returned to Ireland to contribute sketches and political cartoons to various publications, including the 'Weekly Freeman'.

11 December 1872

Born on the same birth day (11 December): Adi Keissar • Chus Lampreave • Clinton Adams • Fabrizio Ravanelli • Frederick Eveleigh-de-Moleyns, 5th Baron Ventry • Hans van den Broek • J. P. Parisé • James Sullivan (city manager) • Lillian Cahn • Maarten Lafeber • Mary Ivy Burks • Piet Ooms • Rogier van Otterloo • Stamatis Spanoudakis • Val Guest

Born in the same month (December 1872): Albert Payson Terhune • Anton Denikin • Arthur Charles Hardy • Arthur Henry Adams • Camille Guérin • Frederick Semple • Helena Rubinstein • Lorenzo Perosi • Norman Angell • Trevor Kincaid • William Haselden