Curated category
1997 deaths
- Lotte MotzLotte Motz was born on the 16th of August 1922, in Austria, and she spent the better part of four decades quietly transforming how scholars think about Norse…
- James StewartJames Stewart gave away his only competitive Academy Award. He won Best Actor for the 1940 romantic comedy The Philadelphia Story, then handed the statuette…
- Ewart AbnerEwart Abner was the man in the room when American popular music was being made. In January 1963, his label signed a little-known British group that Capitol…
- The Notorious B.I.G.The Notorious B.I.G. was shot four times in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles on the 9th of March 1997. He was twenty-four years old.
- Bulat OkudzhavaBulat Okudzhava was born in Moscow on the 9th of May 1924, into a family that had traveled from Tbilisi to serve the Communist Party.
- Mobutu Sese SekoMobutu Sese Seko was born Joseph-Désiré Mobutu on the 14th of October 1930 in Lisala, in the Belgian Congo. His father was a cook for a Belgian judge.
- Viktor FranklViktor Emil Frankl wrote Man's Search for Meaning in nine days. That single fact, more than any biography could, captures the urgency driving the man.
- Cheddi JaganCheddi Jagan arrived in the United States in September 1935 or 1936 with just two friends, carrying $500 of his family's life savings and a father's dream…
- A. L. RowseA. L. Rowse was born on the 4th of December 1903 in Tregonissey, a village near St Austell in Cornwall, the son of a china clay worker.
- Brown MeggsBrown Moore Meggs was born on the 20th of October 1930 in Los Angeles. His father Charles Winfield Meggs worked as an art director for Paramount Pictures and…