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Birthdays occurring on April, 15
| 1858 |
Emile Durkheim was born on April 15, 1858
French sociologist; tudied anomie & social cohesion; wrote "The Division of Labor in Society" 1893, "Suicide" 1897 (also "Le Suicide"), 1858-1917One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist. More quotations from Emile Durkheim |
| 1889 |
A. Philip Randolph was born on April 15, 1889
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess. More quotations from A. Philip Randolph | 
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| 1889 |
Thomas Hart Benton was born on April 15, 1889
Modern French painting is all right; it has produced many beautiful and interesting things, fully worthy of admiration, but it has also set up response habits among our artistic authorities which have worked against a free approach to other artistic forms. More quotations from Thomas Hart Benton |
Deaths occurring on April, 15
| 1956 |
Emil Nolde died on April 15, 1956
German expressionist painter, 1867-1956The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors. More quotations from Emil Nolde |  |
| 1980 |
Jean-Paul Sartre died on April 15, 1980
French existentialist philosopher and writer, 1905-1980"Even this disability from which I suffer I have assumed by the very fact that I live; I surpass it
toward my own projects, I make of it the necessary obstacle for my being and I cannot be crippled
without choosing myself as crippled. This means that I choose the way I constitute my disability (as
'unbearable', 'humiliating, 'to be hidden', 'to be revealed to all')." More quotations from Jean-Paul Sartre |  |
| 1982 |
Arthur Lowe died on April 15, 1982
Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium. More quotations from Arthur Lowe |
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