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1874 births
- Winston ChurchillWinston Churchill was born on the 30th of November 1874 inside Blenheim Palace, the ancestral home his family had held for generations in Oxfordshire. The building itself said something about who he was: a man descended from John…
- Arnold SchoenbergArnold Schoenberg was born on the 13th of September 1874 at Obere Donaustraße 5 in Vienna's Leopoldstadt, a district that had historically served as a Jewish ghetto. He died on the 13th of July 1951, a Friday, shortly before midnight. That…
- Edward ThorndikeEdward Lee Thorndike built one of the most influential theories in the history of psychology by watching cats try to escape from wooden boxes. Born in Williamsburg, Massachusetts in 1874, Thorndike would spend nearly his entire career at…
- Ernest ShackletonErnest Shackleton died at 2:50 a.m. on the 5th of January 1922, in a cabin aboard his ship, moored off the island of South Georgia. He was forty-seven years old, far from home, planning yet another voyage into ice. His physician Alexander…
- Charles A. BeardCharles Austin Beard was born on the 27th of November 1874 in Knightstown, Indiana, and by the time he died in 1948, he had become the most controversial historian in America. His biographer Ellen Nore and his critics agreed on at least…
- Nicholas RoerichNicholas Roerich left behind more than 7,000 paintings, a spiritual movement that still has followers today, and an international treaty signed at the White House in April 1935. Born on the 9th of October 1874 in Saint Petersburg, he died…
- Alice Clark (historian)Alice Clark was born into a Quaker family on the 1st of August 1874, and the world she entered had already shaped the question she would spend her life trying to answer. Her family name was synonymous with C. and J. Clark Ltd., the British…
- Nikolai BerdyaevNikolai Berdyaev once told Felix Dzerzhinsky, the feared head of the Soviet secret police, exactly what was wrong with Bolshevism. He was sitting across from the Cheka's most powerful man, under arrest, at a midnight interrogation. He did…
- Leopoldo LugonesLeopoldo Lugones died the way he had lived: in the grip of extremes. On the 18th of February 1938, at the river resort of El Tigre in Buenos Aires, he mixed whisky and cyanide and ended his own life. He was sixty-three years old and had…
- Chaim WeizmannChaim Weizmann was born on the 27th of November 1874 in the village of Motal, a small settlement in what is now Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire. He was the third of fifteen children. His father was a timber merchant. It is a long…