- David Hockney was born on July 9, 1937 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He is a production designer and actor, known for Tout peut arriver (2003), Great Performances (1971) and Une nuit de réflexion (1985).
- Round, sometimes colourful, spectacles
- Appointed a Companion of Honour in the 1997 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
- He allegedly declined British knighthood in 1990 for his services to the Arts but he accepted the Companion of Honour in 1997.
- Awarded an honorary DLitt by Oxford University in 1995.
- In the Independent on Sunday 2006 Pink List - a list of the most influential gay men and women - he came no. 29, down from 8.
- His painting "A Bigger Splash" inspired the title of Luca Guadagnino's film A Bigger Splash (2015). Hockney is thanked in the credits.
- My father thought of Russia as a land of cornfields and happy laughter, and he used to drop copies of The Daily Worker around casually for people to read. Mother was always hissing at him and telling him to pick them up.
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