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Jacques Cousteau
1910 – 1997 · aged 87
French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
- Born
- 11 Jun 1910 · Saint-André-de-Cubzac
- Died
- 25 Jun 1997 · 17th arrondissement of Paris
Life timeline
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- 11 Jun 1910BornBorn in Saint-André-de-Cubzac
- 1939 – 1945WarWorld War II
- 1957AwardAcademy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
- 1957 – 1988RoleMuseum director
- 1960AwardAcademy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
- 1963AwardFounder’s Medal
- 1970AwardHoward N. Potts Medal
- 1972AwardCommander of the Legion of Honour
- 1975AwardBAFTA Fellowship
- 1976AwardJohn Muir Award
- 1979AwardGrand Officer of the National Order of Merit
- 1979AwardHonorary doctor of Harvard University
- 1985AwardPresidential Medal of Freedom
- 1985AwardGrand Cross of the National Order of Merit
- 1988 – 1997RoleMember of the Académie française
- 1989AwardHonorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- 25 Jun 1997DiedDied in 17th arrondissement of Paris
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1910 – 1997).
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
- 19721972 Summer Olympics
- 19741974 FIFA World Cup
- 19781978 FIFA World Cup
Biography
Jacques-Yves Cousteau (also UK: ; French: [ʒak iv kusto]; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. He co-invented the first successful open-circuit self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA), called the Aqua-Lung, which assisted him in producing some of the first underwater documentaries.
Cousteau wrote many books describing his undersea explorations. In his first book, The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure, Cousteau surmised the existence of the echolocation abilities of porpoises. The book was adapted into an underwater documentary called The Silent World. Co-directed by Cousteau and Louis Malle, it was one of the first films to use underwater cinematography to document the ocean depths in color. The film won the 1956 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and remained the only documentary to do so until 2004 (when Fahrenheit 9/11 received the award). It was also awarded the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1957.
From 1966 to 1976, he hosted The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, a documentary television series. A second documentary series, The Cousteau Odyssey, ran from 1977 to 1982 on public television stations.
Text from the Wikipedia article Jacques Cousteau, CC BY-SA 4.0
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