Curated category
2009 deaths
- Michael JacksonMichael Joseph Jackson entered the world on the 29th of August 1958 inside a two-bedroom house on Jackson Street in Gary, Indiana.
- Richard PoirierRichard Poirier entered the world on Gloucester, Massachusetts, the 9th of September 1925. His academic journey began at Amherst College before he moved to…
- Chuck DalyCharles Jerome Daly was born in Kane, Pennsylvania on the 20th of July 1930. He grew up in a small town where basketball became his first love and later his…
- Allen KleinAllen Klein was born on the 18th of December 1931 in Newark, New Jersey. He grew up as the fourth child and only son of Jewish immigrants.
- Walter CronkiteWalter Leland Cronkite Jr. entered the world on the 4th of November 1916, in Saint Joseph, Missouri. His father was a dentist named Walter Leland Cronkite…
- Claude Lévi-StraussClaude Lévi-Strauss was born on the 28th of November 1908 in Brussels. His parents were French Jews who had moved there for his father's work as a portrait…
- Paul SamuelsonPaul Samuelson was born in Gary, Indiana, on the 15th of May 1915. His family consisted of upwardly mobile Jewish immigrants from Poland who had prospered…
- Al CerviAlfred Nicholas Cervi was born on the 12th of February 1917 in Buffalo, New York. He attended East High School where he captained both the baseball and…
- Heinz EdelmannHeinz Edelmann was born on the 20th of June 1934 in Ústí nad Labem, Czechoslovakia. His parents Wilhelm and Josefa Edelmann lived there with their mixed…
- John Patrick DigginsJohn Patrick Diggins entered the world on the 1st of April 1935, in San Francisco. His father worked as a gardener for the City of San Francisco while his…
- Ray SolomonoffRay Solomonoff was born on the 25th of July 1926 in Cleveland, Ohio. He grew up as the son of Jewish Russian immigrants named Phillip Julius and Sarah…
- Hans HolzerHans Holzer was born in Vienna, Austria, on the 26th of January 1920. His father Leo worked as a businessman while his mother Martha carried the family name…
- Dave ArnesonIn 1960, a young Dave Arneson received the board wargame Gettysburg from his parents. This Avalon Hill product sparked a lifelong obsession with miniature…
- I. J. GoodIsadore Jacob Gudak entered the world on the 9th of December 1916 in London. His parents were Polish Jewish immigrants who ran a successful jewellery shop.
- Sergey MikhalkovSergey Vladimirovich Mikhalkov entered the world on the 27th of August 1913 within a noble family in Moscow. His father was Vladimir Aleksandrovich Mikhalkov…