1950 Death Yvan Goll, writer, poet, surrealist, expressionist, most famous war poem 'Requiem for the Dead of Europe', dies at 58 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France 1941 Death Jan L G "Yvan" Doornik, Dutch resist fighter in France, executed at 36 1905 Birthday Jan Louis Guillaume "Yvan" Doornik, Netherlands resistance fighter in France 1891 Birthday Yvan Goll, born in Saint-Die, France, writer, poet, surrealist, expressionist, most famous war poem 'Requiem for the Dead of Europe'