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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 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. ![]()
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 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.
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Biography of Kathryn McGuire (excerpt)
Kathryn McGuire (December 6, 1903 – October 10, 1978) was an American dancer and actress. Career While studying at the Hollywood High School, as well as her dancing, McGuire participated in a program exhibition at the Maryland Hotel in Pasadena. She was seen by Thomas H.
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Biography of Monika Mann (excerpt)
Monika Mann (7 June 1910 – 17 March 1992) was a German author and feature writer. She was born in Munich, Germany, the fourth of six children of the Nobel Prize–winning author Thomas Mann and Katia, née Katharina Pringsheim. She trained as a pianist and her early attempts at a musical career seemed promising, but were not met with success and she instead pursued a career as a writer. ![]()
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. ![]()
Biography of Karen Horney (excerpt)
Karen Horney (née Danielsen; 16 September 1885 – 4 December 1952) was a German psychoanalyst who practiced in the United States during her later career. Her theories questioned some traditional Freudian views. This was particularly true of her theories of sexuality and of the instinct orientation of psychoanalysis.
Biography of Joan Hickson (excerpt)
Joan Bogle Hickson, OBE (5 August 1906 – 17 October 1998) was an English actress of theatre, film and television. She was known for her role as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the television series Miss Marple. She also narrated a number of Miss Marple stories on audiobooks.
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. ![]()
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 Ida Veldhuyzen van Zanten (excerpt)
Ida Laura Veldhuyzen van Zanten (22 June 1911 – 19 October 2000) was a Dutch pilot and social worker who was a member of the Dutch resistance during the Second World War and a pilot in the British Air Transport Auxiliary.
Biography of Yves Carbon (excerpt)
Yves Carbon, born April 3, 1911 in Lembeye, died October 25, 1949 (air crash at age 38), was a French aviator.
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 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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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 Ellen Osiier (excerpt)
Ellen Osiier (13 August 1890 – 6 September 1962) was a Danish foil fencer. Osiier was born in Hjørring, 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 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.
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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 Lucien Choury (excerpt)
Lucien Choury (26 March 1898 – 6 May 1987) was a French cyclist. He won the gold medal in Men's tandem along with Jean Cugnot at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
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Biography of Paul Marion (politician) (excerpt)
Paul Jules André Marion (27 June 1899, Asnières-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.
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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 Georges Bergé (excerpt)
Georges Bergé (Belmont, January 3, 1909 - Mimizan, September 15, 1997) is a French soldier, Companion of the Liberation. Rallying the Free French forces in 1940, he set up a company of French paratroopers with whom he carried out the first clandestine missions on occupied French territory. ![]()
Biography of Antonie Pfülf (excerpt)
Antonie "Toni" Pfülf (14 December 1877 – 8 June 1933) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). An advocate of equal rights for women, she was a member of the Reichstag from 1920 to 1933 and one of the most prominent women in her party.
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Biography of Boris Taslitzky (excerpt)
Boris Taslitzky, sometimes Boris Tazlitsky (September 30, 1911 – December 9, 2005), was a French painter with left-wing sympathies, best known for his figurative depictions of some difficult moments in the history of the twentieth century. His work is considered as representative of Socialist realism in art in France.
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Biography of Émilie Tillion (excerpt)
Émilie Tillion (née Cussac; 20 February 1876 – 2 March 1945) was a French writer and art critic. Tillion is known for her work on the popular "Les Guides Bleus" and as a member of French Resistance during the Second World War.
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Biography of Bessie Schonberg (excerpt)
Bessie Schonberg (December 27, 1906 – May 14, 1997) was a highly influential dancer, choreographer and teacher of the 20th century. She was at the center of contemporary modern dance from her beginning at Bennington College up until her death in 1997.
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Biography of Emma Padilla (excerpt)
Emma Padilla (April 27, 1899 – July 3, 1966 (respiratory failure, cerebral thrombosis, diabetes, age 67)) was Mexico's first film star. She was noted for her resemblance to, and copying the mannerisms of, Italian film star Pina Menichelli, particularly in La luz (1917), which was essentially a copy of the successful Italian film Il Fuoco (1915) starring Menichelli.
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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.
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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. ![]()
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.
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Biography of Marcel Bardiaux (excerpt)
Marcel Bardiaux was a French navigator and writer born on April 12, 1910 in Clermont-Ferrand and died in Redon on February 9, 2000. He was the first solo sailor to have crossed Cape Horn from east to west (against the prevailing winds), in full winter (austral) 1952 at the helm of a 9.
Biography of Suzanne Spaak (excerpt)
Suzanne Spaak, née Augustine Lorge known as Suzette Spaak (6 July 1905 – 12 August 1944) was a World War II French Resistance operative. On 21 April 1985, Yad Vashem recognized Spaak as Righteous Among the Nations, for helping to smuggle several Jewish children to safety, by providing them with ration cards and clothing. ![]()
Biography of Zenta Maurina (excerpt)
Zenta Mauriņa (15 December 1897 – 25 April 1978) was a Latvian writer, essayist, translator, and researcher in philology. She was married to the Electronic Voice Phenomena researcher Konstantin Raudive. Born to doctor Roberts Mauriņš, Zenta spent her childhood in Grobiņa, where, at the age of six, she contracted polio, leaving her confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life.
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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 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.
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Biography of André Boulloche (excerpt)
André Boulloche (7 September 1915 in Paris – 16 March 1978) was a French politician who belonged to the Socialist Party. He is a member of the SFIO, companion of the Liberation, a senior civil servant (general engineer of Ponts et Chaussées) and minister of General de Gaulle in 1959, mayor of Montbéliard from 1965, deputy of Doubs from 1967 to his death.
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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.
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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 Gina Palerme (excerpt)
Gina Palerme (born Marie Louise Irène de Maulmont, 18 December 1885 – 26 December 1977) was a French actress and dancer. Biography Gina Palerme was born Marie Louise Irène 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). ![]()
Biography of Yvette Labrousse (excerpt)
Yvonne Blanche Labrousse, best known as Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan (15 February 1906 – 1 July 2000) was the fourth and last wife of Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah, Aga Khan III. The couple had married for thirteen months after the Aga Khan III and his third wife were divorced by mutual consent. ![]()
Biography of Gervèse (excerpt)
Charles Millot alias Henri Gervèse (September 21, 1880 Vesoul - May 24, 1959 Buenos Aires) was a French naval officer, painter and illustrator. He provides drawings to various newspapers such as Le Rire, Fantasio and La Vie parisienne. He is known for his series of Navy postcards and cartoons inspired by the other famous Navy cartoonist Sahib.
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Biography of Suzanne Delvé (excerpt)
Suzanne Delvé (1892–1986) was a French film actress. While most of her roles were during the silent era, she also appeared in a few sound films such as Maurice Tourneur's Accused, Stand Up! (1930). Selected filmography Les Vampires (1916) Rose de Nice (1921) The Cradle of God (1926)
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. ![]()
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 Alma Rosé (excerpt)
Alma Maria Rosé (3 November 1906 – 4/5 April 1944) was an Austrian violinist of Jewish descent. Her uncle was the composer Gustav Mahler. She was deported by the Nazis to the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. There, for 10 months, she directed an orchestra of female prisoners who played for their captors to stay alive.
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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 Andrée Dupeyron (excerpt)
Andrée (Julie Victorine Andréa Eugénie) Dupeyron born Mailho (October 19, 1902 in Ivry-sur-Seine - July 22, 1988 in Mont-de-Marsan) was a French civilian and military aviator.
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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. |
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