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TIME Magazine: William Faulkner
(TIME Cover: January the 23rd, 1939)
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Famous people born on the 24th of January: |
76 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (d. 138)
1705 - Farinelli, Italian castrato (d. 1782)
1712 - King Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1786)
1732 - Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, French playwright (d. 1799)
1944 - Klaus Nomi, German singer (d. 1983)
1959 - Nastassja Kinski, German-born actress
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939 |
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Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt
1903-1995
for his work on sex hormones
Germany
Berlin University - Berlin, Germany
Photo: nobelprize.org
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Oscar of the best picture in 1939 |
Gone with the Wind
directed by Victor Fleming
with Clark Gable (Rhett Butler) and Vivien Leigh (Scarlett O'Hara)
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Designed in 1939 |
The PH lamp
by Poul Henningsen |
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