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May 12th, 1940...

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TIME Magazine: Joseph N. Pew, Jr.

(TIME Cover: May the 6th, 1940)

 Famous people born on the 12th of May:

1401 - Emperor Shoko of Japan (d. 1428)
1496 - Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1560)
1590 - Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621)
1670 - Frederick Augustus I of Poland (d. 1733)
1845 - Gabriel Fauré, French composer (d. 1924)
1907 - Katharine Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003)
1918 - Julius Rosenberg, American spy (d. 1953)
1936 - Frank Stella, American painter

     
Oscar of the best picture in 1940

Rebecca
directed by Alfred Hitchcock
with Laurence Olivier (Maxim de Winter) and Joan Fontaine (Mrs de Winter)

Designed in 1940

The Pelican chair
by Finn Juhl

 
 
 
     

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