Curated category
1970 deaths
- Jimi HendrixJohnny Allen Hendrix arrived in Seattle on the 27th of November 1942. His father Al Hendrix was stationed in Alabama during the birth and could not visit due…
- Gonzague de ReynoldGonzague de Reynold entered the world on the 15th of June 1880 inside his family's sixteenth-century chateau in Cressier.
- Sharda MehtaSharda Mehta entered the world on the 26th of June 1882 in Ahmedabad. Her father Gopilal Manilal Dhruva served as a judicial officer.
- Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle was born on the 22nd of November 1890 in the northern French city of Lille. He entered the military academy at Saint-Cyr in October 1910…
- Allen LaneAllen Lane Williams entered the world on the 21st of September 1902 in Bristol. His parents were Camilla and Samuel Williams.
- Rudolf CarnapRudolf Carnap was born on the 18th of May 1891 in Wuppertal, Germany. His father rose from being a poor ribbon-weaver to own a ribbon-making factory.
- Édouard DaladierÉdouard Daladier was born in Carpentras, a town in the Vaucluse region of France, on the 18th of June 1884. He grew up as the son of a village baker and…
- Lev KuleshovLev Kuleshov was born in 1899 into an intellectual Russian family. His father Vladimir Sergeyevich Kuleshov studied art at the Moscow School of Painting…
- SukarnoKoesno Sosrodihardjo was born on the 6th of June 1901 in Surabaya, East Java. His father served as a primary school teacher while his mother came from a…
- Max BornMax Born entered the University of Göttingen in April 1904, stepping into a world dominated by three renowned mathematicians.
- Yukio MishimaOn the 14th of January 1925, Kimitake Hiraoka entered the world in Nagazumi-cho, Yotsuya-ku of Tokyo City. His early years were defined by a rented house…
- Arthur AdamovArthur Adamov arrived in Geneva, Switzerland during the chaos of the First World War. His family faced internment as enemy citizens within the Russian Empire.
- Adam RapackiAdam Rapacki entered the world on the 24th of December 1909 in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary. His family moved to Piotrków Trybunalski due to World War I and…
- Bertrand RussellBertrand Arthur William Russell was born at Ravenscroft, a country house in Trellech, Monmouthshire, on the 18th of May 1872.
- Vince LombardiVincent Thomas Lombardi entered the world on the 11th of June 1913, in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood of Brooklyn. His parents Enrico and Matilda had both…