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Biography of Bugsy Siegel (excerpt)
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (February 28, 1906 – June 20, 1947) was an American gangster, popularly thought to be the impetus behind large-scale development of Las Vegas. Early life Benjamin Siegelbaum was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a poor Jewish family from Letychiv, Podolia Governorate of the Russian Empire (today's Ukraine).
Biography of Akira Kurosawa (excerpt)
Akira Kurosawa (Kyūjitai: 黒澤 明, Shinjitai: 黒沢 明, Kurosawa Akira., 23 March 1910 (birth time source: time rectified by Starkman) – 6 September 1998) was a prominent Japanese film director, film producer, and screenwriter. His first credited film (Sugata Sanshiro) was released in 1943; his last (Madadayo) in 1993.
Biography of Paul Éluard (excerpt)
Paul Éluard was the pen name of Eugène Grindel (December 14, 1895 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – November 18, 1952), a French poet born in Saint-Denis, just outside of Paris, who was active in the surrealist movement. He later joined French Communist Party, which lead to his break from the Surrealists, and eulogised Stalin in his political writings.
Biography of Ginger Rogers (excerpt)
Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an Academy Award-winning American film and stage actress and singer. In a film career spanning fifty years she made a total of seventy-three films, and is now principally celebrated for her role as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre.
Biography of Hergé (excerpt)
Georges Prosper Remi (May 22, 1907 – March 3, 1983), better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. "Hergé" is the French pronunciation of "R.G.", his initials reversed. His best-known and most substantial work is The Adventures of Tintin, which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death in 1983, which left the twenty-fourth Tintin adventure, Tintin and Alph-art, unfinished.
Biography of Luis Buñuel (excerpt)
Luis Buñuel Portolés (February 22, 1900 – July 29, 1983) was a Spanish filmmaker who worked mainly in Mexico and France, but also in his native country and the United States. He is considered one of the most important directors in the history of cinema.
Biography of Bing Crosby (excerpt)
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation.
Biography of Joseph Patrick Kennedy (excerpt)
Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy, Sr. (September 6, 1888 – November 18, 1969), was a prominent United States businessman and political figure, the father of President John F. Kennedy and Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy. He was a leading member of the Democratic Party and of the Irish Catholic community.
Biography of Nat King Cole (excerpt)
Nathaniel Adams Coles, known professionally as Nat King Cole (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965) was a popular American singer, songwriter, and jazz pianist. He first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist, then switched his emphasis to singing, becoming one of the most popular and best-known singers of the 1950s.
Biography of Madame Soleil (excerpt)
Germaine Soleil (July 18, 1913 in Paris - October 27, 1996 in Paris), best known as Madame Soleil, was a French astrologer and radio host en Europe 1 French channel.
Biography of Anandamayi Ma (excerpt)
Anandamoyi Ma Bengali: আনন্দময়ী মা (April 30, 1896 (birth time source: Anandamayee: The Universal Mother (A Divine Presence on the Earth, 1896-1982) by Buddhadev Bhattacharya), also called Anandamayi Ma, was a spiritual teacher (Guru), saint and a mystic from the Bengal region of India, and hailed as one of prominent mystics of the 20th century.
Biography of Marcel Pagnol (excerpt)
Marcel Pagnol (February 28, 1895 – April 18, 1974) was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Born February 28, 1895 in Aubagne, Bouches-du-Rhône département, in southern France near Marseille, the son of school teacher Joseph Pagnol and seamstress Augustine Lansot, Marcel Pagnol grew up in Marseille with his younger brothers Paul, René, and younger sister Germaine.
Biography of Yvonne de Gaulle (excerpt)
Yvonne de Gaulle (May 22, 1900 (birth time source: birth certificate, birth certificate n° 750) – November 8, 1979), born as Yvonne Charlotte Anne Marie Vendroux, was the wife of Charles de Gaulle. They were married on April 7, 1921. She was sometimes known as "Tante Yvonne.
Biography of Antarès (astrologer) (excerpt)
Antares was a Belgian astrologer born October 26, 1900. He has written a lot of books about astrology.
Biography of Bô Yin Râ (excerpt)
Bô Yin Râ (Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken), born on November 25, 1876, in Aschaffenburg, near Frankfurt am Main, Germany (birth time source: birth certificate), was a painter and author. His ancestors were peasants, foresters, and rural craftsmen. The father, Joseph S., was a native of Burgstadt, Franconia.
Biography of Yehudi Menuhin (excerpt)
Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE (April 22, 1916 – March 12, 1999) was an American violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in the United Kingdom. Though born in New York City, New York, he later became a citizen of Switzerland in 1970, and in 1985, of the United Kingdom.
Biography of Groucho Marx (excerpt)
Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977), was an American comedian and film star. He is famed as a master of wit. He made 15 feature films with his siblings, the Marx Brothers. He had a distinctive image which included a heavy moustache, glasses and fake eyebrows.
Biography of Vincenzo Lancia (excerpt)
Vincenzo Lancia (Fobello August 24, 1881 (birth time source: Gauquelin vol 1, who gave 24 October, most probably in error) – Turin February 15, 1937) was an Italian pilot, engineer and founder of car making company Lancia. Vincenzo Lancia was born in the small village of Fobello on August 24, 1881, close to Turin.
Biography of Louis Jouvet (excerpt)
Louis Jouvet (December 24, 1887 - August 16, 1951) was a renowned French actor and producer. His Anglo-French nephew Peter Wyngarde is an actor. Filmography 1932 : Topaze de Louis Gasnier - rôle d'Auguste Topaze, humble professeur 1933 : Knock de Louis Jouvet et Roger Goupillières - rôle du docteur Knock
Biography of Albert Schweitzer (excerpt)
Albert Schweitzer, M.D., OM, (January 14, 1875 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - September 4, 1965), was an Alsatian theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician. He was born in Kaisersberg, Alsace-Lorraine (at that time part of the German Empire). After the Allies' victory in 1918, he asked for French nationality according to his Alsacian ancestries, and got it without trouble.
Biography of Wilhelm Reich (excerpt)
Wilhelm Reich (March 24, 1897 – November 3, 1957) was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Reich was a respected analyst for much of his life, focusing on character structure, rather than on individual neurotic symptoms. He promoted adolescent sexuality, the availability of contraceptives and abortion, and the importance for women of economic independence.
Biography of Jean Moulin (excerpt)
Jean Moulin (June 20, 1899 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – July 8, 1943) was a high-profile member of the French Resistance during World War II. He is remembered today as an emblem of the Resistance primarily due to his courage and death at the hands of the Germans.
Biography of Jean Renoir (excerpt)
Jean Renoir (French IPA: ) (September 15, 1894 – February 12, 1979), born in the Montmartre district of Paris, France, was a film director, actor and author. He was the second son of Aline Charigot and the French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Biography of Joseph Losey (excerpt)
Joseph Walton Losey (January 14, 1909, La Crosse, Wisconsin – June 22, 1984, London) was an American theater and film director. After studying in Germany with Bertolt Brecht, Losey returned to the United States, eventually making his way to Hollywood. While in Hollywood, Losey co-directed the original U.
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New Zealand is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui) and the South Island (Te Waipounamu)—and more than 700 smaller islands, covering a total area of 268,021 square kilometres (103,500 sq mi).
Biography of Bob Hope (excerpt)
Bob Hope KBE (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was an English-born entertainer who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, in radio, television, movies, and on numerous USO tours for U.S. military personnel. English birth Born Leslie Townes Hope in Eltham, London, England, Hope was the fifth of seven sons.
Biography of Charles Lindbergh (excerpt)
Charles Augustus Lindbergh (4 February 1902 (birth time source: BC) – 26 August 1974), known as "Lucky Lindy" and "The Lone Eagle," was an American pilot famous for the first solo, non-stop flight across the Atlantic, from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, NY to Paris in 1927 in the "Spirit of St.
Biography of Jeanne Weber (serial killer) (excerpt)
Jeanne Weber, born October 7, 1874 in Kérity (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died in 1910, was a French serial killer. She strangled 10 children, including her own. After she was convicted in 1910, she hanged herself in her cell.
Biography of Sergei Prokofiev (excerpt)
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (Russian: Серге́й Серге́евич Проко́фьев, Sergéj Sergéjevič Prokófjev) born in Sontsovka, Ukraine of the Russian Empire on April 23 (April 15 O.S.), 1891–March 5, 1953 was a Russian and Soviet composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century.
Biography of Roland Barthes (excerpt)
Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 – March 25, 1980) (pronounced ) was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and semiotician. Barthes' work extended over many fields and he influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiology, existentialism, Marxism and post-structuralism.
Biography of Carlo Ponti (excerpt)
Carlo Ponti (December 11, 1912 – January 9, 2007) was an Italian film producer with over 140 production credits. Career Ponti was born in Magenta, Italy and studied law at the University of Milan. He joined his father's law firm in Milan and became involved in the film business through negotiating contracts.
Biography of Clara Bow (excerpt)
Clara Gordon Bow (July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965) was an American actress and sex symbol, best known for her silent film work in the 1920s. Bow was widely recognized as an archetypal flapper and the original "It Girl". Early life
Biography of Stefan Zweig (excerpt)
Stefan Zweig (November 28, 1881, Vienna, Austria – February 23, 1942, Petrópolis, Brazil) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. Life Zweig was the son of Moritz Zweig, a wealthy Jewish textile manufacturer, and Ida (Brettauer) Zweig, the daughter of an Italian banking family.
Biography of Thomas Mann (excerpt)
Paul Thomas Mann (June 6, 1875 – August 12, 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and mid-length stories, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual.
Biography of James J. Braddock (excerpt)
James Walter "Cinderella Man" Braddock (June 7, 1905 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, from "James J. Braddock's Life Story," Sporting Globe (Melbourne, Vic.), 7 Aug 1935, p. 12) – November 29, 1974) was an American boxer who was the world heavyweight champion from 1935–37.
Biography of Wanda Landowska (excerpt)
Wanda Landowska (July 17, 1879 (gregorian calendar) – August 16, 1959), was a Polish (later a naturalized French citizen) harpsichordist whose performances, teaching, recordings and writings played a large role in reviving the popularity of the harpsichord in the early 20th century.
Biography of Heinrich Böll (excerpt)
Heinrich Theodor Böll (December 21, 1917 – July 16, 1985) was one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers. Böll was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972. Böll was born in Cologne, Germany to a liberal, Catholic, pacifistic family. He successfully resisted joining the Hitler Youth during the 1930s.
Biography of Marie Besnard (excerpt)
Marie Besnard (August 15, 1896 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - February 14, 1980) was an accused serial poisoner in the early 20th century. Born Marie Davaillaud in Loudun, France (1897), Marie married Auguste Antigny in 1920. The marriage lasted until his death in 1927 of pleurisy (Antigny was known to suffer from tuberculosis).
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Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. It is the largest country in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country by total area. The population of 26 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard.
Biography of Julia Child (excerpt)
Julia Child (born Julia Carolyn McWilliams August 15, 1912 – August 13, 2004) was an American cook, author, and television personality, who introduced French cuisine and cooking techniques to the American mainstream, through her many cookbooks and television programs. Her most famous works are the 1961 cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and, showcasing her sui generis television persona, the series The French Chef, which premiered in 1963.
Biography of Margaret Mitchell (excerpt)
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell Marsh (November 8, 1900 (birth time source: the website astrologysoftware quotes Lescaut and Penfiled) – August 16, 1949), popularly known as Margaret Mitchell was an American author, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her novel, Gone with the Wind, published in 1936.
Biography of Albert Speer (excerpt)
Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, commonly known as Albert Speer (March 19, 1905 – September 1, 1981), was an architect, author and high-ranking Nazi German government official, sometimes called "the first architect of the Third Reich". His two bestselling autobiographical works, Inside the Third Reich and Spandau: the Secret Diaries detailed his often close personal relationship with German dictator Adolf Hitler, have allowed readers and historians an unequalled personal view inside the workings of the Third Reich.
Biography of Max Ernst (excerpt)
Max Ernst (April 2, 1891 – April 1, 1976) was a German Dadaist and surrealist artist. Life Max Ernst was born in Brühl, Germany, near Cologne. In 1909, he enrolled in the University at Bonn to study philosophy but soon abandoned the courses.
Biography of Luchino Visconti (excerpt)
Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Duke of Modrone (November 2, 1906 - March 17, 1976) was an Italian theatre and cinema director and writer, best known for films such as The Leopard (1963). He died in Rome of a stroke at the age of 69.
Biography of Paul Valéry (excerpt)
Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry (October 30, 1871 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – July 20, 1945) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. His interests were sufficiently broad that he can be classified as a polymath. In addition to his fiction (poetry, drama and dialogues), he also wrote many essays and aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events.
Biography of Maurits Cornelis Escher (excerpt)
Maurits Cornelis Escher (June 17, 1898 – March 27, 1972), usually referred to as M. C. Escher, was a Dutch graphic artist known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs and mezzotints which feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessellations.
Biography of Willem de Kooning (excerpt)
Willem de Kooning (April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997) was a Dutch-American abstract expressionist artist. He was born in Rotterdam and moved to the United States in 1926, becoming an American citizen in 1962. In 1943, he married painter Elaine Fried.
Biography of Charles Trenet (excerpt)
Charles Trenet (May 18, 1913, Narbonne, France (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 184) – February 19, 2001, Créteil, France) was a French singer and songwriter, most famous for his recordings from the late 1930s through the mid-1950s, though his career continued through the 1990s.
Biography of Georges Simenon (excerpt)
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (February 13, 1903–September 4, 1989) was a Belgian writer who wrote in French. Early life and education Georges Simenon was born at 26 rue Léopold (now number 24) in Liège to Désiré Simenon and his wife Henriette. Désiré Simenon worked in an accounting office at an insurance company and had married Henriette in April 1902.
Biography of John Maynard Keynes (excerpt)
John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, CB (pronounced "cains", IPA /keɪnz/) (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) was a British economist whose ideas, called Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory as well as on many governments' fiscal policies. |
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