Curated category
1973 deaths
- J. R. R. TolkienOn the evening of his 21st birthday, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien sat down and wrote a letter to a young woman named Edith Mary Bratt.
- Pablo PicassoPablo Picasso once stood in his occupied-Paris apartment as a German officer noticed a photograph of his painting Guernica.
- Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon Baines Johnson was sworn in as the 36th president of the United States aboard Air Force One, just hours after the assassination of John F.
- Bruce LeeBruce Lee was born in San Francisco on the 27th of November, 1940, during the hour of the Dragon, in the year of the Dragon.
- Ōten ShimokawaOten Shimokawa drew directly onto film stock with ink and rubbed away figures with his fingers to make them move. At a time when celluloid cels had to be…
- W. H. AudenW. H. Auden died on the 29th of September 1973 in a Vienna hotel room, a few hours after reading his poems aloud at the Palais Pálffy.
- 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 Ben-Gurion was born David Grün in Płońsk, a small town that was then part of the Russian Empire, on the 16th of October 1886.
- Ludwig von MisesLudwig von Mises was born on the 29th of September 1881 in Lemberg, then the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria inside the Austro-Hungarian…
- Hans Albert EinsteinHans Albert Einstein was born on the 14th of May 1904 in Bern, Switzerland, in the shadow of a name that would follow him everywhere.
- Jean-Pierre MelvilleJean-Pierre Melville died on the 2nd of August 1973 while eating dinner with writer Philippe Labro at the Hôtel PLM Saint-Jacques restaurant in Paris.
- İsmet İnönüİsmet İnönü stood inside a railroad car near Adana in January 1943, face to face with Winston Churchill. Turkey had spent years balancing between the Allies…
- Ole ColbjørnsenOle Colbjørnsen was born on the 30th of May 1897 in Vegårshei, a small municipality in Aust-Agder, Norway. He would go on to help reshape an entire nation's…
- 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 was born on the 7th of December 1889 in Paris, and by the time he died on the 8th of October 1973 he had written more than a dozen…
- 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, into a middle-class household at Rowan Tree Cottage, 3 Holbrook Lane, where his…