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TIME Magazine: George S. Kaufman
(TIME Cover: November the 20th, 1939)
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Famous people born on the 21st of November: |
1694 - Voltaire, French philosopher (d. 1778)
1854 - Pope Benedict XV (d. 1922)
1898 - René Magritte, Belgian painter (d. 1967)
1935 - Fairuz, Lebanese diva
1960 - Brian Ritchie, American musician (Violent Femmes)
1965 - Björk, Icelandic singer
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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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