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Biography of Richard Crane (actor) (excerpt)
Richard Ollie Crane (June 5, 1918 – March 9, 1969) was a character actor whose career spanned three decades in films and television.His early career included many uncredited performances in feature films made in the 1940s. Early years and career Crane was born in New Castle, Indiana.
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Biography of Pietro Ingrao (excerpt)
Pietro Ingrao (30 March 1915 – 27 September 2015) was an Italian politician and journalist involved in the Italian resistance movement. He was a leading figure in the Italian Communist Party (PCI) for many years. Born in Lenola, Lazio, Ingrao joined the PCI in 1940 and participated in the anti-fascist resistance during World War II.
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Biography of Jean-Pierre Le Roch (entrepreneur) (excerpt)
Jean-Pierre Le Roch, born March 18, 1929 and died April 21, 2006, was a Breton entrepreneur and the founder of Intermarché and the Les Mousquetaires group. After starting his life in Brazil where he was a garage owner and racing champion, he returned to France and partnered with Édouard Leclerc, opening an E.Leclerc store in 1959.
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Biography of Georgie Abrams (excerpt)
Georgie Abrams (November 11, 1918 – June 30, 1994) was an American boxer who came very close to winning the World Middleweight Championship in November 1941 against Tony Zale and was a top contender for the title in the early 1940s.
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Biography of Humfrey Wanley (excerpt)
Humfrey Wanley was an English librarian and paleographer born on March 21, 1672 (March 31, gregorian calendar), in Coventry, and died on July 6, 1726, in London. The youngest child of Nathaniel Wanley, vicar of Holy Trinity Church in Coventry, Wanley developed an early interest in Old English.
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Biography of Dina Wadia (excerpt)
Dina Wadia (née Jinnah; 15 August 1919 – 2 November 2017) was the only child and daughter of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founding father of Pakistan, and Rattanbai Petit. Her time of birth comes from an article by Kanji Dwarkadas in "The Illustrated Weekly of India," Volume 80, Issue 3, (1959).
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Biography of Luigi Gui (excerpt)
Luigi Gui (26 September 1914 – 26 April 2010) was an Italian politician and philosopher. Gui was born in Padua (Veneto).He graduated in philosophy at the Catholic University in Milan.He was an officer of the Alpini corps of the Italian Army, and fought in USSR during World War II.
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Biography of Archibald Howie (excerpt)
Archibald "Archie" Howie CBE HonFRMS FRS HonFRSE HonFInstP (born 8 March 1934) is a British physicist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Cambridge, known for his pioneering work on the interpretation of transmission electron microscope images of crystals.Born in 1934, he attended Kirkcaldy High School and the University of Edinburgh.
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Biography of Hermann Gmeiner (excerpt)
Hermann Gmeiner (23 June 1919 – 26 April 1986) was an Austrian philanthropist who founded SOS Children's Villages.Born in Alberschwende, Austria, he was deeply affected by the loss of his mother and his experiences as a soldier in WWII. In 1949, with just 600 Austrian schillings, he established the first SOS Children's Village in Imst, Tyrol. ![]()
Biography of Franz Weber (activist) (excerpt)
Franz Weber (27 July 1927 – 2 April 2019) was a Swiss environmentalist and animal welfare activist who began his career as a journalist. After studying at the Sorbonne, he became deeply involved in environmental conservation starting in 1965, notably through his efforts to protect the Engadine Valley of the Lakes in Switzerland, which was eventually declared a National Conservation Region.
Biography of Morag Beaton (excerpt)
Morag Beaton (2 July 1926 – 1 April 2010) was a Scottish-Australian dramatic soprano renowned for her role as Turandot, which she performed more frequently in Australia than any other soprano to date. Her operatic career spanned from 1965 to 1983, with notable roles including Tatiana in "Eugene Onegin" and Venus in "Tannhäuser."
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Biography of Angela Jurdak Khoury (excerpt)
Angela Jurdak Khoury (September 24, 1915 - May 29, 2011) was a Lebanese diplomat and college professor based in Washington, D.C. Career Khoury taught sociology at the American University of Beirut beginning in 1938, the university's first woman instructor.She served as assistant director of the Allied Powers Radio Poll for Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine during World War II.
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Biography of Elsa Lystad (excerpt)
Elsa Lystad (9 July 1930 – 26 December 2023) was a renowned Norwegian film and stage actress. She received the Leonard Statuette, the King's Medal of Merit, the Amanda Honorary Award, and the Gullruten award. Lystad made her stage debut in 1956 and had her breakthrough in the mid-1960s, becoming a central figure in Norwegian film, theatre, television, and radio.
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Biography of Billy Walker (musician) (excerpt)
William Marvin Walker (January 14, 1929 – May 21, 2006) was an American country music singer and guitarist best known for his 1962 hit, "Charlie's Shoes". Nicknamed The Tall Texan, Walker had more than 30 charting records during a nearly 60-year career, and was a longtime member of the Grand Ole Opry.
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Biography of Ida Holz (excerpt)
Ida Holz Bard (born January 30, 1935) is a pioneering Uruguayan engineer, computer scientist, professor, and researcher in the field of computing and the Internet. Initially trained in Israel, Holz later became one of Uruguay's first computer science students. In 1986, she became the director of the Central Information Service at the University of the Republic, leading the development of the Internet in Uruguay.
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Biography of George Patterson (missionary) (excerpt)
George Neilson Patterson (August 19, 1920 - December 28, 2012), known as Patterson of Tibet, was a Scottish missionary, engineer, and humanitarian worker. His timle of birth comes from him, in "Requiem for Tibet" (Aurum Press, 1990). He served as a journalist, doctor, and diplomat for the Tibetan resistance movement during the Chinese invasion. ![]()
Biography of Gabriel Ferrater (excerpt)
Gabriel Ferrater i Soler (20 May 1922 – 27 April 1972) was a Catalan author, translator, and linguistics scholar. His poetic work, deeply influential in post-war Catalonia, includes three collections: "Da nuces pueris" (1960), "Menja't una cama" (1962), and "Teoria dels cossos" (1968), later combined into "Les dones i els dies," a landmark in Catalan literature.
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Biography of Jean-Jacques Morvan (excerpt)
Jean-Jacques Morvan, born on January 7, 1928, in Paris (Wikipedia makes a mistake about his city of birth). and died on September 4, 2005, was a versatile French artist: painter, sculptor, engraver, writer, actor, journalist, critic, and songwriter. He witnessed the battles for the liberation of Paris in 1944 and assisted deportees returning from Nazi camps, an experience that deeply affected his sensitivity. ![]()
Biography of Fred Gwynne (excerpt)
Frederick Hubbard Gwynne (July 10, 1926 – July 2, 1993) was an American actor, artist and author, who is widely known for his roles in the 1960s television sitcoms Car 54, Where Are You. (as Francis Muldoon) and The Munsters (as Herman Munster), as well as his later film roles in The Cotton Club (1984), Pet Sematary (1989), and My Cousin Vinny (1992).
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Biography of Lynn Compton (excerpt)
Lynn Davis "Buck" Compton (December 31, 1921 – February 25, 2012) was an American jurist, law enforcement officer, and United States Army officer during World War II, serving as a paratrooper in "Easy Company" of the 506th Infantry Regiment within the 101st Airborne Division.
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Biography of Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García (excerpt)
Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García (24 January 1930 – 9 December 2009) was a Guatemalan military officer who served as the 36th president of Guatemala from 1974 until 1978. A member of the National Liberation Movement, he previously served as General Staff of the Army from 1970 to 1972 and Minister of national defence from 1972 to 1973 under President Carlos Arana Osorio.
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Biography of Earl Averill Jr. (excerpt)
Earl Douglas Averill (1931-2015) was an American baseball player, playing as a catcher and outfielder in the Major Leagues mostly for the Cleveland Indians, along with stints at the Chicago Cubs, White Sox, Los Angeles Angels, and Philadelphia Phillies. Nicknamed "Earl Averill Jr.," he distinguished himself from his Hall of Fame father, Howard Earl Averill.
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Biography of Hal Blaine (excerpt)
Hal Blaine (born Harold Simon Belsky; February 5, 1929 – March 11, 2019) was an American drummer and session musician, thought to be among the most recorded studio drummers in the music industry, claiming over 35,000 sessions and 6,000 singles. His drumming is featured on 150 US top 10 hits, 40 of which went to number one.
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Biography of Lucien Barjon (excerpt)
Lucien, Émile, Vincent, Bargeon, known by his stage name Lucien Barjon, was a French actor, born on March 11, 1916, in Sète, and died on December 31, 2000, in Bagnols-sur-Cèze. Originally an engineer for bridges and roads, he decided to pursue acting and appeared in numerous films and television series. ![]()
Biography of Roald Aas (excerpt)
Roald Edgar Aas (25 March 1928 – 18 February 2012) was a speed skater and cyclist from Norway.He was born in Oslo.Aas was the number two speed skater in Norway through the entire 1950s—initially after Hjalmar Andersen, later after Knut Johannesen.
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Biography of Alberto Isaac (excerpt)
Alberto Isaac (18 March 1923 – 9 January 1998) was a Mexican freestyle swimmer and later a film director and screenwriter.He competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics and the 1952 Summer Olympics. In 1969, he directed the documentary film The Olympics in Mexico which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. ![]()
Biography of Florence Resnikoff (excerpt)
Florence Lisa Resnikoff (7 April 1920 – 8 April 2013) was an American artist and educator in metals and jewelry. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, she started making jewelry in 1948 and was a founding member of the Metal Arts Guild of San Francisco in 1951.
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Biography of François Bordes (excerpt)
Henri Louis François Bordes, born on December 30, 1919, in Rives, Lot-et-Garonne, and died on April 30, 1981, at the age of 61, in Tucson, Arizona, was a French prehistorian who made significant contributions to the understanding of the Paleolithic era and developed a new approach to the study of archaeological artifact assemblages.
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Biography of Monique de la Bruchollerie (excerpt)
Monique Yver de la Bruchollerie, born April 20, 1915 in Paris and died December 15, 1972, was a French pianist from a family of distinguished musicians. She entered the Paris Conservatoire at eleven and won first prize in piano in 1931 under Isidore Philipp.
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Biography of Marie Wilson (American actress) (excerpt)
Marie Wilson, born on August 19, 1916, in Anaheim, California, and died on November 23, 1972, in Hollywood, was an American actress. Primarily known for her roles as a decorative blonde, she portrayed Irma in "My Friend Irma," a popular radio and then television show in the 1940s and 1950s.
Biography of Annette Strauss (excerpt)
Annette Louise Greenfield Strauss (January 26, 1924 – December 14, 1998) was an American philanthropist and politician who served as the 54th mayor of Dallas. The Annette Strauss Artist Square in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas is named in honor of her.
Biography of Richard Clement Wade (excerpt)
Richard Clement Wade (July 14, 1921 – July 18, 2008) was an American historian and urban studies professor known for pioneering the application of social science techniques to urban history. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, and raised in Winnetka, Illinois, Wade excelled in tennis and academics at New Trier High School.
Biography of Hollis B. Chenery (excerpt)
Hollis Burnley Chenery (January 6, 1918 – September 1, 1994) was an American economist recognized for his pioneering contributions to development economics. He held positions at Stanford and Harvard before serving as vice president for development policy at the World Bank. Chenery's research, notably his collaboration with Alan Strout on "Foreign assistance and economic development," influenced aid strategies, emphasizing poverty-focused approaches.
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Biography of Irma Raush (excerpt)
Irma Yakovlevna Raush (Russian: Ирма Яковлевна Рауш; born 21 April 1938) is a Russian actress and the first wife of film director Andrei Tarkovsky. She is best known for her role as Durochka in Andrei Rublev and as Ivan's mother in Ivan's Childhood.
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Biography of Leo Sanford (excerpt)
Leo Sanford (born October 4, 1929) is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker for the Chicago Cardinals and Baltimore Colts of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs.
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Biography of Rodolfo Acosta (excerpt)
Rodolfo Pérez Acosta (July 29, 1920 – November 7, 1974) was a Mexican-American character actor who became known for his roles as Mexican outlaws or American Indians in Hollywood western films.He was sometimes credited as Rudolfo Acosta. After the war, Acosta worked in stage and film, leading to a role in John Ford's 1947 film "The Fugitive".
Biography of Lyn Osborn (excerpt)
Lyn Osborn, born in 1926 in Texas and died in 1958, was an American actor best known as "Cadet Happy" on "Space Patrol" and for his role in "Invasion of the Saucer Men." He developed an interest in performing from a young age, served as an aerial gunner and radar operator in the navy during WWII, and later studied at the Pasadena Playhouse.
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Biography of Halina Birenbaum (excerpt)
Halina Birenbaum (Warsaw, 15 September 1929) is a Polish-born Israeli Holocaust survivor, writer, poet, translator and activist. Life Born in Warsaw, to Jakub Grynsztajn and Pola formerly Perl, née Kijewska, she was the youngest of three and the only daughter.After the occupation of Poland by Germany, the family's home was in area that was part of the Warsaw Ghetto.
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Biography of Kathleen Crowley (excerpt)
Kathleen Crowley (born Betty Jane Crowley; December 26, 1929 – April 23, 2017) was an American actress who appeared in over 100 movies and TV series in the 1950s and 1960s, often as a leading lady. Born in Green Bank, New Jersey, she graduated from Egg Harbor City High School and won Miss New Jersey in 1949.
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Biography of Lisa Della Casa (excerpt)
Lisa Della Casa (2 February 1919 – 10 December 2012) was a Swiss soprano most admired for her interpretations of major heroines in operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss, and of German lieder. She was also described as “the most beautiful woman on the operatic stage”.
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Biography of Seth Morehead (excerpt)
Seth Marvin "Moe" Morehead, born on August 15, 1934, in Houston, Texas, was a Major League Baseball left-handed relief pitcher. Morehead started his MLB career after signing with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1952, and he played in the majors for five seasons with the Phillies, Chicago Cubs, and Milwaukee Braves from 1957 to 1961.
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Biography of Manuel Pertegaz (excerpt)
Manuel Pertegaz Ibáñez (18 May 1918 - 30 August 2014), known as Manuel Pertegaz, was a renowned Spanish fashion designer. He was asked to succeed Christian Dior in 1957 but chose to remain in Spain, becoming its leading couturier by the 1960s. ![]()
Biography of Elina Bystritskaya (excerpt)
Elina Avraamovna Bystritskaya (4 April 1928 – 26 April 2019) was a Soviet and Ukrainian-born Russian stage and film actress and theater pedagogue. She is regarded as one of the most prominent actresses in the Soviet and Russian film industry. Her career spanned six decades.
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.S.
Biography of Emory Bellard (excerpt)
Emory Dilworth Bellard (December 17, 1927 – February 10, 2011) was a college football coach. He was head coach at Texas A&M University from 1972 to 1978 and at Mississippi State University from 1979 until 1985. Bellard died on February 10, 2011, after battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) since the fall of 2010.
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Biography of Jan Karski (excerpt)
Jan Karski (born Jan Kozielewski, 24 June 1914 – 13 July 2000) was a Polish World War II soldier, resistance fighter, and diplomat. He is notable for reporting to the Polish government-in-exile and the Allies on the situation in German-occupied Poland, including the Warsaw Ghetto and extermination camps.
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Biography of Michel Ciment (excerpt)
Michel Ciment (26 May 1938 – 13 November 2023) was a French film critic and the editor of the cinema magazine Positif. Michel Ciment was born in Paris on 26 May 1938.He was a Chevalier of the Order of Merit, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters, and the president of FIPRESCI.
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Biography of Jacques Martin (comics) (excerpt)
Jacques Martin, born on September 25, 1921, in Strasbourg, France, and died on January 21, 2010, in Orbe, Switzerland, was a French comic book author. A realistic illustrator, he is best known for his ancient adventure series Alix, published from 1948, and his contemporary espionage series Lefranc, which appeared four years later. ![]()
Biography of Kateryna Yushchenko (scientist) (excerpt)
Kateryna Lohvynivna Yushchenko (Ukrainian: Катерина Логвинівна Ющенко, Russian: Екатерина Логвиновна Ющенко, 8 December 1919, Chyhyryn; died 15 August 2001) was a Ukrainian computer and information research scientist, corresponding member of USSR Academy of Sciences (1976), and member of The International Academy of Computer Science.
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Biography of Craig Dixon (excerpt)
Craig Kline Dixon (March 3, 1926 – February 25, 2021) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the 110 meter hurdles. He competed for the United States in the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, Great Britain in the 110 meter hurdles where he won the bronze medal. |
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