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Biography of Morey Amsterdam (excerpt)
Morey Amsterdam (born Moritz Amsterdam, December 14, 1908 – October 27, 1996) was an American television actor and comedian, best known for the role of Buddy Sorrell on CBS's The Dick Van Dyke Show from 1961 to 1966. Further reading Keep Laughing. Citadel Press, 1959.
Biography of María Teresa León (excerpt)
María Teresa León (31 October 1903 – 13 December 1988) was a Spanish writer, activist, screenwriter, and cultural ambassador. Born in Logrońo, she was the niece of the Spanish feminist and writer María Goyri (the wife of Ramón Menéndez Pidal). She herself was married to the Spanish poet Rafael Alberti.
Biography of Olena Teliha (excerpt)
Olena Ivanivna Teliha (Ukrainian: Олена Іванівна Теліга, July 21, 1906 – February 21, 1942) was a Ukrainian poet and Ukrainian activist of Ukrainian and Belarusian ethnicity. A lot of her activities were in open defiance of the Nazi authorities. She was finally arrested by the Gestapo and executed, aged 35, in Babi Yar in Kiev along with her husband.
Biography of José Antonio Primo de Rivera (excerpt)
José Antonio Primo de Rivera y Sáenz de Heredia, 1st Duke of Primo de Rivera, 3rd Marquess of Estella, GE (April 24, 1903 (his birth time comes from this page. The source is the biography of Felipe Ximénez de Sandoval) – November 20, 1936), often referred to as José Antonio, was a Spanish lawyer, nobleman, politician, and founder of the Falange Espańola ("Spanish Phalanx"), later Falange Espańola de las JONS.
Biography of Günther Anders (excerpt)
Günther Anders (born Günther Siegmund Stern; Breslau, 12 July 1902 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth certificate)) – Vienna, 17 December 1992) was a German Jewish philosopher, journalist, essayist and poet. Trained in the phenomenological tradition, he developed a philosophical anthropology for the age of technology, focusing on such themes as the effects of mass media on our emotional and ethical existence, the illogic of religion, the nuclear threat, the Shoah, and the question of being a philosopher.
Biography of Joan Pujol García (excerpt)
Juan Pujol García MBE (14 February 1912 – 10 October 1988), also known as Joan Pujol Garcia, was a Spanish double agent against Nazi Germany during World War II, when he relocated to Britain to carry out fictitious spying activities for the Germans.
Biography of Honorine Rondello (excerpt)
Honorine Rondello, born Honorine Jeanne Marie Cadoret on July 28, 1903 in Kérity (now a part of Paimpol), is a French supercentenarian, the oldest person in France since September 4, 2016. She lives in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume. She died on October 19, 2017 (age 114).
Biography of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (excerpt)
Henry V (11 August 1086 (source: http://global.britannica.com/biography/Henry-V-Holy-Roman-emperor) – 23 May 1125) was King of Germany (from 1099 to 1125) and Holy Roman Emperor (from 1111 to 1125), the fourth and last ruler of the Salian dynasty. Henry's reign coincided with the final phase of the great Investiture Controversy, which had pitted pope against emperor.
Biography of Silvina Ocampo (excerpt)
Silvina Ocampo Aguirre (July 28, 1903 – December 14, 1993) was an Argentine short story writer, poet, and artist. Ocampo's friend and collaborator Jorge Luis Borges called Ocampo "one of the greatest poets in the Spanish language, whether on this side of the ocean or on the other.
Biography of Alain Le Léap (excerpt)
Alain Le Léap, born on September 29, 1905 in Lanmeur, Finistčre (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on December 26, 1986 in Le Pradet, Var, was a French syndicalist, Secretary General of The General Confederation of Labour (CGT) from 1948 to 1957.
Biography of Joy Davidman (excerpt)
Helen Joy Davidman (18 April 1915 – 13 July 1960) was an American poet and writer. Often referred to as a child prodigy, she earned a master's degree from Columbia University in English literature at age twenty in 1935. For her book of poems, Letter to a Comrade, she won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 1938 and the Russell Loines Award for Poetry in 1939.
Biography of Aaron Bank (excerpt)
Colonel Aaron Bank (November 23, 1902 – April 1, 2004) was a United States Army officer, and the founder of the US Army Special Forces, commonly known as the "Green Berets". He is also famous for his exploits as an OSS officer during World War II, parachuting into France to coordinate and activate the French Resistance and organizing an operation intended to capture Adolf Hitler.
Biography of Albert Brenet (excerpt)
Albert Brenet, born on June 25, 1903 in Harfleur (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died in July 2005 in Paris, was a French painter, artist, and illustrator. Bibliography Thierry Favre et Cristina Baron, Albert Brenet : une vie, une śuvre, Paris, Gallimard Musée national de la marine, 2003 (ISBN 9782742411924) ;
Biography of H. W. L. Poonja (excerpt)
Sri H. W. L. Poonja (born Hariwansh Lal Poonja; 13 October 1910 in Punjab, British India – 6 September 1997 in Lucknow, India), known as "Poonjaji" or "Papaji" /ˈpɑːpɑːdʒi/, was an Indian sage and jivanmukta (liberated being) who taught Self-enquiry as advocated by Ramana Maharshi.
Biography of Viktor Frankl (excerpt)
Viktor Emil Frankl (26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997) was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, writer, and Holocaust survivor. He was the founder of logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life's meaning as the central human motivational force.
Biography of Ilarie Voronca (excerpt)
Ilarie Voronca (pen name of Eduard Marcus; 31 December 1903, Brăila—8 April 1946, Paris) was a Romanian-French avant-garde poet and essayist. Voronca was of Jewish ethnicity. In his early years, he was connected with Eugen Lovinescu's Sburătorul group, making his debut in 1922 in the Sburătorul literar (symbolist pieces inspired by the works of George Bacovia and Camil Baltazar).
Biography of Alexandre Breffort (excerpt)
Alexandre Breffort (November 22, 1901 in Fourchambault, Ničvre (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – February 22, 1971 in Paris) was a French journalist, screenwriter, and author.
Biography of Jean Nicolas (excerpt)
Jean Edouard Marie Nicolas (9 June 1913 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 8 September 1978) was a French international footballer who played as a striker. Born in Nanterre, Nicolas played club football for FC Rouen, and appeared in the 1934 and 1938 World Cup squads for France, and scored two goals in the 1938 edition of the tournament.
Biography of Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg (excerpt)
Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg (8 February 1744 – 10 February 1817) was Prince-Archbishop of Regensburg, Arch-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire, Bishop of Constance and Worms, Prince-Primate of the Confederation of the Rhine and Grand Duke of Frankfurt. Biography Born in Mannheim, Germany (source: https://de.
Biography of Carlos Drummond de Andrade (excerpt)
Carlos Drummond de Andrade (October 31, 1902 – August 17, 1987) was a Brazilian poet and writer, considered by some as the greatest Brazilian poet of all time. He has become something of a national cultural symbol in Brazil, where his widely influential poem "Cançăo Amiga" ("Friendly Song") has been featured on the 50-cruzado novo bill.
Biography of Cecil Day-Lewis (excerpt)
Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis) CBE (27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often writing as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake.
Biography of Albert Ouzoulias (excerpt)
Albert Ouzoulias (20 January 1915 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 27 November 1995) was a Communist leader of the French Resistance during World War II (1939–45) using the name of "Colonel André". He played a major role in the 1944 liberation of Paris.
Biography of Giorgio Perlasca (excerpt)
Giorgio Perlasca (Como 31 January 1910 (birth time source: Grazia Bordoni, birth certificate) – Padua 15 August 1992) was an Italian businessman who, with the collaboration of official diplomats, posed as the Spanish consul-general to Hungary in the winter of 1944, and saved 5218 Jews from deportation to Nazi Germany death camps in eastern Europe.
Biography of Northrop Frye (excerpt)
Herman Northrop Frye CC FRSC (July 14, 1912 – January 23, 1991) was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century. Frye gained international fame with his first book, Fearful Symmetry (1947), which led to the reinterpretation of the poetry of William Blake.
Biography of Sabahattin Ali (excerpt)
Sabahattin Ali (February 25, 1907 – April 2, 1948) was a Turkish novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. While he was serving as a teacher in Konya, he was arrested for a poem he wrote criticizing Atatürk's policies, and accused of libelling two other journalists.
Biography of Pierre Grappin (excerpt)
Pierre Grappin, born on May 31, 1915 in Coussey (Vosges)(birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on June 14 1997 in Paris, was a French author, a specialist in German culture.
Biography of Lucette Destouches (excerpt)
Lucette Destouches, born Lucie Almansor on July 20, 1912 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 1208) and died on November 8, 2019 in Meudon (at age 107), is a French dancer and centenary. She was the second wife of Louis-Ferdinand Céline from 1943 until the writer's death in 1961.
Biography of Pierre Horay (excerpt)
Pierre Horay, born on February 1, 1910 in Beaugency (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died in 1978, was a French editor, the founder of Les Éditions Horay, now a part of Albin Michel group.
Biography of Väinö Myllyrinne (excerpt)
Väinö Myllyrinne (27 February 1909 in Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland – 13 April 1963 in Helsinki, Finland) was an acromegalic giant who was at one time (1940.–1963) the world's tallest living person, and may have become the tallest after the death of Robert Wadlow.
Biography of Nicanor Parra (excerpt)
Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval (5 September 1914 – 23 January 2018) was a Chilean poet, mathematician, and physicist. He was considered an influential poet in Chile and throughout Latin America. Parra described himself as an "anti-poet," due to his distaste for standard poetic pomp and function; after recitations he would exclaim "Me retracto de todo lo dicho" ("I take back everything I said").
Biography of Claudia Jones (excerpt)
Claudia Jones, née Claudia Vera Cumberbatch (21 February 1915 – 24 December 1964), was a Trinidad and Tobago-born journalist and activist. As a child she migrated with her family to the US, where she became a political activist and black nationalist through Communism, using the false name Jones as "self-protective disinformation".
Biography of Gherasim Luca (excerpt)
Gherasim Luca (Romanian pronunciation: ; 23 July 1913 – 9 February 1994) was a French-speaking Surrealist theorist and poet. Born Salman Locker in Romania and also known as Salman Locker, Gherashim Luca, Costea Sar, and Petre Malcoci, he regarded himself as an apatrid.
Biography of Pierre Dufau (excerpt)
Pierre Dufau (21 June 1908 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 26 September 1985) was a French architect. He is particularly known for his work on the reconstruction of Amiens after World War II, including the railway station, and the Tour Europlaza in Paris.
Biography of Henri Contet (excerpt)
Henri Contet, born on May 8, 1904 in Anost (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on April 15, 1998 in Paris, was a French engineer, critic, actor, playwright, and journalist. He has worked for many famous singers, like Édith Piaf, Yves Montand, Mireille Mathieu, Ute Lemper, Mireille Mathieu, Georgette Lemaire, Catherine Ribeiro, Mano Solo, Catherine Ringer, and Arthur H.
Biography of Michel Aflaq (excerpt)
Michel Aflaq (9 January 1910 – 23 June 1989) was a Syrian philosopher, sociologist and Arab nationalist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of Ba'athism and its political movemerent; he is considered by several Ba'athists to be the principal founder of Ba'athist thought.
Biography of Jean Chaintron (excerpt)
Jean Chaintron, born on August 28, 1906 in Lyon, died on January 7, 1989 in Paris, was a French politician, socialist and former communist, a member of the French Resistance.
Biography of Weldon Kees (excerpt)
Harry Weldon Kees (February 24, 1914 – July 18, 1955) was an American poet, painter, literary critic, novelist, playwright, jazz pianist, short story writer, and filmmaker. Despite his brief career, he is considered an important mid-twentieth-century poet of the same generation as John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, and Robert Lowell.
Biography of Andrey Kolmogorov (excerpt)
Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (25 April 1903 – 20 October 1987) was a Soviet mathematician who made significant contributions to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity. After the death of Joseph Stalin, cybernetics, a science from the West, became possible with progressive destalinization and proved to be fundamental in the development of the Russian space program.
Biography of Nelson Rodrigues (excerpt)
Nelson Falcăo Rodrigues (August 23, 1912 – December 21, 1980) was a Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist. In 1943, he helped usher in a new era in Brazilian theater with his play Vestido de Noiva (The Wedding Dress), considered revolutionary for the complex exploration of its characters' psychology and its use of colloquial dialogue.
Biography of Sayyid Qutb (excerpt)
Sayyid Qutb (/ˈkuːtəb/ or /ˈkʌtəb/; Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: , Arabic: ; Arabic: سيد قطب Sayyid Quṭb; also spelled Said, Syed, Seyyid, Sayid, Sayed; Koteb, Qutub, Kotb, Kutb; 9 October 1906 – 29 August 1966) was an Egyptian author, educator, Islamic theorist, poet, and a leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and 1960s.
Biography of René Deltgen (excerpt)
Renatus Heinrich Deltgen born 30 April 1909 in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg; died 29 January 1979 in Cologne, Germany) was a Luxembourgian stage and film actor, who spent most of his career in Germany. Selected filmography Das Mädchen Johanna (1935) One Too Many on Board (1935)
Biography of Paul Huvelin (excerpt)
Paul Huvelin, born on July 22, 1902 in Chorey-les-Beaune (Côte-d'Or), died in October 1995, was a French entrepreneur and syndicalist. He was the President of The Conseil national du patronat français (CNPF) between 1966 and 1972.
Biography of Klaus Fuchs (excerpt)
Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988) was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who supplied information from the American, British, and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after World War II.
Biography of Michel Fourquet (excerpt)
Michel Fourquet, born on June 9, 1914 in Bruxelles, died on November 20, 1992 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French military, general officer, a member of The Order of Liberation, a French Order which was awarded to heroes of the Liberation of France during World War II.
Biography of Dmitry Kabalevsky (excerpt)
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky (Russian: Дми́трий Бори́сович Кабале́вский; 30 December 1904 – 14 February 1987), HSL, PAU, was a Russian composer. He helped to set up the Union of Soviet Composers in Moscow and remained one of its leading figures. He was a prolific composer of piano music and chamber music; many of his piano works have been performed by Vladimir Horowitz.
Biography of Edmond Bordeaux Székely (excerpt)
Edmond Bordeaux Szekely (1905–1979) was a Hungarian philologist/linguist, philosopher, psychologist and natural living experimenter. Szekely's grandfather was Sándor Székely, poet and Unitarian Bishop of Kolozsvár; his mother was French and Roman Catholic, and his father was a Hungarian Unitarian. According to Szekely's book 'Essene Gospel of Peace', he was a descendant of Hungarian philologist and orientologist Sándor Kőrösi Csoma (although the latter never married and had no children).
Biography of John André (excerpt)
John André (2 May 1750 – 2 October 1780) was a British Army officer hanged as a spy by the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War for assisting Benedict Arnold's attempted surrender of the fort at West Point, New York to the British.
Biography of Ramón Mercader (excerpt)
Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río (7 February 1913 – 18 October 1978), more commonly known as Ramón Mercader, was a Spanish communist and NKVD agent who assassinated the Russian Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in August 1940. He served 20 years in Mexican prison for the murder.
Biography of Jacques Draeger (excerpt)
Jacques Draeger, born on October 18, 1903 in Montrouge (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on March 12, 2002 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French editor.
Biography of Nathanael West (excerpt)
Nathanael West (born Nathan Weinstein; October 17, 1903 – December 22, 1940) was an American author and screenwriter. He is remembered for two darkly satirical novels: Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of the Locust (1939), set respectively in the newspaper and Hollywood film industries. |
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