Curated category
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.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Nikolai BerdyaevNikolai Berdyaev once told Felix Dzerzhinsky, the feared head of the Soviet secret police, exactly what was wrong with Bolshevism.
- 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…
- 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.