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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.
Biography of Elsa Andersson (aviation pioneer) (excerpt)
Elsa Teresia Andersson (27 April 1897 in Strövelstorp, Sweden – 22 January 1922 (age 24)) was Sweden's first female aviator and stunt parachutist. She was the daughter of a poor farmer in Strövelstorp in the Scanian countryside. Her mother died when she was aged six.
Biography of Giuseppe Di Vittorio (excerpt)
Giuseppe Di Vittorio, also known under the pseudonym Nicoletti (August 11, 1892 – November 3, 1957), was an Italian syndicalist and communist politician. He was one of the most influential trade union leaders of the labour movement after World War I.
Biography of William Grant Still (excerpt)
William Grant Still (May 11, 1895 – December 3, 1978) was an American composer of nearly 200 works, including five symphonies and nine operas. Often referred to as the "Dean of Afro-American Composers", Still was the first American composer to have an opera produced by the New York City Opera.
Biography of Boris Lyatoshinsky (excerpt)
Boris Mykolayovych Lyatoshinsky or Lyatoshynsky (Ukrainian: Бори́с Миколáйович Лятоши́нський, Borys Mykolayovych Lyatoshyns′kyi; January 3, 1895 – April 15, 1968) was a Ukrainian composer, conductor, and teacher. A leading member of the new generation of twentieth-century Ukrainian composers, he was awarded a number of accolades, including the honorary title of People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR and two Stalin State Prizes.
Biography of Anastas Mikoyan (excerpt)
Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan (Armenian: Անաստաս Հովհաննեսի Միկոյան; Russian: Анаста́с Ива́нович Микоя́н)(English: /miːkoʊˈjɑːn/; 25 November 1895 – 21 October 1978) was a Soviet revolutionary, Old Bolshevik and statesman during the mandates of Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev. He was the only Soviet politician who managed to remain at the highest levels of power within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, as that power oscillated between the Central Committee and the Politburo, from the latter days of Lenin's rule, throughout the eras of Stalin and Khrushchev, until his peaceful retirement after the first months of Brezhnev's rule.
Biography of Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland (excerpt)
Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, KG (27 April 1564 – 5 November 1632) was an English nobleman. He was a grandee and one of the wealthiest peers of the court of Elizabeth I. Under James I, Northumberland was a long-term prisoner in the Tower of London, due to the suspicion that he was complicit in the Gunpowder Plot.
Biography of Mireille Havet (excerpt)
Mireille Havet ( 4 October 1898, Médan – 21 March 1932, Crans-Montana, Switzerland) was a French poet, diarist, novelist, and lyricist. She wrote lyrics for songs composed by John Alden Carpenter and intended for Éva Gauthier. She wrote a novel, Carnaval, published in 1923.
Biography of Maude Bonney (excerpt)
Maude Rose "Lores" Bonney, AM, MBE (20 November 1897 – 24 February 1994) was a South African-born British aviator. She was the first woman to fly solo from Australia to the UK. In 1928 she met Bert Hinkler, Harry Barrington Bonney's first cousin once removed and a Queensland aviator who had set a solo England–Australia record in his Avro Avian biplane (now in the Queensland Museum, Brisbane).
Biography of María Conesa (excerpt)
María Conesa, also known as La Gatita Blanca (The White Kitten) (December 12, 1892 – September 9, 1978), was a Spanish-born Mexican stage, television, film actress and vedette. She was one of the principal stars of the Revue and Vaudeville in México and Latin America in the early 20th century.
Biography of Francisco Casanovas (excerpt)
Francisco Casanovas Tallardá (Barcelona, October 9, 1899 - Murcia, December 16, 1986) was a Spanish conductor, composer, pedagogue, clarinetist, saxophonist and flautist. At about 1930 he arrives in India for the first time, and makes a concert tour with his jazz orchestra.
Biography of Elena Gogoleva (excerpt)
Elena Gogoleva or Yelena Gogoleva (7 April 1900 (O.S. 25 March 1900) Moscow– 15 November 1993) was a Soviet film and stage actress, actress of the Maly Theatre in Moscow from 1918 to 1993. She was a People's Artist of the USSR (1949), Hero of Socialist Labour (1974), and the winner of three Stalin Prizes (1947, 1948, 1949).
Biography of Yakov Frenkel (excerpt)
Yakov Il'ich Frenkel (Russian: Яков Ильич Френкель) (10 February 1894 – 23 January 1952) was a Soviet physicist renowned for his works in the field of condensed matter physics. He is also known as Jacov Frenkel, and he frequently put down his name as J.
Biography of Marius Casadesus (excerpt)
Marius Casadesus (October 24, 1892 – October 13, 1981) was a French violinist and composer. He was the brother of Henri Casadesus, uncle of the famed pianist Robert Casadesus, and grand-uncle to Jean Casadesus. Marius Casadesus achieved perhaps his greatest fame (or notoriety) through his association with the Adélaďde Concerto attributed to Mozart.
Biography of Eduard Toldrŕ (excerpt)
Eduard Toldrŕ Soler (Vilanova i la Geltrú 7 April 1895 – Barcelona, 31 May 1962) was a Spanish Catalan conductor and composer. Toldrŕ played an important role in the Culture of Barcelona. In 1944 he founded the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra at the Palau de la Música Catalana, where his deputy in 1957 was his friend Ricardo Lamote de Grignon.
Biography of Georgy Pyatakov (excerpt)
Georgy (Yury) Leonidovich Pyatakov (Russian: Георгий Леонидович Пятаков; August 6 (August 18 Gregorian Calendar), 1890 – January 30, 1937) was a Bolshevik revolutionary leader and a Politician during the Russian Revolution. Pyatakov was placed in charge of the management of Donbass coal mining industry in 1921, becoming a deputy head of the Gosplan (State Planning Committee) of the RSFSR in 1922, and deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council of the National Economy of the USSR.
Biography of Suzanne Duchamp (excerpt)
Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti (20 October 1889 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth certificate n° 31) – 11 September 1963) was a French Dadaist painter and collagist. Due to the fact that she was a woman in the male prominent Dada movement, she was rarely considered an artist in her own right.
Biography of Boris Iofane (excerpt)
Boris Mihailovich Iofan (April 28th 1891–March 11th 1976) was a Jewish Soviet architect, known for his Stalinist architecture buildings like 1931 House on the Embankment and the 1931-1933 winning draft of the Palace of Soviets. In 1931, Iofan completed the elite block-wide House on the Embankment (official name Дом Правительства, Government Building).
Biography of Lilli Henoch (excerpt)
Lilli Henoch (26 October 1899 – September 1942) was a German track and field athlete who set four world records and won 10 German national championships, in four different disciplines. Henoch set world records in the discus (twice), the shot put, and the 4 × 100 meters relay events.
Biography of Thea Rasche (excerpt)
Theodora Rasche (12 August 1899 – 25 February 1971) was Germany's first female aerobatics pilot. In 1927, her father bought her a BFW Flamingo, registration number D-1120, and in July, she set off for the United States, the first of five trips.
Biography of Gret Palucca (excerpt)
Gret Palucca, born Margarethe Paluka (8 January 1902 – 22 March 1993), was a German dancer and dance teacher, notable for her dance school, the Palucca School of Dance, founded in Dresden in 1925. Palucca was born in Munich. Shortly after birth, her family moved to San Francisco, returning with her mother to Dresden in 1909.
Biography of Ricardo Lamote de Grignon (excerpt)
Ricard Lamote de Grignon i Ribas (25 September 1899 – 5 February 1962), was a Catalan Spanish composer and orchestral conductor. Ricard Lamote de Grignon was born and died in Barcelona. He was the only son of the composer Joan Lamote de Grignon and Florentina Ribas.
Biography of Janis Rudzutaks (excerpt)
Jānis Rudzutaks (Russian: Ян Эрнестович Рудзутак; 15 August (3 August old style) 1887 – 29 July 1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician. Rudzutaks was suddenly expelled from the Politburo and Central Committee on 24 May 1937, on the same day as the Red Army Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky.
Biography of Grete Hermann (excerpt)
Grete (Henry-)Hermann (March 2, 1901 – April 15, 1984) was a German mathematician and philosopher noted for her work in mathematics, physics, philosophy and education. She is noted for her early philosophical work on the foundations of quantum mechanics, and is now known most of all for an early, but long-ignored critique of a no-hidden-variable theorem by John von Neumann.
Biography of Resat Nuri Güntekin (excerpt)
Reşat Nuri Güntekin (25 November 1889 – 7 December 1956) was a Turkish novelist, storywriter and playwright. His best known novel, Çalıkuşu ("The Wren", 1922) is about the destiny of a young Turkish female teacher in Anatolia. This work is translated into Persian by Seyyed Borhan Ghandili.
Biography of Vittorio Codovilla (excerpt)
Victorio Codovilla (February 8, 1894 - April 15, 1970) was an Italian/Argentine socialist and later communist politician. He was a member of the Italian Socialist Party and held leadership posts in the Communist Party of Argentina and the Comintern. With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, Codovilla remained in Madrid advising the PCE, but has been regarded as generally less effective than his Barcelona-based counterpart Ernő Gerő.
Biography of Louise d'Épinay (excerpt)
Louise Florence Pétronille Tardieu d'Esclavelles d'Épinay (11 March 1726 – 17 April 1783), better known as Mme d'Épinay, was a French writer, a saloniste and woman of fashion, known on account of her liaisons with Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who gives unflattering reports of her in his Confessions, as well as her acquaintanceship with Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Baron d'Holbach and other French men of letters during the Enlightenment.
Biography of Lev Vygotsky (excerpt)
Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky ( November 17 (O.S. November 5) 1896 – June 11, 1934) was a Soviet psychologist, known for his work on psychological development in children. He published on a diverse range of subjects, and from multiple views as his perspective changed over the years.
Biography of Sophie Lalive de Bellegarde (excerpt)
Elisabeth Françoise Sophie Lalive de Bellegarde, Comtesse d'Houdetot (18 December 1730 – 28 January 1813) was a French noblewoman. She is remembered primarily for the brief but intense love she inspired in Jean-Jacques Rousseau in 1757, but she was also for fifty years in a relationship with the poet and academician Jean François de Saint-Lambert.
Biography of Eugen Fried (excerpt)
Eugen Fried (13 March 1900 – 17 August 1943) was a Czechoslovak communist who played a leading role in the French Communist Party in the 1930s and early 1940s as the representative of the Communist International. He ensured that the party leaders were loyal to Stalin and followed the instructions of Moscow.
Biography of Dorothy L. Sayers (excerpt)
Dorothy Leigh Sayers (13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was an English crime writer and poet. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. She is best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between the First and Second World Wars that feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey.
Biography of Mark Reizen (excerpt)
Mark Osipovich Reizen, also Reisen or Reyzen (3 July (O.S. 21 June) 1895 – November 25, 1992), PAU, was a leading Soviet opera singer with a beautiful and expansive bass voice. Reizen was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1941, 1949 and 1951.
Biography of Maksym Rylsky (excerpt)
Maksym Tadeyovych Rylsky (Ukrainian: Максим Тадейович Рильський; Russian: Максим Фадеевич Рыльский; 19 March (O.S. 7 March) 1895 in Kiev – 24 July 1964 id.) was a Ukrainian poet, journalist, translator, academician, Doctor of Philological Sciences. The 1920s were marked by the poet's creative flourishing: his collections "Through storm and snow" (1925), "The 13th spring" (1926), "Where roads meet", "Hum and rumbling" (both 1929).
Biography of Mildred Bruce (excerpt)
Mildred Mary Petre (10 November 1895 – 21 May 1990) was a British record-breaking racing motorist, speedboat racer and aviator in the 1920s and 1930s, and later, successful businesswoman. Commonly referred to as Mrs Victor Bruce, she was also known in contemporary references as Mary Petre Bruce, Mildred Bruce, Mildred Mary Bruce and Mary Victor Bruce.
Biography of Henry Barraud (excerpt)
Henry Barraud (sometimes Henri) (23 April 1900 – 28 December 1997) was a French composer. He was born in Bordeaux. He was a student of Louis Aubert at the Conservatoire de Paris, but in 1927 failed to graduate, apparently because of his refusal to follow orthodox methods.
Biography of Ralph Barton (excerpt)
Ralph Waldo Emerson Barton (August 14, 1891 – May 19, 1931) was an American artist best known for his cartoons and caricatures of actors and other celebrities. Though his work was heavily in demand through the 1920s and is often considered to epitomize the era, his personal life was troubled by mental illness, and he was nearly forgotten soon after his suicide, shortly before his fortieth birthday.
Biography of Nikolay Bogolyubov (actor) (excerpt)
Nikolay Ivanovich Bogolyubov (October 22, 1899 – March 9, 1980) was a Soviet actor born in Ivanovskoye, Russia and a People's Artist of the RSFSR (1945). In 1933 he played in Boris Barnet's Okraina; in 1941, he was awarded the Stalin Prize.
Biography of Philippe Kieffer (excerpt)
Philippe Kieffer MBE MC (24 October 1899 – 20 November 1962), capitaine de frégate in the French Navy, was a French officer and political personality, and a hero of the Free French Forces. Liberation of France On 6 June 1944, at 0731, the Bérets verts ("Green berets") landed in Ouistreham, Benouville, Amfreville and Bavant, designated as Sword Beach.
Biography of Karol Swierczewski (excerpt)
Karol Wacław Świerczewski (10 February 1897 – 28 March 1947) was Pole serving as the Red Army general. He was a Bolshevik party member and Soviet officer in the wars fought abroad by the Soviet Union including the one against Polish as well as Ukrainian Republics and in Republican Spain.
Biography of Wanda Gertz (excerpt)
Major Wanda Gertz (13 April 1896 – 10 November 1958) was a Polish woman of noble birth, who began her military career in the Polish Legion during World War I, dressed as a man, under the pseudonym of "Kazimierz 'Kazik' Żuchowicz".
Biography of Anni Albers (excerpt)
Anni Albers (born Annelise Elsa Frieda Fleischmann; June 12, 1899 – May 9, 1994) was an American textile artist and printmaker credited with blurring the lines between traditional craft and art. Besides surface qualities, such as rough and smooth, dull and shiny, hard and soft, textiles also includes colour, and, as the dominating element, texture, which is the result of the construction of weaves.
Biography of Federico Moreno Torroba (excerpt)
Federico Moreno Torroba (3 March 1891 – 12 September 1982) was a Spanish composer, conductor, and theatrical impresario. He is especially remembered for his important contributions to the classical guitar repertoire, becoming one of the leading twentieth-century composers for the instrument.
Biography of Vasili Kuznetsov (politician) (excerpt)
Vasili Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (13 February (O.S. 31 January) 1901 – 5 June 1990) was a Russian Soviet politician who acted as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union from 1982 to 1983, for a second time in 1984, and for a third time in 1985.
Biography of Nikolay Semyonov (excerpt)
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov (or Semënov), ForMemRS 15 April (O.S. 3 April) 1896 – 25 September 1986) was a Russian/Soviet physicist and chemist. Semyonov was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the mechanism of chemical transformation. In 1925, Semyonov, together with Yakov Frenkel, studied kinetics of condensation and adsorption of vapors.
Biography of Adele Astaire (excerpt)
Adele Astaire (born Adele Marie Austerlitz, later known as Lady Charles Cavendish; September 10, 1896 – January 25, 1981), was an American dancer, stage actress, and singer. After beginning work as a dancer and vaudeville performer at the age of nine, Astaire built a successful performance career with her younger brother, Fred Astaire.
Biography of Hieronymus von Colloredo (excerpt)
Hieronymus Joseph Franz de Paula Graf Colloredo von Wallsee und Melz (Jérôme Joseph Franz de Paula, Count of Colloredo-Wallsee and Mels; 31 May 1732 – 20 May 1812) was Prince-Bishop of Gurk from 1761 to 1772 and Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg from 1772 until 1803, when the prince-archbishopric was secularized.
Biography of Marcel Griaule (excerpt)
Marcel Griaule (16 May 1898 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 23 February 1956) was a French author and anthropologist known for his studies of the Dogon people of West Africa, and for pioneering ethnographic field studies in France.
Biography of Máté Zalka (excerpt)
Máté Zalka (April 23, 1896 – June 11, 1937) was a Hungarian writer, soldier and revolutionary. His real name was Béla Frankl. He fought in the Hungarian Army during the First World War and was captured by the Russians. Subsequently, he came under the influence of Bolshevism and fought during the Russian Civil War.
Biography of Dorothy Rice Sims (excerpt)
Dorothy Rice Sims (June 24, 1889 – March 24, 1960) was an American sportswoman, aviator, bridge player, artist, and journalist. She met Hal Sims when he chartered her plane; they later married. Their home in Deal, New Jersey, described in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle as reminiscent "of the castles of the feudal barons in medieval days" became a headquarters for bridge experts.
Biography of Rosina Ferrario (excerpt)
Rosina Ferrario (28 July 1888 – 3 July 1959) was the first Italian woman to receive a pilot's licence when she passed her test on 3 January 1913 at Vizzola, Lombardy, in a Caproni monoplane. She received Licence No. 203 from the Aeroclub of Italy. |
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