Curated category
1971 deaths
- Louis ArmstrongLouis Daniel Armstrong was born in New Orleans on the 4th of August 1901. He grew up in a rough neighborhood known as The Battlefield on Rampart Street.
- Nikita KhrushchevNikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was born on the 15th of April 1894 in Kalinovka, a small village in western Russia. His parents were poor peasants who…
- Igor StravinskyIgor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was born in Oranienbaum, Russia, on the 17th of June 1882. His father worked as a bass singer at the Mariinsky Theater in Saint…
- Jim MorrisonJames Douglas Morrison was born on the 8th of December 1943, in Melbourne, Florida. His father served as a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy and…
- Gene VincentGene Vincent was born on the 11th of February 1935 in Norfolk, Virginia. His family ran a country store at Munden Point near the North Carolina line.
- Jacobo ÁrbenzIn 1932, Jacobo Árbenz entered the Polytechnic School of Guatemala as a cadet. He was twenty years old and had just lost his family's fortune when his father…
- Mátyás RákosiMátyás Rákosi was born Mátyás Rosenfeld on the 9th of March 1892 in Ada, a small village within Bács-Bodrog County. His father József Rosenfeld worked as a…
- Hermann HothHermann Hoth was born on the 14th of April 1885 in Neuruppin, Prussia. He grew up in Demmin and attended the Cadet Corps at Potsdam from 1900 to 1904.
- Allan NevinsJoseph Allan Nevins arrived in the world on the 20th of May 1890. He entered life within Camp Point, Illinois, a small town where his father worked as a…
- Frank RosenblattFrank Rosenblatt was born on the 11th of July 1928 in New Rochelle, New York. He grew up as the son of Dr. Frank and Katherine Rosenblatt within a Jewish…
- Hans KohnHans Kohn was born on the 15th of September 1891 into a German-speaking Jewish family in Prague. The city belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire at that…