Curated playlist
1905 births
- Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre asked to be dropped as a Nobel nominee, then won anyway. His 1964 letter went unread.
- Fred TrumpFrederick Christ Trump was an American real estate developer who built more than 27,000 apartments in New York. He was born in the Bronx on the 11th of October 1905 to German immigrant parents, and he died in 1999. One of his five children…
- Jan GondaJan Gonda became a leading scholar of Asian languages without ever visiting Asia.
- Arthur MendelColleagues recognized Arthur Mendel as the foremost American Bach scholar of his day.
- Kalu RinpocheIn France, Tibetan teacher Kalu Rinpoche opened a retreat center for Western students.
- Viktor FranklViktor Frankl wrote Man's Search for Meaning in nine days. He had lost his first manuscript at Auschwitz.
- Jeanine DelpechJeanine Delpech published under at least six different names. Some were masculine pen names.
- James BurnhamJames Burnham's 1941 book The Managerial Revolution helped inspire Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
- Theodor BlankWest Germany secretly began rebuilding its army under an office with a harmless name. Theodor Blank led it.
- Guillermo StábileGuillermo Stábile played in the 1930 World Cup because the starting striker had an anxiety attack.