Curated category
1959 deaths
- Buddy HollyCharles Hardin Holley was born on the 7th of September 1936 in Lubbock, Texas. He grew up during the Great Depression with three siblings who all played…
- Billie HolidayEleanora Fagan was born on the 7th of April 1915, in Philadelphia to an unwed teenage couple named Clarence Halliday and Sarah Julia "Sadie" Fagan.
- Raymond ChandlerRaymond Thornton Chandler arrived in Chicago on the 23rd of July 1888. His mother Florence Dart was originally from Ireland, and his father Maurice Benjamin…
- Frank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd Wright was born on the 8th of June 1867 in Richland Center, Wisconsin. His mother Anna Lloyd Jones believed her first child would grow up to…
- John Foster DullesJohn Foster Dulles entered the world on the 25th of February 1888 in Washington D.C. He was born into a family that dominated American foreign policy for…
- Maxwell AndersonJames Maxwell Anderson entered the world on the 15th of December 1888, in Atlantic, Pennsylvania. He was the second of eight children born to William Lincoln…
- Eric BlomEric Walter Blom arrived in Bern, Switzerland on the 20th of August 1888. His father carried Danish and British blood while his mother was Swiss.
- Edwin MuirEdwin Muir was born on the 15th of May 1887 at the farm of Folly in Deerness, Orkney. His childhood there represented an idyllic Eden to him.
- Enrico De NicolaEnrico De Nicola was born in Naples on the 9th of November 1877. He studied law at the University of Naples and graduated in 1896.
- Bhogaraju Pattabhi SitaramayyaOn the 24th of November 1880, Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya was born in Gundugolanu village. He grew up in Krishna district within what is now Andhra…