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Biography of Emmy Hennings (excerpt)
Emmy Hennings (born Emma Maria Cordsen, 17 January 1885 – 10 August 1948) was a performer and poet. She was also the wife of celebrated Dadaist Hugo Ball. Hennings was born on 17 January 1885 in Flensburg, German Empire, describing herself later as "a seaman's child".
Biography of Grigori Sokolnikov (excerpt)
Grigori Yakovlevich Sokolnikov (born Hirsch Brilliant or Girsh Yankelevich Brilliant; 1888–1939) was a Russian old Bolshevik revolutionary, economist, and Soviet politician. Sokolnikov was arrested on 26 July 1936. He was sufficiently broken under interrogation, either through torture or more probably through threats to harm his young wife and daughter, that he not only incriminated himself, but was made to confront Bukharin, in Lazar Kaganovich's office, and accuse him of being part of a conspiracy to restore capitalism in the USSR.
Biography of Bess Houdini (excerpt)
Wilhelmina Beatrice "Bess" Houdini (née Rahner; January 23, 1876 – February 11, 1943) was an American stage assistant and wife of Harry Houdini. Bess was working at Coney Island in a song and dance act called The Floral Sisters when she was first courted by Houdini's younger brother, Theo (a.
Biography of Emilio Pujol (excerpt)
Emili Pujol Vilarrubí (10 September 1886 – 21 November 1980) was a Spanish composer, guitarist and a leading teacher of the classical guitar. Emili Pujol was born in the little village of Granadella just outside Lleida, Spain. He began his studies with Francisco Tárrega in 1902, when he was sixteen years of age.
Biography of Elsa Andersson (aviation pioneer) (excerpt)
Elsa Teresia Andersson (27 April 1897 in Strövelstorp, Sweden – 22 January 1922 (age 24)) was Sweden's first female aviator and stunt parachutist. She was the daughter of a poor farmer in Strövelstorp in the Scanian countryside. Her mother died when she was aged six.
Biography of Valeska Gert (excerpt)
Valeska Gert (11 January 1892 – c. 16 March 1978) was a German dancer, pantomime, cabaret artist and actress. She was a pioneering performance artist who is said to have laid the foundations and paved the way for the punk movement.
Biography of August Jakobson (excerpt)
August Jakobson (2 September 1904 – 23 May 1963) was an Estonian writer and politician. He was the only Estonian playwright among his contemporaries whose plays were untouched by Soviet censorship and reached other Soviet states. He has been described as the leading Stalinist in Soviet Estonian drama.
Biography of Victor Klemperer (excerpt)
Victor Klemperer (9 October 1881 – 11 February 1960) was a German Romance languages scholar who also became known as a diarist. His journals, published in Germany in 1995, detailed his life under the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, and the German Democratic Republic.
Biography of William Grant Still (excerpt)
William Grant Still (May 11, 1895 – December 3, 1978) was an American composer of nearly 200 works, including five symphonies and nine operas. Often referred to as the "Dean of Afro-American Composers", Still was the first American composer to have an opera produced by the New York City Opera.
Biography of Giuseppe Di Vittorio (excerpt)
Giuseppe Di Vittorio, also known under the pseudonym Nicoletti (August 11, 1892 – November 3, 1957), was an Italian syndicalist and communist politician. He was one of the most influential trade union leaders of the labour movement after World War I.
Biography of Louis Scutenaire (excerpt)
Louis Scutenaire (29 June 1905 – 15 August 1987) was a poet, anarchist, surrealist and civil servant. Born Jean Émile Louis Scutenaire in Ollignies, Belgium; died in Brussels. Louis Scutenaire is chiefly remembered as a central figure in the Belgian Surrealist movement, along with René Magritte, Paul Nougé, Marcel Lecomte and his own wife Irène Hamoir.
Biography of Dmitry Likhachov (excerpt)
Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachov (Russian: Дми́трий Серге́евич Лихачёв, also Dmitri Likhachev or Likhachyov; 28 November (O.S. 15 November) 1906 – 30 September 1999) was a Russian medievalist, linguist, and concentration camp survivor. During his lifetime, Likhachov was considered the world's foremost scholar of the Old East Slavic language and its literature.
Biography of Sante Geronimo Caserio (excerpt)
Sante Geronimo Caserio (9 September 1873 (birth time source: Grazia Bordoni, birth certificate) – 16 August 1894) was an Italian anarchist and the assassin of Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of the French Third Republic. Caserio was born in Motta Visconti, Lombardy.
Biography of Boris Lyatoshinsky (excerpt)
Boris Mykolayovych Lyatoshinsky or Lyatoshynsky (Ukrainian: Бори́с Миколáйович Лятоши́нський, Borys Mykolayovych Lyatoshyns′kyi; January 3, 1895 – April 15, 1968) was a Ukrainian composer, conductor, and teacher. A leading member of the new generation of twentieth-century Ukrainian composers, he was awarded a number of accolades, including the honorary title of People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR and two Stalin State Prizes.
Biography of Ivan Teodorovich (excerpt)
Ivan Adolfovich Teodorovich (Russian: Ива́н Адольфо́вич Теодо́рович; Polish: Iwan Adolfowicz Teodorowicz) (September 10 (O. S. August 29), 1875 in Smolensk – September 20, 1937) was a Russian Bolshevik activist, and the first Commissar for Food when the Council of People's Commissars was established (October - November 1917).
Biography of Fyodor Sergeyev (excerpt)
Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev (March 19, 1883 – July 24, 1921), better known as Comrade Artyom (това́рищ Артём), was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, agitator, and journalist. He was a close friend of Sergei Kirov and Joseph Stalin. Sergeyev was an ideologist of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic.
Biography of Karl Shapiro (excerpt)
Karl Jay Shapiro (November 10, 1913 – May 14, 2000) was an American poet. He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946. In his later work, he experimented with more open forms, beginning with The Bourgeois Poet (1964) and continuing with White-Haired Lover (1968).
Biography of Édouard de Max (excerpt)
Eduard Alexandru Max, known as Édouard de Max, born February 14, 1869 in Iași (Moldavia region in Romania), and died October 28, 1924 in Paris, is a French theater and film actor of Romanian origin. He protected André Gide who wrote Saul for him, as well as Jean Cocteau, then 19 years old (1908), and whose style fascinated him.
Biography of Léon Moreau (excerpt)
Léon Moreau (13 July 1870 – 11 April 1946) was a French/Breton composer, winner of the second prize for composition in the Prix de Rome of 1899. Born in Brest, he was active as a piano teacher and composer in Brest and Paris.
Biography of Yevgeni Preobrazhensky (excerpt)
Yevgeni Alekseyevich Preobrazhensky (1886–1937) was a Russian revolutionary and economist. A member of the governing Central Committee of the Bolshevik faction and its successor, the All-Union Communist Party, Preobrazhensky is remembered as a leading voice for the rapid industrialisation of peasant Russia through a concentration on state-owned heavy industry.
Biography of Ernest Daltroff (excerpt)
Ernest Daltroff, (November 17, 1867, Sainte-Cécile, Saône-et-Loire (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - February 3, 1941, New York) , was a French perfumer and the founder of Parfums Caron in 1904. In his thirties, he memorised the captivating scents of flowers, fruits and spices and developed an exceptional olfactory memory, without any formal training, he chose to embark on the profession of perfumer.
Biography of Sergei Vasilenko (excerpt)
Sergei Nikiforovich Vasilenko (30 March 1872 (O.S. 18 March) – 11 March 1956) was a Russian and Soviet composer and music teacher whose compositions showed a strong tendency towards mysticism. Vasilenko was born in Moscow and originally studied Law at Moscow University, but then changed direction and studied at the Moscow Conservatory from 1896 to 1901 as a pupil of Sergei Taneyev and Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov.
Biography of Mireille Havet (excerpt)
Mireille Havet ( 4 October 1898, Médan – 21 March 1932, Crans-Montana, Switzerland) was a French poet, diarist, novelist, and lyricist. She wrote lyrics for songs composed by John Alden Carpenter and intended for Éva Gauthier. She wrote a novel, Carnaval, published in 1923.
Biography of Yoshie Shiratori (excerpt)
Yoshie Shiratori (Shiratori Yoshie, July 31, 1907 – February 24, 1979) was a Japanese national born in Aomori Prefecture. Shiratori is famous for having escaped from several different prisons four times, making him an anti-hero in Japanese culture. There is a memorial to Shiratori at the Abashiri Prison Museum.
Biography of Maude Bonney (excerpt)
Maude Rose "Lores" Bonney, AM, MBE (20 November 1897 – 24 February 1994) was a South African-born British aviator. She was the first woman to fly solo from Australia to the UK. In 1928 she met Bert Hinkler, Harry Barrington Bonney's first cousin once removed and a Queensland aviator who had set a solo England–Australia record in his Avro Avian biplane (now in the Queensland Museum, Brisbane).
Biography of María Conesa (excerpt)
María Conesa, also known as La Gatita Blanca (The White Kitten) (December 12, 1892 – September 9, 1978), was a Spanish-born Mexican stage, television, film actress and vedette. She was one of the principal stars of the Revue and Vaudeville in México and Latin America in the early 20th century.
Biography of Aleksandr Gerasimov (painter) (excerpt)
Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Gerasimov (12 August 1881 (gregorian calendar) – 23 July 1963) was a leading proponent of Socialist Realism in the visual arts, and painted Joseph Stalin and other Soviet leaders. Gerasimov was born on 12 August 1881 in Kozlov (now Michurinsk) in Tambov Governorate.
Biography of Max Volmer (excerpt)
Max Volmer (3 May 1885 – 3 June 1965) was a German physical chemist, who made important contributions in electrochemistry, in particular on electrode kinetics. He co-developed the Butler–Volmer equation. Volmer held the chair and directorship of the Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry Institute of the Technische Hochschule Berlin, in Berlin-Charlottenburg.
Biography of Léon Bérard (physician) (excerpt)
Léon Eugène Bérard (17 February 1870, in Morez – 2 September 1956, in Lyon) was a French surgeon and oncologist. He was the younger brother of Hellenist scholar Victor Bérard (1864–1931). He studied medicine in Lyon. Obtaining his doctorate in 1896. In 1898 he earned his agrégation in surgery, later being assigned as a surgeon to Lyon hospitals (1901).
Biography of Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (excerpt)
Erik Maria Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (born July 31, 1909 in Tobelbad, Styria, Austria-Hungary (birth time source: a YouTube video. There is no original source. 3:52 GMT corresponds to 3:52 AM legal time) ; died May 26, 1999, in Lans, Tyrol), was an Austrian political scientist and journalist.
Biography of Sabiha Gökçen (excerpt)
Sabiha Gökçen (22 March 1913 – 22 March 2001) was a Turkish aviator. During her flight career, she flew around 8,000 hours and participated in 32 different military operations. She was the world's first female fighter pilot, aged 23. Others such as Marie Marvingt and Evgeniya Shakhovskaya preceded her as military pilots in other roles, but not as fighter pilots and without military academy enrollment.
Biography of Yakov Frenkel (excerpt)
Yakov Il'ich Frenkel (Russian: Яков Ильич Френкель) (10 February 1894 – 23 January 1952) was a Soviet physicist renowned for his works in the field of condensed matter physics. He is also known as Jacov Frenkel, and he frequently put down his name as J.
Biography of Marius Casadesus (excerpt)
Marius Casadesus (October 24, 1892 – October 13, 1981) was a French violinist and composer. He was the brother of Henri Casadesus, uncle of the famed pianist Robert Casadesus, and grand-uncle to Jean Casadesus. Marius Casadesus achieved perhaps his greatest fame (or notoriety) through his association with the Adélaïde Concerto attributed to Mozart.
Biography of Elena Gogoleva (excerpt)
Elena Gogoleva or Yelena Gogoleva (7 April 1900 (O.S. 25 March 1900) Moscow– 15 November 1993) was a Soviet film and stage actress, actress of the Maly Theatre in Moscow from 1918 to 1993. She was a People's Artist of the USSR (1949), Hero of Socialist Labour (1974), and the winner of three Stalin Prizes (1947, 1948, 1949).
Biography of Archbishop Luka (excerpt)
Archbishop Luka (Luke, Russian: Архиепи́скоп Лука́, born Valentin Felixovich Voyno-Yasenetsky, Russian: Валенти́н Фе́ликсович Во́йно-Ясене́цкий; May 9, 1877 (gregorian calendar) in Kerch – June 11, 1961, Simferopol) was an outstanding surgeon, the founder of purulent surgery, a spiritual writer, a bishop of Russian Orthodox Church, and an archbishop of Simferopol and of the Crimea since May 1946.
Biography of Eduard Toldrà (excerpt)
Eduard Toldrà Soler (Vilanova i la Geltrú 7 April 1895 – Barcelona, 31 May 1962) was a Spanish Catalan conductor and composer. Toldrà played an important role in the Culture of Barcelona. In 1944 he founded the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra at the Palau de la Música Catalana, where his deputy in 1957 was his friend Ricardo Lamote de Grignon.
Biography of Georgy Pyatakov (excerpt)
Georgy (Yury) Leonidovich Pyatakov (Russian: Георгий Леонидович Пятаков; August 6 (August 18 Gregorian Calendar), 1890 – January 30, 1937) was a Bolshevik revolutionary leader and a Politician during the Russian Revolution. Pyatakov was placed in charge of the management of Donbass coal mining industry in 1921, becoming a deputy head of the Gosplan (State Planning Committee) of the RSFSR in 1922, and deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council of the National Economy of the USSR.
Biography of Judith Auer (excerpt)
Judith Auer, née Vallentin (19 September 1905 – 27 October 1944) was a resistance fighter against the Nazi régime in Germany. After Hitler seized power in Germany in 1933 and the KPD was banned by the new régime, Auer eventually found herself working for AEG at the Kabelwerk Oberspree ("cable works"), first as a shorthand typist, and later as a buying agent.
Biography of Suzanne Duchamp (excerpt)
Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti (20 October 1889 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth certificate n° 31) – 11 September 1963) was a French Dadaist painter and collagist. Due to the fact that she was a woman in the male prominent Dada movement, she was rarely considered an artist in her own right.
Biography of Boris Iofane (excerpt)
Boris Mihailovich Iofan (April 28th 1891–March 11th 1976) was a Jewish Soviet architect, known for his Stalinist architecture buildings like 1931 House on the Embankment and the 1931-1933 winning draft of the Palace of Soviets. In 1931, Iofan completed the elite block-wide House on the Embankment (official name Дом Правительства, Government Building).
Biography of Lilli Henoch (excerpt)
Lilli Henoch (26 October 1899 – September 1942) was a German track and field athlete who set four world records and won 10 German national championships, in four different disciplines. Henoch set world records in the discus (twice), the shot put, and the 4 × 100 meters relay events.
Biography of Gidsken Jakobsen (excerpt)
Gidsken Nilsine Jakobsen (1 August 1908 – 13 June 1990) was a Norwegian aviation pioneer. At the age of 20, Jakobsen became only the second Norwegian woman to be awarded a pilot's license (after Dagny Berger in 1927), having achieved the highest position of the ten students attending the course.
Biography of Alexey Eisner (excerpt)
Alexey Eisner (18 October 1905 (5 October O.S.), in St. Petersburg – 30 November 1984, in Moscow), was a Russian poet, translator and writer. His poem "Looming Autumn, Yellow Bushes .." was published in 1932 and became a textbook and was very popular in literary émigré circles.
Biography of Thea Rasche (excerpt)
Theodora Rasche (12 August 1899 – 25 February 1971) was Germany's first female aerobatics pilot. In 1927, her father bought her a BFW Flamingo, registration number D-1120, and in July, she set off for the United States, the first of five trips.
Biography of Else Lasker-Schüler (excerpt)
Else Lasker-Schüler (née Elisabeth Schüler) (11 February 1869 – 22 January 1945) was a German-Jewish poet and playwright famous for her bohemian lifestyle in Berlin and her poetry. She was one of the few women affiliated with the Expressionist movement. Lasker-Schüler fled Nazi Germany and lived out the rest of her life in Jerusalem.
Biography of Gret Palucca (excerpt)
Gret Palucca, born Margarethe Paluka (8 January 1902 – 22 March 1993), was a German dancer and dance teacher, notable for her dance school, the Palucca School of Dance, founded in Dresden in 1925. Palucca was born in Munich. Shortly after birth, her family moved to San Francisco, returning with her mother to Dresden in 1909.
Biography of Manolo Hugué (excerpt)
Manuel Martinez Hugué, better known simply as Manolo (29 April 1872 – 17 November 1945), was a Catalan Spanish sculptor in the noucentisme movement. Although a friend of Pablo Picasso, his style was much closer to that of Aristide Maillol. In 1910, together with Frank Burty Haviland and Déodat de Séverac he went to Céret, soon followed for short or long periods by most of the Cubist artists, including Picasso, Georges Braque, Max Jacob and Juan Gris.
Biography of Ricardo Lamote de Grignon (excerpt)
Ricard Lamote de Grignon i Ribas (25 September 1899 – 5 February 1962), was a Catalan Spanish composer and orchestral conductor. Ricard Lamote de Grignon was born and died in Barcelona. He was the only son of the composer Joan Lamote de Grignon and Florentina Ribas.
Biography of Jean Roger-Ducasse (excerpt)
Jean Jules Aimable Roger-Ducasse (Bordeaux, 18 April 1873 – Le Taillan-Médoc (Gironde), 19 July 1954) was a French composer. Jean Roger-Ducasse studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Emile Pessard and André Gedalge, and was the star pupil and close friend of Gabriel Fauré.
Biography of Mildred Harnack (excerpt)
Mildred Elizabeth Fish-Harnack (née Fish; 16 September 1902 – 16 February 1943) was an American-German literary historian, translator, and German Resistance fighter in Nazi Germany. Together with her husband Arvid, the writer Adam Kuckhoff and his wife Greta, Fish-Harnack brought together a discussion circle which debated political perspectives on the time after the National Socialists' expected downfall or overthrow. |
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