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Biography of Leslie Kish (excerpt)
Leslie Kish (born László Kiss, July 27, 1910 – October 7, 2000) was a Hungarian-American statistician and survey methodologist. In 1997, the American Statistical Association gave Kish their Wilks Memorial Award. The award citation read: "For being a truly outstanding statistician, who has had a profound influence on sample survey practice throughout the world.
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Biography of Eduard Toldrà (excerpt)
Eduard Toldrà Soler (Vilanova i la Geltrú 7 April 1895 – Barcelona, 31 May 1962) was a Spanish Catalan conductor and composer. Toldrà played an important role in the Culture of Barcelona. In 1944 he founded the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra at the Palau de la Música Catalana, where his deputy in 1957 was his friend Ricardo Lamote de Grignon.
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Biography of Maxim Vallentin (excerpt)
Maxim Gerhard Vallentin (born October 9, 1904 in Berlin; † September 2, 1987 there) was a German actor, theater director, SED-ZK member and long-time director of the Berlin Maxim Gorki Theater.
Biography of Yvon Belaval (excerpt)
Yvon Belaval, born in Sète on February 24, 1908 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died on November 19, 1988, is a French philosopher and philologist, specialist in Leibniz and the eighteenth century. Playing an important institutional role, he was at the origin of the renewal of the collective studies on the unpublished leibniziens.
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Biography of Marie-Louise Charpentier (excerpt)
Marie-Louise Charpentier, also known as Lily Charpentier (26 November 1905 - 24 June 1998), was a nurse, social worker, and active member of the French Resistance in Brittany during World War II. Her most well known accomplishment was hiding a Jewish woman and her two grandchildren from German forces and arranging their safe passage to relatives in the south of France.
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Biography of Martial Valin (excerpt)
Martial Henri Valin (14 May 1898 in Limoges – 19 September 1980 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French Air Force general. He initially served as a cavalryman in the First World War. After nine years cavalry service in the chasseurs d'Afrique, dragoons, spahis, and hussars, he eventually volunteered for the French Army's aviation branch, the aéronautique militaire, in 1926. ![]()
Biography of Suzanne Borel (excerpt)
Marie Nancy Suzanne "Suzy" Bidault (née Borel; 18 October 1904 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 1983) – 8 November 1995) was the first French woman to become a diplomat when she was employed as an attaché at the Quai d'Orsay on 1 July 1930 after passing the entrance examination to the French Foreign Ministry.
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Biography of Sergei Gerasimov (film director) (excerpt)
Sergei Appolinarievich Gerasimov (3 June (21 May julian calendar) 1906 – 26 November 1985) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. The oldest film school in the world, the VGIK, bears his name. Gerasimov started his film industry career as an actor in 1924. ![]()
Biography of Olga Bergholz (excerpt)
Olga Fyodorovna Bergholz (May 16 (O.S. May 3) 1910 – November 13, 1975) was a Soviet poet, writer, playwright and journalist. She is most famous for her work on the Leningrad radio during the city's blockade, when she became the symbol of city's strength and determination.
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Biography of Ricardo Lamote de Grignon (excerpt)
Ricard Lamote de Grignon i Ribas (25 September 1899 – 5 February 1962), was a Catalan Spanish composer and orchestral conductor. Ricard Lamote de Grignon was born and died in Barcelona. He was the only son of the composer Joan Lamote de Grignon and Florentina Ribas.
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Biography of Theo van Doesburg (excerpt)
Theo van Doesburg (30 August 1883 – 7 March 1931) was a Dutch artist, who practiced painting, writing, poetry and architecture. He is best known as the founder and leader of De Stijl. He was married to artist, pianist and choreographer Nelly van Doesburg.
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Biography of Yuri Shaporin (excerpt)
Yuri Alexandrovich Shaporin (November 8 (O.S. October 27) 1887 – 9 December 1966), PAU, was a Russian-Ukrainian Soviet composer. After the Bolshoi Drama Theater was established in 1919, he served as its musical director until 1928. He then worked with the Russian State Pushkin Academy Drama Theater — also known as the Alexandrinsky Theater — until 1934. ![]()
Biography of Janis Dalins (excerpt)
Jānis Daliņš (5 November 1904 in Valmiera, Livonian Governorate – 11 June 1978 in Melbourne, Australia) was a Latvian athlete who competed in race walking. Jānis Daliņš was the first Latvian to win a medal at the Olympic Games, he won silver in the 50 km race walk at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
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Biography of Nikolay Semyonov (excerpt)
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov (or Semënov), ForMemRS 15 April (O.S. 3 April) 1896 – 25 September 1986) was a Russian/Soviet physicist and chemist. Semyonov was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the mechanism of chemical transformation. In 1925, Semyonov, together with Yakov Frenkel, studied kinetics of condensation and adsorption of vapors.
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Biography of Ralph Barton (excerpt)
Ralph Waldo Emerson Barton (August 14, 1891 – May 19, 1931) was an American artist best known for his cartoons and caricatures of actors and other celebrities. Though his work was heavily in demand through the 1920s and is often considered to epitomize the era, his personal life was troubled by mental illness, and he was nearly forgotten soon after his suicide, shortly before his fortieth birthday.
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Biography of Vasili Kuznetsov (politician) (excerpt)
Vasili Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (13 February (O.S. 31 January) 1901 – 5 June 1990) was a Russian Soviet politician who acted as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union from 1982 to 1983, for a second time in 1984, and for a third time in 1985. ![]()
Biography of Lee Ya-Ching (excerpt)
Li Xiaqing pronounced Lee Ya Ching, also known by her stage name Li Dandan (李旦旦), was a Chinese film actress, pioneering aviator, and philanthropist. She was the first Chinese woman to be granted a civil aviation license in China, in 1936, and also co-founded its first civilian flying school.
Biography of Mary Heath (excerpt)
Mary, Lady Heath (17 November 1896 – 9 May 1939) was an Irish aviator and began life as Sophie Catherine Theresa Mary Peirce-Evans in Knockaderry, County Limerick, near the town of Newcastle West. She was one of the best known women in the world for a five-year period from the mid-1920s. ![]()
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.
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Biography of Abidin Dino (excerpt)
Abidin Dino (23 March 1913 – 7 December 1993) was a Turkish artist and a well-known painter. Within a short time, the home of Guzin and Abidin Dino in Paris became the haunt of many famous artists and writers. The couple first moved into the studio on the top floor of Max Ernst's apartment on the quay of Saint-Michel, and later to a small flat in L'Eure.
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Biography of Jean Toomer (excerpt)
Jean Toomer (born Nathan Pinchback Toomer, December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and modernism. His reputation stems from his novel Cane (1923), which Toomer wrote during and after a stint as a school principal at a black school in rural Sparta, Georgia.
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Biography of Marc Delmas (excerpt)
Marc Marie Jean Baptiste Delmas (28 March 1885 – 30 November 1931) was a French Expressionist composer and writer. Marc Delmas was born in Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France, and studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Xavier Leroux and Paul Vidal. He won the Prix Rossini in 1911 with Anne Marie, Second Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata Le et la Fée Poète and later the Prix Cressent and Prix Ambroise-Thomas. ![]()
Biography of Marcel Griaule (excerpt)
Marcel Griaule (16 May 1898 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 23 February 1956) was a French author and anthropologist known for his studies of the Dogon people of West Africa, and for pioneering ethnographic field studies in France. ![]()
Biography of Krystyna Skarbek (excerpt)
Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek, OBE, GM (1 May 1908 – 15 June 1952), also known as Christine Granville, was a Polish agent of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. She became celebrated for her daring exploits in intelligence and irregular-warfare missions in Nazi-occupied Poland and France.
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Biography of Ruth Elder (excerpt)
Ruth Elder (September 8, 1902 – October 9, 1977) was an aviation pioneer and actress. She carried private pilot certificate P675, and was known as the "Miss America of Aviation." She was a charter member of the Ninety-Nines. In 1927 she took off from New York in the airplane American Girl, George Haldeman as her pilot, in an attempt to become the first woman transatlantic airplane rider.
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Biography of Nikolay Shvernik (excerpt)
Nikolay Mikhailovich Shvernik (19 May 1888 – 24 December 1970) was a Soviet politician and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (or President of the USSR) from 19 March 1946 until 15 March 1953. Though the titular Soviet head of state, Shvernik had, in fact, little power because the real authority lay with Joseph Stalin as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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Biography of Boris Livanov (excerpt)
Boris Nikolayevich Livanov (8 May (O.S. 25 April) 1904—22 September 1972) was a Soviet theater and film actor and a theatre director. People's Artist of the USSR (1948). He was a member of the Moscow Art Theatre from 1924 through 1972.
Biography of Angèle Laval (excerpt)
The Raven affair is a French criminal case which has as its starting point a news item that occurred in Tulle. From 1917 to 1922, the inhabitants of the city were victims of a wave of anonymous letters signed "Tiger's Eye" and denouncing the actions of each other.
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Biography of Burton Gillett (excerpt)
Burton F. Gillett (October 15, 1891 - December 28, 1971) was a director of animated films. He is noted for his Silly Symphonies work for Disney, particularly the 1933 short film Three Little Pigs. He began his career at J.R. Bray Studios in New York. ![]()
Biography of Salomėja Nėris (excerpt)
Salomėja Nėris (real name Salomėja Bačinskaitė - Bučienė) (November 17, 1904 – July 7, 1945) was a Lithuanian poet. Salomėja Nėris was awarded the State Literature Prize in 1938. She was a member of the Catholic youth and student organization Ateitis.
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Biography of Willi Bredel (excerpt)
Willi Bredel (2 May 1901 – 27 October 1964) was a German writer and president of the DDR Academy of Arts, Berlin. Born in Hamburg, he was a pioneer of socialist realist literature. His propaganda material, along with those of Walter Ulbricht and Erich Weinert was used in an attempt to lure the 6th Army into surrendering at the Battle of Stalingrad.
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Biography of Vittorio Codovilla (excerpt)
Victorio Codovilla (February 8, 1894 - April 15, 1970) was an Italian/Argentine socialist and later communist politician. He was a member of the Italian Socialist Party and held leadership posts in the Communist Party of Argentina and the Comintern. With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, Codovilla remained in Madrid advising the PCE, but has been regarded as generally less effective than his Barcelona-based counterpart Ernő Gerő.
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Biography of Lina Radke (excerpt)
Karoline "Lina" Radke-Batschauer (18 October 1903 – 14 February 1983) was a German track and field athlete. She was the first Olympic champion in the 800 m for women. Together with her husband, Lina Radke was one of the pioneers of female athletics in the mid-1920s.
Biography of Joseph Epstein (activist) (excerpt)
Joseph Epstein (October 16, 1911 – April 11, 1944 in Fort Mont-Valérien, France), also known as Colonel Gilles and as Joseph Andrej, was a Polish-born Jewish communist activist and a French Resistance leader during World War II. He was executed by the Germans. ![]()
Biography of Jean de La Ville de Mirmont (excerpt)
Jean de La Ville de Mirmont (2 December 1886 – 28 November 1914) was a French poet who died at the age of 27 defending his country during World War I, at Verneuil. Jean de La Ville de Mirmont was born into a Protestant Bordeaux family to Henri and Sophie Malan.
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Biography of Alfhild Hovdan (excerpt)
Alfhild Hovdan (née Olsen; 13 September 1904 – 20 February 1982) was a Norwegian journalist, and later tourist manager for the city of Oslo for more than forty years. She is known for initiating the tradition of the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree, a present from the city of Oslo to the people of London, in recognition of their assistance during World War II.
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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 Colleen Moore (excerpt)
Colleen Moore (born Kathleen Morrison; August 19, 1899 – January 25, 1988) was an American film actress who began her career during the silent film era. Moore became one of the most fashionable (and highly-paid) stars of the era and helped popularize the bobbed haircut.
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Biography of Lisa Ullmann (excerpt)
Lisa Ullmann (17 June 1907, in Berlin – 25 January 1985, in Chertsey) was a German-British dance and movement teacher, predominantly remembered for her work in association with dance pioneer Rudolf Laban. Ullmann taught in Nuremberg and at the Essen Folkwang School, where she worked for Kurt Jooss.
Biography of Otto Nebel (excerpt)
Otto Nebel (25 December 1892 – 12 September 1973) was a German painter and poet, born in Berlin, Germany. The artist liked to experiment especially with the linocut, a great favorite among the German Expressionists and a medium that they imbued with new life. ![]()
Biography of Diana Mosley (excerpt)
Diana, Lady Mosley (née Mitford; 17 June 1910 – 11 August 2003) was a British aristocrat, fascist, writer and editor. She was one of the Mitford sisters and eventually, the wife of Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists.
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Biography of Elizabeth Mernin (excerpt)
Elizabeth "Lily" Mernin (16 November 1886 - 18 February 1957) was an Irish intelligence agent known as the "Little Gentleman" or "Lt. G.". She was a member of the Keating branch of the Gaelic League, and through this her cousin, Piaras Béaslaí, introduced her to Michael Collins in 1918.
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Biography of Rudolf Brazda (excerpt)
Rudolf Brazda (26 June 1913 – 3 August 2011) was the last known concentration camp survivor deported by Nazi Germany on charges of homosexuality. Brazda spent nearly three years at the Buchenwald concentration camp, where his prisoner uniform was branded with the distinctive pink triangle that the Nazis used to mark men interned as homosexuals.
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Biography of Salvo Randone (excerpt)
Salvatore "Salvo" Randone (25 September 1906 – 6 March 1991) was an Italian theatrical, television and film actor. Born in Syracuse, Sicily, Randone debuted on stage in mid-1920s and, after some years in which he played roles of little weight, he became in the fifties one of the most critically appreciated actors in Italian theatre.
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Biography of Ruth Law Oliver (excerpt)
Ruth Law Oliver (May 21, 1887 - December 1, 1970) was a pioneer American aviator during the 1910s. She was inspired to take up flying by her brother, parachutist and pioneer movie stuntman Rodman Law (1885–1919), with whom she challenged herself to physically keep up during their childhood.
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Biography of Louise Thaden (excerpt)
Iris Louise McPhetridge Thaden (November 12, 1905 – November 9, 1979) was an American aviation pioneer, holder of numerous aviation records, and the first woman to win the Bendix trophy, alongside Blanche Noyes. She was inducted into the Arkansas Aviation Historical Society's Hall of Fame in 1980.
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Biography of Máté Zalka (excerpt)
Máté Zalka (April 23, 1896 – June 11, 1937) was a Hungarian writer, soldier and revolutionary. His real name was Béla Frankl. He fought in the Hungarian Army during the First World War and was captured by the Russians. Subsequently, he came under the influence of Bolshevism and fought during the Russian Civil War.
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Biography of Marina Raskova (excerpt)
Marina Mikhaylovna Raskova (née Malinina; 28 March 1912 – 4 January 1943) was the first woman in the USSR to achieve the diploma of professional air navigator. Raskova went from a young woman with aspirations of becoming an opera singer to a military instructor, the first female navigator in the Soviet Union.
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Biography of Dorothy Rice Sims (excerpt)
Dorothy Rice Sims (June 24, 1889 – March 24, 1960) was an American sportswoman, aviator, bridge player, artist, and journalist. She met Hal Sims when he chartered her plane; they later married. Their home in Deal, New Jersey, described in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle as reminiscent "of the castles of the feudal barons in medieval days" became a headquarters for bridge experts.
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Biography of Dorothy Maynor (excerpt)
Dorothy Maynor (September 3, 1910 – February 19, 1996) was an American soprano, concert singer, and the founder of the Harlem School of the Arts. Maynor was born Dorothy Leigh Mainor in 1910 in the town of Norfolk, Virginia to the Reverend John J. |
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