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April 8, 1936

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Notable Births

Ghassan Kanafani

1936Ghassan Kanafani, Palestinian author and politician (died 1972)[†]

Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani was a prominent Palestinian author and militant, considered to be a leading novelist of his generation and one of the Arab world's leading Palestinian writers. Kanafani's works have been translated into more than 17 languages.

Notable Deaths

Robert Bárány

1936Róbert Bárány, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1876)[†]

Robert Bárány was an Austrian-born otologist. He received the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus.

Božena Benešová

1936Božena Benešová, Czech poet and novelist (born 1873)[†]

Božena Benešová, née Zapletalová, was a Czech author and poet whose work is considered to have been at the forefront of psychological prose. The greater part of her youth was spent in Uherské Hradiště and Napajedla, where in 1896 she married a railway clerk named Josef Beneš. In 1908 she and her husband moved to Prague.