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Biography of Paul Stewart (actor) (excerpt)
Paul Stewart (born Paul Sternberg; March 13, 1908 – February 17, 1986) was an American character actor, director and producer who worked in theatre, radio, films and television. He frequently portrayed cynical and sinister characters throughout his career. A friend and associate of Orson Welles for many years, Stewart helped Welles get his first job in radio and was associate producer of the celebrated radio program "The War of the Worlds", in which he also performed.
Biography of Teresa Noce (excerpt)
Teresa Noce (29 July 1900 – 22 January 1980) was an Italian labor leader, activist, journalist and feminist. She served as a parliamentary deputy and advocated broad social legislation benefiting mothers. Teresa Noce was born in Turin, Italy on 29 July 1900 to an unmarried, working-class mother.
Biography of Robert K. Merton (excerpt)
Robert King Merton (born Meyer Robert Schkolnick; July 5, 1910 (Wikipedia gives July 4 by mistake) – February 23, 2003) was an American sociologist who is considered a founding father of modern sociology, and a major contributor to the subfield of criminology.
Biography of Ilse Stöbe (excerpt)
Ilse Frieda Gertrud Stöbe (17 May 1911 in Berlin – 22 December 1942 in Berlin) was a German journalist and anti-Nazi resistance fighter. Life Ilse Stöbe grew up in a working-class home in Berlin. Stöbe was the only daughter of carpenter Max Stöbe and his wife Frieda, née Schumann.
Biography of Georges Baptizet (excerpt)
Georges Baptizet, born April 10, 1908 in Moussey and died May 9, 1974 in Besançon, was a French aviator, fighter pilot and patrol leader.
Biography of Lin Jaldati (excerpt)
Lin Jaldati (born Rebekka Brilleslijper; 13 December 1912 – 31 August 1988) was a Dutch-born, East German-based Yiddish singer. She was a Holocaust survivor, and one of the last people to see Anne Frank. After the war she published an article, "Memories of Anne Frank," in Joachim Hellwig and Günther Deicke's book A Diary for Anne Frank.
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.
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.
Biography of Rakel Seweriin (excerpt)
Rakel Seweriin, née Solberg (26 June 1906 – 17 September 1995) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. She was the Norwegian Minister of Social Affairs from 1953 to 1955. She was born in Hof as a daughter of Casper Fredrik Solberg (1870–1932) and Zefra Eliagna Natterstad (1871–1949).
Biography of Lotte Reiniger (excerpt)
Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger (2 June 1899 – 19 June 1981) was a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation. Her best known films are The Adventures of Prince Achmed, from 1926, the first feature-length animated film, and Papageno (1935).
Biography of Jean Raymond Bayssade (excerpt)
Jean Raymond Bayssade, born July 2, 1913 in Verdun-sur-Garonne and died February 14, 1983 in the same city, was a French aviator and fighter pilot, member of the Resistance.
Biography of Eva Jessye (excerpt)
Eva Jessye (January 20, 1895 – February 21, 1992) was an American conductor who was the first black woman to receive international distinction as a professional choral conductor. She is notable as a choral conductor during the Harlem Renaissance. She created her own choral group which featured widely in performance.
Biography of Rosa Stallbaumer (excerpt)
Rosa (Hoffman) Stallbaumer (30 November 1897 – 23 November 1942) was a member of the Austrian Resistance during World War II. Her name is one of 124 names of women and men from Tyrol, Austria inscribed on the Liberation Monument at The Eduard-Wallnöfer-Platz in Innsbruck in recognition of both her involvement in resisting National Socialism and of her death at Auschwitz, following her incarceration at that Nazi concentration camp as punishment for helping Jewish targets of Nazi persecution escape to Italy.
Biography of Elzbieta Zawacka (excerpt)
Elżbieta Zawacka (19 March 1909 – 10 January 2009), known also by her war-time nom de guerre Zo, was a Polish university professor, scouting instructor, SOE agent and a freedom fighter during World War II. She was promoted to brigadier general of the Polish Army (the second woman in the history of the Polish Army to hold this rank) by President Lech Kaczyński on 3 May 2006.
Biography of Vladimir Pozner (excerpt)
Vladimir Solomonovich Pozner (Russian: Влади́мир Соломо́нович По́знер; 5 January 1905 in Paris – 19 February 1992 in Paris) was a French writer and translator of Russian-Jewish descent. His family fled the pogroms to take up residence in France. Pozner expanded on his inherited cultural socialism to associate both in writing and politics with anti-fascist and communist groups in the inter-war period.
Biography of Hélčne Solomon-Langevin (excerpt)
Hélčne Solomon-Langevin (25 May 1909 – 16 January 1995) was a French politician. She was elected to the National Assembly in 1945 as one of the first group of French women in parliament. Solomon-Langevin was born in Fontenay-aux-Roses in 1909, the daughter of physicist Paul Langevin.
Biography of Alma Rosé (excerpt)
Alma Maria Rosé (3 November 1906 – 4/5 April 1944) was an Austrian violinist of Jewish descent. Her uncle was the composer Gustav Mahler. She was deported by the Nazis to the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. There, for 10 months, she directed an orchestra of female prisoners who played for their captors to stay alive.
Biography of Hanna Van de Voort (excerpt)
Hanna Van de Voort (born in Meerlo, November 26, 1904 and died in Utrecht on July 26, 1956), also known as Aunt Hanna, was a Dutch nurse and resistance fighter during the Second World War. Together with Nico Dohmen and Kurt Loewenstein, she placed 123 Jewish children in foster families in North Limburg, saving them from deportation and death.
Biography of Edmée Jarlaud (excerpt)
Edmée Jarlaud, born Edmée Jeanne Jacob on July 10, 1910 in Paris 20th and died in April 1939 in Beynes (Yvelines), was a French aviator who broke several records including that of female endurance on a glider (5 hours) on September 15, 1937.
Biography of Léon Bourjade (excerpt)
Jean-Pierre Léon Bourjade (Montauban, May 25, 1889 – Papua New Guinea, October 22, 1924) was a French aviation ace and missionary. Tributes A few years after his death, the famous aviator Jean Mermoz, during one of his crossings of the South Atlantic by plane, had a serious oil leak which assured him of perdition at sea; although an atheist, he addressed a “prayer” to his pilot colleague Léon Bourjade and landed in extremis on a beach in Senegal, the propeller “flagged”.
Biography of Andrée Viénot (excerpt)
Andrée Viénot (7 June 1901 – 20 October 1976) was a French politician. Andrée Viénot was born as Andrée Mayrisch on 7 June 1901 in Dudelange. She studied political economy in London School of Economics. In 18 July 1929 she married Pierre Viénot (1897–1944), who was a war veteran, and became a cabinet minister.
Biography of Rahel Sanzara (excerpt)
Rahel Sanzara (also Sansara; pseudonym for Johanna Bleschke) (9 February 1894 – 8 February 1936) was a German dancer, actress and novelist. Johanna Bleschke was the oldest of a town musician's four children. After graduating from a school for 'higher daughters', she went into an apprenticeship as a bookbinder in Blankenburg.
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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.
Biography of Paul Guillaume (art dealer) (excerpt)
Paul Guillaume (28 November 1891 in Paris – 1 October 1934 in Paris) was a French art dealer. Dealer of Chaďm Soutine and Amedeo Modigliani, he was one of the first to organize African art exhibitions. He also bought and sold many works from cutting-edge artists of the time, such as Henri Matisse, Constantin Brâncuși, Pablo Picasso, and Giorgio de Chirico.
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 Genevičve Lefevre-Seillier (excerpt)
Genevičve Estelle Lefevre-Sellier, name sometimes indicated as Lefevre-Sellier and Lefebvre-Sellier, born March 5, 1911 in Juvignies in Oise and died May 24, 2012 in Liancourt-Saint-Pierre, was a French soldier of the Second World War. Genevičve Lefevre-Sellier, a name sometimes referred to as Lefevre-Sellier and Lefebvre-Sellier in military history books, was part of the first female corps of the Air Force created by Charles Tillon in the winter of 1944-1945 and followed the course organized in Châteauroux.
Biography of Ingeborg Waern Bugge (excerpt)
Ingeborg Wćrn Bugge (5 March 1899 – 26 January 1991) was a Swedish architect. She was one of the first formally educated female architects in Sweden. She designed residential buildings and schools, and worked on renovation projects for churches. Work In 1929, she started her own architectural firm with another alumna from the Royal Institute of Technology, Kjerstin Göransson-Ljungman .
Biography of Jean Luchaire (excerpt)
Jean Luchaire (21 July 1901 (birth certificate n° 331) – 22 February 1946) was a French journalist and politician who became the head of the French collaborationist press in Paris during the German military occupation. Luchaire supported the Révolution nationale declared by the French Government after it relocated to the spa town of Vichy in 1940.
Biography of Lilla Hellesen (excerpt)
Lilla Hellesen (13 October 1902 – 28 October 1963) was a Norwegian painter. She was born in Oslo, Norway as the daughter of the doctor Engel Emil Herman Hellesen and actress Marie Mejlćnder. Hellesen studied at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry 1921–22 and the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo 1922–25.
Biography of Édmée Chandon (excerpt)
Édmée Marie Juliette Chandon (21 November 1885 – 8 March 1944) was an astronomer known for being the first professional female astronomer in France. She worked at the Paris Observatory from 1908 until her retirement in 1941. Biography The eldest of five children, Chandon was born to Marie Duhan and merchant François Chandon on 21 November 1885 in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.
Biography of Jean Milhau (painter) (excerpt)
Jean Louis Édouard Milhau is a French painter of the 20th century, born on December 21, 1902, in Mčze (Hérault) and died in Châtenay-Malabry (Hauts-de-Seine) on May 7, 1985.
Biography of Fred M. Wilcox (excerpt)
Fred McLeod Wilcox (December 22, 1907 – September 23, 1964) was an American motion picture director. He worked for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for many years and is best remembered for directing Lassie Come Home (1943) and Forbidden Planet (1956). These films were entered in the National Film Preservation Board's National Film Registry in 1993 and 2013 respectively.
Biography of Suzanne Grinberg (excerpt)
Suzanne Grinberg ( 25 January 1888 - 5 July 1972) was a pioneering French lawyer, feminist and pacifist. She was one of the women who participated in the Inter-Allied Women's Conference which opened in Paris in February 1919. In 1920, she was vice-president of the Association du Jeune Barreau and secretary of the central committee of the French Union for Women's Suffrage.
Biography of Silvio Zavala (excerpt)
Silvio Arturo Zavala Vallado (February 7, 1909 – December 4, 2014) was a Mexican historian who was considered to be a pioneer in law history studies and Mexico’s institutions. Early life Silvio Zavala was born on February 7, 1909, in Mérida, Yucatán. He studied at the National University of Mexico and at the University of Madrid, where he received a Ph.
Biography of Pierre Avezard (excerpt)
Pierrevezard, also known as "Petit Pierre", born December 30, 1909 in Vienne-en-Val (Loiret) and died July 24, 1992 in Jargeau (Loiret), was a French creator of art brut. Disabled and self-taught, he is the author of the "mančge de Petit Pierre", exhibited at La Fabuloserie in Dicy in the Yonne.
Biography of Élisabeth de Rothschild (excerpt)
Élisabeth, Baroness de Rothschild (née Pelletier de Chambure; a.k.a. Lili; 9 March 1902 – 23 March 1945) was a member by marriage of the wine-making branch of the Rothschild family. Biography Born in Paris as Élisabeth Pelletier de Chambure, into a wealthy Catholic family whose roots were in the Burgundy region.
Biography of Vittorio Pozzo (excerpt)
ttorio Pozzo (2 March 1886 in Rome (Wikipedia says Turin) – 21 December 1968 in Turin) was an Italian football player, manager and journalist. The creator of the Metodo tactical formation, Pozzo is regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time, and is the only manager to guide a national team to two FIFA World Cup titles as coach, leading the Italy national team to victory in the 1934 and 1938 FIFA World Cups.
Biography of Zoe Akins (excerpt)
Zoe Byrd Akins (October 30, 1886 – October 29, 1958) was an American playwright, poet, and author. She won the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for drama for The Old Maid. Career and life Her first major dramatic work was Papa, written in 1914. The comedy failed even though it greatly impressed both H.
Biography of Adrienne Ames (excerpt)
Adrienne Ames (born Ruth Adrienne McClure; August 3, 1907 – May 31, 1947) was an American film actress. Early in her career she was known as Adrienne Truex. Early years Ames was born in Fort Worth, Texas, one of six children of Samuel Hugh McClure and Flora Parthenia (née Potter) McClure.
Biography of Victoria Ocampo (excerpt)
Ramona Victoria Epifanía Rufina Ocampo CBE (7 April 1890 (her birth time had been displayed on the Spanish Wikipedia, without an original source.) – 27 January 1979) was an Argentine writer and intellectual. Best known as an advocate for others and as publisher of the literary magazine Sur, she was also a writer and critic in her own right and one of the most prominent South American women of her time.
Biography of Louis Saalborn (excerpt)
Louis Saalborn (Louis Alexander Abraham Zaalborn, born June 13, 1891 in Rotterdam and died June 18, 1957 (aged 66, unknown unspecified) in Amsterdam) is a Dutch director, actor, painter and musician. Louis Saalborn was one of the pioneers of abstract art and had exhibitions with Erich Wichmann (nl) and Theo van Doesburg.
Biography of Maria Vetulani de Nisau (excerpt)
Maria de Nisau née Vetulani (27 November 1898 – 2 September 1944) was a Polish woman soldier, combatant for Poland's independence, and participant in the Polish-Ukrainian War and World War II. She was the daughter of an engineer, Franciszek Vetulani (1856−1921), and Katarzyna Ipohorska-Lenkiewicz (1868−1915).
Biography of Ralph Graves (excerpt)
Ralph Graves (born Ralph Horsburgh; January 23, 1900 – February 18, 1977) was an American screenwriter, film director and actor who appeared in more than 90 films between 1918 and 1949. Biography Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Graves had already been cast in 46 films, half of them produced by Mack Sennett, before he wrote, directed, and starred in Swell Hogan in 1926.
Biography of Albert de Mirimonde (excerpt)
Albert de Mirimonde, born September 2, 1897 in Montmorency (birth certificate no. 76) and died January 7, 1985, was a French magistrate and author. He was notably President of the Chamber at the Court of Auditors (1957-1967), member of the Council of National Museums and art critic.
Biography of Dagmar Myhrvold (excerpt)
Dagmar Myhrvold (April 19, 1898 – April 21, 1972) was a Norwegian actress. After attending Sofie Bernhoft's school, Myhrvold spent a year studying theater in Copenhagen. In 1916 she was able to make her debut as a participant in Edvard Drablřs's touring theater.
Biography of Juan Vicente Pérez (excerpt)
Juan Vicente Pérez Mora (27 May 1909 – 2 April 2024) was a Venezuelan supercentenarian who, until his death at the age of 114 years, 311 days, was the world's oldest verified living man following the death of Spain's Saturnino de la Fuente García on 18 January 2022.
Biography of Hans Finne-Grřnn (excerpt)
Hans Fredrik Leganger Finne-Grřnn (25 September 1903 – 9 March 2001) was a Norwegian painter. He was born in Oslo as a son of lawyer and museum director Stian Herlofsen Finne-Grřnn (1869–1953) and Margrethe Borchgrevink (1873–1963). He was a brother of ambassador Jřrgen Finne-Grřnn (1905–1998).
Biography of Corrado Racca (excerpt)
Corrado Racca (November 14, 1889 – May 13, 1950) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Corrado began his career on stage when he moved to Florence in 1908. He later worked alongside other stage actors such as Ruggero Ruggeri, Emma Gramatica and Italia Almirante Manzini.
Biography of Willy van Hemert (excerpt)
Willy van Hemert (29 March 1912 – 26 June 1993) was a Dutch actor and theatre and television director, but is best known as a songwriter who penned two winning Dutch songs for the Eurovision Song Contest. Biography Van Hemert was born in Utrecht in 1912 as Willem Catharinus van Hemert.
Biography of Wanda Krahelska (excerpt)
Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz (15 December 1886 – 5 February 1968), code name “Alinka”” or “Alicja”, was a leading figure in Warsaw’s underground resistance movement throughout the years of German occupation during World War II in Poland, co-founder of Żegota. As the well-connected wife of a former ambassador to Washington, she used her contacts with both the military and political leadership of the Polish Underground to materially influence the underground's policy of aiding Poland's Jewish population during the war. |
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