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Biography of Liesel Bach (excerpt)
Liesel Bach (14 June 1905 – 22 January 1992) was a German aerobatic pilot and flight instructor.She was the first woman to fly over Mount Everest. In December 1950, Bach was invited to India by the Indian government.She was initially based at Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport in Lucknow and in 1951 she competed in an international aerobatics competition at Kanpur, at which she won first place. ![]()
Biography of Miyamoto Yuriko (excerpt)
Miyamoto Yuriko (宮本 百合子, 13 February 1899 – 21 January 1951) was a Japanese novelist, short-story writer, social activist, and literary critic active during the Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan. She is best known for her autobiographical fiction and involvement in proletarian and women's liberation movements.
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Biography of Fritz Ascher (excerpt)
Fritz Ascher (17 October 1893 in Berlin, Germany – 26 March 1970 in Berlin, Germany) was a German artist, whose work is characterized by Expressionist and Symbolist sensitivity. In paintings, works on paper and poetry he explored existential questions and themes of contemporary social and cultural relevance, of spirituality and mythology.
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Biography of Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (excerpt)
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (10 August 1889 – 9 April 1968) was a Polish writer and World War II resistance fighter.She co-founded two wartime Polish organizations: Front for the Rebirth of Poland and Żegota, set up to assist Polish Jews to escape the Holocaust.
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Biography of Aida de Acosta (excerpt)
Aida de Acosta Root Breckinridge (July 28, 1884 – May 26, 1962) was an American socialite and the first woman to fly a powered aircraft solo. In 1903, while in Paris with her mother, she caught her first glimpse of dirigibles. She then proceeded to take only three flight lessons, before taking to the sky by herself. ![]()
Biography of Ferdinand, Duke of Montpensier (excerpt)
Ferdinand d'Orléans, Duke of Montpensier (French: Ferdinand François Philippe Marie Laurent d'Orléans, Duc de Montpensier) (9 September 1884 – 30 January 1924) was a member of the House of Orléans and a Prince of France. Career The Duke lived in England for many years, until "his reported indiscretions with regard to his recollections of Queen Victoria made it somewhat uncomfortable for him when in London." When the Germans went into Belgium, he returned to London until World War I was over and then returned to Belgium. ![]()
Biography of Marie-Victorin (excerpt)
Brother Marie-Victorin, F.S.C.(April 3, 1885 – July 15, 1944), was a Canadian member of Brothers of the Christian Schools and a noted botanist in Quebec, Canada.He is known as the father of the Botanical Garden of Montreal. He was born Joseph-Louis-Conrad Kirouac to Cyrille Kirouac, a flower merchant, and Philomène Luneau in Kingsey Falls, Quebec.
Biography of Maurice Nasil (excerpt)
Maurice Nasillski said Maurice Nasil, born July 8, 1913 in Algiers (birth time source: birth certificate online at cineartistes.com, Wikipedia has July 7 by mistake) and died January 6, 2003 in Paris 9th, is a French actor. He has played notably in The Cow and the Prisoner, The President and The Jungle Book (as a French voice).
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Biography of Gabriel Grovlez (excerpt)
Gabriel Marie Grovlez (4 April 1879 – 20 October 1944) was an eminent French composer, conductor, pianist, and music critic. As a solo pianist and accompanist Grovlez toured through Europe. He was professor of piano at the Schola Cantorum from 1899 to 1909, choir director and deputy conductor of the Opéra Comique (1905–1908), and musical director at the Théâtre des Arts (1911–1913) where he was responsible for the first performances of Albert Roussel's Le Festin de l'araignée, Maurice Ravel's Ma mère l'oye, and a number of baroque operas.
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Biography of Ferenc Münnich (excerpt)
Ferenc Münnich (18 November 1886 – 29 November 1967) was a Hungarian Communist politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Hungary from 1958 to 1961. He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army in World War I, and fought in the Eastern front.
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Biography of Gisi Fleischmann (excerpt)
Gisi Fleischmann (Slovak: Gizela Fleischmannová; 21 January 1892 – 18 October 1944) was a Zionist activist and the leader of the Bratislava Working Group, one of the best known Jewish rescue groups during the Holocaust. Fleischmann was arrested on 15 October 1944 and was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp three days later.
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Biography of Wanda Jakubowska (excerpt)
Wanda Jakubowska (10 October (source: her Wikipedia page in Polish) 1907 – 25 February 1998) was a Polish film director.Although she directed as many as 15 films over 50 years, Jakubowska is best known for her work on the Holocaust.Her 1948 film The Last Stage was an early and influential depiction of concentration camps.
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Biography of Lilo Ramdohr (excerpt)
Lieselotte "Lilo" Fürst-Ramdohr (11 October 1913 – 13 May 2013) was a member of the Munich branch of the student resistance group White Rose (Weisse Rose) in Nazi Germany. She was born in Aschersleben.
Biography of Karl Stargardt (excerpt)
Karl Bruno Stargardt (4 December 1875 – 2 April 1927) was a German ophthalmologist born in Berlin. In 1899 he received his doctorate from the University of Kiel, where he later became chief physician at the university eye clinic.Afterwards he worked in the eye clinic at Strassburg, then becoming head of ophthalmology at Bonn.
Biography of Herrera Helenio (excerpt)
Helenio Herrera Gavilán (10 April 1910 – 9 November 1997) was an Argentine, naturalized French, football player and manager.He is best remembered for his success with the Inter Milan team known as Grande Inter in the 1960s. During his managerial career, Herrera won four La Liga titles in Spain (with Atlético Madrid and Barcelona) and three Serie A titles in Italy with Inter. ![]()
Biography of Toni Wolff (excerpt)
Toni Anna Wolff, born on September 18, 1888, was a Swiss Jungian analyst and a vital collaborator of Carl Jung.She significantly contributed to defining Jungian concepts like anima, animus, and persona. Wolff's most notable work is her essay on the four aspects of the feminine psyche. ![]()
Biography of Kurt Schwitters (excerpt)
Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948) was a German artist, poet, painter, and sculptor, who was born in Hanover, Germany. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including dadaism, constructivism, surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography, and what came to be known as installation art.
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Biography of Said Rustamov (excerpt)
Said Rustamov (Azerbaijani: Səid Rüstəmov), born Mir-Jabbar Ali oglu Seyid-Rustamzadeh (12 May 1907 in Erivan – 10 June 1983 in Baku), was an Azerbaijani composer and conductor. Rustamov published textbooks on note acquisition and the instruction of tar.His monographs include Azerbaijani Folk Dances, Azerbaijani Folk Songs and Azerbaijani Ashig Songs.
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Biography of Marie Gasquet (excerpt)
Marie Gasquet (1872–1960) was a French regionist writer from Provence.Marie Gasquet was born in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône in 1872.Her father, Marius Girard, was a Provençal poet.Her godfather was Frédéric Mistral. She moved to Paris where she worked for Flammarion and became a successful novelist.
Biography of Dirk Witte (excerpt)
Dirk Hermanus Witte (Zaandam, June 29, 1885 – Diemen, November 15, 1932) was a Dutch songwriter and singer. His most famous song is Mens, dare to live (1917). This became known through the performance of Jean-Louis Pisuisse. It was later recorded by Willy Alberti, Ramses Shaffy, The Amazing Stroopwafels and Wende Snijders, among others. ![]()
Biography of Missak Manouchian (excerpt)
Missak Manouchian (1 September 1906 – 21 February 1944) was a French-Armenian poet and communist activist.An Armenian genocide survivor, he moved to France from an orphanage in Lebanon in 1925.He was active in communist Armenian literary circles. During World War II, he became the military commissioner of FTP-MOI, a group consisting of European immigrants, including many Jews, in the Paris Region which carried out assassinations and bombings of Nazi targets.
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Biography of Katherine Stinson (excerpt)
Katherine Stinson (February 14, 1891 – July 8, 1977) was a pioneering American aviator.She set flying records for aerobatic maneuvers, distance, and endurance. After she received her certificate, Stinson and her family moved to San Antonio, Texas, an area with an ideal climate for flying.
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Biography of Tilly Fleischer (excerpt)
Ottilie "Tilly" Fleischer (2 October 1911 – 14 July 2005) was a German athlete who competed in a variety of track and field athletic events.She competed for Germany in the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United States in three different events, taking the bronze medal in the javelin.
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Biography of Edgard de Larminat (excerpt)
Edgard de Larminat (29 November 1895 – 1 July 1962) was a French general, who fought in two World Wars. He was one of the most important military figures who rejoined the Free French forces in 1940. He was awarded the Ordre de la Libération.
Biography of Bertrand de Jouvenel (excerpt)
Bertrand de Jouvenel des Ursins (31 October 1903 – 1 March 1987) was a French philosopher, political economist, and futurist.He has taught at the University of Oxford, Cambridge, Manchester, Yale University, Chicago and at the University of California, Berkeley. Life Bertrand was the heir of an old family from the French nobility, coming from the Champagne region.
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Biography of Maria Josep Colomer i Luque (excerpt)
Maria Josep Colomer i Luque (31 March 1913 – 24 May 2004), better known as Mari Pepa Colomer, was one of the pioneers of Spanish aviation. She was the first female flight instructor in Spain and the first Catalan woman (third Spanish woman) to earn a pilot's license.
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Biography of Irmgard Bartenieff (excerpt)
Irmgard Bartenieff (1900 Berlin – 1981 New York City) was a dance theorist, dancer, choreographer, physical therapist, and a leading pioneer of dance therapy.A student of Rudolf Laban, she pursued cross-cultural dance analysis, and generated a new vision of possibilities for human movement and movement training.
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Biography of Thérèse Bertrand-Fontaine (excerpt)
Thérèse Bertrand-Fontaine, (born in Paris, 15 October 1895 - died in Paris, 24 December 1987), was a French doctor.By the time of her death, she held the title of Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur. The first female doctor in Paris hospitals, she notably studied pneumonia, hepatic and renal diseases, and amyloidosis.
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Biography of Madeleine Pauliac (excerpt)
Madeleine Jeanne Marie Pauliac (17 September 1912 – 13 February 1946) was a French doctor and a member of the French Resistance.Her experience in post-World War II Poland formed the basis for the movie Les Innocentes. Life Pauliac was born in Villeneuve-sur-Lot.Pauliac's father, Roger Pauliac, died in 1916 in the Battle of Verdun.
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Biography of Carola Lorenzini (excerpt)
Carolina (Carola) Elena Lorenzini (15 August 1889 – 23 November 1941) was a pioneer Argentine aviator.Lorenzini was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the seventh of eight children. From 1938 to 1940, Lorenzini was involved in an air exploration mission to fly all of Argentina's 14 provinces and make aerial maps for transport and mail flights. ![]()
Biography of Eileen Kramer (excerpt)
Eileen Kramer (born 8 November 1914) is an Australian dancer, artist, performer and choreographer.She began by studying singing and music in Sydney in the 1930s, but after attending a performance of the Bodenwieser Ballet in 1940, immediately decided on a career change to dance.
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Biography of Annie de Montfort (excerpt)
Annie de Montfort (16 December 1897 – 10 November 1944) was a French writer and physician and a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War. Early life She was born Arthémise Deguirmendjian-Shah-Vekil in the 9th arrondissement of Paris.Her parents were born in Turkey and were Armenian in origin. ![]()
Biography of Albert Ehrenstein (excerpt)
Albert Ehrenstein (22 December 1886 – 8 April 1950) was an Austrian-born German Expressionist poet.His poetry exemplifies rejection of bourgeois values and fascination with the Orient, particularly with China. He spent most of his life in Berlin, but also travelled widely across Europe, Africa, and the Far East.
Biography of George Grosz (excerpt)
George Grosz (German: ; born Georg Ehrenfried Groß; July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s.He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups during the Weimar Republic. ![]()
Biography of Rose Valland (excerpt)
Rose Antonia Maria Valland (1 November 1898 – 18 September 1980) was a French art historian, member of the French Resistance, captain in the French military, and one of the most decorated women in French history. She secretly recorded details of the Nazi plundering of National French and private Jewish-owned art from France; and, working with the French Resistance, she saved thousands of works of art.
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Biography of Yvette Lundy (excerpt)
Yvette Lundy (22 April 1916 – 3 November 2019) was a French resistance fighter during the French Resistance of World War II. She provided the inspiration for the character of Mademoiselle Lise Lundi in the 2009 film Korkoro, written and directed by Tony Gatlif.
Biography of Hanan Aharon Cidor (excerpt)
Hanan Aharon Cidor, born on November 12, 1905 in Berlin, died on March 8, 1985 in Jerusalem, was a German-Israeli diplomat. He worked for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was Israeli Ambassador to the Netherlands from 1957 to 1963. ![]()
Biography of La Argentinita (excerpt)
Encarnación López Júlvez, known as La Argentinita (Buenos Aires, March 3, 1898 – New York, September 24, 1945), was a Spanish-Argentine flamenco dancer (bailaora), choreographer and singer. La Argentinita was considered the highest expression of this art form during that time.
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Biography of Joseph Abadie (excerpt)
Joseph Louis Irenée Jean Abadie (15 December 1873, Tarbes – 1934) was a French neurologist who is remembered for naming Abadie's symptom. Brief biography Joseph Louis Irenée Jean Abadie was born in 1873 in Tarbes, département Hautes-Pyrénées, France.He studied medicine at the University of Bordeaux, qualifying in 1900.
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Biography of William Lindsay Gresham (excerpt)
William Lindsay Gresham (August 20, 1909 – September 14, 1962) was an American novelist and non-fiction author particularly well-regarded among readers of noir.His best-known work is Nightmare Alley (1946), which was adapted to film in 1947 and 2021. Gresham was born in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Biography of Ibrahim Çalli (excerpt)
İbrahim Çallı (13 July 1882 in Çal – 22 May 1960 in İstanbul (gastrointestinal bleeding)) was a Turkish painter. He is popularly known as Çallı İbrahim. İbrahim Çallı was born in Çal, Denizli. He showed early interest in painting during his primary and secondary education which he finished in his hometown and in İzmir.
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Biography of Madeleine Charnaux (excerpt)
Madeleine Charnaux (18 January 1902 – 10 October 1943) was a French war correspondent, sculptor, designer and aviator.She was the first woman in the Roland Garros pilots’ club. Madeleine Charnaux, born in Vichy on January 18, 1902.Her father and brothers were doctors.
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Biography of Georges Cabanier (excerpt)
Admiral Georges Cabanier (22 November 1906 (Wikipedia gives 21 November) – 26 October 1976) was a French Naval Officer and Admiral, in addition to Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour. Military career Entered into the École Navale in 1925, he navigated on several naval warships (French: bâtiments) in the Atlantic, before opting for submarine service.
Biography of Denis Peploe (excerpt)
Denis Frederic Neal Peploe (25 March 1914 – 22 May 1993) was a Scottish artist and sculptor known for his landscapes. During the war he served with the Royal Artillery and the Special Operations Executive where he was hurt in a motorcycle accident.
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Biography of Paul Gordeaux (excerpt)
Paul Gordeaux born Philippe, Georges, Emmanuel Gordolon on April 4, 1891 in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) (source for his birth time: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died on March 4, 1974 in the same city, is a journalist, historian, dramatic critic, man of letters and French humorist.
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Biography of Jean Vercoutter (excerpt)
Jean Vercoutter (January 20, 1911 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – July 16, 2000) was a French Egyptologist. One of the pioneers of archaeological research into Sudan from 1953, he was Director of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale from 1977 to 1981.
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Biography of Jacobus Oud (excerpt)
Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud, commonly called J.J.P.Oud (9 February 1890 – 5 April 1963) was a Dutch architect.His fame began as a follower of the De Stijl movement. Oud was born in Purmerend, the son of a tobacco and wine merchant.As a young architect, he was influenced by Berlage, and studied under Theodor Fischer in Munich for a time. ![]()
Biography of Sherry Britton (excerpt)
Edith Zack (July 28, 1918 – April 1, 2008), better known by the stage name Sherry Britton, was an American burlesque performer of the 1930s and early 1940s. The 5-foot-3-inch (1.60 m) Britton had an 18-inch (46 cm) waist, and was once said to have a "figure to die for." She got her stage name from a liquor store on a bottle of Harvey's Bristol Cream Sherry. ![]()
Biography of Georges Henri Rivière (excerpt)
Georges-Henri Rivière (5 June 1897 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 24 March 1985) was a French museologist, and innovator of modern French ethnographic museology practices. In 1929 and 1930, Rivière was on the editorial board of Documents, to which he also contributed articles, such as “The Ethnographical museum of the Trocadéro" (1929, issue 1), as well as chronicles on popular culture such as “Religion and ‘Folies-Bergère’” (1930, issue 4), and profiles on jazz musicians such as Eddie South and Hayman Swayze.
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Biography of Yevgeny Brusilovsky (excerpt)
Yevgeny Grigorievich Brusilovsky (12 November (O.S. 30 October) 1905 – 9 May 1981) was a Soviet and Russian composer who settled in Kazakhstan. He wrote the first Kazakh opera, co-wrote the music for the Anthem of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, and was a People's Artist of the Kazakh SSR. |
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