Willem de Kooning

Willem de Kooning was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. Born in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, he moved to the United States in 1926, becoming an American citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married painter Elaine Fried.

24 April 1904

Born on the same birth day (24 April): Alessandro Costacurta • Anahit Perikhanian • Carlos Beltrán • Eric Snow • Frédéric Niemeyer • Gabriel Figueroa • Hashim Thaçi • Hugh Dowding • Joe Henderson • Justin Wilson (chef) • Józef Gosławski (sculptor) • Lee Westwood • Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed • Peter Cresswell (judge) • Sandy Herd • Thomas Lucy • Thorbjörn Fälldin • Xu Guangqi • Yuko Nakanishi

Born in the same month (April 1904): Arshile Gorky • Cecil Day-Lewis • Clifford Bricker • David Robinson (philanthropist) • Erwin Komenda • Fifi D'Orsay • J. Robert Oppenheimer • John Hicks • K. L. Saigal • Paul-Émile Léger • Pigmeat Markham • Russel Wright