British-American economist, professor, and investor (died 1976)

Benjamin Graham

Benjamin Graham was an English-American financial analyst, economist, accountant, investor and professor. He is widely known as the "father of value investing", and wrote two of the discipline's founding texts: Security Analysis (1934) with David Dodd, and The Intelligent Investor (1949). His investment philosophy stressed independent thinking, emotional detachment, and careful security analysis, emphasizing the importance of distinguishing the price of a stock from the value of its underlying business.

Born

1894

May 9

Died

1976

Era

1890s

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1894 Born
1976 Died

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328 Athanasius is elected Patriarch of Alexandria.
1009 Lombard Revolt: Lombard forces led by Melus revolt in Bari against the Byzantine Catepanate of Italy.
1310 Nephon, Bishop of Cyzicus, is consecrated as Patriarch of Constantinople.
1386 England and Portugal formally ratify their alliance with the signing of the Treaty of Windsor, making it the oldest diplomatic alliance in the world which is still in force.

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The world in 1976

When Benjamin departed

april 1 Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Computer, Inc.
april 11 The Apple I is created.
april 13 The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
april 13 Forty workers die in the Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion, the deadliest industrial accident in modern Finnish history.

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1894

Aino Aalto 1894–1949 Finnish architect and designer (born 1894) Alfred Kinsey 1894–1956 American biologist and academic (born 1894) Amalie Sara Colquhoun 1894–1974 Australian landscape and portrait painter (born 1894) Arthur Fiedler 1894–1979 American conductor (died 1979) Arthur Gilligan 1894– English cricketer (died 1976) Bertha Lutz 1894–1976 Brazilian feminist and scientist (died 1976) Elizabeth Dilling 1894–1966 American author and activist (died 1966) Georges Lemaître 1894–1966 Belgian priest, astronomer, and cosmologist (died 1966) Henry Hazlitt 1894– American economist and philosopher (died 1993)

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