Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche — the German philosopher and cultural critic — was born on this day — October 15, 1844 -– Röcken, Prussia.
He was the author of a number of seminal books including Beyond Good and Evil; Thus Spoke Zarathustra; On the Genealogy of Morals; and, Twilight of the Idols.
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James Anthony Patrick Carr – the Irish comedian – was born on September 15, 1972 – in Hounslow, England.
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Renzo Piano – the Italian architect – was born on this day – September 14, 1937 in Genoa, Italy
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Robert Solow – the American economics professor, author, and Nobel laureate – was born on this day – August 23, 1924 – in New York City.
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Austan Goolsbee – the American economist and University of Chicago professor – was born on August 18, 1969 – in Waco, Texas.
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Jason Furman – the American economist and Harvard University professor – was born on August 18, 1970 – in New York City.
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Gertrude Stein – the American art collector and Paris salon host – died at the age of 72 on this day – July 27, 1946 – in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
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Fei-Fei Li – the Chinese-born American computer scientist best known for establishing ImageNet, the dataset that enabled rapid advances in computer vision – was born on this day – July 3, 1976 in Beijing, China.
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