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October 23rd, 1930...

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TIME Magazine: Henri Matisse

(TIME Cover: October the 20th, 1930)

 Famous people born on the 23rd of October:

1715 - Peter II of Russia (d. 1730)
1844 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (d. 1923)
1893 - Gummo Marx, American actor (d. 1977)
1905 - Felix Bloch, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983)
1940 - Pelé, Brazilian footballer
1951 - Fatmir Sejdiu, President of Kosovo
1991 - Princess Mako of Akishino of Japan

 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1930


Karl Landsteiner
1868-1943

for his discovery of human blood groups

Austria
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research - New York, NY, USA.



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