May 15th, 1947 - kakorama

May 15th, 1947...

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Number-one song in the charts today
	In the USA: "Heartaches" by Ted Weems

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TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Arthur Vandenberg

(TIME Cover: May the 12th, 1947)

Famous people born on the 15th of May:

1567 - (baptism) Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (d. 1643)
1859 - Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1906)
1898 - Arletty, French model and actress (d. 1992)
1937 - Madeleine Albright, 64th American Secretary of State
1948 - Brian Eno, English musician and record producer
1953 - Mike Oldfield, English composer
1959 - Andrew Eldritch, English singer and songwriter (The Sisters of Mercy)

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1947

André Paul Guillaume Gide
1869-1951

for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight

France

Photo: nobelprize.org

Oscar of the best picture in 1947

Gentleman's Agreement
directed by Elia Kazan
with Gregory Peck (Phil Green) and Dorothy McGuire (Kathy)

Designed in 1947

The Daybed
by Richard Stein

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