English author and activist (born 1914)

Robert Aickman

Robert Fordyce Aickman was an English writer and conservationist. As a conservationist, he co-founded the Inland Waterways Association, a group which has preserved from destruction and restored England's inland canal system. As a writer, he is best known for his supernatural fiction, which he described as "strange stories". Aickman's fiction often relied on unsettling atmosphere and indirect suggestion, along with characters who experience "dislocation in time and space", rather than explicit depiction of supernatural or gory events.

Born

1914

June 27

Died

1981

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1910s

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1914 Born
1981 Died

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1499 Amerigo Vespucci sights what is now Amapá State in Brazil.
1556 The thirteen Stratford Martyrs are burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs.
1743 In the Battle of Dettingen, George II becomes the last reigning British monarch to participate in a battle.
1760 Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina.

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The world in 1914

When Robert arrived

april 20 Nineteen men, women, and children participating in a strike are killed in the Ludlow Massacre during the Colorado Coalfield War.
april 21 Ypiranga incident: A German arms shipment to Mexico is intercepted by the U.S. Navy near Veracruz.
april 24 The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
august 1 World War I: The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.

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Abbath Doom Occulta 1973– Norwegian musician Charlie Macartney 1886–1958 Australian cricketer and soldier (died 1958) Craig Hodges 1960– American basketball player and coach Danny Schechter 1942–2015 American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2015) Drake Bell 1986– American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor Jennifer Goodridge 1980– American keyboard player Juan Trippe 1899–1981 American businessman, founded Pan American World Airways (born 1899) Maximilian 1596– Prince of Dietrichstein (died 1655) Philip Guston 1913–1980 American painter and academic (died 1980)

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Adolph Green 1914–2002 American playwright and composer (died 2002) Baldev Raj Chopra 1914– Indian director and producer (died 2008) Barbara Ward 1914–1981 Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, English economist, journalist, and prominent Catholic layperson (died 1981) Dylan Thomas 1914–1953 Welsh poet and author (born 1914) Jack LaLanne 1914– American fitness expert (died 2011) James Van Allen 1914–2006 American physicist and academic (born 1914) Jersey Joe Walcott 1914– American boxer and police officer (died 1994) Jim Cairns 1914–2003 Australian economist and politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (born 1914) Jimmy Wakely 1914– American country music singer-songwriter and actor (died 1982)

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