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TIME Magazine: Wendell L. Willkie

(TIME Cover: July the 31st, 1939)

Famous people born on the 4th of August:

1521 - Pope Urban VII (d. 1590)
1755 - Nicolas-Jacques Conté, French painter, inventor of the modern pencil (d. 1805)
1834 - John Venn, English mathematician (d. 1923)
1900 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, (Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother), Queen consort of George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)
1901 - Louis Armstrong, American musician (d. 1971)
1960 - José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, 5th Prime Minister of Spain

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939

Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt
1903-1995

for his work on sex hormones

Germany
Berlin University - Berlin, Germany

Photo: nobelprize.org

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)

Designed in 1939

The PH lamp
by Poul Henningsen

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