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Biography of Ernst Torgler (excerpt)
Ernst Torgler (April 25, 1893 – January 19, 1963) was a German politician who successively joined the SPD, USPD, KPD, and later returned to the SPD. After training as a salesman, Torgler served in World War I. He joined the SPD in 1911, switched to the USPD in 1918, and to the KPD in 1920.
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Biography of Louis Longequeue (excerpt)
Louis Longequeue (born November 30, 1914, in Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, died August 11, 1990, in Limoges) was a French politician affiliated with the Socialist Party, best known for serving as the mayor of Limoges from 1956 to 1990. Born into a family of teachers, he studied pharmacy and joined the Resistance during World War II, notably in the Haute-Vienne Medical Resistance Committee.
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Biography of Victor Bourgeois (excerpt)
Victor Bourgeois (born August 28, 1897, in Charleroi; died July 24, 1962, in Ixelles) was a Belgian architect and urban planner, a leading figure of the modernist movement. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, he co-edited the 7 Arts magazine (1922-1929) with his brother Pierre, focusing on the seven arts, including cinema, and co-founded the Club des Amis du Septième Art (CASA).
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Biography of Anzia Yezierska (excerpt)
Anzia Yezierska (October 29, 1880 – November 20, 1970) was an American novelist, known for her stories about Jewish immigrants in New York. Born in Poland, then part of the Russian Empire, she emigrated to the U.S. in 1893 and grew up in Manhattan's Lower East Side.
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Biography of Adrien Turel (excerpt)
Adrien Turel (born June 5, 1890, in Saint Petersburg and died June 29, 1957, in Zurich) was a Swiss writer. His time of birth comes from him, in his autobiography "Bilanz eines erfolglosen Lebens: Autobiographie" by Adrien Turel (Moderne, 1989). He grew up in Switzerland and Germany, studying Germanic studies, Romance languages, and history before abandoning his studies to focus on psychoanalysis.
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Biography of Lion Feuchtwanger (excerpt)
Lion Feuchtwanger (7 July 1884 – 21 December 1958) was a German Jewish novelist and playwright. A prominent figure in the literary world of Weimar Germany, he influenced contemporaries including playwright Bertolt Brecht. Feuchtwanger's Judaism and fierce criticism of the Nazi Party, years before it assumed power, ensured that he would be a target of government-sponsored persecution after Adolf Hitler's appointment as chancellor of Germany in January 1933.
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Biography of Suzanne Desprès (excerpt)
Suzanne Desprès (18 December 1873 – 29 June 1951) was a French actress who was born at Verdun, Meuse and trained at the Paris Conservatoire, where in 1897 she obtained the first prize for comedy, and the second for tragedy. She then became associated with, and subsequently married, Lugné-Poe, the actor-manager, who had founded a new school of modern drama at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre.
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Biography of Fernande Barrey (excerpt)
Fernande Barrey (January 9, 1893, in Paris 10e – July 14, 1960, in Paris) was a French artist's model and painter. She left Picardy around 1908 for Paris, where she initially survived as a child prostitute. She later became a model for artists such as Amedeo Modigliani and Chaïm Soutine, who encouraged her to study painting and art history at the École des Beaux-Arts.
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Biography of Princess Chichibu Setsuko (excerpt)
Setsuko, Princess Chichibu (born Matsudaira Setsuko, September 9, 1909 – August 25, 1995), was a member of the Japanese imperial family and the wife of Prince Yasuhito, the second son of Emperor Taishō and Empress Teimei. She was the sister-in-law of Emperor Shōwa and aunt by marriage to Emperor Akihito.
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Biography of Richard Cromwell (actor) (excerpt)
Richard Cromwell (born LeRoy Melvin Radabaugh, January 8, 1910 – October 11, 1960) was an American actor. His career peaked with roles in Jezebel (1938) alongside Bette Davis and Henry Fonda, and Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) by John Ford, again with Fonda.
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Biography of Rudolf Levy (excerpt)
Rudolf Levy (July 15, 1875 – January 1944) was a German Expressionist painter of Jewish descent. Born into an Orthodox Jewish family, he grew up in Danzig. Despite his parents’ objections, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe in 1895, later moving to Munich.
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Biography of Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (excerpt)
Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (Gustaf Adolf Oscar Fredrik Arthur Edmund; 22 April 1906 – 26 January 1947) was a Swedish prince who for most of his life was second in the line of succession to the Swedish throne. He was the eldest son of Gustaf VI Adolf, who was crown prince for most of his son's life and ascended the Swedish throne three years after his son's death.
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Biography of Amedeo Biavati (excerpt)
Amedeo Biavati (born April 4, 1915, in Bologna – died April 22, 1979) was an Italian footballer, who played as a forward or a winger. Known for his speed, creativity, precise dribbling, and technical ability, Biavati is regarded as one of the greatest Italian wingers of all time.
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Biography of Charles Derennes (excerpt)
Charles Derennes, born on August 4, 1882, in Villeneuve-sur-Lot and died on April 27, 1930, in Paris, was a French writer. The son of a teacher and Breton writer, he spent his childhood in Villeneuve-sur-Lot and studied at the lycée in Talence.
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Biography of Emilio Segrè (excerpt)
Emilio Gino Segrè (January 30, 1905 – April 22, 1989) was an Italian-American physicist and Nobel laureate, known for discovering the elements technetium and astatine, as well as the antiproton, a subatomic antiparticle. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959 alongside Owen Chamberlain.
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Biography of Ruth Rewald (excerpt)
Ruth Rewald (born June 5, 1906, in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, and likely killed in Auschwitz in 1942) was a German children’s author of Jewish origin. Her work combined revolutionary proletarian literature with humanist themes. After abandoning her law studies, she published her first children’s books in 1931, focusing on social issues like working children’s lives and feelings of statelessness.
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Biography of Käte Stresemann (excerpt)
Käte Stresemann (née Kleefeld; July 15, 1883 – July 23, 1970) was the wife of German Chancellor, Foreign Minister, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Gustav Stresemann. Admired for her elegance and intelligence, she was a prominent social figure in the 1920s, hosting diplomatic gatherings at her Berlin salon.
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Biography of Kurt von Kleefeld (excerpt)
Kurt von Kleefeld (born 16 October 1881 in Kassel as Kurt Kleefeld, died 1934 in Berlin) was a German lawyer, executive director of the House, President of the Chamber and executive director of the princely mines and industrial activities of the princely Hohenlohe family.
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Biography of Peretz Naftali (excerpt)
Peretz Naftali (March 19, 1888 – April 30, 1961) was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician who held several ministerial positions in the 1950s. Born Fritz Naftali in Berlin, he joined the German Social Democratic Party in 1911 and served in the German Army during World War I.
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Biography of Suzanne Aron Benoit-Lévy (excerpt)
Suzanne Aron, born Benoit-Lévy on January 25, 1896, in Paris, and passed away on October 28, 1988, in Paris, was a French Jewish educator and co-founder of École Yabné in 1948 alongside Chief Rabbi Henri Schilli. During World War II, she was hidden by Jeanne Brousse, recognized as Righteous Among the Nations, who also protected Rabbi Schilli's daughters.
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Biography of Ernst Balcke (excerpt)
Ernst Balcke (*April 9, 1887, Berlin – †January 16, 1912, Gatow) was a German author, best known for his friendship with poet Georg Heym, with whom he tragically died while skating on the Havel. The eldest son of a banker, Balcke grew up in Berlin-Schöneberg near the Heym family.
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Biography of Marius Daille (excerpt)
Marius Daille, born on October 10, 1878, in Les Mollettes, was a distinguished French general during the Second World War. Beyond his military career, he gained international recognition as a speaker and columnist, publishing works in English and authoring several books on military analysis and strategy.
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Biography of Evelina Paoli (excerpt)
Evelina Paoli, born Lina Vianello (30 March 1878 – 28 December 1974), was an Italian actress. Born in Florence to a bourgeois family, she began her theatrical career at 18 with Achille Vitti's company and later joined Eleonora Duse's troupe, touring from 1900 to 1902.
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Biography of Nanna With (excerpt)
Nanna Bergitte Caroline With (30 May 1874 – 22 February 1965) was a Norwegian journalist, voice pedagogue, and organizational leader. Born in Andenes, she was the daughter of shipowner and politician Richard With and Oline Sophie Wennberg. She served as editor-in-chief of Vesteraalens Avis from 1905 to 1907 and Hver 8.
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Biography of Salvador Novo (excerpt)
Salvador Novo López (July 30, 1904 – January 13, 1974) was a Mexican writer, poet, playwright, translator, and the official chronicler of Mexico City. A member of Los Contemporáneos and the Mexican Academy of Language, he significantly influenced Mexican politics, culture, and society.
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Biography of Felice Casorati (excerpt)
Felice Casorati (4 December 1883 – 1 March 1963) was an Italian painter, sculptor, and printmaker known for his figure compositions, portraits, and still lifes with unusual perspective effects. Born in Novara, he abandoned piano studies after an illness and turned to art.
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Biography of Alfred Gause (excerpt)
Alfred Gause, born on February 14, 1896, in Königsberg, and died on September 30, 1967, in Bonn, was a German Generalleutnant who served in the Heer of the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, a prestigious decoration for extreme bravery on the battlefield or successful military leadership.
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Biography of Aaslaug Aasland (excerpt)
Aaslaug Aasland (11 August 1890 – 30 August 1962) was a Norwegian politician from the Labour Party. She served as Minister of Social Affairs from 1948 to 1953. Graduating in law in 1922, she held several public service positions, including prison and labor inspector.
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Biography of Elsa Gindler (excerpt)
Elsa Gindler (19 June 1885 – 8 January 1961) was a somatic bodywork pioneer in Germany. Born in Berlin, teacher of gymnastik, student of Hedwig Kallmeyer (who, in turn, had been a student of Genevieve Stebbins). From her personal experience of recovering from tuberculosis (it is said by concentrating on breathing only with her healthy lung and resting the diseased lung), Gindler originated a school of movement education, in close collaboration with Heinrich Jacoby.
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Biography of Manuel Cabré (excerpt)
Manuel Cabré, born on January 25, 1890, in Barcelona and passed away on February 26, 1984, in Caracas, was a renowned Venezuelan painter, especially celebrated for his landscapes. The son of sculptor Ángel Cabré i Magriñá, he grew up in Venezuela and joined the Caracas Academy of Fine Arts at 14, where his father taught.
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Biography of Steffen Ahrends (excerpt)
Steffen Ahrends (16 August 1907 – 31 October 1992) was a German-born architect, son of architect Bruno Ahrends. His son, Peter Ahrends, born in 1933 in Berlin, is also an architect based in Dublin, Ireland. After graduating from Landheim Schondorf in 1924, Ahrends studied at the Technical Hochschule in Berlin and later at the Bauhaus in Weimar (1925–1929) under Otto Bartning and Ernst Neufert.
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Biography of Pauline Pô (excerpt)
Pauline Pô (August 28, 1904 – October 16, 1979) was a French actress and the winner of the 1921 Miss France contest, then called La plus belle Femme de France. Originally from Ajaccio, she first won the Miss Corse title in 1920 before being crowned Reine de Beauté des Provinces de France in 1921.
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Biography of Francis Salet (excerpt)
Francis Salet, born in the 6th arrondissement of Paris on February 12, 1909, and passed away in the 7th arrondissement of Paris on September 5, 2002, was a historian and museum curator, as well as a member of the Institut de France.
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Biography of Hanns Kräly (excerpt)
Hanns Kräly, credited as Hans Kraly in the United States, was a German actor and screenwriter. He is best known for his collaboration with director Ernst Lubitsch, with whom he worked on 30 films between 1915 and 1929. Their partnership ended in 1930 due to an affair between Kräly and Lubitsch’s then-wife, Helene Krauss.
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Biography of Simone Louise des Forest (excerpt)
Simone Louise Pinet de Borde des Forest (March 7, 1910 – November 15, 2004) was a French racing driver, a pioneer in women's motorsports. She earned her driver’s license in 1929, a rarity for women at the time. By 1930, she began competing in car races and became a professional driver.
Biography of Marcel-Louis Baugniet (excerpt)
Marcel-Louis Baugniet, born on March 18, 1896, in Liège and passed away on February 1, 1995, in Brussels, was a Belgian avant-garde artist. A painter, he also worked with collages, ceramics, illustration, tapestries, furniture design, and art criticism. He studied at the Brussels Academy alongside Paul Delvaux and René Magritte before training in Paris with Ossip Zadkine and Fernand Léger.
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Biography of Elinor Wylie (excerpt)
Elinor Wylie (September 7, 1885 – December 16, 1928) was an American poet and writer, renowned in the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Somerville, New Jersey, she grew up in Washington in a prominent family: her grandfather was the Governor of Pennsylvania, and her father was the U.
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Biography of Oscar Grimes (excerpt)
Oscar Ray Grimes Jr. (April 14, 1915 – May 19, 1993) was an American utility infielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Cleveland Indians (1938–1942), New York Yankees (1943–1946) and Philadelphia Athletics (1946). Grimes batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Minerva, Ohio.
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Biography of Oskar Maria Graf (excerpt)
Oskar Maria Graf (July 22, 1894 – June 28, 1967) was a German-American writer known for his autobiographical narratives about life in Bavaria. Born in Berg, Bavaria, Graf fled his family in 1911 to live in Munich’s bohemian circles. During World War I, he was discharged after refusing orders and being institutionalized.
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Biography of Ed Walker (American veteran) (excerpt)
Edgar Walker (August 28, 1917 – October 28, 2011) was an American World War II veteran, businessman, publisher, and writer. He was a member of "Castner's Cutthroats," an elite reconnaissance unit in the Aleutian Islands. Born in San Juan Bautista, California, he enlisted in the Army in 1937 and developed a passion for Alaska, where he joined Castner's Cutthroats.
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Biography of Walter Czollek (excerpt)
Walter Czollek (8 April 1907 – 23 April 1972) was the head of the East German publishing house Verlag Volk und Welt from 1954 to 1972. Born in Charlottenburg, Berlin, into a Jewish family, he trained in textile production and studied applied economics.
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Biography of Robert Busnel (excerpt)
Robert Busnel (14 September 1914 – 15 March 1991) was a French professional basketball player, coach, and administrator. Standing 1.92 m tall, he played as a power forward. Busnel was made an Officer of the Legion of Honor in 1989 and awarded the Olympic Order by the IOC in 1990.
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Biography of Gordon Oliver (actor) (excerpt)
Gordon Oliver (April 27, 1910 – January 26, 1995) was an American actor and film producer. He appeared in more than 40 films and television shows between 1933 and 1972. Oliver began working in films in 1936, eventually working for Warner Bros.
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Biography of Virgilio Polara (excerpt)
Virgilio Polara (born in Modica on July 7, 1887, died in Messina on August 25, 1974) was an Italian physicist. A student at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa from 1904, he graduated in physics in 1908 under the mentorship of Angelo Battelli, whom he assisted until 1911.
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Biography of Rose Grane (excerpt)
Rose Cremer, known as Rose Grane, was a French theater and silent film actress. She was born on January 14, 1889, in Liancourt, Oise, and passed away on July 2, 1931, at the age of 42 in Tlemcen, Algeria. The daughter of Louis Victor Crémer, a shoemaker, and Marie-Louise Cosmann, a housewife, Rose Crémer was born on Roger-Duplessis Street in Liancourt on January 14, 1889. ![]()
Biography of Étienne Balsan (excerpt)
Fulcran Étienne Balsan (February 11, 1878, Paris – March 1, 1954, Rio de Janeiro) was a French gentleman rider, horse breeder, and influential figure in high society. The son of industrialist Auguste Balsan, he left his military career to focus on horse breeding and racing, particularly at his Royallieu estate near Compiègne.
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Biography of Konrad Wolff (excerpt)
Konrad Wolff (11 March 1907 – 23 October 1989) was a German pianist and musicologist. Born in Berlin, he studied at the University of Heidelberg and Berlin, earning a Doctor of Law degree. He was close friends with Stephan Kuttner and Hsu Dau-lin.
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Biography of Régina Badet (excerpt)
Anne Régina Badet was born on October 9, 1876, in Bordeaux and died on October 26, 1949, in Bordeaux. She was a French comedic actress and dancer, renowned for her performances at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. She began as a principal dancer at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux in 1890 before joining the Opéra-Comique in 1904.
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Biography of Hans Purrmann (excerpt)
Hans Marsilius Purrmann (born April 10, 1880, in Speyer; died April 17, 1966, in Basel) was a German painter, graphic artist, art collector, and writer. He studied at the Karlsruhe School of Fine Arts (1897-1899) and the Munich Academy of Arts (1900-1905).
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Biography of Philipp Jarnach (excerpt)
Philipp Jarnach, born on July 26, 1892, in Noisy-le-Sec, France, and died on December 17, 1982, in Börnsen, was a German composer of modern music, pianist, teacher, and conductor. The son of a Spanish sculptor and a Flemish mother, he studied piano at the Conservatoire de Paris before becoming a student of Ferruccio Busoni in Zurich during World War I. |
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