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Leon Calisher 1901 - 1973

Leon Calisher of Oakland Gardens, Queens County, NY was born on October 30, 1901, and was the father of Charles Calisher. Leon Calisher died at age 71 years old in June 1973.

Leon Calisher
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Oakland Gardens, Queens County, NY 11364
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In 1901, in the year that Leon Calisher was born, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded. Chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896, had provided in his will for prizes in physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine, who have produced the most distinguished literary work of an idealist tendency, and who have contributed the most toward world peace. The winners in 1901 were: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen for physics, Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff for chemistry, Emil Adolf von Behring for physiology or medicine, Sully Prudhomme for literature, and Jean Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy for peace.
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In 1932, by the time he was 31 years old, five years to the day after Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart flew solo from Newfoundland to Ireland, the first woman to cross the Atlantic solo and the first to replicate Lindbergh's feat. She flew over 2,000 miles in just under 15 hours.
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Calisher, Caroline (Jun 16, 1903 - Oct 1974) Calisher, Kathleen (Aug 18, 1953 - Jun 24, 1999) Calisher, Helen (Aug 18, 1916 - Oct 10, 2005) Calisher, Richard (Jul 14, 1939 - Apr 26, 2011) Calisher, Hortense (Dec 20, 1911 - Jan 13, 2009) Calisher, Henry (Jan 20, 1919 - Feb 19, 2000) Calisher, Louis (Dec 7, 1905 - Mar 1960) Calisher, Ann (Sep 29, 1891 - Oct 1968) Calisher, Rose (Dec 10, 1939 - Aug 1977) Calisher, Laurence (May 26, 1888 - May 1965)
Calisher, Jay (Mar 19, 1964 - Apr 26, 2010) Calisher, Gary (Apr 8, 1970 - Jan 1987) Calisher, Eleanor (Apr 8, 1921 - Apr 16, 2004) Calisher, Julius (Apr 5, 1921 - May 25, 2000) Calisher, Harry (Aug 12, 1911 - Aug 1974) Calisher, Arthur (Feb 2, 1918 - Dec 1, 1989) Calisher, Julius (Aug 8, 1900 - Aug 1978) Calisher, Bertha (Jan 6, 1883 - Mar 1967) Calisher, Minnie (Jul 7, 1902 - Oct 14, 1989) Calisher, Nicholas (Apr 6, 1948 - Nov 23, 1992)
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