Curated category
1980 deaths
- Alfred HitchcockAlfred Hitchcock was born on the 13th of August 1899 above a greengrocer's shop at 517 High Road in Leytonstone, Essex. By the time he died in 1980, his…
- John LennonAt approximately 5:00 p.m. on the 8th of December 1980, John Lennon autographed a copy of his new album for a man named Mark David Chapman outside his New…
- Mohammad Reza PahlaviMohammad Reza Pahlavi was born on the 26th of October 1919 in Tehran, the eldest son of a Brigadier-General who had not yet become king.
- Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature, and he refused it. He said a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an…
- Alexei KosyginAlexei Kosygin spent the last night of his life alone in a Moscow hospital, stripped of his government protection, his communications, and the luxury goods…
- Jean PiagetJean Piaget was born on the 9th of August 1896 in Neuchâtel, in the Francophone region of Switzerland, and by the age of 15 he had already published several…
- Wilbur Kitchener JordanWilbur Kitchener Jordan grew up in the quiet town of Lynnville, Indiana. He left that small community to attend Oakland City College.
- Bert KaempfertBert Kaempfert arrived in the world on the 16th of October 1923 within the bustling port city of Hamburg. Locals immediately nicknamed him Fips, a moniker…
- James Dallas Egbert IIIJames Dallas Egbert III entered the world on the 29th of October 1962 in Dayton, Ohio. He grew up in Huber Heights, a suburb of that city.
- Josip Broz TitoJosip Broz, known to the world as Tito, once wrote a letter that read: "Stalin. Stop sending assassins to murder me. We have already caught five, one with a…
- Karl DönitzKarl Dönitz spent the last days of the Second World War not in a submarine, but in the office of the German head of state.
- Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)Walter Kaufmann arrived at Princeton University in 1947 as a young philosopher with a freshly minted Harvard doctorate, a dissertation completed in under a…
- Erich FrommErich Fromm was born on the 23rd of March 1900 in Frankfurt am Main, the only child of Rosa and Naphtali Fromm, and he would spend the next eight decades…
- Vladimir VysotskyVladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky died on the 25th of July 1980, aged 42, in a Moscow apartment on Malaya Gruzinskaya Street, while his personal physician slept…