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Biography of Rosa Valetti (excerpt)
Rosa Valetti (born Rosa Alice Vallentin; 26 January 1876 – 10 December 1937) was a German actress, cabaret performer, and singer. Biography Rosa Valetti was born in Berlin, the daughter of industrialist Felix Vallentin and sister of actor Hermann Vallentin.She played her first roles in the theatres of suburban Berlin.
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Biography of Martin Hellinger (excerpt)
Martin Karl Hellinger (17 July 1904 – 13 August 1988) was a German Nazi dentist who in 1943 was assigned to work at the concentration camp for women at Ravensbrück, with the duty of removing dental gold from those killed at the camp.
Biography of Paul Ogorzow (excerpt)
Paul Ogorzow (29 September 1912 – 26 July 1941), also known as the S-Bahn Murderer, was a German serial killer and rapist who was active in Nazi-era Berlin between 1939 and 1941, during the height of the Second World War. An employee of Deutsche Reichsbahn, he exploited the regular wartime blackouts in order to commit numerous murders and sex crimes, mostly targeting lone female passengers traveling aboard Berlin's S-Bahn commuter rail system, and solitary housewives whose husbands had been called up for military service.
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Biography of Lotte Reiniger (excerpt)
Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger (2 June 1899 – 19 June 1981) was a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation.Her best known films are The Adventures of Prince Achmed, from 1926, the first feature-length animated film, and Papageno (1935).
Biography of Henry Charbonneau (excerpt)
Henry Charbonneau (pseudonym: Henry Charneau) (12 December 1913 in Saint-Maixent-l'École (birth certificate n° 64), Deux-Sèvres – 2 January 1983 in La Roche-sur-Yon) was a French far right politician and writer. The son of a soldier, Charbonneau initially came to political activism as a member of the Action Française before embarking on a varied career with a number of far right groups.
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Biography of Louise Closser Hale (excerpt)
Louise Closser Hale (October 13, 1872 – July 26, 1933) was an American actress, playwright and novelist. Career Acting Hale made her theatrical debut in Detroit in an 1894 production of In Old Kentucky.She initially acted with touring troupes in the Midwest.Her Broadway debut was in Arizona (1900).
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Biography of Dagmar Myhrvold (excerpt)
Dagmar Myhrvold (April 19, 1898 – April 21, 1972) was a Norwegian actress. After attending Sofie Bernhoft's school, Myhrvold spent a year studying theater in Copenhagen.In 1916 she was able to make her debut as a participant in Edvard Drabløs's touring theater.
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Biography of Christian Herter (excerpt)
Christian Archibald Herter (March 28, 1895 – December 30, 1966) was an American diplomat and Republican politician who was the 59th Governor of Massachusetts from 1953 to 1957 and United States Secretary of State from 1959 to 1961.He served as president of the board of trustees at the Dexter School from 1937 to 1939. ![]()
Biography of Jacques André (aviator) (excerpt)
Jacques André (25 February 1919 – 2 April 1988) was a French fighter pilot in the Normandie-Niemen Regiment, which flew on the Eastern Front of World War II. He was one of four french citizens awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. ![]()
Biography of Janis Jaunsudrabins (excerpt)
Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš (August 25, 1877 in Nereta – August 25, 1962 in Körbecke) was a Latvian writer and painter and one of the most popular authors of the first Republic of Latvia between the two world wars. Between 1886–1892 he attended school in Nereta. ![]()
Biography of Mélinée Manouchian (excerpt)
Mélinée Manouchian (born Melina Assadourian or Soukémian; 1913 - 1989) was a French-Armenian résistante and the widow of Missak Manouchian. She was born in 1913 in Constantinople as Melina Assadourian (or Soukémian).During the Armenian genocide she lost her parents and was taken, along with her elder sister, to a Protestant orphanage in Smyrne. ![]()
Biography of Edmund Lowe (excerpt)
Edmund Sherbourne Lowe (March 3, 1890 – April 21, 1971) was an American actor.His formative experience began in vaudeville and silent film. Lowe was born in San Jose, California.His father was a local judge.His childhood home was at 314 North 1st Street, San Jose.
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Biography of Anton Saefkow (excerpt)
Anton Emil Hermann Saefkow (22 July 1903 – 18 September 1944) was a German Communist and a resistance fighter against the National Socialist régime. He was arrested in July 1944 and executed on 18 September by guillotine. Anton Saefkow was born in Berlin, a member of a socialist working-class family and in 1920 while still a metalworker's apprentice, joined the Young Communist League of Germany to whose Berlin leadership he rose in 1922.
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Biography of Alice Voinescu (excerpt)
Alice Voinescu (10 February 1885 – 4 June 1961) was a Romanian writer, essayist, university professor, theatre critic, and translator. She was the first Romanian woman to become a Doctor of Philosophy, which she did at the Sorbonne in 1913 in Paris.
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Biography of Óscar Esplá (excerpt)
Óscar Esplá y Triay (August 5, 1886 – January 6, 1976) was a renowned Spanish composer.The Conservatorio Superior de Música in Alicante is named in his honor, and since 1955, the city of Alicante has awarded the Óscar Esplá international prize for composition.
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Biography of Thorleif Heyerdahl (excerpt)
Thorleif Heyerdahl (born 16 April 1900 in Oslo, died 11 February 1981 in Lillehammer) was a Norwegian painter. Heyerdahl lived 20 years of his life on Tjøme, where many of his motifs are also from. He also took motifs from Svolvær and later from Gausdal, Gudbrandsdalen and the Lillehammer area, especially after he moved to Lillehammer in 1953.
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Biography of Enrico Pea (excerpt)
Enrico Pea, born October 29, 1881 in Seravezza and died August 11, 1958 in Forte dei Marmi, was an Italian writer, poet and playwright, winner of the Viareggio Prize. Pea's literary production can be divided into two periods: the first is that of Moscardino (1922), translated into English by Ezra Pound, and other works in which, despite his religious torments, he is incomparable in the description of scenes of popular life, in a disordered ecstasy of recounting between sighs and cries, the memories of villagers in mourning, the glories and triumphs of superstition and sex, the dark stories of those who travel and those who return.
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Biography of Zoe Akins (excerpt)
Zoe Byrd Akins (October 30, 1886 – October 29, 1958) was an American playwright, poet, and author.She won the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for drama for The Old Maid. Career and life Her first major dramatic work was Papa, written in 1914.The comedy failed even though it greatly impressed both H.L.
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Biography of Geneviève Félix (excerpt)
Geneviève Félix, born Geneviève Abraham on February 21, 1901, in Paris 10th arrondissement (contrary to incorrect data on Wikipedia; IMDb is right), and died on November 12, 1980, in Antibes, was a French film actress. The daughter of Jean Baptiste Abraham, a gendarme, and Marie Analie Mice Brousse, a seamstress, Geneviève Simonne Marie Abraham was born in Clamart in 1899.
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Biography of James Edwards (actor) (excerpt)
James Johnson Edwards (March 6, 1918 – January 4, 1970) was an American actor in films and television. His most famous role was as Private Peter Moss in the 1949 film Home of the Brave, in which he portrayed a Black soldier experiencing racial prejudice while serving in the South Pacific during World War II.
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Biography of María Arias Bernal (excerpt)
María Arias Bernal, known as María Pistolas (1884–1923), was a Mexican schoolteacher and revolutionary agitator during the Mexican Revolution. Supporting President Francisco I. Madero until his assassination by Victoriano Huerta, Arias notably defended Madero’s tomb against Huerta's regime. She founded the Women's Loyalty Club to promote Madero's legacy and led protests.
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Biography of Ernie Nordli (excerpt)
Ernest Nordli (June 15, 1912 – April 22, 1968) was an American animation designer and layout artist, most notably for Walt Disney Studios. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah to Norwegian immigrant Hans Magnus Nordli (1884-1975) and Hedvig Charlotte Esterblom (1888-1976) who was of Swedish heritage.
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Biography of Riccardo Bacchelli (excerpt)
Riccardo Bacchelli (19 April 1891 – 8 October 1985) was an Italian writer. In 1927 he was one of the founders of the review La Ronda and Bagutta Prize for literature. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature eight times.
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Biography of Fritz Fischer (medical doctor) (excerpt)
Fritz Ernst Fischer (5 October 1912 – 2003) was a Nazi German medical doctor who performed medical atrocities on inmates of the Ravensbrück concentration camp. He was tried and convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the 1947 Doctors' Trial; he was sentenced to life imprisonment, but his sentence was commuted to 15 years and he was released in 1954.
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Biography of Max Born (excerpt)
Max Born (December 11, 1882 in Breslau, German Empire (now Wrocław) – January 5, 1970 in Göttingen, West Germany) was a German physicist and mathematician. A remarkable theoretical physicist, he is best known for his major contribution to quantum physics. He was the first to interpret the square of the modulus of the wave function as the probability density of presence.
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Biography of Hanna Van de Voort (excerpt)
Hanna Van de Voort (born in Meerlo, November 26, 1904 and died in Utrecht on July 26, 1956), also known as Aunt Hanna, was a Dutch nurse and resistance fighter during the Second World War. Together with Nico Dohmen and Kurt Loewenstein, she placed 123 Jewish children in foster families in North Limburg, saving them from deportation and death.
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Biography of Clara González (excerpt)
Clara González (11 September 1898 – 11 February 1990) was a Panamanian feminist, lawyer, judge, and activist. She became the first Panamanian woman to earn her Bachelor of Law Degree in 1922. In 1922, she created the Partido Nacional Feminista (PNF, National Feminist Party) to campaign for women's rights and suffrage.
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Biography of Pedro Salinas (excerpt)
Pedro Salinas y Serrano (27 November 1891 – 4 December 1951) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27, as well as a university teacher, scholar and literary critic.In 1937, he delivered the Turnbull lectures at Johns Hopkins University.
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Biography of Luis Zambrano (excerpt)
Luis Zambrano (Bailadores, State of Mérida, May 1, 1901 - Tovar, State of Mérida, August 15, 1990) was a popular self-taught inventor from the State of Mérida, Venezuela, a mechanical genius. He created dozens of inventions. In 1977 he lost his right hand following an accident with a saw.
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Biography of Leonard Ornstein (excerpt)
Leonard Salomon Ornstein (12 November 1880 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands – 20 May 1941 in Utrecht, the Netherlands) was a Dutch physicist. Ornstein studied theoretical physics with Hendrik Antoon Lorentz at University of Leiden. He subsequently carried out Ph.D. research under the supervision of Lorentz, concerning an application of the statistical mechanics of Gibbs to molecular problems.
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Biography of Hugh Ramsay (excerpt)
Hugh Ramsay (25 May 1877 – 5 March 1906) was an Australian artist. Early life and education Miss Nellie Patterson (1903), daughter of Ambrose Patterson, niece of Nellie Melba Ramsay was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 25 May 1877, the son of John Ramsay.
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Biography of Ida Gerhardt (excerpt)
Ida Gerhardt (11 May 1905, Gorinchem – 15 August 1997, Warnsveld) was a Dutch classicist and post-symbolist poet. She attended the Erasmus Gymnasium in Rotterdam, where poet J.H. Leopold taught her Classics and left a lasting impact. She studied classical languages in Leiden and Utrecht, graduating cum laude in 1942.
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Biography of Mary McLeod Bethune (excerpt)
Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (née McLeod; July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955) was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, established the organization's flagship journal Aframerican Women's Journal, and presided as president or leader for a myriad of African American women's organizations including the National Association for Colored Women and the National Youth Administration's Negro Division.
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Biography of Rosa Stallbaumer (excerpt)
Rosa (Hoffman) Stallbaumer (30 November 1897 – 23 November 1942) was a member of the Austrian Resistance during World War II. Her name is one of 124 names of women and men from Tyrol, Austria inscribed on the Liberation Monument at The Eduard-Wallnöfer-Platz in Innsbruck in recognition of both her involvement in resisting National Socialism and of her death at Auschwitz, following her incarceration at that Nazi concentration camp as punishment for helping Jewish targets of Nazi persecution escape to Italy.
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Biography of Julian Tuwim (excerpt)
Julian Tuwim (13 September 1894 – 27 December 1953), known also under the pseudonym "Oldlen" as a lyricist, was a Polish poet, born in Łódź, then part of the Russian Partition. He was educated in Łódź and in Warsaw where he studied law and philosophy at Warsaw University.
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Biography of Tamara Karsavina (excerpt)
Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (9 March 1885 – 26 May 1978) was a Russian prima ballerina, renowned for her beauty, who was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later of the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev. After settling in Britain at Hampstead in London, she began teaching ballet professionally and became recognised as one of the founders of modern British ballet.
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Biography of Virginia Vale (excerpt)
Virginia Vale (born Dorothy Howe, May 20, 1920 – September 14, 2006) was an American film actress. She starred in a number of B-movie westerns but took a variety of other roles as well, notably in Blonde Comet (1941), in which she played a race car driver.
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Biography of Aloha Wanderwell (excerpt)
Aloha Wanderwell (Idris Galcia Hall née Welsh, October 13, 1906 – June 4, 1996) was a Canadian explorer, author, filmmaker, and aviator.Her birth time comes from an article in which she herself gives her birth time. Beginning when she was 16 years old, she become the first woman to circumnavigate the globe, driving a Ford 1918 Model T over a five year period (1922–1927).
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Biography of Léon Bourjade (excerpt)
Jean-Pierre Léon Bourjade (Montauban, May 25, 1889 – Papua New Guinea, October 22, 1924) was a French aviation ace and missionary. Tributes A few years after his death, the famous aviator Jean Mermoz, during one of his crossings of the South Atlantic by plane, had a serious oil leak which assured him of perdition at sea; although an atheist, he addressed a “prayer” to his pilot colleague Léon Bourjade and landed in extremis on a beach in Senegal, the propeller “flagged”.
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Biography of Helena Kuipers-Rietberg (excerpt)
Helena Theodora Kuipers-Rietberg (Winterswijk, 1893 – Ravensbrück, 27 December 1944) was a Dutch resistance member who played an important role during World War II, when she was one of the driving forces of a national underground organization that supported those who were hiding from the German occupying forces.
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Biography of Agustín Muñoz Grandes (excerpt)
Agustín Muñoz Grandes (January 27, 1896 – July 11, 1970) was a Spanish general and politician, vice-president of the Spanish Government and minister several times under Francisco Franco. Born in Madrid, he joined the Toledo Infantry Academy and was deployed to Morocco in 1915.
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Biography of Thorbjørn Egner (excerpt)
Thorbjørn Egner (12 December 1912 – 24 December 1990) was a Norwegian playwright, songwriter, and illustrator, best known for his children's books, plays, and musicals. His notable works include "Karius og Baktus" (1949) and "Folk og røvere i Kardemomme by" (1955). He grew up in Oslo's Kampen neighborhood and studied art at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry.
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Biography of Émile Bulcke (excerpt)
Émile Bulcke, born March 20, 1875 in Ostend and died October 28, 1963 in Schaerbeek, is a Belgian painter and sculptor. He was above all a portrait painter (he produced 16 portraits of the Mayor of Ostend) and a flower painter. He was a friend and student of the portrait painter Albert Cortvriendt.
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Biography of Paul Abrioux (excerpt)
Paul Abrioux, born October 22, 1908 in Dijon (Côte-d'Or) and died for France on November 17, 1951 in Ussana in the province of Southern Sardinia in Italy, was a French aviator of the Second World War, "as of aviation”.
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Biography of Christian Kittilsen (excerpt)
Christian Kittilsen (born 1907 in Oslo, died 1977 in Austbygde i Tinn) was a Norwegian cartoonist, draftsman, painter and illustrator. Kittilsen studied medicine from 1926 to 1931, but interrupted his studies and chose art instead.He completed a short painting course with Carl von Hanno, but was otherwise self-taught.
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Biography of Edmond Marin la Meslée (excerpt)
Edmond Marin la Meslée, born on February 5, 1912 in Valenciennes and killed in combat on February 4, 1945 in Dessenheim (Haut-Rhin), is the most decorated French aviation ace of the French campaign with sixteen confirmed aerial victories (and four more probable) achieved between January and June 1940.
Biography of Antonia Maymón (excerpt)
Antonia Rufina Maymón Giménez (18 July 1881 – 20 December 1959) was a Spanish rationalist pedagogue, militant naturist, anarchist, and feminist who published books on various topics. Antonia Rufina Maymón Giménez was born to a family from Aragon.She studied to be a teacher in the 'Escuela Normal Femenina' of Zaragoza, a city where she also married professor Lorenzo Lagoon, an anarchist. ![]()
Biography of Gualtiero Tumiati (excerpt)
Gualtiero Tumiati ( 8 May 1876 – 23 April 1971) was an Italian actor and stage director. Life and career Born in Ferrara, Tumiati studied at the College of the Oaks in Florence and there he attended the acting courses held by Luigi Rasi.
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Biography of Ana María Martínez Sagi (excerpt)
Anna Maria Martínez Sagi (16 February 1907 – 2 January 2000) was a Spanish poet, trade unionist, journalist, feminist, and athlete. She was a national javelin champion and the first female director of a Spanish football club. During the Spanish Civil War, she followed the Durruti Column as a journalist and later went into exile in France.
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Biography of Sergei Bulgakov (excerpt)
Sergei Nikolayevich Bulgakov (Russian: Серге́й Никола́евич Булга́ков; 28 July (O.S. 16 July) 1871 – 13 July 1944) was a Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, and economist. Orthodox writer and scholar David Bentley Hart has said that Bulgakov was "the greatest systematic theologian of the twentieth century." |
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