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Biography of Emmanuel Brihaye (excerpt)
Emmanuel Brihaye, born September 30, 1913 in Glageon in the North, died June 22, 2004, was a French engineer, soldier and test pilot. Decorations Officer of the Legion of Honor, Croix de guerre 39-45, Medal of Aeronautics, Soviet decorations: Merit for the Fatherland and Order of Victory.
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Biography of Louis Nallard (excerpt)
Louis Nallard, born June 17, 1918 in Algiers and died October 15, 2016 in Paris, is a French non-figurative painter of the new School of Paris. Born in 1918 in Algiers, Louis Nallard lost his mother to the Spanish flu and was raised by his grandparents.
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Biography of Maria Dimadi (excerpt)
Maria Dimadi (Greek: Μαρία Δημάδη; 7 May 1907 – 31 August 1944) was a member of the National Liberation Front (EAM) during the Axis occupation of Greece.She acted as a spy for the resistance at the German garrison of Agrinio, providing crucial information on German maneuvers and undermining the Axis war effort. ![]()
Biography of Alice Duer Miller (excerpt)
Alice Duer Miller (July 28, 1874 – August 22, 1942) was an American writer whose poetry actively influenced political opinion.Her feminist verses influenced political opinion during the American suffrage movement, and her verse novel The White Cliffs influenced political thought during the U.S.'s entry into World War II.
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Biography of Bernard Rapoport (excerpt)
Bernard Rapoport (July 18, 1917 – April 5, 2012) was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, author, and the founder of American Income Life Insurance Company. Bernard Rapoport, born in San Antonio, Texas, was the son of Russian immigrants.His early life was modest, with his family facing financial struggles during the Great Depression.
Biography of May Swenson (excerpt)
Anna Thilda May "May" Swenson (May 28, 1913 – December 4, 1989) was an American poet and playwright. Her time of birth comes from the biography "Body My House: May Swenson's Work and Life" by Paul Crumbley and Patricia M. Gantt (Utah State University Press, 2006).
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Biography of Maria Vetulani de Nisau (excerpt)
Maria de Nisau née Vetulani (27 November 1898 – 2 September 1944) was a Polish woman soldier, combatant for Poland's independence, and participant in the Polish-Ukrainian War and World War II. She was the daughter of an engineer, Franciszek Vetulani (1856−1921), and Katarzyna Ipohorska-Lenkiewicz (1868−1915).
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Biography of Hans Henkemans (excerpt)
Hans Henkemans (The Hague, 23 December 1913 – Nieuwegein, 29 December 1995) was a Dutch pianist, teacher, composer of classical music and psychiatrist. Henkemans was one of the most important Dutch composers of his time.From 1926 to 1931 he studied piano and composition with Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer, and from 1933 to 1938 with Willem Pijper. ![]()
Biography of Moe Howard (excerpt)
Moses Harry Horwitz (June 19, 1897 – May 4, 1975), better known by his stage name Moe Howard, was an American comedian and actor. He is best known as the leader and straight man of the Three Stooges, the farce comedy team who starred in motion pictures and television for four decades. ![]()
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.
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Biography of Marthe Niel (excerpt)
Marthe Niel (29 December 1878 – 18 November 1928) was a French aviator, becoming the second woman in the world to earn an aeroplane pilot's licence on 19 September 1910. Early life Niel was born Marie-Ange Denieul in Le Cannée, a hamlet in the commune of Paimpont, Ille-et-Vilaine.
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Biography of Teresa Noce (excerpt)
Teresa Noce (29 July 1900 – 22 January 1980) was an Italian labor leader, activist, journalist and feminist.She served as a parliamentary deputy and advocated broad social legislation benefiting mothers. Teresa Noce was born in Turin, Italy on 29 July 1900 to an unmarried, working-class mother.
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Biography of Mathilde Kschessinska (excerpt)
Mathilde-Marie Feliksovna Kschessinska (Polish: Matylda Maria Krzesińska; Russian: Матильда Феликсовна Кшесинская; 31 August (O.S. 19 August) 1872 in Ligovo – 6 December 1971 in Paris; also known as Princess Romanovskaya-Krasinskaya after her marriage) was a Polish/Russian ballerina from the noble family Krzesiński. ![]()
Biography of Fanny Cradock (excerpt)
Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey, known as Fanny Cradock, was an influential English television cook and writer, prominent from the 1950s to the 1970s. Born in Leytonstone, Essex, she became renowned for her television shows and cookbooks which popularized more elaborate cooking. With her fourth husband, Johnnie Cradock, she often portrayed a comic domestic dynamic that captivated audiences.
Biography of Ida Danis (excerpt)
Ida Danis, born 18 February 1893 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French actress, known for her roles in silent films. She was the sister of director Pierre Danis. She passed away at the age of 28 from tuberculosis in Arcachon on April 9, 1921.
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Biography of Grete Weil (excerpt)
Grete Weil (18 July 1906 – 14 May 1999) was a German writer. She was born Margarete Elisabeth Dispeker, the daughter of a prominent lawyer in Munich. She studied German literature in Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich, and Paris. In 1932, she began writing her dissertation, and also completed her first story, "Erlebnis einer Reise" (Experience of a trip).
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Biography of Elly Ney (excerpt)
Elly Ney (27 September 1882 – 31 March 1968) was a German romantic pianist who specialized in Beethoven, and was especially popular in Germany. Personal life Elly Ney was married twice; first, in 1911, to the Dutch conductor Willem van Hoogstraten.They had one daughter, Eleonore (1918–2007).
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Biography of Ethel Ayres Purdie (excerpt)
Ethel Ayres Purdie (née Ayres) (2 October 1874 – 26 March 1923) was a chartered accountant and suffragist. She specialised in counselling women and women's suffragist organisations. She was active in the Women's Tax Resistance League which argued that no vote meant no tax.
Biography of Jerry Wexler (excerpt)
Gerald Wexler (January 10, 1917 – August 15, 2008) was a music journalist turned music producer, and was a major influence on American popular music from the 1950s through the 1980s.He coined the term "rhythm and blues", and was integral in signing and/or producing many of the biggest acts of the time, including Ray Charles, the Allman Brothers, Chris Connor, Aretha Franklin, Led Zeppelin, Wilson Pickett, Dire Straits, Dusty Springfield and Bob Dylan.
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Biography of Elena Fortún (excerpt)
María de la Encarnación Gertrudis Jacoba Aragoneses y de Urquijo (November 18, 1886, Madrid – May 8, 1952, Madrid) was a Spanish author of children's literature known by her pen name Elena Fortún. She gained fame with her series starting with "Celia, lo que dice" (1929), which became classics of Spanish literature.
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Biography of Oscar Luigi Scalfaro (excerpt)
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, né le 9 septembre 1918 à Novara et décédé le 29 janvier 2012, fut le président de l'Italie de 1992 à 1999. Membre de la Démocratie Chrétienne (DC), il devint un politicien indépendant après la dissolution du DC en 1992, se rapprochant du Parti Démocratique de centre-gauche fondé en 2007.
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Biography of Consuelo Zavala (excerpt)
Consuelo Zavala Castillo (1874-1956) was a Mexican feminist, teacher, and founder of one of the first secular private schools in Mérida, Mexico. She is credited with establishing the first kindergarten to utilize the Froebel method in Mérida. She was the organizer of the First Feminist Congress in Mexico, authorized by state governor Salvador Alvarado.
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Biography of Jimmy Wakely (excerpt)
James Clarence Wakely (February 16, 1914 – September 23, 1982) was an American actor, songwriter, country music vocalist, and one of the last singing cowboys. During the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, he released records, appeared in several B-Western movies with most of the major studios, appeared on radio and television and even had his own series of comic books.
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Biography of Vittorio Pozzo (excerpt)
ttorio Pozzo (2 March 1886 in Rome (Wikipedia says Turin) – 21 December 1968 in Turin) was an Italian football player, manager and journalist. The creator of the Metodo tactical formation, Pozzo is regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time, and is the only manager to guide a national team to two FIFA World Cup titles as coach, leading the Italy national team to victory in the 1934 and 1938 FIFA World Cups.
Biography of Jean Bouyssonie (excerpt)
Canon Jean Bouyssonie, born August 31, 1877 in Brive-la-Gaillarde in the department of Corrèze in France and died August 13, 1965 in the same city, is a French Catholic priest, canon and prehistorian who became interested in the remains. of the departments of Lot and Corrèze.
Biography of Léo Barbier (excerpt)
Léo Barbier, born August 18, 1908 in Neuilly-l'Évêque and died October 15, 1943 in the Ivanonvo region (USSR) at the age of 35, was a French aviator and fighter pilot.
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Biography of Ariadna Scriabina (excerpt)
Ariadna Aleksandrovna Scriabina (Russian: Ариадна Александровна Скрябина; also Sarah Knut, née Ariadna Alexandrovna Schletzer, pseudonym Régine; 26 October 1905 – 22 July 1944) was a Russian poet and activist of the French Resistance, who co-founded the Zionist resistance group Armée Juive.
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Biography of Helena Grossówna (excerpt)
Helena Grossówna (25 November 1904, Thorn, German Empire – 1 July 1994, Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish actress and dancer, who starred in several popular Polish films during the interwar period.She worked as a waitress during the German occupation of Poland, and at the same time, she served as an officer (lieutenant) in the Polish underground.
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Biography of Hélène Viannay (excerpt)
Hélène Victoria Mordkovitch (12 July 1917 in Paris – 25 December 2006), spouse of Philippe Viannay, was a French résistante who cofounded the Resistance movement Défense de la France on 14 July 1941. Hélène Viannay was born in Paris to Russian parents, who had emigrated to Paris in 1908 after being twice imprisoned by the Czarist government.
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Biography of Yelizaveta Chaikina (excerpt)
Yelizaveta Ivanovna Chaikina (Russian: Елизавета Чайкина; 28 August 1918 – 23 November 1941) often referred to as Liza Chaikina, was the Secretary of the Kalinin Komsomol Penovsky underground committee, a Soviet partisan detachment organizer and posthumous Heroine of the Soviet Union. ![]()
Biography of Elettra Pollastrini (excerpt)
Elettra Pollastrini (15 July 1908 – 2 February 1990) was an Italian politician.She was elected to the Constituent Assembly in 1946 as one of the first group of women parliamentarians in Italy. Pollastrini was born in Rieti in 1908.Her family moved to La Spezia, where she completed school.
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Biography of Corinne Griffith (excerpt)
Corinne Griffith, born Griffin, was an American film actress, producer, author, and businesswoman, known as "The Orchid Lady of the Screen." A leading beauty of the silent film era, she earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her role in "The Divine Lady" (1929).
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Biography of Grace Vanderbilt Stevens (excerpt)
Grace Vanderbilt Stevens is an American heiress, born as the sole daughter of Cornelius "Neily" Vanderbilt III (1873–1942) and Grace Graham Wilson Vanderbilt (1870-1953). Her only sibling was an elder brother, Cornelius Vanderbilt IV (1898–1974), who went through seven marriages but did not have any children.
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Biography of Marie Ventura (excerpt)
Marie Ventura (born Aristida Maria Ventura 14 July 1888 - 3 December 1954) was a Romanian-French actress and theatre director. From 1919 to 1941 she worked at the Comédie-Française. In 1938, she directed Iphigénie by Racine, becoming the first women to direct a play at the Comédie-Française.
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Biography of Diego Valeri (poet) (excerpt)
Diego Valeri (January 25, 1887, Rome - November 28, 1976) was an Italian poet and literary critic.
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Biography of Andrejs Upits (excerpt)
Andrejs Upīts (4 December 1877, Skrīveri parish, Russian Empire – 17 November 1970, Riga, Latvian SSR) was a Latvian teacher, poet, short story writer. Career and literary activity Andrejs Upīts, while writing for the newspaper "Mājas viesis" under the pseudonym Andrei Araji in 1892, published his first articles, Parunas, Skrīveros uzrakstītas (Recorded Proverbs of Skrīveri) (No.
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Biography of Martha Sharp (excerpt)
Martha Ingham Dickie Sharp Cogan (April 25, 1905 – December 6, 1999) was an American Unitarian who was involved in humanitarian and social justice work with her first husband, a Unitarian minister, Waitstill Sharp, and others of her denomination, and so helped hundreds of Jews to escape Nazi persecution, through relocation and other efforts. ![]()
Biography of Marie Kalff (excerpt)
Marie Kalff, born Johanna Maria Kalff on July 29, 1874, was a Dutch-born actress based in Paris.Born in Amsterdam to a bank director, she spent part of her childhood in Java. Kalff's acting career in Paris spanned from 1904 to 1929, mainly at Théâtre Antoine-Simone Berriau and Théâtre de l'Œuvre.
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Biography of Rex Bell (excerpt)
Rex Bell, born George Francis Beldam on October 16, 1903, was an American actor and politician, predominantly known for his roles in Western films. His film debut was in 1928's "Wild West Romance." Notably, he starred in the 1930 movie "True to the Navy," alongside Clara Bow, whom he married in 1931.
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Biography of Alfred Machin (excerpt)
Alfred Machin (20 April 1877 – 16 June 1929) was a French actor and film director.He is remembered to have been one of the few French film directors whose films expressed progressive tendencies before World War I.He was also a pioneer of aerial filming.
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Biography of Elliott Roosevelt (general) (excerpt)
Elliott Roosevelt (September 23, 1910 – October 27, 1990) was an American aviation official and wartime officer in the United States Army Air Forces, reaching the rank of brigadier general. He was a son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
Biography of Roger Mompezat (excerpt)
Roger Georges Mompezat was born in Bordeaux on April 3, 1899 and died on March 21, 1958 in Toulouse. With Henri Sevenet, member of S.O.E (F), he founded the Corps franc de la Montagne Noire. From the start of the war, he took an active part in the Resistance and was a member of several resistance networks.
Biography of René Alleau (excerpt)
René Alleau (6 June 1917 – 18 October 2013) was a French author, historian and consulting engineer. The focus of his numerous works are symbology and alchemy, the occult and secret societies. As well as his own works, he contributed articles in these fields to the Encyclopædia Universalis.
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Biography of Bill Bowerman (excerpt)
William Jay Bowerman (February 19, 1911 – December 24, 1999) was an American track and field coach and co-founder of Nike, Inc. Over his career, he trained 31 Olympic athletes, 51 All-Americans, 12 American record-holders, 22 NCAA champions and 16 sub-4 minute milers.
Biography of Jean Raymond Bayssade (excerpt)
Jean Raymond Bayssade, born July 2, 1913 in Verdun-sur-Garonne and died February 14, 1983 in the same city, was a French aviator and fighter pilot, member of the Resistance.
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Biography of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (excerpt)
Margarete "Grete" Lihotzky (born 23 January 1897 in the Margareten district of Vienna, Austria-Hungary – 18 January 2000) was an Austrian architect and a communist activist in the Austrian resistance to Nazism. She is mostly remembered today for designing what is known as the Frankfurt kitchen.
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Biography of Max Koegel (excerpt)
Otto Max Koegel (16 October 1895 – 27 June 1946) was a Nazi officer who served as a commander at Lichtenburg, Ravensbrück, Majdanek and Flossenbürg concentration camps. In 1946 he was arrested for his role in The Holocaust, but hanged himself in prison before he could stand trial.
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Biography of Suzanne Grinberg (excerpt)
Suzanne Grinberg ( 25 January 1888 - 5 July 1972) was a pioneering French lawyer, feminist and pacifist. She was one of the women who participated in the Inter-Allied Women's Conference which opened in Paris in February 1919. In 1920, she was vice-president of the Association du Jeune Barreau and secretary of the central committee of the French Union for Women's Suffrage.
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Biography of Carl Oberg (excerpt)
Carl Albrecht Oberg (27 January 1897 – 3 June 1965) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era.He served as Senior SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) in occupied France, from May 1942 to November 1944, during the Second World War, Oberg came to be known as the Butcher of Paris.
Biography of Georges Baptizet (excerpt)
Georges Baptizet, born April 10, 1908 in Moussey and died May 9, 1974 in Besançon, was a French aviator, fighter pilot and patrol leader. |
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