Curated category
1997 deaths
- Lotte MotzLotte Motz left her home in Vienna on the 16th of August 1922, but she did not return. Her family fled Austria in 1941 following the Anschluss, a political…
- James StewartJames Maitland Stewart was born on the 20th of May 1908, in Indiana, Pennsylvania. He grew up as the eldest child and only son of Elizabeth Ruth Jackson and…
- Ewart AbnerEwart Gladstone Abner, Jr. was born on the 11th of May 1923 in Chicago. His father served as a minister while young Ewart attended Englewood High School…
- The Notorious B.I.G.Christopher George Latore Wallace was born at Cumberland Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, on the 21st of May 1972. He grew up in the Clinton Hill neighborhood…
- Bulat OkudzhavaBulat Okudzhava was born in Moscow on the 9th of May 1924. His parents were Georgian and Armenian communists who had moved to the capital from Tbilisi.
- Mobutu Sese SekoIn 1949, a young Joseph-Désiré Mobutu stowed away aboard a boat traveling down the Congo River to Léopoldville. He was only nineteen years old and had been…
- Viktor FranklViktor Emil Frankl was born on the 26th of March 1905 in Vienna, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He grew up as the middle child of three to Gabriel…
- Cheddi JaganCheddi Berret Jagan arrived in the world on the 22nd of March 1918 within Ankerville, a rural village nestled in Port Mourant.
- A. L. RowseAlfred Leslie Rowse was born on the 4th of December 1903 at Tregonissey near St Austell in Cornwall. His father Richard worked as a china clay worker while…
- 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…