Curated category
1921 births
- Hans L. TrefousseHans Louis Trefousse spent eleven hours in Leipzig arguing with a Nazi commander who had barricaded himself and his troops inside a fortified position.
- D. Brainerd HolmesD. Brainerd Holmes was the man John F. Kennedy called on to put an American on the moon. In September 1961, Holmes stepped into one of the most…
- SuhartoSuharto ruled Indonesia for 31 years, longer than any other president in the country's history. He was born on the 8th of June 1921 in a…
- Samuel C. PhillipsSamuel C. Phillips was a general who flew fighters over occupied Europe, helped design the missiles that defined the Cold War, and then ran the program that…
- Silvio GazzanigaSilvio Gazzaniga worked for a company called the Stabilimento Artistico Bertoni. There, he created the FIFA World Cup Trophy, the trophy raised by a team…
- Geoffrey EltonGeoffrey Elton arrived in Britain in February 1939 as a Jewish refugee from Czechoslovakia, a teenage boy named Gottfried Rudolf Otto Ehrenberg.
- Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)Walter Kaufmann arrived at Princeton University in 1947 as a young philosopher with a freshly minted Harvard doctorate, a dissertation completed in under a…
- Andrei SakharovAndrei Sakharov was the man who built the Soviet Union's most devastating weapon and then spent the rest of his life trying to limit the damage it could do.
- Raymond WilliamsRaymond Henry Williams was born on the 31st of August 1921 in Pandy, a village just north of Llanfihangel Crucorney, near Abergavenny in Wales.
- Yitzhak NavonYitzhak Rachamim Navon entered the world on the 9th of April 1921 within the walls of Jerusalem. His family lived under the British Mandate for Palestine…
- Geoffrey KirkGeoffrey Stephen Kirk was born in December 1921 in Nottingham, and by the end of his life he had produced one of the most ambitious commentaries on Homer…
- Saul ZaentzSaul Zaentz won three Academy Awards for Best Picture, a feat almost no one else in Hollywood has matched. Born on the 28th of February 1921, in Passaic, New…
- Maxime FagetMaxime Allen Faget was the engineer who decided that a spacecraft returning from orbit should look nothing like an aircraft.