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TIME Magazine: Eleanor Holm
(TIME Cover: August the 21st, 1939)
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Famous people born on the 26th of August: |
1469 - Ferdinand II of Naples (d. 1496)
1540 - King Magnus of Livonia (d. 1583)
1743 - Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (d. 1794)
1845 - Mary Ann 'Polly' Nichols, widely believed to be the first victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)
1880 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet and art critic (d. 1918)
1910 - Mother Teresa, Humanitarian Activist and Worker (d. 1997)
1944 - Maureen Tucker, American musician (The Velvet Underground)
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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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