Curated category
1966 deaths
- André BretonAndré Breton defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism" - a phrase that landed in print in 1924 and reoriented the entire direction of modern art.
- Ludwig BinswangerLudwig Binswanger entered the world on the 13th of April 1881 in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland. His father Robert Johann Binswanger was a doctor who ran the…
- Buster KeatonBuster Keaton never smiled on screen. Not when a two-ton building facade toppled directly onto him, leaving only the gap of an open window between his body…
- Walt DisneyWalt Disney holds the record for most Academy Awards won by an individual, with 22 wins from 59 nominations. Yet the man behind that record was, in private…
- Vera WeizmannVera Weizmann spent forty years leading one of the world's largest Zionist women's organizations, raised two sons while practicing medicine in Manchester…
- Anna AkhmatovaAnna Akhmatova chose a Tatar surname for herself because her father refused to see any verses printed under his "respectable" name.
- Pieter GeylPieter Geyl spent thirteen months inside Buchenwald concentration camp with a half-finished argument in his pocket. The Dutch historian had written an…
- Boris PodolskyBoris Yakovlevich Podolsky entered the world on the 29th of June 1896 in Taganrog. This port city sat within the Don Host Oblast of the Russian Empire.
- D. T. SuzukiD. T. Suzuki was born Teitarō Suzuki in Honda-machi, Kanazawa, the fourth son of a physician, and he would spend the better part of a century dismantling the…
- Vinayak Damodar SavarkarVinayak Damodar Savarkar died on the 26th of February 1966 at his residence in Bombay, having renounced food, water, and medicine twenty-five days earlier.
- Georges LemaîtreGeorges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître was a Belgian Catholic priest who proposed that the entire universe began as a single quantum he called the "primeval…
- Peter DebyePeter Debye was born in Maastricht in the Netherlands on the 24th of March 1884, and by the time he died on the 2nd of November 1966, his name had been…
- Guillermo StábileGuillermo Stábile arrived at the 1930 FIFA World Cup as a last-minute replacement, stepping onto the pitch only because the first-choice striker suffered an…