Curated playlist
1888 births
- Seitarō KitayamaSeitarō Kitayama helped bring Japanese animation into existence at a time when the medium was barely a handful of years old anywhere in the world. His films from 1917 stand among the earliest examples of anime produced for commercial sale,…
- T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot wrote the opening of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" when he was twenty-two years old. The lines compared an evening sky to "a patient etherised upon a table". Critics called the image shocking and offensive. Georgian…
- Julio Rey PastorJulio Rey Pastor was born on the 14th of August 1888 in Spain, and by the time he died on the 21st of February 1962, he had spent a lifetime reshaping how mathematics was taught, practiced, and organized across two continents. He trained…
- Harilal GandhiHarilal Mohandas Gandhi was born on the 23rd of August 1888. His father left for England shortly after his birth to pursue higher studies. Harilal stayed behind in India with his mother Kasturba. He joined the Indian independence movement…
- Raymond ChandlerRaymond Thornton Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959, having spent much of the intervening years doing almost everything except what he would become famous for. He was a civil servant, a tennis racket stringer, a fruit…
- Eugene O'NeillEugene O'Neill died the same way he was born: in a hotel room. As he whispered his last words at the Sheraton Hotel in Boston on the 27th of November 1953, he said, "I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room and died in a hotel room." It…
- John Foster DullesJohn Foster Dulles died on the 24th of May, 1959, at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, having resigned as Secretary of State just weeks earlier as bone metastasis consumed what remained of his health. He was 71. Funeral services were held…
- Maulana AzadMaulana Azad was born in Mecca on the 11th of November 1888. His father was a Muslim scholar who had fled Delhi during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, settling in the holy city. Muhammad Khairuddin bin Ahmed Al Hussaini had thousands of…
- Maxwell AndersonMaxwell Anderson died on the 28th of February 1959, two days after a stroke, and was cremated. Half his ashes were scattered by the sea near his home in Stamford, Connecticut. The other half was buried in Anderson Cemetery near the small…
- Eric BlomEric Walter Blom was born in Bern, Switzerland on the 20th of August 1888, and he died on the 11th of April 1959, but in between he shaped how the English-speaking world understood music for most of the twentieth century. His father…
- Jean WahlJean André Wahl was born on the 25th of May 1888, and for most of the twentieth century he stood at the center of French philosophical life as a teacher, editor, poet, and institutional builder. He died on the 19th of June 1974, having…
- Otto SternOtto Stern, born on the 17th of February 1888 in Sohrau, in the German province of Silesia, became one of the most influential experimental physicists of the twentieth century. He earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1943, yet his path to…