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Biography of Erast Garin (excerpt)
Erast Pavlovich Garin (10 November (O.S. 28 October) 1902 – 4 September 1980) was a Soviet and Russian actor, director and screenwriter. He was, together with Igor Ilyinsky and Sergey Martinson, one of the leading comic actors of Vsevolod Meyerhold's company and of the Soviet cinema.
Biography of Alexey Dushkin (excerpt)
Alexey Nikolayevich Dushkin (6 January 1904 (24 December 1904 julian calendar) – 8 October 1977) was a Soviet architect, best known for his 1930s designs of the Kropotkinskaya and Mayakovskaya stations of the Moscow Metro. He worked primarily for subway and railroads and is also noted for his Red Gate Building, one of the Seven Sisters.
Biography of Henri Laurens (excerpt)
Henri Laurens (February 18, 1885 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Paris archives V4E6278) – May 5, 1954) was a French sculptor and illustrator. Later Laurens was drawn to a new gathering of artistic creativity in Montparnasse. From 1915 he began to sculpt in the Cubist style after meeting Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris and Fernand Léger.
Biography of Eileen Agar (excerpt)
Eileen Forrester Agar RA (1 December 1899 – 17 November 1991) was a British painter and photographer associated with the Surrealist movement. In 1911, the Agar family, Scottish father and American mother, left Argentina for London where Eileen enrolled in the Byam Shaw School of Fine Art in 1919, then in the Underwood School of Painting and sculpture.
Biography of Gustave Humery (excerpt)
Gustave Humery (aka Tiger Humery), born December 18, 1908 in Valenciennes (source for his time and date of birth: Didier Geslain, birth certificate No. 722), died July 6, 1976, is a former French boxer.
Biography of Asik Veysel (excerpt)
Âşık Veysel (born Veysel Şatıroğlu; 25 October 1894 – 21 March 1973) was a Turkish ashik and highly regarded poet of the Turkish folk literature. He was born in the Sivrialan village of the Şarkışla district, in the province of Sivas.
Biography of Jean Talairach (excerpt)
Jean Talairach (January 15, 1911 – March 15, 2007) was a psychiatrist and neurosurgeon who practiced at the Sainte-Anne Hospital Center in Paris, and who is noted for the Talairach coordinates, which are relevant in stereotactic neurosurgery. Talairach was the son of a pianist, and learned the cello to a professional level.
Biography of M.G. Ramachandran (excerpt)
Maruthur Gopala Ramachandran (17 January 1917 – 24 December 1987), also popularly known as M.G.R., was an Indian politician, actor, philanthropist and filmmaker who served as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu from 1977 till his death in 1987. He was the founder of AIADMK and mentor of J.
Biography of Jean Tatlock (excerpt)
Jean Frances Tatlock (February 21, 1914 – January 4, 1944) was an American psychiatrist and physician. She was a member of the Communist Party of the United States of America and was a reporter and writer for the party's publication Western Worker.
Biography of Nikolay Cherkasov (excerpt)
Nikolay Konstantinovich Cherkasov (Russian: Никола́й Константи́нович Черка́сов; 27 July (O.S. 14 July) 1903 – 14 September 1966) was a Soviet and Russian actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1947). Cherkasov was one of Stalin's favorite actors and played title roles in Sergei Eisenstein's monumental sound films Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Parts I & II of Ivan the Terrible (1945 & 1946; though Part II was not officially released until 1958 for political reasons).
Biography of Mehmet Akif Ersoy (excerpt)
Mehmet Akif Ersoy (20 December 1873 – 27 December 1936) was an Ottoman-born Turkish poet, writer, academic, politician, and the author of the Turkish National Anthem. Widely regarded as one of the premiere literary minds of his time, Ersoy is noted for his command of the Turkish language, as well as his patriotism and role in the Turkish War of Independence.
Biography of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (excerpt)
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (23 June 1901 – 24 January 1962) was a Turkish poet, novelist, literary scholar and essayist, widely regarded as one of the most important representatives of modernism in Turkish literature. In addition to his literary and academic career, Tanpınar was also a member of the Turkish Parliament between 1944 and 1946.
Biography of Morris Cohen (spy) (excerpt)
Morris Cohen (July 2, 1910 – June 23, 1995), also known by his alias Peter Kroger, was an American convicted of espionage for the Soviet Union. His wife Lona was also an agent. As Soviet spy networks were compromised in this period, connection with Soviet intelligence was temporarily ended, but resumed in 1948, when the Rezidentura ascertained that Cohen could be approached.
Biography of Norman Bethune (excerpt)
Henry Norman Bethune (March 3, 1890 – November 12, 1939; Chinese: 亨利·诺尔曼·白求恩; pinyin: Hēnglì Nuò’ěrmàn Báiqiú’ēn) was a Canadian physician, medical innovator, and noted communist. Bethune came to international prominence first for his service as a frontline surgeon supporting the Republican faction during the Spanish Civil War.
Biography of John Charles Daly (excerpt)
John Charles Patrick Croghan Daly (February 20, 1914 – February 24, 1991), generally known as John Charles Daly or simply John Daly, was a South African-born American radio and television personality, CBS News broadcast journalist, ABC News executive and TV anchor and a game show host, best known as the host and moderator of the CBS television panel show What's My Line.
Biography of Nicole Girard-Mangin (excerpt)
Nicole Girard-Mangin (October 11, 1878 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 4536) – June 6, 1919) was the first female doctor to serve in the French Army. She served in several roles during the entire First World War. She was also a specialist in tuberculosis (TB).
Biography of Max Deutsch (excerpt)
Max Deutsch (17 November 1892 – 22 November 1982) was an Austrian-French composer, conductor, and academic teacher. He studied with Arnold Schönberg and was his assistant. Teaching at the Sorbonne and the École Normale de Musique de Paris, he influenced notable students such as Philippe Capdenat, Donald Harris, György Kurtág and Philippe Manoury.
Biography of Dorothy Wrinch (excerpt)
Dorothy Maud Wrinch (12 September 1894 – 11 February 1976; married names Nicholson, Glaser) was a mathematician and biochemical theorist best known for her attempt to deduce protein structure using mathematical principles. She was a champion of the controversial 'cyclol' hypothesis for the structure of proteins.
Biography of Elizaveta Karamihailova (excerpt)
Elisabeth Ivanova Kara-Michailova (Bulgarian: Елисавета Иванова Карамихайлова), alternatively Elisabeth Karamichailova, born on September 3, 1897 in Vienna, Autstria, was a Bulgarian physicist of a Bulgarian father and an English mother. She was among the handful of female nuclear physics pioneers at the beginning of the 20th century, established the first practical courses of particle physics in Bulgaria and was the first woman to hold a professorial title in the country.
Biography of Paul Cornu (excerpt)
Paul Cornu (June 15, 1881 (birth time source : Janine Tissot, birth certificate n° 5) – 6 June 1944) was a French engineer, inventor and aviator. At a young age, he helped his father in his transports company. He made history by designing the world's first successful manned rotary wing aircraft.
Biography of Manfred von Ardenne (excerpt)
Manfred von Ardenne (20 January 1907 – 26 May 1997) was a German researcher and applied physicist and inventor. He took out approximately 600 patents in fields including electron microscopy, medical technology, nuclear technology, plasma physics, and radio and television technology.
Biography of Orhan Veli (excerpt)
Orhan Veli Kanık or Orhan Veli (13 April (according to his Turkish Wikipedia page) 1914, Beykoz, İstanbul – 14 November 1950, İstanbul) was a Turkish poet. Kanık is one of the founders of the Garip Movement together with Oktay Rıfat and Melih Cevdet.
Biography of Anna Coleman Ladd (excerpt)
Anna Coleman Watts Ladd (July 15, 1878 – June 3, 1939) was an American sculptor in Manchester, Massachusetts, who devoted her time throughout World War I to soldiers who were disfigured. She devoted herself to portraiture and was well regarded. Her portrait of Eleanora Duse was one of only three that the actress ever allowed.
Biography of Robert Blémant (excerpt)
Robert Léon Arthur Blémant, known as Monsieur Robert, born on Februray 13, 1911 in Valenciennes (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on May 15, 1965 in Salon-de-Provence (killed by Antoine Guérini), was a French policeman.
Biography of James Franck (excerpt)
James Franck (26 August 1882 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth record from Hamburg State Archives) – 21 May 1964) was a German physicist who won the 1925 Nobel Prize for Physics with Gustav Hertz "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom".
Biography of Aleksandr Tvardovsky (excerpt)
Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovsky (21 June (O.S. 8 June) 1910 – 18 December 1971) was a Soviet poet and writer and chief editor of Novy Mir literary magazine from 1950 to 1954 and 1958 to 1970. His name has also been rendered in English as Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovski, Aleksandr Tvardovski, and Alexander Tvardovsky (though "Aleksandr Tvardovsky" is by far the most common spelling).
Biography of Rostislav Zakharov (excerpt)
Rostislav Vladimirovich Zakharov (1907–1984) was a Russian choreographer, ballet dancer and opera director. He was a professor at the Russian Academy of the Arts (GITIS) in Moscow (1951–1983), was awarded the USSR State Prize twice and designated the People's Artist of the USSR (1969).
Biography of Raúl Alberto Lastiri (excerpt)
Raúl Alberto Lastiri (11 September 1915 – 11 December 1978) was an Argentine politician who was interim president of Argentina from July 13, 1973 until October 12, 1973. Lastiri, who presided over the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, was promoted to the presidency of the country after Héctor Cámpora and Vicente Solano Lima resigned, he organized new elections and delivered the country's government to Juan Perón, who won with over 60% of the votes.
Biography of Lela Karagianni (excerpt)
Eleni "Lela" Karagianni also written Karayanni (24 June 1898 (6 July Gregorian calendar) - 8 September 1944) was a Greek resistance leader during World War II. The wife of an Attican pharmacist and the mother of seven children, Karagianni worked to coordinate Greek resistance cells and their activities against the occupying Axis forces.
Biography of André Colomer (excerpt)
André Colomer (4 December 1886 in Cerbère (Pyrénées-Orientales – 7 October 1931 in Moskow) was a French poet and anarchist. Publications Roland Malmos (roman). le Réfractaire (drame en trois actes). À nous deux, Patrie ! (mémoires), paru en feuilleton dans L’Action d’art en 1919-1920, édité en brochure en 1925.
Biography of Mikhail Tomsky (excerpt)
Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky (Russian: Михаи́л Па́влович То́мский, born Mikhail Pavlovich Yefremov – sometimes transliterated as Efremov; Михаи́л Па́влович Ефре́мов; 31 October 1880 – 22 August 1936) was a factory worker, trade unionist and Bolshevik leader. He was the Soviet leader of the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions.
Biography of Ilya Starinov (excerpt)
Colonel Ilya Grigoryevich Starinov 2 August (O.S. 20 July) 1900, village of Voynovo, today's Oryol Oblast – 18 November 2000) was a Soviet military officer. Starinov joined the Red Army in 1918 and participated in the Russian Civil War. In 1921 he attended a military college for railway troops and served with the Soviet railway troops in the 1920s.
Biography of Mikhail Gurevich (excerpt)
Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich (12 January 1893 (O.S. 31 December 1892) – 12 November 1976) was a Soviet aircraft designer who co-founded the Mikoyan-Gurevich military aviation bureau along with Artem Mikoyan. The bureau is famous for its fighter aircraft, rapid interceptors and multi-role combat aircraft which were staples of the Soviet Air Forces throughout the Cold War.
Biography of Roland Moisan (excerpt)
Roland Henri Honoré Moisan, said Moisan, born in Reims on November 26, 1907 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died in Paris on February 28, 1987, is a French cartoonist and journalist. He entered the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris in 1927.
Biography of Lewis Strauss (excerpt)
Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss (January 31, 1896 – January 21, 1974) was an American businessman, philanthropist, and naval officer who served two terms on the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), the second as its chairman. He was a major figure in the development of nuclear weapons, the nuclear energy policy of the United States, and nuclear power in the United States.
Biography of Lazare-Lévy (excerpt)
Lazare Lévy, also hyphenated as Lazare-Lévy, (18 January 1882 – 20 September 1964) was an influential French pianist, organist, composer and pedagogue. As a virtuoso pianist he toured throughout Europe, in North Africa, Israel, the Soviet Union and Japan. He taught for many years at the Paris Conservatoire.
Biography of V. Volodarsky (excerpt)
V. Volodarsky (Russian: В. Володарский; December 11, 1891 (December 23, Gregorian calendar) – June 20, 1918) was a Marxist revolutionary and early Soviet politician. He was assassinated in 1918. Volodarsky was assassinated on June 20, 1918 by Grigory Ivanovich Semyonov, a member of the Central Battle Unit of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, during labor unrest at the Obukhov Works in Petrograd.
Biography of Wanda Wasilewska (excerpt)
Wanda Wasilewska, also known by Russian name Vanda Lvovna Vasilevskaya (21 January 1905 – 29 July 1964), was a Polish and Ukrainian Soviet novelist and journalist and a left-wing political activist who became a devoted communist. She fled the German attack on Warsaw in September 1939 and took up residence in Soviet-occupied Lviv and eventually in the Soviet Union.
Biography of Hanna Reitsch (excerpt)
Hanna Reitsch (29 March 1912 – 24 August 1979) was a German aviator and test pilot. During the Nazi era, she worked enthusiastically and extensively for the Nazis and was awarded many Nazi-honours. She and Melitta von Stauffenberg flight tested many of the regime's new aircraft.
Biography of Yuri Lyubimov (excerpt)
Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov (30 September (O.S. 17 September) 1917 – 5 October 2014) was a Soviet and Russian stage actor and director associated with the internationally renowned Taganka Theatre, which he founded in 1964. He was one of the leading names in the Russian theatre world.
Biography of Arthur Bernède (excerpt)
Arthur Bernède (5 January 1871 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 20 March 1937) was a French writer, poet, opera libretist, and playwright. He was born in Redon, Ille-et-Vilaine department, in Brittany. In 1919, Bernède joined forces with actor René Navarre, who had played Fantômas in the Louis Feuillade serials, and writer Gaston Leroux, the creator of Rouletabille, to launch the Société des Cinéromans, a production company that would produce films and novels simultaneously.
Biography of Roza Papo (excerpt)
Roza Papo (6 February 1914 – 25 February 1984) was a Bosnian Jewish physician and general of the Yugoslav People's Army. She was the first woman to rise to the rank of general on the Balkan Peninsula. War service Following the invasion of Yugoslavia by Nazi Germany in 1941, Papo made contact with the Yugoslav Partisans on Ozren and started aiding them.
Biography of Ruth Handler (excerpt)
Ruth Marianna Handler (née Mosko; November 4, 1916 – April 27, 2002) was an American businesswoman and inventor. She is best known for inventing the Barbie doll in 1959, and being the first president of toy manufacturer Mattel from 1945 until 1975.
Biography of Kwon Ki-ok (excerpt)
Kwon Ki-ok (11 January 1901 – 19 April 1988), or Quan Jiyu in Chinese, was the first Korean female aviator, as well as one of the first female pilots in China. She went in exile in China during the Japanese occupation of Korea, and became a lieutenant colonel in the Republic of China Air Force.
Biography of Bert Acosta (excerpt)
Bertrand Blanchard Acosta (January 1, 1895 – September 1, 1954) was a record-setting aviator. He and Clarence D. Chamberlin set an endurance record of 51 hours, 11 minutes, and 25 seconds in the air. He later flew in the Spanish Civil War in the Yankee Squadron.
Biography of Mina Urgan (excerpt)
Mina Urgan (14 May 1916 – 15 June 2000) was a Turkish academic, translator, author and socialist politician. She translated works of Thomas Malory (c. 1415–18 – 1471), Henry Fielding (1707–1754), Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), Graham Greene (1904–1991), William Golding (1911–1993), John Galsworthy (1867–1933) and Shakespeare (1564–1616) into Turkish.
Biography of Agostino Casaroli (excerpt)
Agostino Casaroli (24 November 1914 (birth time source: Castel San Giovanni, records of civil status of Castel San Giovanni) – 9 June 1998) was an Italian Catholic priest and diplomat for the Holy See, who became Cardinal Secretary of State. He was the most important figure behind the Vatican's efforts to deal with the persecution of the Church in the nations of the Soviet bloc after the Second Vatican Council.
Biography of Anton Ackermann (excerpt)
Anton Ackermann (real name: Eugen Hanisch, 25 November 1905 Thalheim, Saxony – 4 May 1973 East Berlin) was an East German politician. In 1953, he briefly served as Minister of Foreign Affairs. From 1949 to 1953, he was the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Biography of Maurice Nédoncelle (excerpt)
Maurice Nédoncelle, born October 30, 1905 in Roubaix (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died November 27, 1976 in Strasbourg, is a French priest and philosopher. Author of books on John Henry Newman and Friedrich von Hügel, he then decides to develop a philosophy of the person who founds true existence in freedom.
Biography of Natalia Paley (excerpt)
Princess Natalia Pavlovna Paley (Russian: Наталья Павловна Палей; 5 December 1905 – 27 December 1981) was a Russian aristocrat who was a non-dynastic member of the Romanov family. A daughter of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia, she was a first cousin of the last Russian emperor, Nicholas II. |
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