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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 1936 |
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Victor Franz Hess
1883-1964
for his discovery of cosmic radiation
Austria
Innsbruck University - Innsbruck, Austria
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1936 |
The Great Ziegfeld
directed by Robert Z. Leonard
with Luise Rainer (Anna Held)
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Designed in 1936 |
The Cradle
by Jean Prouvé |
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