20 May
Born in 1899 – Aleksandr Deyneka, Soviet Russian artist.
Above: Mother, 1932 and A Collective Farm Girl on a Bicycle, 1935
Also, born in 1799 – Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright.
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
–La Duchesse de Langeais (1834)