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1936 deaths
- Rudyard KiplingRudyard Kipling was born on the 30th of December 1865 in Bombay, British India. His parents were Alice Kipling and John Lockwood Kipling.
- Irving ThalbergIrving Thalberg was born with a heart condition so severe that doctors predicted he would die before turning thirty, yet he went on to become the most…
- Elsa EinsteinElsa Einstein entered the world on the 18th of January 1876 in the town of Hechingen. Her father Rudolf worked as a textile manufacturer there.
- John Francis HylanJohn Francis Hylan was born on the 20th of April 1868 in Hunter, New York. His family owned a 60-acre farm in the undeveloped mountains of the Catskills.
- Luigi PirandelloLuigi Pirandello was born on the 28th of June 1867 in Girgenti, now known as Agrigento. He grew up near the poor suburb of Porto Empedocle within an…
- Robert E. HowardRobert E. Howard was born on the 22nd of January 1906 in Peaster, Texas. His father worked as a traveling country physician while his mother raised him in a…
- Rasmus B. AndersonRasmus Bjørn Anderson arrived in the world on the 12th of January 1846. He grew up in Koshkoning within Dane County, Wisconsin.
- Marcel GrossmannMarcel Grossmann entered the world on the 9th of April 1878 in Budapest. He was born into a Jewish family that had deep roots in Switzerland.
- Ivan PavlovIvan Petrovich Pavlov entered the world on the 26th of September 1849 in the town of Ryazan. He was the first child among ten siblings born to a village…
- Maxim GorkyAlexei Maximovich Peshkov adopted the pseudonym Maxim Gorky in 1892. The name meant bitter, reflecting his simmering anger about life in Russia and a…
- Alexander GlazunovSaint Petersburg, 1879. A fourteen-year-old high school student named Alexander Glazunov sat before Mily Balakirev with an orchestral score in hand.
- Miguel de UnamunoMiguel de Unamuno y Jugo was born on the 29th of September 1864 in Bilbao, a bustling port city within the Basque Country.