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Biography of Pierre Quéméneur (excerpt)
Pierre Quemeneur, born August 19, 1877 in Commana (Finistère), was a French man, killed in the night of 25/26 May 1923 during a business trip from Brittany to Paris with Seznec. The Seznec Affair was a controversial French court case of 1923-1924.
Biography of François Jollivet-Castelot (excerpt)
François Jollivet-Castelot, born on July 8, 1874 in Douai, died in 1939 in Clairac, was a French occultist, author, and alchemist. Works (extracts) * L'Âme et la vie de la matière (1893), essai de physiologie chimique. * L'Alchimie (1896) Paris : édition du "Mercure de France"
Biography of Clement Attlee (excerpt)
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British politician, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.
Biography of Friedrich Murnau (excerpt)
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, better known as F. W. Murnau (December 28, 1888 – March 11, 1931), was one of the most influential German film directors of the silent era. A figure in the expressionist movement in German cinema during the 1920s, some of Murnau's films from the silent era have been lost, but most still survive.
Biography of André Salmon (excerpt)
André Salmon (October 4, 1881, Paris (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth certificate) - March 12, 1969, Sanary-sur-Mer in Provence) was a French poet, art critic and writer. He was one of the defenders of cubism, with Apollinaire and Maurice Raynal.
Biography of Gustav Meyrink (excerpt)
Gustav Meyrink (January 19, 1868 – December 4, 1932) was an Austrian author, storyteller, dramatist, translator, banker and Buddhist, most famous for his novel The Golem. Childhood Gustav Meyrink was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria). He was the illegitimate son of Baron Karl von Varnbüler von und zu Hemmingen and actress Maria Wilhelmina Adelheyd Meier.
Biography of René Cassin (excerpt)
René Samuel Cassin (5 October 1887, Bayonne – 20 February 1976, Paris) was a French jurist, law professor and judge. A French soldier in World War I, he later went on to form the Union Fédérale, a leftist, pacifist Veterans organisation.
Biography of Amédée Ozenfant (excerpt)
Amédée Ozenfant (15 April 1886 - 4 May 1966) was a French cubist painter. He was born into a bourgeois family in Saint-Quentin, Aisne and was educated at Dominican colleges in Saint-Sébastien. After completing his education he returned to Saint-Quentin and began painting in watercolour and pastels.
Biography of Alphonse de Châteaubriant (excerpt)
Alphonse Van Bredenbeck de Châteaubriant (25 March 1877 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - 2 May 1951) was a French writer who won the Prix Goncourt in 1911 for his novel Monsieur de Lourdines and Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française for La Brière in 1923.
Biography of Inayat Khan (excerpt)
Hazrat Inayat Khan (July 5, 1882 (Madras time is applied) – February 5, 1927) was the founder of Universal Sufism and the Sufi Order International. He initially came to the West as a representative of several traditions of classical Indian music, having received the title Tansen from the Nizam of Hyderabad.
Biography of Juan Ramon Jimenez (excerpt)
Juan Ramón Jiménez (Moguer, Spain, 24 December 1881 – Santurce, Puerto Rico, 29 May 1958) was a Spanish poet. One of his most important contributions to modern poetry was the idea of poesía pura (Spanish for "pure poetry"). A prolific author, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956.
Biography of Charles Nicolle (excerpt)
Charles Jules Henry Nicolle (September 21, 1866 Rouen - February 28, 1936) was a French bacteriologist who earned the 1928 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus. He learned about biology early from his father Eugène Nicolle, a doctor at a Rouen hospital.
Biography of Edouard Vuillard (excerpt)
Jean-Édouard Vuillard (November 12, 1868 - June 21, 1940) was a French painter and printmaker associated with the Nabis. Jean-Édouard Vuillard, the son of a retired captain, spent his youth at Cuiseaux (Saône-et-Loire); in 1878 his family moved to Paris in modest circumstances.
Biography of Panaït Istrati (excerpt)
Panait Istrati (Romanian pronunciation: ; sometimes rendered as Panaït Istrati; August 10, 1884 – April 18, 1935) was a Romanian writer of French and Romanian expression, nicknamed The Maxim Gorky of the Balkans. Istrati was first noted for the depiction of one homosexual character in his work.
Biography of Roland Dorgelès (excerpt)
Roland Dorgelès (born June 15, 1885 in Amiens (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – died March 18, 1973 in Paris), was a French novelist and member of the Académie Goncourt. Born Roland Lecavelé (he adopted the pen name Dorgelès to commemorate visits to the spa town of Argelès), he spent his childhood in Paris.
Biography of Virginie Hériot (excerpt)
Virginie Hériot (July 25, 1890 in Le Vésinet - August 28, 1932 in Arcachon) was a female French sailor who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. In 1928 she was a crew member of the French boat l'Aile VI which won the gold medal in the 8 metre class.
Biography of Niceto Alcalá-Zamora (excerpt)
Niceto Alcalá-Zamora y Torres (6 July 1877 - 18 February 1949) served, briefly, as the first Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic, and then — from 1931 to 1936—as its President. Alcalá-Zamora was born in Priego de Cordoba, Spain, son of Manuel Alcalá-Zamora y Caracuel (brother of Gregorio (d.
Biography of Hermann Rorschach (excerpt)
Hermann Rorschach (8 November 1884 Zurich - 2 April 1922 Herisau) was a Swiss Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, best known for developing a projective test known, from his name, as the Rorschach inkblot test. When he was in high school, Rorschach was called Klecks, or "inkblot," by his friends.
Biography of Princess Louise of Orléans (excerpt)
Princess Louise Françoise Marie Laure of Orléans (born 24 February 1882 in Cannes, France ; died 18 April 1958 in Seville, Spain ) was a Princess of the Two-Sicilies and maternal grandmother of King Juan Carlos I of Spain. Louise was the youngest daughter of Philippe of Orléans (1838-1894), Count of Paris and claimant to the French throne as "Philippe VII".
Biography of Ernest Shackleton (excerpt)
Ernest Henry Shackleton, CVO, OBE (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish explorer who was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. His first experience of the polar regions had been as third officer on Captain Scott’s Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, from which he was sent home early on health grounds.
Biography of Miguel de Unamuno (excerpt)
Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (September 29, 1864–December 31, 1936) was an essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher from Spain. Miguel de Unamuno was born in the medieval centre of Bilbao, Basque Country, the son of Félix de Unamuno and Salomé Jugo.
Biography of François Darlan (excerpt)
François Darlan (7 August 1881 – 24 December 1942) was a French naval officer. Darlan rose through the French Navy, ultimately becoming Admiral of the Fleet, and was a major figure of the Vichy France regime during World War II. Darlan was born in Nérac, Lot-et-Garonne, graduating from the École Navale in 1902.
Biography of Henri Bosco (excerpt)
Henri Bosco (November 16, 1888 - May 4, 1976) was a French writer. He was born in Avignon. He died in Nice. He was buried at the cemetery of Lourmarin. Bibliography (extracts) Pierre Lampédouze, 1924 Le Sanglier, 1932 Le Trestoulas et L'Habitant de Sivergues, 1935
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Quito, formally Saint Francis of Quito) is the capital of Ecuador, the country's most populous city and at an elevation of 2,850 metres (9,350 ft) above sea level, it is the second highest official capital city in the world, and the closest to the equator.
Biography of John, King of England (excerpt)
John (24 December 1167 (birth time source: Martin Harvey) – 19 October 1216) reigned as King of England from 6 April 1199, until his death. He succeeded to the throne as the younger brother of King Richard I (known in later times as "Richard the Lionheart").
Biography of Friedrich Paulus (excerpt)
Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus (23 September 1890 – 1 February 1957) was an officer in the German military from 1910 to 1943, attaining the rank of Generalfeldmarschall during World War II. He is most known for commanding the Sixth Army's assault on Stalingrad during Operation Blue in 1942.
Biography of Paul Foster Case (excerpt)
Paul Foster Case (October 3, 1884 – March 2, 1954) was an American occultist of the early 20th Century and author of numerous books on Tarot and Qabalah. Perhaps his greatest contributions to the field of occultism were the lessons he wrote for associate members of Builders of the Adytum.
Biography of André Danjon (excerpt)
André-Louis Danjon (April 6, 1890 – April 21, 1967) was a French astronomer born in Caen. Danjon devised a method to measure "Earthshine" on the Moon using a telescope in which a prism split the Moon's image into two identical side-by-side images.
Biography of Gilbert Keith Chesterton (excerpt)
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936) was an influential English writer of the early 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy, and detective fiction. Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox.
Biography of Pierre Guéguen (excerpt)
Pierre Guéguen, born March 29, 1889 in Perros-Guirec, died in 1965, was a French poet, writer and critic.
Biography of Douglas Fairbanks (excerpt)
Douglas Fairbanks (May 23, 1883 (birth time source: Nella Webb) – December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer, who became noted for his swashbuckling roles in silent movies such as The Mark of Zorro (1920), The Three Musketeers (1921), Robin Hood (1922), The Thief of Bagdad (1924) and The Black Pirate (1926).
Biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay (excerpt)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her time of birth comes directly from her own words, noted in her personal diary, which was published and made available for the first time in 2022, on page 52.
Biography of Henri-Pierre Roché (excerpt)
Henri-Pierre Roché (May 28, 1879 – April 9, 1959) was a French author who was involved with the Dada movement. Born in Paris, France, Henri-Pierre Roché was a respected journalist as well as an art collector and dealer. At the turn of the 20th century, he became close friends with a number of young artists from the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris including: Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, Marie Vassilieff, Max Jacob, and Pablo Picasso.
Biography of Manuel de Falla (excerpt)
Manuel de Falla y Matheu (November 23, 1876 – November 14, 1946) was a Spanish composer of classical music. Manuel de Falla was born in Cádiz. His early teacher in music was his mother; at the age of 9 he was introduced to his first piano professor.
Biography of Richard Wilhelm (excerpt)
Richard Wilhelm (May 10, 1873, Stuttgart, Germany - March 2, 1930, Tübingen, Germany) was a German translator. He translated many philosophical works from Chinese into German that in turn have been translated into other major languages of the world, including English.
Biography of Foujita (excerpt)
Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita (藤田 嗣治 Fujita Tsuguharu, November 27, 1886–January 29, 1968) was a painter and printmaker born in Tokyo, Japan who applied French oil techniques to Japanese-style paintings. In 1910 when he was twenty-four years old Foujita graduated from what is now the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.
Biography of Marcel André (excerpt)
Marcel André (Marcel, Auguste, Victor André), born on January 2, 1885 in Paris 2e (birth time source: Michaël Mandl, birth certificate), died on October 13, 1974 in Paris, was a French actor and comedian, and the father of actor Michel André.
Biography of Margaret Sanger (excerpt)
Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, an advocate of negative eugenics, and the founder of the American Birth Control League (which eventually became Planned Parenthood). Initially met with fierce opposition to her ideas, Sanger gradually won some support, both in the public as well as the courts, for a woman's choice to decide how and when, if ever, she will bear children.
Biography of André Maurois (excerpt)
André Maurois, born Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog, (July 26, 1885 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – October 9, 1967) was a French author and man of letters. "André Maurois" was a pen name that became his legal name in 1947.
Biography of Wilhelm Keitel (excerpt)
Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel (22 September 1882–16 October 1946) was a German field marshal (Generalfeldmarschall). As head of the High Command of the Armed Forces, he was one of Germany's most senior military leaders during World War II. At the allied court at Nuremberg he was tried, sentenced to death and hanged as a major war criminal.
Biography of Francisque Poulbot (excerpt)
Francisque Poulbot was a French drawer and illustrator born February 6, 1879 in Saint-Denis. He has created the famous "Poulbot de Paris".
Biography of Cecil B. de Mille (excerpt)
Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was a successful Academy Award-winning American filmmaker in the first half of the 20th century, known for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies. Biography Early life DeMille was born while his parents, Henry Churchill deMille (1853–1893), a dramatist and lay reader in the Episcopal Church from Washington, North Carolina, and Matilda Beatrice Samuel (1853–1923), who was born to a Sephardic Jewish family in England but converted to her husband's faith, were vacationing in Ashfield, Massachusetts.
Biography of Paul Dukas (excerpt)
Paul Abraham Dukas (October 1, 1865-May 17, 1935) was a Parisian-born French composer and teacher of classical music. Dukas was from a French-Jewish family. He studied under Théodore Dubois and Ernest Guiraud at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he became friends with the composer Claude Debussy.
Biography of Achille Liénart (excerpt)
Achille Liénart (February 7, 1884—February 15, 1973) was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Lille from 1928 to 1968, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1930. Born in Lille, Liénart studied at College Saint-Joseph, the Seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Paris, the Institut Catholique de Paris, Collège de Sorbonne, and the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome.
Biography of Kyösti Kallio (excerpt)
Kyösti Kallio (April 10, 1873 – December 19, 1940) was the fourth President of Finland (1937–1940). He was a prominent leader of the Agrarian League, and had previously been Prime Minister four times and Speaker of the Parliament six times .
Biography of René Boylesve (excerpt)
René Boylesve (born René Marie Auguste Tardiveau) (April 14, 1867 - January 14, 1926) was a French author. He was born in La Haye-Descartes and died in Paris.
Biography of Mário de Sá-Carneiro (excerpt)
Mário de Sá-Carneiro (Lisbon, May 19, 1890 — Paris, April 26, 1916) was a Portuguese poet and writer. He is one of the most well known of the "Geração D'Orpheu". Life Sá-Carneiro was born to a wealthy family with a strong military tradition.
Biography of Robert Musil (excerpt)
Robert Musil born Robert Edler von Musil (November 6, 1880, Klagenfurt, Austria (birth time source: Steinbrecher, birth certificate) – April 15, 1942, Geneva, Switzerland) was an Austrian writer. His unfinished long novel The Man Without Qualities (German: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften) is generally considered to be one of the most important modernist novels.
Biography of Fatty Arbuckle (excerpt)
Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film comedian, director, and screenwriter. Arbuckle is noted as one of the most popular actors of his era, but he is best remembered for a heavily publicized criminal prosecution that ended his career.
Biography of Léon Jouhaux (excerpt)
Léon Jouhaux (July 1, 1879 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – April 28, 1954) was a French trade union leader who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1951. Jouhaux's father worked in a match factory in Aubervilliers. His secondary schooling ended when his father's earnings were stopped by a strike. |
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