Curated category
1990 deaths
- Roald DahlRoald Dahl was born on the 13th of September 1916 at Villa Marie, Fairwater Road, in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales. His parents were Harald Dahl and Sofie…
- Jim HensonJames Maury Henson was born on the 24th of September 1936, in Greenville, Mississippi. He grew up as the younger of two children to Betty Marcella and Paul…
- Aaron CoplandAaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, on the 14th of November 1900. He grew up above his family's store at 628 Washington Avenue.
- Medard BossMedard Boss entered medical school in Vienna during the early 1920s. He began his psychoanalytic training by undergoing sessions with Sigmund Freud.
- Oldřich NejedlýOldřich Nejedlý began his life in the small village of Zebrak on the 26th of December 1909. He started playing football for his hometown club before moving…
- Arthur Samuel (computer scientist)Arthur Lee Samuel entered the world on the 5th of December 1901 in Emporia, Kansas. He walked away from the College of Emporia with a degree in 1923.
- Samuel C. PhillipsSamuel Cochran Phillips entered the world on the 19th of February 1921 in Springerville, Arizona. His father worked as an electrician while his mother taught…
- B. F. SkinnerBurrhus Frederic Skinner was born on the 20th of March 1904 in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania. His father William Skinner worked as a lawyer while his mother…
- Louis AlthusserLouis Pierre Althusser was born on the 16th of October 1918 in Birmendreïs, a small town near Algiers in French Algeria.
- Robert Holmes à CourtMichael Robert Hamilton Holmes à Court entered the world on the 27th of July 1937 in Johannesburg, South Africa. His family lineage traced back to William à…
- Ronald Evans (astronaut)Ronald Ellwin Evans Jr. was born on the 10th of November 1933, in St. Francis, Kansas. His father Clarence served in the Navy during World War II.
- John Stewart BellJohn Stewart Bell was born on the 28th of July 1928 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He grew up in a working class family where financial hardship defined daily…
- Lev YashinLev Yashin was born on the 22nd of October 1929 in Moscow. He grew up in a Russian family of industrial workers during a time when World War II forced him to…
- Donald A. WollheimOn the 22nd of October 1936, a group from New York met with a group from Philadelphia in Philadelphia. This gathering became known as the first American…
- Armand HammerOn the 5th of July 1919, federal agents watched a thirty-three-year-old woman named Marie Oganesoff enter the medical office of Julius Hammer in the Bronx.
- Lewis MumfordLewis Mumford was born on the 19th of October 1895 in Flushing, Queens. He grew up in a household that valued education and culture.
- Prince Naruhiko HigashikuniPrince Naruhiko Higashikuni entered the world on the 3rd of December 1887 in Kyoto. He was the ninth son of Prince Kuni Asahiko and court lady Terao Utako.
- Larry O'BrienLawrence Francis O'Brien Jr. was born on the 7th of July 1917 in Springfield, Massachusetts to Irish immigrant parents. He learned about politics at a very…
- Viktor TsoiViktor Robertovich Tsoi entered the world on the 21st of June 1962 inside a maternity hospital located on Kuznetsovskaya Street in Leningrad.