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Budapest, Hungary
LOCATION
Population:
1,695,000 (2005) SCHOOLS
BIRTHS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Eva Bartok |
Actor |
18-Jun-1927 |
1-Aug-1998 |
The Crimson Pirate |
| Georg von Békésy |
Scientist |
3-Jun-1899 |
13-Jun-1972 |
Mechanism of cochlear stimulation |
| László Bíró |
Inventor |
29-Sep-1899 |
24-Oct-1985 |
Ballpoint pen |
| Robert Capa |
Photographer |
22-Oct-1913 |
25-May-1954 |
War photographer |
| Ahna Capri |
Actor |
6-Jul-1944 |
19-Aug-2010 |
Enter the Dragon |
| Cicciolina |
Pornstar |
26-Nov-1951 |
|
Italian pornstar elected to parliament |
| Michael Curtiz |
Film Director |
24-Dec-1886 |
10-Apr-1962 |
Casablanca |
| Tamás Darnyi |
Swimmer |
3-Jun-1967 |
|
Medley swimmer, four Olympic Gold Medals |
| Antal Doráti |
Conductor |
9-Apr-1906 |
13-Nov-1988 |
Conductor, Minneapolis Symphony, 1949-60 |
| Steffi Duna |
Actor |
8-Feb-1910 |
22-Apr-1992 |
Hungarian-American character actress |
| Paul Erdos |
Mathematician |
26-Mar-1913 |
20-Sep-1996 |
Loved only numbers |
| Péter Esterházy |
Author |
14-Apr-1950 |
14-Jul-2016 |
Celestial Harmonies |
| William J. Fellner |
Economist |
31-May-1905 |
15-Sep-1983 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1973-75 |
| Dennis Gabor |
Physicist |
5-Jun-1900 |
8-Feb-1979 |
Inventor of holography |
| Eva Gabor |
Actor |
11-Feb-1919 |
4-Jul-1995 |
Green Acres |
| Magda Gabor |
Actor |
11-Jun-1914 |
6-Jun-1997 |
The least-known Gabor |
| Zsa Zsa Gabor |
Actor |
6-Feb-1917 |
18-Dec-2016 |
Cop-slapping Gabor sister |
| Andy Grove |
Business |
2-Sep-1936 |
21-Mar-2016 |
CEO of Intel, 1987-98 |
| Mickey Hargitay |
Actor |
6-Jan-1926 |
14-Sep-2006 |
Bloody Pit of Horror |
| John C. Harsanyi |
Economist |
29-May-1920 |
9-Aug-2000 |
Game theory |
| Theodor Herzl |
Activist |
2-May-1860 |
3-Jul-1904 |
Lead Zionist |
| Paul Hörbiger |
Actor |
29-Apr-1894 |
5-Mar-1981 |
Liebelei |
| Gyula Horn |
Head of State |
5-Jul-1932 |
19-Jun-2013 |
Prime Minister of Hungary, 1994-98 |
| Harry Houdini |
Magician |
24-Mar-1874 |
31-Oct-1926 |
Best-known magician and debunker |
| George Jonas |
Author |
15-Jun-1935 |
10-Jan-2016 |
Vengeance |
| George Kaczender |
Film Director |
19-Apr-1933 |
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In Praise of Older Women |
| Nicholas Kaldor |
Economist |
12-May-1908 |
30-Sep-1986 |
An Expenditure Tax |
| Theodore von Kármán |
Mathematician |
11-May-1881 |
7-May-1963 |
K�rm�n vortices |
| Imre Kertész |
Author |
9-Nov-1929 |
31-Mar-2016 |
Holocaust survivor, literature Nobel |
| István Kertész |
Conductor |
28-Aug-1929 |
16-Apr-1973 |
Hungarian operatic conductor |
| Arthur Koestler |
Author |
3-Sep-1905 |
3-Mar-1983 |
Darkness at Noon |
| Nicholas Kurti |
Physicist |
14-May-1908 |
24-Nov-1998 |
Molecular gastronomy |
| Tom Lantos |
Politician |
1-Feb-1928 |
11-Feb-2008 |
Congressman from California, 1981-2008 |
| John Lukacs |
Historian |
31-Jan-1924 |
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The Hitler of History |
| Paul Lukas |
Actor |
26-May-1887 |
15-Aug-1971 |
Watch on the Rhine |
| Karl Mannheim |
Sociologist |
27-Mar-1893 |
9-Jan-1947 |
Ideology and Utopia |
| Andrew Marton |
Film Director |
26-Jan-1904 |
7-Jan-1992 |
Directed chariot race in Ben-Hur |
| Ilona Massey |
Actor |
16-Jun-1910 |
20-Aug-1974 |
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man |
| Peter Medak |
Film Director |
23-Dec-1937 |
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Romeo Is Bleeding |
| Ferenc Molnár |
Playwright |
12-Jan-1878 |
1-Apr-1952 |
The Paul Street Boys |
| Peter Munk |
Business |
8-Nov-1927 |
|
Founder of Barrick Gold |
| George A. Olah |
Chemist |
22-May-1927 |
|
Isolated carbonium ions |
| Eugene Ormandy |
Conductor |
18-Nov-1899 |
12-Mar-1985 |
Music Director, Philadelphia Orchestra, 1938-80 |
| Michael Pinto-Duschinsky |
Scholar |
1943 |
|
Political scientist |
| Tommy Ramone |
Drummer |
29-Jan-1952 |
11-Jul-2014 |
Original drummer for The Ramones |
| Fritz Reiner |
Conductor |
19-Dec-1888 |
15-Nov-1963 |
Music Director, Chicago Symphony, 1953-62 |
| Erno Rubik |
Inventor |
13-Jul-1944 |
|
Rubik's Cube |
| S. Z. Sakall |
Actor |
2-Feb-1884 |
12-Feb-1955 |
Casablanca |
| Catherine Schell |
Actor |
17-Jul-1944 |
|
Maya on Space: 1999 |
| Jean Schwartz |
Songwriter |
4-Nov-1878 |
30-Nov-1956 |
Chinatown, My Chinatown |
| Ignaz Semmelweis |
Doctor |
1-Jul-1818 |
13-Aug-1865 |
Pioneer of antiseptics |
| Charles Simonyi |
Computer Programmer |
10-Sep-1948 |
|
Hungarian notation |
| Georg Solti |
Conductor |
21-Oct-1912 |
5-Sep-1997 |
Chicago Symphony Orchestra |
| George Soros |
Business |
12-Aug-1930 |
|
Financial speculator |
| Maria Stader |
Singer |
5-Nov-1911 |
27-Apr-1999 |
Operatic soprano, specialty Mozart |
| Gabor Szabo |
Jazz Musician |
8-Mar-1936 |
26-Feb-1982 |
Innovative jazz guitarist |
| István Szabó |
Film Director |
18-Feb-1938 |
|
Being Julia |
| Thomas Szasz |
Psychiatrist |
15-Apr-1920 |
8-Sep-2012 |
Libertarian psychiatrist |
| George Szell |
Conductor |
7-Jun-1897 |
30-Jul-1970 |
Conductor, Cleveland Orchestra, 1946-70 |
| Albert Szent-Györgyi |
Scientist |
16-Sep-1893 |
22-Oct-1986 |
Vitamins C and B2 |
| Edward Teller |
Physicist |
15-Jan-1908 |
9-Sep-2003 |
Father of the Hydrogen Bomb |
| Charles Vidor |
Film Director |
27-Jul-1900 |
4-Jun-1959 |
A Farewell to Arms |
| John von Neumann |
Mathematician |
28-Dec-1903 |
8-Feb-1957 |
Computing pioneer, inventor of Game Theory |
| Eugene Wigner |
Physicist |
17-Nov-1902 |
1-Jan-1995 |
Law of conservation of parity |
DEATHS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Ferenc Deák |
Politician |
17-Oct-1803 |
28-Jan-1876 |
Architected Austria-Hungary union |
| Gyula Horn |
Head of State |
5-Jul-1932 |
19-Jun-2013 |
Prime Minister of Hungary, 1994-98 |
| Imre Kertész |
Author |
9-Nov-1929 |
31-Mar-2016 |
Holocaust survivor, literature Nobel |
| Zoltán Kodály |
Composer |
16-Dec-1882 |
6-Mar-1967 |
Psalmus Hungaricus |
| Imre Nagy |
Head of State |
7-Jun-1896 |
16-Jun-1958 |
Twice Prime Minister of Hungary |
| Gabor Szabo |
Jazz Musician |
8-Mar-1936 |
26-Feb-1982 |
Innovative jazz guitarist |
| Ede Szigligeti |
Playwright |
8-Mar-1814 |
19-Jan-1878 |
Leading Hungarian dramatist |
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