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Biography of Nelson Algren (excerpt)
Nelson Algren (born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham; March 28, 1909 – May 9, 1981) was an American writer. His 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm won the National Book Award and was adapted as the 1955 film of the same name. ![]()
Biography of Martha Gellhorn (excerpt)
Martha Ellis Gellhorn (8 November 1908 – 15 February 1998) was an American novelist, travel writer, and journalist who is considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century. Gellhorn reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career.
Biography of André Beaudin (excerpt)
André Beaudin, (born February 3, 1895 in Mennecy and died June 6, 1979 in Neuilly-sur-Seine), is a French painter and sculptor belonging to the School of Paris, whose work follows on from the cubism bordering on non-figuration.
Biography of Pierre Demargne (excerpt)
Pierre Demargne, born February 8, 1903 in Aix-en-Provence and died December 13, 2000 in Paris, was a French historian and archaeologist. Member of the French School of Athens from 1926 and member of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres from 1969 until his death, Pierre Demargne continued his research and publications until an advanced age.
Biography of Suzanne Kohn (aviator) (excerpt)
Suzanne Kohn was a French aviator.Kohn was born in Paris to a wealthy Jewish family; one of four children, her sister Antoinette would later become a noted painter and French Resistance fighter. In 1939, Kohn flew a Caudron C.600 Aiglon aircraft from Orly, France, to Madagascar.
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Biography of Mary Hallaren (excerpt)
Mary Agnes Hallaren (May 4, 1907 – February 13, 2005) was an American soldier and the third director of the Women's Army Corps (WAC) at the time that it became a part of the United States Army.As the director of the WAC, she was the first woman to officially join the U.S.
Biography of Jeanne Fontaine (excerpt)
Jeanne Antoinette Fontaine (born Lagrue on August 29, 1897 in Génelard and died on March 5, 1994 in Villepinte), was a French flight attendant, co-pilot and administrator.
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Biography of Laura Bianchini (excerpt)
Laura Bianchini (23 August 1903 – 27 September 1983) was an Italian educator and politician. She was elected to the Constituent Assembly in 1946 as part of the first group of women parliamentarians in Italy. She was subsequently elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1948, serving until 1953.
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Biography of Anna Sokolow (excerpt)
Anna Sokolow (February 9, 1910, Hartford, Connecticut – March 29, 2000, Manhattan, New York City) was an American dancer and choreographer known for the social justice focus and theatricality of her work, and for her support of the development of Modern Dance in Mexico and in Israel.
Biography of Al Cabrol (excerpt)
Al Cabrol (Georges Albert Cabrol) is a French wrestler and actor born May 12, 1911 in Bagnolet and died November 2, 1957 in Charleroi. Filmography (fr) 1943 : Coup de tête de René Le Hénaff 1945 : Blondine d'Henri Mahé 1949 : Branquignol de Robert Dhéry : un cow-boy ![]()
Biography of Marta Abba (excerpt)
Marta Abba (25, June 1900 – 24 June 1988) was an Italian actress, considered as the muse of the playwright Luigi Pirandello. Marta Abba lost her mother early and was raised by her grandparents.She began acting at 14, later joining Enrico Reinach's company in Milan.
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Biography of María Zambrano (excerpt)
María Zambrano Alarcón (22 April 1904 – 6 February 1991) was a Spanish essayist and philosopher associated with the Generation of '36 movement. Her extensive work between the civic engagement and the poetic reflection started to be recognised in Spain over the last quarter of the 20th century after living many years in exile.
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Biography of Sylvie Jung (excerpt)
Sylvie Jung (10 July 1904 – 15 December 1970) was a French tennis player who was active during the late 1920 and the 1930s. She had her best results in the doubles event, finishing runner-up in seven Grand Slam doubles and mixed-doubles competitions.
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Biography of Élisabeth de Rothschild (excerpt)
Élisabeth, Baroness de Rothschild (née Pelletier de Chambure; a.k.a.Lili; 9 March 1902 – 23 March 1945) was a member by marriage of the wine-making branch of the Rothschild family. Biography Born in Paris as Élisabeth Pelletier de Chambure, into a wealthy Catholic family whose roots were in the Burgundy region.
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Biography of Helen Harrison-Bristol (excerpt)
Helen Marcelle Harrison Bristol (December 7, 1909 – April 27, 1995) was a pioneering Canadian female civil aviation instructor and the first Canadian Air Transport Auxiliary ferry pilot during World War II. In 1939, she was appointed chief flying instructor at the Sheffield Aero Club, then journeyed to the United States to earn that country's commercial pilot's certificate.
Biography of Madeleine Barot (excerpt)
Madeleine Barot (4 July 1909 in Châteauroux – 28 December 1995 in Paris) was a French activist and theologian, who was influential in Protestant, humanist, and human rights movements.
Biography of Étienne Borne (excerpt)
Étienne Vincent Borne (January 22, 1907 – June 14, 1993) was born in Manduel (Gard). He was a professor of philosophy Hypokhâgne at Lycée Henri-IV in Paris. Étienne Borne founded the Mouvement republicain populaire (MRP), and the French Christian Democratic Party. He was a columnist in the newspaper La Croix.
Biography of Éli Lotar (excerpt)
Eli Lotar (born Eliazar Lotar Teodorescu; January 30, 1905 – May 10, 1969) was a French photographer and cinematographer. Lotar was born in Paris, the son of Tudor Arghezi, a Romanian poet, and Constanța Zissu, a teacher.He became a French citizen in 1926 and met the German photographer Germaine Krull.
Biography of André de Richaud (excerpt)
André de Richaud (April 6, 1907 in Perpignan – September 29, 1968 in Montpellier) was a French poet and writer.After his father was killed in the First World War in 1915, his mother became a lover of a German prisoner of war, which caused him a trauma that made him later sell their house and move away.
Biography of Jean Bernier (journalist) (excerpt)
Jean Bernier, born August 29, 1894 in Beauvais (Oise) and died August 10, 1975 in Paris, is a French writer and journalist. After breaking with Stalinism in 1929, he became an anarchist sympathizer. Marked by the First World War, he is a pacifist and internationalist.
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Biography of Sophia Antoniadis (excerpt)
Sophia Antoniadis (Greek: Σοφία Αντωνιάδη, 31 July 1895, Piraeus - 25 January 1972, Athens) was a Greek Byzantinist. She was the first female professor at the Leiden University, the first female Humanities professor in the Netherlands and during her career was one of the few Greek women to hold a position at a European university.
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Biography of Juana Bormann (excerpt)
Juana Bormann (or Johanna Borman; 10 September 1893 – 13 December 1945) was a German prison guard at several Nazi concentration camps from 1938, and was executed as a war criminal at Hamelin, Lower Saxony, Germany, after a court trial in 1945.
Biography of Joseph Horny (excerpt)
Joseph Horny, born January 20, 1908 in Wasselonne, died October 20, 1972 in Marmoutier, was a French marine.He took part in the landing on the beach at Colleville-sur-Orne on June 6, 1944.On November 1, he landed at Flushing, on the island of Walcheren.
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Biography of Pyotr Kapitsa (excerpt)
Pyotr Kapitsa, born July 8, 1894 (gregorian calendar), died April 8, 1984, was a Soviet physicist known for his research in low-temperature physics. His time of birth comes from Les Cahiers Astrologiques, n° 22. He worked with Ernest Rutherford at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge before the Soviet Union prevented his return to Britain.
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Biography of Elisabeth Schumacher (excerpt)
Elisabeth Schumacher (née Hohenemser; 28 April 1904 – 22 December 1942 in Plötzensee Prison, Berlin) was a German artist, photographer. and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. She was a member of the Berlin based anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra (Rote Kapelle) by the Abwehr, during the Third Reich.
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Biography of Thérèse Pierre (excerpt)
Thérèse Pierre (5 November 1908 – 26 October 1943) was a French resistance fighter.She died after she was tortured by the German Gestapo. Resistance fighter At Carhaix, at the beginning of 1942, she met a Finistere Resistance official, the future Lieutenant-Colonel Pascal.Thérèse Pierre was 34 years old and had a history as a communist activist.
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Biography of Emilia Malessa (excerpt)
Emilia Malessa, née Izdebska (noms de guerre: Marcysia, Miłasza, Maniuta) (born 26 February 1909, in Rostov, died 5 June 1949), was a Polish soldier, member of the Home Army with the rank of Captain, participant in the Warsaw Uprising, member of the underground anti-communist organization Freedom and Independence (WiN), and a "cavalier" of the Order of Virtuti Militari. ![]()
Biography of Albertina Rasch (excerpt)
Albertina Rasch (January 19, 1891 – October 2, 1967) was a naturalized American dancer, company director, and choreographer. Career Rasch began performing before the age of fourteen.During the American “dance craze” of the 1910s, she left Vienna for the United States, appearing in shows at the New York Hippodrome, also known as “the National Amusement Institution of America” and the Winter Garden. ![]()
Biography of Brian Donlevy (excerpt)
Waldo Brian Donlevy (February 9, 1901 – April 6, 1972) was an American actor, noted for playing dangerous tough guys from the 1930s to the 1960s.He usually appeared in supporting roles.Among his best-known films are Beau Geste (1939), The Great McGinty (1940) and Wake Island (1942). ![]()
Biography of Faith Bacon (excerpt)
Faith Bacon (born Frances Yvonne Bacon; July 19, 1910 – September 26, 1956) was an American burlesque dancer and actress.During the height of her career, she was billed as "America's Most Beautiful Dancer". Career Bacon's career in burlesque began in the 1920s in Paris.
Biography of Joan Hickson (excerpt)
Joan Bogle Hickson, OBE (5 August 1906 – 17 October 1998) was an English actress of theatre, film and television. She was known for her role as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the television series Miss Marple. She also narrated a number of Miss Marple stories on audiobooks. ![]()
Biography of Victor Jory (excerpt)
Victor Jory (November 23, 1902 – February 12, 1982) was a Canadian-American actor of stage, film, and television. He initially played romantic leads, but later was mostly cast in villainous or sinister roles, such as Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) and carpetbagger Jonas Wilkerson in Gone with the Wind (1939).
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Biography of Monika Mann (excerpt)
Monika Mann (7 June 1910 – 17 March 1992) was a German author and feature writer.She was born in Munich, Germany, the fourth of six children of the Nobel Prize–winning author Thomas Mann and Katia, née Katharina Pringsheim. She trained as a pianist and her early attempts at a musical career seemed promising, but were not met with success and she instead pursued a career as a writer.
Biography of André Chotin (excerpt)
André Roger Chotin alias André E. Chotin, born January 26, 1892 in the 10th arrondissement of Paris and died January 10, 1954 in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, is a French decorator, artistic director and director of cinema. He made his debut as an actor in Jacques Copeau's theatrical company, with which he played several plays at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in 1917 and 1918. ![]()
Biography of Margaret St. Clair (excerpt)
Margaret St.Clair (17 February 1911 – 22 November 1995) was an American fantasy and science fiction writer, who also wrote under the pseudonyms Idris Seabright and Wilton Hazzard. She was especially prolific in the 1950s, producing such acclaimed and much-reprinted stories as "The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles" (1951), "Brightness Falls from the Air" (1951), "An Egg a Month from All Over" (1952), and "Horrer Howce" (1956). ![]()
Biography of Yvette Labrousse (excerpt)
Yvonne Blanche Labrousse, best known as Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan (15 February 1906 – 1 July 2000) was the fourth and last wife of Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah, Aga Khan III.The couple had married for thirteen months after the Aga Khan III and his third wife were divorced by mutual consent. ![]()
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The Fusillade de Fourmies is an event which happened on 1 May 1891 in Fourmies, in the French Nord department. This day, the troop fired on a peaceful demonstration of workers claiming "C'est les huit heures qu'il nous faut !" (it's the eight-hour day we need), killing nine people and injuring 35 others.
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Biography of Armel Guerne (excerpt)
Armel Guerne, born in Morges (Switzerland) on April 1, 1911 and died in Marmande (Lot-et-Garonne) on October 9, 1980, is a French-language poet and translator, of a Swiss father and a French mother. During World War II, he was a member of the Prosper-PHYSICIAN network of the British secret service Special Operations Executive, alongside Francis Suttill "Prosper", the head of the network.
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Biography of Ellen Osiier (excerpt)
Ellen Osiier (13 August 1890 – 6 September 1962) was a Danish foil fencer.Osiier was born in Hjørring, Nordjylland, Denmark. The 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris was the first Olympic Games to feature women's fencing.Osiier, then 33, won the gold medal and went undefeated in the 16 matches she fenced in the event.
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Biography of Robert K. Merton (excerpt)
Robert King Merton (born Meyer Robert Schkolnick; July 5, 1910 (Wikipedia gives July 4 by mistake) – February 23, 2003) was an American sociologist who is considered a founding father of modern sociology, and a major contributor to the subfield of criminology.
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Biography of Alice Ball (excerpt)
Alice Augusta Ball (July 24, 1892 – December 31, 1916) was an American chemist who developed the "Ball Method", the most effective treatment for leprosy during the early 20th century.She was the first woman and first African American to receive a master's degree from the University of Hawaiʻi, and was also the university's first female and African American chemistry professor.
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Biography of Paul Marion (politician) (excerpt)
Paul Jules André Marion (27 June 1899, Asnières-sur-Seine – 2 March 1954) was a French Communist and subsequently far right journalist and political activist.He served as the French Minister of Information from 1941 to 1944. Early years Marion joined the French Communist Party in 1922 and wrote for L'Humanité as well as being elected to the party's central committee in 1926. ![]()
Biography of Édith Clark (excerpt)
Edith Georgette Clark (also known as Edith Boiteux, 5 June 1904 – 16 March 1937) was a French aviator and parachutist. Biography Clark was born in Cuffy, in the Cher region of France, on 5 June 1904.She worked as a typist and became interested in aviation; however, she could not afford the expenses of flying lessons on her salary.
Biography of Yves Carbon (excerpt)
Yves Carbon, born April 3, 1911 in Lembeye, died October 25, 1949 (air crash at age 38), was a French aviator.
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Biography of Yvonne Jourjon (excerpt)
Yvonne Jourjon (September 13, 1899 - September 1985) was a pioneering French pilot and flight instructor; she was the first woman flight instructor in France. Life Jourjon initially learned parachuting, and received her parachuting certificate in 1924.In 1932, she joined the Union of Civil Pilots of France and in the following year earned her pilot licence.
Biography of Germaine L'Herbier-Montagnon (excerpt)
Germaine L'Herbier-Montagnon, born June 13, 1895 in Tournon (today Tournon-sur-Rhône), and died in this same city on July 29, 1986, was an IPSA pilot nurse - acronym referring to the Amicale nurse-pilots and air first-aiders created in the 1930s with the mission of "practical training of nurses, with a view to their assignment to the Health Services and annexes of the Air Force" - which, after the defeat of June 1940, created on his own initiative and directed the Mission for the search for the dead and missing of the Air Force.
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Biography of Alma Rosé (excerpt)
Alma Maria Rosé (3 November 1906 – 4/5 April 1944) was an Austrian violinist of Jewish descent.Her uncle was the composer Gustav Mahler.She was deported by the Nazis to the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.There, for 10 months, she directed an orchestra of female prisoners who played for their captors to stay alive.
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Biography of Kathryn McGuire (excerpt)
Kathryn McGuire (December 6, 1903 – October 10, 1978) was an American dancer and actress. Career While studying at the Hollywood High School, as well as her dancing, McGuire participated in a program exhibition at the Maryland Hotel in Pasadena. She was seen by Thomas H. ![]()
Biography of Zenta Maurina (excerpt)
Zenta Mauriņa (15 December 1897 – 25 April 1978) was a Latvian writer, essayist, translator, and researcher in philology.She was married to the Electronic Voice Phenomena researcher Konstantin Raudive. Born to doctor Roberts Mauriņš, Zenta spent her childhood in Grobiņa, where, at the age of six, she contracted polio, leaving her confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life.
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Biography of Jacques Canetti (excerpt)
Nessim Jacques Canetti (30 May 1909, Ruse, Bulgaria – 7 June 1997, Suresnes) was a French music executive and a talent agent.Born into a Sephardic Jewish family, his parents were Jacques Elias (Elieser) and Mathilde (Mazal) (née Arditti) Canetti.He was the brother of the Nobel Prize-winning author Elias Canetti (1905–1994) and of Georges Canetti (1911–1971), a researcher and professor at the Pasteur Institute. |
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