Curated playlist
1993 deaths
- Audrey HepburnAudrey Hepburn stood on a train platform in occupied Arnhem as a young girl, watching a boy in an oversized coat board a train bound for a concentration camp. "I was a child observing a child," she said later. That image never left her. It…
- Hans SuessDuring the Second World War, a chemist named Hans Suess advised the production of heavy water at a plant in Norway. Allied commandos would later target that exact facility in Operation Gunnerside. Suess was born on the 16th of December…
- Deke SlaytonDeke Slayton was born on the 1st of March 1924, on a farm near Leon, Wisconsin, and by 1959 he was one of the seven most famous test pilots in America. He had flown combat missions over Nazi-occupied Europe and Imperial Japan. He had…
- Frank ZappaFrank Vincent Zappa was born on the 21st of December, 1940, in Baltimore, Maryland, into a household where Italian was spoken by his grandparents and gas masks hung by the door. His father, a chemist and mathematician who worked in the…
- Thurgood MarshallThurgood Marshall walked into the Supreme Court as an advocate 32 times and walked out a winner 29 of those times. That record alone would make him one of the most consequential lawyers in American history. But Marshall did not stop there.…
- Hans JonasHans Jonas died at his home in New Rochelle, New York, on the 5th of February 1993, at the age of 89. He was a philosopher born in Germany who later became an American citizen. His career moved between two subjects that seem to share…
- Penelope GilliattPenelope Gilliatt was born on the 25th of March 1932 in London. Her parents were Cyril Conner and Marie Stephanie Douglass, both hailing from Newcastle upon Tyne. They divorced shortly after her birth. She grew up in Northumberland during…
- Marian AndersonMarian Anderson stepped onto the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday, the 9th of April 1939, and opened with "My Country, 'Tis of Thee." More than 75,000 people stood before her. Millions more listened on the radio. She had been…
- Dražen PetrovićDražen Petrović scored 112 points in a single basketball game. Not in a pickup game, not in a fantasy league. In a real, professional match, against a club fielding youth players, on the 5th of October 1985, Petrović stood in Zagreb and…
- Leonid GaidaiLeonid Gaidai graduated from school on the 20th of June 1941. Two days later, the Great Patriotic War began. That timing shaped everything that followed: the injuries, the years in military hospitals, the long road into filmmaking, and…