February 21st, 1936

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February 21st, 1936...

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TIME Magazine: Leni Riefenstahl

(TIME Cover: February the 17th, 1936)

Famous people born on the 21st of February:

1688 - Queen Ulrike Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741)
1728 - Tsar Peter III of Russia, husband of Catherine the Great (d. 1762)
1875 - Jeanne Calment, French supercentenarian (d. 1997
1885 - Sacha Guitry, Russian dramatist (d. 1957)
1927 - Hubert de Givenchy, French fashion designer
1933 - Nina Simone, American singer (d. 2003)
1937 - King Harald V of Norway
1949 - Jerry Harrison, American musician (Talking Heads)

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1936

Victor Franz Hess
1883-1964

for his discovery of cosmic radiation

Austria
Innsbruck University - Innsbruck, Austria

Photo: nobelprize.org

Oscar of the best picture in 1936

The Great Ziegfeld
directed by Robert Z. Leonard
with Luise Rainer (Anna Held)

Designed in 1936

The Cradle
by Jean Prouvé

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