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Biography of Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (excerpt)
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (10 January 1883 (O.S. 29 December 1882) – 23 February 1945), nicknamed the Comrade Count, was a Russian and Soviet writer who wrote in many genres but specialized in science fiction and in historical novels. During World War II he served on the Extraordinary State Commission of 1942-1947 which "ascertained without reasonable doubt" the mass extermination of people in gas vans by the German occupiers.
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Biography of Suzanne Lacore (excerpt)
Suzanne Lacore was a French politician representing the SFIO (French Section of the Workers' International). She was born on 30 May 1875 in Beyssac (Corrèze, France)(birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 28); she died on 6 November 1975 in Milhac d'Auberoche (Dordogne, France).
Biography of François-Benjamin Chaussemiche (excerpt)
François-Benjamin Chaussemiche (June 4, 1864 – 1945) was a French architect. Chaussemiche was born in Tours, and in 1883 entered the École des Beaux-Arts where he became a student and later colleague of Victor Laloux. He won the Prix de Rome for architecture in 1893, and served as chief architect of the Palace of Versailles from 1917-1924, during which time he created the Parc botanique de Jussieu (now the Arboretum de Chèvreloup). ![]()
Biography of Reinhold Glière (excerpt)
Reinhold Moritzevich Glière, born Reinhold Ernest Glier, which was later converted for standardization purposes; 11 January 1875 (O.S. 30 December 1874) – 23 June 1956), was a Soviet Ukrainian and Russian composer, of German and Polish descent. As Taneyev's pupil and an 'associated' member of the circle around the Petersburg publisher Mitrofan Belyayev, it appeared Glière was destined to be a chamber musician.
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Biography of Ion Antonescu (excerpt)
Ion Antonescu (14 June (O.S. 2 June) 1882 – 1 June 1946) was a Romanian military officer and marshal who presided over two successive wartime dictatorships as Prime Minister and Conducător during most of World War II. After the war, he was executed. ![]()
Biography of Iulia Hasdeu (excerpt)
Iulia Hasdeu (Romanian pronunciation: ; 14 November 1869 in Bucharest – 29 September 1888 in Bucharest) was a Romanian poet, the daughter of writer and philologist Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu. From a very young age, Hasdeu wrote poems and prose in both Romanian and French, taught herself foreign languages and studied piano and opera singing.
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Biography of Georges Wybo (excerpt)
Eugène Adolphe Henri Georges Wybo (11 October 1880 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 1943) was a French architect who is known for the casino and the Hôtel Royal in Deauville, and for the department stores that he built for the Printemps chain. ![]()
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 Léon Jaussely (excerpt)
Léon Jaussely (9 January 1875 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 28 December 1932) was a French architect and urban planner. Born in Toulouse, Jaussely studied at the local fine arts school, then to the École des Beaux-Arts in the ateliers of Honoré Daumet and Pierre Esquié.
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Biography of Mehmet Akif Ersoy (excerpt)
Mehmet Akif Ersoy (20 December 1873 – 27 December 1936) was an Ottoman-born Turkish poet, writer, academic, politician, and the author of the Turkish National Anthem. Widely regarded as one of the premiere literary minds of his time, Ersoy is noted for his command of the Turkish language, as well as his patriotism and role in the Turkish War of Independence. ![]()
Biography of Eugénie Cotton (excerpt)
Eugénie Cotton (13 October 1881 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 27)– 16 June 1967) was a French scientist and Women's rights activist. She was a founding member and the first president of the Women's International Democratic Federation. She was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize in 1951 and the Gold medal from the World Peace Council in 1961.
Biography of Louise Saumoneau (excerpt)
Louise Saumoneau (17 December 1875 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 759) – 23 February 1950) was a French feminist who later renounced feminism as being irrelevant to the class struggle. She became a union leader and a prominent socialist. ![]()
Biography of Walter Gropius (excerpt)
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Alvar Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture.
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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.
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Biography of James Franck (excerpt)
James Franck (26 August 1882 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth record from Hamburg State Archives) – 21 May 1964) was a German physicist who won the 1925 Nobel Prize for Physics with Gustav Hertz "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom".
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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 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.
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Biography of Paul Cornu (excerpt)
Paul Cornu (June 15, 1881 (birth time source : Janine Tissot, birth certificate n° 5) – 6 June 1944) was a French engineer, inventor and aviator. At a young age, he helped his father in his transports company. He made history by designing the world's first successful manned rotary wing aircraft. ![]()
Biography of Jun'ichiro Tanizaki (excerpt)
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎 潤一郎, Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, 24 July 1886 – 30 July 1965) was a Japanese author who is considered to be one of the most prominent figures in modern Japanese literature. The tone and subject matter of his work ranges from shocking depictions of sexuality and destructive erotic obsessions to subtle portrayals of the dynamics of family life within the context of the rapid changes in 20th-century Japanese society.
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Biography of Nicole Girard-Mangin (excerpt)
Nicole Girard-Mangin (October 11, 1878 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 4536) – June 6, 1919) was the first female doctor to serve in the French Army. She served in several roles during the entire First World War. She was also a specialist in tuberculosis (TB). ![]()
Biography of Henri Laurens (excerpt)
Henri Laurens (February 18, 1885 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Paris archives V4E6278) – May 5, 1954) was a French sculptor and illustrator. Later Laurens was drawn to a new gathering of artistic creativity in Montparnasse. From 1915 he began to sculpt in the Cubist style after meeting Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris and Fernand Léger. ![]()
Biography of Gabrielle Duchêne (excerpt)
Gabrielle Duchêne (26 February 1870 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 200) – 3 August 1954) was a French feminist and pacifist who was active in the French section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Duchêne was present at the founding conference of the Universal Assembly for Peace in Brussels in September 1936.
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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 Anna Coleman Ladd (excerpt)
Anna Coleman Watts Ladd (July 15, 1878 – June 3, 1939) was an American sculptor in Manchester, Massachusetts, who devoted her time throughout World War I to soldiers who were disfigured. She devoted herself to portraiture and was well regarded. Her portrait of Eleanora Duse was one of only three that the actress ever allowed. ![]()
Biography of Jeanne Chauvin (excerpt)
Jeanne Chauvin (22 April 1862 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 20) – 7 September 1926) was the second woman to obtain a degree in law in France, in 1890. Her application to be sworn in as a lawyer was at first rejected, but after the law was changed in 1900 she was the second French woman to be authorized to plead at the bar (after Olga Petit.
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Biography of Ernest Oppenheimer (excerpt)
Sir Ernest Oppenheimer (22 May 1880 – 25 November 1957), KStJ was a diamond and gold mining entrepreneur, financier and philanthropist, who controlled De Beers and founded the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa. Career Ernest Oppenheimer was born in Friedberg, German Empire, the son of Edward Oppenheimer, a cigar merchant, and his wife, Nanette (née Hirschhorn) Oppenheimer. ![]()
Biography of Émile Dubois (murderer) (excerpt)
Louis-Amadeo Brihier Lacroix, alias Émile Dubois (30 March 1867 (mistake on Wikipedia) – 26 March 1907) was a French-born criminal and serial killer known as a folk hero in Chile. Early life Louis-Amadeo Brihier Lacroix (Aka Émile Dubois), son of Joseph Brihier and Marie Lacroix, killed the father of his girlfriend, a retired policeman, when he was fifteen.
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Biography of Mikhail Tomsky (excerpt)
Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky (Russian: Михаи́л Па́влович То́мский, born Mikhail Pavlovich Yefremov – sometimes transliterated as Efremov; Михаи́л Па́влович Ефре́мов; 31 October 1880 – 22 August 1936) was a factory worker, trade unionist and Bolshevik leader. He was the Soviet leader of the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions.
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Biography of Gustav Hertz (excerpt)
Gustav Ludwig Hertz (22 July 1887 – 30 October 1975) was a German experimental physicist and Nobel Prize winner for his work on inelastic electron collisions in gases. He was a nephew of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz and a cousin of Mathilde Carmen Hertz.
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Biography of André Bloch (excerpt)
André Bloch (14 January 1873, in Wissembourg – 7 August 1960, in Paris) was a French composer and music educator. He studied with André Gedalge, Ernest Guiraud, and Jules Massenet at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1893 he won the Prix de Rome for his cantata Antigone which used a text by Ferdinand Beissier.
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Biography of Albert Boissière (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste-Eugene-Albert Boissière, born January 26, 1864 in Thiberville (Eure)(birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died December 18, 1939, is a writer and a French serialist, author of crime novel. He is a serialist in the daily Le Figaro. Two of his novels A crime has been committed and The man without a figure are staging a comic judge, M Marathon who is stubbornly mistaken. ![]()
Biography of Lazare-Lévy (excerpt)
Lazare Lévy, also hyphenated as Lazare-Lévy, (18 January 1882 – 20 September 1964) was an influential French pianist, organist, composer and pedagogue. As a virtuoso pianist he toured throughout Europe, in North Africa, Israel, the Soviet Union and Japan. He taught for many years at the Paris Conservatoire. ![]()
Biography of Louis Chevrolet (excerpt)
Louis-Joseph Chevrolet (December 25, 1878 – June 6, 1941) was a Swiss-American race car driver, co-founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in 1911, and a founder in 1916 of the Frontenac Motor Corporation. On November 3, 1911, Chevrolet co-founded the Chevrolet Motor Car Company with Durant and investment partners William Little (maker of the Little automobile) and Dr.
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Biography of Boris Galerkin (excerpt)
Boris Grigoryevich Galerkin (surname more accurately romanized as Galyorkin; 4 March (O.S. 20 February) 1871 – 12 July 1945), born in Polotsk, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire, was a Soviet mathematician and an engineer. Galerkins name is forever attached to the finite element method, which is a way to numerically solve partial differential equations
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Biography of André Colomer (excerpt)
André Colomer (4 December 1886 in Cerbère (Pyrénées-Orientales – 7 October 1931 in Moskow) was a French poet and anarchist. Publications Roland Malmos (roman). le Réfractaire (drame en trois actes). À nous deux, Patrie ! (mémoires), paru en feuilleton dans L’Action d’art en 1919-1920, édité en brochure en 1925.
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).
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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.
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Biography of Arthur Bernède (excerpt)
Arthur Bernède (5 January 1871 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 20 March 1937) was a French writer, poet, opera libretist, and playwright. He was born in Redon, Ille-et-Vilaine department, in Brittany. In 1919, Bernède joined forces with actor René Navarre, who had played Fantômas in the Louis Feuillade serials, and writer Gaston Leroux, the creator of Rouletabille, to launch the Société des Cinéromans, a production company that would produce films and novels simultaneously.
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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.
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Biography of Marcel Cachin (excerpt)
Marcel Cachin (20 September 1869 – 12 February 1958) was a French politician. In 1891, Cachin joined Jules Guesde French Workers' Party (POF). In 1905, he joined the new French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) and won election to the Chamber of Deputies representing the Seine in 1914.
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Biography of Adolphe Ferrière (excerpt)
Adolphe Ferrière (Geneva, 1879 - Geneva, 1960) was one of the founders of the movement of the progressive education. His time of birth comes from Taeger Vol. 2 p. 544, JON (Nr. 355, without source). He shortly worked in a school in Glarisegg (TG, CH) and later founded an experimental school ('La Forge') in Lausanne, Switzerland, but Adolphe Ferrière had to quickly abandon teaching due to his deafness. ![]()
Biography of B. R. Ambedkar (excerpt)
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and political leader who headed the committee drafting the Constitution of India from the Constituent Assembly debates, served as Law and Justice minister in the first cabinet of Jawaharlal Nehru, and inspired the Dalit Buddhist movement after renouncing Hinduism. ![]()
Biography of Alfred Kubin (excerpt)
Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin (10 April 1877 – 20 August 1959) was an Austrian printmaker, illustrator, and occasional writer. Kubin is considered an important representative of Symbolism and Expressionism. From 1892 to 1896, he was apprenticed to the landscape photographer Alois Beer, although he learned little.
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Biography of Willem Drees (excerpt)
Willem Drees Sr. (5 July 1886 – 14 May 1988) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and later co-founder of the Labour Party (PvdA) and historian who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 7 August 1948 until 22 December 1958.
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Biography of Grigory Zinoviev (excerpt)
Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev (September 23 1883 – August 25, 1936), born Hirsch Apfelbaum, known also under the name Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyslsky, was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet Communist politician. Zinoviev was one of the seven members of the first Politburo, founded in 1917 in order to manage the Bolshevik Revolution: Lenin, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Trotsky, Stalin, Sokolnikov and Bubnov.
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Biography of Lev Mekhlis (excerpt)
Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis (January 13, 1889 (gregrorian calendar) – February 13, 1953) was a Soviet politician and high commander of the Red Army from 1937 to 1940. He was one of the main Stavka representatives during World War II who was responsible for five to seven Soviet fronts.
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Biography of Léo Daniderff (excerpt)
Léo Daniderff (Gaston-Ferdinand Niquet; 15 February 1878 in Angers, France (birth time and date source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 24 October 1943 in Rosny-sous-Bois, France) was a French composer of the pre-World War II era. His 1917 comical song, a foxtrot-shimmy named "Je cherche après Titine" (lyrics by Louis Mauban and Marcel Bertal), became world-famous due to Charlie Chaplin's singing it in gibberish in Modern Times (1936), especially because it was the first time his character ever spoke in the movies and Chaplin did not want The Tramp to use any particular language. ![]()
Biography of Victoria Kent (excerpt)
Victoria Kent Siano (March 6, 1892 – September 25, 1987) was a Spanish lawyer and republican politician. Shortly after her arrival in Madrid, she joined the Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Españolas y la Juventud Universitaria Femenina (a women's rights organization), directed by Maria Espinosa de los Monteros.
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Biography of Camille Marbo (excerpt)
Marguerite Borel known as Camille Marbo (11 April 1883 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 103) – 5 February 1969) née Marguerite Appell, was a 20th-century French writer, president and laureate of the Prix Femina in 1913 and president of the Société des gens de lettres.
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Biography of Valeska Gert (excerpt)
Valeska Gert (11 January 1892 – c. 16 March 1978) was a German dancer, pantomime, cabaret artist and actress. She was a pioneering performance artist who is said to have laid the foundations and paved the way for the punk movement. |
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