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TIME Magazine: Alexander Legge
(TIME Cover: August the 4th, 1930)
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Famous people born on the 5th of August: |
1850 - Guy de Maupassant, French author (d. 1893)
1862 - Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man (d. 1890)
1906 - John Huston, American director (d. 1987)
1930 - Neil Armstrong, astronaut
1939 - Princess Irene of the Netherlands
1972 - Christian Olde Wolbers, Belgian bassist (Fear Factory)
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1930 |
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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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Designed in 1930 |
The Brno Tubular chair
by L.M. van der Rohe |
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