Curated category
1918 births
- Nelson MandelaRolihlahla Mandela was born on the 18th of July 1918, in the village of Mvezo, and the name his father chose carried a warning.
- Jocko HendersonDouglas Henderson was born on the 8th of March 1918 in Baltimore. He grew up there with both parents working as teachers.
- Anwar SadatAnwar Sadat was assassinated on the 6th of October 1981, by soldiers under his own command, at a parade held to celebrate a war he himself had launched.
- Ingmar BergmanAt the age of nine, Ingmar Bergman traded a set of tin soldiers for a magic lantern. Within a year, the boy had built a private world he never wanted to…
- Robert SeamansRobert Channing Seamans Jr. was born on the 30th of October 1918 in Salem, Massachusetts. He attended Lenox School in Lenox, Massachusetts before earning a…
- James TobinJames Tobin was born on the 5th of March, 1918, in Champaign, Illinois, the son of a journalist credited with inventing "Homecoming" at the University of…
- Aleksandr SolzhenitsynOn the 9th of May 1945, all of Moscow erupted in fireworks and searchlights to mark Germany's surrender. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn watched those…
- Bruria KaufmanBruria Kaufman spent five years working alongside Albert Einstein at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, co-authoring two articles with him and…
- Martin EsslinMartin Esslin arrived in England in 1938 with almost nothing, having fled Vienna after the Nazi annexation of Austria. Within a few decades, that same man…
- Cheddi JaganCheddi Jagan arrived in the United States in September 1935 or 1936 with just two friends, carrying $500 of his family's life savings and a father's dream…
- Louis AlthusserLouis Althusser was born on the 16th of October 1918 in Birmendreïs, a town near Algiers in French Algeria, and he died on the 22nd of October 1990 in a…
- Franco ModiglianiFranco Modigliani was born on the 18th of June 1918 in Rome, into a Jewish family headed by a pediatrician father. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in…
- Robert EttingerRobert Chester Wilson Ettinger was shot in Germany during World War II, left for dead in the field, and spent several years recovering in a Michigan hospital.