Curated category
1980 deaths
- Alfred HitchcockOn the 13th of August 1899, a boy named Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in the flat above his parents' greengrocer shop at 517 High Road in Leytonstone.
- John LennonJohn Winston Lennon was born on the 9th of October 1940 at Liverpool Maternity Hospital. His father Alfred worked as a merchant seaman and was away during…
- Mohammad Reza PahlaviMohammad Reza Pahlavi entered the world on the 26th of October 1919 in Tehran. He was born to Reza Khan, a Brigadier-General of the Persian Cossack Brigade…
- Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre was born on the 21st of June 1905 in Paris as the only child of Jean-Baptiste Sartre and Anne-Marie Schweitzer.
- Alexei KosyginAlexei Nikolayevich Kosygin was born in the city of Saint Petersburg on the 18th of February 1904. He grew up in a Russian working-class family with his…
- Jean PiagetJean Piaget was born on the 9th of August 1896 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He grew up as the oldest son of Arthur Piaget and Rebecca Jackson.
- 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 was born on the 7th of May 1892 in Kumrovec, a small village in northern Croatia. At that time, the land belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
- Karl DönitzOn the 2nd of July 1918, Karl Dönitz took command of the submarine UB-68 in the Mediterranean Sea. He operated near Malta while attacking a convoy that…
- Walter Kaufmann (philosopher)Walter Arnold Kaufmann was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, on the 1st of July 1921. He grew up as a Lutheran child in a city that would soon become…
- Erich FrommErich Seligmann Fromm was born on the 23rd of March 1900 in Frankfurt am Main. He grew up as the only child of Rosa and Naphtali Fromm.
- Vladimir VysotskyVladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky entered the world on the 25th of January 1938 at the 3rd Meshchanskaya Street maternity hospital in Moscow.