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Biography of Albertina Rasch (excerpt)
Albertina Rasch (January 19, 1891 – October 2, 1967) was a naturalized American dancer, company director, and choreographer. Career Rasch began performing before the age of fourteen. During the American “dance craze” of the 1910s, she left Vienna for the United States, appearing in shows at the New York Hippodrome, also known as “the National Amusement Institution of America” and the Winter Garden.
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Biography of Laura Bianchini (excerpt)
Laura Bianchini (23 August 1903 – 27 September 1983) was an Italian educator and politician. She was elected to the Constituent Assembly in 1946 as part of the first group of women parliamentarians in Italy. She was subsequently elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1948, serving until 1953.
Biography of Roger Bastide (excerpt)
Roger Bastide, born April 1, 1898 in Nîmes and died April 10, 1974 in Maisons-Laffitte, was a French sociologist and anthropologist, specialist in sociology and Brazilian literature. Professor of sociology in São Paulo from 1938 to 1954, he published numerous articles and studies in Portuguese focusing mainly on African religions in Brazil and Africa, such as Le Candomblé de Bahia: rite Nagô (1958). ![]()
Biography of Marta Abba (excerpt)
Marta Abba (25, June 1900 – 24 June 1988) was an Italian actress, considered as the muse of the playwright Luigi Pirandello. Marta Abba lost her mother early and was raised by her grandparents. She began acting at 14, later joining Enrico Reinach's company in Milan.
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Biography of Sylvie Jung (excerpt)
Sylvie Jung (10 July 1904 – 15 December 1970) was a French tennis player who was active during the late 1920 and the 1930s. She had her best results in the doubles event, finishing runner-up in seven Grand Slam doubles and mixed-doubles competitions.
Biography of Joseph Horny (excerpt)
Joseph Horny, born January 20, 1908 in Wasselonne, died October 20, 1972 in Marmoutier, was a French marine. He took part in the landing on the beach at Colleville-sur-Orne on June 6, 1944. On November 1, he landed at Flushing, on the island of Walcheren.
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Biography of Sophia Antoniadis (excerpt)
Sophia Antoniadis (Greek: Σοφία Αντωνιάδη, 31 July 1895, Piraeus - 25 January 1972, Athens) was a Greek Byzantinist. She was the first female professor at the Leiden University, the first female Humanities professor in the Netherlands and during her career was one of the few Greek women to hold a position at a European university.
Biography of Jean Bernier (journalist) (excerpt)
Jean Bernier, born August 29, 1894 in Beauvais (Oise) and died August 10, 1975 in Paris, is a French writer and journalist. After breaking with Stalinism in 1929, he became an anarchist sympathizer. Marked by the First World War, he is a pacifist and internationalist.
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Biography of Elisabeth Schumacher (excerpt)
Elisabeth Schumacher (née Hohenemser; 28 April 1904 – 22 December 1942 in Plötzensee Prison, Berlin) was a German artist, photographer. and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. She was a member of the Berlin based anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra (Rote Kapelle) by the Abwehr, during the Third Reich. ![]()
Biography of Victor Jory (excerpt)
Victor Jory (November 23, 1902 – February 12, 1982) was a Canadian-American actor of stage, film, and television. He initially played romantic leads, but later was mostly cast in villainous or sinister roles, such as Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) and carpetbagger Jonas Wilkerson in Gone with the Wind (1939). ![]()
Biography of Brian Donlevy (excerpt)
Waldo Brian Donlevy (February 9, 1901 – April 6, 1972) was an American actor, noted for playing dangerous tough guys from the 1930s to the 1960s. He usually appeared in supporting roles. Among his best-known films are Beau Geste (1939), The Great McGinty (1940) and Wake Island (1942).
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Biography of Simone Rollin (excerpt)
Simone Rollin (5 September 1910 – 7 February 1991) was a French trade unionist and politician. As vice-president of the Popular Republican Movement, she was elected to the National Assembly in October 1945, becoming one of the first group of French women in parliament.
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Biography of Thérèse Pierre (excerpt)
Thérèse Pierre (5 November 1908 – 26 October 1943) was a French resistance fighter. She died after she was tortured by the German Gestapo. Resistance fighter At Carhaix, at the beginning of 1942, she met a Finistere Resistance official, the future Lieutenant-Colonel Pascal.
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Biography of Armel Guerne (excerpt)
Armel Guerne, born in Morges (Switzerland) on April 1, 1911 and died in Marmande (Lot-et-Garonne) on October 9, 1980, is a French-language poet and translator, of a Swiss father and a French mother. During World War II, he was a member of the Prosper-PHYSICIAN network of the British secret service Special Operations Executive, alongside Francis Suttill "Prosper", the head of the network.
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Biography of Jeanne Scelles-Millie (excerpt)
Jeanne Scelles-Millie (12 September 1900 – 22 March 1993) was a French architectural engineer and author who was born in Algeria and lived there until it gained independence from France. She was interested in inter-faith dialog between Christians, Jews and Muslims.
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Biography of Juana Bormann (excerpt)
Juana Bormann (or Johanna Borman; 10 September 1893 – 13 December 1945) was a German prison guard at several Nazi concentration camps from 1938, and was executed as a war criminal at Hamelin, Lower Saxony, Germany, after a court trial in 1945. ![]()
Biography of Margaret St. Clair (excerpt)
Margaret St. Clair (17 February 1911 – 22 November 1995) was an American fantasy and science fiction writer, who also wrote under the pseudonyms Idris Seabright and Wilton Hazzard. She was especially prolific in the 1950s, producing such acclaimed and much-reprinted stories as "The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles" (1951), "Brightness Falls from the Air" (1951), "An Egg a Month from All Over" (1952), and "Horrer Howce" (1956).
Biography of André Chotin (excerpt)
André Roger Chotin alias André E. Chotin, born January 26, 1892 in the 10th arrondissement of Paris and died January 10, 1954 in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, is a French decorator, artistic director and director of cinema. He made his debut as an actor in Jacques Copeau's theatrical company, with which he played several plays at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in 1917 and 1918.
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Biography of María Zambrano (excerpt)
María Zambrano Alarcón (22 April 1904 – 6 February 1991) was a Spanish essayist and philosopher associated with the Generation of '36 movement. Her extensive work between the civic engagement and the poetic reflection started to be recognised in Spain over the last quarter of the 20th century after living many years in exile.
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Biography of Kathryn McGuire (excerpt)
Kathryn McGuire (December 6, 1903 – October 10, 1978) was an American dancer and actress. Career While studying at the Hollywood High School, as well as her dancing, McGuire participated in a program exhibition at the Maryland Hotel in Pasadena. She was seen by Thomas H. ![]()
Biography of Faith Bacon (excerpt)
Faith Bacon (born Frances Yvonne Bacon; July 19, 1910 – September 26, 1956) was an American burlesque dancer and actress. During the height of her career, she was billed as "America's Most Beautiful Dancer". Career Bacon's career in burlesque began in the 1920s in Paris. ![]()
Biography of Édith Clark (excerpt)
Edith Georgette Clark (also known as Edith Boiteux, 5 June 1904 – 16 March 1937) was a French aviator and parachutist. Biography Clark was born in Cuffy, in the Cher region of France, on 5 June 1904. She worked as a typist and became interested in aviation; however, she could not afford the expenses of flying lessons on her salary.
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Biography of Monika Mann (excerpt)
Monika Mann (7 June 1910 – 17 March 1992) was a German author and feature writer. She was born in Munich, Germany, the fourth of six children of the Nobel Prize–winning author Thomas Mann and Katia, née Katharina Pringsheim. She trained as a pianist and her early attempts at a musical career seemed promising, but were not met with success and she instead pursued a career as a writer.
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Biography of Emilia Malessa (excerpt)
Emilia Malessa, née Izdebska (noms de guerre: Marcysia, Miłasza, Maniuta) (born 26 February 1909, in Rostov, died 5 June 1949), was a Polish soldier, member of the Home Army with the rank of Captain, participant in the Warsaw Uprising, member of the underground anti-communist organization Freedom and Independence (WiN), and a "cavalier" of the Order of Virtuti Militari.
Biography of Anne-Marie Imbrecq (excerpt)
Anne-Marie Jeanne Imbrecq (18 June 1911 – 28 November 2005) was a nurse, parachutist, and French civil and military aircraft pilot active in Europe and Africa during World War II. Anne-Marie was the daughter of Paris lawyer Joseph Imbrecq who specialized in transport law.
Biography of Joan Hickson (excerpt)
Joan Bogle Hickson, OBE (5 August 1906 – 17 October 1998) was an English actress of theatre, film and television. She was known for her role as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the television series Miss Marple. She also narrated a number of Miss Marple stories on audiobooks.
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Biography of Ida Veldhuyzen van Zanten (excerpt)
Ida Laura Veldhuyzen van Zanten (22 June 1911 – 19 October 2000) was a Dutch pilot and social worker who was a member of the Dutch resistance during the Second World War and a pilot in the British Air Transport Auxiliary. ![]()
Biography of Karen Horney (excerpt)
Karen Horney (née Danielsen; 16 September 1885 – 4 December 1952) was a German psychoanalyst who practiced in the United States during her later career. Her theories questioned some traditional Freudian views. This was particularly true of her theories of sexuality and of the instinct orientation of psychoanalysis.
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Biography of Yvonne Jourjon (excerpt)
Yvonne Jourjon (September 13, 1899 - September 1985) was a pioneering French pilot and flight instructor; she was the first woman flight instructor in France. Life Jourjon initially learned parachuting, and received her parachuting certificate in 1924. In 1932, she joined the Union of Civil Pilots of France and in the following year earned her pilot licence.
Biography of Yves Carbon (excerpt)
Yves Carbon, born April 3, 1911 in Lembeye, died October 25, 1949 (air crash at age 38), was a French aviator.
Biography of Germaine L'Herbier-Montagnon (excerpt)
Germaine L'Herbier-Montagnon, born June 13, 1895 in Tournon (today Tournon-sur-Rhône), and died in this same city on July 29, 1986, was an IPSA pilot nurse - acronym referring to the Amicale nurse-pilots and air first-aiders created in the 1930s with the mission of "practical training of nurses, with a view to their assignment to the Health Services and annexes of the Air Force" - which, after the defeat of June 1940, created on his own initiative and directed the Mission for the search for the dead and missing of the Air Force.
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Biography of Maria Margaretha Kirch (excerpt)
Maria Margaretha Kirch (née Winckelmann, in historic sources named Maria Margaretha Kirchin; 25 February 1670 – 29 December 1720) was a German astronomer. She was one of the first famous astronomers of her period due to her writing on the conjunction of the sun with Saturn, Venus, and Jupiter in 1709 and 1712 respectively.
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Biography of Ellen Osiier (excerpt)
Ellen Osiier (13 August 1890 – 6 September 1962) was a Danish foil fencer. Osiier was born in Hjørring, Nordjylland, Denmark. The 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris was the first Olympic Games to feature women's fencing. Osiier, then 33, won the gold medal and went undefeated in the 16 matches she fenced in the event.
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Biography of Lucien Choury (excerpt)
Lucien Choury (26 March 1898 – 6 May 1987) was a French cyclist. He won the gold medal in Men's tandem along with Jean Cugnot at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
Biography of Georges Bergé (excerpt)
Georges Bergé (Belmont, January 3, 1909 - Mimizan, September 15, 1997) is a French soldier, Companion of the Liberation. Rallying the Free French forces in 1940, he set up a company of French paratroopers with whom he carried out the first clandestine missions on occupied French territory.
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Biography of Boris Taslitzky (excerpt)
Boris Taslitzky, sometimes Boris Tazlitsky (September 30, 1911 – December 9, 2005), was a French painter with left-wing sympathies, best known for his figurative depictions of some difficult moments in the history of the twentieth century. His work is considered as representative of Socialist realism in art in France. ![]()
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The Fusillade de Fourmies is an event which happened on 1 May 1891 in Fourmies, in the French Nord department. This day, the troop fired on a peaceful demonstration of workers claiming "C'est les huit heures qu'il nous faut !" (it's the eight-hour day we need), killing nine people and injuring 35 others.
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Biography of Paul Marion (politician) (excerpt)
Paul Jules André Marion (27 June 1899, Asnières-sur-Seine – 2 March 1954) was a French Communist and subsequently far right journalist and political activist. He served as the French Minister of Information from 1941 to 1944. Early years Marion joined the French Communist Party in 1922 and wrote for L'Humanité as well as being elected to the party's central committee in 1926. ![]()
Biography of René Schickele (excerpt)
René Schickele (4 August 1883 – 31 January 1940) was a German-French writer, essayist and translator. Schickele was born in Obernai, Alsace, the son of a German vineyard owner and police officer and a French mother. He studied literature, history, science and philosophy in Strasbourg, Munich, Paris and Berlin.
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Biography of Bessie Schonberg (excerpt)
Bessie Schonberg (December 27, 1906 – May 14, 1997) was a highly influential dancer, choreographer and teacher of the 20th century. She was at the center of contemporary modern dance from her beginning at Bennington College up until her death in 1997.
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Biography of Alice Ball (excerpt)
Alice Augusta Ball (July 24, 1892 – December 31, 1916) was an American chemist who developed the "Ball Method", the most effective treatment for leprosy during the early 20th century. She was the first woman and first African American to receive a master's degree from the University of Hawaiʻi, and was also the university's first female and African American chemistry professor.
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Biography of Emma Padilla (excerpt)
Emma Padilla (April 27, 1899 – July 3, 1966 (respiratory failure, cerebral thrombosis, diabetes, age 67)) was Mexico's first film star. She was noted for her resemblance to, and copying the mannerisms of, Italian film star Pina Menichelli, particularly in La luz (1917), which was essentially a copy of the successful Italian film Il Fuoco (1915) starring Menichelli.
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Biography of Evert Taube (excerpt)
Axel Evert Taube (12 March 1890 – 31 January 1976) was a Swedish author, artist, composer and singer. He is widely regarded as one of Sweden's most respected musicians and the foremost troubadour of the Swedish ballad tradition in the 20th century.
Biography of Suzanne Spaak (excerpt)
Suzanne Spaak, née Augustine Lorge known as Suzette Spaak (6 July 1905 – 12 August 1944) was a World War II French Resistance operative. On 21 April 1985, Yad Vashem recognized Spaak as Righteous Among the Nations, for helping to smuggle several Jewish children to safety, by providing them with ration cards and clothing.
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Biography of Marcel Bardiaux (excerpt)
Marcel Bardiaux was a French navigator and writer born on April 12, 1910 in Clermont-Ferrand and died in Redon on February 9, 2000. He was the first solo sailor to have crossed Cape Horn from east to west (against the prevailing winds), in full winter (austral) 1952 at the helm of a 9.
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Biography of Jacques Canetti (excerpt)
Nessim Jacques Canetti (30 May 1909, Ruse, Bulgaria – 7 June 1997, Suresnes) was a French music executive and a talent agent. Born into a Sephardic Jewish family, his parents were Jacques Elias (Elieser) and Mathilde (Mazal) (née Arditti) Canetti. He was the brother of the Nobel Prize-winning author Elias Canetti (1905–1994) and of Georges Canetti (1911–1971), a researcher and professor at the Pasteur Institute. ![]()
Biography of Suzanne Masson (French resistance fighter) (excerpt)
Suzanne Masson (born in Doullens, France on 10 July 1901, died 1 November 1943 in Hamburg, Germany) was a union activist and communist, who was executed for her work in the French Resistance during World War II. On the site of the Hamburg prison, a plaque on the back wall of the detention center commemorates the two fighters who were killed there.
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Biography of Valli Valli (excerpt)
Valli Valli, born Valli Knust (11 February 1882 – 4 November 1927), was a musical comedy actress and silent film performer born in Berlin, Germany. She was descended from an old English family and lived most of her life in England.
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Biography of Karl Gebhardt (excerpt)
Karl Gebhardt (November 23, 1897 – June 2, 1948) was a Nazi doctor, the personal physician of Heinrich Himmler and one of the main coordinators and authors of medical experiments on prisoners of the Ravensbrück and Auschwitz concentration camps. After the war, Gebhardt was one of twenty-three defendants in the doctors' trial, held before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. ![]()
Biography of Zenta Maurina (excerpt)
Zenta Mauriņa (15 December 1897 – 25 April 1978) was a Latvian writer, essayist, translator, and researcher in philology. She was married to the Electronic Voice Phenomena researcher Konstantin Raudive. Born to doctor Roberts Mauriņš, Zenta spent her childhood in Grobiņa, where, at the age of six, she contracted polio, leaving her confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life. |
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