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Biography of Jacques Grétillat (excerpt)
Jacques Grétillat (Jacques, Marie, Gaëtan Grétillat), born on August 26, 1885 in Vitry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne), died on December 19, 1950 in Paris, was a French actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. Filmography (selection) 1908 : Hamlet d'Henri Desfontaines 1908 : Louis XIV, roi soleil de Georges Denola
Biography of Felix Timmermans (excerpt)
Leopold Maximiliaan Felix Timmermans (5 July 1886 – 24 January 1947) is the most translated author of Flanders. Timmermans was born in the Belgian city of Lier, as the thirteenth of fourteen children in the family. He died in Lier, aged 60.
Biography of Georges Duhamel (excerpt)
Georges Duhamel (June 30, 1884 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - April 13, 1966), was a French author, born in Paris. Duhamel trained as a doctor, and during World War I was attached to the French army. In 1920, he published Confession de minuit (ISBN 2-7152-1793-5), the first of a series featuring the anti-hero Salavin.
Biography of Jacques Thibaud (excerpt)
Jacques Thibaud (September 27, 1880 - September 1, 1953) was a French violinist. Thibaud was born in Bordeaux and studied the violin first with his father before entering the Paris Conservatoire at the age of thirteen. In 1896 he jointly won the conservatoire's violin prize with Pierre Monteux (who later became a famous conductor).
Biography of Gaston Caudron (excerpt)
Gaston Caudron (January 18, 1882 (birth time source: Yoan Cocquebert, archives - December 10, 1915) and his brother René Caudron (July 1, 1884 - September 27, 1959), were born in Favières, Somme. They were French aviators and industrialists, the founders of The Caudron Airplane Company.
Biography of André Corap (excerpt)
André Georges Corap (born 15 January 1878 died 15 August 1953) was a General in the French Army who fought in World War II. He commanded the 9th Army during the battle of France in 1940. Corap was born in Pont Audemer, Normandy.
Biography of Constant Permeke (excerpt)
Constant Permeke (July 31, 1886 – January 4, 1952) was a Belgian painter who is considered the leading figure of Flemish expressionism. Permeke was born in Antwerp but when he was six years old the family moved to Ostend, where his father became curator of the Municipal Museum of Arts.
Biography of Savielly Tartakower (excerpt)
Ksawery Tartakower (Russian Савелий Григорьевич Тартаковер, generally known as Saviely or Savielly Tartakower in English, less often Xavier Tartacover or Xavier Tartakover; 1887-1956) was a leading Polish and French chess Grandmaster. He was the king of chess journalism in the 1920s and 30s.
Biography of Marguerite Sylva (excerpt)
Marguerite Sylva (also known as Marguerita Sylva) (2 July 1875, Brussels – 21 February 1957, Glendale, California) was a Belgian born mezzo-soprano who achieved fame not only on the opera stage but also in operetta and musical theatre. She was particularly known for her performances in the title role of Bizet's Carmen, which she sang over 300 times in the course of her career.
Biography of Jean Verdier (excerpt)
Jean Gaston Verdier, born August 6, 1886 in Tourcoing, died on November 23, 1975, was a French engineer, author and astrologer.
Biography of Calouste Gulbenkian (excerpt)
Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian (1 March 1869 – 20 July 1955) was an Armenian businessman and philanthropist. He played a major role in making the petroleum reserves of the Middle East available to Western development. By the end of his life he had become one of the world's wealthiest individuals and his art acquisitions considered one of the greatest private collections.
Biography of Georges Rouault (excerpt)
Georges Henri Rouault (27 May 1871 – 13 February 1958) was a French Fauvist and Expressionist painter, and printmaker in lithography and etching. Childhood and education Rouault was born in Paris into a poor family. His mother encouraged his love for the arts, and in 1885 the fourteen-year-old Rouault embarked on an apprenticeship as a glass painter and restorer, which lasted until 1890.
Biography of Hugo Sperrle (excerpt)
Hugo Sperrle (February 8, 1885 - April 2, 1953), was a German field marshal of the Luftwaffe during World War II. Born in Ludwigsburg, he joined the German Army in 1903 and transferred to the Luftstreitkräfte (German Army Air Service) at the start of World War I, serving as an observer to the end of the war.
Biography of Ivar Kreuger (excerpt)
Ivar Kreuger (Kalmar, Sweden, March 2, 1880 – March 12, 1932) was a Swedish civil engineer, financier, entrepreneur and industrialist. Between the two world wars, he was one of the most powerful businessmen of Europe. Negotiating match monopolies with European and Central and South American governments, he finally controlled two thirds of the worldwide match production, and became known as the "Match King".
Biography of Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (excerpt)
Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Alfred Alexander William Ernest Albert; 15 October 1874 – 6 February 1899) was born a member of the British Royal Family. Early life Prince Alfred of Edinburgh was born on 15 October 1874 at Buckingham Palace, London.
Biography of Georges Urbain (excerpt)
Georges Urbain (b. 12 April 1872; d. 5 November 1938 in Paris) - French chemist, professor of Sorbona. The discoverer of the element Lutetium, number 71. He discovered it in 1907.
Biography of Louis Pergaud (excerpt)
Louis Pergaud (22 January 1882 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 8 April 1915) was a French writer and soldier, whose principal works were known as "Animal Stories" due to their rooting in the flora and fauna of the Franche-Comté. His most famous work was the novel La Guerre des boutons (English: "War of the Buttons"), written in 1912.
Biography of Paul Amiot (excerpt)
Paul Amiot (29 March 1886 - 26 January 1979, in Paris, France) was a French film actor. His career spanned some 63 years and he appeared in nearly 100 films between 1910 and 1973. In 1920 he appeared in Robert Péguy's Être aimé pour soi-même .
Biography of Jose Lobato (excerpt)
Jose Bento Renato Monteiro Lobato, born April 18, 1882 in Taubaté, died July 4, 1948 in Sao Paulo, was a Brazilian editor, author, novelist and painter.
Biography of Maurice Loutreuil (excerpt)
Maurice Albert Loutreuil, born March 16, 1885 in Montmirail (Sarthe), and died January 21, 1925 in Paris, was a French painter. Selected bibliography * Jean-François Levantal, Loutreuil, J.F.L Edition, Paris, 1985. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de Loutreuil qui fournit une riche bibliographie
Biography of Maurice Denis (excerpt)
Maurice Denis (November 25, 1870 – November 13, 1943) was a French painter and writer, and a member of the Symbolist and Les Nabis movements. His theories contributed to the foundations of cubism, fauvism, and abstract art. Life and work Childhood and Education
Biography of John Gadbury (excerpt)
John Gadbury (January 10, 1628–1704) was an English astrologer, and a prolific writer of almanacs and on other related topics. Initially a follower or disciple, and a defender in the 1650s, of William Lilly, he eventually turned against Lilly and denounced him in 1675 as fraudulent.
Biography of André-Gaston Prételat (excerpt)
André-Gaston Prételat (14 November 1874, Wassy, Champagne, France – 6 December 1969, Paris, France) was a general in the French Army. Military career 1910-1918 His first post, from 1910 to 1912, was as military attaché to Tangier. During the First World War he was the chief of staff of 70th Division (1915) and then of XXIII Corps (1916), before becoming the commanding officer of the 159th Regiment and Deputy Chief of Staff to Gouraud's French Fourth Army (1917), and finally Chief of Staff of the Fourth Army.
Biography of J. P. Morgan Jr. (excerpt)
John Pierpont Morgan, Jr. (September 7, 1867 — September 9, 1943) was an American philanthropist. He was born in Chicago and graduated from Harvard in 1886, where he was a member of Delta Phi and Delta Kappa Epsilon. He was the son of banking tycoon, J.
Biography of Robert Esnault-Pelterie (excerpt)
Robert Albert Charles Esnault-Pelterie (November 8, 1881–December 6, 1957) was a pioneering French aircraft designer and spaceflight theorist. He was born in Paris, the son of a textile industrialist. He was educated at the Faculté des Sciences, studying engineering at the Sorbonne.
Biography of Jules Drach (excerpt)
Jules Drach, born March 13, 1871 in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, died March 7, 1949 in Cavalaire Sur Mer, was a French mathematician, member of Academie des Sciences.
Biography of Curt John Ducasse (excerpt)
Curt John Ducasse (July 7, 1881, Angoulême, France - September 3, 1969) was a philosopher who taught at the University of Washington and Brown University. He is most notable for his work in philosophy of mind and aesthetics, and his influence can be seen in the work of Roderick Chisholm and Wilfrid Sellars.
Biography of Fuad I of Egypt (excerpt)
Fuad I, born Ahmed Fuad, (Arabic: فؤاد الأول Fu'ād al-Awwal), (March 26, 1868 - April 28, 1936), was the Sultan and later King of Egypt and Sudan, Sovereign of Nubia, Kordofan, and Darfur. The ninth ruler of Egypt and Sudan from the Muhammad Ali dynasty, he became Sultan of Egypt and Sudan in 1917, succeeding his elder brother Sultan Husayn Kamil.
Biography of George Jean Nathan (excerpt)
George Jean Nathan (February 14, 1882 – April 8, 1958) was an American drama critic and editor. Early life Nathan was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He graduated from Cornell University in 1904, where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society.
Biography of Ewald von Kleist (excerpt)
Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (August 8, 1881 – c. November 13, 1954) was a leading German field marshal during World War II. Born in Braunfels an der Lahn into an aristocratic family, Kleist was educated in a German military school and served as a lieutenant of hussars and a regimental commander in World War I.
Biography of Pope Innocent XI (excerpt)
Pope Innocent XI (May 18, 1611 – August 12, 1689), born Benedetto Odescalchi, was Pope from 1676 to 1689. Early life He was born at Como in 1611, and was educated there by the Jesuits. He studied law at Rome and Naples, held successively the offices of protonotary apostolic, president of the apostolic chamber, commissary of the Marco di Roma, and governor of Macerata; in 1647, Pope Innocent X (1644–55) made him Cardinal Deacon with the title of Santi Cosma e Damiano.
Biography of Amedeo Giannini (excerpt)
Amadeo Pietro Giannini (May 6, 1870 – 1949), born in San Jose, California, was the Italian American founder of Bank of America. Giannini's parents were Italian, from Liguria, near Genoa, immigrants to the United States. He attended Heald College, in San Francisco, California.
Biography of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (excerpt)
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (December 1, 1884 - August 10, 1976) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker, and a member of Die Brücke. Karl Schmidt was born in Rottluff, today a district of Chemnitz, (Saxony), and began to call himself Schmidt-Rottluff in 1905.
Biography of Ruth Bryan Owen (excerpt)
Ruth Bryan Owen (October 2, 1885 – July 26, 1954) was the daughter of William Jennings Bryan and mother of Helen Rudd Brown. A Democrat, in 1929 she became Florida’s (and the South's) first woman representative in the United States Congress, coming from Florida’s 4th district.
Biography of Cyriel Verschaeve (excerpt)
Cyriel Verschaeve (April 30, 1874 - November 8, 1949) was a noted Flemish clergyman and writer who was condemned for collaboration with the Nazis during the Second World War. Born in Ardooie to a staunch Roman Catholic family, he began training to be a priest at a small seminary in Roeselare in 1886, before moving on to Bruges in 1892 to complete his studies.
Biography of R.B. Bennett (excerpt)
Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett PC KC (July 3, 1870 – June 26, 1947) was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, politician, and philanthropist. He served as the eleventh Prime Minister of Canada from August 7, 1930 to October 23, 1935, during the worst of the Great Depression years.
Biography of Claude Bragdon (excerpt)
Claude Fayette Bragdon (August 1, 1866–1946) was an American architect, writer, and stage designer. Bragdon was born in Oberlin, Ohio. He was raised in Watertown, Oswego, Dansville and Rochester, New York, where his father worked as a newspaper editor. Bragdon's principal work was in the Rochester area.
Biography of Thomas J .J. Ram (excerpt)
Thomas J. J. Ram, born December 19, 1884 in Haarlem, died October 7, 1961, was a Dutch journalist, author and astrologer.
Biography of Max Josef Metzger (excerpt)
Max Josef Metzger (born 3 February 1887; executed 17 April 1944) was born in Schopfheim in Baden, Germany. Metzger became a Roman Catholic priest and worked as a military chaplain for the forces of Imperial Germany during World War I. During that war he began to see peace work as an urgent task.
Biography of Frédéric Moriss (excerpt)
Frédéric Moriss, born Frédéric Edouard Maurice Boyer on May 3, 1874 in Nîmes, Gard, is a French actor. Filmography (extract) 1953 Lettre ouverte Le vieux monsieur 1950 Souvenirs perdus (uncredited) 1950 Quai de Grenelle Petit rôle (uncredited) 1948 Clochemerle (uncredited) 1947 Le charcutier de Machonville
Biography of Carl Ahues (excerpt)
Carl Oscar Ahues (26 December 1883, Bremen – 31 December 1968, Hamburg) was a German chess International Master. He was Berlin champion in 1910. He was German Champion in 1929 winning the 26th DSB Congress in Duisburg. In 1930, he took 6th in San Remo (Alexander Alekhine won), tied for 4-5th in Scarborough (Edgar Colle won), and tied for 3-5th in Liege (Savielly Tartakower won).
Biography of Ellen McCaffery (excerpt)
Ellen McCaffery, born March 26, 1885 in Hereford, died February 21, 1953, was an American astrologer, professor and author of astrology articles and books.
Biography of John Aubrey (excerpt)
John Aubrey (March 12 (March 22, Gregorian calendar), 1626–June 7, 1697) was an English antiquary and writer, best known as the author of the collection of short biographical pieces usually referred to as Brief Lives and as the discoverer of the Aubrey holes in Stonehenge.
Biography of Harry K. Thaw (excerpt)
Harry Kendall Thaw (February 12, 1871 - February 22, 1947) was the son of coal and railroad baron William Thaw. He is best known for murdering the architect Stanford White at Madison Square Garden in 1906 in a jealous rage. Early life
Biography of Frédéric Lefèvre (excerpt)
Frédéric Lefèvre, born on May 7, 1889 in Izé (birth time source: Lescaut), died in 1949 in Paris, was a French novelist, writer, and critic. Publications (extract) La jeune poésie française, Rouart et Cie, Fribourg-Paris, 1917. La poésie dans nos poètes
Biography of Auguste Herbin (excerpt)
Auguste Herbin (April 29, 1882 - January 30/31 1960) was a French painter. Biography Born in Quiévy, Nord, he studied drawing at the École des Beaux-Arts de Lille, from 1898 to 1901, when he settled in Paris. The initial influence of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism visible in paintings that he sent to the Salon des Indépendants in 1906 gradually gave way to an involvement with Cubism after his move in 1909 to the Bateau-Lavoir studios, where he met Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Juan Gris; he was also encouraged by his friendship with Wilhelm Uhde.
Biography of Max Beckmann (excerpt)
Max Beckmann (February 12, 1884 (birth time source: starfish-astrologie.blog.de (no longer available)) – December 28, 1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement.
Biography of Ludwig Beck (excerpt)
Ludwig August Theodor Beck (29 June 1880 – 21 July 1944) was a German general and the Chief of the General Staff of the Oberkommando des Heeres during the early years of the Nazi regime in Germany before World War II.
Biography of Arnold J. Toynbee (excerpt)
Arnold Joseph Toynbee CH (April 14, 1889 – October 22, 1975) was a British historian whose twelve-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations, A Study of History, 1934-1961, was a synthesis of world history, a metahistory based on universal rhythms of rise, flowering and decline, which examined history from a global perspective.
Biography of Kees Van Dongen (excerpt)
Cornelis Theodorus Maria van Dongen (January 26, 1877 – May 28, 1968), usually known as Kees van Dongen or just van Dongen, was a Dutch painter and one of the Fauves. He gained a reputation for his sensuous, at times garish, portraits. |
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