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Famous people born on the 26th of August: |
1469 - Ferdinand II of Naples (d. 1496)
1540 - King Magnus of Livonia (d. 1583)
1743 - Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (d. 1794)
1845 - Mary Ann 'Polly' Nichols, widely believed to be the first victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
1880 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet and art critic (d. 1918)
1910 - Mother Teresa, Humanitarian Activist and Worker (d. 1997)
1944 - Maureen Tucker, American musician (The Velvet Underground)
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1935 |
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James Chadwick
1891-1974
for the discovery of the neutron
United Kingdom
Liverpool University - Liverpool, United Kingdom
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1935 |
Mutiny on the Bounty
directed by Frank Lloyd
with Clark Gable, Charles Laughton and Fanchot Tone
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Designed in 1935 |
The Anglepoise lamp
by Georges Carwardine |
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