Curated category
1994 deaths
- Disco King MarioDisco King Mario entered the world on the 1st of July 1956. His family originated from Edenton, North Carolina. This small town in eastern North Carolina…
- Richard NixonRichard Milhous Nixon was born on the 9th of January 1913, in a small house built by his father on a lemon ranch in Yorba Linda, California.
- Eugène IonescoEugène Ionesco was born in the Romanian city of Slatina on the 26th of November 1909. His father belonged to the Orthodox Christian church while his mother…
- Stuart RoosaStuart Allen Roosa was born on the 16th of August 1933 in Durango, Colorado. He grew up in Claremore, Oklahoma, where he attended Justus Grade School and…
- Jack KirbyJacob Kurtzberg arrived at 147 Essex Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on the 28th of August 1917. His parents Rose and Benjamin were…
- Ralph EllisonRalph Waldo Ellison was born on the 1st of March 1913 in Oklahoma City. His father Lewis Alfred worked as a construction foreman and small-business owner…
- Kim Il SungKim Song Ju arrived in the small village of Namni near Pyongyang on the 15th of April 1912. His family belonged to the Jeonju Kim clan, which had settled in…
- Geoffrey EltonGottfried Rudolf Otto Ehrenberg was born in Tübingen, Germany on the 17th of August 1921. His parents were Jewish scholars named Victor Ehrenberg and Eva…
- Donald SwannDonald Ibrahim Swann entered the world on the 30th of September 1923 in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire. His father Herbert Alfredovich Swann was a Russian doctor…
- Rollo MayRollo Reece May entered the world on the 21st of April 1909 in Ada, Ohio. He was the first son and second eldest of six children born to Matie Boughton and…
- Jerome WiesnerJerome Bert Wiesner was born on the 30th of May 1915 in Detroit, Michigan. He grew up in Dearborn as the son of Jewish immigrants from Silesia.
- Earl StromEarl Strom, known as Yogi, stood at the center of a basketball court in 1965 with his hand wrapped in a cast. He had broken that hand punching a fan during…
- Frederick CoplestonFrederick Charles Copleston was born on the 10th of April 1907 at Claremont in the parish of Trull, near Taunton in Somerset.
- Erich HoneckerErich Honecker was born on the 25th of August 1912 in Neunkirchen, a town in what is now Saarland. His father Wilhelm worked as a coal miner and political…
- Linus PaulingLinus Carl Pauling was born on the 28th of February 1901, in Portland, Oregon. His father Herman Henry William Pauling worked as a traveling salesman for the…