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Biography of Boris Andreyev (actor) (excerpt)
Boris Fyodorovich Andreyev (9 February (O.S. 27 January) 1915 – 25 April 1982) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He appeared in 51 films between 1939 and 1982. People's Artist of the USSR (1962). His next notable role was as Khariton Balun in A Great Life (1st part in 1939, 2nd part in 1958). ![]()
Biography of Katherine Dunham (excerpt)
Katherine Mary Dunham (June 22, 1909 – May 21, 2006) was an American dancer, choreographer, creator of the Dunham Technique, author, educator, anthropologist, and social activist.Dunham had one of the most successful dance careers in African-American and European theater of the 20th century, and directed her own dance company for many years. ![]()
Biography of Yelena Kuzmina (actress) (excerpt)
Yelena Aleksandrovna Kuzmina 17 February 1909 (Gregorian calendar) – 15 October 1979) was a Soviet actress.She appeared in 20 films between 1929 and 1978.She was the recipient of three Stalin Prizes (1946, 1948, 1951) and was named a People's Artist of Russia in 1950.
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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).
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Biography of Harry Nelson Pillsbury (excerpt)
Harry Nelson Pillsbury (December 5, 1872 – June 17, 1906) was a leading American chess player. At the age of 22, he won one of the strongest tournaments of the time (the Hastings 1895 chess tournament) but his illness and early death prevented him from challenging for the World Chess Championship.
Biography of Huber Lotti (excerpt)
Lotti Huber (16 October 1912 - 31 May 1998) was a German actress. She appeared in more than twenty films from 1978 to 1999. Selected filmography 1984 Horror vacui 1988 Anita: Dances of Vice 1990 Affengeil 1995 Neurosia: 50 Years of Perversity
Biography of Yvor Winters (excerpt)
Arthur Yvor Winters (17 October 1900 in Chicago, Illinois – 25 January 1968) was an American poet and literary critic.In 1926, Winters married the poet and novelist Janet Lewis, also from Chicago and a fellow tuberculosis sufferer.After leaving Colorado he taught at the University of Idaho and then began the doctoral program at Stanford University.
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Biography of Artur Kapp (excerpt)
Artur Kapp (28 February 1878 (Gregorian calendar) – 14 January 1952) was an Estonian composer. Born in Suure-Jaani, Estonia, then part of the Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire, he was the son of Joosep Kapp, who was also a classically trained musician.
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Biography of Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson (excerpt)
Stanley Bréhaut Egerton Ryerson (March 12, 1911 – 25 Apr 1998) was a Canadian historian, educator, political activist.His parents were Edward Stanley Ryerson and Tessie De Vigne, a well-off middle-class family in Toronto. Ryerson could trace his paternal lineage back to Egerton Ryerson, a leading Methodist in nineteenth century Toronto.
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Biography of Valery Larbaud (excerpt)
Valery Larbaud (29 August 1881 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 2 February 1957) was a French writer and poet. Poèmes par un riche amateur, published in 1908, received Octave Mirbeau's vote for prix Goncourt. Three years later, his novel Fermina Márquez, inspired by his days as a boarder at Sainte-Barbe-des-Champs at Fontenay-aux-Roses, had some prix Goncourt votes in 1911 but did not win; nonetheless, it is still considered to be a minor classic of French literature and one of Larbaud's best known works.
Biography of Mark Reizen (excerpt)
Mark Osipovich Reizen, also Reisen or Reyzen (3 July (O.S. 21 June) 1895 – November 25, 1992), PAU, was a leading Soviet opera singer with a beautiful and expansive bass voice. Reizen was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1941, 1949 and 1951.
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Biography of Abel Decaux (excerpt)
Abel Decaux (11 February 1869 – 19 March 1943) was a French organist and composer.He studied organ with Charles-Marie Widor and Alexandre Guilmant, and composition with Jules Massenet.He served as organist at the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur, in Paris, for 25 years until 1923, when he went to the US to teach organ at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. ![]()
Biography of Hannah Höch (excerpt)
Hannah Höch (1 November 1889 – 31 May 1978) was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage. Photomontage, or fotomontage, is a type of collage in which the pasted items are actual photographs, or photographic reproductions pulled from the press and other widely produced media.
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Biography of Sylvia Beach (excerpt)
Sylvia Beach (March 14, 1887 – October 5, 1962), born Nancy Woodbridge Beach, was an American-born bookseller and publisher who lived most of her life in Paris, where she was one of the leading expatriate figures between World War I and II.
Biography of Margaret Masterman (excerpt)
Margaret Masterman (4 May 1910 – 1 April 1986) was a British linguist and philosopher, most known for her pioneering work in the field of computational linguistics and especially machine translation.She founded the Cambridge Language Research Unit. Margaret Masterman was born in London on 4 May 1910 to Charles F. ![]()
Biography of Norman Hartnell (excerpt)
Sir Norman Bishop Hartnell, KCVO (12 June 1901 – 8 June 1979) was a leading British fashion designer, best known for his work for the ladies of the Royal Family. Hartnell gained the Royal Warrant as Dressmaker to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in 1940; and Royal Warrant as Dressmaker to Queen Elizabeth II in 1957.
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Biography of Wilhelm Herzog (excerpt)
Wilhelm Herzog (12 January 1884 in Berlin - 4 April 1960) was a German historian of literature and culture, dramatist, encyclopedist, and pacifist. Life He studied economics, Germanistics and history of art in Berlin.After publishing works about Lichtenstein (1905) and Heinrich von Kleist (1907), he became the editor of the literary magazine Pan.
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Biography of Alexander Vertinsky (excerpt)
Alexander Nikolayevich Vertinsky (Russian: Александр Николаевич Вертинский, 21 March (O.S.9 March) 1889 — 21 May 1957) was Russian and Soviet artist, poet, singer, composer, cabaret artist and actor who exerted seminal influence on the Russian tradition of artistic singing. By November 1920, Vertinsky decided to leave Russia with the bulk of his clientele.
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Biography of Rhené-Baton (excerpt)
René-Emmanuel Baton, known as Rhené-Baton (5 September 1879 – 23 September 1940), was a French conductor and composer.Though born in Courseulles-sur-Mer, Normandy, his family originated in Vitré in neighbouring Brittany.He returned to the region at the age of 19, and many of his compositions express his love of the area.
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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 Henry Barraud (excerpt)
Henry Barraud (sometimes Henri) (23 April 1900 – 28 December 1997) was a French composer. He was born in Bordeaux.He was a student of Louis Aubert at the Conservatoire de Paris, but in 1927 failed to graduate, apparently because of his refusal to follow orthodox methods.
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Biography of Bobbi Trout (excerpt)
Evelyn "Bobbi" Trout (January 7, 1906 – January 24, 2003) was an early American aviator, notable for her pioneering flying activities.Trout began her aviation career at the age of 16; however, her first solo flight and solo certificate was only given on April 30, 1928.
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Biography of Janis Rudzutaks (excerpt)
Jānis Rudzutaks (Russian: Ян Эрнестович Рудзутак; 15 August (3 August old style) 1887 – 29 July 1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician. Rudzutaks was suddenly expelled from the Politburo and Central Committee on 24 May 1937, on the same day as the Red Army Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky. ![]()
Biography of Maurice de Rothschild (excerpt)
Maurice Edmond Karl de Rothschild (19 May 1881 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 4 September 1957) was a French art collector, vineyard owner, financier and politician. He was born into the Rothschild banking family of France. Rothschild inherited a fortune from the childless Adolphe Carl von Rothschild (1823–1900) of the Naples branch of the family and moved to Geneva, Switzerland where he perpetuated the new Swiss branch of the family.
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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.
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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 Armand Cuvillier (excerpt)
Armand Cuvillier (October 3, 1887 (source for his time of birth: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - April 23, 1973) is a professor of philosophy and French journalist. Ranked first in the October special session of the philosophy aggregation of 19191, he became a teacher in many high schools, including Lycée Louis-le-Grand.
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Biography of Gertrude Tompkins Silver (excerpt)
Gertrude "Tommy" Tompkins Silver (October 16, 1911 – disappeared October 26, 1944) was the only Women Airforce Service Pilots member to go missing during World War II. Gertrude Vreeland Tompkins was born October 16, 1911, in Jersey City, New Jersey, the daughter of Vreeland Tompkins, founder of Smooth-On, Inc., and Laura Tompkins (née Towar).
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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.
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Biography of Henry Février (excerpt)
Henry Février (2 October 1875 – 6 July 1957) was a French composer. Henry Février was born in Paris, France on 2 October 1875.He married and had a son, the pianist Jacques Février.He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, where his teachers included Jules Massenet and Gabriel Fauré. ![]()
Biography of Dorothy L. Sayers (excerpt)
Dorothy Leigh Sayers (13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was an English crime writer and poet.She was also a student of classical and modern languages. She is best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between the First and Second World Wars that feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. ![]()
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 Konstantin Simonov (excerpt)
Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov, born Kirill (28 November (O.S.15 November) 1915 – 28 August 1979), was a Soviet author, journalist, and a war poet.He was a playwright and a wartime correspondent, most famous for his poem Wait for Me. During the war years, he wrote the plays Russian People, Wait for Me, So It Will Be, the short novel Days and Nights, and two books of poems, With You and Without You and War.
Biography of Nikolai Semashko (excerpt)
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Semashko (September 20 1874 – May 18, 1949), was a Russian statesman who became People's Commissar of Public Health in 1918, and served in that role until 1930. He was one of the organizers of the health system in the Soviet Union, an academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1944) and of the RSFSR (1945).
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).
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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 Krystyna Skarbek (excerpt)
Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek, OBE, GM (1 May 1908 – 15 June 1952), also known as Christine Granville, was a Polish agent of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War.She became celebrated for her daring exploits in intelligence and irregular-warfare missions in Nazi-occupied Poland and France.
Biography of Leslie Kish (excerpt)
Leslie Kish (born László Kiss, July 27, 1910 – October 7, 2000) was a Hungarian-American statistician and survey methodologist. In 1997, the American Statistical Association gave Kish their Wilks Memorial Award.The award citation read: "For being a truly outstanding statistician, who has had a profound influence on sample survey practice throughout the world.
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Biography of Marie Becker (excerpt)
Marie Alexandrine Becker (née Petitjean, born July 14, 1877 in Landen, Belgium - died June 11, 1942 in Brussels), nicknamed "The Black Widow", was a Belgian serial killer who was sentenced to death for poisoning eleven people between 1933 and 1936, and attempting to poison five others.
Biography of Ernest Dumont (excerpt)
Ernest François Dumont, born October 13, 1877 in the 17th arrondissement of Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), the city where he died on December 11, 1941 in his home in the 15th arrondissement, is a French lyricist. Ernest Dumont co-authored numerous works (songs and monologues) with Louis Bénech, notably Nuits de Chine, L'Hirondelle du faubourg, L'Étoile du marin, Riquita, Dans les jardins de l'Alhambra, Du gris, La Femme aux bijoux ..
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Biography of Marie Hackin (excerpt)
Marie Parmentier, married name Marie Hackin, (7 September 1905 - 24 February 1941) was an archaeologist and Resistance member who worked with her husband Joseph Hackin who also was an archaeologist, philologist, and Resistance member. Marie Hackin's father was from Luxembourg. She died in 1941 when she was in a sea convoy trying to go from Liverpool into the Atlantic ocean en route to Africa, when the ship was sunk by a German submarine.
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Biography of Tikhon Khrennikov (excerpt)
Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov (10 June (O.S. 28 May) 1913 – 14 August 2007) was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist, and leader of the Union of Soviet Composers, who was also known for his political activities. He wrote three symphonies, four piano concertos, two violin concertos, two cello concertos, operas, operettas, ballets, chamber music, incidental music and film music.
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Biography of Karol Swierczewski (excerpt)
Karol Wacław Świerczewski (10 February 1897 – 28 March 1947) was Pole serving as the Red Army general.He was a Bolshevik party member and Soviet officer in the wars fought abroad by the Soviet Union including the one against Polish as well as Ukrainian Republics and in Republican Spain.
Biography of Angèle Laval (excerpt)
The Raven affair is a French criminal case which has as its starting point a news item that occurred in Tulle.From 1917 to 1922, the inhabitants of the city were victims of a wave of anonymous letters signed "Tiger's Eye" and denouncing the actions of each other. ![]()
Biography of Faustina Kowalska (excerpt)
Maria Faustyna Kowalska, OLM (born Helena Kowalska; 25 August 1905 – 5 October 1938), also known as Maria Faustyna Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament, was a Polish Catholic religious sister and mystic. Faustyna, popularly spelled "Faustina", had apparitions of Jesus Christ which inspired the Roman Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy and earned her the title of "Secretary of Divine Mercy". ![]()
Biography of Mariana Dragescu (excerpt)
Marie Ana Aurelia (Mariana) Drăgescu (7 September 1912 – 24 March 2013) was a Romanian military aviator during World War II. She was the last surviving member of the White Squadron, a team of female aviators who flew medical aircraft during World War II. ![]()
Biography of Géza Maróczy (excerpt)
Géza Maróczy (3 March 1870 – 29 May 1951) was a Hungarian chess master, one of the leading players in the world in his time.He was also a practicing engineer. Géza Maróczy was born in Szeged, Hungary on 3 March 1870.He won the "minor" tournament at Hastings 1895, and over the next ten years he won several first prizes in international events. ![]()
Biography of Edwin Arlington Robinson (excerpt)
Edwin Arlington Robinson (December 22, 1869 – April 6, 1935) was an American poet.Robinson won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on three occasions and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times. At the age of 21, Edwin entered Harvard University as a special student. ![]()
Biography of Lyonel Feininger (excerpt)
Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17, 1871 – January 13, 1956) was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism.He also worked as a caricaturist and comic strip artist.He was born and grew up in New York City, traveling to Germany at 16 to study and perfect his art.
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. |
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