Curated category
1961 deaths
- Ernest HemingwayErnest Miller Hemingway was born on the 21st of July 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. He grew up as the second of six children to Clarence Edmonds Hemingway and…
- Noburō ŌfujiNoburō ōfuji began his career in the early 1920s as a trainee under Jun'ichi Kōuchi. This master animator taught him the fundamentals of frame-by-frame…
- Carl JungCarl Gustav Jung was born on the 26th of July 1875 in Kesswil, a small village in the Swiss canton of Thurgau. He entered the world as the first surviving…
- Erwin SchrödingerErwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger entered the world on the 12th of August 1887 in Vienna. He was the only child of Rudolf Schrödinger, a botanist, and…
- Louis-Ferdinand CélineLouis-Ferdinand Céline was born Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches on the 27th of May 1894 in Courbevoie, a suburb just outside Paris.
- Frantz FanonFrantz Omar Fanon was born on the 20th of July 1925 in Fort-de-France, Martinique. This island belonged to the French colonial empire at that time.
- Patrice LumumbaOn the 2nd of July 1925, Isaïe Tasumbu Tawosa was born in Onalua within the Katakokombe region of Kasai province. He belonged to the Tetela ethnic group and…
- Walter Bedell SmithWalter Bedell Smith was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on the 5th of October 1895. He grew up as the elder of two sons to William Long Smith and Ida Francis…
- H. J. RoseHerbert Jennings Rose was born on the 5th of May 1883 in Orillia, Ontario. His family traced their roots back to Scotland before settling in Canada.