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Biography of Lela Karagianni (excerpt)
Eleni "Lela" Karagianni also written Karayanni (24 June 1898 (6 July Gregorian calendar) - 8 September 1944) was a Greek resistance leader during World War II. The wife of an Attican pharmacist and the mother of seven children, Karagianni worked to coordinate Greek resistance cells and their activities against the occupying Axis forces.
Biography of María Moliner (excerpt)
María Moliner (30 March 1900 – 22 January 1981) was a Spanish librarian and lexicographer. She is perhaps best known for her Diccionario de uso del español, first published in 1966–1967, when she completed the work started in 1952. She married Fernando Ramón Ferrando, a physics graduate, in 1925 and had four children.
Biography of Roland Moisan (excerpt)
Roland Henri Honoré Moisan, said Moisan, born in Reims on November 26, 1907 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died in Paris on February 28, 1987, is a French cartoonist and journalist. He entered the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris in 1927.
Biography of Mikhail Gurevich (excerpt)
Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich (12 January 1893 (O.S. 31 December 1892) – 12 November 1976) was a Soviet aircraft designer who co-founded the Mikoyan-Gurevich military aviation bureau along with Artem Mikoyan. The bureau is famous for its fighter aircraft, rapid interceptors and multi-role combat aircraft which were staples of the Soviet Air Forces throughout the Cold War.
Biography of Ilya Starinov (excerpt)
Colonel Ilya Grigoryevich Starinov 2 August (O.S. 20 July) 1900, village of Voynovo, today's Oryol Oblast – 18 November 2000) was a Soviet military officer. Starinov joined the Red Army in 1918 and participated in the Russian Civil War. In 1921 he attended a military college for railway troops and served with the Soviet railway troops in the 1920s.
Biography of V. Volodarsky (excerpt)
V. Volodarsky (Russian: В. Володарский; December 11, 1891 (December 23, Gregorian calendar) – June 20, 1918) was a Marxist revolutionary and early Soviet politician. He was assassinated in 1918. Volodarsky was assassinated on June 20, 1918 by Grigory Ivanovich Semyonov, a member of the Central Battle Unit of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, during labor unrest at the Obukhov Works in Petrograd.
Biography of Rafael Israelyan (excerpt)
Rafael Israelyan, born September 17 (September 4 of the Julian calendar) 1908 in Tbilisi then in the Russian Empire and died September 8, 1973 in Yerevan, is an Armenian architect, author of numerous monuments and memorials around the world, including some made post-mortem.
Biography of Wanda Wasilewska (excerpt)
Wanda Wasilewska, also known by Russian name Vanda Lvovna Vasilevskaya (21 January 1905 – 29 July 1964), was a Polish and Ukrainian Soviet novelist and journalist and a left-wing political activist who became a devoted communist. She fled the German attack on Warsaw in September 1939 and took up residence in Soviet-occupied Lviv and eventually in the Soviet Union.
Biography of Hanna Reitsch (excerpt)
Hanna Reitsch (29 March 1912 – 24 August 1979) was a German aviator and test pilot. During the Nazi era, she worked enthusiastically and extensively for the Nazis and was awarded many Nazi-honours. She and Melitta von Stauffenberg flight tested many of the regime's new aircraft.
Biography of Lewis Strauss (excerpt)
Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss (January 31, 1896 – January 21, 1974) was an American businessman, philanthropist, and naval officer who served two terms on the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), the second as its chairman. He was a major figure in the development of nuclear weapons, the nuclear energy policy of the United States, and nuclear power in the United States.
Biography of Alexander Orlov (excerpt)
Alexander Mikhailovich Orlov (Russian: Александр Михайлович Орлов) (born Leiba Lazarevich Feldbin; 21 August 1895 – 25 March 1973), was a Colonel in the Soviet secret police and NKVD Rezident in the Second Spanish Republic. In 1938, Orlov refused to return to the Soviet Union because he realized that he would be executed, and instead fled with his family to the United States.
Biography of Kwon Ki-ok (excerpt)
Kwon Ki-ok (11 January 1901 – 19 April 1988), or Quan Jiyu in Chinese, was the first Korean female aviator, as well as one of the first female pilots in China. She went in exile in China during the Japanese occupation of Korea, and became a lieutenant colonel in the Republic of China Air Force.
Biography of Roza Papo (excerpt)
Roza Papo (6 February 1914 – 25 February 1984) was a Bosnian Jewish physician and general of the Yugoslav People's Army. She was the first woman to rise to the rank of general on the Balkan Peninsula. War service Following the invasion of Yugoslavia by Nazi Germany in 1941, Papo made contact with the Yugoslav Partisans on Ozren and started aiding them.
Biography of Julien Lahaut (excerpt)
Julien Lahaut (6 September 1884 – 18 August 1950) was a Belgian politician and communist. He became leader of the Communist Party of Belgium after the First World War. A dissident during the German occupation of 1940–44, he became a vocal advocate for the abolition of the Belgian monarchy during the post-war "Royal Question".
Biography of Maurice Nédoncelle (excerpt)
Maurice Nédoncelle, born October 30, 1905 in Roubaix (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died November 27, 1976 in Strasbourg, is a French priest and philosopher. Author of books on John Henry Newman and Friedrich von Hügel, he then decides to develop a philosophy of the person who founds true existence in freedom.
Biography of Bert Acosta (excerpt)
Bertrand Blanchard Acosta (January 1, 1895 – September 1, 1954) was a record-setting aviator. He and Clarence D. Chamberlin set an endurance record of 51 hours, 11 minutes, and 25 seconds in the air. He later flew in the Spanish Civil War in the Yankee Squadron.
Biography of Anton Ackermann (excerpt)
Anton Ackermann (real name: Eugen Hanisch, 25 November 1905 Thalheim, Saxony – 4 May 1973 East Berlin) was an East German politician. In 1953, he briefly served as Minister of Foreign Affairs. From 1949 to 1953, he was the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Biography of Natalia Paley (excerpt)
Princess Natalia Pavlovna Paley (Russian: Наталья Павловна Палей; 5 December 1905 – 27 December 1981) was a Russian aristocrat who was a non-dynastic member of the Romanov family. A daughter of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia, she was a first cousin of the last Russian emperor, Nicholas II.
Biography of Maurice Holtzer (excerpt)
Maurice Holtzer is a French boxer born in Troyes on January 21, 1906 (source for his time and date of birth: Didier Geslain, birth certificate No. 67) and died in January 1960. He was particularly champion of France and Europe in the featherweight category in 1936.
Biography of Anita Berber (excerpt)
Anita Berber (10 June 1899 – 10 November 1928) was a German dancer, model, and actress who was the subject of an Otto Dix painting. She lived during the time of the Weimar Republic. Berber's dances – which had names such as "Cocaine" and "Morphium" – broke boundaries with their androgyny and total nudity, but it was her public appearances that really challenged social taboos.
Biography of Aleksandra Artyukhina (excerpt)
Alexandra Vasilevna Artyukhina (6 November 1889 – 7 April 1969) was an early Russian Bolshevist and revolutionary who rose to sit on the Secretariat of the CPSU Central Committee, but was brought down by Joseph Stalin's purges in the late 1930s.
Biography of Vera Mukhina (excerpt)
Vera Ignatyevna Mukhina (1 July (O.S. 19 June) 1889 – 6 October 1953) was a prominent Soviet sculptor and painter. She was nicknamed "the queen of Soviet sculpture". In the 1920s Mukhina rose to become one of the Soviet Union's most prominent sculptors, and although she continued to produce Cubist sculpture as late as 1922, she became a leading figure of Socialist realism, both in style and ideology.
Biography of Boris Lavrenyov (excerpt)
Boris Andreyevich Lavrenyov (real name Sergeyev), born July 4 (July 16 Gregorian calendar), 1891 in Kherson, died January 7, 1959 in Moscow, was a Soviet Russian writer and playwright. Lavrenyov was born to the family of a literature teacher. He got his education at the Law department of the Moscow University.
Biography of Karl Korsch (excerpt)
Karl Korsch (August 15, 1886 – October 21, 1961) was a German Marxist theoretician. Along with György Lukács, Korsch is considered to be one of the major figures responsible for laying the groundwork for Western Marxism in the 1920s. Having been active in leftwing politics in Germany from 1917–1933, he left on 27 February 1933, the night of the Reichstag fire.
Biography of Pham Van Dong (excerpt)
Phạm Văn Đồng (1 March 1906 – 29 April 2000) was a Vietnamese politician who served as Prime Minister of North Vietnam from 1955 to 1976 and, following unification, as Prime Minister of Vietnam from 1976 until he retired in 1987 under the rule of Lê Duẩn and Nguyễn Văn Linh.
Biography of Étienne Piquiral (excerpt)
Étienne Piquiral (June 15, 1901 – March 13, 1945) was a French rugby union player who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born in Perpignan and died in a prisoner-of-war camp during World War II. In 1924 he won the silver medal as member of the French team.
Biography of Willem Drees (excerpt)
Willem Drees Sr. (5 July 1886 – 14 May 1988) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and later co-founder of the Labour Party (PvdA) and historian who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 7 August 1948 until 22 December 1958.
Biography of Émile Cottin (excerpt)
Louis Émile Cottin (March 14, 1896 – October 8, 1936, nicknamed "Milou") was a French militant anarchist who is best known for the attempted assassination of Georges Clemenceau. On 19 February 1919, Cottin fired on then Prime Minister of France Georges Clemenceau several times as he was leaving his house on rue Franklin in Paris to attend a meeting with Edward M.
Biography of Ashok Kumar (excerpt)
Kumudlal Ganguly (13 October 1911 – 10 December 2001), better known by his stage name Ashok Kumar and also fondly called Dadamoni, was an Indian film actor who attained iconic status in Indian cinema and who was a member of the cinematic Ganguly family.
Biography of Nikolai Ouglanov (excerpt)
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Uglanov (December 17, 1886 (December 5 Julian Calendar) – May 31, 1937) was a Russian Bolshevik politician who played an important role in the government of the Soviet Union as a Communist Party leader in the city of Moscow during the 1920s.
Biography of André Hornez (excerpt)
André Hornez (12 May 1905 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 9 March 1989) was a French lyricist and screenwriter. Lyricist of Paul Misraki in the years 1930-1940 for which he writes many songs lyrics like Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux .
Biography of Concha Piquer (excerpt)
María de la Concepción Piquer López (8 December 1908 – 12 December 1990) better known as Concha Piquer (and sometimes billed as Conchita Piquer) was a Spanish singer and actress. She was known for her work in the copla form, and she performed her own interpretations of some of the key pieces in the Spanish song tradition, mostly works of the mid-20th century trio of composers Quintero, León y Quiroga.
Biography of Ilse Dörffeldt (excerpt)
Ilse Dörffeldt (23 March 1912 – 14 September 1992) was a German sprinter who competed at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Her 4 × 100 m team set a world record in the semifinals and led the final until a missed exchange in the final leg.
Biography of Jean Lenoir (composer) (excerpt)
Jean Lenoir pseudonym for Jean Bernard Daniel Neuberger (26 February 1891 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 19 January 1976) was a French songwriter, whose work included chansons and romantic light film songs. Lenoir was born in Paris. His most famous song, for which he wrote both melody and lyrics, was Parlez-moi d'amour (1930).
Biography of Randolph Stone (excerpt)
Randolph Stone (February 26, 1890 – December 9, 1981) was the founder of polarity therapy, a complementary technique of holistic, spiritually based energy healing. He held doctorates in osteopathy, chiropractic, and naturopathy. He had an interest in philosophy and religions, and encountered Ayurvedic philosophy on a trip to India.
Biography of Isaak Dunayevsky (excerpt)
Isaak Osipovich Dunayevsky (also transliterated as Dunaevski or Dunaevsky; 30 January (O.S. 18 January) 1900 – 25 July 1955) was a Soviet film composer and conductor of the 1930s and 1940s, who achieved huge success in music for operetta and film comedies, frequently working with the film director Grigori Aleksandrov.
Biography of Estrellita Castro (excerpt)
Estrella Castro Navarrete known professionally as Estrellita Castro (26 June 1908 in Seville – 10 July 1983 in Madrid) was a Spanish singer and actress. Her success in Spain attracted the attention of many businessmen and managers who contracted Estrellita. This enabled her to launch her career on an international level as she was successful in the main European cities and some Latin-American countries, where she became a popular idol.
Biography of Günther Krupkat (excerpt)
Günther Krupkat (5 July 1905, Berlin – 14 April 1990, Berlin) was a German fiction writer, known as one of the leading science fiction writers of East Germany. He wrote his first novel, Od, at age 19, having been inspired by Soviet writer Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's 1923 novel Aelita.
Biography of Nikolai Pogodin (excerpt)
Nikolai Fyodorovich Pogodin (pseudonym of Nikolai F. Stukalov) (16 November (O.S. 3 November) 1900 - 19 September 1962) was a Soviet playwright. His plays were recognized in Soviet Union theater for their realistic portrayals of common life combined with socialist and communist themes.
Biography of Erwin Geschonneck (excerpt)
Erwin Geschonneck (27 December 1906 – 12 March 2008) was a German actor. His biggest success occurred in the German Democratic Republic, where he was considered one of the most famous actors of the time. Immediately following the war, Geschonneck acted in theaters in Hamburg, Germany, and made his film debut in 1947 in In jenen Tagen.
Biography of Carmen Conde (excerpt)
Carmen Conde Abellán (15 August 1907 in Cartagena – 8 January 1996 in Madrid) was a Spanish poet, narrative writer and teacher. In 1931 she founded the first Popular University of Cartagena, along with her husband Antonio Oliver Belmás. She was also the first woman to become an academic numerary of the Real Academia Española, where she delivered her induction speech in 1979.
Biography of Artem Mikoyan (excerpt)
Artem (Artyom) Ivanovich Mikoyan (5 August (O.S. 23 July) 1905 – 9 December 1970) was a Soviet Armenian aircraft designer, who cofounded the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau along with Mikhail Gurevich. Honours and awards Some of his awards and honours include: Twice Hero of Socialist Labour
Biography of Andrey Andreyev (excerpt)
Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev (30 October 1895 – 5 December 1971) was a Soviet Communist politician who rose to power during the rule of Joseph Stalin, joining the Politburo as a candidate member in 1926 and as a full member in 1932.
Biography of Grigori Aleksandrov (excerpt)
Grigori Vasilyevich Aleksandrov or Alexandrov (23 January 1903 – 16 December 1983) was a prominent Soviet film director and screenwriter who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1947 and a Hero of Socialist Labor in 1973. He was awarded the Stalin Prizes for 1941 and 1950.
Biography of Jean Gilles (French Army officer) (excerpt)
Jean Marcellin Joseph Calixte Gilles (14 October 1904 – 10 August 1961) was a French Army General. He was born in Perpignan, France on 14 October 1904. His father, Joseph Gilles, was killed in the First World War. Gilles took part in the capture of Elba in June 1944 and then landed in Provence and with 1re armée française (1st French Army), participated in the liberation of southern and eastern France and the 1945 campaign into Germany.
Biography of Leonid Kantorovich (excerpt)
Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich (19 January 1912 – 7 April 1986) was a Soviet mathematician and economist, known for his theory and development of techniques for the optimal allocation of resources. He is regarded as the founder of linear programming. He was the winner of the Stalin Prize in 1949 and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1975.
Biography of Nikolai Tikhonov (writer) (excerpt)
Nikolai Semenovich Tikhonov (Russian: Никола́й Семёнович Ти́хонов; 4 December (O.S. 22 November) 1896 – 8 February 1979) was a Soviet writer and member of the Serapion Brothers literary group. He began writing poetry early; his first collection, Orda (The Horde, 1922), "shows startling maturity" and "contains most of the few short poems which have made him famous.
Biography of Natalia Dudinskaya (excerpt)
Natalia Mikhailovna Dudinskaya (21 August (O.S. 8 August) 1912, in Kharkiv – 29 January 2003, in Saint Petersburg) was a Russian prima ballerina who dominated the Kirov Ballet from the 1930s through the 1950s. Dudinskaya's mother was Natalia Tagliori, a ballerina who had been coached by Enrico Cecchetti.
Biography of Lev Mekhlis (excerpt)
Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis (January 13, 1889 (gregrorian calendar) – February 13, 1953) was a Soviet politician and high commander of the Red Army from 1937 to 1940. He was one of the main Stavka representatives during World War II who was responsible for five to seven Soviet fronts.
Biography of Josep Maria Corredor i Pomés (excerpt)
Josep Maria Corredor ( 3 June 1912 – 29 September 1981 (suicide)) was a Catalan writer, translator, teacher and cultural activist. When the Second World War ended he settled in the French Catalan city of Perpignan where he was married, had a daughter and started a prolific career as a cultural activist. |
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