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Biography of Ismet Inönü (excerpt)
Mustafa İsmet İnönü (24 September 1884 – 25 December 1973) was a Turkish general and statesman, who served as the second President of Turkey from 11 November 1938 to 22 May 1950, when his Republican People's Party was defeated in Turkey's second free elections. ![]()
Biography of Robert Ryan (actor) (excerpt)
Robert Bushnell Ryan (November 11, 1909 – July 11, 1973 (cancer, age 63)) was an American actor who most often portrayed hardened cops and ruthless villains. Ryan was born in Chicago, Illinois, the first child of Mable Arbutus (Bushnell), a secretary, and Timothy Aloysius Ryan, who was from a wealthy family that owned a real estate firm.
Biography of Manuel Bandeira (excerpt)
Manuel Carneiro de Sousa Bandeira Filho (Recife, Pernambuco, April 19, 1886 – Rio de Janeiro, October 13, 1968) was a poet, literary critic, and translator. He is one of Brazil's most admired and inspiring poets until today. In fact, the "rhythm bandeiriano" deserves in-depth studies of essayists.
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Biography of János Kádár (excerpt)
János Kádár (/ˈkɑːdɑːr/; Hungarian: ; 26 May 1912 – 6 July 1989) was a Hungarian communist leader and the General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, presiding over the country from 1956 until his retirement in 1988. His 32-year term as General Secretary covered most of the period the People's Republic of Hungary existed. ![]()
Biography of Michael Chekhov (excerpt)
Mikhail Aleksandrovich "Michael" Chekhov (Russian: Михаил Александрович Чехов, 29 August 1891 – 30 September 1955) was a Russian-American actor, director, author, and theatre practitioner. His acting technique has been used by actors such as Jack Nicholson, Clint Eastwood, Marilyn Monroe, and Yul Brynner.
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Biography of Trafford Leigh-Mallory (excerpt)
Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, KCB, DSO & Bar (11 July 1892 – 14 November 1944) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force. Leigh-Mallory served as a Royal Flying Corps pilot and squadron commander during the First World War. ![]()
Biography of Luís Carlos Prestes (excerpt)
Luís Carlos Prestes (January 3, 1898 – March 7, 1990) was a tenente, later communist militant and Brazilian politician. He was one of the organizers of the 1920s tenente revolts and the Communist opposition to the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas in Brazil. ![]()
Biography of Ernest Holmes (excerpt)
Ernest Shurtleff Holmes (January 21, 1887 – April 7, 1960) was an American New Thought writer, teacher, and leader. He was the founder of a Spiritual movement known as Religious Science, part of the greater New Thought movement, whose spiritual philosophy is known as "The Science of Mind.
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Biography of William Hyacinth, Prince of Nassau-Siegen (excerpt)
Prince William Hyacinth of Nassau-Siegen (3 April 1667 in Brussels – 18 February 1743 in Hadamar) was a Prince of Nassau-Siegen. He also claimed the Principality of Orange. Life William Hyacinth was the son of Prince John Francis Desideratus of Nassau-Siegen and Eleonore Sophie of Baden, his second wife.
Biography of André Malterre (excerpt)
André Malterre, born on December 18, 1909 in Corbeil (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died in 1975 in Cannes, was a French syndicalist. He was the President (1956-1975) of The French Confederation of Management – General Confederation of Executives, one of the five major French confederations of trade unions.
Biography of Francis Viaud (excerpt)
Francis Armand Viaud, born on July 24, 1899 in Montoir-de-Bretagne (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 155), died on June 24, 1985 in Paris, was a French engineer, the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France (GODF) (1945-1948, 1949-1952 and 1953-1956), the largest of several Masonic organizations in France and the oldest in Continental Europe. ![]()
Biography of Bohuslav Martinu (excerpt)
Bohuslav Martinů (Czech: ( listen); December 8, 1890 – August 28, 1959) was a prolific Czech composer of modern classical music. Martinů wrote 6 symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. ![]()
Biography of Genrikh Yagoda (excerpt)
Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda (7 November 1891 – 15 March 1938), born Yenokh Gershevich Iyeguda was a secret police official who served as director of the NKVD, the Soviet Union's security and intelligence agency, from 1934 to 1936. Appointed by Joseph Stalin, Yagoda supervised the arrest, show trial, and execution of the Old Bolsheviks Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev, climactic events of the Great Purge. ![]()
Biography of Karl Amadeus Hartmann (excerpt)
Karl Amadeus Hartmann (2 August 1905 – 5 December 1963) was a German composer. Some have lauded him as the greatest German symphonist of the 20th century, although he is now largely overlooked, particularly in English-speaking countries. Life Born in Munich, well known there for his flower paintings, the son of Friedrich Richard Hartmann, and the youngest of four brothers of whom the elder three also became painters, Hartmann was himself torn, early in his career, between music and the visual arts. ![]()
Biography of Robert Benchley (excerpt)
Robert Charles Benchley (September 15, 1889 – November 21, 1945) was an American humorist best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and film actor. From his beginnings at the Harvard Lampoon while attending Harvard University, through his many years writing essays and articles for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker and his acclaimed short films, Benchley's style of humor brought him respect and success during his life, from New York City and his peers at the Algonquin Round Table to contemporaries in the burgeoning film industry. ![]()
Biography of Günther Anders (excerpt)
Günther Anders (born Günther Siegmund Stern; Breslau, 12 July 1902 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth certificate)) – Vienna, 17 December 1992) was a German Jewish philosopher, journalist, essayist and poet. Trained in the phenomenological tradition, he developed a philosophical anthropology for the age of technology, focusing on such themes as the effects of mass media on our emotional and ethical existence, the illogic of religion, the nuclear threat, the Shoah, and the question of being a philosopher.
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Biography of Victor Chklovski (excerpt)
Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky (or Shklovskii; Russian: Ви́ктор Бори́сович Шкло́вский; 24 January 1893 – 6 December 1984) was a Russian and Soviet literary theorist, critic, writer, and pamphleteer. Life Shklovsky was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. His father was Jewish (with ancestors from Shklov) and his mother was of German/Russian origin.
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Biography of Henri Tomasi (excerpt)
Henri Tomasi (17 August 1901 – 13 January 1971) was a French classical composer and conductor. The early years Henri Tomasi was born in a working-class neighborhood of Marseille, France, on 17 August 1901. His father Xavier Tomasi and mother Josephine Vincensi were originally from La Casinca, Corsica. ![]()
Biography of Joan Pujol García (excerpt)
Juan Pujol García MBE (14 February 1912 – 10 October 1988), also known as Joan Pujol Garcia, was a Spanish double agent against Nazi Germany during World War II, when he relocated to Britain to carry out fictitious spying activities for the Germans. ![]()
Biography of John Fante (excerpt)
John Fante (April 8, 1909 – May 8, 1983) was an American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter. He is best known for his semi-autobiographical novel Ask the Dust (1939) about the life of a struggling writer, Arturo Bandini, in Depression-era Los Angeles. ![]()
Biography of Antoun Saadeh (excerpt)
Antoun Saadeh (Arabic: أنطون سعادة; 1 March 1904 – 8 July 1949) was a Lebanese philosopher, writer and politician who founded the Syrian Social Nationalist Party. Saadeh had an holistic notion of science, as "knowledge is that it revolves around interaction of the self with the surrounding physical conditions" and was against epistemological reductionism, considering that "the self plays an active role in creating the conditions that transform things into objects of knowledge. ![]()
Biography of Cecília Meireles (excerpt)
Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles (7 November 1901 – 9 November 1964) was a Brazilian writer and educator, known principally as a poet. She is a canonical name of Brazilian Modernism, one of the great female poets in the Portuguese language, and is widely considered the best female poet from Brazil, though she combatted the word poetess because of gender discrimination.
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Biography of Nikolai Yezhov (excerpt)
Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov, (May 1, 1895 – February 4, 1940) was a Soviet secret police official under Joseph Stalin who was head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938, during the most active period of the Great Purge. Having presided over mass arrests and executions during the Great Purge, Yezhov eventually fell from Stalin's favour and power. ![]()
Biography of Leo Fender (excerpt)
Clarence Leonidas "Leo" Fender (August 10, 1909 – March 21, 1991) was an American inventor who founded Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company, or "Fender" for short. In January 1965, he sold the company to CBS and later founded two other musical instrument companies, Music Man and G&L Musical Instruments
Biography of René Julliard (excerpt)
René Henri Julliard, born on November 22, 1900 in Geneva, Switzerland (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died in July 1, 1962 in Paris, was a French editor, the founder of Éditions Julliard in 1942, a French publishing house. Julliard was known as a discoverer and publisher of talents, in particular Françoise Sagan and Jean d'Ormesson. ![]()
Biography of Silvina Ocampo (excerpt)
Silvina Ocampo Aguirre (July 28, 1903 – December 14, 1993) was an Argentine short story writer, poet, and artist. Ocampo's friend and collaborator Jorge Luis Borges called Ocampo "one of the greatest poets in the Spanish language, whether on this side of the ocean or on the other. ![]()
Biography of Federico Mompou (excerpt)
Frederic Mompou i Dencausse (Catalan pronunciation: ; alternatively Federico Mompou; 16 April 1893 – 30 June 1987) was a Catalan composer and pianist. He is remembered for his solo piano music and, to a degree, his songs. Life Early years Mompou was born in Barcelona to the lawyer Frederic Mompou and his wife Josefina Dencausse, who was of French origin.
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Biography of Robert Denoël (excerpt)
Robert Denoël, born on November 9, 1902 in Uccle (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), murdered on December 2, 1945 in Paris, was a French editor born in Belgium. He was the founder, with the American Bernard Steele (1902-1979), of Éditions Denoël, a French publishing house founded in 1930. ![]()
Biography of Dziga Vertov (excerpt)
Dziga Vertov (Russian: Дзига Вертов; born David Abelevich Kaufman and also known as Denis Kaufman; 2 January 1896 (gregorian calendar, so December 21, 1895, julian calendar)) – 12 February 1954) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist.
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Biography of Aaron Bank (excerpt)
Colonel Aaron Bank (November 23, 1902 – April 1, 2004) was a United States Army officer, and the founder of the US Army Special Forces, commonly known as the "Green Berets". He is also famous for his exploits as an OSS officer during World War II, parachuting into France to coordinate and activate the French Resistance and organizing an operation intended to capture Adolf Hitler.
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Biography of Jean Rodhain (excerpt)
Jean Charles François Rodhain, born on January 31, 1900 in Remiremont (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on Feburary 1, 1977 in Lourdes, was a French Catholic priest. Selected works Toi aussi fais de męme – La charité pour aujourd’hui.
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Biography of La Bolduc (excerpt)
Mary Rose-Anna Bolduc, née Travers, (June 4, 1894 – February 20, 1941) was a musician and singer of French Canadian music. She was known as Madame Bolduc or La Bolduc. During the peak of her popularity in the 1930s, she was known as the Queen of Canadian Folk Singers. ![]()
Biography of Roberto Gerhard (excerpt)
Robert Gerhard i Ottenwaelder (Catalan pronunciation: ; 25 September 1896 – 5 January 1970) was a Catalan composer and musical scholar and writer, generally known outside Catalonia as Roberto Gerhard. Life Roberto Gerhard was born in Valls, near Tarragona, Spain, the son of a German-Swiss father and an Alsatian mother.
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Biography of Bruce Bennett (excerpt)
Bruce Bennett (May 19, 1906 – February 24, 2007) was an American actor and Olympic silver medalist in the shot put. Born as Harold Herman Brix, he went by the name Herman Brix in the 1930s. Early life and Olympics Harold Herman Brix was the fourth child in a family of five of an immigrant couple from Germany.
Biography of Henriette Puig-Roget (excerpt)
Henriette Puig-Roget, born Henriette Roget on January 9, 1910 in Bastia (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on November 24, 1992 in Paris, was a French organist, pianist, and pedagogue. ![]()
Biography of Morey Amsterdam (excerpt)
Morey Amsterdam (born Moritz Amsterdam, December 14, 1908 – October 27, 1996) was an American television actor and comedian, best known for the role of Buddy Sorrell on CBS's The Dick Van Dyke Show from 1961 to 1966. Further reading Keep Laughing. Citadel Press, 1959.
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Biography of Ward Bond (excerpt)
Wardell Edwin Bond, known as Ward Bond (April 9, 1903 – November 5, 1960), was an American film character actor whose rugged appearance and easygoing charm were featured in more than 200 films and the NBC television series Wagon Train from 1957 to 1960.
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Biography of Lloyd Bacon (excerpt)
Lloyd Francis Bacon (December 4, 1889 – November 15, 1955) was an American screen, stage and vaudeville actor and film director. As a director he made films in virtually all genres, westerns, musicals, comedies, gangster films, crime dramas, and was one of the directors at Warner Bros. ![]()
Biography of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade (excerpt)
Marie-Madeleine Fourcade (November 8, 1909, Marseille (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - July 20, 1989, Paris) was the leader of the French Resistance network "Alliance", under the code name "Hérisson" ("Hedgehog") after the arrest of its former leader, Georges Loustaunau-Lacau, during the occupation of France in the Second World War. ![]()
Biography of José Antonio Primo de Rivera (excerpt)
José Antonio Primo de Rivera y Sáenz de Heredia, 1st Duke of Primo de Rivera, 3rd Marquess of Estella, GE (April 24, 1903 (his birth time comes from this page. The source is the biography of Felipe Ximénez de Sandoval) – November 20, 1936), often referred to as José Antonio, was a Spanish lawyer, nobleman, politician, and founder of the Falange Espańola ("Spanish Phalanx"), later Falange Espańola de las JONS. ![]()
Biography of Sabahattin Ali (excerpt)
Sabahattin Ali (February 25, 1907 – April 2, 1948) was a Turkish novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. While he was serving as a teacher in Konya, he was arrested for a poem he wrote criticizing Atatürk's policies, and accused of libelling two other journalists. ![]()
Biography of Jean Martinon (excerpt)
Jean Francisque-Étienne Martinon (usually known simply as Jean Martinon (French pronunciation: ); 10 January 1910 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, civil registrar) – 1 March 1976) was a French conductor and composer. Biography Martinon was born in Lyon, where he began his education, going on to the Conservatoire de Paris to study under Albert Roussel for composition, under Charles Munch and Roger Désormičre for conducting, under Vincent d'Indy for harmony, and under Jules Boucherit for violin. ![]()
Biography of H. W. L. Poonja (excerpt)
Sri H. W. L. Poonja (born Hariwansh Lal Poonja; 13 October 1910 in Punjab, British India – 6 September 1997 in Lucknow, India), known as "Poonjaji" or "Papaji" /ˈpɑːpɑːdʒi/, was an Indian sage and jivanmukta (liberated being) who taught Self-enquiry as advocated by Ramana Maharshi.
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Biography of Harry Hopkins (excerpt)
Harry Lloyd Hopkins (August 17, 1890 – January 29, 1946) was one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's closest advisers. He was one of the architects of the New Deal, especially the relief programs of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which he directed and built into the largest employer in the country.
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Biography of Galina Ulanova (excerpt)
Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova (Russian: Гали́на Серге́евна Ула́нова, 8 January 1910 (O.S. 26 December 1909) – 21 March 1998) was a Russian ballet dancer. She is frequently cited as being one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century. Ulanova was a great actress as well as a dancer, and when she was finally allowed to tour abroad at the age of 46, enraptured British papers wrote that "Galina Ulanova in London knew the greatest triumph of any individual dancer since Anna Pavlova".
Biography of Robert Siodmak (excerpt)
Robert Siodmak (8 August 1900 – 10 March 1973) was a German-born American film director. He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for a series of stylish, unpretentious Hollywood films noirs he made in the 1940s. Early life Siodmak (pronounced SEE-ODD-MACK) was born in Dresden, Germany, the son of Rosa Philippine (née Blum) and Ignatz Siodmak. ![]()
Biography of Peter Wessel Zapffe (excerpt)
Peter Wessel Zapffe (December 18, 1899 – October 12, 1990) was a Norwegian metaphysician, author, lawyer and mountaineer. He is often noted for his philosophically pessimistic and fatalistic view of human existence—his system of philosophy in line with the work of the earlier philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, by whom he was inspired—as well as his firm advocacy of antinatalism. ![]()
Biography of Yvonne Calment (excerpt)
Yvonne Calment, born on January 19, 1898 in Arles (birth time source: Marc Brun, birth certificate n° 35), died in 1934, is the daughter of Jeanne Calment, a French woman from Arles widely reported to have been a supercentenarian and the oldest human whose age was well-documented, with a lifespan of 122 years and 164 days.
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Biography of Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz (excerpt)
Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz y Menduińa (Madrid, April 7, 1893 – Ávila, July 8, 1984) was an eminent Spanish medieval historian, statesman, and president of the Spanish Republican government in Exile during the rule of Francisco Franco. During his long and distinguished career, Sánchez-Albornoz received dozens of awards and honorary degrees from institutions and nations around the world and was a member, or corresponding member, of numerous scholarly academies. ![]()
Biography of Roger Sessions (excerpt)
Roger Huntington Sessions (December 28, 1896 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, BC) – March 16, 1985) was an American composer, critic, and teacher of music. Life Sessions was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a family that could trace its roots back to the American revolution. |
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