English novelist, short story writer, and essayist (born 1930)

J. G. Ballard

James Graham Ballard was an English novelist and short-story writer, satirist and essayist known for psychologically provocative works of fiction that explore the relations between human psychology, technology, sex and mass media. Ballard first became associated with New Wave science fiction for post-apocalyptic novels such as The Drowned World (1962). He later courted controversy with the short-story collection The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), which includes the 1968 story "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan", and later the novel Crash (1973), a story about car-crash fetishists.

Born

1930

November 15

Died

2009

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1930s

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1930 Born
2009 Died

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The world in 1930

When J. arrived

april 18 A fire kills 118 people at a wooden church in the small Romanian town of Costești, most of them schoolchildren, after starting during Good Friday services.
april 2 After the mysterious death of Empress Zewditu, Haile Selassie is proclaimed emperor of Ethiopia.
april 22 The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
april 28 The Independence Producers host the first night game in the history of Organized Baseball in Independence, Kansas.

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Aneurin Bevan 1897–1960 Welsh-English politician, Secretary of State for Health (born 1897) Cornelia Sorabji 1866–1954 Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer (born 1866) Cynthia Breazeal 1967– American computer scientist, roboticist, and academic Eleanor of Austria 1498– queen of Portugal and France (died 1558) Francesco Rosi 1922–2015 Italian director and screenwriter (born 1922) Georgia O'Keeffe 1887–1986 American painter (born 1887) Jonny Lee Miller 1972– English-American actor José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi 1776– Mexican journalist and author (died 1827) Mwai Kibaki 1931– Kenyan economist and politician, 3rd President of Kenya (died 2022)

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Ahmad Shah of Pahang (died 2019) 1930– Alfred Balk 1930–2010 American journalist and author (died 2010) Alifa Rifaat 1930– Egyptian author (died 1996) Anne Francis 1930–2011 American actress (born 1930) Antony Armstrong-Jones 1930–2017 1st Earl of Snowdon, English photographer and a former member of the British royal family (born 1930) Carolyn Jones 1930–1983 American actress (died 1983) Chris Barber 1930– English trombonist and bandleader (died 2021) David Dacko 1930–2003 Central African politician, 1st president of the Central African Republic (died 2003) Dolores Huerta 1930– American activist, co-founded the United Farm Workers

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