Curated category
1941 deaths
- Virginia WoolfAdeline Virginia Woolf entered the world on the 25th of January 1882 within a grand house in South Kensington, London. Her father was Sir Leslie Stephen, a…
- James JoyceJames Augustine Aloysius Joyce was born on the 2nd of February 1882 at 41 Brighton Square, Rathgar, Dublin, and died 58 years later in Zurich after surgery…
- Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore was born on the 7th of May 1861 inside the Jorasanko mansion in Calcutta. He was the youngest of thirteen surviving children to…
- Alfonso XIIIThe Royal Palace of Madrid held a newborn on the 17th of May 1886. Práxedes Mateo Sagasta, the prime minister, received the infant king naked and placed upon…
- Arthur EvansArthur Evans entered the world on the 8th of July 1851 at Nash Mills in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. His father John Evans ran a paper mill business…
- James George FrazerJames George Frazer entered the world on the 1st of January 1854 in Glasgow, Scotland. His father Daniel F. Frazer worked as a chemist while his mother…
- Rudolf HilferdingOn the 10th of August 1877, Rudolf Hilferding was born in Vienna into a prosperous Jewish family. His parents were Emil and Anna Hilferding, and he had a…
- Walther NernstWalther Hermann Nernst entered the world on the 25th of June 1864 in Briesen, a town within the Prussian Province of West Prussia.
- Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of WillingdonFreeman Freeman-Thomas entered the world on the 12th of September 1866 in England. His father, Freeman Frederick Thomas, served as an officer in the rifle…
- Dmitry MerezhkovskyDmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky was born on the 1st of August 1865 in Saint Petersburg, the sixth son in a family that included five brothers and three…
- El LissitzkyLazar Markovich Lissitzky was born on the 23rd of November 1890 in Pochinok, a small Jewish community southeast of Smolensk.