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Biography of Pyotr Pavlenko (excerpt)
Pyotr Andreyevich Pavlenko (Russian: Пётр Андре́евич Павле́нко), (born July 11, 1899, in St. Petersburg; died June 16, 1951, in Moscow), was a Soviet writer, screenwriter and war correspondent. He became a member of the CPSU in 1920. He was part of the Soviet trade delegation in Turkey from 1924 to 1927.
Biography of R. K. Narayan (excerpt)
Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami (10 October 1906 – 13 May 2001), was an Indian writer known for his work set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. He was a leading author of early Indian literature in English along with Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao.
Biography of Max Aub (excerpt)
Max Aub Mohrenwitz (June 2, 1903, Paris – July 22, 1972 Mexico City) was a Mexican-Spanish experimentalist novelist, playwright and literary critic. In 1965 he founded the literary periodical Los Sesenta (the Sixties), with editors that included the poets Jorge Guillén and Rafael Alberti.
Biography of Edmond Jouhaud (excerpt)
Edmond Jouhaud (2 April 1905 – 4 September 1995) was one of four French generals who briefly staged a putsch in Algeria in April 1961. As Army General he had been the Inspector General of the Air Force in French North Africa.
Biography of Susanne Langer (excerpt)
Susanne Katherina Langer (/ˈlæŋər/; née Knauth; December 20, 1895 – July 17, 1985) was an American philosopher, writer, and educator and was well known for her theories on the influences of art on the mind. She was one of the first women in American history to achieve an academic career in philosophy and the first woman to be popularly and professionally recognized as an American philosopher.
Biography of Faina Ranevskaya (excerpt)
Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya (Russian: Фаина Георгиевна Раневская, born Faina Girschevna Feldman, 27 August (O.S. 15 August) 1896 - 19 July 1984), is recognized as one of the greatest Soviet actresses in both tragedy and comedy. She was also famous for her aphorisms.
Biography of Conrad Aiken (excerpt)
Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973) was an American writer, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, a play, and an autobiography. Named poetry consultant of the Library of Congress from 1950–1952, Conrad Aiken earned numerous prestigious national writing awards, including a National Book Award, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the National Institute of Arts and Letters Gold Medal and the National Medal for Literature.
Biography of Simone Levaillant (excerpt)
Simone Levaillant, born Adèle Simonne Levaillant on November 19, 1904 in Saint-Étienne (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate), died in deportation on March 30, 1943 in Lublin Maïdaneck (Poland), was a feminist and resistant militant. She had been the first woman lawyer to join the Bar of Saint-Etienne.
Biography of Mikhail Astangov (excerpt)
Mikhail Fyodorovich Astangov (Russian: Михаи́л Фёдорович Аста́нгов), pseudonym of M.F. Ruzhnikov (Ружников) (3 November (O.S. 21 October) 1900 in Warsaw – 20 April 1965 in Moscow) was a Soviet actor, and an acclaimed People's Artist of the USSR (1955). Selected filmography The Oppenheim Family (1939)
Biography of Barthélemy Guérini (excerpt)
Barthélemy Guérini , best known as Mémé Guérini, born on April 25, 1908 in Calenzana (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on March 1, 1982 in La Valette, Montpellier, was a French dominant figure in the post-war milieu of Marseille, with his brother Antoine Guérini.
Biography of Vera Menchik (excerpt)
Vera Frantsevna Menchik (1 March (Gregorian calendar) (16 February Julian calendar) 1906 – 26 June 1944) was a British-Czechoslovak-Russian chess player who became the world's first women's chess champion. She also competed in chess tournaments with some of the world's leading male chess masters, with occasional successes including two wins over future world champion Max Euwe.
Biography of Marcelle de Jouvenel (excerpt)
Marcelle Georgette Fernande de Jouvenel des Ursins, born Prat, is a French writer and psi subject, born on April 12, 1896 in Neuilly-sur-Seine (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died on May 20, 1971 in the same town. She was the wife of Bertrand de Jouvenel, and the mother of Roland de Jouvenel (died May 2, 1946 at the age of 14, typhoid).
Biography of Jacques Brunius (excerpt)
Jacques B. Brunius, French actor, director and writer, was born Jacques Henri Cottance in Paris 17e on September 16, 1906 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), and died in Exeter, Devon (UK), on April 24, 1967. He was cremated in Sidmouth, with a tribute by Mesens.
Biography of Lucienne Bogaert (excerpt)
Lucienne Bogaert (born Lucienne Jeanne Gabrielle Lefebvre; 6 January 1892 in Caudry, Nord (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 4 February 1983 in Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine) was a French actress. She started her career in theatre, but later also worked in film.
Biography of Vsevolod Vishnevsky (excerpt)
Vsevolod Vitalievich Vishnevsky (Russian: Все́волод Вита́льевич Вишне́вский, December 21 (O.S. December 8) 1900 – February 28, 1951) was a Soviet dramatist and prose writer. He was born in 1900 in Saint Petersburg and educated at a Petersburg gymnasium. During World War I he enrolled in Baltic Fleet as sea cadet.
Biography of Erast Garin (excerpt)
Erast Pavlovich Garin (10 November (O.S. 28 October) 1902 – 4 September 1980) was a Soviet and Russian actor, director and screenwriter. He was, together with Igor Ilyinsky and Sergey Martinson, one of the leading comic actors of Vsevolod Meyerhold's company and of the Soviet cinema.
Biography of Gustave Humery (excerpt)
Gustave Humery (aka Tiger Humery), born December 18, 1908 in Valenciennes (source for his time and date of birth: Didier Geslain, birth certificate No. 722), died July 6, 1976, is a former French boxer.
Biography of Eileen Agar (excerpt)
Eileen Forrester Agar RA (1 December 1899 – 17 November 1991) was a British painter and photographer associated with the Surrealist movement. In 1911, the Agar family, Scottish father and American mother, left Argentina for London where Eileen enrolled in the Byam Shaw School of Fine Art in 1919, then in the Underwood School of Painting and sculpture.
Biography of Alexey Dushkin (excerpt)
Alexey Nikolayevich Dushkin (6 January 1904 (24 December 1904 julian calendar) – 8 October 1977) was a Soviet architect, best known for his 1930s designs of the Kropotkinskaya and Mayakovskaya stations of the Moscow Metro. He worked primarily for subway and railroads and is also noted for his Red Gate Building, one of the Seven Sisters.
Biography of Asik Veysel (excerpt)
Âşık Veysel (born Veysel Şatıroğlu; 25 October 1894 – 21 March 1973) was a Turkish ashik and highly regarded poet of the Turkish folk literature. He was born in the Sivrialan village of the Şarkışla district, in the province of Sivas.
Biography of Nikolay Cherkasov (excerpt)
Nikolay Konstantinovich Cherkasov (Russian: Никола́й Константи́нович Черка́сов; 27 July (O.S. 14 July) 1903 – 14 September 1966) was a Soviet and Russian actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1947). Cherkasov was one of Stalin's favorite actors and played title roles in Sergei Eisenstein's monumental sound films Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Parts I & II of Ivan the Terrible (1945 & 1946; though Part II was not officially released until 1958 for political reasons).
Biography of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (excerpt)
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (23 June 1901 – 24 January 1962) was a Turkish poet, novelist, literary scholar and essayist, widely regarded as one of the most important representatives of modernism in Turkish literature. In addition to his literary and academic career, Tanpınar was also a member of the Turkish Parliament between 1944 and 1946.
Biography of Morris Cohen (spy) (excerpt)
Morris Cohen (July 2, 1910 – June 23, 1995), also known by his alias Peter Kroger, was an American convicted of espionage for the Soviet Union. His wife Lona was also an agent. As Soviet spy networks were compromised in this period, connection with Soviet intelligence was temporarily ended, but resumed in 1948, when the Rezidentura ascertained that Cohen could be approached.
Biography of Norman Bethune (excerpt)
Henry Norman Bethune (March 3, 1890 – November 12, 1939; Chinese: 亨利·诺尔曼·白求恩; pinyin: Hēnglì Nuò’ěrmàn Báiqiú’ēn) was a Canadian physician, medical innovator, and noted communist. Bethune came to international prominence first for his service as a frontline surgeon supporting the Republican faction during the Spanish Civil War.
Biography of Max Deutsch (excerpt)
Max Deutsch (17 November 1892 – 22 November 1982) was an Austrian-French composer, conductor, and academic teacher. He studied with Arnold Schönberg and was his assistant. Teaching at the Sorbonne and the École Normale de Musique de Paris, he influenced notable students such as Philippe Capdenat, Donald Harris, György Kurtág and Philippe Manoury.
Biography of Dorothy Wrinch (excerpt)
Dorothy Maud Wrinch (12 September 1894 – 11 February 1976; married names Nicholson, Glaser) was a mathematician and biochemical theorist best known for her attempt to deduce protein structure using mathematical principles. She was a champion of the controversial 'cyclol' hypothesis for the structure of proteins.
Biography of Elizaveta Karamihailova (excerpt)
Elisabeth Ivanova Kara-Michailova (Bulgarian: Елисавета Иванова Карамихайлова), alternatively Elisabeth Karamichailova, born on September 3, 1897 in Vienna, Autstria, was a Bulgarian physicist of a Bulgarian father and an English mother. She was among the handful of female nuclear physics pioneers at the beginning of the 20th century, established the first practical courses of particle physics in Bulgaria and was the first woman to hold a professorial title in the country.
Biography of Manfred von Ardenne (excerpt)
Manfred von Ardenne (20 January 1907 – 26 May 1997) was a German researcher and applied physicist and inventor. He took out approximately 600 patents in fields including electron microscopy, medical technology, nuclear technology, plasma physics, and radio and television technology.
Biography of Robert Blémant (excerpt)
Robert Léon Arthur Blémant, known as Monsieur Robert, born on Februray 13, 1911 in Valenciennes (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on May 15, 1965 in Salon-de-Provence (killed by Antoine Guérini), was a French policeman.
Biography of Aleksandr Tvardovsky (excerpt)
Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovsky (21 June (O.S. 8 June) 1910 – 18 December 1971) was a Soviet poet and writer and chief editor of Novy Mir literary magazine from 1950 to 1954 and 1958 to 1970. His name has also been rendered in English as Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovski, Aleksandr Tvardovski, and Alexander Tvardovsky (though "Aleksandr Tvardovsky" is by far the most common spelling).
Biography of Rostislav Zakharov (excerpt)
Rostislav Vladimirovich Zakharov (1907–1984) was a Russian choreographer, ballet dancer and opera director. He was a professor at the Russian Academy of the Arts (GITIS) in Moscow (1951–1983), was awarded the USSR State Prize twice and designated the People's Artist of the USSR (1969).
Biography of Lela Karagianni (excerpt)
Eleni "Lela" Karagianni also written Karayanni (24 June 1898 (6 July Gregorian calendar) - 8 September 1944) was a Greek resistance leader during World War II. The wife of an Attican pharmacist and the mother of seven children, Karagianni worked to coordinate Greek resistance cells and their activities against the occupying Axis forces.
Biography of Ilya Starinov (excerpt)
Colonel Ilya Grigoryevich Starinov 2 August (O.S. 20 July) 1900, village of Voynovo, today's Oryol Oblast – 18 November 2000) was a Soviet military officer. Starinov joined the Red Army in 1918 and participated in the Russian Civil War. In 1921 he attended a military college for railway troops and served with the Soviet railway troops in the 1920s.
Biography of Roland Moisan (excerpt)
Roland Henri Honoré Moisan, said Moisan, born in Reims on November 26, 1907 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died in Paris on February 28, 1987, is a French cartoonist and journalist. He entered the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris in 1927.
Biography of Mikhail Gurevich (excerpt)
Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich (12 January 1893 (O.S. 31 December 1892) – 12 November 1976) was a Soviet aircraft designer who co-founded the Mikoyan-Gurevich military aviation bureau along with Artem Mikoyan. The bureau is famous for its fighter aircraft, rapid interceptors and multi-role combat aircraft which were staples of the Soviet Air Forces throughout the Cold War.
Biography of V. Volodarsky (excerpt)
V. Volodarsky (Russian: В. Володарский; December 11, 1891 (December 23, Gregorian calendar) – June 20, 1918) was a Marxist revolutionary and early Soviet politician. He was assassinated in 1918. Volodarsky was assassinated on June 20, 1918 by Grigory Ivanovich Semyonov, a member of the Central Battle Unit of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, during labor unrest at the Obukhov Works in Petrograd.
Biography of Lewis Strauss (excerpt)
Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss (January 31, 1896 – January 21, 1974) was an American businessman, philanthropist, and naval officer who served two terms on the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), the second as its chairman. He was a major figure in the development of nuclear weapons, the nuclear energy policy of the United States, and nuclear power in the United States.
Biography of Wanda Wasilewska (excerpt)
Wanda Wasilewska, also known by Russian name Vanda Lvovna Vasilevskaya (21 January 1905 – 29 July 1964), was a Polish and Ukrainian Soviet novelist and journalist and a left-wing political activist who became a devoted communist. She fled the German attack on Warsaw in September 1939 and took up residence in Soviet-occupied Lviv and eventually in the Soviet Union.
Biography of Kwon Ki-ok (excerpt)
Kwon Ki-ok (11 January 1901 – 19 April 1988), or Quan Jiyu in Chinese, was the first Korean female aviator, as well as one of the first female pilots in China. She went in exile in China during the Japanese occupation of Korea, and became a lieutenant colonel in the Republic of China Air Force.
Biography of Bert Acosta (excerpt)
Bertrand Blanchard Acosta (January 1, 1895 – September 1, 1954) was a record-setting aviator. He and Clarence D. Chamberlin set an endurance record of 51 hours, 11 minutes, and 25 seconds in the air. He later flew in the Spanish Civil War in the Yankee Squadron.
Biography of Maurice Nédoncelle (excerpt)
Maurice Nédoncelle, born October 30, 1905 in Roubaix (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died November 27, 1976 in Strasbourg, is a French priest and philosopher. Author of books on John Henry Newman and Friedrich von Hügel, he then decides to develop a philosophy of the person who founds true existence in freedom.
Biography of Anton Ackermann (excerpt)
Anton Ackermann (real name: Eugen Hanisch, 25 November 1905 Thalheim, Saxony – 4 May 1973 East Berlin) was an East German politician. In 1953, he briefly served as Minister of Foreign Affairs. From 1949 to 1953, he was the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Biography of Natalia Paley (excerpt)
Princess Natalia Pavlovna Paley (Russian: Наталья Павловна Палей; 5 December 1905 – 27 December 1981) was a Russian aristocrat who was a non-dynastic member of the Romanov family. A daughter of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia, she was a first cousin of the last Russian emperor, Nicholas II.
Biography of Maurice Holtzer (excerpt)
Maurice Holtzer is a French boxer born in Troyes on January 21, 1906 (source for his time and date of birth: Didier Geslain, birth certificate No. 67) and died in January 1960. He was particularly champion of France and Europe in the featherweight category in 1936.
Biography of Anita Berber (excerpt)
Anita Berber (10 June 1899 – 10 November 1928) was a German dancer, model, and actress who was the subject of an Otto Dix painting. She lived during the time of the Weimar Republic. Berber's dances – which had names such as "Cocaine" and "Morphium" – broke boundaries with their androgyny and total nudity, but it was her public appearances that really challenged social taboos.
Biography of Vera Mukhina (excerpt)
Vera Ignatyevna Mukhina (1 July (O.S. 19 June) 1889 – 6 October 1953) was a prominent Soviet sculptor and painter. She was nicknamed "the queen of Soviet sculpture". In the 1920s Mukhina rose to become one of the Soviet Union's most prominent sculptors, and although she continued to produce Cubist sculpture as late as 1922, she became a leading figure of Socialist realism, both in style and ideology.
Biography of Étienne Piquiral (excerpt)
Étienne Piquiral (June 15, 1901 – March 13, 1945) was a French rugby union player who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born in Perpignan and died in a prisoner-of-war camp during World War II. In 1924 he won the silver medal as member of the French team.
Biography of André Hornez (excerpt)
André Hornez (12 May 1905 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 9 March 1989) was a French lyricist and screenwriter. Lyricist of Paul Misraki in the years 1930-1940 for which he writes many songs lyrics like Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux .
Biography of Jean Lenoir (composer) (excerpt)
Jean Lenoir pseudonym for Jean Bernard Daniel Neuberger (26 February 1891 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 19 January 1976) was a French songwriter, whose work included chansons and romantic light film songs. Lenoir was born in Paris. His most famous song, for which he wrote both melody and lyrics, was Parlez-moi d'amour (1930).
Biography of Isaak Dunayevsky (excerpt)
Isaak Osipovich Dunayevsky (also transliterated as Dunaevski or Dunaevsky; 30 January (O.S. 18 January) 1900 – 25 July 1955) was a Soviet film composer and conductor of the 1930s and 1940s, who achieved huge success in music for operetta and film comedies, frequently working with the film director Grigori Aleksandrov. |
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