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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.
Biography of María Teresa León (excerpt)
María Teresa León (31 October 1903 – 13 December 1988) was a Spanish writer, activist, screenwriter, and cultural ambassador. Born in Logroño, she was the niece of the Spanish feminist and writer María Goyri (the wife of Ramón Menéndez Pidal). She herself was married to the Spanish poet Rafael Alberti.
Biography of Olena Teliha (excerpt)
Olena Ivanivna Teliha (Ukrainian: Олена Іванівна Теліга, July 21, 1906 – February 21, 1942) was a Ukrainian poet and Ukrainian activist of Ukrainian and Belarusian ethnicity. A lot of her activities were in open defiance of the Nazi authorities. She was finally arrested by the Gestapo and executed, aged 35, in Babi Yar in Kiev along with her husband.
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.
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 Española ("Spanish Phalanx"), later Falange Española de las JONS.
Biography of Georges Thill (excerpt)
Georges Thill (14 December 1897 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 17 October 1984) was a French opera singer, often considered to be his country's greatest lyric-dramatic tenor. Born in Paris, his career lasted from 1924 to 1953, peaking during the 1930s.
Biography of Honorine Rondello (excerpt)
Honorine Rondello, born Honorine Jeanne Marie Cadoret on July 28, 1903 in Kérity (now a part of Paimpol), is a French supercentenarian, the oldest person in France since September 4, 2016. She lives in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume. She died on October 19, 2017 (age 114).
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 Élisa Deroche (excerpt)
Raymonde de Laroche (22 August 1882 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 2247)) – 18 July 1919), born Elise Raymonde Deroche, was a French pilot and the first woman in the world to receive an aeroplane pilot's licence.
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 Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz (excerpt)
Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz y Menduiña (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 Jack Thayer (excerpt)
John Borland "Jack" Thayer III (December 24, 1894 – September 20, 1945) was a first-class passenger on the RMS Titanic who survived and provided several first-hand accounts of the disaster. Nearly all those who lived did so by boarding lifeboats. Jack was one of only about 40 survivors who jumped or fell into the water.
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 Henri Lefebvre (excerpt)
Henri Lefebvre, born on June 16, 1901 in Hagetmau (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died in 1991 in Navarrenx, is a French philosopher and author.
Biography of Alain Le Léap (excerpt)
Alain Le Léap, born on September 29, 1905 in Lanmeur, Finistère (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on December 26, 1986 in Le Pradet, Var, was a French syndicalist, Secretary General of The General Confederation of Labour (CGT) from 1948 to 1957.
Biography of Suzy Solidor (excerpt)
Suzy Solidor (18 December 1900 (source for his birth time: the biography "Une vie d'amour" (A life of love) by Marie-Hélène Carbonel page 11, from civil status registers according to the author) – 30 March 1983) was a French singer and actress, appearing in films such as La Garçonne.
Biography of Allan Dwan (excerpt)
Allan Dwan (3 April 1885 – 28 December 1981) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter. Early life Born Joseph Aloysius Dwan in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dwan, was the younger son of commercial traveller of woolen clothing Joseph Michael Dwan (1857–1917) and his wife Mary Jane Dwan, née Hunt.
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.
Biography of Dietrich von Hildebrand (excerpt)
Dietrich von Hildebrand (12 October 1889 – 26 January 1977) was a German Roman Catholic philosopher and theologian. Hildebrand was called "the 20th Century Doctor of the Church" by Pope Pius XII. Pope John Paul II also greatly admired the work of Hildebrand, remarking once to his widow, Alice von Hildebrand, "Your husband is one of the great ethicists of the twentieth century.
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.
Biography of Viktor Frankl (excerpt)
Viktor Emil Frankl (26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997) was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, writer, and Holocaust survivor. He was the founder of logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life's meaning as the central human motivational force.
Biography of Albert Brenet (excerpt)
Albert Brenet, born on June 25, 1903 in Harfleur (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died in July 2005 in Paris, was a French painter, artist, and illustrator. Bibliography Thierry Favre et Cristina Baron, Albert Brenet : une vie, une œuvre, Paris, Gallimard Musée national de la marine, 2003 (ISBN 9782742411924) ;
Biography of Ilarie Voronca (excerpt)
Ilarie Voronca (pen name of Eduard Marcus; 31 December 1903, Brăila—8 April 1946, Paris) was a Romanian-French avant-garde poet and essayist. Voronca was of Jewish ethnicity. In his early years, he was connected with Eugen Lovinescu's Sburătorul group, making his debut in 1922 in the Sburătorul literar (symbolist pieces inspired by the works of George Bacovia and Camil Baltazar).
Biography of Alexandre Breffort (excerpt)
Alexandre Breffort (November 22, 1901 in Fourchambault, Nièvre (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – February 22, 1971 in Paris) was a French journalist, screenwriter, and author.
Biography of Jean Nicolas (excerpt)
Jean Edouard Marie Nicolas (9 June 1913 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 8 September 1978) was a French international footballer who played as a striker. Born in Nanterre, Nicolas played club football for FC Rouen, and appeared in the 1934 and 1938 World Cup squads for France, and scored two goals in the 1938 edition of the tournament.
Biography of Margarita Xirgu (excerpt)
Margarita Xirgu, also Margarida Xirgu (18 June 1888, Molins de Rei, Catalonia, Spain – 25 April 1969, Montevideo, Uruguay), was a Catalan stage actress, who was greatly popular throughout her country and Latin America. A friend of the poet Federico García Lorca, she was forced into exile during Francisco Franco's dictatorship of Spain, but continued her work in America.
Biography of Léon Azéma (excerpt)
Léon Azéma (20 January 1888 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 1 March 1978) was a French architect. He is responsible for many public works in France, especially in and around Paris. Appointed Architect of the City of Paris in 1928, Azéma designed the restoration of the park of Sceaux.
Biography of Carlos Drummond de Andrade (excerpt)
Carlos Drummond de Andrade (October 31, 1902 – August 17, 1987) was a Brazilian poet and writer, considered by some as the greatest Brazilian poet of all time. He has become something of a national cultural symbol in Brazil, where his widely influential poem "Canção Amiga" ("Friendly Song") has been featured on the 50-cruzado novo bill.
Biography of Miroslav Krleza (excerpt)
Miroslav Krleža (pronounced ; 7 July 1893 – 29 December 1981) was a leading Croatian writer and a prominent figure in cultural life of both Yugoslav states, the Kingdom (1918–1941) and the Socialist Republic (1945 until his death in 1981). A one time Vice President and General Secretary of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts (JAZU), he has often been proclaimed the greatest Croatian writer of the 20th century and beyond.
Biography of Cecil Day-Lewis (excerpt)
Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis) CBE (27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often writing as C. Day-Lewis, was an Anglo-Irish poet and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake.
Biography of Mustapha Amar (excerpt)
Mustapha Amar, born on July 1, 1896 in Fontenay-le-Comte (birth time and date source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on November 29, 1980 in Nice, was a French circus director and animal trainer, the younger animal trainer in the world. He was also the mayor of Aumont-en-Halatte (1947-1960).
Biography of Giorgio Perlasca (excerpt)
Giorgio Perlasca (Como 31 January 1910 (birth time source: Grazia Bordoni, birth certificate) – Padua 15 August 1992) was an Italian businessman who, with the collaboration of official diplomats, posed as the Spanish consul-general to Hungary in the winter of 1944, and saved 5218 Jews from deportation to Nazi Germany death camps in eastern Europe.
Biography of Northrop Frye (excerpt)
Herman Northrop Frye CC FRSC (July 14, 1912 – January 23, 1991) was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century. Frye gained international fame with his first book, Fearful Symmetry (1947), which led to the reinterpretation of the poetry of William Blake.
Biography of Reinhold Niebuhr (excerpt)
Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr (/ˈraɪnhoʊld ˈniːbʊər/; June 21, 1892 – June 1, 1971) was an American theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary for more than 30 years. Niebuhr was one of America's leading public intellectuals for several decades of the 20th century and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964.
Biography of Andrei Zhdanov (excerpt)
Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov (26 February 1896 – 31 August 1948) was a Soviet Communist Party leader and cultural ideologist. After World War II, Zhdanov was thought to be the successor-in-waiting to Joseph Stalin, but he died before Stalin. He has been described as the ‘propagandist-in-chief’ of the Soviet Union in the period 1945 to 1948.
Biography of Raymond Dubly (excerpt)
Raymond Dubly (5 November 1893 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 7 September 1988) was a French international footballer who played for France national football team at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics.
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 Lucette Destouches (excerpt)
Lucette Destouches, born Lucie Almansor on July 20, 1912 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 1208) and died on November 8, 2019 in Meudon (at age 107), is a French dancer and centenary. She was the second wife of Louis-Ferdinand Céline from 1943 until the writer's death in 1961.
Biography of Géo Koger (excerpt)
Géo Koger of his real name Georges Konyn, born in Paris 10th on July 31, 1894 (source for his time of birth: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died in Cannes on February 12, 1975 is a French lyricist. He is the father of Vline (Evelyne Konyn 1926-1962) and Vline Buggy (Liliane Konyn 1929), also lyricists.
Biography of Pierre Horay (excerpt)
Pierre Horay, born on February 1, 1910 in Beaugency (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died in 1978, was a French editor, the founder of Les Éditions Horay, now a part of Albin Michel group.
Biography of Väinö Myllyrinne (excerpt)
Väinö Myllyrinne (27 February 1909 in Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland – 13 April 1963 in Helsinki, Finland) was an acromegalic giant who was at one time (1940.–1963) the world's tallest living person, and may have become the tallest after the death of Robert Wadlow.
Biography of Magdeleine Goüin (excerpt)
Magdeleine Goüin, countess Bernard de Ganay (2 March 1901 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 450) – 30 June 1949) was a French racing driver and philanthropist. As a racing driver, Goüin won the Rallye Paris-Saint-Raphaël Féminin in 1930 at the wheel of a Renault Reinastella type RM, then she finished second the following year at the Rally Paris-Amsterdam behind Suzanne Deutsch de La Meurthe.
Biography of Hal Walker (excerpt)
Hal Walker (March 20, 1896 - July 3, 1972) was an American film director and assistant director. He was known for doing some of the earliest Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis films such as At War with the Army and Sailor Beware and some with the team of Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, directing Road to Utopia and Road to Bali.
Biography of Kurt Seligmann (excerpt)
Kurt Leopold Seligmann (July 20, 1900–January 2, 1962) was a Swiss-American Surrealist painter and engraver. He was known for his fantastic imagery of medieval troubadors and knights engaged in macabre rituals and inspired partially by the carnival held annually in his native Basel, Switzerland.
Biography of Archie Christie (excerpt)
Archibald Christie, CMG, DSO (30 September 1889 – 20 December 1962) was a British businessman and military officer. He was the first husband of mystery writer Dame Agatha Christie. They wed in 1914 and divorced in 1928. During that period Agatha wrote some of the most renowned detective novels.
Biography of Genica Athanasiou (excerpt)
Genica Athanasiou (3 January 1897, Bucharest – 13 July 1966, Lagny-sur-Marne) was a Romanian-French stage and film actress. Selected filmography Count Kostia (1925) Misdeal (1928) The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928) The Lighthouse Keepers (1929) Saint Joan the Maid (1929) Colomba (1933) The Count of Monte Cristo (1954) Bibliography John T.
Biography of André Guérin (journalist) (excerpt)
André Guérin, sometimes known as Drégérin, born on December 1, 1899 in Flers (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died on August 11, 1988, is a French journalist and writer. He is a political echeller before the Second World War in the Canard enchaîné.
Biography of Roger Bissière (excerpt)
Roger Bissière (22 September 1886 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 2 December 1964) was a French artist. He designed stained glass windows for Metz cathedral and several other churches. Bissière published articles in the magazine L'Esprit Nouveau about Seurat (No.
Biography of Josep Pla (excerpt)
Josep Pla i Casadevall (8 March 1897, Palafrugell, Girona - 23 April 1981, Llofriu, Girona) was a Catalan journalist and a popular author. As a journalist he worked in France, Italy, England, Germany and Russia, from where he wrote political and cultural chronicles in Catalan.
Biography of Marie-Louise d'Orléans (excerpt)
Marie Louise of Orléans (26 March 1662 – 12 February 1689) was Queen consort of Spain from 1679 to 1689 as the first wife of King Charles II of Spain. She was a granddaughter of Louis XIII of France. In her adopted country, she was known as María Luisa de Orleans. |
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