Curated category
1992 deaths
- John CageJohn Milton Cage Jr. spent his entire life asking a single question: what is music? He was born on the 5th of September, 1912, in Los Angeles, and for nearly…
- Allen NewellAllen Newell was born on the 19th of March 1927, and by the time he died on the 19th of July 1992, he had helped build the intellectual foundations of an…
- Friedrich HayekFriedrich Hayek wrote on the 26th of October 1929, three days before the Wall Street crash, that there was no reason to expect a sudden collapse of the New…
- Francis Bacon (artist)Francis Bacon was born on the 28th of October 1909 at 63 Lower Baggot Street in Dublin, into a world of racehorses, Sheffield steel money, and a father who…
- William Barrett (philosopher)William Christopher Barrett walked into City College of New York at the age of fifteen. He was not a typical freshman. He was a teenager sitting in…
- Willy BrandtWilly Brandt was born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm on the 18th of December 1913 in the Free City of Lübeck, the illegitimate son of a single mother who worked as…
- Joe ShusterJoe Shuster was born in Toronto in 1914, too poor to afford drawing paper, so he wandered from store to store collecting whatever scraps merchants threw out.
- Isaac AsimovIsaac Asimov wrote or edited more than 500 books, and on top of that he sent an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. He once said the only thing about…
- Audre LordeAudre Lorde was born on the 18th of February 1934, in Harlem, New York, nearly blind, the youngest daughter of Caribbean immigrants, and already, somehow…
- Harrison StormsHarrison Allen Storms, Jr. was born on the 15th of July 1915, and by the time he died on the 11th of July 1992, just four days before his birthday, he had…
- Fritz LeiberFritz Reuter Leiber Jr. was born on the 24th of December 1910, in Chicago, Illinois, into a household where Shakespeare was practically a family business.
- Jeanine DelpechJeanine Louise Nelly Delpech entered the world on the 1st of August 1905 at the Château du Prieuré in Évecquemont. Her father Edmond Jean Frédéric Marie…
- James E. WebbJames Edwin Webb was born on the 7th of October 1906 in a small community called Tally Ho. This place sat within Granville County, North Carolina.