Artist Birthdays - January 4th

François Rude (Sculptor, "Mercury Fastening His Sandals") – 1784

Jacob Grimm (Mythologist, Grimm’s Fairy Tales) – 1785

André Masson (Artist, "A Dream of a Future Desert") – 1896

Gao Xingjian (Novelist/Playwright, Soul Mountain) – 1940

Patty Loveless (Musician, “I Try to Think About Elvis”) – 1957

Michael Stipe (Musician, "Man on the Moon") – 1960

Dave Foley (Actor, The Kids in the Hall) – 1963

Julia Ormond (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) – 1965