Curated category
1975 deaths
- Alvin HansenAlvin Harvey Hansen was born on the 23rd of August 1887 in Viborg, South Dakota, the son of a farmer. He died in 1975 having done more to shape American…
- Hugo DysonHugo Dyson was the man who helped talk C. S. Lewis into Christianity during a long night walk on Addison's Walk at Oxford. That conversation, shared with J.
- Chiang Kai-shekChiang Kai-shek was born on the 31st of October 1887, in Xikou, a small town in Fenghua, Zhejiang, about 30 kilometers west of central Ningbo.
- Francisco FrancoFrancisco Franco was shot in the abdomen in 1916, aged 23, during an assault on Moroccan positions at El Biutz, in the hills near Ceuta.
- Michael FlandersMichael Henry Flanders stood six feet three inches tall, was a fine oarsman and quarter-miler, and by the time he reached Oxford his contemporaries had no…
- Mikhail BakhtinMikhail Bakhtin spent six years working as a bookkeeper in the provincial Kazakh town of Kustanai, exiled there by the Soviet secret police.
- Dmitri ShostakovichDmitri Shostakovich stood backstage at the Leningrad opera house on the 26th of January 1936, white as a sheet, waiting to take his bow.
- Sheikh Mujibur RahmanSheikh Mujibur Rahman stood before a million people at the Ramna Race Course in Dhaka on the 7th of March 1971 and told them: "This time the struggle is for…
- D. P. Roy ChoudhuryDevi Prasad Roy Choudhury filled his spare hours with wrestling, flute playing, hunting and short stories, squeezed around a career in bronze and paint.
- Theodosius DobzhanskyTheodosius Dobzhansky was born on the 25th of January 1900 in Nemirov, a small town in what was then the Russian Empire, to a mathematics teacher and his…