Curated category
1906 births
- Leonid BrezhnevLeonid Ilyich Brezhnev died on the 10th of November 1982, and within days, leaders from Cuba, Nicaragua, Mozambique, Afghanistan, and India had declared…
- Yin ShunYin Shun was born on the 5th of April 1906 in a village in Zhejiang Province, China, and he would live for nearly a century, dying on the 4th of June 2005.
- Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett once described his own method as "impoverishment" - as taking away rather than adding, subtracting rather than building.
- Lew GradeLev Isaakovich Winogradsky was born in Tokmak, a town within the Berdyansky Uyezd of the Russian Empire. His family fled pogroms in 1912 when he was five…
- Dmitri ShostakovichDmitri Shostakovich stood backstage at the Leningrad opera house on the 26th of January 1936, white as a sheet, waiting to take his bow.
- Robert E. HowardRobert E. Howard died on the morning of the 11th of June 1936 at age thirty, having first asked a nurse whether his mother would ever wake from her coma.
- Kurt GödelKurt Friedrich Gödel, born on the 28th of April 1906 in Brünn, Austria-Hungary, died in Princeton Hospital on the 14th of January 1978, weighing so little…
- Delano AmesDelano Ames entered the world on the 29th of May 1906 in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. His father Benjamin worked for a local newspaper before moving the family to New…
- James E. WebbJames Edwin Webb walked out of NASA headquarters for the last time on the 7th of October 1968. It was his sixty-second birthday.
- Ike DuffeyIsaac Walker Duffey built something that no professional basketball league had ever seen in the small city of Anderson, Indiana.