Curated category
1967 deaths
- Bill WeisbandWilliam Weisband was born in Odessa, Russian Empire, on the 28th of August 1908. He left his birthplace for the United States during the 1920s.
- Vivien LeighVivian Mary Hartley arrived in the world on the 5th of November 1913 within the British Indian hill station of Darjeeling.
- Roger B. ChaffeeRoger Bruce Chaffee arrived in the world on the 15th of February 1935. His birthplace was Grand Rapids, Michigan. The family had moved there from Greenville…
- J. Robert OppenheimerJulius Robert Oppenheimer was born on the 22nd of April 1904, in New York City to Ella Friedman and Julius Seligmann Oppenheimer.
- Ed White (astronaut)Edward Higgins White II was born on the 14th of November 1930, in San Antonio, Texas. His father Edward Higgins White Sr.
- Langston HughesJames Mercer Langston Hughes entered the world on the 1st of February 1901, in Joplin, Missouri. His family tree held deep roots of contradiction and…
- Gus GrissomVirgil Ivan Grissom was born in the small town of Mitchell, Indiana, on the 3rd of April 1926. His father worked as a signalman for the Baltimore and Ohio…
- Che GuevaraOn the 14th of May 1928, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna was born into an upper-class family in Rosario, Argentina. His father, a staunch supporter of…
- John ColtraneJohn William Coltrane was born in his parents' apartment at 200 Hamlet Avenue in Hamlet, North Carolina, on the 23rd of September 1926.
- Clement AttleeClement Richard Attlee was born on the 3rd of January 1883 in Putney, Surrey. He grew up in a two-storey villa with a large garden and tennis court.
- Konrad AdenauerKonrad Adenauer was born on the 5th of January 1876 in Cologne, Rhenish Prussia. He grew up as the third of five children to Johann Konrad Adenauer and…
- Mohammad MosaddeghDr. Mohammad Mosaddegh entered the world on the 19th of May 1882, in Ahmedabad near Tehran. His father served as finance minister under the Qajar dynasty…
- Brian EpsteinBrian Samuel Epstein entered the world on the 19th of September 1934 at 4 Rodney Street in Liverpool. His father Harry and mother Malka, known as Queenie by…
- V. A. SundaramVellalore Annaswamy Sundaram entered the world on the 2nd of February 1896 in Coimbatore. His family traced their lineage back to Appayya Dikshita, a…
- Ike DuffeyIsaac Walker Duffey was born on the 31st of May 1906 in Indiana. He grew up during a time when rural life dominated the American Midwest.