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Biography of Roland Lefranc (excerpt)
Roland Lefranc is a French painter and lithographer born February 4, 1931 in Carcagny (Calvados)(birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), who lived in Saint-Vigor-le-Grand (Calvados) where he died August 24, 2000. If maritime Lower Normandy is the dominant theme in Roland Lefranc's painting, it recreates trips to the island of Alderney (1965), in the Lot (where the part of his work on the theme cattle markets4) and in Spain - Valence, Vinaròs - (1966), in the Pyrénées-Orientales (1967), in Switzerland and the Netherlands (1977), in the Pays de Caux and on the beaches of Upper Normandy (Étretat, Yport, Vaucottes, Pourville and Dieppe in 1981), in Peru and Bolivia (1989), in Russia (Moscow and Saint-Petersburg in 1990), in Italy (Venice in 1990 and 1993), in China where he painted the Great Wall (July-August 1991, then, at the invitation of the Chinese Embassy in Paris, in 1999), in Ireland (July 1992), in Madeira (1993), in Provence that, out of admiration for a master of region, he calls “Le pays de Seyssaud” 4 (August 1993), in Brittany (Belle-Île-en-Mer in 1994, the islands of Sein and Molène in 1996), in the United States (New York where his theme Favorite is Central Par k in November 1994), in London (March 1995), on the Îles de Ré, Noirmoutier and Jersey (1995), in Vietnam and Cambodia (December 1995 - January 1996), in Paris in 1997, in Morocco (Essaouira in June 1999) ), L'Armada de Brest in Rouen in July 1999.
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Biography of Jacques Fournier (civil servant) (excerpt)
Jacques Fournier, born May 5, 1929 in Épinal and died August 14, 2021, is a senior French civil servant. Jacques Fournier spent his youth and studied in French Algeria. A former student of the ENA, he was appointed legal adviser of the French Embassy in Morocco (1961-1964).
Biography of Galina Ustvolskaya (excerpt)
Galina Ivanovna Ustvolskaya, 17 June 1919 – 22 December 2006), was a Russian composer of classical music. Ustvolskaya was a pupil of Shostakovich from 1939 to 1941 and from 1947 to 1948, but her works from the 1950s onwards retain little influence of his style.
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Biography of Lilo Ramdohr (excerpt)
Lieselotte "Lilo" Fürst-Ramdohr (11 October 1913 – 13 May 2013) was a member of the Munich branch of the student resistance group White Rose (Weisse Rose) in Nazi Germany. She was born in Aschersleben.
Biography of Mae Brussell (excerpt)
Mae Magnin Brussell (May 29, 1922 – October 3, 1988) was an American radio personality and conspiracy theorist. She was the host of Dialogue: Conspiracy (later renamed World Watchers International). She was a radio host. Most of her work on the radio focused on the assassination of President John F.
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Biography of Cato Bontjes van Beek (excerpt)
Cato Bontjes van Beek (14 November 1920 – 5 August 1943) was a German member of the Resistance against the Nazi regime. Unlike many others Cato did not join the League of German Girls (Bund Deutscher Mädel, BDM) youth organisation. Through her brother Tim, she met Luftwaffe Sergeant Helmut Schmidt, the future Chancellor of Germany, who from 1937 was stationed in Bremen-Vegesack for his military service and during this time had an intense friendship with the Bontjes van Beek family.
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Biography of Laure Gatet (excerpt)
Laure Gatet (19 July 1913 - 25 February 1943) was a French pharmacist, biochemist, and a spy for the French Resistance during World War II. Gatet was born on 19 July 1913 in Boussac-Bourg, France. After attending several schools in the Southwest of France, including Périgueux and Bordeaux, Gatet finished her pharmacy studies before moving to biochemical research.
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Biography of Yuri Bondarev (excerpt)
Yuri Vasilyevich Bondarev (Russian: Юрий Васильевич Бондарев, 15 March 1924 — 29 March 2020) was a Soviet and Russian writer and screenwriter. He was best known for co-authoring the script for the serial film franchise Liberation (1968–71). His first successes in literature, the novels The Battalions Request Fire (1957) and The Last Salvoes (1959) were part of a new trend of war fiction which dispensed with pure heroes and vile villains in favor of emphasizing the true human cost of war.
Biography of Beatriz Aguirre (excerpt)
Beatriz Ofelia Aguirre Valdez (March 23, 1925 – September 29, 2019) was a Mexican film and television actress. She died on 29 September 2019 at the age of 94. Filmography Film roles 1947 The Tiger of Jalisco Rosita 1949 The Perez Family Clara 1950 Over the Waves Lolita 1953 Flight 971 Enfermera 1960 My Mother Is Guilty Lucía Arellano ![]()
Biography of Alina Janowska (excerpt)
Alina Janowska (16 April 1923 – 13 November 2017) was a Polish actress. She appeared in more than 35 films and television shows between 1946 and 2017. She debuted in theatre in 1943. From 1945 to 1965 she was employed in the Warsaw theater Teatr Syrena. ![]()
Biography of Sally Miller Gearhart (excerpt)
Sally Miller Gearhart (born April 15, 1931) is an American teacher, feminist, science-fiction writer, and political activist. In 1973, she became the first open lesbian to obtain a tenure-track faculty position when she was hired by San Francisco State University, where she helped establish one of the first women and gender study programs in the country.
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Biography of Tilly Fleischer (excerpt)
Ottilie "Tilly" Fleischer (2 October 1911 – 14 July 2005) was a German athlete who competed in a variety of track and field athletic events. She competed for Germany in the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United States in three different events, taking the bronze medal in the javelin.
Biography of Gwenn-Aël Bolloré (excerpt)
Gwenn-Aël Bolloré (4 September 1925 (Wikipedia gives 5 September), Ergué-Gabéric – 12 July 2001) was a French soldier, businessman, author, and publisher. At the age of 17, Bolloré decided to join in the Free French Forces in England. He sailed across the English Channel in a small boat and met up with his brother René who had arrived in England few months earlier.
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Biography of Albert Bouvet (excerpt)
Albert Bouvet (28 February 1930 – 20 May 2017) was a French professional cyclist. He won Paris–Tours in 1956 and remained the last Frenchman to win until Jacky Durand won in 1998. His name is also associated with Paris–Roubaix, as an organiser and discoverer of new sections of pavé.
Biography of Marianne Grunberg-Manago (excerpt)
Marianne Grunberg-Manago (January 6, 1921 – January 3, 2013) was a Soviet-born French biochemist. Her work helped make possible key discoveries about the nature of the genetic code. Grunberg-Manago studied biochemistry and, in 1955, while working in the lab of Spanish-America biochemist Severo Ochoa, she discovered the first nucleic-acid-synthesizing enzyme.
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Biography of Jean Cardot (excerpt)
Jean Cardot (20 July 1930 (source for his time of birth: Didier Geslain, birth certificate. The act indicates "midnight", which can be interpreted as 00:00 or 23:59) – 13 October 2020) was a French sculptor, born in Saint-Étienne, France. He was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts on 9 November 1983 and president in 1992 and 1997.
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Biography of Maureen Dunlop de Popp (excerpt)
Maureen Adele Chase Dunlop de Popp (26 October 1920 – 29 May 2012), née Dunlop, was an Anglo-Argentine pilot who flew for the British Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) during World War II, and became notable as a pin-up on the cover of the Picture Post magazine. ![]()
Biography of Dixie Evans (excerpt)
Mary Lee "Dixie" Evans (August 28, 1926 – August 3, 2013) was an American burlesque dancer and stripper. Career Evans was best known for a burlesque parody she performed as Marilyn Monroe. Evans entered show-business as a model and later chorus girl before becoming a star dancer.
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Biography of Madeleine Pauliac (excerpt)
Madeleine Jeanne Marie Pauliac (17 September 1912 – 13 February 1946) was a French doctor and a member of the French Resistance. Her experience in post-World War II Poland formed the basis for the movie Les Innocentes. Life Pauliac was born in Villeneuve-sur-Lot.
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Biography of Yvette Lundy (excerpt)
Yvette Lundy (22 April 1916 – 3 November 2019) was a French resistance fighter during the French Resistance of World War II. She provided the inspiration for the character of Mademoiselle Lise Lundi in the 2009 film Korkoro, written and directed by Tony Gatlif.
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Biography of Maria Josep Colomer i Luque (excerpt)
Maria Josep Colomer i Luque (31 March 1913 – 24 May 2004), better known as Mari Pepa Colomer, was one of the pioneers of Spanish aviation. She was the first female flight instructor in Spain and the first Catalan woman (third Spanish woman) to earn a pilot's license.
Biography of Maurice Nasil (excerpt)
Maurice Nasillski said Maurice Nasil, born July 8, 1913 in Algiers (birth time source: birth certificate online at cineartistes.com, Wikipedia has July 7 by mistake) and died January 6, 2003 in Paris 9th, is a French actor. He has played notably in The Cow and the Prisoner, The President and The Jungle Book (as a French voice). ![]()
Biography of Lima Duarte (excerpt)
Ariclenes Venâncio Martins (born March 29, 1930 (his approximate birth time comes from this article, in which it is indicated that he is Scorpio rising)), known professionally as Lima Duarte, is a Brazilian actor. He played a number of characters in Brazilian telenovelas, such as Zeca Diabo in O Bem-Amado and Sinhozinho Malta in Roque Santeiro.
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Biography of Jean Vercoutter (excerpt)
Jean Vercoutter (January 20, 1911 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – July 16, 2000) was a French Egyptologist. One of the pioneers of archaeological research into Sudan from 1953, he was Director of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale from 1977 to 1981.
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Biography of Dora Schaul (excerpt)
Dora Schaul (born Dora Davidsohn, 21 September 1913 – 8 August 1999) was a German woman noted particularly for her undercover work at official offices in German-occupied France during World War II. She passed on significant information to the French Resistance.
Biography of Henri Delauze (excerpt)
Henri Germain Delauze, born September 17, 1929 in Cairanne (Vaucluse), died February 14, 2012 in Marseilles, was a French engineer, diver and entrepreneur, founder of the COMEX company. COMEX (or Compagnie Maritime d'Expertises) is a company specializing in engineering and deep diving operations, created in November 1961 by Henri Germain Delauze and ran by him until his death in 2012. ![]()
Biography of Daniel Ellsberg (excerpt)
Daniel Ellsberg (April 7, 1931 – June 16, 2023) was an American political activist, economist and United States military analyst. While employed by the RAND Corporation, he precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.
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Biography of Darya Dyachenko (excerpt)
Darya Grigorievna Dyachenko (2 April 1924 – 2 April 1944) was a member of the underground Komsomol guerilla organization based in Mykolaiv and the head of the partisan group's youth chapter. She was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 1 July 1958 by decree of the Supreme Soviet.
Biography of Pierre Barbizet (excerpt)
Pierre Barbizet born in Arica (Chile) on September 20, 1922 and died on January 19, 1990 in Marseille is a French pianist and musical teacher. He is notably known for having been the partner of the violinist Christian Ferras and for having directed from 1963 until his death the conservatory of Marseille which has since bears his name.
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Biography of Denise Bloch (excerpt)
Denise Madeleine Bloch (21 January 1916 – 5 February 1945) was an agent working with the clandestine British Special Operations Executive (SOE) organization in the Second World War. Captured by the Germans, she was executed at Ravensbrück concentration camp. On 2 March 1944, with fellow SOE agent Robert Benoist, she was dropped back into central France. ![]()
Biography of George Andrew Olah (excerpt)
George Andrew Olah (born Oláh György; May 22, 1927 – March 8, 2017) was a Hungarian and American chemist. His research involved the generation and reactivity of carbocations via superacids. For this research, Olah was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994 "for his contribution to carbocation chemistry.
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Biography of Allyn Ann McLerie (excerpt)
Allyn Ann McLerie (December 1, 1926 – May 21, 2018) was a Canadian-born, Brooklyn-reared actress, singer, and dancer who worked with many of Golden Age musical theatre's major choreographers, including George Balanchine, Agnes de Mille, and Jerome Robbins. Life and career McLerie was born in Grand-Mère, Quebec, Canada, the only child of Vera Alma MacTaggart (née Stewart; 1897–1980) and Allan Gordon McLerie, an aviator (1888–1926).
Biography of Denis Peploe (excerpt)
Denis Frederic Neal Peploe (25 March 1914 – 22 May 1993) was a Scottish artist and sculptor known for his landscapes. During the war he served with the Royal Artillery and the Special Operations Executive where he was hurt in a motorcycle accident.
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Biography of Paulette Fink (excerpt)
Paulette Weill Oppert Fink (1911–2005) was a French-Jewish nurse and resistance worker during the Second World War. She later emigrated to the United States where she helped to raise money in support of the new State of Israel. An executive member of the National Women's Division of the United Jewish Appeal, she was elected chair in December 1960.
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Biography of Isabella Abbott (excerpt)
Isabella Aiona Abbott (June 20, 1919 – October 28, 2010) was an educator, phycologist, and ethnobotanist from Hawaii. The first native Hawaiian woman to receive a PhD in science, she became a leading expert on Pacific marine algae. She authored eight books and over 150 publications.
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Biography of Jeanne Brousse (excerpt)
Jeanne Brousse (née Maurier; 12 April 1921 – 19 October 2017), known as Jeannette, was born in Saint-Pierre-de-Curtille in the Savoie region of France. She was a member of the French Resistance during WWII and she is a member of the Righteous Among The Nations. ![]()
Biography of Martha Vickers (excerpt)
Martha Vickers (born Martha MacVicar; May 28, 1925 – November 2, 1971) was an American model and actress. Early life Vickers was born Martha MacVicar in Ann Arbor, Michigan; her father was an automobile dealer. She began her career as a model and cover girl. ![]()
Biography of Suzanne Jannin (excerpt)
Suzanne Henriette Jannin, also Suzanne Henriette Delvoye, (1912–1982) was a French dentist, a resistance fighter in World War II, and an air force pilot in Indochina. After receiving her military pilot's licence in 1948, she gave up dentistry to devote herself to aviation.
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Biography of Bill Hardman (excerpt)
William Franklin Hardman, Jr. (April 6, 1932 in Cleveland, Ohio – December 5, 1990 in Paris, France) was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist who chiefly played hard bop. He was married to Roseline and they had a daughter Nadege. Hardman grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and worked with local players including Bobby Few and Bob Cunningham; while in high school he appeared with Tadd Dameron, and after graduation he joined Tiny Bradshaw's band.
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Biography of Renzo Montagnani (excerpt)
Renzo Montagnani (September 11, 1930 – May 22, 1997) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Montagnani was born in Alessandria, Piedmont, and debuted as theatre actor thanks to the help of Erminio Macario. His first cinema success was his dramatic role in Metello (1970), but he later switched to the commedia all'italiana with his roles in the last two chapters of the Amici miei series (1982 and 1985).
Biography of Öztürk Serengil (excerpt)
Öztürk Serengil (2 May 1933 – 11 January 1999) was a Turkish actor and comedian. He is mostly known as one of the famous comedians in Turkish films. He was born in Artvin, Turkey on 2 May 1933 as the son of a teacher. ![]()
Biography of Sherry Britton (excerpt)
Edith Zack (July 28, 1918 – April 1, 2008), better known by the stage name Sherry Britton, was an American burlesque performer of the 1930s and early 1940s. The 5-foot-3-inch (1.60 m) Britton had an 18-inch (46 cm) waist, and was once said to have a "figure to die for.
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Biography of Suzanne Martel (excerpt)
Suzanne Chouinard Martel (October 8, 1924 – July 29, 2012) was a French Canadian journalist, novelist and children's writer. Suzanne Chouinard was the daughter of Francis Xavier Chouinard, clerk of Quebec City between 1927 and 1961 and Lady Couillard, who resided at rue de Bernières in Quebec City until 1963.
Biography of Michel Laclotte (excerpt)
Michel Laclotte (France, 27 October 1929 – 10 August 2021) was a French art historian and museum director, specialising in 14th and 15th century French painting. Career His first role was as "inspecteur des musées" of the province, then as a professor at the École du Louvre and as head conservator of the paintings department of the Louvre from 1966.
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Biography of Simone Le Port (excerpt)
Simone Le Port (born 3 July 1920 Inguiniel, died June 2009) was a member of the French resistance and a peace activist. Originally from Inguiniel, Simone Le Port joined the Resistance as a liaison. Her husband Semaphorist became responsible for the air operations bureau of Morbihan (then Loire-Inferieure and Maine-et-Loire).
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Biography of Lois Gunden (excerpt)
Lois Gunden (February 25, 1915-2005) was the fourth of five Americans to be recognized as "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem, the Shoah Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority of Israel. Gunden was born and raised in Goshen, Indiana. In 1941, when she was 26 years old, she was teaching English for the Mennonite Central Committee in southern France when the Nazi occupation began.
Biography of Julie Gibson (excerpt)
Julie Gibson (born Gladys Camille Soray; September 6, 1913 – October 2, 2019 (age 106)) was an American singer; radio, television, and film actress; and vocal artist and coach, who had a career in movies during the 1940s. Gibson, who retired from the industry in 1984, was known for her work opposite The Three Stooges.
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Biography of Jeannette Guyot (excerpt)
Jeannette Guyot (February 26, 1919 – April 10, 2016) was a French Resistance operative who went on to become one of the Second World War's most decorated women. She is one of only two women to hold the American Distinguished Service Cross obtained during the war.
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Biography of Mariya Smirnova (excerpt)
Mariya Vasilyevna Smirnova (Russian: Мария Васильевна Смирнова; 31 March 1920 – 10 July 2002) was a squadron commander in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment (nicknamed the "Night Witches") of the Soviet Air Forces during the Second World War.
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Biography of Taos Amrouche (excerpt)
Marie-Louise-Taos Amrouche (born 4 March 1913 in Tunis, Tunisia; died 2 April 1976 in Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire, France) was an Algerian writer and singer. In 1947, she became the first Algerian woman to publish a novel. She was born to a family of Kabyle Roman Catholic converts, the only daughter in a family of six sons. |
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