Curated playlist
1992 deaths
- John CageJohn Cage once had a pianist play nothing for four minutes and thirty-three seconds. Audience noise became the music.
- Allen NewellAllen Newell helped build what is widely regarded as the first true AI program, the Logic Theorist.
- Friedrich HayekThree days before the 1929 Wall Street crash, Friedrich Hayek wrote that no sudden collapse was expected.
- Francis Bacon (artist)Critics suspect painter Francis Bacon destroyed about as many paintings as the roughly 590 that survive.
- William Barrett (philosopher)William Barrett started college at City College of New York at fifteen. He later wrote philosophy for general readers.
- Willy BrandtWilly Brandt, later West Germany's chancellor, fled Nazi Germany under a false name. He made it legal in 1948.
- Joe ShusterSuperman's city of Metropolis was modeled on Toronto, where artist Joe Shuster grew up.
- Isaac AsimovIsaac Asimov coined the word "robotics" in a 1941 story, thinking it was just a natural term.
- Anthony PerkinsAnthony Perkins was born on the 4th of April 1932 in Manhattan and died on the 12th of September 1992. When Fear Strikes Out reached theaters in 1957, The Hollywood Reporter wrote of his performance: "Every recent young star has been…
- Audre LordeAudre Lorde answered questions about her feelings by reciting a poem. She was a nearly blind child in Harlem.
- Harrison StormsAfter the Apollo 1 fire, NASA demanded that North American remove Harrison Storms. His boss chose to reassign him.
- Fritz LeiberFritz Leiber is credited with coining the term "sword and sorcery".
- Jeanine DelpechJeanine Delpech published under at least six different names. Some were masculine pen names.
- James E. WebbJames Webb left NASA on his 62nd birthday, days before Apollo's first crewed flight. He had run it since 1961.
- Grace HopperGrace Hopper hung a clock on her office wall that ran counterclockwise. She wanted code in plain English.