Curated category
1973 deaths
- J. R. R. TolkienJohn Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on the 3rd of January 1892 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State. His father Arthur worked as a bank manager for the British…
- Pablo PicassoAt 23:15 on the 25th of October 1881, a boy named Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born in Málaga, Spain. His father José Ruiz y Blasco taught figure drawing and oil…
- Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon Baines Johnson was born on the 27th of August 1908, in a small farmhouse near Stonewall, Texas. His family lived on the Pedernales River where the…
- Bruce Leethe 27th of November 1940 marked the arrival of Lee Jun-fan in San Francisco. His parents traveled to California for an international opera tour when he was…
- Ōten ShimokawaA family relocated to the Tokyo area when a young boy named Shimokawa was nine years old. This move placed him in the heart of Japan's capital during a time…
- W. H. AudenWystan Hugh Auden was born at 54 Bootham in York, England, on the 21st of February 1907. His father George Augustus Auden worked as a physician while his…
- Geertruida de Haas-LorentzGeertruida Luberta Lorentz entered the world on the 20th of October 1885 in Leiden, Netherlands. Her father was Hendrik Lorentz, a physicist who would later…
- David Ben-GurionDavid Grün was born on the 16th of October 1886 in Płońsk, a town within Congress Poland. His father Avigdor Grün worked as a secret adviser navigating…
- Ludwig von MisesLudwig Heinrich Edler von Mises was born on the 29th of September 1881 in Lemberg. This city now bears the name Lviv and sits within Ukraine today.
- Hans Albert EinsteinHans Albert Einstein entered the world on the 14th of May 1904 in Bern, Switzerland. His father worked as a clerk at the Swiss Federal Institute of…
- Jean-Pierre MelvilleJean-Pierre Grumbach was born on the 20th of October 1917 in Paris. His parents were Alsatian Jewish immigrants named Berthe and Jules Grumbach.
- İsmet İnönüMustafa İsmet was born on the 24th of September 1884 in Smyrna, now known as İzmir. His father Hacı Reşit served as a director within the War Ministry before…
- Ole ColbjørnsenOle Colbjørnsen stood at the edge of a new world in 1921. He began working for the Russian Telegraph Agency, known as ROSTA, that same year.
- Károly KerényiKároly Kerényi entered the world on the 19th of January 1897 in Temesvár, a city within the Kingdom of Hungary and Austro-Hungarian Empire.
- Gabriel MarcelGabriel Honoré Marcel entered the world on the 7th of December 1889 in Paris, France. His mother Laure Meyer was Jewish and died when he was very young.
- Oskar HaleckiOskar Halecki entered the world on the 26th of May 1891 within the walls of Vienna. His father served as a Polish officer in the Austrian Army and rose to…
- Alan WattsAlan Wilson Watts was born on the 6th of January 1915 in Chislehurst, Kent. He lived at Rowan Tree Cottage on Holbrook Lane with his middle-class parents.