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1896 births
- F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald sold fewer than 23,000 copies of The Great Gatsby in its first year, and the novel posted tepid sales for the rest of his life.
- André BretonAndré Breton defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism" - a phrase that landed in print in 1924 and reoriented the entire direction of modern art.
- Hugo DysonHugo Dyson was the man who helped talk C. S. Lewis into Christianity during a long night walk on Addison's Walk at Oxford. That conversation, shared with J.
- Lev VygotskyLev Vygotsky died on the 11th of June 1934, at the age of 37, leaving behind a final notebook entry that read: "This is the final thing I have done in…
- Roger SessionsRoger Huntington Sessions entered the world on the 28th of December 1896 in Brooklyn, New York. His family lineage traced back to Samuel Huntington, a…
- Jean PiagetJean Piaget was born on the 9th of August 1896 in Neuchâtel, in the Francophone region of Switzerland, and by the age of 15 he had already published several…
- Dziga VertovDziga Vertov was born David Abelevich Kaufman in Białystok, Poland, then part of the Russian Empire, into a Jewish family that would eventually scatter…
- Imre NagyImre Nagy was hanged in secret on the 16th of June 1958, and the Hungarian government waited until after he was dead to tell anyone.
- H. F. M. PrescottHilda Frances Margaret Prescott entered the world on the 22nd of February 1896 in Cheshire. Her father was Rev James Mulleneux Prescott and her mother was…
- Boris PodolskyBoris Yakovlevich Podolsky entered the world on the 29th of June 1896 in Taganrog. This port city sat within the Don Host Oblast of the Russian Empire.
- Rudolph NissenRudolph Nissen was born on the 5th of September 1896 in Neisse, Silesia. He grew up in a Jewish-German family where his father Franz worked as a well-known…
- V. A. SundaramVellalore Annaswamy Sundaram entered the world on the 2nd of February 1896 in Coimbatore. His family traced their lineage back to Appayya Dikshita, a…