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Biography of Margaret Rudkin (excerpt)
Margaret Rudkin (née Fogarty) (September 14, 1897 – June 1, 1967), of Fairfield, Connecticut, was the founder of Pepperidge Farm. Born in Manhattan, she was the eldest of five children of Joseph and Margaret "Healey" Fogarty. She was taught to cook by her grandmother, who started her off with cakes and biscuits.
Biography of Esna Boyd (excerpt)
Esna Boyd Robertson (born 21 September 1899 in Melbourne – died 1966 in Scotland) was an Australian tennis player who reached seven consecutive women's singles finals at the Australian Championships from 1922 through 1928. She won one of those finals, defeating Sylvia Lance Harper in 1927.
Biography of Luis Monti (excerpt)
Luis Felipe Monti (JMay 15, 1901 – September 9, 1983) was an Italian Argentine footballer who played as a midfielder. Monti has the distinction of having played in two FIFA World Cup final matches with two different national teams. He played the first of these finals with his native Argentina in 1930, which he lost to Uruguay; and the second with Italy as one of their Oriundi in 1934.
Biography of Victor Kugler (excerpt)
Victor Kugler (5 June 1900, Hohenelbe/Vrchlabí – 16 December 1981, Toronto) was one of the people who helped hide Anne Frank and her family and friends during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. In Anne Frank's posthumously published diary, The Diary of a Young Girl, he was referred to under the name Mr.
Biography of Kenji Miyazawa (excerpt)
Kenji Miyazawa (宮沢 賢治 or 宮澤 賢治 Miyazawa Kenji., 27 August 1896 – 21 September 1933) was a Japanese poet and author of children's literature from Hanamaki, Iwate, in the late Taishō and early Shōwa periods. He was also known as an agricultural science teacher, a vegetarian, cellist, devout Buddhist, and utopian social activist.
Biography of Oskar Morgenstern (excerpt)
Oskar Morgenstern (January 24, 1902 – July 26, 1977) was a German-born Economist. He, along with John von Neumann, helped found the mathematical field of game theory (see von Neumann–Morgenstern utility theorem). Morgenstern was born in Görlitz, Germany. His mother was said to be an illegitimate daughter of Emperor Frederick III of Germany.
Biography of Erna Berger (excerpt)
Erna Berger (19 October 1900 – 14 June 1990), was a prominent German coloratura lyric soprano. She is most famous for her Queen of the Night and her Konstanze. Along with Frida Leider, Elisabeth Rethberg, Meta Seinemeyer, Tiana Lemnitz, Elisabeth Grümmer, Hilde Gueden, Lotte Lehmann, Martha Mödl and Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, she adorned the ranks of the most prominent German sopranos who were active during the decades following World War I.
Biography of Sam Rice (excerpt)
Edgar Charles "Sam" Rice (February 20, 1890 - October 13, 1974) was an American pitcher and right fielder in Major League Baseball. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1963. Although Rice made his debut as a relief pitcher, he is best known as an outfielder.
Biography of Georges Villiers (excerpt)
Georges Villiers, born on June 15, 1899 in Charbonnières (birth time source: FDAF), died on April 13, 1982, was a French entrepreneur, politician, and trade unionist.
Biography of Blanche Dumoulin (excerpt)
Blanche Dumoulin, also known as Davine, born on January 8, 1895 in Liège (birth time source: birth certificate n° n°66, André Dekoster), died in 1975 in Paris, was a Belgian artist, cartoonist, and author, the wife of French cartoonist Rob-Vel (François Robert Velter (February 9, 1909 – April 27, 1991).
Biography of Alberto Savinio (excerpt)
Alberto Savinio, real name Andrea Francesco Alberto de Chirico (25 August 1891 - 5 May 1952) was an Italian writer, painter, musician, journalist, essayist, playwright, set designer and composer. He was the younger brother of 'metaphysical' painter Giorgio De Chirico. His work often dealt with philosophical and psychological themes, and he also was heavily concerned with the philosophy of art.
Biography of George Sisler (excerpt)
George Harold Sisler (March 24, 1893 - March 26, 1973), nicknamed "Gentleman George" and "Gorgeous George," was an American professional baseball player for 15 seasons, primarily as first baseman with the St. Louis Browns (now the Baltimore Orioles). From 1920 until 2004, Sisler held the Major League Baseball (MLB) record for most hits in a single season, a mark which stills stands for the 154-game season in which he played.
Biography of Augusta Kettendorf (excerpt)
Augusta Kettendorf, born on October 2, 1893 in Canton, Massachusetts (birth time source: Frances McEvoy), died on April 23, 1990 (after long illness, age 96), was an American pioneering barnstormer in the '20s. Widowed in 1937, she married Waldo Kettendorf in 1956.
Biography of Christina of Holstein-Gottorp (excerpt)
Christina of Holstein-Gottorp (13 April 1573 in Kiel – 8 December 1625 at Gripsholm Castle) was a Queen Consort of Sweden as consort of king Charles IX of Sweden, mother of king Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, and a Regent of Sweden.
Biography of John Donne (excerpt)
John Donne (/dʌn/ DUN; 22 January 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons.
Biography of Wladyslaw Strzeminski (excerpt)
Władysław Strzemiński (21 November 1893, Minsk – 28 December 1952, Łódź) was a Polish avant-garde painter of international renown. In 1922 he moved to Wilno (now Vilnius), and in the following year supported Vytautas Kairiūkštis in creating the first avant-garde art exhibition in Lithuania (then under Polish rule).
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Romé de L'Isle (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Louis Romé de l'Isle (August 26, 1736 – July 3, 1790) was a French mineralogist, considered one of the creators of modern crystallography. Romé was born in Gray, Haute-Saône, in eastern France. As secretary of a company of artillery in the Carnatic Wars he visited the East Indies, was taken prisoner by the English in 1761, and held in captivity for several years.
Biography of Herbert M. Shelton (excerpt)
Herbert Macgolfin Shelton, N.D., (October 6, 1895 – January 1, 1985) was an American naturopath, alternative medicine advocate, author, pacifist, vegetarian, supporter of rawism and fasting. Shelton was nominated by the American Vegetarian Party to run as its candidate for President of the United States in 1956.
Biography of Helen Morgan (excerpt)
Helen Morgan (August 2, 1900 – October 9, 1941) was an American singer and actress who worked in films and on the stage. A quintessential torch singer, she made a big splash in the Chicago club scene in the 1920s. She starred as Julie LaVerne in the original Broadway production of Hammerstein and Kern's musical Show Boat in 1927 as well as in the 1932 Broadway revival of the musical, and appeared in two film adaptations, a part-talkie made in 1929 (prologue only) and a full-sound version made in 1936, becoming firmly associated with the role.
Biography of Borden Chase (excerpt)
Borden Chase (January 11, 1900 – March 8, 1971) was an American writer. Born Frank Fowler, he went through an assortment of jobs, including driving for gangster Frankie Yale and working as a sandhog on the construction of New York's Holland Tunnel, before turning to writing, first short stories and novels, and later, screenplays.
Biography of Pierre Bougrat (excerpt)
Pierre Bougrat, born on November 27, 1889 in Annecy (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died in January 1962, is a French physician sentenced to life imprisonment, a sentence commuted to 25 years in prison because the man was awarded the Legion of Honor during the Great War.
Biography of William Walton (excerpt)
Sir William Turner Walton OM (29 March 1902 (birth time source: himself on YouTube) – 8 March 1983) was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera. His best-known works include Façade, the cantata Belshazzar's Feast, the Viola Concerto and the First Symphony.
Biography of Edward Gibbon (excerpt)
Edward Gibbon (/ˈɡɪbən/; 8 May 1737 – 16 January 1794) was an English historian and Member of Parliament. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788.
Biography of Guy Mazeline (excerpt)
Guy Mazeline (12 April 1900 Le Havre (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 1389) - 25 May 1996 Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French writer, who won the prix Goncourt in 1932. He is the son of Alphonse Mazeline and Elise Hélène Suzanne Jaquereau.
Biography of Lope de Vega (excerpt)
Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (Spanish pronunciation: ; 25 November 1562 – 27 August 1635) was a Spanish playwright, poet, novelist and marine. He was one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Century of Baroque literature. His reputation in the world of Spanish literature is second only to that of Cervantes, while the sheer volume of his literary output is unequalled, making him one of the most prolific authors in the history of literature.
Biography of Jesse Fuller (excerpt)
Jesse Fuller (March 12, 1896 – January 29, 1976) was an American one-man band musician, best known for his song "San Francisco Bay Blues". Early life Fuller was born in Jonesboro, Georgia, near Atlanta. He was sent by his mother to live with foster parents when he was a young child, in a rural setting where he was badly mistreated.
Biography of Frank Martin (composer) (excerpt)
Frank Martin (15 September 1890 in the Eaux-Vives quarter of Geneva – 21 November 1974 in Naarden) was a Swiss composer, who lived a large part of his life in the Netherlands. Childhood and youth Born into a Huguenot family, youngest of the ten children of a Calvinist pastor named Charles Martin, Frank Martin was improvising at the piano even before he started school, and at the age of 9, despite having received no musical teaching, he wrote some complete songs.
Biography of Susannah Mushatt Jones (excerpt)
Susannah Mushatt Jones (born July 6, 1899) is an American supercentenarian who is, at the age of 116 years, 11 days, the world's oldest living person. Along with Italian woman Emma Morano, she is also one of the last two surviving verified people who were born in the 1800s.
Biography of Charles Plisnier (excerpt)
Charles Plisnier (December 13, 1896 in Ghlin (birth time source: Michaël Mandl, Didier Geslain) – July 17, 1952 in Brussels)) was a Belgian writer from Wallonia. He was a Communist in his youth and briefly belonged to the Trotskyist movement in the late 1920s.
Biography of Serge Veber (excerpt)
Serge Veber, born on September 2, 1897 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on June 16, 1976, was a French screenwriter, author, and composer. Filmography (extract) 1968 Die Mühle von Sanssouci (TV movie) (play) 1960 Bouche cousue 1959 Le confident de ces dames (screenplay / story)
Biography of William March (excerpt)
William March (September 18, 1893 – May 15, 1954) was an American writer of psychological fiction and a highly decorated US Marine. The author of six novels and four short-story collections, March was praised by critics but never attained great popularity.
Biography of Wolf Messing (excerpt)
Wolf Grigorevich Messing (10 September 1899 — 8 November 1974) was an alleged psychic and telepathist. He claimed that his psychic abilities developed in his early life. By the time he was a teenager he was performing for the public. According to Messing, he was able to broadcast mental suggestions in order to alter people's perceptions.
Biography of Jacques Jaujard (excerpt)
Jacques Jaujard, born on December 3, 1895 in Asnières-sur-Seine (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on June 21, 1967 in Paris, is a French civil servant, director of French national museums. He is well known as the Frenchman who saved the Mona Lisa.
Biography of May Picqueray (excerpt)
Marie Jeanne Picqueray, best known as May Picqueray, born on July 8, 1898 in Savenay), died on November 2, 1983 in Paris, was a French anarchist. Work May la réfractaire, 1979, préface de Bernard Thomas, (ISBN 9782863100240). Bibliography May Picqueray, 1898-1983, une mémoire du mouvement anarchiste, Olivia Gomolinski, mémoire de maîtrise (dir.
Biography of Charles Herbert Best (excerpt)
Charles Herbert Best, CC, CH, CBE, MD, FRS, FRSC, FRCP (February 27, 1899 – March 31, 1978) was an American-Canadian medical scientist and one of the co-discoverers of insulin. Biography Born in West Pembroke, Washington County, Maine, he was the son of Luella Fisher and Herbert Huestis Best, Canadians from Nova Scotia.
Biography of Leo Szilard (excerpt)
Leo Szilard (Hungarian: Szilárd Leó; pronounced ; German: Leo Spitz until age 2; February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964) was a Jewish Hungarian-American physicist and inventor. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, patented the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi, and in late 1939 wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb.
Biography of Virginia Rappe (excerpt)
Virginia Rappe (/rəˈpeɪ/; July 7, 1895 – September 9, 1921) was an American model and silent film actress. She worked mostly in small bit parts, and is best known for her death after attending a party with actor Roscoe Arbuckle, who was accused of complicity in her death though ultimately exonerated.
Biography of Jean Berthoin (excerpt)
Jean Berthoin (January 12, 1895, Enghien-les-Bains, Val-d'Oise (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – February 25, 1979, Paris) was a French Politician.
Biography of Hans Swarowsky (excerpt)
Hans Swarowsky (September 16, 1899 – September 10, 1975) was an Austrian conductor of Hungarian birth and Jewish descent. Swarowsky was born in Budapest, Hungary. He studied the art of conducting under Felix Weingartner and Richard Strauss. His teachers in musical theory included Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern.
Biography of Pietro Ferrero (excerpt)
Pietro Ferrero (2 September 1898 in Farigliano – 2 March 1949) was the founder of Ferrero SpA, an Italian confectionery and chocolatier company. His company invented Nutella, a hazelnut-cream spread, which is now sold in over 160 countries. The famous Ferrero Rochers are also made by his company, Ferrero, as were Tic-Tacs.
Biography of Wilfred Bion (excerpt)
Wilfred Ruprecht Bion DSO (/biːˈɒn/; 8 September 1897 – 8 November 1979) was an influential British psychoanalyst, who became president of the British Psychoanalytical Society from 1962 to 1965. Bion has been twinned with Jacques Lacan as "inspired bizarre analysts.who demand not that their patients get better but that they pursue Truth".
Biography of Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (excerpt)
Erich Julius Eberhard von Zelewski or Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1 March 1899 – 8 March 1972) was an SS-Obergruppenführer (General) mainly active in Central Russia, directing anti-partisan warfare, and in Poland, leading the suppression of the Warsaw uprising. Despite the use of tactics that amounted to mass murder of civilians, he did not have to stand trial in Nuremberg.
Biography of Thierry Sandre (excerpt)
Thierry Sandre (real name Charles Moulié) (9 May 1891 in Bayonne (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 200) – 1950) was a French writer, poet, essayist. Thierry Sandre was a specialist in French literature of the sixteenth century, also known under the pseudonym Jean Dumoulin.
Biography of Dock Boggs (excerpt)
Moran Lee "Dock" Boggs (February 7, 1898 – February 7, 1971) was an influential old-time singer, songwriter and banjo player. His style of banjo playing, as well as his singing, is considered a unique combination of Appalachian folk music and African-American blues.
Biography of Peggy Guggenheim (excerpt)
Marguerite "Peggy" Guggenheim (August 26, 1898 – December 23, 1979) was an American art collector, bohemian and socialite. Born to the wealthy New York City Guggenheim family, she was the daughter of Benjamin Guggenheim, who went down with the Titanic in 1912, and the niece of Solomon R.
Biography of Moms Mabley (excerpt)
Loretta Mary Aiken (March 19, 1894 – May 23, 1975), known by her stage name Jackie "Moms" Mabley, was an American standup comedian. A veteran of the Chitlin' circuit of African-American vaudeville, she later appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show and the The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
Biography of Maurice Lehmann (excerpt)
Maurice Lehmann (May 14,1895 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)–May 17, 1974) was a French actor, director and producer of the stage and screen. He starred in the 1923 film Koenigsmark in which he played the title role. Bibliography Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film.
Biography of Adrien Bertrand (excerpt)
Adrien Bertrand (4 August 1888, Nyons (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 18 November 1917) was a French novelist whose short career was punctuated by a series of striking surrealist anti-war novels, written as Bertrand lay dying from complications involved in a wound he suffered whilst serving with the French Army in the First World War.
Biography of Harry Partch (excerpt)
Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of musical instruments. He composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, and was one of the first 20th-century composers in the West to work systematically with microtonal scales.
Biography of Luis de Góngora (excerpt)
Luis de Góngora y Argote (born Luis de Argote y Góngora) (Spanish pronunciation: ; 11 July 1561 – 24 May 1627) was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet. Góngora and his lifelong rival, Francisco de Quevedo, are widely considered the most prominent Spanish poets of all time. |
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