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1921 births

  • Hans L. TrefousseHans Louis Trefousse was born on the 18th of December 1921 in Germany. His family fled the Nazi regime and arrived in the United States in 1935.
  • D. Brainerd HolmesD. Brainerd Holmes studied engineering at Cornell University, receiving a degree in electrical engineering. He first worked for Bell Labs and Western…
  • SuhartoOn the 8th of June 1921, a boy named Suharto was born inside a house with walls made of plaited bamboo in the hamlet of Kemusuk.
  • Samuel C. PhillipsSamuel Cochran Phillips entered the world on the 19th of February 1921 in Springerville, Arizona. His father worked as an electrician while his mother taught…
  • Silvio GazzanigaSilvio Gazzaniga entered the world on the 23rd of January 1921 within the bustling streets of Milan. He pursued his education in the art schools located in…
  • Geoffrey EltonGottfried Rudolf Otto Ehrenberg was born in Tübingen, Germany on the 17th of August 1921. His parents were Jewish scholars named Victor Ehrenberg and Eva…
  • Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)Walter Arnold Kaufmann was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, on the 1st of July 1921. He grew up as a Lutheran child in a city that would soon become…
  • Andrei SakharovAndrei Dmitrievich Sakharov entered the world on the 21st of May 1921 in Moscow. His father, Dmitri Ivanovich Sakharov, worked as a physics professor at the…
  • Raymond WilliamsRaymond Henry Williams was born on the 31st of August 1921 in Pandy, a small village just north of Llanfihangel Crucorney near Abergavenny.
  • 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 within the industrial heart of Nottingham. His father Frederic worked as an educational administrator at…
  • Saul ZaentzSaul Zaentz was born on the 28th of February 1921 in Passaic, New Jersey. He grew up as the youngest of five children to Polish Jewish immigrants who had…
  • Maxime FagetMaxime Allen Faget entered the world on the 26th of August 1921 in Stann Creek Town. This location sat within British Honduras before becoming Dangriga…