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 in the Idaho Territory.
- Jørgen VogtJørgen Herman Vogt was born on the 23rd of September 1900 in Kristiania, the city that would later be renamed Oslo, into a family whose name was already well…
- Harry S. TrumanHarry S. Truman became the 33rd president of the United States not by winning an election, but by walking into a room where Eleanor Roosevelt told him her…
- Edmund WilsonEdmund Wilson Jr. sent a postcard. Not to a friend, not to an editor, but to strangers who wrote asking for his time. The card listed, in exhaustive detail…
- M. C. EscherM. C. Escher was born on the 17th of June 1898 in Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands, in a house that now forms part of the Princessehof Ceramics Museum.
- 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, the capital of the Russian Empire, into a Jewish Polish family.
- James F. ByrnesJames Francis Byrnes was born on the 2nd of May, 1882, at 538 King Street in Charleston, South Carolina, into a household shaped by loss before it had truly…
- Igor SikorskyIgor Sikorsky built a small rubber band-powered helicopter at age 12, long before the world had any reason to believe such machines could carry a person.
- 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 was born on the 19th of September 1905 in Elz an der Lahn, the third of ten children of a carpenter.