Curated category
1920 births
- Joseph Deighton Gibson Jr.A bell rang at Chicago's WJJD radio station in 1943, marking the moment Joseph Deighton Gibson Jr. began his career under Al Benson.
- Pope John Paul IIPope John Paul II was born Karol Józef Wojtyła on the 18th of May 1920, in the small Polish town of Wadowice. By the time he died on the 2nd of April 2005…
- Christopher John DewhurstSir Christopher John Dewhurst entered the world on the 2nd of July 1920 in England. He grew up during a time when medical care for women and children was…
- John A. GarratyJohn Arthur Garraty was born on the 4th of July in 1920. He earned his undergraduate degree at Brooklyn College in 1941.
- Norm DruckerNorm Drucker entered the world on the 4th of July 1920 in New York City. He grew up in Brooklyn and learned basketball from the first generation of…
- Isaac AsimovIsaac Asimov wrote or edited more than 500 books, and on top of that he sent an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. He once said the only thing about…
- Timothy LearyTimothy Francis Leary was arrested 36 times between the 1960s and 1970s, a record that tells you something about how seriously the American establishment…
- Rosalind FranklinRosalind Franklin died on the 16th of April 1958, at age 37, one day before the world's fair in Brussels opened its doors to reveal a five-foot model of a…
- Ravi ShankarRavi Shankar was "horrified." At the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, he watched Jimi Hendrix set fire to his guitar on stage.
- Gail HalvorsenGail Seymour Halvorsen was born in Salt Lake City on the 10th of October 1920. He grew up on small farms first in Rigby, Idaho, and then in Garland, Utah.
- Dick JamesReginald Leon Isaac Vapnick entered the world on the 12th of December 1920 within the East End of London. His parents were Polish Jewish immigrants who ran a…
- Hans HolzerHans Holzer was born in Vienna, Austria, on the 26th of January 1920. His father Leo worked as a businessman while his mother Martha carried the family name…
- Éric RohmerÉric Rohmer wore a false moustache to the New York premiere of one of his films. The man who would be called "the most durable filmmaker of the French New…
- Lawrence KleinLawrence Robert Klein was born in Omaha, Nebraska, on the 14th of September 1920, and he would go on to reshape how governments and central banks understand…
- Gilbert PlassGilbert Norman Plass stood at the Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago in 1942. He worked as an associate physicist during those critical…
- Sheikh Mujibur RahmanSheikh Mujibur Rahman stood before a million people at the Ramna Race Course in Dhaka on the 7th of March 1971 and told them: "This time the struggle is for…