Curated playlist
1965 deaths
- T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot compared an evening sky to a patient on a surgical table.
- Kōdō SawakiZen teacher Kodo Sawaki refused to settle down as abbot anywhere. Followers called him "Homeless Kodo."
- Winston ChurchillWinston Churchill escaped a prisoner-of-war camp in Pretoria by hiding on freight trains. It made him famous.
- Le CorbusierLe Corbusier built a pavilion around a tree poking through its roof. Furious organizers put up a fence to hide it.
- Malcolm XMalcolm X left the Nation of Islam in 1964 and flew to Mecca. There he saw Muslims of all colors treated as equals.
- Martin BuberDo you meet another person as a full human being, or as an object? Martin Buber's I and Thou asks this.
- Paul TillichTheologian Paul Tillich argued that the God most people debate is not God at all.
- Lynn ThorndikeHistorians still say "early modern" thanks to Lynn Thorndike, who first proposed it in 1926.
- Nikolay LosskyIn 1922, philosopher Nikolay Lossky was exiled from the Soviet Union on the Philosophers' Ship.
- Bernard BaruchBernard Baruch refused a 1929 pool to prop up the falling stock market. He had already moved into bonds, cash and gold.
- Eric GutkindEinstein told philosopher Eric Gutkind the Bible was "a collection of venerable but still rather primitive legends."