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  • Benjamin BrittenEdward Benjamin Britten was born in the fishing port of Lowestoft, Suffolk, on the 22nd of November 1913. His father Robert Victor Britten worked as a…
  • Max ErnstMax Ernst was born in the town of Brühl, south of Cologne, on the 2nd of April 1891. He grew up as the third child among nine siblings in a middle-class…
  • Agatha ChristieAgatha Mary Clarissa Miller entered the world on the 15th of September 1890 in Torquay, Devon. She was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family with her…
  • Martin HeideggerMartin Heidegger was born on the 26th of September 1889 in rural Meßkirch, Baden. His father worked as the sexton of the village church and raised him within…
  • Milton WaldmanMilton Waldman entered the world in 1895 within the city limits of Cleveland, Ohio. His early education took place at Yale University before he joined the…
  • Mao ZedongMao Zedong was born to a peasant family in Shaoshan, a village in Hunan, on the 26th of December 1893, near the end of the Qing dynasty. His father beat him.
  • Stith ThompsonStith Thompson was born in Bloomfield, Nelson County, Kentucky on the 7th of March 1885. He grew up as the son of John Warden and Eliza McClaskey.
  • Zhou EnlaiZhou Enlai was born in Huai'an, Jiangsu province, on the 5th of March 1898. He entered the world as the first son of his branch of the Zhou family.
  • Werner HeisenbergWerner Karl Heisenberg was born on the 5th of December 1901 in Würzburg, Germany. His father Kaspar Ernst August Heisenberg taught classical languages and…
  • Rudolf BultmannRudolf Karl Bultmann was born on the 20th of August 1884 in Wiefelstede, Oldenburg. His father Arthur Kennedy Bultmann served as a Lutheran minister.
  • Raymond QueneauRaymond Auguste Queneau entered the world on the 21st of February 1903 at 47, rue Thiers in Le Havre. He was the only child born to Auguste Queneau and…
  • Trofim LysenkoTrofim Denisovich Lysenko was born on the 29th of September 1898 in the village of Karlovka. His family belonged to a peasant class within the Poltava…