Curated category
1975 deaths
- Alvin HansenAlvin Harvey Hansen was born on the 23rd of August 1887 in Viborg, South Dakota. His father Niels Hansen worked as a farmer while his mother Marie Bergitta…
- Hugo DysonHenry Victor Dyson taught English at the University of Reading from 1924 until he secured a fellowship with Merton College, Oxford, in 1945.
- Chiang Kai-shekOn the 31st of October 1887, a boy named Chiang Jui-yüan was born in the small town of Xikou. This place sat at the foot of the Wuling Mountains in Fenghua…
- Francisco FrancoOn the 4th of December 1892, Francisco Franco was born in the Calle Frutos Saavedra of Ferrol, Galicia. He entered the Infantry Academy in Toledo at age…
- Michael FlandersMichael Henry Flanders was born on the 1st of March 1922 in Hampstead, London. He grew up as the third child and only son to Percy Henry Flanders and his…
- Mikhail BakhtinMikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin was born in the city of Oryol, Russia, to a family of nobility. His father managed a bank and moved the family across several…
- Dmitri ShostakovichDmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was born on the 9th of August 1875 in Podolskaya Street, then part of the Russian Empire.
- Sheikh Mujibur RahmanOn the 17th of March 1920, a boy named Sheikh Mujib was born in the village of Tungipara. His father held about 100 bighas of cultivable land and served as a…
- D. P. Roy ChoudhuryDevi Prasad Roy Choudhury entered the world on the 15th of June 1899 at Tejhat in Rangpur. This region belonged to undivided Bengal within British India…
- Theodosius DobzhanskyTheodosius Dobzhansky entered the world on the 25th of January 1900 in Nemirov within the Russian Empire. His parents were Grigory and Sophia Voinarsky.