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May 20th, 1931...

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TIME Magazine: Kenkichi Kagami

(TIME Cover: May the 18th, 1931)

 Famous people born on the 20th of May:

1799 - Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (d. 1850)
1883 - King Faisal I of Iraq (d. 1933)
1894 - Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Indian Hindu sage, Jivanmukta (d. 1994)
1915 - Moshe Dayan, Israeli general (d. 1981)
1918 - Edward B. Lewis, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
1944 - Joe Cocker, British singer
1946 - Cher, American singer

 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1931


Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1864-1931

The poetry of Erik Axel Karlfeldt

Sweden



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