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August 5th, 1931...

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TIME Magazine: Willa S. Cather

(TIME Cover: August the 3rd, 1931)

 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)

 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1931


Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1864-1931

The poetry of Erik Axel Karlfeldt

Sweden



Photo: nobelprize.org


     
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