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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 Kurt Maetzig (excerpt)
Kurt Maetzig (25 January 1911 – 8 August 2012) was a German film director and screenwriter who had a significant effect on the film industry in East Germany. He was one of the most respected filmmakers of the GDR. After his retirement he lived in Wildkuhl, Mecklenburg, and had three children.
Biography of Hyacinthe Rigaud (excerpt)
Jacint Rigau-Ros i Serra (18 July 1659 – 29 December 1743), known as Hyacinthe Rigaud, was a French baroque painter most famous for his portraits of Louis XIV and other members of the French nobility. Since Rigaud's paintings captured very exact likenesses along with the subject's costumes and background details, his paintings are considered precise records of contemporary fashions.
Biography of Federica Montseny (excerpt)
Federica Montseny Mañé (12 February 1905 – 14 January 1994) was a Spanish anarchist, intellectual and Minister of Health during the Spanish Revolution of 1936, a social revolution that occurred in Spain in parallel to the Spanish Civil War. She is known as a novelist and essayist and for being one of the first female ministers in Western Europe.
Biography of Mihail Sebastian (excerpt)
Mihail Sebastian (born Iosif Mendel Hechter; October 18, 1907 – May 29, 1945) was a Romanian playwright, essayist, journalist and novelist. Sebastian became known in Romanian literature mainly for his plays, such as Steaua fără nume ("The Star Without a Name"), Jocul de-a vacanţa ("Holiday Games"), and Ultima oră ("Breaking News").
Biography of Marga von Etzdorf (excerpt)
Margarete (Marga) von Etzdorf (1 August 1907 - 28 May 1933 (suicide, age 25) was a German aircraft pilot, notable for being the first woman hired to fly for an airline, and the first woman to fly solo across Siberia, from Germany to Tokyo, Japan.
Biography of Georgy Oppokov (excerpt)
Georgy Ippolitovich Oppokov (also known as Afanasi Lomov) (1888–1938) was a prominent Bolshevik, he was a Left Communist and subsequently a member of the Left Opposition and People's Commissar for Justice. Oppokov was a Bolshevik candidate in the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election, being fielded in the Arkhangelsk constituency.
Biography of Randolfo Pacciardi (excerpt)
Randolfo Pacciardi (1 January 1899 – 14 April 1991) was an Italian politician and journalist, a member of the Italian Republican Party (PRI). He was also an officer who fought during World War I and in the Spanish Civil War. Pacciardi's line of collaboration with the other left parties led to the entrance of PRI in the first Republic government cabinets of Italy (1947).
Biography of Rostislav Plyatt (excerpt)
Rostislav Yanovich Plyatt (Russian: Ростислав Янович Плятт; 13 December (O.S. 30 November) 1908 — 30 June 1989) was a Soviet theatre, film and radio actor. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1961 and awarded the USSR State Prize in 1982.
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 Lyubov Orlova (excerpt)
Lyubov Petrovna Orlova (Russian: Любо́вь Петро́вна Орло́ва; 11 February (O.S. 29 January) 1902, Zvenigorod – 26 January 1975, Moscow) was the first recognized star of Soviet cinema, a famous theatre actress, and a gifted singer. When she was seven, Fyodor Shalyapin predicted her future as a famous actress.
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 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 Aleksandr Voronsky (excerpt)
Aleksandr Konstantinovich Voronsky (Russian: Алекса́ндр Константи́нович Воро́нский) (8 September 1884 – 13 August 1937) was a prominent humanist Marxist critic and editor of the 1920s, disfavored and purged in 1937 for his work with the Left Opposition and Leon Trotsky during and after the October Revolution.
Biography of Alexandre Tansman (excerpt)
Alexandre Tansman (Polish: Aleksander Tansman; 11 June 1897 – 15 November 1986) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of Jewish origin. He spent his early years in his native Poland, but lived in France for most of his life, being granted French citizenship in 1938.
Biography of Johan van Hulst (excerpt)
Johan Willem van Hulst (28 January 1911 – 22 March 2018) was a Dutch school director, university professor, author and politician. In 1943, with the help of the Dutch resistance and students of the nearby University of Amsterdam, he was instrumental in saving over 600 Jewish children from the nursery of the Hollandsche Schouwburg who were destined for deportation to Nazi concentration camps.
Biography of Jun'ichiro Tanizaki (excerpt)
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (谷崎 潤一郎, Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, 24 July 1886 – 30 July 1965) was a Japanese author who is considered to be one of the most prominent figures in modern Japanese literature. The tone and subject matter of his work ranges from shocking depictions of sexuality and destructive erotic obsessions to subtle portrayals of the dynamics of family life within the context of the rapid changes in 20th-century Japanese society.
Biography of Jean Hyppolite (excerpt)
Jean Hyppolite (January 8, 1907 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – October 26, 1968) was a French philosopher known for championing the work of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and other German philosophers, and educating some of France's most prominent post-war thinkers.
Biography of Mikhail Frunze (excerpt)
Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze (2 February 1885 (grégorian calendar) – 31 October 1925) was a Bolshevik leader during and just prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917. Frunze was born in what is now modern day Kyrgyzstan, and rose to the rank of a major Red Army commander in the Russian Civil War.
Biography of Aleksandr Aleksandrov (excerpt)
Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov (August 4, 1912 – July 27, 1999), was a Soviet/Russian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and mountaineer. Awards Partial list of the awards, medals, and prizes of Aleksandrov: Stalin Prize (1942) Lobachevsky International Prize (1951) Euler Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1992)
Biography of Grove (cartoonist) (excerpt)
William Nolgrove, known as William Napoléon Grove or simply Grove, born July 5, 1901 in Paris 6e (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) , died in 1975 in Cannes, is a French cartoonist, known for his long collaboration with Le Canard enchaîné.
Biography of Léa Roback (excerpt)
Léa Roback (3 November 1903 – 28 August 2000) was a Canadian trade union organizer, social activist, pacifist, and feminist. She campaigned against exclusion, violence, racism and injustice. A polyglot and a suffragist, she was a pioneer of feminism in Quebec.
Biography of Ilya Ehrenburg (excerpt)
Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg (26 January (O.S. 14 January) 1891 – 31 August 1967) was a Soviet writer, Bolshevik revolutionary, journalist and historian. Ehrenburg is among the most prolific and notable authors of the Soviet Union; he published around one hundred titles. He became known first and foremost as a novelist and a journalist – in particular, as a reporter in three wars (First World War, Spanish Civil War and the Second World War).
Biography of Mikhail Koltsov (excerpt)
Mikhail Efimovich Koltsov (June 12 (O.S. May 31) 1898 – February 2, 1940), born Moisey Haimovich Fridlyand (Russian: Моисей Хаимович Фридлянд), was a Soviet Journalist, Bolshevik Revolutionary and a NKVD Agent. On 19 December 1937, Mikhail Koltsov published an article criticizing some aspects of the purges.
Biography of Tony Aubin (excerpt)
Tony Louis Alexandre Aubin (born 8 December 1907, Paris – died 21 September 1981, Paris) was a French composer. From 1925-30, Aubin studied at the Paris Conservatory under Samuel Rousseau (music theory), Noel Gallon (counterpoint), Philippe Gaubert (orchestration and composition), and Paul Dukas (composition).
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 Aleksei Kapler (excerpt)
Aleksei (born Lazar) Yakovlevich Kapler (also Alexei, (28 September (15 September O.S.) 1903 ), Kiev – 11 September 1979) was a prominent Soviet filmmaker, screenwriter, actor and writer. He was known as screenwriter of many Soviet movies, such as Lenin in 1918, Amphibian Man, The Blue Bird and Striped Trip, as well as one of the anchors and directors of TV program Kinopanorama (a cinema overview).
Biography of Alejandra Soler (excerpt)
Alejandra Soler Gilabert (July 8, 1913 – March 1, 2017) was a Spanish politician and schoolteacher. She also worked for the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. She took part in the revolts against Miguel Primo de Rivera's dictature and in 1934, she became a member of the communist party.
Biography of Stephen Spender (excerpt)
Sir Stephen Harold Spender CBE (28 February 1909 – 16 July 1995) was an English poet, novelist, and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the United States Library of Congress in 1965.
Biography of Violet Brown (excerpt)
Violet Brown (née Mosse; 10 March 1900 – 15 September 2017) was a Jamaican supercentenarian who was the oldest verified living person in the world for five months, following the death of Emma Morano on 15 April 2017 until her own death at the age of 117 years, 189 days on 15 September 2017.
Biography of Ivan Pyryev (excerpt)
Ivan Aleksandrovich Pyryev (sometimes Ivan Pyrev) (17 November (O.S. 4 November) 1901 – 7 February 1968) was a Soviet-Russian film director and screenwriter remembered as the high priest of Stalinist cinema. He was awarded six Stalin Prizes (1941, 1942, 1946, 1946, 1948, 1951), served as Director of the Mosfilm studios (1954–57) and was, for a time, the most influential man in the Soviet motion picture industry.
Biography of Felix de Weldon (excerpt)
Felix Weihs de Weldon (April 12, 1907 – June 3, 2003) was an Austrian-born American sculptor. His most famous pieces include the United States Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima Memorial, 1954) in Arlington County, Virginia and the Malaysian National Monument (1966) in Kuala Lumpur.
Biography of Ilya Kopalin (excerpt)
Ilya Petrovich Kopalin (1900-1976) was a Russian film director remembered for his documentaries. His most famous footage is that of Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt at the Yalta Conference and that of Yuri Gargarin's space flight. He was born the son of a peasant on 2 August 1900 in the village of Pavlovskaya, Zvenigorod on the outskirts of Moscow.
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 Yvor Winters (excerpt)
Arthur Yvor Winters (17 October 1900 in Chicago, Illinois – 25 January 1968) was an American poet and literary critic. In 1926, Winters married the poet and novelist Janet Lewis, also from Chicago and a fellow tuberculosis sufferer. After leaving Colorado he taught at the University of Idaho and then began the doctoral program at Stanford University.
Biography of Praxille Gydé (excerpt)
Praxille Gydé (born 5 September 1907 in Roubaix (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 2048. Wikipedia gives 1908)) was a French boxer, who was European flyweight champion between November 1932 and June 1935. After making his professional debut in March 1924, he won the vacant European flyweight title in November 1932, stopping Willi Metzner in the eighth round.
Biography of Jeanne Hersch (excerpt)
Jeanne Hersch (Geneva, 13 July 1910 – Geneva, 5 June 2000) was a Swiss philosopher of Polish-Jewish origin, whose works dealt with the concept of freedom. She studied under the existentialist Karl Jaspers in Germany in the early 1930s. In 1956, she was appointed to a professorship at the University of Geneva, one of the first women to hold such a post at a Swiss university, holding the post until 1977.
Biography of Yakov Zeldovich (excerpt)
Yakov Borisovich Zeldovich ForMemRS (Belarusian: Я́каў Бары́савіч Зяльдо́віч, Russian: Я́ков Бори́сович Зельдо́вич; 8 March 1914 – 2 December 1987), also known as YaB, was a Soviet physicist, who is known for his prolific contributions in cosmology and the physics of thermonuclear and hydrodynamical phenomena.
Biography of Malcolm Renfrew (excerpt)
Malcolm MacKenzie Renfrew (October 12, 1910 – October 12, 2013) was an American polymer chemist, inventor, and professor emeritus at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho. Renfrew Hall, the university's chemistry building, was named for him in 1985. Renfrew is noted for his contribution to the development of Teflon, including the first paper on the subject.
Biography of Victoria Kent (excerpt)
Victoria Kent Siano (March 6, 1892 – September 25, 1987) was a Spanish lawyer and republican politician. Shortly after her arrival in Madrid, she joined the Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Españolas y la Juventud Universitaria Femenina (a women's rights organization), directed by Maria Espinosa de los Monteros.
Biography of Nikolay Shchors (excerpt)
Mykola Oleksandrovich Shchors (Ukrainian: Микола Олександрович Щорс; 6 June 1895 – 30 August 1919) was a Red Army commander, member of the Russian Communist Party, renowned for his personal courage during the Russian Civil War and sometimes being called the Ukrainian Chapayev.
Biography of Boris Polevoy (excerpt)
Boris Nikolaevich Polevoy (or Polevoi) (17 March (O.S. 4 March) 1908 – 12 July 1981) was a Soviet writer and journalist. He is the author of the book Story of a Real Man about Soviet World War II fighter pilot Aleksey Maresev.
Biography of Vsevolod Pudovkin (excerpt)
Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin (28 February 1893 (O.S. 16 February) – 30 June 1953) was a Russian and Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor who developed influential theories of montage. Pudovkin's masterpieces are often contrasted with those of his contemporary Sergei Eisenstein, but whereas Eisenstein utilized montage to glorify the power of the masses, Pudovkin preferred to concentrate on the courage and resilience of individuals.
Biography of Dmitry Maksutov (excerpt)
Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov (23 April (O.S. 11 April) 1896 – 12 August 1964) was a Russian / Soviet optical engineer and amateur astronomer. He is best known as the inventor of the Maksutov telescope. Maksutov's most well known contribution in the field of optics was made in 1941, when he invented the Maksutov telescope.
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 Joaquim Homs (excerpt)
Joaquim Homs i Oller (21 August 1906 – 9 September 2003) was a Spanish composer. Homs was born in Barcelona, and studied cello until 1922. Afterwards, he self-educated himself in composition before studying on-and-off from 1931 to 1938. From 1930 to 1936 he studied composition with Roberto Gerhard (Menéndez Aleyxandre and Pizà 2001).
Biography of Alonzo Church (excerpt)
Alonzo Church (June 14, 1903 – August 11, 1995) was an American mathematician and logician who made major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science. He is best known for the lambda calculus, Church–Turing thesis, proving the undecidability of the Entscheidungsproblem, Frege–Church ontology, and the Church–Rosser theorem.
Biography of Eugénie Dauzat (excerpt)
Eugénie Dauzat, born Eugénie Licheron on December 6, 1900 in Neuville (Puy-de-Dôme)(birth time source: Marc Brun, birth certificate n° 9) and died January 12, 2013 in Lezoux (Puy-de-Dôme), aged 112 years and 37 days, is a supercentenaire, wrongly considered as the oldest of the French, twice.
Biography of Marcel Meys (excerpt)
Marcel Meys, born July 12, 1909 in Saint-Julien-de-l'Herms (Isère)(birth time source: Marc Brun, birth certificate n° 4), died on December 15, 2021 (age 112) was a French supercentenaire. He becomes the oldest French man on October 13, 2019, the date of the death of Roger Auvin.
Biography of Vasily Chapayev (excerpt)
Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev or Chapaev (Russian: Васи́лий Ива́нович Чапа́ев; February 9 1887 – September 5, 1919) was a celebrated Russian soldier and Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War. During World War I, he fought as a non-commissioned officer and was awarded the Cross of St. |
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