Curated category
1995 deaths
- Harold WilsonJames Harold Wilson stood on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street as an eight-year-old boy in a photograph that would later become famous.
- Dr. HepcatAlbert Lavada Durst arrived in Austin, Texas on the 12th of January 1913. He learned to play piano while still a child growing up in that city.
- Ginger RogersVirginia Katherine McMath stood in Fort Worth, Texas, during the summer of 1925. She was only fourteen years old when she entered a Charleston dance contest.
- Nathan RosenNathan Rosen was born on the 22nd of March 1909 into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York. The Great Depression shaped his early years as he attended…
- Eugene WignerEugene Paul Wigner was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary on the 17th of November 1902. He grew up as the son of Elisabeth Elsa Einhorn and Antal Anton…
- Nicolas SlonimskyNikolai Leonidovich Slonimskiy was born in Saint Petersburg during the final years of the Russian Empire. His family background included a grandfather named…
- Roger ZelaznyRoger Joseph Zelazny was born in Euclid, Ohio on the 13th of May 1937. He grew up as the only child of a Polish immigrant father and an Irish-American mother.
- James Samuel ColemanJames Samuel Coleman was born on the 12th of May 1926 in Bedford, Indiana. He spent his early childhood there before moving to Louisville, Kentucky.