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Biography of Pierre Vidal-Naquet (excerpt)
Pierre Emmanuel Vidal-Naquet (23 July 1930 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 29 July 2006) was a French historian who began teaching at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in 1969. Vidal-Naquet was a specialist in the study of Ancient Greece, but was also interested (and deeply involved) in contemporary history, particularly the Algerian War (1954–62), during which he opposed the use of torture by the French Army, as well as Jewish history.
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Biography of Andrea Camilleri (excerpt)
Andrea Calogero Camilleri (Italian pronunciation: ; born 6 September 1925) is an Italian writer. iography Originally from Porto Empedocle, Sicily, Camilleri began studies at the Faculty of Literature in 1944, without concluding them, meanwhile publishing poems and short stories. From 1948 to 1950 Camilleri studied stage and film direction at the Silvio D'Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts (Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica) and began to take on work as a director and screenwriter, directing especially plays by Pirandello and Beckett. ![]()
Biography of Miguel Poblet (excerpt)
Miguel Poblet i Orriols, born 18 March 1928 at Montcada i Reixac in the northern suburbs of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, is a Spanish former professional cyclist whose career lasted from 1944 to 1962, during which he had over 200 professional victories.
Biography of Chuck Feeney (excerpt)
Charles Francis "Chuck" Feeney (born April 23, 1931) is an Irish-American businessman and philanthropist and the founder of The Atlantic Philanthropies, one of the largest private foundations in the world. He made his fortune as a co-founder of the Duty Free Shoppers Group, which pioneered the concept of duty-free shopping. ![]()
Biography of Jean Byron (excerpt)
Jean Byron (December 10, 1925 – February 3, 2006) was an American film, television, and stage actress. She is best known for the role of Natalie Lane, Patty Lane's mother in The Patty Duke Show. Early life and career Born Imogene Burkhart in Paducah, Kentucky, she moved to California during World War II and was signed to Columbia Pictures where she chose the name of Jean Byron as a stage moniker.
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Biography of Eddie C. Campbell (excerpt)
Eddie C. Campbell (May 6, 1939 – November 20, 2018) was an American blues guitarist and singer in the Chicago blues scene. Campbell's last album was Spider Eating Preacher (Delmark, 2012). It was nominated for a Blues Music Award in 2013 in the category Traditional Blues Album.
Biography of Benny Benjamin (excerpt)
William "Benny" Benjamin (July 25, 1925 – April 20, 1969), nicknamed Papa Zita, was an American musician, most notable as the primary drummer for the Motown studio band known as The Funk Brothers. He was a native of Birmingham, Alabama. Benjamin originally learned to play drums in the style of the big band jazz groups.
Biography of Robert Tessier (excerpt)
Robert W. Tessier (June 2, 1934 - October 11, 1990) was an American actor and stuntman who was best known for playing heavy, menacing characters on film and television. Early life Born in Lowell, Massachusetts of Algonquian descent, Tessier served as a paratrooper in the Korean War earning both a Silver Star and Purple Heart.
Biography of Jacqueline Brumaire (excerpt)
Jacqueline Brumaire (born Herblay, 5 November 1921, died Nancy 29 October 2000) was a French operatic soprano and later teacher. Life and career After training at the Conservatoire National de Paris under Madeleine Mathieu, she debuted on 13 October 1946 at the Opéra-Comique as the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro.
Biography of Marv Myers (excerpt)
Marv Myers,, born on January 3, 1924 in Eugene, Oregon, is an American cartoonist and artist, the author of "Zodiac Humor," a cartoon collection.
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Biography of Paul Arizin (excerpt)
Paul Joseph Arizin (April 9, 1928 – December 12, 2006), nicknamed "Pitchin' Paul," was an American basketball player who spent his entire National Basketball Association career with the Philadelphia Warriors from 1950 to 1962. He retired with the third highest career point total (16,266) in NBA history, and was named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History upon its 50th anniversary in 1996. ![]()
Biography of Bob Davies (excerpt)
Robert Edris Davies (January 15, 1920 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania – April 22, 1990) was a professional basketball player in the 1950s. Alongside Bobby Wanzer he formed one of the best backcourt duos in the NBAs early years. Davies and Wanzer led the Rochester Royals to the 1951 NBA championship.
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Biography of Wallace Jones (excerpt)
Wallace "Wah Wah" Clayton Jones (born July 14, 1926 in Harlan, Kentucky) is a retired American professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball Association from 1949 to 1952 with the Indianapolis Olympians. He also holds the unique distinction of being an All-American under both legends Adolph Rupp (basketball) and Bear Bryant (football) when both coached at Kentucky.
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Biography of Richard Holmes (organist) (excerpt)
Richard Arnold "Groove" Holmes (Camden, New Jersey, May 2, 1931 – St. Louis, Missouri, June 29, 1991) was an American jazz organist who performed in the hard bop and soul jazz genre. He is best known for his 1965 recording of "Misty", and is considered a precursor of acid jazz.
Biography of Ran Laurie (excerpt)
William George Ranald Mundell Laurie (4 May 1915 – 19 September 1998), known as Ran Laurie, was a British physician, rowing champion and Olympic gold medallist. His younger son is the actor and writer Hugh Laurie. Rowing career Ran Laurie was born in Grantchester, Cambridgeshire in 1915.
Biography of Jacques Brunhes (excerpt)
Jacques Brunhes (7 October 1934 – 30 September 2020) was a French politician. A member of the French Communist Party, he served Hauts-de-Seine in the National Assembly from 1978 to 1986. Brunhes returned to the National Assembly in 1988, and served until 2001, when he was appointed Minister of Tourism.
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Biography of Pietro Rava (excerpt)
Pietro Rava (January 21, 1916 – November 5, 2006) was an Italian football defender and coach. He won the 1936 Summer Olympics and the 1938 FIFA World Cup with the Italian national team. Rava, born in Cassine, Province of Alessandria, played for the clubs U. ![]()
Biography of Alain Mérieux (excerpt)
Alain Mérieux is a French businessman born on July 10, 1938 in Lyon (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 384), Chairman of Institut Mérieux. Early life Alain Mérieux is the son of Charles Mérieux (1907–2001), and the grandson of Marcel Mérieux (1870–1937), who founded Institut Mérieux in 1897.
Biography of Michel Abalan (excerpt)
Michel Abalan, born on June 5, 1920 in Brest (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on February 16, 2000 in Saint-Renan, was a member of the French Resistance. Awards Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur - décret du 13 mai 1996 ![]()
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Surian (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Surian (20 September 1670, Saint-Chamas, Provence–3 August 1754) was a French Oratorian and preacher who became bishop of Vence. He was elected to the Académie française in 1733. ![]()
Biography of Doc Watson (excerpt)
Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson (March 3, 1923 – May 29, 2012) was an American guitarist, songwriter and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues and gospel music. Watson won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Watson's flatpicking skills and knowledge of traditional American music are highly regarded.
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Biography of Jimmy Cleveland (excerpt)
Jimmy Cleveland (May 3, 1926 – August 23, 2008) was an American jazz trombonist born in Wartrace, Tennessee. Cleveland worked with many well-known jazz musicians, including Lionel Hampton, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Quincy Jones, Lucky Thompson, Gigi Gryce, Oscar Peterson, Oscar Pettiford and James Brown.
Biography of Jean-Pierre Ronfard (excerpt)
Jean-Pierre Ronfard, born January 14, 1929 in Thivencelle (Nord, France), died September 26, 2003 Montreal (Quebec, Canada), was a French comedian and theater director. Awards * 1999 : Prix Denise-Pelletier pour l’ensemble de sa carričre. Theater * Ŕ Béloeil ou ailleurs (Satire) * Autour de Phčdre (Drame) * Cinquante * Corps ŕ corps * Dans les dunes de Tadoussac (Absurde) * Don Quichotte (Drame) * El Gran Teatro del Mondo – Le grand théâtre du Monde (Drame)
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Biography of Virginia Gregg (excerpt)
Virginia Gregg (March 6, 1916 – September 15, 1986) was an American actress best known for her many roles in radio dramas. Born in Harrisburg, Illinois, she was the daughter of musician Dewey Alphaleta (née Todd) and businessman Edward William Gregg. ![]()
Biography of Bryce Poe II (excerpt)
Bryce Poe II was a United States Air Force four star general who served as Commander, Air Force Logistics Command (COMAFLC) from 1978 to 1981. Military career Poe was born in 1924, in Wichita, Kansas. He attended the Colorado School of Mines, the University of Kansas, and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1946.
Biography of Big Guitar Red (excerpt)
Walter "Big Guitar Red" Smith, born on March 29, 1925 in Cleveland, Bolivar County, Mississippi, is an American jazz guitarist and singer. ![]()
Biography of Dave Dudley (excerpt)
Dave Dudley (May 3, 1928 – December 22, 2003), born David Darwin Pedruska, was an American country music singer best known for his truck-driving country anthems of the 1960s and 1970s and his semi-slurred baritone. His signature song was "Six Days on the Road," and he is also remembered for "Vietnam Blues," "Truck Drivin' Son-of-a-Gun," and "Me and ol' C.
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Biography of John Roosevelt Boettiger (excerpt)
John Roosevelt Boettiger (born March 30, 1939) is the son of Anna Roosevelt Boettiger and her second husband, John Boettiger, and is grandson of United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt. He lives in Modum, Norway and Massachusetts. As a child, he lived with his mother in the White House during World War II with President and Mrs.
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Biography of Billy Butterfield (excerpt)
Billy Butterfield (January 14, 1917 in Middletown, Ohio (source: Imdb) – March 18, 1988) was a band leader, jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and cornetist. He studied cornet with Frank Simons, but later switched to studying medicine. He did not give up on music and quit medicine after finding success as a trumpeter.
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Biography of Clayton Moore (excerpt)
Clayton Moore (September 14, 1914 – December 28, 1999) was an American actor best known for playing the fictional western character The Lone Ranger from 1949–1951 and 1954-1957 on the television series of the same name. Early years Born Jack Carlton Moore in Chicago, Illinois, Moore became a circus acrobat by age 8 and appeared at the Century of Progress exposition in Chicago in 1934 with a trapeze act. ![]()
Biography of Ramblin Jack Elliott (excerpt)
Ramblin' Jack Elliott (born Elliot Charles Adnopoz, August 1, 1931) is an American folk singer and performer. Life and career Elliot Charles Adnopoz was born in Brooklyn, New York to Jewish parents in 1931. Elliott grew up inspired by the rodeos at Madison Square Garden, and wanted to be a cowboy. ![]()
Biography of Phyllis Thaxter (excerpt)
Phyllis St. Felix Thaxter (November 20, 1919 – August 14, 2012) was an American actress. Early life Phyllis Thaxter was born in Portland, Maine to Maine Supreme Court Justice Sidney Thaxter and his wife, a former actress. Career Phyllis worked on Broadway in the 1930s.
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Biography of Roland Kirk (excerpt)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk (August 7, 1935 – December 5, 1977) was a blind American jazz multi-instrumentalist who played tenor saxophone, flute and many other instruments. He was renowned for his onstage vitality, during which virtuoso improvisation was accompanied by comic banter, political ranting, and the ability to play several instruments simultaneously.
Biography of Michael Craig (excerpt)
Michael Craig (born Michael Francis Gregson; 27 January 1928) is a British actor, known for his work in film and television in both the United Kingdom and Australia. Film credits include: Sapphire, Doctor in Love, The Iron Maiden, Modesty Blaise, Turkey Shoot and Appointment with Death.
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Biography of Willie Rosario (excerpt)
Willie Rosario a.k.a. "Mr. Afinque" (born May 6, 1930) is a musician, composer and bandleader of salsa music. Early years Rosario (birth name: Fernando Luis Rosario Marin) was born and raised in Coamo, Puerto Rico into a poor, but hard working family. His parents realized that as a child Willie was musically inclined and had him take guitar lessons at the age of 6.
Biography of Don Burros (excerpt)
Don Burros, born on March 5, 1936 in the Bronx, New York (birth time source: Bonnie Svardol), died by suicide (unknown date), was an American Jewish Nazi, a member of the American Nazi Party (ANP), an American political party founded by veteran U.
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Biography of Randy Weston (excerpt)
Randolph Edward "Randy" Weston (April 6, 1926 – September 1, 2018) was an American jazz pianist and composer whose creativity was inspired by his ancestral African connection. Weston's piano style owed much to Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, whom he cited in a 2018 video as among pianists he counted as influences, as well as Count Basie, Nat King Cole and Earl Hines.
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Biography of Jean-Pierre Petit (excerpt)
Jean-Pierre Petit (born 5 April 1937, Choisy-le-Roi (birth time source: Patricia Darmon, from Hubert Brun)) is a French scientist, senior researcher at National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) as an astrophysicist in Marseille Observatory, now retired. His main working fields are fluid mechanics, kinetic theory of gases, plasma physics applied in magnetohydrodynamics power generation and propulsion as well as topology and astrophysics applied in cosmology.
Biography of Ely Jacques Kahn Jr. (excerpt)
Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr. (December 4, 1916 – May 28, 1994) was an American writer under the byline E.J. Kahn, Jr. with The New Yorker for five decades. Born in New York City, he was the son of architect Ely Jacques Kahn. ![]()
Biography of El Santo (excerpt)
Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta (September 23, 1917 – February 5, 1984), more widely known as El Santo (the Saint), was a Mexican Luchador enmascarado (Spanish for masked professional wrestler), film actor, and folk icon. El Santo, along with Blue Demon and Mil Máscaras, is one of the most famous and iconic of all Mexican luchadores, and has been referred to as one of "the greatest legends in Mexican sports" His wrestling career spanned nearly five decades, during which he became a folk hero and a symbol of justice for the common man through his appearances in comic books and movies.
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Biography of William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. (excerpt)
William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr. (born July 7, 1920 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) was the fourth United States Secretary of Transportation, from March 7, 1975 to January 20, 1977, and the second African American to serve in the Cabinet. Coleman was also a distinguished lawyer who, with Thurgood Marshall, has played a major role in significant civil rights cases.
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Biography of Nancy Chaffee (excerpt)
Nancy Chaffee, born March 6, 1929 in Ventura, California, died August 11, 2002 in Coronado, California (cancer), was an American tennis player of the '40s and the '50s. She is also known as Nancy Kiner (her first husband), and Nancy Whittaker (her second husband).
Biography of Pierre Micaux (excerpt)
Pierre Micaux is a French politician, born October 26, 1930 in Vendeuvre-sur-Barse (Aube) and died August 17, 2013 in Troyes (Aube). He was elected deputy on April 3, 1978 in the first constituency of Aube and re-elected without interruption since, and did not stand for re-election in 2007.
Biography of Anita Desai (excerpt)
Anita Mazumdar Desai (born 24 June 1937) is an Indian novelist and the Emeritus John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As a writer she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times; she received a Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel Fire on the Mountain, from the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters; she won the British Guardian Prize for The Village by the Sea.
Biography of Kenneth Noland (excerpt)
Kenneth Noland (April 10, 1924 – January 5, 2010) was an American abstract painter. He was one of the best-known American Color field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s he was thought of as a minimalist painter.
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Biography of Ed Macauley (excerpt)
Charles Edward "Ed" Macauley (born March 22, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a former professional basketball player. Macauley spent his prep school days at St. Louis University High School, then went on to Saint Louis University, where his team won the NIT championship in 1948.
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Biography of Jerome Charyn (excerpt)
Jerome Charyn (born May 13, 1937) is an American writer. With nearly 50 published works over a 50-year span, Charyn has a long-standing reputation as an inventive and prolific chronicler of real and imagined American life, writing in multiple genres. Michael Chabon calls him "one of the most important writers in American literature".
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Biography of Louis J. Hauge Jr. (excerpt)
Corporal Louis James Hauge, Jr. (December 12, 1924-May 14, 1945) was a United States Marine who was posthumously awarded his nation's highest military honor — the Medal of Honor — for his heroic actions during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II.
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Biography of Guy Rodgers (excerpt)
Guy William Rodgers (September 1, 1935 – February 19, 2001) was an American professional basketball player born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He spent twelve years (1958-1970) in the NBA, and was one of the league's best playmakers in the early to mid 1960s.
Biography of Maurice Mollin (excerpt)
Maurice Mollin, born on May 6, 1924 in Antwerp, died on August 5, 2003 in Antwerp, was a Belgian former professional bicycle racer. |
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