Curated category
1989 deaths
- Keef CowboyRobert Keith Wiggins stood in a Bronx hallway on the 20th of September 1960. He would later become known as Keef Cowboy, but his name was just a sound to him…
- William Mann (critic)William Somervell Mann entered the world on the 14th of February 1924 in Madras, India. His father Gerald and mother Joyce Mann raised him there before…
- Bette DavisRuth Elizabeth Davis arrived in the world on the 5th of April 1908, within the industrial city of Lowell, Massachusetts.
- Ferdinand MarcosFerdinand Marcos entered the world on the 11th of September 1917 in Sarrat, Ilocos Norte. His father Mariano was a lawyer and congressman who later died as a…
- Leon FestingerLeon Festinger was born on the 8th of May 1919 in Brooklyn, New York. His parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants named Alex and Sara Solomon Festinger.
- Ruhollah KhomeiniRuhollah Musavi Khomeini was born on the 17th of May 1900 in the small town of Khomeyn. His father Mustafa Musawi died when Ruhollah was only two years old.
- Lucille BallLucille Désirée Ball was born on Sunday, the 6th of August 1911, at 69 Stewart Avenue in Jamestown, New York. Her father Henry Durrell Ball worked as a…
- Salvador DalíOn the 11th of May 1904, a boy named Salvador Dalí was born in Figueres, Catalonia. He arrived at 8:45 am on the first floor of Carrer Monturiol 20.
- Laurence OlivierLaurence Kerr Olivier was born on the 22nd of May 1907 in Dorking, Surrey. He entered the world as the youngest child of Reverend Gerard Kerr Olivier and…
- Valentin GlushkoValentin Glushko was born on the 2nd of September 1908 in Odesa to a Ukrainian Cossack father and a Russian peasant mother.
- Samuel BeckettSamuel Barclay Beckett was born on the 13th of April 1906 in the Dublin suburb of Foxrock. His parents were both thirty-five years old when he arrived, and…
- C. L. R. JamesCyril Lionel Robert James was born on the 4th of January 1901 in Tunapuna, Trinidad and Tobago. He grew up as the first child of schoolteacher Robert…
- Kalu RinpocheKalu Rinpoche was born in 1905 during the Female Wood Snake year of the Tibetan lunar calendar. He arrived in the district of Treshö Gang chi Rawa within the…
- King TubbyOsbourne Ruddock opened an electrical repair shop on Drumalie Avenue in Kingston during the late 1950s. The tropical weather of Jamaica often caused…
- HirohitoHirohito was born on the 29th of April 1901 at Tōgū Palace in Aoyama, Tokyo. He entered the world as Prince Michi during the reign of his grandfather…
- John HicksJohn Richard Hicks entered the world on the 8th of April 1904 in Warwick, England. His father Edward Hicks edited and co-owned the Warwick and Leamington Spa…
- Osamu TezukaToyona, Osaka, 1928. A young boy named Osamu Tezuka sat in a darkened theater watching Disney films over and over again.
- Andrei SakharovAndrei Dmitrievich Sakharov entered the world on the 21st of May 1921 in Moscow. His father, Dmitri Ivanovich Sakharov, worked as a physics professor at the…
- Ronald SymeRonald Syme arrived in the world on the 11th of March 1903 within the quiet town of Eltham, New Zealand. His father David and mother Florence raised him…
- A. J. AyerAlfred Jules Ayer entered the world on the 29th of October 1910 in St John's Wood, a district in north west London. His parents were wealthy continental…
- Sjafruddin PrawiranegaraSjafruddin Prawiranegara was born on the 28th of February 1911 in Anyer Kidul, Banten. He came from an aristocratic family with Minangkabau ancestry and a…