Jacob Bronowski was born on January 18, 1908 in Lódz, Poland, Russian Empire [now Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland]. He was a writer and producer, known for Insight (1960), The New Yorker: Shorts & Murmurs (2015) and Der Aufstieg des Menschen (1973). He died on August 22, 1974 in East Hampton, New York, USA.