Curated category
1909 births
- Eugène IonescoEugène Ionesco sat down at age 40 to learn English from a textbook, and what came out of that exercise was not a language skill but a theatrical revolution.
- Elia KazanElia Kazan was born Elias Kazantzoglou in Constantinople on the 7th of September, 1909, to Cappadocian Greek parents whose surname derived from the Turkish…
- Nathan RosenNathan Rosen was born on the 22nd of March 1909 into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York. The Great Depression shaped his early years as he attended…
- Oldřich NejedlýOn the 11th of June 1990, Oldřich Nejedlý died at the age of 80, just as that year's World Cup kicked off in Italy. Italy had also hosted the World Cup back…
- Francis Bacon (artist)Francis Bacon was born on the 28th of October 1909 at 63 Lower Baggot Street in Dublin, into a world of racehorses, Sheffield steel money, and a father who…
- Hans SuessDuring the Second World War, a chemist named Hans Suess advised the production of heavy water at a plant in Norway. Allied commandos would later target that…
- Alex RaymondAlexander Gillespie Raymond Jr. was born on the 2nd of October 1909 in New Rochelle, New York. His father worked as a civil engineer and road builder who…
- Rollo MayRollo Reece May was born in Ada, Ohio, on the 21st of April, 1909, and he spent the next eight and a half decades asking questions that most people spend…
- Adam RapackiAdam Rapacki stood before the United Nations General Assembly on the 2nd of October 1957 and proposed something that no major power had yet attempted: a…
- Roger RevelleRoger Randall Dougan Revelle was, by his own account, the grandfather of the greenhouse effect. That was how he described himself to a reporter after…