Curated category
1996 deaths
- Ella FitzgeraldElla Jane Fitzgerald walked onto the stage of the Apollo Theater on the 21st of November 1934, planning to dance. She was 17 years old, and she had recently…
- Carl SaganCarl Sagan grew up in a modest Bensonhurst apartment with parents who, by his own account, "knew almost nothing about science." Yet it was precisely those…
- François MitterrandFrançois Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand arrived in this world on the 26th of October 1916 in the small Charente town of Jarnac, and he died in Paris on the…
- Tupac ShakurTupac Amaru Shakur was born on the 16th of June 1971, in East Harlem, Manhattan, not yet carrying the name the world would know him by.
- Pete RozellePete Rozelle walked into a room in January 1960 and changed American sports forever. He was 33 years old, a surprise choice picked on the 23rd ballot by NFL…
- Babrak KarmalBabrak Karmal was born Sultan Hussein on the 6th of January 1929, a general's son from one of Kabul's wealthier families.
- Timothy LearyTimothy Francis Leary was arrested 36 times between the 1960s and 1970s, a record that tells you something about how seriously the American establishment…
- Amos TverskyAmos Nathan Tversky was born on the 16th of March 1937 in Haifa, British Palestine, and by the time he died in 1996, he had helped overturn one of the most…
- Edison DenisovEdison Vasilievich Denisov was born in Tomsk, Siberia on the 6th of April 1929. He initially studied mathematics before making a decisive turn toward…
- Brian DaleyBrian Charles Daley died on the 11th of February 1996, only hours after raising a glass with the cast and crew of the Return of the Jedi radio drama to…