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1897 births
- Ramdas GandhiRamdas Mohandas Gandhi entered the world on the 4th of May 1897 in the British Colony of Natal. He was the third son born to Mahatma Gandhi and Kasturba…
- William FaulknerWilliam Cuthbert Faulkner was born on the 25th of September 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi. He grew up in Oxford, a town where his family lived for most of…
- Joseph GoebbelsPaul Joseph Goebbels was born on the 29th of October 1897 in Rheydt, an industrial town south of Mönchengladbach near Düsseldorf.
- Adolf HeusingerAdolf Heusinger entered the Prussian Army as a volunteer in 1915. This decision marked his entry into a military tradition that would define his entire life.
- 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. His father Joseph-Aristide worked as a tax collector…
- 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. He grew up as the first son of Leon Reich and Cäcilie Roniger.
- Ole ColbjørnsenOle Colbjørnsen stood at the edge of a new world in 1921. He began working for the Russian Telegraph Agency, known as ROSTA, that same year.
- 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 Mary Margaret Haldane entered the world on the 1st of November 1897 in Edinburgh. Her father was John Scott Haldane, a prominent physiologist who…
- Hans SpeidelHans Speidel joined the German Army in 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War. He quickly rose to become a second lieutenant and served as a company…
- G. Wilson KnightGeorge Richard Wilson Knight was born in 1897 and educated at Dean Close School before attending Dulwich College. He served as a dispatch rider during World…
- Marian AndersonMarian Anderson was born on the 27th of February 1897 in Philadelphia. Her father sold ice and coal at the Reading Terminal while her mother worked as a…