Curated category
1937 deaths
- H. P. LovecraftH. P. Lovecraft died on the 15th of March 1937 in Providence, Rhode Island, virtually unknown to the reading public. He was 46 years old, hospitalized with…
- John D. RockefellerJohn Davison Rockefeller Sr. once said, "Competition is a sin." By 1900 the company he built, Standard Oil, controlled about 90 percent of the nation's oil…
- George GershwinGeorge Gershwin's last words were "Fred Astaire." He spoke them on the night of the 9th of July 1937, as he collapsed in a borrowed house in Beverly Hills…
- Maurice RavelMaurice Ravel was born on the 7th of March 1875 in Ciboure, a Basque town in France less than 20 kilometres from the Spanish border.
- Ernest RutherfordErnest Rutherford was born on the 30th of August 1871 in Brightwater, New Zealand, the fourth of twelve children, and he died with a burial spot beside Isaac…
- Heinrich Jacob GoldschmidtHeinrich Jacob Goldschmidt was born on the 12th of April 1857 in Prague, then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and he died on the 20th of September 1937…
- Austen ChamberlainAusten Chamberlain won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925, yet never became prime minister. He served in Parliament for 45 years, led his party, and shaped…
- Alfred AdlerAlfred Adler was born on the 7th of February 1870 at Mariahilfer Strasse 208 in Rudolfsheim, a village on the western fringes of Vienna.
- Yevgeny ZamyatinYevgeny Zamyatin spent his final years in Paris dying in poverty, his name unmentioned in any Soviet newspaper, his most famous novel banned in his own…
- Pavel FlorenskyPavel Alexandrovich Florensky was shot dead on the night of the 8th of December 1937, in a wood not far from Leningrad, transported there in a special train…