Word: kurt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Walt Disney Co. chairman Michael Eisner, left, has commissioned millennial choral symphonies from two up-and-coming American composers, Michael Torke and Aaron Jay Kernis, center. Kurt Masur, right, and the New York Philharmonic will premiere them...
Well, it looks like grunge officially died yesterday--with a messy shotgun wound to the head. The bloodspattered corpse of Kurt Cobain, leader of the rock band Nirvana, was found dead along with a undisclosed suicide note in his Seattle apartment...
Alternative Boston radio station WFNX (101.7 FM) proclaimed April 8th a day of "mourning" and arranged a Nirvana "A" to "Z" memorial to the punk cult hero. As over-kill, so to speak, they also promised to play a medley of songs by bands that Kurt thought were cool, including the Melvins and the Meat Puppets...
...Wendy O'Connor, mother of Kurt Cobain, as quoted from a story in the Associated Press. Cobain, leader of the grunge band Nirvana, committed suicide yesterday...
...Baekeland, plastics pioneer --Tim Berners-Lee, Internet designer --Rachel Carson, environmentalist --Albert Einstein, physicist --Philo Farnsworth, inventor of electronic television --Enrico Fermi, atomic physicist --Alexander Fleming, bacteriologist --Sigmund Freud, psychoanalyst --Robert Goddard, rocket scientist --Kurt Godel, mathematician --Edwin Hubble, astronomer --John Maynard Keynes, economist --The Leakey Family, anthropologists --Jean Piaget, child psychologist --Jonas Salk, virologist --William Shockley, solid-state physicist --Alan Turing, computer scientist --James Watson & Francis Crick, molecular biologists --Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher --The Wright Brothers, visionary aviators...