August 15th, 1934

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August 15th, 1934...

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TIME Magazine: Elsa Schiaparelli

(TIME Cover: August the 13th, 1934)

Famous people born on the 15th of August:

1171 - King Alfonso IX of Leon (d. 1230)
1769 - Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French (d. 1821
1771 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist (d. 1832)
1893 - Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and computing pioneer (d. 1950)
1896 - Leon Theremin, Russian inventor (d. 1993)
1925 - Oscar Peterson, Canadian jazz pianist
1945 - Mahamandaleshwar Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda, Indian guru
1950 - The Princess Anne, Princess Royal of the United Kingdom

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1934

Harold Clayton Urey
1893-1981

for their discovery of heavy hydrogen

USA
Columbia University - New York, NY, USA

Photo: nobelprize.org

Oscar of the best picture in 1934

It Happened One Night
directed by Frank Capra
with Clark Gable (Peter Warne) and Claudette Colbert (Ellie Andrews)

Designed in 1934

The Zig-Zag chair
by Gerrit Rietveld

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