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- Ramdas GandhiRamdas Gandhi was born on the 4th of May 1897 in the British Colony of Natal, the third son of Mahatma Gandhi and Kasturba Gandhi.
- William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner spent most of his writing life within a few square miles of Lafayette County, Mississippi, yet the fictional world he built from that patch…
- Joseph GoebbelsOn the evening of the 1st of May 1945, Joseph Goebbels walked up from an underground bunker into the garden of the Reich Chancellery and ended his life.
- Adolf HeusingerAdolf Heusinger was standing next to Adolf Hitler when the bomb went off on the 20th of July 1944. The man who planted it, Claus von Stauffenberg, had placed…
- Henri FrankfortHenri Frankfort entered the world on the 24th of February 1897 in Amsterdam. He grew up within a liberal Jewish family that shaped his early worldview.
- Georges BatailleGeorges Bataille was born on the 10th of September 1897 in Billom, a small town in the Auvergne region of France, and by the time he died on the 8th of July…
- Fletcher PrattMurray Fletcher Pratt stood before a grand jury in February 1916 after police arrested him for stealing less than twenty-five dollars from newspaper cash…
- Wilhelm ReichWilhelm Reich was born on the 24th of March 1897 in Dobzau, Galicia, a corner of Austria-Hungary that is now part of Ukraine, and he died on the 3rd of…
- Ole ColbjørnsenOle Colbjørnsen was born on the 30th of May 1897 in Vegårshei, a small municipality in Aust-Agder, Norway. He would go on to help reshape an entire nation's…
- Károly KerényiKároly Kerényi entered the world on the 19th of January 1897 in Temesvár, a city within the Kingdom of Hungary and Austro-Hungarian Empire.
- Naomi MitchisonNaomi Mitchison was born in Edinburgh on the 1st of November 1897 and died at Carradale on the 11th of January 1999 at the age of 101.
- Hans SpeidelHans Speidel was the man who answered the phone when Hitler ordered Paris destroyed. On the 26th of August 1944, Alfred Jodl, chief of staff of the German…
- G. Wilson KnightG. Wilson Knight spent decades arguing that Shakespeare's plays contained a hidden architecture of myth and symbol that most readers had never noticed.
- Marian AndersonMarian Anderson stepped onto the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday, the 9th of April 1939, and opened with "My Country, 'Tis of Thee." More than…