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June 5th, 1930...

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TIME Magazine: William A. Delano

(TIME Cover: June the 2nd, 1930)

 Famous people born on the 5th of June:

1723 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist (d. 1790)
1878 - Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1923)
1883 - John Maynard Keynes, English economist (d. 1946)
1898 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish lyricist and dramatist (d. 1936)
1947 - Laurie Anderson, American performance artist
1954 - Nicko McBrain, English musician (Iron Maiden)
1962 - Princess Astrid of Belgium

 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.



Photo: nobelprize.org


     
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