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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 Maude Bonney (excerpt)
Maude Rose "Lores" Bonney, AM, MBE (20 November 1897 – 24 February 1994) was a South African-born British aviator.She was the first woman to fly solo from Australia to the UK. In 1928 she met Bert Hinkler, Harry Barrington Bonney's first cousin once removed and a Queensland aviator who had set a solo England–Australia record in his Avro Avian biplane (now in the Queensland Museum, Brisbane).
Biography of Pyotr Pavlenko (excerpt)
Pyotr Andreyevich Pavlenko (Russian: Пётр Андре́евич Павле́нко), (born July 11, 1899, in St.Petersburg; died June 16, 1951, in Moscow), was a Soviet writer, screenwriter and war correspondent.He became a member of the CPSU in 1920. He was part of the Soviet trade delegation in Turkey from 1924 to 1927.
Biography of Wallace Carothers (excerpt)
Wallace Hume Carothers (/kəˈrʌðərz/; April 27, 1896 – April 29, 1937) was an American chemist, inventor and the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont, credited with the invention of nylon. Carothers was a group leader at the DuPont Experimental Station laboratory, near Wilmington, Delaware, where most polymer research was done.
Biography of Nikolay Cherkasov (excerpt)
Nikolay Konstantinovich Cherkasov (Russian: Никола́й Константи́нович Черка́сов; 27 July (O.S.14 July) 1903 – 14 September 1966) was a Soviet and Russian actor.People's Artist of the USSR (1947). Cherkasov was one of Stalin's favorite actors and played title roles in Sergei Eisenstein's monumental sound films Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Parts I & II of Ivan the Terrible (1945 & 1946; though Part II was not officially released until 1958 for political reasons).
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 Gustav Hertz (excerpt)
Gustav Ludwig Hertz (22 July 1887 – 30 October 1975) was a German experimental physicist and Nobel Prize winner for his work on inelastic electron collisions in gases.He was a nephew of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz and a cousin of Mathilde Carmen Hertz.
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 Henry Bernard (architect) (excerpt)
Henry Bernard (21 February 1912, Albertville, France – 10 December 1994) was a French architect and urban planner. Bernard received his diploma in architecture in 1938.That same year he won first prize in the Prix de Rome.Afterwards he worked as an architect in charge of civil buildings and national monuments, a position concerned with the renovation of historic buildings.
Biography of Grigory Zinoviev (excerpt)
Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev (September 23 1883 – August 25, 1936), born Hirsch Apfelbaum, known also under the name Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyslsky, was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet Communist politician. Zinoviev was one of the seven members of the first Politburo, founded in 1917 in order to manage the Bolshevik Revolution: Lenin, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Trotsky, Stalin, Sokolnikov and Bubnov.
Biography of Traicho Kostov (excerpt)
Traicho Kostov Djunev (Bulgarian: Трайчо Костов Джунев; 17 June 1897, Sofia – 16 December 1949) was a Bulgarian politician, former President of the Council of Ministers and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party. Traicho Kostov, at the age of 52, was sentenced to death by the Bulgarian Supreme Court.
Biography of Saadat Hasan Manto (excerpt)
Saadat Hasan Manto (11 May 1912 – 18 January 1955) was a writer, playwright and author born in Ludhiana active in British India and later, after the partition, in Pakistan. Writing mainly in the Urdu language, he produced 22 collections of short stories, a novel, five series of radio plays, three collections of essays and two collections of personal sketches.
Biography of Chiyo Miyako (excerpt)
Chiyo Miyako (都 千代, Miyako Chiyo.), Born May 2, 1901 in Wakayama, Japan and died July 22, 2018 in Yokohama (Japan) (age 117), is a Japanese supercentenary, dean of humanity in 2018 until her death on July 22 of the same year.
Biography of Marcelle de Jouvenel (excerpt)
Marcelle Georgette Fernande de Jouvenel des Ursins, born Prat, is a French writer and psi subject, born on April 12, 1896 in Neuilly-sur-Seine (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died on May 20, 1971 in the same town. She was the wife of Bertrand de Jouvenel, and the mother of Roland de Jouvenel (died May 2, 1946 at the age of 14, typhoid).
Biography of Lev Kamenev (excerpt)
Lev Borisovich Kamenev (born Leo Rosenfeld or Lev Borisovich Rozenfeld; 18 July 1883 – 25 August 1936) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet politician. He was one of the seven members of the first Politburo, founded in 1917 to manage the Bolshevik Revolution: Lenin, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Trotsky, Stalin, Sokolnikov and Bubnov.
Biography of Jacques Draeger (excerpt)
Jacques Draeger, born on October 18, 1903 in Montrouge (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on March 12, 2002 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French editor.
Biography of Yevgeny Samoylov (excerpt)
Yevgeny Valerianovich Samoilov (Russian: Евгений Валерианович Самойлов) (16 April 1912 in St. Petersburg – 17 February 2006 in Moscow) was a Soviet actor who gained prominence in youthful heroic parts and was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1974. He was the father of Tatiana Samoilova.
Biography of Simone Levaillant (excerpt)
Simone Levaillant, born Adèle Simonne Levaillant on November 19, 1904 in Saint-Étienne (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate), died in deportation on March 30, 1943 in Lublin Maïdaneck (Poland), was a feminist and resistant militant. She had been the first woman lawyer to join the Bar of Saint-Etienne.
Biography of Jacques Brunius (excerpt)
Jacques B. Brunius, French actor, director and writer, was born Jacques Henri Cottance in Paris 17e on September 16, 1906 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), and died in Exeter, Devon (UK), on April 24, 1967. He was cremated in Sidmouth, with a tribute by Mesens.
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 Jacques Pills (excerpt)
Jacques Pills (born René Jacques Ducos; 7 January 1906, Tulle, France – 12 September 1970) was a French singer and actor.His impresario was Bruno Coquatrix.In 1959, Pills was the Monegasque entrant at the Eurovision Song Contest 1959 with the song "Mon ami Pierrot".
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 Howard Hill (excerpt)
Howard Hill (born Lemuel Howard Hill and later cited Howard H.Hill; November 13, 1899 – February 4, 1975) was an expert bowman who for over two decades, from the early 1930s into the 1950s, was often introduced or billed as "The World's Greatest Archer".
Biography of Park Kyung-won (excerpt)
Park Kyung-won (24 June 1901 – 7 August 1933) was, along with Kwon Ki-ok of the Republic of China Air Force, one of the earliest Korean female aviators.Though it is generally agreed that Kwon was the first female pilot, Park is still recognised as the first Korean female civilian pilot, as Kwon was trained by the Republic of China Air Force.
Biography of Carl Einstein (excerpt)
Carl Einstein (26 April 1885 – 5 July 1940), born Karl Einstein, was an influential German Jewish writer, art historian, anarchist and critic. Regarded as one of the first critics to appreciate the development of Cubism, as well as for his work on African art and influence on the European avant-garde, Einstein was a friend and colleague of such figures as George Grosz, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso and Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler.
Biography of Émilie Schindler (excerpt)
Emilie Schindler (née Pelzl; 22 October 1907 – 5 October 2001) was a Sudeten German-born woman who, with her husband Oskar Schindler, helped to save the lives of 1,200 Jews during World War II by employing them in his enamelware and munitions factories, providing them immunity from the Nazis.
Biography of Edmond Jouhaud (excerpt)
Edmond Jouhaud (2 April 1905 – 4 September 1995) was one of four French generals who briefly staged a putsch in Algeria in April 1961. As Army General he had been the Inspector General of the Air Force in French North Africa.
Biography of Johnny Mercer (excerpt)
John Herndon Mercer (November 18, 1909 – June 25, 1976) was an American lyricist, songwriter, and singer.He was also a record label executive who co-founded Capitol Records with music industry businessman Buddy DeSylva and Glenn E.Wallichs. He is best known as a Tin Pan Alley lyricist, but he also composed music.
Biography of Mehmet Shehu (excerpt)
Mehmet Ismail Shehu (January 10, 1913 – December 18, 1981) was an Albanian communist politician who served as the 23rd Prime Minister of Albania from 1954 to 1981.As an acknowledged military tactician, without whose leadership the communist partisans may well have failed in their battle to win Albania for the Marxist cause, Shehu exhibited an ideological understanding and work ethic that singled him out for rapid promotion in the communist party.
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 Yakov Sverdlov (excerpt)
Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov (Russian: Яков Михайлович Свердлов; 3 June 1885 – 16 March 1919) known by pseudonyms "Andrei", "Mikhalych", "Max", "Smirnov", "Permyakov"; was a Bolshevik party administrator and chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee. A number of sources claim that Sverdlov played a major role in the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family on 17 July 1918.
Biography of Witold Gombrowicz (excerpt)
Witold Marian Gombrowicz (August 4, 1904 – July 24, 1969) was a Polish writer and playwright.His works are characterised by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and absurd, anti-nationalist flavor.In 1937 he published his first novel, Ferdydurke, which presented many of his usual themes: problems of immaturity and youth, creation of identity in interactions with others, and an ironic, critical examination of class roles in Polish society and culture.
Biography of Aleksandr Tvardovsky (excerpt)
Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovsky (21 June (O.S. 8 June) 1910 – 18 December 1971) was a Soviet poet and writer and chief editor of Novy Mir literary magazine from 1950 to 1954 and 1958 to 1970. His name has also been rendered in English as Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovski, Aleksandr Tvardovski, and Alexander Tvardovsky (though "Aleksandr Tvardovsky" is by far the most common spelling).
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 Colomer (excerpt)
André Colomer (4 December 1886 in Cerbère (Pyrénées-Orientales – 7 October 1931 in Moskow) was a French poet and anarchist. Publications Roland Malmos (roman). le Réfractaire (drame en trois actes). À nous deux, Patrie ! (mémoires), paru en feuilleton dans L’Action d’art en 1919-1920, édité en brochure en 1925.
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 Valeska Gert (excerpt)
Valeska Gert (11 January 1892 – c. 16 March 1978) was a German dancer, pantomime, cabaret artist and actress. She was a pioneering performance artist who is said to have laid the foundations and paved the way for the punk movement.
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." After 1922 he devoted himself to traveling and writing, and his later work, both verse (the collection Ten' druga, or The Shadow of a Friend, 1936) and prose (many adventure stories and the novel Voina, or War, 1931) reflects his delight in what he found in his travels, particularly in Georgia.
Biography of John Crowe Ransom (excerpt)
John Crowe Ransom (April 30, 1888 – July 3, 1974) was an American educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, essayist and editor.He is considered to be a founder of the New Criticism school of literary criticism.As a faculty member at Kenyon College, he was the first editor of the widely regarded Kenyon Review.
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 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 Benjamin Fondane (excerpt)
Benjamin Fondane (French pronunciation: ) or Benjamin Fundoianu (Romanian pronunciation: ; born Benjamin Wechsler, Wexler or Vecsler, first name also Beniamin or Barbu, usually abridged to B.; November 14, 1898 – October 2, 1944) was a Romanian and French poet, critic and existentialist philosopher, also noted for his work in film and theater.
Biography of Sébastienne Guyot (excerpt)
Sébastienne Guyot (26 April 1896 – 21 August 1941) was a French engineer who specialized in aerodynamic flying.She was born in Pont l'Abbé in the Finistère. A teacher, Guyot resigned in 1917 to prepare for the competition of the Ecole Centrale of the Paris Lycée Jules-Ferry when she learned that the school would accept girls into its ranks.
Biography of Max Deutsch (excerpt)
Max Deutsch (17 November 1892 – 22 November 1982) was an Austrian-French composer, conductor, and academic teacher.He studied with Arnold Schönberg and was his assistant.Teaching at the Sorbonne and the École Normale de Musique de Paris, he influenced notable students such as Philippe Capdenat, Donald Harris, György Kurtág and Philippe Manoury.
Biography of Mikhail Isakovsky (excerpt)
Mikhail Vasil'evich Isakovsky (Russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Исако́вский) (19 January (O.S. 7 January) 1900 – 20 July 1973) was a Russian poet. A communist from an early age, he wrote many poems and songs in praise of the Soviet Union, but his most famous song is doubtless the rather apolitical Katyusha.
Biography of William Empson (excerpt)
Sir William Empson (27 September 1906 – 15 April 1984) was an English literary critic and poet, widely influential for his practice of closely reading literary works, a practice fundamental to New Criticism. His best-known work is his first, Seven Types of Ambiguity, published in 1930.
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. He is most widely known as the author of a trilogy about Lenin, the first time Lenin was used as a character in any theatrical works.
Biography of Robert Blémant (excerpt)
Robert Léon Arthur Blémant, known as Monsieur Robert, born on Februray 13, 1911 in Valenciennes (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on May 15, 1965 in Salon-de-Provence (killed by Antoine Guérini), was a French policeman.
Biography of Mildred Harnack (excerpt)
Mildred Elizabeth Fish-Harnack (née Fish; 16 September 1902 – 16 February 1943) was an American-German literary historian, translator, and German Resistance fighter in Nazi Germany. Together with her husband Arvid, the writer Adam Kuckhoff and his wife Greta, Fish-Harnack brought together a discussion circle which debated political perspectives on the time after the National Socialists' expected downfall or overthrow.
Biography of Erno Gero (excerpt)
Ernő Gerő (born Ernő Singer; 8 July 1898 – 12 March 1980) was a Hungarian Communist Party leader in the period after World War II and briefly in 1956 the most powerful man in Hungary as the second secretary of its ruling communist party. |
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