Curated category
1972 deaths
- Ezra PoundEzra Weston Loomis Pound was born on the 30th of October 1885 in a two-story clapboard house in Hailey, Idaho Territory.
- Jørgen VogtJørgen Herman Vogt entered the world on the 23rd of September 1900 in Kristiania. His father Johan Herman Lie Vogt held a professorship in metallurgy from…
- Harry S. TrumanHarry S. Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, on the 8th of May 1884. He grew up as the oldest child of John Anderson Truman and Martha Ellen Young Truman.
- Edmund WilsonEdmund Wilson Jr. entered the world on the 8th of May 1895 in Red Bank, New Jersey. His father Edmund Wilson Sr. served as the state Attorney General before…
- H. F. M. PrescottHilda Frances Margaret Prescott entered the world on the 22nd of February 1896 in Cheshire. Her father was Rev James Mulleneux Prescott and her mother was…
- Eugène MinkowskiEugène Minkowski was born on the 17th of April 1885 in Saint Petersburg. He entered a world where his family name carried weight yet also danger.
- James F. ByrnesJames Francis Byrnes was born at 538 King Street in Charleston, South Carolina, on the 2nd of May 1882. His father died shortly after his birth, leaving a…
- Igor SikorskyIgor Sikorsky was born on the 25th of May 1889 in Kiev, Russian Empire. He grew up as the youngest of five children in a household filled with intellectual…
- Padraic ColumPadraic Colum entered the world on the 8th of December 1881 inside a County Longford workhouse. His father worked there as an employee while his mother Susan…
- Theodor BlankTheodor Anton Blank entered the world on the 19th of September 1905 in Elz an der Lahn. He was the third of ten children born to a carpenter named Blank and…