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Biography of Lena Rice (excerpt)
Helena Bertha Grace Rice, Lena Rice (born 21 June 1866 - 21 June 1907) was the only female Irish tennis player to win a singles title at Wimbledon. Lena, (who was born Helena Bertha Grace) was the second youngest of the seven children of spring Rice and Anna Gorde.
Biography of Francis Viele-Griffin (excerpt)
Francis Vielé-Griffin (pseudonym of Egbert Ludovicus Viélé, May 26, 1864 – November 12, 1937), was a French symbolist poet. He was born at Norfolk, Virginia, USA, the son of General Egbert Ludovicus Viele, and moved to France with his mother (the former Teresa Griffin) in 1872.
Biography of Paul Hankar (excerpt)
Paul Hankar (11 December 1859 (birth time source: birth certificate n° 351, André Dekoster) - 17 January 1901) was a Belgian architect and designer who, along with Victor Horta and Henry Van de Velde, is considered one of the principal architects to work in the Art Nouveau style in Brussels at the turn of the twentieth century.
Biography of Enric Morera i Viura (excerpt)
Enric Morera i Viura (Catalan pronunciation: ; 22 May 1865 – 12 March 1942), was a Spanish Catalan musician and composer. Morera was born in Barcelona but moved with his father, a musician, to Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1867, studying organ, trumpet, and violin there.
Biography of Christy Mathewson (excerpt)
Christopher "Christy" Mathewson (August 12, 1880 – October 7, 1925), nicknamed "Big Six", "The Christian Gentleman", or "Matty", was an American Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. He played his entire career in what is known as the dead-ball era. In 1936, Mathewson was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of its "first five" inaugural members.
Biography of Alice Liddell (excerpt)
Alice Pleasance Hargreaves (née Liddell (/ˈlɪdəl/); 4 May 1852 – 16 November 1934) was, in her childhood, an acquaintance and photography subject of Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). One of the stories he told her during a boating trip became the children's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Biography of Cap Anson (excerpt)
Adrian Constantine Anson (April 17, 1852 – April 14, 1922), nicknamed "Cap" (for "Captain") and "Pop", was a National Association and Major League Baseball first baseman. He played a record 27 consecutive seasons, and was regarded as one of the greatest players of his era and one of the first superstars of the game.
Biography of Jules Bouval (excerpt)
Jules Bouval, born on June 9, 1867 in Toulouse, died in 1914, was a French composer. Awards: Prix de Rome, 1893
Biography of Irvin S. Cobb (excerpt)
Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (June 23, 1876 – March 11, 1944) was an American author, humorist, and columnist who lived in New York and authored more than 60 books and 300 short stories. Biography Cobb was the second of four children born to Kentucky natives in Paducah, Kentucky.
Biography of Albert Bausil (excerpt)
Albert Bausil, born on November 16, 1880 in Castres (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on March 2, 1943 in Perpignan, is a French poet, writer, comedian, radio host, and journalist.
Biography of Augustin Gérard (excerpt)
Augustin Grégoire Arthur Gérard, born on November 2, 1857 in Dunkerque (birth time source: Didier Geslain, departmental archives), died on November 2, 1926 in Château-Gontier, was a French military (general). He was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient of France in 1920 and 1921.
Biography of Consuelo Vanderbilt (excerpt)
Consuelo Balsan (formerly, Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough; née Vanderbilt; 2 March 1877 – 6 December 1964), was a member of the prominent American Vanderbilt family. Her marriage to Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough, became an international emblem of the socially advantageous, but loveless, marriages common during the Gilded Age.
Biography of George Desvallières (excerpt)
George Desvallières (March 14, 1861 (birth time and date source: Didier Geslain)–October 5, 1950) was a French painter. A native of Paris, Desvallières was a great-grandson of academician Gabriel-Marie Legouvé, and received a religious upbringing. He studied at the Académie Julian with Tony Robert-Fleury and with Jules Valadon at the École des Beaux-Arts.
Biography of J. D. Beresford (excerpt)
John Davys Beresford (17 March 1873 – 1 February 1947) was an English writer, now remembered for his early science fiction and some short stories in the horror story and ghost story genres. His Hampdenshire Wonder was a major influence on Olaf Stapledon.
Biography of John Millington Synge (excerpt)
Edmund John Millington Synge (16 April 1871 – 24 March 1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, and collector of folklore. He was a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival and was one of the cofounders of the Abbey Theatre.
Biography of Jane Avril (excerpt)
Jane Avril (June 9, 1868 (birth time source: birth certificate n° 1485)–January 17, 1943) was a French can-can dancer made famous by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec through his paintings. Extremely thin, 'given to jerky movements and sudden contortions', she was nicknamed La Mélinite, after an explosive.
Biography of Edward Frederic Benson (excerpt)
Edward Frederic Benson (24 July 1867 – 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist and short story writer, known professionally as E.F. Benson. His friends called him Fred. Life E.F. Benson was born at Wellington College in Berkshire, the fifth child of the headmaster, Edward White Benson (later Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral, Bishop of Truro and Archbishop of Canterbury), and Mary Sidgwick Benson ("Minnie"), who was described by Gladstone as the 'cleverest woman in Europe' and after her husband's death set up a lesbian household with Lucy Tait, daughter of the previous Archbishop of Canterbury, Archibald Campbell Tait.
Biography of Weston Price (excerpt)
Weston Andrew Valleau Price (September 6, 1870 – January 23, 1948) was a dentist known primarily for his theories on the relationship between nutrition, dental health, and physical health. He founded the research institute of the National Dental Association, which later became the research section of the American Dental Association, and served as its chair from 1914–1928.
Biography of Balthasar Charles, Prince of Asturias (excerpt)
Balthasar Charles (17 October 1629 - 9 October 1646), Prince of Asturias, Prince of Girona, Duke of Montblanc, Count of Cervera and Lord of Balaguer, Prince of Viana was heir apparent to all the kingdoms, states and dominions of the Spanish monarchy until his death.
Biography of Buddy Bolden (excerpt)
Charles "Buddy" Bolden (September 6, 1877 – November 4, 1931) was an African-American cornetist and is regarded by contemporaries as a key figure in the development of a New Orleans style of rag-time music which later came to be known as jazz.
Biography of Bill Longley (gunfighter) (excerpt)
William Preston Longley (October 6, 1851 – October 11, 1878), also known as Wild Bill Longley, was an American Old West outlaw and gunfighter noted for his ruthless nature, speed with a gun, quick temper, and unpredictable demeanour. He is considered one of the deadliest gunfighters in the Old West.
Biography of Roger Toothaker (excerpt)
Roger Toothaker (November 27, 1634, England – June 1692, Massachusetts) was a physician who came to Massachusetts from England shortly after he was born. He was one of the victims of the Salem witch trials who died in prison. Background Roger Toothaker was born in England in 1634.
Biography of May Whitty (excerpt)
Dame May Whitty DBE (19 June 1865 – 29 May 1948) was an English stage actress who appeared in numerous films in later life, achieving recognition in several character roles. Background Born in Liverpool to William Alfred Whitty (c. 1837–1876) and Mary Louisa (née Ashton, ca.
Biography of Dummy Hoy (excerpt)
William Ellsworth Hoy (May 23, 1862 – December 15, 1961), nicknamed "Dummy," was an American center fielder in Major League Baseball who played for several teams from 1888 to 1902, most notably the Cincinnati Reds and two Washington, D.C. franchises. He is noted for being the most accomplished deaf player in major league history, and is credited by some sources with causing the establishment of signals for safe and out calls.
Biography of Temple Lea Houston (excerpt)
Temple Lea Houston (August 12, 1860 – August 15, 1905) was an attorney and politician, a state senator (1885-1889) in Texas. He was the last-born child of Margaret Lea Houston and Sam Houston, the first president of the Republic of Texas, and later U.
Biography of Filippo Maria Visconti (excerpt)
Filippo Maria Visconti (23 September 1392 – 13 August 1447) was ruler of Milan from 1412 to 1447. Biography Filippo Maria Visconti, who had become nominal ruler of Pavia in 1402, succeeded his assassinated brother Gian Maria Visconti as Duke of Milan in 1412.
Biography of Valentin Serov (excerpt)
Valentin Alexandrovich Serov (Russian: Валенти́н Алекса́ндрович Серо́в; January 19, 1865 – December 5, 1911) was a Russian painter, and one of the premier portrait artists of his era. Life and work Youth and education Serov was born in St. Petersburg, son of the Russian composer Alexander Serov, and his wife Valentina Bergman, a composer of German-Jewish and English background.
Biography of Catherine de Bragance (excerpt)
Catherine of Braganza (Portuguese: Catarina Henriqueta de Bragança; 25 November 1638 – 31 December 1705) was the Portuguese wife of King Charles II of England. As such, she was the Queen consort of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1662 to 1685.
Biography of Dorothea Douglass (excerpt)
Dorothea Katherine Lambert Chambers (3 September 1878 – 7 January 1960) was a English female tennis player who was born in Guayamas, Ealing in the United Kingdom. She was born in 1878 as Dorothea Katherine Douglass. In 1900, Douglass made her debut at Wimbledon.
Biography of Pierre de Coubertin (excerpt)
Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin (French: ; 1 January 1863 in Paris 7e, 20, rue Oudinot (birth time source: Yves Lenoble, birth certificate n° 9) – 2 September 1937) was a French educator and historian, and founder of the International Olympic Committee.
Biography of Gian Maria Visconti (excerpt)
Gian Maria Visconti (or Giovanni Maria ; 7 September 1388 – 16 May 1412) was the second Visconti Duke of Milan, the son of Gian Galeazzo Visconti and Caterina Visconti. Biography He assumed the title at thirteen, under his mother's regency. The Duchy soon disintegrated: among the various parties contending its lands, the condottiero Facino Cane prevailed.
Biography of Gabriel Veyre (excerpt)
Gabriel Veyre, born on February 1, 1871 in Septème (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on January 13, 1936 in Casablanca, Morocco, was an early film director and photographer born in France, but mainly known for his work in Mexico, Indochina and Morocco.
Biography of Sam Bass (excerpt)
Sam Bass (July 21, 1851 – July 21, 1878) was a nineteenth-century American train robber and outlaw. Early life Bass was orphaned at the age of 10. For the next five years, he and his siblings lived with an abusive uncle. In 1869, he set out on his own and spent the next year in Mississippi.
Biography of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (excerpt)
Ferdinand III (13 July 1608 – 2 April 1657) was Holy Roman Emperor from 15 February 1637 until his death, as well as King of Hungary and Croatia, King of Bohemia and Archduke of Austria. Life Ferdinand was born in Graz, the eldest son of Emperor Ferdinand II of Habsburg and his first wife, Maria Anna of Bavaria.
Biography of Karl Muck (excerpt)
Karl Muck (October 22, 1859 – March 3, 1940) was a German-born conductor of classical music. He based his activities principally in Europe and mostly in opera. His American career comprised two stints at the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He endured a public outcry in 1917 that questioned whether his loyalties lay with Germany or the United States during World War I.
Biography of Arthur Schnitzler (excerpt)
Arthur Schnitzler (15 May 1862 – 21 October 1931) was an Austrian author, physician, and dramatist. Private life Arthur Schnitzler, son of a prominent Hungarian laryngologist Johann Schnitzler (1835–1893) and Luise Markbreiter (1838–1911) a daughter of the Viennese doctor Philipp Markbreiter, was born at Praterstrasse 16, Leopoldstadt, Vienna, capital of the Austrian Empire (as of 1867, part of the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary).
Biography of Dora Boothby (excerpt)
Penelope Dora Harvey Boothby (2 August 1881 – 22 February 1970) was a former English female tennis player. She was born in Finchley, Middlesex. She is best remembered for her ladies' singles title at the 1909 Wimbledon Championships. She died in Hammersmith, London in 1970.
Biography of Israel Tonge (excerpt)
Israel Tonge (11 November 1621–1680), aka Ezerel or Ezreel Tongue, was an English divine and an informer in the "Popish" plot. He was born at Tickhill, near Doncaster, the son of Henry Tongue, minister of Holtby, Yorkshire. He graduated from University College, Oxford and became a schoolmaster at Churchill, Oxfordshire where he became interested in gardening, alchemy, and chemistry.
Biography of Subba Row (excerpt)
Tallapragada Subba Row (July 6, 1856-June 24, 1890) was a Theosophist from a Hindu background and originally worked as a Vakil (Pleader) within the Indian justice system. His primary instructors in this field were Messrs. Grant and Laing, who saw to his establishment as a Vakil, a profession which became highly profitable for the time that he held it.
Biography of Alma Kruger (excerpt)
Alma Kruger (September 13, 1871 (sometimes 1868) – April 5, 1960) was an American actress. Career Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Kruger had a long career on stage before appearing in films. From 1907 to 1935, she featured in theatre plays on Broadway, mostly in Shakespearean plays such as Hamlet (as Gertrude), Twelfth Night (as Olivia), Taming of the Shrew (Widow), and The Merchant of Venice (Nerissa).
Biography of Ibn Saud (excerpt)
Abdulaziz ibn Abdul Rahman ibn Faisal ibn Turki ibn Abdullah ibn Muhammad Al Saud (15 January 1875 – 9 November 1953), known in the West as Ibn Saud (sometimes Saoud or Séoud), was the first monarch and founder of Saudi Arabia, the "third Saudi state".
Biography of Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria (excerpt)
Ferdinand Charles (17 May 1628 – 30 December 1662) was the Archduke of Further Austria, including the Tyrol, from 1646 to 1662. As the son of Archduke Leopold V and Claudia de' Medici, he took over his mother's governatorial duties when he came of age in 1646.
Biography of Luisa de Guzmán (excerpt)
Luisa Maria Francisca de Guzmán y Sandoval (Portuguese: Luísa Maria Francisca de Gusmão; 13 October 1613 – 27 February 1666) was a queen consort of Portugal. She was the spouse of King John IV, the first Braganza ruler, as well as the mother of two kings of Portugal (Afonso VI and Peter II) and a queen of England (Catherine of Braganza).
Biography of Frédéric Gérard (excerpt)
Frédéric Gérard, born on December 24, 1860 in Athis-Mons (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died in 1938, was the French director of Lapin Agile, a famous Montmartre cabaret, at 22 Rue des Saules, 18th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was originally called "Cabaret des Assassins".
Biography of Elizabeth Stuart (1635-1650) (excerpt)
Elizabeth Stuart (28 December 1635–8 September 1650) was the second daughter of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France. From the age of six until her early death at the age of fourteen she was a prisoner of Parliament during the English Civil War.
Biography of Willie Keeler (excerpt)
William Henry Keeler (March 3, 1872 - January 1, 1923) in Brooklyn, New York, nicknamed "Wee Willie", was a right fielder in professional baseball who played from 1892 to 1910, primarily for the Baltimore Orioles and Brooklyn Superbas in the National League, and the New York Highlanders in the American League.
Biography of Elizabeth Feodorovna, Grand Duchess of Russia (excerpt)
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine later Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia, canonized as Holy Martyr Elizabeth Feodorovna; 1 November 1864 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, Asrtodatabank, news report) – 18 July 1918) was a German princess of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, and the wife of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, fifth son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and Princess Marie of Hesse and the Rhine.
Biography of Paul Carnot (excerpt)
Paul Carnot (16 January 1869 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 1 June 1957) was a French physician born in Limoges. He served as médecin des hôpitaux in Paris, becoming a professor of therapeutic medicine in 1918 to the Paris medical faculty.
Biography of Alison Skipworth (excerpt)
Alison Skipworth (25 July 1863 – 5 July 1952) was an English stage and screen actress. She was born Alison Mary Elliott Margaret Groom in London. Skipworth made her first stage appearance at Daly's Theatre in London in 1894, in A Gaiety Girl.
Biography of Wilhelm Ostwald (excerpt)
Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald (Latvian: Vilhelms Ostvalds; 2 September 1853 (birth time source: Ebertin, birth certificate) – 4 April 1932) was a Baltic German chemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 for his work on catalysis, chemical equilibria and reaction velocities. |
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