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August 12th, 1936...

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TIME Magazine: John Dos Passos

(TIME Cover: August the 10th, 1936)

 Famous people born on the 12th of August:

1503 - Christian III of Denmark and Norway (d. 1559)
1604 - Tokugawa Iemitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1651)
1629 - Tsar Alexei I of Russia (d. 1676)
1643 - King Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683)
1762 - King George IV of the United Kingdom (d. 1830)
1881 - Cecil B. DeMille, American director (d. 1959)
1887 - Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1961)
1949 - Mark Knopfler, British guitarist (Dire Straits)
1971 - Pete Sampras, American tennis player
1981 - Djibril Cissé, French footballer

 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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