Curated category
1912 births
- John CageJohn Milton Cage Jr. was born on the 5th of September 1912 at Good Samaritan Hospital in downtown Los Angeles. His father, John Milton Cage Sr., worked as an…
- J. Walter KennedyJames Walter Kennedy was born on the 8th of June 1912 in Stamford, Connecticut. He contracted polio early in life and this illness left him with a permanent…
- Michelangelo AntonioniMichelangelo Antonioni was born on the 29th of September 1912 in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna. He grew up in a prosperous family of landowners.
- Milton FriedmanMilton Friedman was born on the 31st of July 1912 in Brooklyn, New York City. His parents were Jewish working-class immigrants from Beregszász in Carpathian…
- Kim Il SungKim Song Ju arrived in the small village of Namni near Pyongyang on the 15th of April 1912. His family belonged to the Jeonju Kim clan, which had settled in…
- Kim PhilbyHarold Adrian Russell Philby arrived in Ambala, Punjab, on the 1st of January 1912. His father St John Philby served as a member of the Indian Civil Service…
- Thomas Stoltz HarveyThomas Stoltz Harvey entered Yale University as an undergraduate before pursuing medical training under the guidance of Dr. Harry Zimmerman.
- Alan TuringAlan Turing once chained his tea mug to a radiator pipe at Bletchley Park so it could not be stolen. In the first week of every June he cycled to the office…
- Richard N. CurrentRichard Nelson Current was born on the 5th of October 1912 in Colorado City, Colorado. He walked into Oberlin College and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts…
- Otto von HabsburgOtto von Habsburg was born at Villa Wartholz in Reichenau an der Rax, Austria-Hungary on the 20th of November 1912. His full baptismal name included Franz…
- Wernher von BraunWernher von Braun was born on the 23rd of March 1912, in the small town of Wirsitz within the Province of Posen. His father served as Minister of Agriculture…
- Erich HoneckerErich Honecker was born on the 25th of August 1912 in Neunkirchen, a town in what is now Saarland. His father Wilhelm worked as a coal miner and political…