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Biography of Stanislaw Szukalski (excerpt)
Stanisław Szukalski (13 December 1893 – 19 May 1987) was a Polish sculptor and painter who became a part of the Chicago Renaissance. In 1930s Poland he enjoyed fame as a nationalist sculptor. He also developed the pseudoscientific-historical theory of Zermatism, positing that all human culture was derived from post-deluge Easter Island and that humankind was locked in an eternal struggle with the Sons of Yeti ("Yetinsyny"), the offspring of Yeti and humans.
Biography of Henri Pastoureau (excerpt)
Henri Pastoureau, born on August 26, 1912 in Alençon, Orne (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on April 17, 1996 in Saint-Pierre-des-Nids, was a French writer and poet. Selected works Le Corps trop grand pour un cercueil, 1936.
Biography of August Hirt (excerpt)
August Hirt (April 28, 1898 – June 2, 1945) was an anatomist with Swiss and German nationality who served as a chairman at the Reich University in Strasbourg during World War II. He performed experiments with mustard gas on inmates at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp and played a role in the murders of 86 people at Auschwitz.
Biography of Arnold Bax (excerpt)
Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, KCVO (8 November 1883 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, Graham Parlett's book, "A Catalogue of the Works of Sir Arnold Bax" (Oxford University, 1999)) – 3 October 1953) was an English composer, poet, and author. His prolific output includes songs, choral music, chamber pieces, and solo piano works, but he is best known for his orchestral music.
Biography of Marin-Marie (excerpt)
Marin Marie Paul Emmanuel Durand Couppel de Saint-Front, best known as Marin-Marie, born on December 10, 1901 in Fougerolles-du-Plessis (Mayenne) (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 118), died on June 11, 1987 in Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët (Manche), was a French writer and painter.
Biography of André Pic (excerpt)
André Pic, born on February 27, 1893 in Saint-Péray (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died in 1984, is a French Chef, the founder of Maison Pic. Maison Pic is a top five star hotel and restaurant located in Valence, Drôme, France.
Biography of Robert Rocca (excerpt)
Robert Rocca, born Robert Paul Joseph Canaveso on July 11, 1912 in Paris 18e (birth time and city source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on April 11, 1994 in Bougival, was a French chansonnier, comedian, author, and humorist. Selected filmography Actor 1942 : Montmartre en couleurs de Jean-Claude Bernard - court métrage, voix uniquement -
Biography of G.W. Pabst (excerpt)
Georg Wilhelm Pabst (25 August 1885 – 29 May 1967), known professionally as G. W. Pabst, was an Austrian theatre and film director. Early years Pabst was born in Raudnitz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (today's Roudnice nad Labem, Czech Republic), the son of a railroad official.
Biography of Fred Trump (excerpt)
Frederick Christ Trump Sr. (October 11, 1905 – June 25, 1999) was a prominent American real estate developer in New York City. He was the father of Donald Trump, the 45th and incumbent president of the United States. In partnership with his mother, Elizabeth Christ Trump, Fred began a career in home construction and sales.
Biography of Nikolai Krylenko (excerpt)
Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko (Russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Крыле́нко, IPA: ; May 2, 1885 (May 14 greg. cal.) – July 29, 1938) was an Old Bolshevik and Soviet politician. Krylenko served in a variety of posts in the Soviet legal system, rising to become People's Commissar for Justice and Prosecutor General of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic.
Biography of Jean Merrien (excerpt)
Jean Merrien, born René de La Poix de Fréminville on June 3, 1905 in Le Chesnay (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on June 7, 1972 in Fribourg, Switzerland, was a French navigator and writer.
Biography of Annemarie Schwarzenbach (excerpt)
Annemarie Minna Renée Schwarzenbach (23 May 1908 – 15 November 1942) was a Swiss writer, journalist, photographer and traveler. On 7 September 1942 in the Engadin she fell from her bicycle and sustained a serious head injury, and, following a mistaken diagnosis in the clinic where she was treated, she died on 15 November.
Biography of Laurent Di Lorto (excerpt)
Laurent Di Lorto (1 January 1909 in Martigues (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 28 October 1989) was a French footballer who played goalkeeper. He was France's goalkeeper at 1938 FIFA World Cup.
Biography of Marin Marais (excerpt)
Marin Marais (French: ; 31 May 1656, Paris – 15 August 1728, Paris) was a French composer and viol player. He studied composition with Jean-Baptiste Lully, often conducting his operas, and with master of the bass viol Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe for six months.
Biography of Maurice Maréchal (journalist) (excerpt)
Maurice Maréchal, born on August 27, 1882 in Château-Chinon (Nièvre)(birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died in 1942, was a French journalist, one of the founders of Le Canard enchaîné (in English: The Chained Duck or The Chained Paper, as "canard" is French slang meaning "newspaper"), a satirical weekly newspaper in France.
Biography of Jeanne Maréchal (journalist) (excerpt)
Jeanne Maréchal, born Jeanne Prunier on March 30, 1895 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), is a French journalist, one of the founders, with her husband Maurice Maréchal and Henri-Paul Deyvaux-Gassier, of Le Canard enchaîné, a satirical weekly newspaper in France.
Biography of Jacques Larue (excerpt)
Marcel Eugène Ageron best known as Jacques Larue, born on March 28, 1906 in Paris 10e (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on January 20, 1961 in Paris, was a French lyricist. He has worked for a lot of famous singers (see below, in French):
Biography of Claude Gallimard (excerpt)
Claude Gallimard (10 January 1914 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 29 April 1991) was a French publisher and business leader. The son of Gaston Gallimard, he was, from 1976 to 1988, the head of the publishing house Gallimard, founded by his father in 1911.
Biography of Louis Péguri (excerpt)
Louis Péguri, born on July 13, 1894 in Paris 19e (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on May 19, 1972 in Clichy-la-Garenne, is a French composer, musician, and accordionist.
Biography of Jack Haley (actor) (excerpt)
John Joseph "Jack" Haley (August 10, 1897 – June 6, 1979) was an American vaudevillian, stage, radio, and film actor, light comedian, singer and dancer best known for his portrayal of the Tin Man in the classic 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz.
Biography of Maurice Duplessis (excerpt)
Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis (French pronunciation: ; 20 April 1890 – 7 September 1959) served as the 16th Premier of the Canadian province of Quebec from 1936 to 1939 and 1944 to 1959. He rose to power after uniting his Conservative party and the breakaway Action liberale nationale progressive faction of the Liberal party of Premier Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, to form a new conservative party, the Union Nationale.
Biography of Nicolas Slonimsky (excerpt)
Nicolas Slonimsky (April 27 1894 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth certificate)) – December 25, 1995), born Nikolai Leonidovich Slonimskiy (Russian: Никола́й Леони́дович Сло́нимский), was a Russian-born American conductor, author, pianist, composer and lexicographer. Best known for his writing and musical reference work, he wrote the Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns and the Lexicon of Musical Invective, and edited Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians.
Biography of Sam Wood (excerpt)
Samuel Grosvenor "Sam" Wood (July 10, 1883 – September 22, 1949) was an American film director and producer, who was best known for directing such Hollywood hits as A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and The Pride of the Yankees.
Biography of Roger Viel (excerpt)
Roger Viel (27 October 1902 in Caen (birth time source: Didier Geslain, civil registrar)) – 3 October 1981) was a French athlete. He competed at the 1924 and 1928 Olympics in the 400 m hurdles and pentathlon with the best achievement of 16th place in the pentathlon in 1924.
Biography of Corentin Celton (excerpt)
Corentin Celton, born on July 18, 1901 in Ploaré, died (shot by the nazis) on December 29, 1943 in Suresnes, was a French syndicalist and communist, and a member of the French Resistance.
Biography of William Sterling Parsons (excerpt)
Rear Admiral William Sterling "Deak" Parsons (26 November 1901 – 5 December 1953) was an American naval officer who worked as an ordnance expert on the Manhattan Project during World War II. He is best known for being the weaponeer on the Enola Gay, the aircraft which dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945.
Biography of Hanns Eisler (excerpt)
Hanns Eisler (6 July 1898 – 6 September 1962) was an Austrian composer. He is best known for composing the national anthem of the German Democratic Republic, for his long artistic association with Bertolt Brecht, and for the scores he wrote for films.
Biography of Theodore Roethke (excerpt)
Theodore Huebner Roethke (/ˈrɛtki/ ret-kee; May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963) was an American poet. He published several volumes of award-winning and critically acclaimed poetry. Roethke is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation.
Biography of Grace Hopper (excerpt)
Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (née Murray; December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first compiler related tools.
Biography of Nicolas Malebranche (excerpt)
Nicolas Malebranche, Oratory of Jesus (French: ; 6 August 1638 – 13 October 1715), was a French Oratorian (not to be confused with the Congregation of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri) priest and rationalist philosopher. In his works, he sought to synthesize the thought of St.
Biography of Juan Velasco Alvarado (excerpt)
Juan Francisco Velasco Alvarado (June 16, 1910 – December 24, 1977) was a leftwing Peruvian General who ruled Peru from 1968 to 1975 under the title of "President of the Revolutionary Government". Early life Juan Velasco was born in Castilla, a city near Piura on Peru's north coast.
Biography of Léon Smet (excerpt)
Léon Smet, born on May 3, 1908 in Schaerbeek (birth time source: André Dekoster, birth certificate n° 410), died on November 8, 1989 in Brussels, is a Belgian comedian, dancer, singer, and director. He is the father of French rock star Johnny Hallyday, the "French Elvis".
Biography of William Hyacinth, Prince of Nassau-Siegen (excerpt)
Prince William Hyacinth of Nassau-Siegen (3 April 1667 in Brussels – 18 February 1743 in Hadamar) was a Prince of Nassau-Siegen. He also claimed the Principality of Orange. Life William Hyacinth was the son of Prince John Francis Desideratus of Nassau-Siegen and Eleonore Sophie of Baden, his second wife.
Biography of Trafford Leigh-Mallory (excerpt)
Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, KCB, DSO & Bar (11 July 1892 – 14 November 1944) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force. Leigh-Mallory served as a Royal Flying Corps pilot and squadron commander during the First World War.
Biography of Alexander Dovzhenko (excerpt)
Alexander Petrovich Dovzhenko or Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko (Ukrainian: Олександр Петрович Довженко, Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko; Russian: Алекса́ндр Петро́вич Довже́нко, Aleksandr Petrovich Dovzhenko; September 10 1894 – November 25, 1956), was a Soviet screenwriter, film producer and director of Ukrainian origin. He is often cited as one of the most important early Soviet filmmakers, alongside Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, and Vsevolod Pudovkin, as well as being a pioneer of Soviet montage theory.
Biography of Henry King (director) (excerpt)
Henry King (January 24, 1886 – June 29, 1982) was an American film director. Before coming to film, King worked as an actor in various repertoire theatres, and first started to take small film roles in 1912. He directed for the first time in 1915, and grew to become one of the most commercially successful Hollywood directors of the 1920s and 1930s.
Biography of Mauritz Stiller (excerpt)
Mauritz Stiller (17 July 1883 – 18 November 1928) was a Finnish-Swedish film director, best known for discovering Greta Garbo and bringing her to America. Stiller had been a pioneer of the Swedish film industry, writing and directing many short films from 1912.
Biography of Francis Viaud (excerpt)
Francis Armand Viaud, born on July 24, 1899 in Montoir-de-Bretagne (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 155), died on June 24, 1985 in Paris, was a French engineer, the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France (GODF) (1945-1948, 1949-1952 and 1953-1956), the largest of several Masonic organizations in France and the oldest in Continental Europe.
Biography of Martinus Thomsen (excerpt)
Martinus Thomsen, referred to as Martinus, (Danish: Martinus Thomsen) (11 August 1890 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth certificate, 11:00 PM, Copenhagen time) – 8 March 1981) was a Danish author, philosopher and mystic. Born into a poor family and with a limited education, Martinus claimed to have had a profound spiritual experience in March 1921.
Biography of René Capitant (excerpt)
René Marie Alphonse Charles Capitant (19 August 1901 in La Tronche, Isère (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 23 May 1970 in Suresnes) was a French lawyer and politician. He served as the Minister of Justice (Garde des Sceaux) in the Georges Pompidou government from 1968 to 1969.
Biography of Charles I of Austria (excerpt)
Charles I (Karl Franz Joseph Ludwig Hubert Georg Otto Marie; 17 August 1887 – 1 April 1922) was the last ruler of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was the last Emperor of Austria, the last King of Hungary (as Charles IV), and the last monarch belonging to the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.
Biography of William Carlos Williams (excerpt)
William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. In addition to his writing, Williams had a long career as a physician practicing both pediatrics and general medicine. He was affiliated with Passaic General Hospital, where he served as the hospital's chief of pediatrics from 1924 until his death.
Biography of Xu Zhimo (excerpt)
Xu Zhimo (Chinese: 徐志摩; pinyin: Xú Zhìmó; Wade–Giles: Hsü Chih-mo, January 15, 1897 – November 19, 1931) was an early 20th-century Chinese poet. Xu Zhimo, original name Xu Yousen, pseudonyms Nanhu and Shizhe (b. 1896, Xiashi, Zhejiang province, China—d. Nov. 19, 1931, Jinan, Shandong province), was a free-thinking Chinese poet who strove to loosen Chinese poetry from its traditional forms, and to reshape it under the influences of Western poetry and the vernacular Chinese language.
Biography of Victor Chklovski (excerpt)
Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky (or Shklovskii; Russian: Ви́ктор Бори́сович Шкло́вский; 24 January 1893 – 6 December 1984) was a Russian and Soviet literary theorist, critic, writer, and pamphleteer. Life Shklovsky was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. His father was Jewish (with ancestors from Shklov) and his mother was of German/Russian origin.
Biography of André Malterre (excerpt)
André Malterre, born on December 18, 1909 in Corbeil (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died in 1975 in Cannes, was a French syndicalist. He was the President (1956-1975) of The French Confederation of Management – General Confederation of Executives, one of the five major French confederations of trade unions.
Biography of Henri-Paul Deyvaux-Gassier (excerpt)
Henri-Paul Deyvaux-Gassier (June 7, 1883 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – June 11, 1951 in Paris) was a French caricaturist and illustrator, one of the founders of Le Canard enchaîné (English: The Chained Duck or The Chained Paper, as "canard" is French slang meaning "newspaper"), a satirical weekly newspaper in France.
Biography of Henri Tomasi (excerpt)
Henri Tomasi (17 August 1901 – 13 January 1971) was a French classical composer and conductor. The early years Henri Tomasi was born in a working-class neighborhood of Marseille, France, on 17 August 1901. His father Xavier Tomasi and mother Josephine Vincensi were originally from La Casinca, Corsica.
Biography of Karl Amadeus Hartmann (excerpt)
Karl Amadeus Hartmann (2 August 1905 – 5 December 1963) was a German composer. Some have lauded him as the greatest German symphonist of the 20th century, although he is now largely overlooked, particularly in English-speaking countries. Life Born in Munich, well known there for his flower paintings, the son of Friedrich Richard Hartmann, and the youngest of four brothers of whom the elder three also became painters, Hartmann was himself torn, early in his career, between music and the visual arts.
Biography of Dziga Vertov (excerpt)
Dziga Vertov (Russian: Дзига Вертов; born David Abelevich Kaufman and also known as Denis Kaufman; 2 January 1896 (gregorian calendar, so December 21, 1895, julian calendar)) – 12 February 1954) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist.
Biography of Xul Solar (excerpt)
Xul Solar was the adopted name of Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari (December 14, 1887 – April 9, 1963), Argentine painter, sculptor, writer, and inventor of imaginary languages. Quotes "I am a world champion of a game that nobody yet knows called panchess (Panajedrez). |
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