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Biography of Peter Schaap (SD member) (excerpt)
Pieter (Peter) Schaap (Zandvoort, June 18, 1902 – Groningen, June 29, 1949) was a Dutch collaborator of the SD, one of the German police organizations under the authority of Heinrich Himmler and the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin. He was a fanatical persecutor of Jews and shot numerous people dead.
Biography of Domingo Marrero Navarro (excerpt)
Domingo Marrero Navarro (1909–1960) was a Puerto Rican educator, writer, and speaker. Born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, on January 11, 1909, he received a diploma in theology in 1929 and began his first pastorship in 1930. He pursued further studies in education, philosophy, and law at the University of Puerto Rico and Columbia University.
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Biography of Nando Bruno (excerpt)
Nando Bruno, born Fernando Bruno (Rome, October 6, 1895 – Rome, April 10, 1963), was an Italian actor. He began performing at a young age in Rome's avanspettacolo and variety shows. After a long theater career, he was cast by Mario Mattoli for the film L'ha fatto una signora (1938).
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Biography of Allan Jones (actor) (excerpt)
Allan Jones (October 14, 1907 – June 27, 1992) was an American tenor and actor. Jones is best remembered today as the male romantic lead actor in the first two films the Marx Brothers starred in for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, A Night at the Opera (1935) and A Day at the Races (1937), as well as the film musicals Show Boat (1936) and The Firefly (1937), where he introduced "The Donkey Serenade", which became his signature song.
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Biography of Bruno Balz (excerpt)
Bruno Balz (6 October 1902 in Berlin – 14 March 1988 in Bad Wiessee) was a German songwriter and schlager lyricist. From writing for the first German sound film until his retirement in the 1960s, Balz penned the lyrics to over a thousand popular hits, many in collaboration with composer Michael Jary.
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Biography of Guy La Chambre (excerpt)
Guy La Chambre, born on June 5, 1898, in Paris and died on May 25, 1975, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French politician. A lawyer by profession, he served as a minister before and after the war, and as a deputy of Ille-et-Vilaine from 1928 to 1942, and again from 1951 to 1958.
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Biography of Ross Gregory (cricketer) (excerpt)
Ross Gerald Gregory (27 February 1916 – 10 June 1942) was an Australian Test cricketer. Different sources indicate that he was born during the night of February 27 to 28. Gregory, a diminutive gifted right-hand batsman, was a precocious batting talent, making his debut for Victoria while still at school and his Test cricket debut before the age of 21 in the 1936–37 season, after scoring 128 for his state against Gubby Allen's MCC tourists.
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Biography of Jacques de Bernonville (excerpt)
Count Jacques Charles Noel Dugé de Bernonville (December 20, 1897 – April 26, 1972) was a French collaborationist and senior officer in the Vichy regime's Milice. He tracked down and executed Resistance fighters and participated in deporting French Jews to Drancy and extermination camps.
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Biography of Lea Grundig (excerpt)
Lea Grundig (Dresden, 23 March 1906 – 10 October 1977, at sea) was a German painter and graphic artist. Born into a Jewish family in Dresden, she studied at the Decorative Arts Academy and later at the Fine Arts Academy, where Otto Dix influenced her work.
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Biography of Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (excerpt)
Ernst II (born 31 August 1871 in Altenburg – died 22 March 1955 in Trockenborn-Wolfersdorf) was the last reigning Duke of Saxe-Altenburg and a German general active during World War I. As the only son of Prince Moritz, he inherited the duchy in 1908 after the death of his uncle, Ernst I.
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Biography of Dawn Powell (excerpt)
Dawn Powell (November 28, 1896 – November 14, 1965) was an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and short story writer. Known for her acid-tongued prose, "her relative obscurity was likely due to a general distaste for her harsh satiric tone." Nonetheless, Stella Adler and author Clifford Odets appeared in one of her plays.
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Biography of Leonetto Cappiello (excerpt)
Leonetto Cappiello, born in Livorno on 9 April 1875 and died in Cannes on 2 February 1942, was a versatile Italian artist who became a French citizen in 1930. He is recognized as the modernizer of French posters, following Jules Chéret’s influence.
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Biography of Patricia Dane (excerpt)
Patricia Dane (born Thelma Patricia Pippins, August 4, 1917 – June 5, 1995) was an American actress of the 1940s. Born in Florida, her birth year and place vary by source. She attended the University of Alabama before moving to New York in 1938 to work as a model.
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Biography of Antonio Brivio (excerpt)
Antonio Brivio Sforza (born December 27, 1905, and died January 20, 1995) was an Italian racing driver and bobsledder. His greatest achievements in motorsport include victories at the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps (1932), the Targa Florio (1933 and 1935), and the Mille Miglia (1936).
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Biography of Maly Delschaft (excerpt)
Maly Delschaft, born on December 4, 1898, in Hamburg and died on August 20, 1995, in Berlin, was a German actress active in both theater and film. Maly Delschaft began her career in theater before transitioning to silent films. Her most significant film roles were during the Weimar Republic and the Nazi era.
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Biography of John Walker (curator) (excerpt)
John Walker III (December 24, 1906 – October 16, 1995) was an American art curator and the second director of the National Gallery of Art, serving from 1956 to 1969. A Harvard graduate in art history in 1930, he co-founded the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art with Philip Johnson and Lincoln Kirstein.
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Biography of Giambattista Dal Piaz (excerpt)
Giambattista Dal Piaz (Feltre, September 3, 1904 – Padua, October 28, 1995) was an Italian geologist. He graduated in natural sciences from the University of Padua in 1927 and taught geology at the University of Turin and later in Padua, where he also taught paleontology and petrography.
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Biography of Henning Brütt (excerpt)
Henning Brütt (August 14, 1888 – January 24, 1979) was a German surgeon, urologist, and neurosurgeon. After studying medicine at several universities, he earned his doctorate in 1912. He became a surgeon under Hermann Kümmell and specialized in urology in 1919. In 1920, he qualified as a professor of surgery.
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Biography of Jacques Andrieux (aviator) (excerpt)
Jacques Andrieux (Lorient, August 15, 1917 - Saint-Georges-de-Didonne, January 21, 2005) was a French military officer and Companion of the Liberation. A pilot who refused to accept defeat in 1940, he fled to England and fought throughout the war in the Royal Air Force, achieving several aerial combat victories.
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Biography of Alberto Hurtado (excerpt)
Alberto Hurtado, SJ (born Luis Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga; January 22, 1901 – August 18, 1952), popularly known as Padre Hurtado, was a Chilean Jesuit priest, lawyer, social worker, and writer of Basque ancestry. He founded the Hogar de Cristo foundation in 1944.
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Biography of Francisco Rios Gonzalez (excerpt)
Francisco Ríos González, known as "El Pernales" (born July 23, 1879, in Estepa, Seville - died August 31, 1907, in Villaverde de Guadalimar, Albacete), was a famous Andalusian bandit. Born into a poor family, he started stealing at a young age. Influenced by legendary outlaws in his region, he joined fellow bandits to rob wealthy estates.
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Biography of Anton van der Waals (excerpt)
Antonius van der Waals (born October 11, 1912, in Rotterdam; died January 26, 1950, in Scheveningen) was a spy for the German Sicherheitsdienst (SD) during World War II. He was responsible for the deaths of 83 resistance members and played a key role in the Englandspiel, which led to the deaths of numerous Dutch agents sent from England.
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Biography of Coba Ritsema (excerpt)
Jacoba Johanna (Coba) Ritsema (27 June 1876, Haarlem – 13 December 1961, Amsterdam) was a Dutch portrait painter. Born into an artistic family, she studied drawing in Haarlem and later at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam from 1893 to 1897. She was taught by renowned artists like August Allebé and Thérèse Schwartze.
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Biography of Luciano Kulczewski (excerpt)
Luciano Kulczewski García, born on January 12, 1896, in Temuco, Chile, and died on September 19, 1972, in Santiago, was a prominent 20th-century Chilean architect. Of Polish descent, he came from a family with a rich history; his grandfather Antoni was decorated for bravery during the 1831 November Uprising against Russia.
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Biography of Hubert Hoffmann (excerpt)
Hubert Hoffmann (* March 23, 1904, Berlin – † September 25, 1999, Graz) was a German-Austrian urban planner, architect, author, and painter, and the grandson of architect Hubert Stier. The son of Walter Hoffmann, he studied at the Bauhaus Dessau from 1926 to 1930 under Walter Gropius.
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Biography of Hugo Erfurth (excerpt)
Hugo Erfurth (14 October 1874 – 14 February 1948) was a German photographer famous for his portraits of cultural figures of the early 20th century. Born in Halle (Saale), he grew up in Schönau and later studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (1892–1896).
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Biography of Alfred Döblin (excerpt)
Bruno Alfred Döblin (10 August 1878 – 26 June 1957) was a German novelist, essayist, and doctor, best known for his novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929). A prolific writer, he is a key figure in German literary modernism. His œuvre spans over fifty years and includes a dozen novels (historical fiction, science fiction, urban themes), plays, radio scripts, philosophical treatises, essays, and letters.
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Biography of Pascual Custode (excerpt)
Pasquale Maria Custode del Vecchio (born in Castelnuovo di Conza, Italy, on November 21, 1873 - died in Sincelejo, Colombia, on January 23, 1928) was a Catholic priest who ministered in the departments of Sucre and Córdoba, Colombia. He served in the parishes of Sampués, Palmito, San Andrés de Sotavento, Chinú, Sahagún, and Sincelejo, where he inspired a whole generation through his dedicated and selfless service.
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Biography of Johnston McCulley (excerpt)
John William Johnston McCulley (February 2, 1883 – November 23, 1958) was an American writer of hundreds of stories, fifty novels and numerous screenplays for film and television, and the creator of the character Zorro. Born in Ottawa, Illinois, and raised in Chillicothe, Illinois, McCulley graduated from Chillicothe Township High School in 1901.
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Biography of Alexander Mountbatten (excerpt)
Alexander Albert Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke (born Prince Alexander Albert of Battenberg; 23 November 1886 – 23 February 1960) was a British Royal Navy officer, a member of the Hessian princely Battenberg family and the last surviving grandson of Queen Victoria.
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Biography of Rirette Maîtrejean (excerpt)
Henriette Maîtrejean, known as "Rirette," was the pseudonym of Anna Estorges, born on August 14, 1887, in Tulle and died on June 11, 1968. She was a French individualist anarchist who contributed to the magazine L'Anarchie alongside Émile Armand and Albert Libertad.
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Biography of Dörte Helm (excerpt)
Dorothea "Dörte" Helm (3 December 1898 – 24 February 1941) was a German Bauhaus artist, painter, and graphic designer. Life and Career Born to philologist Rudolf Helm and Alice Caroline Bauer, of Jewish descent, Helm studied in Berlin-Steglitz and later in Rostock. From 1915 to 1918, she attended the Kunsthochschule Kassel before joining the Academy of Fine Arts in Weimar in 1918.
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Biography of Georg Aumann (excerpt)
Georg Aumann (11 November 1906 in Munich, Germany – 4 August 1980), was a German mathematician. He was known for his work in general topology and regulated functions. During World War II, he worked as part of a group of five mathematicians, recruited by Wilhelm Fenner, and which included Ernst Witt, Alexander Aigner, Oswald Teichmueller and Johann Friedrich Schultze, and led by Wolfgang Franz, to form the backbone of the new mathematical research department in the late 1930s, which would eventually be called: Section IVc of Cipher Department of the High Command of the Wehrmacht (abbr.
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Biography of Vincenzo Scarpetta (excerpt)
Vincenzo Scarpetta (born May 4, 1876, and passed away August 3, 1952) was an Italian actor, director, playwright, and composer. The son of Eduardo Scarpetta, he was the stepbrother of Eduardo, Peppino, Titina De Filippo, Eduardo Passarelli, and Pasquale De Filippo. After his father retired, he became the head of his theater company and was a pioneer of Neapolitan and Italian cinema.
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Biography of Bill Butland (excerpt)
Wilburn Rue Butland (March 22, 1918 – September 19, 1997) was an American professional baseball pitcher who appeared in 32 games in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox over four seasons between 1940 and 1947. Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, Butland batted right-handed and threw left-handed.
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Biography of Yank Terry (excerpt)
Lancelot "Yank" Terry (February 11, 1911 – November 4, 1979) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the Boston Red Sox (1940, 1942–1945). He batted and threw right-handed. He made his big league debut on August 3, 1940 during a double-header against the Detroit Tigers at Tiger Stadium.
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Biography of Josep Lluís Sert (excerpt)
Josep Lluís Sert (May 7, 1901 – March 15, 1983) was a Catalan architect and urban planner born in Barcelona, Spain. He studied at the Barcelona School of Architecture before moving to Paris in 1926 to work with Le Corbusier. Sert founded his own agency in 1929 and co-founded GATCPAC, introducing a rationalist aesthetic in Spain characterized by clean lines and abundant light.
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Biography of Martin Held (actor) (excerpt)
Martin Erich Fritz Held, born in Berlin on November 11, 1908, and died in Berlin on January 31, 1992, was a German theater and film actor. After training as a mechanic at Siemens, he studied acting at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1929 to 1931.
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Biography of Katharine Newlin Burt (excerpt)
Katharine Newlin Burt (September 6, 1882 – June 22, 1977) was an American novelist and film scenarist. She was a prolific author of Westerns and other novels, with a publishing career that spanned more than 60 years. At least seven of Burt's published works were adapted to film, and she authored the original screen stories for two more films.
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Biography of Gerhard Bigalk (excerpt)
Gerhard Bigalk (26 November 1908 – 17 July 1942) was a captain with the Kriegsmarine during World War II and commander of U-751. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Career Bigalk spent some years in the merchant marine before joining the Kriegsmarine in April 1934.
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Biography of Robert Foulk (excerpt)
Robert C. Foulk (born May 5, 1908, and died February 25, 1989) was an American television and film actor, best known for portraying Sheriff H. Miller in CBS’s Lassie from 1958 to 1962. Foulk studied at the University of Pennsylvania to become an architectural draftsman before shifting to acting.
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Biography of France Pejot (excerpt)
France Pejot, born on October 17, 1914, in Lyon and died on April 21, 2010, in Perpignan, was a French resistance fighter. During World War II, she joined the Franc-Tireur resistance movement with her sister in 1942, becoming secretary to its leader, Jean-Pierre Lévy.
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Biography of Zita of Bourbon-Parma (excerpt)
Zita of Bourbon, Princess of Parma, and later, through her marriage, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, was born on May 9, 1892, in Lucca, Italy, and died on March 14, 1989, in Zizers, Switzerland. The wife of Emperor Charles I, she was the last Empress of Austria, Queen of Hungary, and Queen of Bohemia.
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Biography of Hans Jantzen (excerpt)
Hans Jantzen (26 April 1881 – 15 February 1967) was a German art historian specializing in Medieval art. Initially studying law, he later turned to art history, archaeology, and philosophy, studying under Heinrich Wölfflin in Berlin and Adolph Goldschmidt in Halle. He earned his PhD in 1908 with a dissertation on architecture in Netherlandish paintings.
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Biography of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (excerpt)
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (25 June 1884 – 11 January 1979) was a German-born art collector, and one of the most notable French art dealers of the 20th century. He became prominent as an art gallery owner in Paris beginning in 1907 and was among the first champions of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and the Cubist movement in art.
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Biography of Jürgen Wagner (excerpt)
Jürgen Wagner (born September 9, 1901, died June 27, 1947) was a German officer in the Waffen-SS during World War II. He commanded the 23rd SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nederland and was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.
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Biography of Hans Jendretzky (excerpt)
Gustav Ernst Hans Jendretzky (July 20, 1897 – July 2, 1992) was a German Communist politician. He was a prominent figure in the Socialist Unity Party (SED) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). He joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1919 and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1920.
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Biography of Drucilla Strain (excerpt)
Drucilla Anna Strain (24 February 1913 – 19 January 1994) was an American musical theater actress and Ziegfeld Girl. The daughter of Robert Strain and Anna Fallon, she debuted on Broadway in 1929 in Follow Thru. She later appeared in several iconic musicals, including Cole Porter's Anything Goes (1934) and On Your Toes (1936).
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Biography of Louis Heijermans (excerpt)
Louis Heijermans (December 22, 1873 – July 22, 1938) was a Dutch social physician dedicated to improving the health of the poor and workers in the early 20th century. Born into a family of eleven children, he was the brother of playwright Herman Heijermans.
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Biography of Sarah Stewart (cancer researcher) (excerpt)
Sarah Elizabeth Stewart (August 16, 1905 – November 27, 1976) was a Mexican-American researcher who pioneered the field of viral oncology research, and the first to show that cancer-causing viruses can spread from animal to animal. She and Bernice Eddy co-discovered the first polyoma virus, and SE (Stewart-Eddy) polyoma virus is named after them. |
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