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Biography of Paul Lynch (writer) (excerpt)
Paul Lynch, an Irish novelist born on May 9, 1977, in Limerick, Ireland, is celebrated for his poetic and lyrical writing style. He grew up in County Donegal, influenced by his father's work with the Irish Coast Guard. Lynch, now residing in Dublin, shifted from journalism to fiction writing.
Biography of Louise Penny (excerpt)
Louise Penny (born July 1, 1958) CM OQ is a Canadian author of mystery novels set in the Canadian province of Quebec centred on the work of francophone Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sűreté du Québec. Penny's first career was as a radio broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
Biography of Ursula Franklin (excerpt)
Ursula Martius Franklin CC OOnt FRSC (16 September 1921 – 22 July 2016) was a Canadian metallurgist, research physicist, author, and educator who taught at the University of Toronto for more than 40 years. Franklin is best known for her writings on the political and social effects of technology.
Biography of Philippa York (excerpt)
Philippa York (born Robert Millar on 13 September 1958) is a Scottish journalist and former professional road racing cyclist. York, who competed when known as Robert Millar, is one of Britain's most successful cyclists. York won the "King of the Mountains" competition in the 1984 Tour de France and finished fourth overall.
Biography of Anton Saefkow (excerpt)
Anton Emil Hermann Saefkow (22 July 1903 – 18 September 1944) was a German Communist and a resistance fighter against the National Socialist régime. He was arrested in July 1944 and executed on 18 September by guillotine. Anton Saefkow was born in Berlin, a member of a socialist working-class family and in 1920 while still a metalworker's apprentice, joined the Young Communist League of Germany to whose Berlin leadership he rose in 1922.
Biography of Oh Jung-se (excerpt)
Oh Jung-se (born February 26, 1977) is a South Korean actor. He is best known for his roles in the television series Missing 9 (2017), When the Camellia Blooms (2019), Hot Stove League (2019), and It's Okay to Not Be Okay (2020), as well as the film Swing Kids (2018).
Biography of Cornelia Sorabji (excerpt)
Cornelia Sorabji (15 November 1866 – 6 July 1954) was an Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer. She was the first female graduate from Bombay University, and the first woman to study law at Oxford University. Returning to India after her studies at Oxford, Sorabji became involved in social and advisory work on behalf of the purdahnashins, women who were forbidden to communicate with the outside male world, but she was unable to defend them in court since, as a woman, she did not hold professional standing in the Indian legal system.
Biography of Thomas Quasthoff (excerpt)
Thomas Quasthoff (born 9 November 1959) is a German bass-baritone. Quasthoff has a range of musical interest from Bach cantatas, to lieder, and solo jazz improvisations. Born with severe birth defects caused by thalidomide, Quasthoff is 1.34 m (4 ft 4+3⁄4 in), and has phocomelia.
Biography of Marina Pagano (excerpt)
Marina Pagano (also known as Mara) was an Italian singer and actress born on December 16, 1939, in Naples. She gained recognition in the world of entertainment for her talent. Marina moved to Rome at the age of nineteen and began working with Eduardo De Filippo.
Biography of Alice Orlowski (excerpt)
Alice Orlowski (30 September 1903 – 21 May 1976) was a German concentration camp guard at several of the Nazi concentration camps in German-occupied Poland (1939-1945) during World War II. After the war, a Polish court convicted of her crimes against humanity, and she served 10 years in prison in Poland.
Biography of Demétrio Magnoli (excerpt)
Demétrio Martinelli Magnoli is a Brazilian sociologist, PhD in human geography, writer and columnist. While in 2012, he was named by the Época magazine as one of the "New Right's shrill voices.", Magnoli considers himself a centre-left social-democrat. Academic life Magnoli has a BA in social sciences and Journalism from the University of Săo Paulo (USP), an institution from which he also earned a doctorate in Human Geography.
Biography of Günter Raphael (excerpt)
Günter Raphael (30 April 1903 – 19 October 1960) was a German composer. Born in Berlin, Raphael was the grandson of composer Albert Becker. His first symphony was premiered by Wilhelm Furtwängler in 1926 in Leipzig with the Gewandhaus Orchestra. From 1926 to 1934 he taught in Leipzig, but illness and the rise of Fascism – he was declared a "half-Jew" – made this difficult for him.
Biography of Hania Moro (excerpt)
Hania Moro (born 1 October 1996) is an Egyptian swimmer. She competed in the women's 400 metre freestyle event at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships. In 2019, she represented Egypt at the 2019 African Games held in Rabat, Morocco.
Biography of Jack Thompson (actor) (excerpt)
Jack Thompson, AM, born John Hadley Pain on August 31, 1940, is a celebrated Australian actor and a pivotal figure in Australian cinema, especially the Australian New Wave. Known for leading roles in films like "Petersen" (1974), "Sunday Too Far Away" (1975), and "The Man from Snowy River" (1982), Thompson has been honored with Cannes and AFI awards and received a Living Legend Award in 2005.
Biography of Adolphe Maillart (excerpt)
Adolphe Maillart is a French actor born in Metz on December 9, 1810 and died in Paris on March 7, 1891.
Biography of Gaston Salvayre (excerpt)
Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre (24 June 1847 – 17 May 1916) was a French composer and music critic who won the Prix de Rome for composition in 1872. Born in Toulouse, Salvayre attended the Toulouse Conservatory and then the Paris Conservatory, where he studied piano with Antoine François Marmontel, organ with François Benoist, harmony with François Bazin, and composition with Ambroise Thomas.
Biography of Théo Bertrand (actor) (excerpt)
Théo Bertrand is a French actor, born on November 29, 1996, in Romans-sur-Isčre. He is known for a role in the movie "La Guerre des boutons" and especially for playing Kévin Bélesta in the TV series "Plus belle la vie." At only fourteen years old, Théo Bertrand began his acting career by playing the role of the Aztec in the feature film "La Guerre des boutons," released in 2011.
Biography of Stefan Wolpe (excerpt)
Stefan Wolpe (25 August 1902, Berlin – 4 April 1972, New York City) was a German-Jewish-American composer. He was associated with interdisciplinary modernism, with affiliations ranging from the Bauhaus, Berlin agitprop theater and the kibbutz movement to the Eighth Street Artists' Club, Black Mountain College, and the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music.
Biography of Madelyn Pugh (excerpt)
Madelyn Pugh (March 15, 1921 – April 20, 2011), sometimes credited as Madelyn Pugh Davis, Madelyn Davis, or Madelyn Martin, was a television writer who became known in the 1950s for her work on the I Love Lucy television series. Madelyn Pugh, initially interested in writing as the Friday editor of Shortridge High School's newspaper with Kurt Vonnegut, began her professional career at WIRE, an Indianapolis radio station.
Biography of Brayelin Martínez (excerpt)
Brayelin Elizabeth Martínez (born September 11, 1996, in Santo Domingo) is a Dominican volleyball player who won the bronze medal in the 2015 Pan American Games as a member of the Dominican Republic national team. She played in the 2014 Senior World Championship and the 2011 and 2015 FIVB World Cup.
Biography of Janis Rozentals (excerpt)
Janis Rozentāls (March 18, 1866 - December 26, 1916) was a celebrated Latvian painter. Born in Bebri Farmstead, Saldus, Courland, Russian Empire, he embarked on his career early in Riga and then at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts. He set up an art studio in Saldus in 1899 but moved to Riga in 1901.
Biography of Carroll Pratt (excerpt)
Carroll Holmes Pratt (April 19, 1921 – November 11, 2010) was an American sound engineer who, along with laugh track inventor Charley Douglass, pioneered the use of prerecorded laughter. Carroll Pratt was influenced early by his father, a sound engineer. After serving in the U.
Biography of Steve Case (excerpt)
Stephen McConnell Case (born August 21, 1958) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist best known as the former chief executive officer and chairman of America Online (AOL). Case joined AOL's predecessor company, Quantum Computer Services, as a marketing vice-president in 1985, became CEO of the company (renamed AOL) in 1991, and, at the height of the dot-com bubble in 2000, orchestrated with Gerald M.
Biography of Jean-Pierre Versini-Campinchi (excerpt)
Jean-Pierre Versini-Campinchi (12 November 1939 – 12 October 2023) was a French lawyer and a member of the Paris Bar Association.
Biography of Lorenzo Pellegrini (excerpt)
Lorenzo Pellegrini (born 19 June 1996) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Serie A club Roma, which he captains, and the Italy national team. Pellegrini is an academy graduate of Roma, having joined the club in 2007, and made his senior debut in 2015.
Biography of Andrée Lafayette (excerpt)
Andrée Rose Godard (19 May 1903 – 3 October 1989), known by her stage-name as Andrée Lafayette, also known by her self-invented title as Countess Andrée de la Bigne, was a French stage and film actress, and granddaughter of the infamous demi-mondaine (prostitute) Émilie Louise Delabigne who was known by her self-invented title as Countess Valtesse de La Bigne.
Biography of Andrea Palma (actress) (excerpt)
Guadalupe Bracho Pérez-Gavilán, professionally known as Andrea Palma, was a pioneering Mexican actress, born on April 16, 1903, and passing on October 6, 1987. She emerged as the first major female star of Mexican cinema after starring in "La Mujer del Puerto" (1934).
Biography of Pol Neveux (excerpt)
Pol Neveux, born on August 25, 1865, in Reims (Marne), and died on March 26, 1939, in Garches (then in Seine-et-Oise, now in Hauts-de-Seine), was a French writer and librarian. He served as the Inspector General of the Libraries of France and was a member of the Académie Goncourt.
Biography of Nancy A. Collins (excerpt)
Nancy A. Collins (born September 10, 1959) is an American horror fiction writer best known for her series of vampire novels featuring her character Sonja Blue. Collins has also written for comic books, including the Swamp Thing (vol. 2) series, Jason vs.
Biography of Elena Caffarena (excerpt)
Elena Caffarena Morice (March 22, 1903 - July 19, 2003) was a Chilean lawyer, jurist and politician. Contemporary historians and humanists consider her to be one of the most important 20th-century public figures in Chile. Biography Elena Caffarena was born in Iquique, Chile, to Ana Morice and Blas Caffarena, an Italian immigrant.
Biography of Alice Milliat (excerpt)
Alice Milliat, born on May 5, 1884, in Nantes and died on May 19, 1957, in Paris, was a French swimmer, field hockey player, and rower. A co-founder and president of the Federation of French Female Sporting Societies, she is also recognized as one of the leading activists in the fight for the recognition of women's sports at an international level.
Biography of Regina Ullmann (excerpt)
Regina "Rega" Ullmann (14 December 1884 – 6 January 1961) was a Swiss poet and writer. Life Ullmann was the second daughter of a Jewish-Austrian embroidery businessman, Richard Ullmann, and his German wife Hedwig. She was born in the Swiss town of St.
Biography of Igor Tudor (excerpt)
Igor Tudor (born 16 April 1978) is a Croatian professional football manager and former player who was most recently the manager of Ligue 1 club Marseille. Capable of playing either as a defender or defensive midfielder, Tudor spent most of his playing career at Juventus, winning several trophies during that time.
Biography of Boris Kagarlitsky (excerpt)
Boris Yulyevich Kagarlitsky (Russian: Бори́с Ю́льевич Кагарли́цкий; born 29 August 1958) is a Russian Marxist theoretician, author, and sociologist who has been a political dissident in the former Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. He is an associate of the Transnational Institute.
Biography of Marília Chaves Peixoto (excerpt)
Marília Chaves Peixoto (24 February 1921 – 5 January 1961) was a Brazilian mathematician and engineer who worked in dynamical systems. Peixoto was the first Brazilian woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics and the first Brazilian woman to join the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
Biography of Joachim-Ernst Berendt (excerpt)
Joachim-Ernst Berendt (born July 20, 1922, in Berlin, and died February 4, 2000, in Hamburg) was a German music journalist, author, and producer specializing in jazz. His time of birth comes from his mother. His father, Ernst Berendt, a Protestant pastor of the Confessing Church, was imprisoned and died in the Dachau concentration camp.
Biography of He Xiaopeng (excerpt)
He Xiaopeng (born 3 November 1977) is a Chinese entrepreneur, best known for co-founding companies including XPeng Motors, an intelligent electric vehicle manufacturer, and UCWeb, the Chinese mobile Internet software and service provider he co-founded in 2004. UCWeb was acquired by Alibaba Group in June 2014 in the largest M&A deal ever in Chinese Internet industry.
Biography of Norman Foster (director) (excerpt)
Norman Foster, born Norman Foster Hoeffer on December 13, 1903, was an American director, screenwriter, and actor. Foster directed Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto films and worked with Orson Welles and Walt Disney. Starting as a leading man in early talkies, he transitioned to directing in the late 1930s while occasionally acting.
Biography of Michele Saponaro (excerpt)
Michele Saponaro (San Cesario di Lecce, January 2, 1885 – Milan, October 28, 1959) was an Italian writer and biographer. After initially writing in a veristic style, with works like "Le novelle del verde" (Naples, Bideri, 1908, which was presented by Luigi Capuana), and the collection of autobiographical novellas "Rosolacci" (Ancona, Puccini, 1912), he ventured into novels with "La vigilia" (1914), "Peccato" (Milan, Treves, 1919), "Un uomo: l'adolescenza" (1924, 1925, 1983), "Io e mia moglie" (1928, 1929, 1930), "Il cerchio magico" (1939), and many others.
Biography of Laëtitia Guapo (excerpt)
Laëtitia Guapo, born on October 25, 1995, in Clermont-Ferrand in Puy-de-Dôme, is a French basketball player who plays as a guard. In spring 2020, she was ranked as the world number one in 3x3 basketball. In May 2021, she was a member of the French 3x3 team that qualified for the Tokyo Olympic tournament, where France finished in fourth place.
Biography of Tamara Karsavina (excerpt)
Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (9 March 1885 – 26 May 1978) was a Russian prima ballerina, renowned for her beauty, who was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later of the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev. After settling in Britain at Hampstead in London, she began teaching ballet professionally and became recognised as one of the founders of modern British ballet.
Biography of Diana Ozon (excerpt)
Diana Ozon, born Diana Groenveld in Amsterdam on August 7, 1959, is a Dutch poet. Her time of birth comes from her. She started publishing her poems in the school newspaper of Hervormd Lyceum Zuid in Amsterdam. After leaving high school, she briefly attended the Gerrit Rietveld Academy but soon dropped out.
Biography of Johanna Mestorf (excerpt)
Johanna Mestorf (17 April 1828, Bad Bramstedt, Duchy of Holstein – 20 July 1909, Kiel) was a German prehistoric archaeologist, the first female museum director in the Kingdom of Prussia and usually said to be the first female professor in Germany.
Biography of Bernard Ullmann (excerpt)
Bernard Ullmann (January 13, 1922 – December 31, 2008) was a French journalist and senior reporter. Family The second son of Lisette de Brinon's first marriage, Ullmann was married twice. He had two children, Laurence and Pierre-Guillaume, from his first marriage, and then Emmanuel with Marie-Berthe Gaborit de Montjou.
Biography of Greetje Kauffeld (excerpt)
Greetje Kauffeld, born on November 26, 1939, is a Dutch jazz singer and Schlager musician. She began her career early and became the lead singer of the Skymasters. After working with popular stars and participating in the Eurovision Song Contest, she landed a recording contract in Germany.
Biography of Amber Mariano (politician) (excerpt)
Amber Mariano, an American politician, served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2016 to 2022. Elected at 21, she became the youngest ever elected in Florida. A Florida Republican Party member and University of Central Florida student, her campaigns focused on higher education and local issues.
Biography of Erwin Finlay-Freundlich (excerpt)
Erwin Finlay-Freundlich FRSE FRAS (1885–1964) was a German astronomer and a pupil of Felix Klein. He collaborated with Albert Einstein and proposed experiments to test the general theory of relativity through astronomical observations of gravitational redshift. Born in Wiesbaden, Germany, he studied at the Charlottenburg Polytechnic and Göttingen University.
Biography of Elisabeth Lupka (excerpt)
Elisabeth Lupka (27 October 1902 – 8 January 1949) was a Nazi female guard at two prison camps during World War II. Lupka was born in Klein-Damner, German Empire (present-day Dąbrówka Mała, Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland). She got married in 1934, had no children and soon divorced.
Biography of Jacques Raverat (excerpt)
Jacques Pierre Paul Raverat (20 March 1885 – 6 March 1925) was a French painter; Raverat was the son of Georges Pierre Raverat and Helena Lorena Raverat, née Caron; he was born in Paris, France, in 1885. Raverat started at Bedales School in Steep, Hampshire in 1898.
Biography of Friedel Apelt (excerpt)
Friedel Apelt (1 November 1902 - 12 December 2001) was a German political activist, trades union official and politician (KPD/SED). During the Nazi years she participated actively in anti-fascist resistance, and spent much of the time in prison or as a concentration camp internee. |
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