Forugh Farrokhzad
Forugh Farrokhzad · Unknown photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Person

Forugh Farrokhzad

1935 – 1967 · aged 32

Iranian poet (1935-1967)

Born
5 Jan 1935 · Tehran
Died
13 Feb 1967 · Tafresh

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 37 years
  1. 5 Jan 1935BornBorn in Tehran
  2. 13 Feb 1967DiedDied in Tafresh

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1935 – 1967).

  1. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  2. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  3. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  4. 1938Munich Agreement
  5. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  6. 1939 – 1945World War II
  7. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  8. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  9. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  10. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  11. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  12. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  13. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  14. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  15. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  16. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  17. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  19. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  20. 1956Suez Crisis
  21. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  22. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  23. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  25. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution

Biography

Forugh Farrokhzad (Persian: فروغ فرخزاد; 29 December 1934 – 14 February 1967) was an influential Iranian poet and film director. She was a controversial modernist poet and an iconoclastic, feminist author. Farrokhzad died in a car accident at the age of 32.

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