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1967 deaths

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1967 deaths: Encyclopedia - Bert Lahr

Bert Lahr, born Irving Lahrheim, (August 13, 1895 - December 4, 1967) was a Jewish-American comic actor. Fittingly born a "Leo", he is best remembered today for his role as the Cowardly Lion (and the farmworker "Zeke") in the classic 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, but known during his life for a career in burlesque, vaudeville and Broadway. Dropping out of school at the age of fifteen to join a juvenile vaudeville act, Lahr worked his way up to top billing on the Columbia Burlesque Circuit. In 1927 he moved to Broad ...

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1967 deaths: Encyclopedia - André Danjon

André-Louis Danjon (April 6, 1890 – April 21, 1967) was a French astronomer born in Caen, France. Danjon devised a method to measure "Earthshine" on the Moon using a telescope in which a prism split the Moon's image into two identical side-by-side images. By adjusting a diaphragm to dim one of the images until the sunlit portion had the same apparent brightness as the earthlit portion on the unadjusted image, he could quantify the diaphragm adjustment, and thus had a real measurement for the brightness of Earthshine. He reco ...

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1967 deaths: Encyclopedia - Casimir Funk

Kazimierz Funk (February 23, 1884 - January 19, 1967), commonly anglicized as Casimir Funk, was a Polish biochemist, generally credited with the first formulation of the concept of Vitamins in 1912, which he called vital amines or vitamines. Casimir Funk - Life. Born in 1884 in Warsaw, the son of a prominent dermatologist, he studied in Berlin and Switzerland, where he gained his doctorate in organic chemistry at the university of Bern in 1904. He worked at the Pasteur Institute ...

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1967 deaths: Encyclopedia - Zoltán Kodály

Zoltán Kodály (pronounced CODE-eye) (December 16, 1882 – March 6, 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, educator, linguist and philosopher. Though born in Kecskemét, Kodály spent most of his childhood in Galánta and Nagyszombat (now Trnava, Slovakia). His father was a keen amateur musician, and Kodály learned to play the violin as a child. He also sang in a cathedral choir and wrote music, despite having little formal musical education. In 1900, Kodály entered Budapest University to study modern languages, and began to study music at the Franz Liszt Academy in ...

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1967 deaths: Encyclopedia - Victor Gollancz

Victor Gollancz (April 9, 1893–February 8, 1967) was a British publisher, socialist, and humanitarian. Born in London, he was the son of a wholesale jeweler and nephew of Rabbi Professor Sir Herman Gollancz; after taking a degree in classics at New College, Oxford, he became a schoolteacher. Gollancz served in the British Army in World War I. In 1917 he became involved in the Reconstruction Committee, an organization that was making plans for postwar Britain. There he met Ernest Benn, who hired him to work in the publishing business. Starting with magazines, Gollancz then brought out a series o ...

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1967 deaths: Encyclopedia - Clement Attlee

The Right Honourable Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951. Despite his natural modesty and laconic style of speaking, he won a landslide election victory over Winston Churchill immediately after Churchill had led Britain through World War II. He was the first Labour Prime Minister to serve for a full Parliamentary term, and the first to have a majority in Parliament. The government he led put in place the post-war consensu ...

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1967 deaths: Encyclopedia - Alexander Wiley

Alexander Wiley (May 26, 1884 – May 26, 1967) was a member of the Republican Party who served four terms in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1939 to 1963. Wiley was born in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. He received his undergraduate education at Augsburg College in Minnesota and the University of Michigan. He received his law degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Wisconsin in 1907 and was also admitted to the bar the same year. He served as ...

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1967 deaths: Encyclopedia - Che Guevara

Dr. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (June 14, 1928 [›] – October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara or el Che, was an Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary and Cuban guerrilla leader. Guevara was a member of Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement that seized power in Cuba in 1959. After serving in various important posts in the new government and writing a number of articles and books on the theory and practice of guerrilla warfare, Guevara ...

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1967 deaths: Encyclopedia II - Che Guevara - Bolivia

Che Guevara - Insurgent. Speculation on Guevara's whereabouts continued throughout 1966 and into 1967. Finally, in a speech at the 1967 May Day rally in Havana, the Acting Minister of the armed forces, Maj. Juan Almeida, announced that Guevara was "serving the revolution somewhere in Latin America". The persistent reports that he was leading the guerrillas in Bo ...

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Che Guevara, Che Guevara - Youth, Che Guevara - Guatemala, Che Guevara - Cuba, Che Guevara - Disappearance from Cuba, Che Guevara - Congo, Che Guevara - Bolivia, Che Guevara - Insurgent, Che Guevara - Capture and execution, Che Guevara - The Bolivian Diary, Che Guevara - The intellectual and artist, Che Guevara - Legacy, Che Guevara - Hero, Che Guevara - Criticism of Che, Che Guevara - Source Notes, Che Guevara - Content Notes, Che Guevara - Published Works, Che Guevara - Writings about Che Guevara, Che Guevara - General, Che Guevara - Other, Che Guevara - Criticism praise etc., Che Guevara - Trivia, Che Guevara - In the movies, Che Guevara - In video games

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1967 deaths: Encyclopedia II - Marcel Aymé - Life

Born in Joigny in the Yonne département of France. He died in 1967 and was buried in the Cimetière Saint-Vincent in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris. ...

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Marcel Aymé, Marcel Aymé - Life, Marcel Aymé - Works, Marcel Aymé - Memory

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1967 deaths: Encyclopedia II - Jovan Karamata - Life

Jovan Karamata was born in Zagreb on February 1, 1902 to a Serbian-Aromanian father and a Serbian mother. His family descends from a merchant family from the city of Zemun in Serbia. His family's business affairs on the borders of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires were very well known. In 1914, he finished most of his primary school in Zemun but because of constant warfare on the borderlands, Karamata's father sent him, together with his brothers and his sister, to Switzerland for their own safety. In Lausanne, 1920, he finished prima ...

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Jovan Karamata, Jovan Karamata - Life, Jovan Karamata - Legacy, Jovan Karamata - Resources, Jovan Karamata - External links, Jovan Karamata - Further reading

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1967 deaths: Encyclopedia II - Ram Manohar Lohia - Post Independence

Dr. Lohia favored Hindi as the official language of India, arguing "The use of English is a hindrance to original thinking, progenitor of inferiority feelings and a gap between the educated and uneducated public. Come, let us unite to restore Hindi to its original glory." Lohia decided to make the mass public realize the importance of economic robustness for the nation's future. He encouraged public involvement in post-freedom reconstruction. He pressed people to construct canals, wells and roads voluntarily in th ...

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Ram Manohar Lohia, Ram Manohar Lohia - Early Life, Ram Manohar Lohia - Freedom Fighter, Ram Manohar Lohia - Return to India, Ram Manohar Lohia - Quit India, Ram Manohar Lohia - Post Independence, Ram Manohar Lohia - Anecdotes

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1967 deaths: Encyclopedia II - Richard Kuhn - Life

Kuhn grew up in Vienna and attended grammar school and high school there. His interest in chemistry surfaced early, however he was universally interested and decided late to study chemistry. Beginning in 1918 he attended lectures at the University of Vienna in chemistry. He finished his chemistry studies in Munich and received his doctoral degree in 1922 for a scientific work on enzymes. After graduating Kuhn continued his scientic career, first in Munich, then at the ETH Zurich and from 1929 onwards at the University of Heidelberg, w ...

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Richard Kuhn, Richard Kuhn - Life, Richard Kuhn - Scientific work and Nobel Prize

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1967 deaths: Encyclopedia II - A. J. Muste - Biography

He attended Hope College, earning a Bachelor's degree (A. B.) in 1905 and a Master's degree (M. A.) in 1909. He earned a doctorate (B. D.) from Union Theological Seminary in 1913. He also attended the Theological Seminary of the Dutch Reformed Church (now the New Brunswick Theological Seminary), New York University, and Columbia University. Muste was the author of Non-violence in an Aggressive World (1940). Muste taught Latin and Greek at Northwestern Classical Academy (now Northwestern College) from 1905 to 1906. He was ordained a Dutch Reformed minister in 1909. In 1917, he resigned his ministry when his pacifis ...

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A. J. Muste, A. J. Muste - Biography, A. J. Muste - Quotes

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1967 deaths: Encyclopedia II - Stanisław Sosabowski - Biography

Stanisław Sosabowski - Early years. Stanisław Sosabowski was born on May 8, 1892, in Stanisławów, in a railway workers' family. He graduated from a local gymnasium and in 1910 he was accepted as a student of the faculty of economy of the University of Kraków. However, the death of his father and poor economical situation of his family forced him to abandon the studies and return to Stanisławów. There he became a member of Drużyny Strzeleckie, a semi-clandestine Polish national scouting organisation. He was soon promoted to the head of all Polish scouting groups in the area. See also:

Stanisław Sosabowski, Stanisław Sosabowski - Biography, Stanisław Sosabowski - Early years, Stanisław Sosabowski - World War I, Stanisław Sosabowski - Inter-war years, Stanisław Sosabowski - Polish Defence War, Stanisław Sosabowski - France, Stanisław Sosabowski - Great Britain, Stanisław Sosabowski - Warsaw Uprising, Stanisław Sosabowski - Battle of Arnhem, Stanisław Sosabowski - After the war, Stanisław Sosabowski - Awards, Stanisław Sosabowski - External link

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1967 deaths: Encyclopedia II - Johannes Itten - Life and Work

Born in Südern-Linden, Switzerland, he had a Friedrich Froebel influenced education and was initially a teacher where he was exposed to the ideas of psychoanalysis. He later enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Geneva but then returned to Berne, after being unimpressed with the educators there. He then received some teaching from Eugène Gilliard, who was an abstract painter. From 1919-1922, Itten taught at the Bauhaus, developing the so-called preliminary course which was to teach students the basics of material characteri ...

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Johannes Itten, Johannes Itten - Life and Work, Johannes Itten - Books, Johannes Itten - External link

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1967 deaths: Encyclopedia II - João Guimarães Rosa - Biography

Guimarães Rosa was born in Cordisburgo in the state of Minas Gerais, the first of six children of Florduardo Pinto Rosa (nicknamed "seu Fulô") and D. Francisca Guimarães Rosa ("Chiquitinha"). He was self-taught in many areas and from childhood studied many languages, starting with French before he was seven years old, as can be seen in an interview he gave a cousin of his later in life: "I speak: Portuguese, German, French, English, Spanish, Italian, Esperanto, some Russian; I read: Swedish, Dutch, Latin and Greek (but with ...

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João Guimarães Rosa, João Guimarães Rosa - Biography, João Guimarães Rosa - Selected Bibliography

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1967 deaths: Encyclopedia II - Georges Vanier - Governor General

The appointment of Georges Vanier as Governor General was announced at a Cabinet meeting in Halifax presided over by Queen Elizabeth II. The respect and affection that General Vanier inspired made him an appropriate successor to the popular Governor General Vincent Massey. His recommendation for appointment by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker was a surprise. Vanier was a staunch Liberal, but Diefenbaker felt the more representation for francophones was needed in government. In his memoirs Diefenbaker attributes his decision for appoint ...

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Georges Vanier, Georges Vanier - Early Career, Georges Vanier - Governor General, Georges Vanier - Death in office, Georges Vanier - Memories

Read more here: » Georges Vanier: Encyclopedia II - Georges Vanier - Governor General

1967 deaths: Encyclopedia II - Che Guevara - Bolivia

Che Guevara - Insurgent. Speculation on Guevara's whereabouts continued throughout 1966 and into 1967. Finally, in a speech at the 1967 May Day rally in Havana, the Acting Minister of the armed forces, Maj. Juan Almeida, announced that Guevara was "serving the revolution somewhere in Latin America". The persistent reports that he was leading the guerrillas in Bo ...

See also:

Che Guevara, Che Guevara - Youth, Che Guevara - Guatemala, Che Guevara - Cuba, Che Guevara - Disappearance from Cuba, Che Guevara - Congo, Che Guevara - Bolivia, Che Guevara - Insurgent, Che Guevara - Capture and execution, Che Guevara - The Bolivian Diary, Che Guevara - The intellectual and artist, Che Guevara - Legacy, Che Guevara - Hero, Che Guevara - Criticism of Che, Che Guevara - Che in Popular Culture, Che Guevara - Source Notes, Che Guevara - Content Notes, Che Guevara - Published Works, Che Guevara - Writings about Che Guevara, Che Guevara - General, Che Guevara - Other, Che Guevara - Criticism praise etc., Che Guevara - Trivia, Che Guevara - In the movies, Che Guevara - In video games

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1967 deaths: Encyclopedia II - Harry Wismer - AFL owner

Wismer was a charter owner in the AFL, which was announced in 1959 and began actual play in 1960. His New York franchise was nicknamed the "Titans". Wismer devised a plan in which the proceeds from the broadcast rights to league games (initially with ABC) would be shared equally by all teams, very innovative at the time but setting the standard for all future professional football television broadcasting contracts. As Wismer owned what would seem to have been the most potentially lucrative franchise, especially with regard to broadcasting ri ...

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Harry Wismer, Harry Wismer - Early years, Harry Wismer - Broadcaster, Harry Wismer - AFL owner, Harry Wismer - Final years, Harry Wismer - Quote, Harry Wismer - Sources

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