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TIME Magazine: Lewis H. Brown
(TIME Cover: April the 3rd, 1939)
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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 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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