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1966 deaths
- André BretonAndré Robert Breton was born on the 19th of February 1896 in Tinchebray, a small town in Normandy. His father Louis-Justin worked as a policeman while his…
- 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 KeatonJoseph Frank Keaton arrived in Piqua, Kansas on the 4th of October 1895. His father Joe ran a traveling medicine show called the Mohawk Indian Medicine…
- Walt DisneyWalter Elias Disney was born on the 5th of December 1901 at 1249 Tripp Avenue in Chicago's Hermosa neighborhood. He moved to a farm in Marceline, Missouri…
- Vera WeizmannVera Weizmann arrived in the town of Rostov-on-Don on the 27th of November 1881. Her father Isaiah and mother Feodosia Chatzman raised her within the Russian…
- Anna AkhmatovaAnna Andreyevna Gorenko was born at Bolshoy Fontan, a resort suburb of the Black Sea port of Odessa in present-day Ukraine.
- Pieter GeylPieter Geyl entered the world on the 15th of December 1887 in Dordrecht. He completed his studies at the University of Leiden by 1913.
- 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. SuzukiTeitarō Suzuki was born in Honda-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, the fourth son of physician Ryojun Suzuki. The samurai class into which he was born…
- Vinayak Damodar SavarkarVinayak Damodar Savarkar began his political activities as a high school student in 1895. He led fellow students in an attack on the village mosque following…
- Georges LemaîtreOn the 7th of August 1914, Georges Lemaître stood in uniform alongside his younger brother Jacques. They had volunteered for the Belgian Army just days after…
- Peter DebyePeter Joseph William Debye was born on the 24th of March 1884 in Maastricht, Netherlands. He enrolled at Aachen University of Technology in 1901 to study…
- Guillermo StábileGuillermo Stábile was born in Parque Patricios, Buenos Aires on the 17th of January 1905. He began his career with local club Sportivo Metán before joining…