Curated category
1937 deaths
- H. P. LovecraftHoward Phillips Lovecraft died on the 15th of March 1937, at the age of 46, virtually unknown to the reading public. He kept a diary of his terminal cancer…
- 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 RavelJoseph Maurice Ravel entered the world on the 7th of March 1875 in Ciboure, a small town near Biarritz. His father Pierre-Joseph was an engineer and inventor…
- Ernest RutherfordErnest Rutherford was born on the 30th of August 1871 in Brightwater, New Zealand. He was the fourth child among twelve siblings born to James Rutherford and…
- Heinrich Jacob GoldschmidtHeinrich Jacob Goldschmidt entered the world on the 12th of April 1857 in Prague, Austria-Hungary. He studied chemistry at Charles University during his…
- Austen ChamberlainAusten Chamberlain was born on the 16th of October 1863 in Birmingham. He entered the world as the second child and eldest son of Joseph Chamberlain, a…
- Alfred AdlerOn the 7th of February 1870, a boy named Alfred Adler was born in Rudolfsheim, a village on the western edge of Vienna. He was the second child of Pauline…
- Yevgeny ZamyatinYevgeny Zamyatin was born in Lebedyan, south of Moscow, to a Russian Orthodox priest and a musician mother. He recalled his childhood as that of a very…
- Pavel FlorenskyPavel Alexandrovich Florensky was born on the 19th of January 1882 in the town of Yevlakh within the Elisabethpol Governorate.