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December 13, 1931

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Ida Vos

1931Ida Vos, Dutch Jewish author of books for children and adults (died 2006)[citation needed][โ€ ]

Ida Vos was a Dutch author. She wrote books for adults and children. In most of her books, Vos wrote about her experiences as a Jewish girl during the Second World War. Her best-known book was Wie niet weg is wordt gezien, which was awarded with a Dutch literature prize for children's books in 1982.

Notable Deaths

Gustave Le Bon

1931Gustave Le Bon, French psychologist, sociologist, and anthropologist (born 1840)[โ€ ]

Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon was a leading French polymath whose areas of interest included anthropology, psychology, sociology, medicine, invention, and physics. He is best known for his 1895 work The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, which is considered one of the seminal works of crowd psychology.