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TIME Magazine: Harry B Housser
(TIME Cover: April the 5th, 1937)
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Famous people born on the 8th of April: |
563 BC - Gautama Buddha, Indian religious leader (d. 483 BC)
1320 - King Peter I of Portugal (d. 1367)
1605 - King Philip IV of Spain (d. 1665)
1868 - King Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1906)
1875 - King Albert I of Belgium (d. 1934)
1929 - Jacques Brel, Belgian singer/composer (d. 1978)
1938 - Kofi Annan, Ghanian United Nations Secretary General
1962 - Izzy Stradlin, American musician (Guns N' Roses)
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1937 |
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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
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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)
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Designed in 1937 |
The Hassock for Wingspread
by Frank Lloyd Wright |
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