Curated category
1991 deaths
- Dr. SeussTheodor Seuss Geisel arrived in Springfield, Massachusetts on the 2nd of March 1904. His father managed a family brewery that closed during Prohibition…
- Miles DavisMiles Dewey Davis III arrived in the world on the 26th of May 1926, born into an affluent African-American family in Alton, Illinois.
- Jan GondaJan Gonda entered the world on the 14th of April 1905 in the Dutch city of Gouda. He would later die in Utrecht on the 28th of July 1991.
- David LeanDavid Lean was born on the 25th of March 1908 at 38 Blenheim Crescent in South Croydon, Surrey. His parents were Quakers who sent him to the Leighton Park…
- Lee EastmanLeopold Vail Epstein entered the world on the 12th of January 1910. He was born into a Jewish family in New York City. His sister Rose Frisch became a noted…
- James IrwinJames Benson Irwin was born on the 17th of March 1930 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His parents were James William Irwin and Elsa Mathilda Irwin.
- Roger RevelleRoger Randall Dougan Revelle entered the world on the 7th of March 1909 in Seattle. He grew up in southern California and graduated from Pomona College in…