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Biography of Dan Wickenden (excerpt)
Leonard Daniel Wickenden, an American author and editor, was born on March 24, 1913, in Tyrone, Pennsylvania, to English parents, and grew up in Long Island. He graduated from Amherst College in 1935 and began publishing stories in Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.
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Biography of Jack Fleck (excerpt)
Jackson Donald Fleck, born on November 8, 1921, and died on March 21, 2014, was an American professional golfer best known for winning the 1955 U.S. Open in a playoff against Ben Hogan. Raised in Bettendorf, Iowa, he started as a caddie and turned pro in 1939.
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Biography of Frank Graham (voice actor) (excerpt)
Frank Lee Graham (November 22, 1914 – September 2, 1950) was an American radio announcer and voice actor active during the 1940s. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he was the son of attorney Frank L. Graham and opera singer Ethel Briggs Graham, with whom he toured during his youth.
Biography of Robert Hayden (poet) (excerpt)
Robert Hayden (August 4, 1913 – February 25, 1980) was an American poet, essayist, and educator. He was the first African-American to serve as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, now known as U.S. Poet Laureate. Born in Detroit to separated parents, he was raised by neighbors.
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Biography of John McGraw (brigadier general) (excerpt)
John Robert McGraw (January 4, 1912 – June 19, 1976) was a U.S. Air Force brigadier general and flight surgeon during World War II. Born in Pennsylvania, he earned his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1934. After briefly practicing medicine, he joined the Army in 1937.
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Biography of Gustave Brickner (excerpt)
Gustave Adolph "Gus" Brickner was a famous swimmer hailing from Charleroi, Pennsylvania in the United States. Born Feb. 10, 1912 to Gustave Adolph Brickner Sr. (1889 - 1918) and Philamena "Minnie" Buchrop (1885 - 1968). One of Five siblings, Gus's father died at age 29 when Gus was 6 years old.
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Biography of Dottie Frazier (excerpt)
Dottie May Frazier (July 16, 1922 – February 8, 2022) was an American diving pioneer, the first female scuba instructor and the first woman to own a dive shop in the U.S. She survived the 1933 Long Beach earthquake and graduated from high school in 1939.
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Biography of Pilar Del Rey (excerpt)
Pilar Bougas (May 26, 1929 – February 23, 2025), professionally known as Pilar Del Rey, was an American actress whose career spanned from the late 1940s until 1990. She is best remembered for playing Mrs. Obregón in the 1956 epic film Giant, alongside James Dean.
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Biography of Nita Bieber (excerpt)
Nita Gale Bieber (July 18, 1926 – February 4, 2019) was an American actress and dancer. Born in Los Angeles, she studied dance from childhood with her four siblings. After graduating from Hollywood High School, she toured with a USO troupe. She began her film career in 1946 with Columbia Pictures, notably appearing in Rhythm and Weep with the Three Stooges.
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Biography of Del Martin (activist) (excerpt)
Dorothy "Del" Martin (May 5, 1921 – August 27, 2008) and Phyllis Lyon (November 10, 1924 – April 9, 2020) were an iconic lesbian couple from San Francisco, known for their pioneering work in feminism and gay rights. They met in 1950, moved in together in 1953, and cofounded the Daughters of Bilitis in 1955, the first lesbian political and social organization in the U.
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Biography of Greta Thyssen (excerpt)
Greta Thyssen, born Grethe Karen Thygesen on March 30, 1927, in Hareskovby, Denmark, and died January 6, 2018, in Manhattan, was a Danish actress and model who settled in the U.S. She launched her screen career after being crowned Miss Denmark in 1951.
Biography of Barbara Lyon (excerpt)
Barbara Bebe Lyon (September 9, 1931 – July 10, 1995) was a popular song singer and actress, born in the U.S. but best known for her career in the United Kingdom. The daughter of silent film stars Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels, she moved to Britain during World War II.
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Biography of Barron Patterson McCune (excerpt)
Barron Patterson McCune (February 19, 1915 – September 10, 2008) was a U.S. federal judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He earned a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1938, practiced privately, and served in the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1948.
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Biography of Marthe Gautier (excerpt)
Marthe Gautier, born on September 10, 1925 in Montenils and died on April 30, 2022 in Meaux, was a French physician, pediatrician, and honorary research director at INSERM, specializing in pediatric cardiology. In 1959, she played a crucial role in identifying the extra chromosome responsible for Down syndrome, working with Raymond Turpin and, to a lesser extent, Jérôme Lejeune.
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Biography of Odile de Vasselot de Régné (excerpt)
Odile de Vasselot de Régné (January 6, 1922 – April 21, 2025) was a French Resistance fighter and consecrated laywoman. Born into a military family, she joined the Resistance during WWII, first as a liaison agent, then in the Comet network, helping Allied airmen escape to Spain.
Biography of Jay Livingston (excerpt)
Jay Livingston (born Jacob Harold Levison; March 28, 1915 – October 17, 2001) was an American composer best known for his songwriting partnership with Ray Evans, specializing in film scores and theme songs. Born in McDonald, Pennsylvania, to Jewish parents, he had an older sister and a younger brother, Alan W.
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Biography of Philip J. Corso (excerpt)
Philip James Corso (May 22, 1915 – July 16, 1998) was a U.S. Army officer who served from February 23, 1942, to March 1, 1963. He achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel and held key intelligence positions during his military career. In 1997, he published The Day After Roswell, claiming involvement in the study of alien technology recovered from the 1947 Roswell Incident.
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Biography of Rogério Cezar de Cerqueira Leite (excerpt)
Rogério Cezar de Cerqueira Leite (born July 14, 1931, in Santo Anastácio – died December 1, 2024, in Campinas) was a Brazilian electronic engineer, physicist, and public intellectual. A graduate of ITA and PhD from the Sorbonne, he worked at Bell Labs, taught at major universities in Brazil and France, and pioneered the use of lasers for material studies in Brazil.
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Biography of Richard G. Colbert (excerpt)
Richard Gary Colbert (February 12, 1915 – December 2, 1973) was a four-star U.S. Navy admiral renowned for fostering international naval cooperation during the Cold War. He served as President of the Naval War College from 1968 to 1971, and then as Commander in Chief of NATO's Southern European forces from 1972 until his death in 1973.
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Biography of Lock Martin (excerpt)
Joseph Lockard "Lock" Martin Jr. (October 12, 1916 – January 19, 1959) was an American performer afflicted with gigantism. Martin and a twin brother were born in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; his brother died in childbirth. Martin would eventually grow to over 7 feet tall by adulthood, though his exact height was reported inconsistently.
Biography of Whitney Blake (excerpt)
Whitney Blake (born Nancy Ann Whitney, February 20, 1926, in Los Angeles, California, died September 28, 2002, in Edgartown, Massachusetts) was an American actress, director, and producer. She is best known for playing Dorothy Baxter in the sitcom Hazel and for co-creating One Day at a Time.
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Biography of Dick Carson (excerpt)
Richard Charles Carson (June 4, 1929 – December 19, 2021) was an American television director and five-time Emmy Award winner. He directed iconic programs such as The Tonight Show, Wheel of Fortune, and The Merv Griffin Show. His time of birth comes from his birth certificate, but it is not specified whether it was morning or afternoon (am or pm, the letter before the m is missing).
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Biography of Nalda Bird (excerpt)
Nalda Marie Bird (February 11, 1927 – September 15, 2004) was a starting pitcher and outfielder in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the 1945 season. Standing 5 ft 1 in and weighing 115 lb., Bird batted right-handed and threw left-handed.
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Biography of Ormond McGill (excerpt)
Ormond Dale McGill, born on June 15, 1913 in Palo Alto, California, and died on October 19, 2005, was an American stage hypnotist, magician, and author, known as the "Dean of American Hypnotists." His time of birth comes from him, in his book "The Amazing Life of Ormond McGill", by Ormond McGill (Crown House, 2005).
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Biography of Leopoldo Trieste (excerpt)
Leopoldo Trieste (3 May 1917 – 25 January 2003) was an Italian actor, film director and script writer. Trieste was born in Reggio Calabria. He worked with directors such as Pietro Germi, Francis Ford Coppola, Giuseppe Tornatore, Mario Bava, Tinto Brass, Charles Vidor, René Clément and Federico Fellini.
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Biography of Dick Rathmann (excerpt)
James Merwin "Dick" Rathmann (January 6, 1926 – February 1, 2000) was an American racing driver known for competing in both NASCAR and open-wheel series. As a teen, he swapped identities with his brother Jim to help him race underage — a switch that stuck for life.
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Biography of Richard Devon (excerpt)
Richard Devon, born Richard Gibson Ferraiole on December 11, 1926, in Glendale, California, was an American character and voice actor. From the late 1940s to 1991, he performed in hundreds of stage, radio, film, and television roles. Raised in a modest family of Italian descent, Devon worked early on as a stable hand and riding instructor—skills that served him well in his many roles in Westerns.
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Biography of Marcel Jaurant-Singer (excerpt)
Marcel Jaurant-Singer (May 27, 1921 – December 28, 2022) was a French secret agent parachuted in March 1944 as a radio operator for the SOE’s MASON network in the Chalon-sur-Saône region. He trained several operators and led over 300 maquisards in guerrilla actions during the Liberation.
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Biography of Jocelyn Gill (excerpt)
Jocelyn Gill (October 29, 1916 – April 26, 1984) was an American astronomer who worked for NASA. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1938 and earned her PhD from Yale in 1959 after teaching at several colleges. She held academic roles at Smith College and Arizona State University, and worked as a research assistant at Yale.
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Biography of Robert W. Tucker (excerpt)
Robert Warren Tucker (born August 25, 1924 – died February 7, 2025) was an American realist writer and professor of American Foreign Policy at the Johns Hopkins University, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Biography of Rico Bulthuis (excerpt)
Rico Bulthuis (August 27, 1911 – October 4, 2009) was a Dutch writer of psychological thrillers and detective novels, as well as an illustrator, puppeteer, photographer, civil servant, and art critic. The son of writer H.J. Bulthuis, he started as an advertising specialist and portrait photographer before becoming an art critic for the Haagsche Courant after World War II.
Biography of Jack Donner (excerpt)
Jack Donner (born Jake Doner; October 29, 1928 – September 21, 2019) was an American actor whose career in film, theater, and television spanned more than six decades. A Los Angeles native, he began acting in the 1950s with roles in The Guiding Light and As the World Turns, and spent seven seasons in New York regional theater.
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Biography of Aharon Appelfeld (excerpt)
Aharon Appelfeld (born Ervin Appelfeld, February 16, 1932, in Jadova, Kingdom of Romania (now Stara Zhadova in Ukraine) – died January 4, 2018, in Jerusalem) was an Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor. As a child, he lost his mother during the Romanian invasion in 1941, was deported to Transnistria, escaped, and survived in hiding before joining the Soviet army.
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Biography of Butch Voris (excerpt)
Roy Marlin "Butch" Voris (September 17, 1919 – August 10, 2005) was a U.S. Navy aviator, World War II flying ace, and founder of the Navy's Blue Angels flight demonstration team. Over a 22-year career, he flew a wide range of aircraft, from biplanes to jets, and later contributed to the development of the F-14 Tomcat and Apollo Lunar Module at Grumman.
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Biography of Norman Granz (excerpt)
Norman Granz (August 6, 1918 – November 22, 2001) was an American jazz record producer and concert promoter. He founded Clef, Norgran, Down Home, Verve, and Pablo labels, and launched the Jazz at the Philharmonic concert series. A champion of racial equality, he insisted on integrated audiences at his events.
Biography of Easley Blackwood Jr. (excerpt)
Easley Rutland Blackwood Jr., born April 21, 1933, in Indianapolis and died January 22, 2023, in Chicago, was an American concert pianist, composer, and music professor known for his work on microtonal tuning systems and traditional harmony. He studied with Messiaen, Hindemith, and Boulanger, and taught at the University of Chicago for forty years.
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Biography of Hard Boiled Haggerty (excerpt)
Don Stansauk, known by his ring name Hard Boiled Haggerty, was born on April 2, 1925, and died on January 27, 2004. A former American football player, he rose to fame as a professional wrestler and later as a character actor.
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Biography of David H. DePatie (excerpt)
David Hudson DePatie (December 24, 1929 – September 23, 2021) was an American film and television producer. He was the last head of Warner Bros. Cartoons, co-founded DePatie–Freleng Enterprises with Friz Freleng, worked for Hanna-Barbera, and was executive producer at Marvel Productions.
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Biography of Larry Bunker (excerpt)
Lawrence Benjamin Bunker (November 4, 1928 – March 8, 2005) was an American jazz drummer, vibraphonist, and percussionist. A member of the Bill Evans Trio in the 1960s, he also played timpani with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Born in Long Beach, California, Bunker was a key figure on the West Coast jazz scene.
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Biography of Stanley Gartler (excerpt)
Stanley Michael Gartler, born June 9, 1923, in Los Angeles, is an American cell and molecular biologist and human geneticist. He was the first to provide conclusive evidence for the clonality of human cancers and discovered widespread HeLa cell contamination in supposedly unique cell lines.
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Biography of John Kellogg (actor) (excerpt)
John Kellogg (June 3, 1916 – February 22, 2000) was an American film, stage, and television actor. Some sources, including ancestry.com, list his birth name as Giles Vernon Kellogg, Jr. He began acting in the 1930s under the name Giles V. Kellogg, notably in the comedy Brother Rat.
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Biography of Ernest Becker (excerpt)
Ernest Becker (September 27, 1924 – March 6, 1974) was an American cultural anthropologist and author, best known for The Denial of Death, which earned the Pulitzer Prize in 1974. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, to Jewish immigrant parents, he served in World War II and helped liberate a Nazi concentration camp.
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Biography of Jack Hooper (artist) (excerpt)
Jack Hooper (August 26, 1928 – January 24, 2014) was an American painter, muralist, sculptor, printmaker, and art educator, recognized as a key figure in the Southern California art scene of the 1950s and 1960s. Part of the Los Angeles generation that included Robert Irwin and Billy Al Bengston, he was an innovator in material exploration, particularly known for incorporating plastic into art.
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Biography of Hampton Hawes (excerpt)
Hampton Barnett Hawes Jr. (November 13, 1928 – May 22, 1977) was an American jazz pianist and the author of the acclaimed memoir Raise Up Off Me, which won the Deems Taylor Award for music writing in 1975. Born in Los Angeles to a religious family, he was self-taught and began playing with major West Coast jazz musicians in his teens, including Charlie Parker and Dexter Gordon.
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Biography of Joe Funk (excerpt)
Joseph Funk (March 19, 1914 – February 2, 1981) was an American artist, printmaker, and educator, known for his quiet but key role in reviving fine art lithography in the United States. Trained at Otis and Chouinard, he worked on WPA murals in the 1940s and served in Korea, where he developed a lasting interest in Asian art.
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Biography of John Paul Jones (artist) (excerpt)
John Paul Jones (November 18, 1924 – September 25, 1999) was an American painter and printmaker, regarded as one of the country’s leading printmakers during the 1950s and 1960s. In 1962, he was featured in Time Magazine, affirming his national prominence. The following year, the Brooklyn Museum held a major retrospective of his prints and drawings.
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Biography of Pat Flaherty (racing driver) (excerpt)
George Francis "Pat" Flaherty (January 6, 1926 – April 9, 2002) was an American racing driver best known for winning the Indianapolis 500 in 1956. He began racing roadsters in 1946 and later competed in the AAA/USAC Championship, with 19 career starts and three wins, including the 1956 Indy 500. |
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