Curated category
1986 deaths
- Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis Borges was born on the 24th of August 1899 in Palermo, a poor neighborhood of Buenos Aires. His family lived in a large house filled with an…
- Jean GenetJean Genet was born in 1910 to a mother who worked as a prostitute. She raised him for only seven months before placing him up for adoption.
- Vyacheslav MolotovVyacheslav Mikhailovich Skryabin was born in the village of Kukarka, Yaransk Uyezd, Vyatka Governorate. He grew up as the son of a merchant and spent his…
- Andrei TarkovskyAndrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was born on the 4th of April 1932 in the village of Zavrazhye. His father, Arseny Aleksandrovich Tarkovsky, worked as a poet and…
- 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 stood at the seminary in Rome during his early studies. He remained a Catholic priest until 1952 despite questions about tradition.
- Urho KekkonenUrho Kekkonen was born on the 3rd of September 1900 inside a small log cabin called Lepikon torppa in Pielavesi. His father Juho worked as a forestry manager…
- Dick JamesReginald Leon Isaac Vapnick entered the world on the 12th of December 1920 within the East End of London. His parents were Polish Jewish immigrants who ran a…
- Georges DumézilGeorges Dumézil was born in Paris on the 4th of March 1898. His father Jean Dumézil served as a highly educated general in the French Army.
- Margaret MastermanMargaret Masterman was born on the 4th of May 1910 in London. Her father Charles F. G. Masterman served as head of the War Propaganda Bureau during the First…