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December 24th, 1937...

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TIME Magazine: Jean Sibelius

(TIME Cover: December the 6th, 1937)

 Famous people born on the 24th of December:

1166 - King John of England (d. 1216)
1491 - Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish founder of the Jesuit order (d. 1556)
1818 - James Prescott Joule, British physicist (d. 1889)
1837 - Elisabeth of Bavaria, Empress of Austria (d. 1898)
1845 - King George I of Greece (d. 1913)
1886 - Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-born director (d. 1962)
1905 - Howard Hughes, American film producer and inventor (d. 1976)
1922 - Ava Gardner, American actress (d. 1990)
1929 - Mary Higgins Clark, American author
1945 - Lemmy Kilmister, British singer, bassist (Motörhead)
1957 - Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan
1971 - Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican singer

 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1937


Albert von Szent-Györgyi Nagyrapolt
1893-1986

for his discoveries in connection with the biological combustion processes, with special reference to vitamin C and the catalysis of fumaric acid

Hungary
Szeged University - Szeged, Hungary



Photo: nobelprize.org


     
Oscar of the best picture in 1937

The Life of Emile Zola
directed by William Dieterle
with Paul Muni (emile Zola) and Joseph Schildkraut (Captain Alfred Dreyfus)

Designed in 1937

The Hassock for Wingspread
by Frank Lloyd Wright

 
 
 
     

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