Curated category
1962 deaths
- Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson on the 1st of June 1926, in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, at a city hospital.
- William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner spent most of his writing life within a few square miles of Lafayette County, Mississippi, yet the fictional world he built from that patch…
- Julio Rey PastorJulio Rey Pastor was born on the 14th of August 1888 in Spain, and by the time he died on the 21st of February 1962, he had spent a lifetime reshaping how…
- Hermann HesseHermann Hesse died on the 9th of August 1962, aged 85, in Montagnola, Switzerland, and a memorial in The New York Times called his works largely inaccessible…
- Stuart SutcliffeStuart Sutcliffe was born on the 23rd of June 1940 at the Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital, the eldest child of a sea-going engineer and a…
- Georges BatailleGeorges Bataille was born on the 10th of September 1897 in Billom, a small town in the Auvergne region of France, and by the time he died on the 8th of July…
- Niels BohrNiels Bohr once described the tension at the heart of all good teaching as the struggle between "Klarheit und Wahrheit" - clarity and truth.
- Jakob LaubJakob Johann Laub was born on the 7th of February 1884 in Rzeszów, a city then part of Austria-Hungary, and he died on the 22nd of April 1962 in Fribourg.
- Natalia GoncharovaNatalia Goncharova was born on the 3rd of July 1881, the same year as Picasso and Fernand Leger, in the small village of Nagaevo in what is now the Chernsky…
- Richard AldingtonRichard Aldington was born Edward Godfree Aldington in Portsmouth on the 8th of July 1892, into a household where books lined every wall and both parents…