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January 15th, 1931...

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TIME Magazine: Professor James Ewing

(TIME Cover: January the 12th, 1931)

 Famous people born on the 15th of January:

1342 - Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1404)
1432 - King Afonso V of Portugal (d. 1481)
1481 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Japanese shogun (b. 1511)
1622 - Molière, French playwright (d. 1673)
1809 - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, French anarchist (d. 1865)
1906 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek businessman (d. 1975)
1909 - Jean Bugatti, German-born automobile designer (d. 1939)
1918 - Gamal Abdal Nasser, President of Egypt (d. 1970)
1929 - Martin Luther King Jr, American civil rights leader, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
1950 - Marius Trésor, French footballer
1975 - Mary Pierce, American tennis player

 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1931


Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1864-1931

The poetry of Erik Axel Karlfeldt

Sweden



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