Curated category
1968 deaths
- John SteinbeckJohn Steinbeck once stole bacon from a local produce market to survive. During the Great Depression, he and his first wife lived on fish and crabs he…
- Karl BarthKarl Barth appeared on the cover of Time magazine on the 20th of April 1962 - a Swiss theologian whose arguments about God had somehow broken out of…
- T. S. AshtonT. S. Ashton spent his life arguing that the Industrial Revolution was not a catastrophe but an achievement. Thomas Southcliffe Ashton was born on the 11th…
- Marcel DuchampMarcel Duchamp walked into a New York exhibition hall in 1917 and submitted a urinal for display. He had signed it with a pseudonym, "R.
- Alfred CobbanAlfred Cobban walked into his inaugural lecture as Professor of French History at University College London in 1954 and proceeded to dismantle one of the…
- Upton SinclairUpton Sinclair once wrote, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." He penned that line…
- Muriel LesterMuriel Lester turned down a place at Cambridge University to live in voluntary poverty in one of London's poorest districts.
- Marshall HodgsonMarshall Goodwin Simms Hodgson died on the 10th of June, 1968, while jogging on the campus of the University of Chicago. He was 46.
- Stanley Unwin (publisher)Stanley Unwin purchased a controlling interest in George Allen and Sons on the 1st of January 1914. This transaction transformed his career from an employee…
- George GamowGeorgiy Antonovich Gamow was born in Odessa, Russian Empire, now Odesa, Ukraine. His father taught Russian language and literature while his mother taught…
- Alexandre KojèveAleksandr Vladimirovich Kozhevnikov entered the world on the 28th of April 1902 within the borders of the Russian Empire.
- Lev LandauLev Davidovich Landau was born on the 22nd of January 1908, in Baku, then part of the Russian Empire, and before he was old enough to attend university he…
- Leopold InfeldLeopold Infeld, born on the 20th of August 1898 in Kraków, spent years working alongside Albert Einstein himself, yet he died without a Nobel Prize to his…
- Yuri GagarinYuri Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on the 12th of April 1961, and did it in 108 minutes. The spacecraft was called Vostok 1.
- Erwin PanofskyErwin Panofsky looked at a fifteenth-century Flemish painting of a man and a woman in a dim room and saw something no one else had seen: a legal contract.
- Vittorio PozzoVittorio Pozzo holds a record that no man in the history of men's international football has ever equalled. He coached Italy to the FIFA World Cup in 1934…