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Biography of Xavier Villaurrutia (excerpt)
Xavier Villaurrutia y González (27 March 1903 – 25 December 1950) was a Mexican poet, playwright, translator, and literary critic whose most famous works are the short theatrical dramas called Autos profanos, compiled in the work Poesía y teatro completos, published in 1953.
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Biography of Jennie Smillie Robertson (excerpt)
Jennie Smillie Robertson (February 10, 1878 – February 26, 1981), known throughout her career as Jennie Smillie, was the first Canadian female surgeon and also performed the country's first major gynecological surgery. Born to farmers, she worked as a teacher to afford tuition for medical school before enrolling at the Ontario Medical College for Women which merged into the University of Toronto medical school during her time there.
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Biography of Michel Arnaud (French resistance fighter) (excerpt)
Michel Arnaud, born on November 27, 1915, in Bourg-en-Bresse (Ain) and passed away on August 1, 1990, in Fréjus, was a French resistance fighter and Companion of the Liberation.
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Biography of Raymond Callemin (excerpt)
Raymond Callemin, born on March 26, 1890, in Brussels, and guillotined on April 21, 1913, in Paris, was a French anarchist and member of the Bonnot Gang, nicknamed "Raymond the Science" for his passion for reading. Coming from a modest family, he grew up with figures like Viktor Kibaltchich and Édouard Carouy.
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Biography of Óscar Castro Zúñiga (excerpt)
Óscar Castro Zúñiga (Rancagua, 25 March 1910 – Santiago, 1 November 1947) was a Chilean writer and poet. His literary work encompassed both the lyrical genre — with a transparent, human, and melancholic language, with perfect meter — and the narrative genre, much more realistic and close to criollismo.
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Biography of Georg Jacoby (excerpt)
Georg Jacoby (23 July 1882 – 21 February 1964) was a German film director and screenwriter. Jacoby was born in Mainz, Germany, the son of Wilhelm Jacoby (1855–1925), a German comedic playwright, who concentrated largely on creating farces, such as The Duchess of Athens (1883) and Pension Schöller (1890), which he co-authored with Carl Laufs.
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Biography of Albert Oustric (excerpt)
Albert Oustric (2 September 1887 – 16 April 1971) was a French entrepreneur and banker. The son of a café owner, he worked in various jobs before raising capital for a hydroelectric power generation company. In 1919, he founded a small bank, specializing in rescuing financially troubled enterprises through debt consolidation and inflated stock sales. ![]()
Biography of Silvana Jachino (excerpt)
Silvana Jachino (February 2, 1916 – August 28, 2004) was an Italian actress born in Milan. The daughter of composer Carlo Jachino and niece of Admiral Angelo Iachino, she began her career in 1935 in Giovacchino Forzano’s Fiordalisi d'oro. During the era of the White Telephone films, she acted alongside notable stars like Vittorio De Sica, Totò, and Amedeo Nazzari, appearing in classics such as Partire and La Cavalerie héroïque.
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Biography of Irina Baronova (excerpt)
Irina Mikhailovna Baronova FRAD (Russian: Ирина Михайловна Баронова; 13 March 1919 – 28 June 2008) was a Russian ballerina and actress who was one of the Baby Ballerinas of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, discovered by George Balanchine in Paris in the 1930s.
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Biography of Aurelia Gabriela Tizón de Perón (excerpt)
Aurelia Gabriela Tizón de Perón (March 18, 1902 – September 10, 1938) was an Argentine educator and the first wife of former Argentine president Juan Perón. Born in Buenos Aires, she was the daughter of Tomasa Erostarbe and Cipriano Tizón, a photographer.
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Biography of Eugène Mousset (excerpt)
Eugène Mousset, born on September 26, 1877, in Esch-sur-Alzette and died on February 14, 1941, in the same city, was a Luxembourgish painter. Coming from a modest family, he showed an early passion for painting. He studied in Karlsruhe, Munich, and Paris, where he honed his skills by copying works from masters like Rubens and Van Dyck.
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Biography of Juanito Valderrama (excerpt)
Juan Valderrama Blanca (25 May 1916 – 12 April 2004), better known as Juanito Valderrama, was a Spanish flamenco and folk singer.Although he was known for singing copla, he always claimed to be a flamenco singer. Born in Jaén, Juanito's recording career began in 1935 and lasted more than 60 years.
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Biography of Willy Kruyt (excerpt)
Willy Kruyt (born John William Kruyt; September 8, 1877 – July 1943) was a Dutch Protestant minister and a Christian socialist turned Communist politician. The son of a Dutch publisher and a Scottish mother, he studied theology at Utrecht and joined the League of Christian Socialists in 1910.
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Biography of Bobby Anet (excerpt)
Charles Robert Anet (August 11, 1917 – July 25, 1981) was a college basketball guard who helped guide the University of Oregon to win the inaugural NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament championship in 1938–39. Aside from scoring 10 points in the 46–33 win over Ohio State in the title game, Anet is most remembered for breaking the championship game trophy when he accidentally knocked it over while diving for a loose ball during the course of play.
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Biography of Alfons Sack (excerpt)
Alfons Gustav Sack (August 7, 1887 – March 31, 1945) was a German lawyer known for defending far-right figures during the Weimar Republic and Nazi officials later on. In the 1920s, Sack defended nationalist activists accused of political violence, including in the trial of Walther Rathenau's assassins.
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Biography of Kenneth R. Powell (excerpt)
Kenneth R. Powell (December 11, 1915 – September 16, 1987) was a Major General in the US Air Force. Born on a farm in McMinnville, he grew up in Tacoma, Washington, and earned a degree in sociology and psychology from Washington State University in 1938 before joining the Air Force.
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Biography of Pierre Auger (physicist) (excerpt)
Pierre-Victor Auger was a French physicist, born on May 14, 1899, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris and passed away on December 24, 1993, in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. He dedicated his work to atomic physics, nuclear physics, and cosmic rays.
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Biography of Gilles Margaritis (excerpt)
Gilles Margaritis, born on March 13, 1912, in Paris and passing away on November 7, 1965, was a French director, stage director, actor, and television producer, best known for his work on the show La Piste aux étoiles. He began his film career in 1934 with small roles in Les Affaires publiques by Robert Bresson and L'Atalante by Jean Vigo.
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Biography of Paul Cambo (excerpt)
Paul Cambo (de son vrai nom Paul-Marius-Raymond Mignonat), born on July 2, 1908, in Bort-les-Orgues (Corrèze) and died on February 19, 1978, in Maisons-Laffitte (Yvelines), was a French actor and comedian.
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Biography of Evangeline Walton (excerpt)
Evangeline Walton (November 24, 1907 – March 11, 1996), born Evangeline Wilna Ensley, was an American fantasy writer.She is known for her ability to bring historical and mythological subjects to life with eloquence, humor, and compassion. Born in Indianapolis to an educated Quaker family, she suffered from chronic respiratory illnesses and was privately educated.
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Biography of Raymond Appert (excerpt)
Raymond Appert (Saint-Quentin, October 10, 1904 - Saint-Mandé, April 17, 1973) was a resistance fighter in the Free French Forces, a French brigadier general, and a Companion of the Liberation.
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Biography of Ricardo Palmerín (excerpt)
Ricardo Palmerín Pavia, born on April 3, 1887, in Tekax, Yucatán, and died on January 30, 1944, in Mexico City, was a Mexican composer. He is best known for composing the music for Peregrina in 1922, at the request of Governor Felipe Carrillo Puerto, to honor American journalist Alma Reed.
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Biography of Rodolphe d'Erlanger (excerpt)
Baron Rodolphe d'Erlanger (June 7, 1872 – October 29, 1932) was a French painter and musicologist, specializing in North African and Arabic music. The fourth son of Franco-German banker Baron Frédéric Émile d'Erlanger and American Marguerite Mathilde Slidell, Rodolphe came from a distinguished family.
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Biography of Liliana Lubinska (excerpt)
Liliana Lubińska (October 14, 1904 - November 19, 1990) was a Polish neuroscientist known for her research on the peripheral nervous system and her discovery of bidirectional axoplasmic transport. Born in Łódź in 1904, she married neuroscientist Jerzy Konorski. She began her studies at the University of Warsaw, then continued at the Sorbonne, earning her doctorate in 1932 for work on reflexes.
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Biography of Paul Oskar Kristeller (excerpt)
Paul Oskar Kristeller (May 22, 1905, Berlin – June 7, 1999, New York, United States) was a scholar of Renaissance humanism, best known for his studies on Marsilio Ficino and his Iter Italicum, a catalog of uncatalogued manuscripts. Trained by thinkers such as Heidegger and Husserl, he earned his doctorate at Heidelberg in 1928.
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Biography of Jo Bouillon (excerpt)
Jo Bouillon (May 3, 1908 – July 9, 1984) was a French composer, conductor, and violinist, best known as the fourth husband of Joséphine Baker. Born to a musicologist in Montpellier, he led Jo Bouillon et son orchestre from 1936 to 1947 before accompanying artists like Mistinguett, Maurice Chevalier, and Joséphine Baker.
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Biography of Pauline Trigère (excerpt)
Pauline Trigère, born on November 4, 1908, in Paris and died on February 13, 2002, in New York, was a French-born American fashion designer. She quickly moved towards ready-to-wear after a brief start in couture and became known for her sharp, tailored cuts, coats, and capes.
Biography of Käthe Latzke (excerpt)
Käthe Latzke (8 May 1899 - 31 March 1945) was a German political activist (KPD) who resisted Nazism and spent most of her final twelve years in state detention.Her health having been broken, she died in Ravensbrück concentration camp. Käthe Latzke came from a working-class family and started her political activism by joining socialist youth organizations in 1918.
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Biography of Jorge Manuel Dengo Obregón (excerpt)
Jorge Manuel Dengo Obregón was a civil engineer from Costa Rica who served as First Vice President of Costa Rica. He was elected as Vice President on February 2, 1986. He belonged to the National Liberation Party. He played a leading role in the founding of the Costa Rican Electricity Institute.
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Biography of Marcello Marchesi (excerpt)
Marcello Marchesi, born on April 4, 1912, in Milan and died on July 19, 1978, in Cabras, was an Italian screenwriter and director. Marchesi wrote or contributed to the writing of 64 film scripts between 1939 and 1977. He also directed seven films between 1951 and 1952.
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Biography of Tina Modotti (excerpt)
Tina Modotti (born Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti Mondini, August 16, 1896 – January 5, 1942) was an Italian American photographer, model, actor, and revolutionary political activist for the Comintern. She left her native Italy in 1913 and emigrated to the United States, where she settled in San Francisco with her father and sister.
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Biography of Emlyn Williams (writer) (excerpt)
George Emlyn Williams, CBE (26 November 1905 – 25 September 1987) was a Welsh writer, dramatist, and actor. Born into a Welsh-speaking working-class family, he only learned English at age eight. Thanks to Sarah Grace Cooke’s encouragement, he earned a scholarship to study French and Italian at Oxford.
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Biography of Hans Baron (excerpt)
Hans Baron (Berlin, June 22, 1900 – November 26, 1988) was a German-American historian of political thought and the literature of the Italian Renaissance. As Ernst Troeltsch’s last assistant in Berlin, he oversaw the publication of the fourth volume of the philosopher’s Gesammelte Werke after his death.
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Biography of Henriette Hardenberg (excerpt)
Henriette Hardenberg (born Margarete Rosenberg, February 5, 1894 – October 26, 1993) was a German-Jewish poet who emigrated to Britain in the late 1930s. In the 1910s, she was part of the literary Expressionist circle around the magazine Die Aktion. Her poetry often examined the relationship between people and their bodies, especially the skin as an interface between self and world.
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Biography of Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann (excerpt)
Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann (October 18, 1876 – July 17, 1943) was a German modernist painter and the wife of painter Hans Purrmann. Born into a prominent family of scholars and entrepreneurs, she received a broad education in arts and languages. After studying painting in Berlin and Paris, she exhibited successfully at renowned salons like the Salon d’Automne and Salon des Indépendants.
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Biography of Jean Astier de Villatte (excerpt)
Jean Astier de Villatte (Soturac, November 25, 1900 – 13th arrondissement of Paris, October 6, 1985) was a French engineer and military officer, Companion of the Liberation. A civil company administrator, he was mobilized in 1939 and chose to join General de Gaulle's Free French forces.
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Biography of Georg Heym (excerpt)
Georg Theodor Franz Artur Heym (30 October 1887 – 16 January 1912) was a German writer, best known for his poetry, representative of early Expressionism. Born in Hirschberg, Silesia, he often clashed with social conventions, leaving his Wilhelmian middle-class parents baffled.In 1900, the family moved to Berlin, where Heym attended various schools unsuccessfully before enrolling at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Neuruppin. ![]()
Biography of Alan Baxter (actor) (excerpt)
Alan Edwin Baxter (November 19, 1908 – May 7, 1976) was an American film and television actor. Born in East Cleveland, Ohio, he graduated from Williams College, where he was a Phi Sigma Kappa member and classmate of Elia Kazan. He further studied at Yale University’s 47 Drama Workshop.
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Biography of Isabel Wilder (excerpt)
Isabel Wilder (January 13, 1900, Madison, Wisconsin – February 27, 1995, Hamden, Connecticut) was an American novelist, biographer, and arts patron.She was the sister of playwright Thornton Wilder, serving as his literary agent, spokesperson, and biographer. Born into a prominent family, her father Amos Parker Wilder was a newspaper publisher and U.S.
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Biography of Hans Posse (excerpt)
Hans Posse (6 February 1879 – 7 December 1942) was a German art historian and museum curator, best known for his role in assembling Hitler's art collection for the Führermuseum in Linz. He studied art history at the University of Vienna under Franz Wickhoff after initial studies in history and philology at Marburg.
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Biography of Ann Tiné (excerpt)
Ann Tiné, pseudonym of Anne Marie France Tiné, was born on March 30, 1916, in Algiers and died on January 29, 1990, in Cassis. She was a French sculptor and engraver. Her work belongs to the non-figurative movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Biography of Cesare Fantoni (excerpt)
Cesare Fantoni (1 February 1905 – 15 January 1963) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Born in Bologna, Fantoni began his acting career in Luchino Visconti’s stage proses until making his first on-screen appearance in 1937.He made his debut film appearance in Doctor Antonio.
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Biography of Kurt Schwabach (excerpt)
Kurt Schwabach, born on 26 February 1898 in Berlin and died on 26 October 1966 in Hamburg, was a German lyricist and composer. From a wealthy family, he served as a pilot in World War I. After the war, he began his career as a journalist and author for Berlin cabarets.
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Biography of Kurt Hiller (excerpt)
Kurt Hiller (born August 17, 1885, Berlin – died October 1, 1972, Hamburg) was a German essayist, lawyer, expressionist poet, and pacifist journalist. Born into a middle-class Jewish family, he was a communist inspired by Kant and Schopenhauer, though he rejected Hegel, which alienated him from Marxists.
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Biography of Mary Roberts Rinehart (excerpt)
Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 – September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie. Rinehart published her first mystery novel, The Circular Staircase, in 1908, which introduced the "had I but known" narrative style. Rinehart is also considered the earliest known source of the phrase "the butler did it", in her novel The Door (1930), although the exact phrase does not appear in her work and the plot device had been used prior to that time.
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Biography of Pierre Jamet (photographer) (excerpt)
Pierre Jamet, born on May 24, 1910, in Saint-Quentin and passed away on August 17, 2000, in Le Palais, was a French humanist photographer and singer, known as a member of the vocal quartet Les Quatre Barbus. From a young age, he developed a passion for singing and photography.
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Biography of Hans Kollwitz (excerpt)
Hans Kollwitz (14 May 1892 – 22 September 1971) was a German epidemiologist and the eldest son of artist Käthe Kollwitz.He earned his degree in medicine and psychotherapy in 1928. Born to Karl (1863–1940) and Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), Hans voluntarily served in the German Army during World War I.
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Biography of Hans Jonas (excerpt)
Hans Jonas, born on May 10, 1903, in Mönchengladbach (German Empire) and died on February 5, 1993, in New Rochelle (New York State, United States), was a historian of Gnosticism and a German philosopher. He is best known for his ethics for the technological age, particularly beyond philosophical circles.
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Biography of Aïcha (circus performer) (excerpt)
Emma Saïd Ben Mohamed (December 10, 1876 – July 18, 1930) was a French circus performer and the maternal grandmother of Édith Piaf, France's national chanteuse. Early Life Born in her parents' wagon in Soissons, she was the daughter of Saïd Ben Mohamed, a Kabyle acrobat from Algeria, and Margherita Bracco, an Italian acrobat.
Biography of Erich Unger (excerpt)
Erich Unger (1887-1950) was a Jewish philosopher known for his wide range of writings on topics such as poetry, Nietzsche, political theory, and Jewish philosophy, mainly published in German. Born in Berlin, Unger showed an early interest in intellectual debate.He attended school in Berlin-Lichterfelde, where he met Oskar Goldberg and became a founding member of the Expressionist literary movement in Germany. |
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