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Biography of Kwon Ki-ok (excerpt)
Kwon Ki-ok (11 January 1901 – 19 April 1988), or Quan Jiyu in Chinese, was the first Korean female aviator, as well as one of the first female pilots in China. She went in exile in China during the Japanese occupation of Korea, and became a lieutenant colonel in the Republic of China Air Force.
Biography of Julie de Lespinasse (excerpt)
Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse (9 November 1732 – 23 May 1776) was a French salon holder and letter writer. She held a prominent salon in Paris during the Enlightenment. She is best-known today, however, for her letters, first published in 1809, which offer compelling accounts of two tragic love affairs.
Biography of Bert Acosta (excerpt)
Bertrand Blanchard Acosta (January 1, 1895 – September 1, 1954) was a record-setting aviator. He and Clarence D. Chamberlin set an endurance record of 51 hours, 11 minutes, and 25 seconds in the air. He later flew in the Spanish Civil War in the Yankee Squadron.
Biography of Anita Berber (excerpt)
Anita Berber (10 June 1899 – 10 November 1928) was a German dancer, model, and actress who was the subject of an Otto Dix painting. She lived during the time of the Weimar Republic. Berber's dances – which had names such as "Cocaine" and "Morphium" – broke boundaries with their androgyny and total nudity, but it was her public appearances that really challenged social taboos.
Biography of Aleksandra Artyukhina (excerpt)
Alexandra Vasilevna Artyukhina (6 November 1889 – 7 April 1969) was an early Russian Bolshevist and revolutionary who rose to sit on the Secretariat of the CPSU Central Committee, but was brought down by Joseph Stalin's purges in the late 1930s.
Biography of Boris Lavrenyov (excerpt)
Boris Andreyevich Lavrenyov (real name Sergeyev), born July 4 (July 16 Gregorian calendar), 1891 in Kherson, died January 7, 1959 in Moscow, was a Soviet Russian writer and playwright. Lavrenyov was born to the family of a literature teacher. He got his education at the Law department of the Moscow University.
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.
Biography of Étienne Piquiral (excerpt)
Étienne Piquiral (June 15, 1901 – March 13, 1945) was a French rugby union player who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born in Perpignan and died in a prisoner-of-war camp during World War II. In 1924 he won the silver medal as member of the French team.
Biography of Émile Cottin (excerpt)
Louis Émile Cottin (March 14, 1896 – October 8, 1936, nicknamed "Milou") was a French militant anarchist who is best known for the attempted assassination of Georges Clemenceau. On 19 February 1919, Cottin fired on then Prime Minister of France Georges Clemenceau several times as he was leaving his house on rue Franklin in Paris to attend a meeting with Edward M.
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).
Biography of Randolph Stone (excerpt)
Randolph Stone (February 26, 1890 – December 9, 1981) was the founder of polarity therapy, a complementary technique of holistic, spiritually based energy healing. He held doctorates in osteopathy, chiropractic, and naturopathy. He had an interest in philosophy and religions, and encountered Ayurvedic philosophy on a trip to India.
Biography of Isaak Dunayevsky (excerpt)
Isaak Osipovich Dunayevsky (also transliterated as Dunaevski or Dunaevsky; 30 January (O.S. 18 January) 1900 – 25 July 1955) was a Soviet film composer and conductor of the 1930s and 1940s, who achieved huge success in music for operetta and film comedies, frequently working with the film director Grigori Aleksandrov.
Biography of Nikolai Pogodin (excerpt)
Nikolai Fyodorovich Pogodin (pseudonym of Nikolai F. Stukalov) (16 November (O.S. 3 November) 1900 - 19 September 1962) was a Soviet playwright. His plays were recognized in Soviet Union theater for their realistic portrayals of common life combined with socialist and communist themes.
Biography of Andrey Andreyev (excerpt)
Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev (30 October 1895 – 5 December 1971) was a Soviet Communist politician who rose to power during the rule of Joseph Stalin, joining the Politburo as a candidate member in 1926 and as a full member in 1932.
Biography of Nikolai Tikhonov (writer) (excerpt)
Nikolai Semenovich Tikhonov (Russian: Никола́й Семёнович Ти́хонов; 4 December (O.S. 22 November) 1896 – 8 February 1979) was a Soviet writer and member of the Serapion Brothers literary group. He began writing poetry early; his first collection, Orda (The Horde, 1922), "shows startling maturity" and "contains most of the few short poems which have made him famous.
Biography of Park Kyung-won (excerpt)
Park Kyung-won (24 June 1901 – 7 August 1933) was, along with Kwon Ki-ok of the Republic of China Air Force, one of the earliest Korean female aviators. Though it is generally agreed that Kwon was the first female pilot, Park is still recognised as the first Korean female civilian pilot, as Kwon was trained by the Republic of China Air Force.
Biography of Johann Georg Hamann (excerpt)
Johann Georg Hamann (August 27, 1730 – June 21, 1788) was a German Lutheran philosopher from Königsberg known as the “the Wizard of the North” who was one of the leader figures of post Kantian philosophy. His work was used by his student J.
Biography of Lyubov Orlova (excerpt)
Lyubov Petrovna Orlova (Russian: Любо́вь Петро́вна Орло́ва; 11 February (O.S. 29 January) 1902, Zvenigorod – 26 January 1975, Moscow) was the first recognized star of Soviet cinema, a famous theatre actress, and a gifted singer. When she was seven, Fyodor Shalyapin predicted her future as a famous actress.
Biography of Randolfo Pacciardi (excerpt)
Randolfo Pacciardi (1 January 1899 – 14 April 1991) was an Italian politician and journalist, a member of the Italian Republican Party (PRI). He was also an officer who fought during World War I and in the Spanish Civil War. Pacciardi's line of collaboration with the other left parties led to the entrance of PRI in the first Republic government cabinets of Italy (1947).
Biography of Mikhail Isakovsky (excerpt)
Mikhail Vasil'evich Isakovsky (Russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Исако́вский) (19 January (O.S. 7 January) 1900 – 20 July 1973) was a Russian poet. A communist from an early age, he wrote many poems and songs in praise of the Soviet Union, but his most famous song is doubtless the rather apolitical Katyusha.
Biography of Alexandre Tansman (excerpt)
Alexandre Tansman (Polish: Aleksander Tansman; 11 June 1897 – 15 November 1986) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of Jewish origin. He spent his early years in his native Poland, but lived in France for most of his life, being granted French citizenship in 1938.
Biography of Grove (cartoonist) (excerpt)
William Nolgrove, known as William Napoléon Grove or simply Grove, born July 5, 1901 in Paris 6e (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) , died in 1975 in Cannes, is a French cartoonist, known for his long collaboration with Le Canard enchaîné.
Biography of Mikhail Koltsov (excerpt)
Mikhail Efimovich Koltsov (June 12 (O.S. May 31) 1898 – February 2, 1940), born Moisey Haimovich Fridlyand (Russian: Моисей Хаимович Фридлянд), was a Soviet Journalist, Bolshevik Revolutionary and a NKVD Agent. On 19 December 1937, Mikhail Koltsov published an article criticizing some aspects of the purges.
Biography of Ilya Ehrenburg (excerpt)
Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg (26 January (O.S. 14 January) 1891 – 31 August 1967) was a Soviet writer, Bolshevik revolutionary, journalist and historian. Ehrenburg is among the most prolific and notable authors of the Soviet Union; he published around one hundred titles. He became known first and foremost as a novelist and a journalist – in particular, as a reporter in three wars (First World War, Spanish Civil War and the Second World War).
Biography of Violet Brown (excerpt)
Violet Brown (née Mosse; 10 March 1900 – 15 September 2017) was a Jamaican supercentenarian who was the oldest verified living person in the world for five months, following the death of Emma Morano on 15 April 2017 until her own death at the age of 117 years, 189 days on 15 September 2017.
Biography of Sébastienne Guyot (excerpt)
Sébastienne Guyot (26 April 1896 – 21 August 1941) was a French engineer who specialized in aerodynamic flying. She was born in Pont l'Abbé in the Finistère. A teacher, Guyot resigned in 1917 to prepare for the competition of the Ecole Centrale of the Paris Lycée Jules-Ferry when she learned that the school would accept girls into its ranks.
Biography of Ilya Kopalin (excerpt)
Ilya Petrovich Kopalin (1900-1976) was a Russian film director remembered for his documentaries. His most famous footage is that of Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt at the Yalta Conference and that of Yuri Gargarin's space flight. He was born the son of a peasant on 2 August 1900 in the village of Pavlovskaya, Zvenigorod on the outskirts of Moscow.
Biography of Yvor Winters (excerpt)
Arthur Yvor Winters (17 October 1900 in Chicago, Illinois – 25 January 1968) was an American poet and literary critic. In 1926, Winters married the poet and novelist Janet Lewis, also from Chicago and a fellow tuberculosis sufferer. After leaving Colorado he taught at the University of Idaho and then began the doctoral program at Stanford University.
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.
Biography of Nikolay Shchors (excerpt)
Mykola Oleksandrovich Shchors (Ukrainian: Микола Олександрович Щорс; 6 June 1895 – 30 August 1919) was a Red Army commander, member of the Russian Communist Party, renowned for his personal courage during the Russian Civil War and sometimes being called the Ukrainian Chapayev.
Biography of Vsevolod Pudovkin (excerpt)
Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin (28 February 1893 (O.S. 16 February) – 30 June 1953) was a Russian and Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor who developed influential theories of montage. Pudovkin's masterpieces are often contrasted with those of his contemporary Sergei Eisenstein, but whereas Eisenstein utilized montage to glorify the power of the masses, Pudovkin preferred to concentrate on the courage and resilience of individuals.
Biography of Chiyo Miyako (excerpt)
Chiyo Miyako (都 千代, Miyako Chiyo.), Born May 2, 1901 in Wakayama, Japan and died July 22, 2018 in Yokohama (Japan) (age 117), is a Japanese supercentenary, dean of humanity in 2018 until her death on July 22 of the same year.
Biography of Dmitry Maksutov (excerpt)
Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov (23 April (O.S. 11 April) 1896 – 12 August 1964) was a Russian / Soviet optical engineer and amateur astronomer. He is best known as the inventor of the Maksutov telescope. Maksutov's most well known contribution in the field of optics was made in 1941, when he invented the Maksutov telescope.
Biography of Eugénie Dauzat (excerpt)
Eugénie Dauzat, born Eugénie Licheron on December 6, 1900 in Neuville (Puy-de-Dôme)(birth time source: Marc Brun, birth certificate n° 9) and died January 12, 2013 in Lezoux (Puy-de-Dôme), aged 112 years and 37 days, is a supercentenaire, wrongly considered as the oldest of the French, twice.
Biography of Willy Birgel (excerpt)
Willy Birgel (19 September 1891 (birth time source: birth certificate, Arno Müller, vol 2) – 29 December 1973), born Wilhelm Maria Birgel, was a German theatre and film actor. Birgel began his acting career before World War I on the stage in his native city of Cologne, and came to movies rather late.
Biography of La Niña de los Peines (excerpt)
Pastora Pavón Cruz, known as La Niña de los Peines (Seville, Spain, 10 February 1890 - 26 November 1969), is considered the most important woman flamenco singer of the 20th century. She was a sister of singers Arturo Pavón and Tomás Pavón, also an important flamenco singer, and aunt to Arturo Pavón, the first flamenco pianist.
Biography of Nikolay Okhlopkov (excerpt)
Nikolay Pavlovich Okhlopkov (15 May 1900 (gregorian calendar) – 8 January 1967), was a Soviet actor and theatre director who patterned his work after Meyerhold. Okhlopkov was born in Irkutsk, Siberia and started his acting career there in 1918. Since 1930, he directed the Realistic Theatre in Moscow, although his directing style was hardly realistic: he was the first to place spectators on the stage around the actors, in order to restore intimacy between the audience and the company.
Biography of Alan Bush (excerpt)
Alan Dudley Bush (22 December 1900 – 31 October 1995) was a British composer, pianist, conductor, teacher and political activist. A committed communist, his uncompromising political beliefs were often reflected in his music. He composed prolifically across a range of genres, but struggled through his lifetime for recognition from the British musical establishment, which largely ignored his works.
Biography of Mikheil Chiaureli (excerpt)
Mikheil Chiaureli (Georgian: მიხეილ ჭიაურელი, Russian: Михаил Эдишерович Чиаурели, 6 February 1894 (Gregorian calendar) – 31 October 1974) was a Soviet Georgian actor, film director and screenwriter. He directed 25 films between 1928 and 1974. He was awarded the Stalin Prize five times in 1941, 1943, 1946, 1947, and 1950.
Biography of Olga Zhizneva (excerpt)
Olga Andryevna Zhiznyeva (sometimes Olga Zhizneva) (Russian: Ольга Андреевна Жизнева; April 17, 1899 (Gregorian calendar) – November 10, 1972) was a famous Soviet actress. Selected filmography Property of the Republic (1971) as Princess Tikhvinskaya Late Flowers as Princess Priklonskaya (1969) We'll Live Till Monday as Melnikov's Mother (1968)
Biography of Georges Dandelot (excerpt)
Georges Édouard Dandelot (2 December 1895 – 17 August 1975) was a French composer, author, and teacher. Dandelot was born in Paris. His father was Alfred Dandelot, and his mother was the daughter of a piano maker. Dandelot studied at the Paris Conservatory under Émile Schwartz, Louis Diémer, Xavier Leroux, Jean Gallon, Georges Caussade, Charles-Marie Widor, Vincent d'Indy, Maurice Emmanuel, Paul Dukas, and Albert Roussel.
Biography of Margarita Nelken (excerpt)
Margarita Nelken (5 July 1894 – 8 March 1968) was a Spanish feminist and writer. She was a well known intellectual and a central figure in the earliest Spanish women's movement in the 1930s. She served at the parliament until 1939, and as a Republican and socialist, she and her sister exiled to Mexico at the end of the Spanish civil war.
Biography of Igor Tamm (excerpt)
Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm (8 July 1895 – 12 April 1971) was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Ilya Mikhailovich Frank, for their 1934 discovery of Cherenkov radiation. In 1951, together with Andrei Sakharov, Tamm proposed a tokamak system for the realization of CTF on the basis of toroidal magnetic thermonuclear reactor and soon after the first such devices were built by the INF.
Biography of Norman Hartnell (excerpt)
Sir Norman Bishop Hartnell, KCVO (12 June 1901 – 8 June 1979) was a leading British fashion designer, best known for his work for the ladies of the Royal Family. Hartnell gained the Royal Warrant as Dressmaker to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in 1940; and Royal Warrant as Dressmaker to Queen Elizabeth II in 1957.
Biography of Hasan Âli Yücel (excerpt)
Hasan Âli Yücel (17 December 1897 in Istanbul – 26 February 1961) was a Turkish writer, teacher and politician who served as Minister of National Education of Turkey from December 1938 to August 1946. He is remembered for his reforms of the education system, and the foundation of Village Institutes.
Biography of Pyotr Pospelov (excerpt)
Pyotr Nikolayevich Pospelov (20 June 1898 – 22 April 1979) was a high-ranked functionary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ("Old Bolshevik", since 1916), propagandist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1953), chief editor of Pravda newspaper, and director of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism.
Biography of Carlo Rosselli (excerpt)
Carlo Alberto Rosselli (Rome, 16 November 1899 – Bagnoles-de-l'Orne, 9 June 1937) was an Italian Jewish political leader, journalist, historian, philosopher and anti-fascist activist, first in Italy and then abroad. He developed a theory of reformist, non-Marxist socialism inspired by the British Labour movement that he described as "liberal socialism".
Biography of Emil Leon Post (excerpt)
Emil Leon Post (February 11, 1897 – April 21, 1954) was an American mathematician and logician. He is best known for his work in the field that eventually became known as computability theory. In 1936, Post developed, independently of Alan Turing, a mathematical model of computation that was essentially equivalent to the Turing machine model.
Biography of Louis, Dauphin of France (excerpt)
Louis, Dauphin of France (Louis Ferdinand; 4 September 1729 – 20 December 1765) was the elder and only surviving son of King Louis XV of France and his wife, Queen Marie Leszczyńska. He had a younger brother, Philippe, who died as a toddler.
Biography of Grigori Sokolnikov (excerpt)
Grigori Yakovlevich Sokolnikov (born Hirsch Brilliant or Girsh Yankelevich Brilliant; 1888–1939) was a Russian old Bolshevik revolutionary, economist, and Soviet politician. Sokolnikov was arrested on 26 July 1936. He was sufficiently broken under interrogation, either through torture or more probably through threats to harm his young wife and daughter, that he not only incriminated himself, but was made to confront Bukharin, in Lazar Kaganovich's office, and accuse him of being part of a conspiracy to restore capitalism in the USSR. |
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