George Orwell was born on 25 June 1903 in Motihari. An English writer and journalist, Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair, educated at Eton, and served in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma before deciding to become a writer. He described life among the poor in Down and Out in Paris and London and The Road to Wigan Pier, and fought on the republican side in the Spanish Civil War, an experience recorded in Homage to Catalonia. His satirical fable Animal Farm of 1945 and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four of 1949 criticised totalitarianism and gave the language terms such as Big Brother and Newspeak. He also wrote influential essays, and died of tuberculosis.
Before and after
- 3 May 1903Birth of Bing Crosby
- 8 May 1903Death of Paul Gauguin
- 24 May 1903Birth of Aram Khachaturian
- 16 June 1903Founding of Ford Motor Company
- 25 June 1903Birth of George Orwell
- 28 June 1903Founding of Deutsches Museum
- from 1 July 1903 to 19 July 1903The first Tour de France starts
- from 20 July 1903 to 1 October 1903Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising
- 11 September 1903Birth of Theodor W. Adorno
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