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Biography of Marguerite Perey (excerpt)
Marguerite Catherine Perey (19 October 1909 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 112) – 13 May 1975) was a French physicist and a student of Marie Curie. In 1939, Perey discovered the element francium by purifying samples of lanthanum that contained actinium.
Biography of Robert Charron (excerpt)
Robert Charron is a French boxer born June 23, 1918 in Buxerolles (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 6)) and died March 11, 1995 in Poitiers. Professional in 1942, he became France's middleweight champion on December 1, 1944 at the Winter Circus after winning points against Edouard Tenet.
Biography of Bessie Coleman (excerpt)
Bessie Coleman (January 26, 1892 – April 30, 1926) was an early American civil aviator. She was the first African-American woman, and also the first Native-American, to hold a pilot license. She earned her pilot license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale on June 15, 1921, and was the first black person to earn an international pilot's license.
Biography of Eugène Huat (excerpt)
Eugène Huat (born 8 February 1907 in Reims (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 305)) was a French boxer who was champion of France and Europe at flyweight, and fought four times for world titles at bantamweight. He finished with a record of 80 wins, 44 defeats, and 9 draws.
Biography of Albin Michel (editor) (excerpt)
Albin Michel, born on July 29, 1873 in Bourmont (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on March 2, 1943 in Bourg-la-Reine, is a French editor, the founder, in 1900, of Éditions Albin Michel, a French publisher.
Biography of Louis Arretche (excerpt)
Louis Gerald Arretche, born on August 13, 105 in Saint-Justin (Landes)(birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate. Wikipedia gives August 12)), died on December 20, 1991 in Paris, was a French architect and urban planner.
Biography of Pierre Meunier (excerpt)
Pierre Meunier, born on August 15, 1908 in Dijon (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on April 16, 1996 in Arnay-le-Duc, was a French politician, a member of the French Resistance and a friend of Jean Moulin.
Biography of Eiji Toyoda (excerpt)
Eiji Toyoda (豊田 英二, Toyoda Eiji, 12 September 1913 – 17 September 2013) was a Japanese industrialist. He was largely responsible for bringing Toyota Motor Corporation to profitability and worldwide prominence during his tenure as president and later, as chairman. As a managing director of Toyota Motor, Toyoda failed in his first attempt to crack the U.
Biography of Virginia Hall (excerpt)
Virginia Hall Goillot DSC, Croix de Guerre, MBE (April 6, 1906 – July 8, 1982), code named Marie and Diane, was an American who worked with the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in France during World War II.
Biography of Peggy Hopkins Joyce (excerpt)
Peggy Hopkins Joyce (born Marguerite Upton; May 26, 1893 – June 12, 1957) was an American actress, artist's model and dancer. In addition to her performing career, Joyce was known for her flamboyant life, with numerous engagements, six marriages to wealthy men, subsequent divorces, a series of scandalous affairs, a collection of diamonds and furs, and a generally lavish lifestyle.
Biography of Henri Ey (excerpt)
Henri Ey (10 August 1900, Banyuls-dels-Aspres – 8 November 1977, Banyuls-dels-Aspres) was a French neurologist, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and philosopher. Ey developed an "organodynamic psychology" and a theory of the structure of states of consciousness, in which he developed ideas of Pierre Janet and John Hughlings Jackson.
Biography of Georges Wybo (excerpt)
Eugène Adolphe Henri Georges Wybo (11 October 1880 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 1943) was a French architect who is known for the casino and the Hôtel Royal in Deauville, and for the department stores that he built for the Printemps chain.
Biography of Léon Jaussely (excerpt)
Léon Jaussely (9 January 1875 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 28 December 1932) was a French architect and urban planner. Born in Toulouse, Jaussely studied at the local fine arts school, then to the École des Beaux-Arts in the ateliers of Honoré Daumet and Pierre Esquié.
Biography of Halil Inalcik (excerpt)
Halil İnalcık (7 September 1916 – 25 July 2016) was a Turkish historian of the Ottoman Empire. His highly influential research centered on social and economic approaches to the empire. His academic career started at Ankara University, where he completed his PhD and worked between 1940 and 1972.
Biography of Pyotr Pavlenko (excerpt)
Pyotr Andreyevich Pavlenko (Russian: Пётр Андре́евич Павле́нко), (born July 11, 1899, in St. Petersburg; died June 16, 1951, in Moscow), was a Soviet writer, screenwriter and war correspondent. He became a member of the CPSU in 1920. He was part of the Soviet trade delegation in Turkey from 1924 to 1927.
Biography of R. K. Narayan (excerpt)
Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami (10 October 1906 – 13 May 2001), was an Indian writer known for his work set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. He was a leading author of early Indian literature in English along with Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao.
Biography of Georges Boulogne (excerpt)
Georges Boulogne (1 July 1917 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 23 August 1999) was a French football (soccer) player and manager, better known for his stint as France national football team manager. He was born in Haillicourt. He played amateur football for AC Amboise and CO Saint-Dizier, where he started his coaching career.
Biography of Max Aub (excerpt)
Max Aub Mohrenwitz (June 2, 1903, Paris – July 22, 1972 Mexico City) was a Mexican-Spanish experimentalist novelist, playwright and literary critic. In 1965 he founded the literary periodical Los Sesenta (the Sixties), with editors that included the poets Jorge Guillén and Rafael Alberti.
Biography of Edmond Jouhaud (excerpt)
Edmond Jouhaud (2 April 1905 – 4 September 1995) was one of four French generals who briefly staged a putsch in Algeria in April 1961. As Army General he had been the Inspector General of the Air Force in French North Africa.
Biography of Karl Liebknecht (excerpt)
Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht (13 August 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a German socialist, originally in the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and later a co-founder with Rosa Luxemburg of the Spartacist League and the Communist Party of Germany which split way from the SPD.
Biography of Ramaswamy Venkataraman (excerpt)
Ramaswamy Venkataraman (4 December 1910 – 27 January 2009) was an Indian lawyer, Indian independence activist and politician who served as a Union Minister and as the eighth President of India. Venkataraman was born in Rajamadam village in Tanjore district, Madras Presidency.
Biography of Tetyana Yablonska (excerpt)
Tetyana Yablonska (Ukrainian: Яблонська Тетяна Нилівна) (24 February 1917 – 17 June 2005) was a Ukrainian painter. Her early vital pictures are devoted to work and a life of Ukrainian people ("Bread", 1949). She has passed to generalizing images of the nature, differing a subtlety of plastic and color rhythms ("Anonymous heights", 1969; "Flax", 1977).
Biography of Susanne Langer (excerpt)
Susanne Katherina Langer (/ˈlæŋər/; née Knauth; December 20, 1895 – July 17, 1985) was an American philosopher, writer, and educator and was well known for her theories on the influences of art on the mind. She was one of the first women in American history to achieve an academic career in philosophy and the first woman to be popularly and professionally recognized as an American philosopher.
Biography of Faina Ranevskaya (excerpt)
Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya (Russian: Фаина Георгиевна Раневская, born Faina Girschevna Feldman, 27 August (O.S. 15 August) 1896 - 19 July 1984), is recognized as one of the greatest Soviet actresses in both tragedy and comedy. She was also famous for her aphorisms.
Biography of Serge Raynaud de la Ferrière (excerpt)
Serge Raynaud de la Ferrière (18 January 1916 – 27 December 1962) was a French Initiatic philosopher. He was born in Paris, France, the son of Georges Constantine Louis Raynaud, who was an engineer, and Virginie Marie Billet. His parents moved to Brussels, Belgium when he was two years old, and his mother died there when he was only five years of age.
Biography of Hilda Nilsson (excerpt)
Hilda Nilsson (24 May 1876 – 10 August 1917) was a Swedish serial killer from Helsingborg who became known as "the angel maker on Bruks Street". She is one of Sweden's most notorious female serial killers. In 1917, she was imprisoned for murdering eight children.
Biography of Herwarth Walden (excerpt)
Herwarth Walden (actual name Georg Lewin; 16 September 1879, in Berlin – 31 October 1941, in Saratov, Russia) was a German Expressionist artist and art expert in many disciplines. He is broadly acknowledged as one of the most important discoverers and promoters of German avant-garde art in the early twentieth century (Expressionism, Futurism, Dadaism, Magic Realism).
Biography of Nora Barnacle (excerpt)
Nora Barnacle (21 March 1884 – 10 April 1951) was the muse and wife of Irish author James Joyce. Barnacle and Joyce had their first romantic assignation in 1904 on a date celebrated worldwide as the "Bloomsday" of his modernist novel Ulysses, a book that she did not, however, enjoy.
Biography of Louise Saumoneau (excerpt)
Louise Saumoneau (17 December 1875 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 759) – 23 February 1950) was a French feminist who later renounced feminism as being irrelevant to the class struggle. She became a union leader and a prominent socialist.
Biography of Conrad Aiken (excerpt)
Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973) was an American writer, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, a play, and an autobiography. Named poetry consultant of the Library of Congress from 1950–1952, Conrad Aiken earned numerous prestigious national writing awards, including a National Book Award, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the National Institute of Arts and Letters Gold Medal and the National Medal for Literature.
Biography of Jean Dubuisson (excerpt)
Jean Dubuisson (September 18, 1914 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – October 22, 2011) was a French architect who is regarded as one of the leading practitioners of the French post-World War II years. Beyond a classical culture gained at the École des Beaux Arts and on his travels in Italy and Greece, Dubuisson was strongly influenced by Mies van der Rohe, Arne Jacobsen, and Walter Gropius.
Biography of Marie-Louise von Franz (excerpt)
Marie-Louise von Franz (4 January 1915 – 17 February 1998) was a Swiss Jungian psychologist and scholar, known for her psychological interpretations of fairy tales and of alchemical manuscripts. Career Von Franz worked with Carl Jung, whom she met in 1933 and with whom she collaborated until his death in 1961.
Biography of Simone Levaillant (excerpt)
Simone Levaillant, born Adèle Simonne Levaillant on November 19, 1904 in Saint-Étienne (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate), died in deportation on March 30, 1943 in Lublin Maïdaneck (Poland), was a feminist and resistant militant. She had been the first woman lawyer to join the Bar of Saint-Etienne.
Biography of Bernard Privat (excerpt)
Bernard Privat (25 October 1914 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 11 October 1985) was a French writer and editor. Biography Bernard Privat received the Prix Femina for Au pied du mur in 1959. He was also in charge of the éditions Grasset for over twenty-five years.
Biography of Reinhold Glière (excerpt)
Reinhold Moritzevich Glière, born Reinhold Ernest Glier, which was later converted for standardization purposes; 11 January 1875 (O.S. 30 December 1874) – 23 June 1956), was a Soviet Ukrainian and Russian composer, of German and Polish descent. As Taneyev's pupil and an 'associated' member of the circle around the Petersburg publisher Mitrofan Belyayev, it appeared Glière was destined to be a chamber musician.
Biography of Mikhail Astangov (excerpt)
Mikhail Fyodorovich Astangov (Russian: Михаи́л Фёдорович Аста́нгов), pseudonym of M.F. Ruzhnikov (Ружников) (3 November (O.S. 21 October) 1900 in Warsaw – 20 April 1965 in Moscow) was a Soviet actor, and an acclaimed People's Artist of the USSR (1955). Selected filmography The Oppenheim Family (1939)
Biography of Barthélemy Guérini (excerpt)
Barthélemy Guérini , best known as Mémé Guérini, born on April 25, 1908 in Calenzana (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on March 1, 1982 in La Valette, Montpellier, was a French dominant figure in the post-war milieu of Marseille, with his brother Antoine Guérini.
Biography of Maurice Laban (excerpt)
Maurice Laban (born 30 October 1914 at Biskra, died 5 June 1956 at Boudouane), a pied-noir, was a founding member of the Algerian Communist Party (PCA). In 1936, he joined the International Brigades to fight in the Spanish Civil War. In the mid-1950s, he was a member of the Combattants de la Libération, the guerrilla group established by the PCA after the outbreak of the Algerian War.
Biography of Vera Menchik (excerpt)
Vera Frantsevna Menchik (1 March (Gregorian calendar) (16 February Julian calendar) 1906 – 26 June 1944) was a British-Czechoslovak-Russian chess player who became the world's first women's chess champion. She also competed in chess tournaments with some of the world's leading male chess masters, with occasional successes including two wins over future world champion Max Euwe.
Biography of John Cheever (excerpt)
John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs." His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester suburbs, old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born, and Italy, especially Rome.
Biography of Marcelle de Jouvenel (excerpt)
Marcelle Georgette Fernande de Jouvenel des Ursins, born Prat, is a French writer and psi subject, born on April 12, 1896 in Neuilly-sur-Seine (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died on May 20, 1971 in the same town. She was the wife of Bertrand de Jouvenel, and the mother of Roland de Jouvenel (died May 2, 1946 at the age of 14, typhoid).
Biography of André Lavagne (excerpt)
André Lavagne (12 July 1913 in Paris – 21 March 2014 in Paris) was a French composer. He mostly worked on short movies, such as: L'amour maternel chez les animaux (1944) and Un amour de parapluie (1951). He was born in Paris.
Biography of Royal Rife (excerpt)
Royal Raymond Rife (May 16, 1888 – August 5, 1971) was an American inventor and early exponent of high-magnification time-lapse cine-micrography. He is best known for a claimed 'beam ray' invention during the 1930s, which he thought could treat some diseases by "devitalizeing disease organisms" through vibration.
Biography of Jacques Brunius (excerpt)
Jacques B. Brunius, French actor, director and writer, was born Jacques Henri Cottance in Paris 17e on September 16, 1906 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), and died in Exeter, Devon (UK), on April 24, 1967. He was cremated in Sidmouth, with a tribute by Mesens.
Biography of Robert Auzelle (excerpt)
Robert Auzelle, born on June 9, 1913 in Coulommiers (birth time source: Didier Geslain. Wikipedia gives June 8), died on December 22, 1983 in Paris, was a French architect and urban planner.
Biography of Henry Bernard (architect) (excerpt)
Henry Bernard (21 February 1912, Albertville, France – 10 December 1994) was a French architect and urban planner. Bernard received his diploma in architecture in 1938. That same year he won first prize in the Prix de Rome. Afterwards he worked as an architect in charge of civil buildings and national monuments, a position concerned with the renovation of historic buildings.
Biography of Lucienne Bogaert (excerpt)
Lucienne Bogaert (born Lucienne Jeanne Gabrielle Lefebvre; 6 January 1892 in Caudry, Nord (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 4 February 1983 in Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine) was a French actress. She started her career in theatre, but later also worked in film.
Biography of Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (excerpt)
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (10 January 1883 (O.S. 29 December 1882) – 23 February 1945), nicknamed the Comrade Count, was a Russian and Soviet writer who wrote in many genres but specialized in science fiction and in historical novels. During World War II he served on the Extraordinary State Commission of 1942-1947 which "ascertained without reasonable doubt" the mass extermination of people in gas vans by the German occupiers.
Biography of Yevgeny Samoylov (excerpt)
Yevgeny Valerianovich Samoilov (Russian: Евгений Валерианович Самойлов) (16 April 1912 in St. Petersburg – 17 February 2006 in Moscow) was a Soviet actor who gained prominence in youthful heroic parts and was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1974.
Biography of Vsevolod Vishnevsky (excerpt)
Vsevolod Vitalievich Vishnevsky (Russian: Все́волод Вита́льевич Вишне́вский, December 21 (O.S. December 8) 1900 – February 28, 1951) was a Soviet dramatist and prose writer. He was born in 1900 in Saint Petersburg and educated at a Petersburg gymnasium. During World War I he enrolled in Baltic Fleet as sea cadet. |
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