Curated playlist
1991 deaths
- Dr. SeussAn education publisher dared Dr. Seuss to write a book children can't put down. The result was The Cat in the Hat.
- Miles DavisMiles Davis called jazz dead near the end of his life. He had spent five decades helping define it.
- Jan GondaJan Gonda became a leading scholar of Asian languages without ever visiting Asia.
- Freddie MercuryFreddie Mercury, the pianist and lead singer of Queen, once described himself in two halves. "When I'm performing I'm an extrovert, yet inside I'm a completely different man." The showman who held whole stadiums in his hand gave very few…
- David LeanFilm critics spent two hours tearing apart David Lean's Ryan's Daughter to his face at a New York lunch.
- Lee EastmanLee Eastman bought Buddy Holly's music catalogue for Paul McCartney. He had asked McCartney which artists he loved most.
- James IrwinAfter walking on the Moon, astronaut James Irwin spent years searching for Noah's Ark.
- Richard SpeckRichard Benjamin Speck entered a townhouse at 2319 East 100th Street in Chicago on the night of the 13th of July 1966. By the next morning, eight young women who lived there were dead. The building stood in the Jeffery Manor neighborhood…
- Robert MaxwellOxford United supporters had a chant for their chairman: “He's fat, he's round, he's never on the ground.” The chairman was Robert Maxwell, who used the club's old grounds, close to his office at Headington Hill Hall, to land his…
- Roger RevelleIn 1957, Roger Revelle warned that humans were running a huge experiment on Earth.