Curated category
1911 births
- Ronald ReaganRonald Wilson Reagan was born on the 6th of February 1911 in a rented apartment above a bakery in Tampico, Illinois, the younger son of a dreaming salesman…
- Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams wrote in his will that he wanted to be sewn into a canvas sack and dropped into the sea at the exact spot where his idol, the poet Hart…
- Mitsuyo SeoMitsuyo Seo died on the 24th of August 2010 at the age of 98, outliving nearly the entire world he had helped create. He was a Japanese animator…
- Joan Turville-PetreJoan Elizabeth Turville-Petre entered the world on the 10th of May 1911. Her parents were Sam Blomfield and Kate Barton from Colchester in Essex.
- Ginger RogersGinger Rogers was born Virginia Katherine McMath on the 16th of July, 1911, in Independence, Missouri, and she would become one of the most celebrated…
- John Archibald WheelerJohn Archibald Wheeler spent decades trying to describe a dying star in plain language, and the best he could manage was "gravitationally completely…
- Lucille BallLucille Ball was born on the 6th of August, 1911, at 69 Stewart Avenue in Jamestown, New York, and by the time she died on the 26th of April, 1989, she had…
- Konstantin ChernenkoKonstantin Ustinovich Chernenko became the de jure leader of the Soviet Union on the 13th of February 1984, and by the time he died just over thirteen months…
- Narayan ApteNarayan Dattatraya Apte was born in 1911 into a Chitpavan Brahmin family. His father, Dattatreya Apte, worked as both a Sanskrit scholar and historian.
- Åke OhlmarksÅke Ohlmarks is remembered today mainly because a famous author despised what he did to his book. J. R. R. Tolkien was so troubled by the Swedish translation…
- Eric WilliamsEric Eustace Williams was born on the 25th of September 1911, in Trinidad, then a British colony. He died on the 29th of March 1981, the sitting Prime…
- Sjafruddin PrawiranegaraSjafruddin Prawiranegara kept Indonesia alive when its president and vice president were in Dutch captivity. On the 19th of December 1948, Dutch forces swept…