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1898 births
- Ivy PinchbeckIvy Pinchbeck arrived at a conclusion that cut against the grain of what most historians believed: that the Industrial Revolution, for all its brutality, had…
- Kenzō MasaokaKenzo Masaoka was a Japanese animator and voice actor who helped lay the technical foundations of anime as we know it. He was the first person in Japan to…
- C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis collapsed in his bedroom at 5:30 pm on the 22nd of November 1963, and died a few minutes later at age 64. That same afternoon, approximately 55…
- Bertolt BrechtBertolt Brecht walked out of a Congressional hearing in Washington on the 30th of October 1947, thanked by the committee chairman for his cooperation, and…
- George GershwinGeorge Gershwin's last words were "Fred Astaire." He spoke them on the night of the 9th of July 1937, as he collapsed in a borrowed house in Beverly Hills…
- Guy Stewart CallendarGuy Stewart Callendar was born in Montreal on the 9th of February 1898. His father Hugh Longbourne Callendar served as Professor of Physics at McGill College.
- Herbert MarcuseHerbert Marcuse was born on the 19th of July, 1898, in Berlin, into an upper-middle-class Jewish family well integrated into German society.
- Zhou EnlaiZhou Enlai stood at the center of Chinese history for more than half a century, serving as the first Premier of the People's Republic of China from October…
- Warren Sturgis McCullochWarren Sturgis McCulloch spent the spring of 1947 building a machine meant to help blind people read. It converted printed letters into tones, designed so…
- M. C. EscherM. C. Escher was born on the 17th of June 1898 in Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands, in a house that now forms part of the Princessehof Ceramics Museum.
- Lionel RobbinsLionel Robbins is remembered today for a single line: "Humans want what they can't have." That quote made him famous. But it also compresses a career spent…
- Leopold InfeldLeopold Infeld, born on the 20th of August 1898 in Kraków, spent years working alongside Albert Einstein himself, yet he died without a Nobel Prize to his…
- Sergei EisensteinSergei Eisenstein arrived in Hollywood in May 1930 with a contract worth $100,000 and an invitation from Paramount Pictures to make a film in the United…
- Trofim LysenkoTrofim Lysenko, a Soviet agronomist born on the 29th of September 1898 in the village of Karlovka, managed to hijack the entire field of Soviet biology for…
- Georges DumézilGeorges Dumézil was born in Paris on the 4th of March 1898, the son of a highly educated general in the French Army. By the time he died in the same city on…
- Armand HammerArmand Hammer died in Los Angeles in December 1990, aged 92, and was buried directly across the street from the headquarters of Occidental Petroleum - the…