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Biography of Josef Bican (excerpt)
osef "Pepi" Bican (25 September 1913 – 12 December 2001) was an Austrian-Czech professional footballer who played as a striker. He is the second-most prolific goalscorer in official matches in recorded history according to Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF), with over 950 goals scored in 624 matches.
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Biography of Helen Wagner (excerpt)
Helen Losee Wagner (September 3, 1918 – May 1, 2010) was an American actress. Born in Lubbock, Texas, she is best known for her role as Nancy Hughes McClosky on the soap opera As the World Turns.After appearing in the soap opera for some 50 years, at the time of her death she was the longest serving actor on an American soap opera.
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Biography of Alice Ball (excerpt)
Alice Augusta Ball (July 24, 1892 – December 31, 1916) was an American chemist who developed the "Ball Method", the most effective treatment for leprosy during the early 20th century.She was the first woman and first African American to receive a master's degree from the University of Hawaiʻi, and was also the university's first female and African American chemistry professor. ![]()
Biography of Faith Bacon (excerpt)
Faith Bacon (born Frances Yvonne Bacon; July 19, 1910 – September 26, 1956) was an American burlesque dancer and actress.During the height of her career, she was billed as "America's Most Beautiful Dancer". Career Bacon's career in burlesque began in the 1920s in Paris.
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Biography of Emilia Malessa (excerpt)
Emilia Malessa, née Izdebska (noms de guerre: Marcysia, Miłasza, Maniuta) (born 26 February 1909, in Rostov, died 5 June 1949), was a Polish soldier, member of the Home Army with the rank of Captain, participant in the Warsaw Uprising, member of the underground anti-communist organization Freedom and Independence (WiN), and a "cavalier" of the Order of Virtuti Militari.
Biography of André de Richaud (excerpt)
André de Richaud (April 6, 1907 in Perpignan – September 29, 1968 in Montpellier) was a French poet and writer.After his father was killed in the First World War in 1915, his mother became a lover of a German prisoner of war, which caused him a trauma that made him later sell their house and move away.
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Biography of Al Molinaro (excerpt)
Albert Francis Molinaro (born Umberto Francesco Molinaro; June 24, 1919 – October 30, 2015) was an American actor. He played Al Delvecchio on Happy Days and Officer Murray Greshler on The Odd Couple. He also appeared in many television commercials, including On-Cor frozen dinners.
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Biography of Dada Vaswani (excerpt)
Jashan Pahlajrai Vaswani (2 August 1918 – 12 July 2018), better known as Dada Vaswani, was an Indian spiritual leader.He promoted vegetarianism and animal rights, and was the spiritual head at the Sadhu Vaswani Mission founded by his Guru, Sadhu Vaswani.
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Biography of Thérčse Pierre (excerpt)
Thérčse Pierre (5 November 1908 – 26 October 1943) was a French resistance fighter.She died after she was tortured by the German Gestapo. Resistance fighter At Carhaix, at the beginning of 1942, she met a Finistere Resistance official, the future Lieutenant-Colonel Pascal.Thérčse Pierre was 34 years old and had a history as a communist activist. ![]()
Biography of Nancy Astor (excerpt)
Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor, CH (19 May 1879 – 2 May 1964) was an American-born British politician who was the first woman seated as a Member of Parliament (MP), serving from 1919 to 1945.Astor was born in Danville, Virginia and raised in Greenwood, Virginia.
Biography of Anne-Marie Imbrecq (excerpt)
Anne-Marie Jeanne Imbrecq (18 June 1911 – 28 November 2005) was a nurse, parachutist, and French civil and military aircraft pilot active in Europe and Africa during World War II. Anne-Marie was the daughter of Paris lawyer Joseph Imbrecq who specialized in transport law.
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Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (excerpt)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.(August 17, 1914 – August 17, 1988) was an American lawyer, politician, and businessman, notable as a congressman from New York and later as the Under Secretary of Commerce.He was the fifth of six children born to Franklin D.
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Biography of Ellen Osiier (excerpt)
Ellen Osiier (13 August 1890 – 6 September 1962) was a Danish foil fencer.Osiier was born in Hjřrring, Nordjylland, Denmark. The 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris was the first Olympic Games to feature women's fencing.Osiier, then 33, won the gold medal and went undefeated in the 16 matches she fenced in the event. ![]()
Biography of René Schickele (excerpt)
René Schickele (4 August 1883 – 31 January 1940) was a German-French writer, essayist and translator. Schickele was born in Obernai, Alsace, the son of a German vineyard owner and police officer and a French mother.He studied literature, history, science and philosophy in Strasbourg, Munich, Paris and Berlin.
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Biography of Arnoldo Foŕ (excerpt)
Arnoldo Foŕ OMRI (24 January 1916 – 11 January 2014) was an Italian actor, voice actor, theatre director, singer and writer.He appeared in more than 130 films between 1938 and 2014. Foŕ was born in Ferrara, Italy, to a Jewish family, though Foŕ was an atheist in his adult life. ![]()
Biography of Victor Jory (excerpt)
Victor Jory (November 23, 1902 – February 12, 1982) was a Canadian-American actor of stage, film, and television. He initially played romantic leads, but later was mostly cast in villainous or sinister roles, such as Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) and carpetbagger Jonas Wilkerson in Gone with the Wind (1939).
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Biography of Paul Marion (politician) (excerpt)
Paul Jules André Marion (27 June 1899, Asničres-sur-Seine – 2 March 1954) was a French Communist and subsequently far right journalist and political activist.He served as the French Minister of Information from 1941 to 1944. Early years Marion joined the French Communist Party in 1922 and wrote for L'Humanité as well as being elected to the party's central committee in 1926. ![]()
Biography of Jessie Redmon Fauset (excerpt)
Jessie Redmon Fauset (April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961) was an editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator. Her literary work helped sculpt African-American literature in the 1920s as she focused on portraying a true image of African-American life and history. Her black fictional characters were working professionals which was an inconceivable concept to American society during this time Her story lines related to themes of racial discrimination, "passing", and feminism.
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Biography of Sylvie (actress) (excerpt)
Louise Pauline Mainguené, known as Sylvie (3 January 1883 – 5 January 1970), was a French actress. The daughter of a sailor and a teacher, Sylvie entered an acting conservatory where she won a class comedy award unanimously.She started her professional career in 1903 and she earned her first success with The Old Heidelberg. ![]()
Biography of Brian Donlevy (excerpt)
Waldo Brian Donlevy (February 9, 1901 – April 6, 1972) was an American actor, noted for playing dangerous tough guys from the 1930s to the 1960s.He usually appeared in supporting roles.Among his best-known films are Beau Geste (1939), The Great McGinty (1940) and Wake Island (1942).
Biography of Michel de Camaret (excerpt)
Michel de Camaret, born January 18, 1915 in Vienna and died June 24, 1987, is a soldier, resistant, free French, diplomat, and French politician, member of the National Front (FN). He is a Companion of the Liberation.
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Biography of Simone Rollin (excerpt)
Simone Rollin (5 September 1910 – 7 February 1991) was a French trade unionist and politician.As vice-president of the Popular Republican Movement, she was elected to the National Assembly in October 1945, becoming one of the first group of French women in parliament. ![]()
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The Fusillade de Fourmies is an event which happened on 1 May 1891 in Fourmies, in the French Nord department. This day, the troop fired on a peaceful demonstration of workers claiming "C'est les huit heures qu'il nous faut !" (it's the eight-hour day we need), killing nine people and injuring 35 others.
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Biography of Valli Valli (excerpt)
Valli Valli, born Valli Knust (11 February 1882 – 4 November 1927), was a musical comedy actress and silent film performer born in Berlin, Germany.She was descended from an old English family and lived most of her life in England.Her brother was a captain in the Royal Fusiliers, who fought for the British in France in World War I. ![]()
Biography of Albertina Rasch (excerpt)
Albertina Rasch (January 19, 1891 – October 2, 1967) was a naturalized American dancer, company director, and choreographer. Career Rasch began performing before the age of fourteen.During the American “dance craze” of the 1910s, she left Vienna for the United States, appearing in shows at the New York Hippodrome, also known as “the National Amusement Institution of America” and the Winter Garden.
Biography of Germaine L'Herbier-Montagnon (excerpt)
Germaine L'Herbier-Montagnon, born June 13, 1895 in Tournon (today Tournon-sur-Rhône), and died in this same city on July 29, 1986, was an IPSA pilot nurse - acronym referring to the Amicale nurse-pilots and air first-aiders created in the 1930s with the mission of "practical training of nurses, with a view to their assignment to the Health Services and annexes of the Air Force" - which, after the defeat of June 1940, created on his own initiative and directed the Mission for the search for the dead and missing of the Air Force.
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Biography of Charlotte Susa (excerpt)
Charlotte Susa (1 March 1898 – 28 July 1976) was a German actress. Susa was born Charlotta Wegmüller in Gut Gaußen (now part of Kretingalė), East Prussia and first appeared on a stage in 1915 at Tilsit.She chose her mother's maiden name "Susa" as her stage name and began a successful career as a singer and actress at different German opera and operetta stages, e.g.
Biography of Fernand Desvagers (excerpt)
Fernand Desvagers, born June 8, 1915 in La Fresnais, died September 28, 1956 in Dinan, was a French marine rifleman.He took part in the landing on the beach at Colleville-sur-Orne on June 6, 1944.On November 1, 1944, he landed at Flushing, on the island of Walcheren.
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Biography of Jacques Canetti (excerpt)
Nessim Jacques Canetti (30 May 1909, Ruse, Bulgaria – 7 June 1997, Suresnes) was a French music executive and a talent agent.Born into a Sephardic Jewish family, his parents were Jacques Elias (Elieser) and Mathilde (Mazal) (née Arditti) Canetti.He was the brother of the Nobel Prize-winning author Elias Canetti (1905–1994) and of Georges Canetti (1911–1971), a researcher and professor at the Pasteur Institute.
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Biography of Louise Thuliez (excerpt)
Louise Thuliez (12 December 1881 – 10 October 1966) was a French schoolteacher, resistance fighter during World War I and World War II and author. Life and career Thuliez was born in Preux-au-Bois, northern France, on 12 December, 1881. When World War I broke out, Thuliez was working as a teacher in Saint-Waast-la Vallée. ![]()
Biography of Gina Palerme (excerpt)
Gina Palerme (born Marie Louise Irčne de Maulmont, 18 December 1885 – 26 December 1977) was a French actress and dancer. Biography Gina Palerme was born Marie Louise Irčne de Maulmont (also spelled Maumont) on 18 December 1885, the daughter of Baron Marie Antoine Aymard Hubert de Maulmont (1850–1891) and Antoinette Gazenaud (born 1853).
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Biography of Evert Taube (excerpt)
Axel Evert Taube (12 March 1890 – 31 January 1976) was a Swedish author, artist, composer and singer.He is widely regarded as one of Sweden's most respected musicians and the foremost troubadour of the Swedish ballad tradition in the 20th century.
Biography of André Chotin (excerpt)
André Roger Chotin alias André E. Chotin, born January 26, 1892 in the 10th arrondissement of Paris and died January 10, 1954 in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, is a French decorator, artistic director and director of cinema. He made his debut as an actor in Jacques Copeau's theatrical company, with which he played several plays at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in 1917 and 1918.
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Biography of René Mouchotte (excerpt)
Commandant René Mouchotte DFC (21 August 1914 – 27 August 1943) was a World War II pilot of the French Air Force, who escaped from Vichy French–controlled Oran to join the Free French forces. Serving with RAF Fighter Command, he rose to command a fighter wing before being shot down and killed on 27 August 1943.
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Biography of Yvonne Jourjon (excerpt)
Yvonne Jourjon (September 13, 1899 - September 1985) was a pioneering French pilot and flight instructor; she was the first woman flight instructor in France. Life Jourjon initially learned parachuting, and received her parachuting certificate in 1924.In 1932, she joined the Union of Civil Pilots of France and in the following year earned her pilot licence. ![]()
Biography of Margaret St. Clair (excerpt)
Margaret St.Clair (17 February 1911 – 22 November 1995) was an American fantasy and science fiction writer, who also wrote under the pseudonyms Idris Seabright and Wilton Hazzard. She was especially prolific in the 1950s, producing such acclaimed and much-reprinted stories as "The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles" (1951), "Brightness Falls from the Air" (1951), "An Egg a Month from All Over" (1952), and "Horrer Howce" (1956).
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Biography of Armel Guerne (excerpt)
Armel Guerne, born in Morges (Switzerland) on April 1, 1911 and died in Marmande (Lot-et-Garonne) on October 9, 1980, is a French-language poet and translator, of a Swiss father and a French mother. During World War II, he was a member of the Prosper-PHYSICIAN network of the British secret service Special Operations Executive, alongside Francis Suttill "Prosper", the head of the network.
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Biography of Elizabeth McCombs (excerpt)
Elizabeth Reid McCombs (née Henderson, 19 November 1873 – 7 June 1935) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party who in 1933 became the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.New Zealand women gained the right to vote in 1893, though were not allowed to stand for the House of Representatives until the election of 1919. ![]()
Biography of Édith Clark (excerpt)
Edith Georgette Clark (also known as Edith Boiteux, 5 June 1904 – 16 March 1937) was a French aviator and parachutist. Biography Clark was born in Cuffy, in the Cher region of France, on 5 June 1904.She worked as a typist and became interested in aviation; however, she could not afford the expenses of flying lessons on her salary.
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Biography of Karl Gebhardt (excerpt)
Karl Gebhardt (November 23, 1897 – June 2, 1948) was a Nazi doctor, the personal physician of Heinrich Himmler and one of the main coordinators and authors of medical experiments on prisoners of the Ravensbrück and Auschwitz concentration camps. After the war, Gebhardt was one of twenty-three defendants in the doctors' trial, held before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.
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Biography of Robert K. Merton (excerpt)
Robert King Merton (born Meyer Robert Schkolnick; July 5, 1910 (Wikipedia gives July 4 by mistake) – February 23, 2003) was an American sociologist who is considered a founding father of modern sociology, and a major contributor to the subfield of criminology. ![]()
Biography of Eva Jessye (excerpt)
Eva Jessye (January 20, 1895 – February 21, 1992) was an American conductor who was the first black woman to receive international distinction as a professional choral conductor.She is notable as a choral conductor during the Harlem Renaissance.She created her own choral group which featured widely in performance.
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Biography of Erwin Strittmatter (excerpt)
Erwin Strittmatter (14 August 1912 – 31 January 1994) was a German writer.Strittmatter was one of the most famous writers in the GDR. Biography Strittmatter was born the son of a baker and foods wholesaler.Between 1924 and 1930 he attended the secondary school in Spremberg which has subsequently been named after him. ![]()
Biography of Maria Branyas (excerpt)
Maria Branyas Morera (March 4, 1907 – August 19, 2024) was an American-born Catalan supercentenarian.She was recognized as the world’s oldest living person from January 2023 until her death in August 2024 at the age of 117. Born in San Francisco to a Spanish family, she lived in the U.S. ![]()
Biography of Hermine Braunsteiner (excerpt)
Hermine Braunsteiner, born July 16, 1919 in Vienna, Austria and died April 19, 1999, in Bochum, was a Nazi concentration camp guard (Aufseherin).She was the first Nazi war criminal to be extradited from the United States. In 1938, Hermine Braunsteiner became a German citizen and worked as an SS guard at Ravensbruck and then at the Majdanek concentration camp.
Biography of Roger Bastide (sports journalist) (excerpt)
Roger Jean Bastide, born June 2, 1917 in Marseille, died August 29, 1999, was a French sports journalist.
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Biography of Ilektra Apostolou (excerpt)
Ilektra Apostolou (Greek: Ηλέκτρα Αποστόλου, 1912 - 26 July 1944) was a member of the Young Communist League of Greece, United Panhellenic Organization of Youth and the Communist Party of Greece, participating in the Greek Resistance. She was also a proponent of woman's rights. ![]()
Biography of Ilse Stöbe (excerpt)
Ilse Frieda Gertrud Stöbe (17 May 1911 in Berlin – 22 December 1942 in Berlin) was a German journalist and anti-Nazi resistance fighter. Life Ilse Stöbe grew up in a working-class home in Berlin.Stöbe was the only daughter of carpenter Max Stöbe and his wife Frieda, née Schumann.
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Biography of Silvio Zavala (excerpt)
Silvio Arturo Zavala Vallado (February 7, 1909 – December 4, 2014) was a Mexican historian who was considered to be a pioneer in law history studies and Mexico’s institutions. Early life Silvio Zavala was born on February 7, 1909, in Mérida, Yucatán.He studied at the National University of Mexico and at the University of Madrid, where he received a Ph.D.
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Biography of Claude Cahun (excerpt)
Claude Cahun (born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob; 25 October 1894 – 8 December 1954) was a French surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer. Schwob adopted the pseudonym Claude Cahun in 1914. Cahun is best known as a writer and self-portraitist, who assumed a variety of performative personae. |
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