Curated category
1892 births
- J. R. R. TolkienOn the evening of his 21st birthday, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien sat down and wrote a letter to a young woman named Edith Mary Bratt.
- Manilal GandhiManilal Mohandas Gandhi was born on the 28th of October 1892 in Rajkot, British India, the second of four sons in one of the most consequential families of…
- Jack L. WarnerJack Leonard Warner ran Warner Bros. Studios for more than half a century, longer than any other pioneering Hollywood mogul.
- Mahadev DesaiMahadev Haribhai Desai spent the last morning of his life exactly where he had spent so much of the previous twenty-five years: beside Mahatma Gandhi, inside…
- Ōten ShimokawaOten Shimokawa drew directly onto film stock with ink and rubbed away figures with his fingers to make them move. At a time when celluloid cels had to be…
- Francisco FrancoFrancisco Franco was shot in the abdomen in 1916, aged 23, during an assault on Moroccan positions at El Biutz, in the hills near Ceuta.
- Josip Broz TitoJosip Broz, known to the world as Tito, once wrote a letter that read: "Stalin. Stop sending assassins to murder me. We have already caught five, one with a…
- Mátyás RákosiMátyás Rákosi ran Hungary's Communist state with a grip so total that, by the late 1940s, no meaningful opposition remained.
- Richard AldingtonRichard Aldington was born Edward Godfree Aldington in Portsmouth on the 8th of July 1892, into a household where books lined every wall and both parents…
- Erwin PanofskyErwin Panofsky looked at a fifteenth-century Flemish painting of a man and a woman in a dim room and saw something no one else had seen: a legal contract.
- Louis de BroglieLouis de Broglie was born on the 15th of August 1892 in Dieppe, France, into a noble family that had sent soldiers and statesmen to French courts for…
- MirabehnMirabehn, born Madeleine Slade on the 22nd of November 1892, closed a book one day and decided her life was no longer her own.