Curated category
1986 deaths
- Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis Borges once described his blindness as a gift wrapped in cruel irony. In a poem he wrote that God, with splendid irony, granted him books and…
- Jean GenetJean Genet spent his first seven months in the care of a prostitute mother before she placed him for adoption, and from that beginning he built one of the…
- Vyacheslav MolotovVyacheslav Molotov was the only person in the twentieth century to have shaken hands with Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Franklin D.
- Andrei TarkovskyAndrei Tarkovsky was born on the 4th of April 1932 in the village of Zavrazhye, a small settlement in what is now the Kostroma Oblast of Russia.
- Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir did not consider herself a philosopher, and at the time of her death in 1986 the world did not call her one either.
- Jean MassinJean Massin was born in 1917 and died in 1986. For part of his life he answered to a different title than historian: priest.
- Urho KekkonenUrho Kaleva Kekkonen was born in a smoke sauna in a small cabin in Pielavesi, Finland, on the 3rd of September 1900. His father had built a chimney in the…
- Dick JamesDick James held a telephone receiver to his record player on the 27th of November 1962. He played "Please Please Me" down the line to Philip Jones, the…
- Georges DumézilGeorges Dumézil was born in Paris on the 4th of March 1898, the son of a highly educated general in the French Army. By the time he died in the same city on…
- Margaret MastermanMargaret Masterman was born in London on the 4th of May 1910, and by the time she died in 1986, the field she had helped create had largely forgotten her…