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October 26th, 1930...

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TIME Magazine: Henri Matisse

(TIME Cover: October the 20th, 1930)

 Famous people born on the 26th of October:

1491 - Zhengde, Emperor of China (d. 1521)
1685 - Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (d. 1757)
1759 - Georges Jacques Danton, French Revolutionary leader (d. 1794)
1802 - King Miguel of Portugal (d. 1866)
1913 - Charlie Barnet, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (d. 1991)
1916 - François Mitterrand, President of France (d. 1996)
1919 - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, Shah of Iran (d. 1980)
1947 - Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady of the United States and United States Senator
1959 - Evo Morales, President of Bolivia

 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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