Curated category
2007 deaths
- Tom MoldvayThomas Steven Moldvay was born on the 5th of November 1948 in Ohio. He attended Kent State University during the early 1970s while writing for a science…
- Kentarō HanedaKentarō Haneda entered the world in Tokyo, Japan. His musical journey began at the Toho Gakuen School of Music. He completed his formal studies there before…
- Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut survived the firebombing of Dresden by hiding in a meat locker three stories underground, surrounded by hanging cadavers.
- Ingmar BergmanAt the age of nine, Ingmar Bergman traded a set of tin soldiers for a magic lantern. Within a year, the boy had built a private world he never wanted to…
- Michelangelo AntonioniMichelangelo Antonioni died in Rome on the 30th of July 2007, the same day as Ingmar Bergman. Two titans of world cinema left on the same afternoon.
- Wally SchirraWally Schirra was the only astronaut to fly in all three of America's first crewed space programs: Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo.
- John A. GarratyJohn Arthur Garraty was born on the 4th of July in 1920. He earned his undergraduate degree at Brooklyn College in 1941.
- Boris YeltsinBoris Yeltsin climbed atop a tank outside the Russian parliament on a sweltering August day in 1991 and delivered a speech that would echo across the…
- Thomas Stoltz HarveyThomas Stoltz Harvey was the pathologist on duty at Princeton Hospital on the morning of the 18th of April 1955, when the most famous brain in the world came…
- Alexey IvakhnenkoAlexey Ivakhnenko was born on the 30th of March 1913 in Kobelyaky, a town in Poltava Governorate, and died on the 16th of October 2007 having quietly laid…
- Frank CassFrank Cass arrived in London on the 11th of July 1930. His father worked as a cabinetmaker while his mother traced her lineage to Poland.