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Biography of David van Dantzig (excerpt)
David van Dantzig (September 23, 1900 – July 22, 1959) was a Dutch mathematician renowned for constructing the solenoid in topology. He was a member of the Significs Group. Born into a Jewish family in Amsterdam, he earned his PhD in 1931 at the University of Groningen under Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, focusing on topological algebra.
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Biography of Menno ter Braak (excerpt)
Menno ter Braak (January 26, 1902 – May 14, 1940) was a Dutch modernist writer, critic, essayist, and journalist. Born in Eibergen, he grew up in Tiel where he excelled as a student. At the University of Amsterdam, he majored in Dutch and History, contributed to the student magazine Propria Cures, and co-founded the Filmliga with Joris Ivens to study animated film.
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Biography of Jean Filiol (excerpt)
Jean Paul Robert Filiol (12 May 1909 – died in 1975) was a French militant, who was active in La Cagoule before the Second World War. After the war, he fled to Spain, where he worked for the local office of L'Oréal.
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Biography of Margaret Chung (excerpt)
Margaret Jessie Chung, born on October 2, 1889, and died on January 5, 1959, was the first Chinese-American female physician.After a freelance career, she enrolled at the University of Southern California and graduated from the medical school in 1916, completing her internship and thesis in Illinois.
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Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (excerpt)
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) was an American writer who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling, about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie of the same name.
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Biography of Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (excerpt)
Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Beatrice Leopoldine Victoria; 20 April 1884 – 13 July 1966) was a member of the British royal family, a male-line granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She later married into the Spanish royal family, and was the wife of Prince Alfonso de Orleans y Borbón, Infante of Spain, a first cousin of Alfonso XIII of Spain.
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Biography of Jan Campert (excerpt)
Jan Remco Theodoor Campert (Spijkenisse, 15 August 1902 – 12 January 1943) was a Dutch journalist, theater critic and writer who lived in Amsterdam. During the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II Campert was arrested for aiding Jews. He was held in the Neuengamme concentration camp, where he died.
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Biography of Allan Jones (actor) (excerpt)
Allan Jones (October 14, 1907 – June 27, 1992) was an American tenor and actor. Jones is best remembered today as the male romantic lead actor in the first two films the Marx Brothers starred in for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, A Night at the Opera (1935) and A Day at the Races (1937), as well as the film musicals Show Boat (1936) and The Firefly (1937), where he introduced "The Donkey Serenade", which became his signature song. ![]()
Biography of Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia (excerpt)
Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia, born on March 10, 1900 (Wikipedia incorrectly lists the date as March 8th), in San José, was a Costa Rican doctor and politician who served as President from 1940 to 1944. After studying in Europe, he returned to Costa Rica to pursue a career in medicine and politics.
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Biography of Marcelo Chávez (excerpt)
Marcelo Chávez Herrera (March 13, 1911 – February 14, 1970) was a Mexican actor and comedian. From an early age, he showed interest in music and comedy, quickly mastering the guitar. In Ciudad Juárez, he met Germán Valdés "Tin Tan," with whom he formed a lifelong partnership on stage and in films.
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Biography of Josep Lluís Sert (excerpt)
Josep Lluís Sert (May 7, 1901 – March 15, 1983) was a Catalan architect and urban planner born in Barcelona, Spain. He studied at the Barcelona School of Architecture before moving to Paris in 1926 to work with Le Corbusier. Sert founded his own agency in 1929 and co-founded GATCPAC, introducing a rationalist aesthetic in Spain characterized by clean lines and abundant light.
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Biography of Karolina of Legnica-Brieg (excerpt)
Karolina of Legnica-Brieg-Wohlau (German: Charlotte von Liegnitz-Brieg-Wohlau, Polish: Karolina Piastówna; 2 December 1652 in Brzeg – 24 December 1707 in Wrocław), was a Silesian noble, duchess of Legnica, Brzeg and Wołów and the last member of the Silesian Piasts dynasty. Her time of birth comes from the biography "L'Allemagne dynastique: Oldenbourg, Familles alliées H-L" (A.
Biography of Wilhelm Wigand (excerpt)
Wilhelm Wigand (born July 2, 1895, in Barth; died April 22, 1945, in Großkrausnik) was a German politician (NSDAP). After obtaining his Abitur, he participated in World War I, where he was wounded and decorated.From 1918 to 1920, he was a French prisoner of war.
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Biography of Peter Schaap (SD member) (excerpt)
Pieter (Peter) Schaap (Zandvoort, June 18, 1902 – Groningen, June 29, 1949) was a Dutch collaborator of the SD, one of the German police organizations under the authority of Heinrich Himmler and the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin. He was a fanatical persecutor of Jews and shot numerous people dead.
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Biography of Zita of Bourbon-Parma (excerpt)
Zita of Bourbon, Princess of Parma, and later, through her marriage, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, was born on May 9, 1892, in Lucca, Italy, and died on March 14, 1989, in Zizers, Switzerland.The wife of Emperor Charles I, she was the last Empress of Austria, Queen of Hungary, and Queen of Bohemia.
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Biography of Drucilla Strain (excerpt)
Drucilla Anna Strain (24 February 1913 – 19 January 1994) was an American musical theater actress and Ziegfeld Girl. The daughter of Robert Strain and Anna Fallon, she debuted on Broadway in 1929 in Follow Thru. She later appeared in several iconic musicals, including Cole Porter's Anything Goes (1934) and On Your Toes (1936).
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Biography of Ruth Snyder (excerpt)
May Ruth Snyder (née Brown, March 27, 1895 – January 12, 1928) was an American murderer executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in 1928.Her execution was captured in a widely publicized photograph. Married to Albert Snyder in 1915, she lived an unfulfilled life in their Queens home.
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Biography of Georg Aumann (excerpt)
Georg Aumann (11 November 1906 in Munich, Germany – 4 August 1980), was a German mathematician.He was known for his work in general topology and regulated functions. During World War II, he worked as part of a group of five mathematicians, recruited by Wilhelm Fenner, and which included Ernst Witt, Alexander Aigner, Oswald Teichmueller and Johann Friedrich Schultze, and led by Wolfgang Franz, to form the backbone of the new mathematical research department in the late 1930s, which would eventually be called: Section IVc of Cipher Department of the High Command of the Wehrmacht (abbr.
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Biography of Antoine Avinin (excerpt)
Antoine Avinin, born on January 26, 1902, in Lyon and died on October 29, 1962, in Massiac (Cantal), was a French industrialist, resistance fighter, and politician.After his military service, he managed a small clothing factory in Villeurbanne. He was active in the Jeune République movement and was mobilized in 1939 as a lieutenant in the Army of the Alps.
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Biography of Giambattista Dal Piaz (excerpt)
Giambattista Dal Piaz (Feltre, September 3, 1904 – Padua, October 28, 1995) was an Italian geologist. He graduated in natural sciences from the University of Padua in 1927 and taught geology at the University of Turin and later in Padua, where he also taught paleontology and petrography.
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Biography of Siegfried Handloser (excerpt)
Siegfried Adolf Handloser was a German physician and general. He was born on March 25, 1885, in Constance. His father’s name was Konstantin, and his mother’s name was Anna Maria. In 1903, he began studying medicine, earning his doctorate in 1911.
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Biography of Lea Grundig (excerpt)
Lea Grundig (Dresden, 23 March 1906 – 10 October 1977, at sea) was a German painter and graphic artist. Born into a Jewish family in Dresden, she studied at the Decorative Arts Academy and later at the Fine Arts Academy, where Otto Dix influenced her work.
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Biography of Katta Sterna (excerpt)
Katta Sterna (born Katharina Ida Stern, December 19, 1897 – July 29, 1984) was a German actress and dancer. The daughter of engineer Georg Stern and Bertha Schmidt, she was the niece of Käthe Kollwitz and sister to actresses Johanna Hofer, Maria Matray, and Regula Keller.
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Biography of Manuel A. Odría (excerpt)
Manuel Arturo Odría Amoretti (November 26, 1897 – February 18, 1974) was a Peruvian statesman and military officer.He seized power in a 1948 coup, establishing a dictatorial regime known as the Ochenio. Political Career His administration, marked by pragmatism and nationalism, benefited from a favorable economic climate during the Korean War, with rising exports and prices.
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Biography of Chrix Dahl (excerpt)
Chrix Dahl (January 5, 1906 – June 16, 1994) was a Norwegian painter and illustrator. Born in Kristiania (now Oslo), he was the eldest son of a naval officer and Elise Augusta Steen. He studied at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry and the National Academy of Fine Arts from 1924 to 1932.
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Biography of Alv Torbjřrnsen (excerpt)
Alv Johan Torbjřrnsen (born April 24, 1908, in Christiania, died January 8, 1943, in Sachsenhausen) was a Norwegian dockworker and resistance fighter. Torbjřrnsen joined the NKP (Norwegian Communist Party) and was a student at the so-called Lenin School in Moscow from 1928 to 1930.
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Biography of Émile Poillot (excerpt)
Émile André Poillot, born on March 10, 1886, in Dijon and passed away on June 22, 1948, was a French pianist, organist, and pedagogue. He was trained by his father and later at the Dijon Conservatory before joining the Paris Conservatory in 1903.
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Biography of Frans Masereel (excerpt)
Frans Masereel, born on July 30, 1889, in Blankenberge (province of West Flanders, Belgium) and died on January 3, 1972, in Avignon (France), was a Belgian engraver, painter, and illustrator. He primarily worked in Switzerland, Germany, and France. An engaged artist, humanist, libertarian, and pacifist antimilitarist, deeply affected by the bloody turmoil of World War I, his works uncompromisingly denounce the horrors of war, oppression, and social injustice.
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Biography of Jacques de Bernonville (excerpt)
Count Jacques Charles Noel Dugé de Bernonville (December 20, 1897 – April 26, 1972) was a French collaborationist and senior officer in the Vichy regime's Milice. He tracked down and executed Resistance fighters and participated in deporting French Jews to Drancy and extermination camps.
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Biography of Helga Uys (excerpt)
Helga Uys (July 2, 1908 - May 26, 1969) was a German-born South African concert pianist and piano teacher of Jewish descent. She was married to Hannes Uys, with whom she had two children: Tessa Uys, a concert pianist, and Pieter-Dirk Uys, a satirist and writer.
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Biography of Paul Iribe (excerpt)
Joseph-Paul Iribe, né le 8 juin 1883 ŕ Angoulęme et mort le 21 septembre 1935 ŕ Roquebrune, est un dessinateur, illustrateur de mode, affichiste, patron de presse, réalisateur et décorateur français. Il est considéré comme l'un des précurseurs du mouvement Art déco.
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Biography of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (excerpt)
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (25 June 1884 – 11 January 1979) was a German-born art collector, and one of the most notable French art dealers of the 20th century. He became prominent as an art gallery owner in Paris beginning in 1907 and was among the first champions of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and the Cubist movement in art.
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Biography of Octave Mannoni (excerpt)
Dominique-Octave Mannoni (August 29, 1899 – July 30, 1989) was a French ethnologist, philosopher, and psychoanalyst born in Lamotte-Beuvron to a Corsican family. His studies, interrupted by World War I, culminated in a 1923 philosophy degree on Plotinus. Teaching in France and abroad, he lived in Madagascar (1931–1945), where he explored botany, wrote poetry, and supported Madagascar’s independence, leading to his dismissal in 1947.
Biography of Xavier de Langlais (excerpt)
Xavier de Langlais (April 26, 1906 in Sarzeau – June 15, 1975) was a Breton painter, printmaker and writer.He usually signed his work with the name Langleiz, a Breton language version of his surname. A supporter of the Breton National Party, this Breton artist and activist edited and illustrated nationalist literature.
Biography of Domingo Marrero Navarro (excerpt)
Domingo Marrero Navarro (1909–1960) was a Puerto Rican educator, writer, and speaker.Born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, on January 11, 1909, he received a diploma in theology in 1929 and began his first pastorship in 1930. He pursued further studies in education, philosophy, and law at the University of Puerto Rico and Columbia University.
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Biography of John Betjeman (excerpt)
Sir John Betjeman, CBE (28 August 1906 – 19 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster.He was Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death. He was a founding member of The Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture, helping to save St Pancras railway station from demolition.
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Biography of Carlo Ninchi (excerpt)
Carlo Ninchi (Bologna, May 31, 1896 – Milan, April 27, 1974) was a prominent Italian actor. The youngest of five children of Arnaldo Ninchi and Lidia Bedetti, he began his career in his brother Annibale’s troupe, debuting as Pilade in L'Oreste by Alfieri.
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Biography of Ernst Toller (excerpt)
Ernst Toller (1 December 1893 – 22 May 1939) was a German author, playwright, left-wing politician and revolutionary, known for his Expressionist plays. He served in 1919 for six days as President of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, after which he became the head of its army.
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Biography of David Garnett (excerpt)
David Garnett (March 9, 1892 – February 17, 1981) was a British writer and publisher, a member of the Bloomsbury Group.He gained literary fame with Lady into Fox, winning the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1922 and the Hawthornden Prize in 1923.
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Biography of Robert Foulk (excerpt)
Robert C.Foulk (born May 5, 1908, and died February 25, 1989) was an American television and film actor, best known for portraying Sheriff H.Miller in CBS’s Lassie from 1958 to 1962. Foulk studied at the University of Pennsylvania to become an architectural draftsman before shifting to acting.
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Biography of Bruno Balz (excerpt)
Bruno Balz (6 October 1902 in Berlin – 14 March 1988 in Bad Wiessee) was a German songwriter and schlager lyricist. From writing for the first German sound film until his retirement in the 1960s, Balz penned the lyrics to over a thousand popular hits, many in collaboration with composer Michael Jary.
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Biography of Dörte Helm (excerpt)
Dorothea "Dörte" Helm (3 December 1898 – 24 February 1941) was a German Bauhaus artist, painter, and graphic designer. Life and Career Born to philologist Rudolf Helm and Alice Caroline Bauer, of Jewish descent, Helm studied in Berlin-Steglitz and later in Rostock.From 1915 to 1918, she attended the Kunsthochschule Kassel before joining the Academy of Fine Arts in Weimar in 1918.
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Biography of Amanda Labarca (excerpt)
Amanda Labarca Hubertson (5 December 1886 – 2 January 1975) was a Chilean diplomat, educator, writer, and feminist, committed to advancing women’s rights in Latin America and promoting women’s suffrage in Chile. For her time of birth, sources leave some doubt as to whether she was born at the beginning or end of the day.
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Biography of Alexander Mountbatten (excerpt)
Alexander Albert Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke (born Prince Alexander Albert of Battenberg; 23 November 1886 – 23 February 1960) was a British Royal Navy officer, a member of the Hessian princely Battenberg family and the last surviving grandson of Queen Victoria.
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Biography of Joris Ivens (excerpt)
Georg Henri Anton "Joris" Ivens (18 November 1898 – 28 June 1989) was a Dutch documentary filmmaker. Among the notable films he directed or co-directed are A Tale of the Wind, The Spanish Earth, Rain, ...A Valparaiso, Misčre au Borinage (Borinage), 17th Parallel: Vietnam in War, The Seine Meets Paris, Far from Vietnam, Pour le Mistral and How Yukong Moved the Mountains.
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Biography of Francesco Baracca (excerpt)
Count Francesco Baracca (born May 9, 1888 – died June 19, 1918) was Italy's top fighter ace during World War I. He was credited with 34 aerial victories. The emblem he wore on his plane, a black horse rearing on its two hind legs, inspired Enzo Ferrari to use it on his race cars and later in his automotive company.
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Biography of Harald Heide Steen (excerpt)
Harald Heide Steen (11 January 1911 – 3 January 1980) was a Norwegian film actor, and son of Harald Martinius Steen and Signe Gunhilda Heide. He appeared in more than 30 films between 1933 and 1977.He was the father of actors and singers Harald Heide-Steen Jr.
Biography of Vittoria Crispo (excerpt)
Vittoria Crispo (Naples, May 1, 1900 – Naples, December 24, 1973) was an Italian actress.She was one of the most acclaimed character actresses of the post-war period and performed alongside the greatest Italian actors of the time. She notably played the role of Gina Lollobrigida's mother in Bread, Love and Jealousy and Bread, Love and Dreams, and the sister of Totň and Peppino De Filippo in Totň, Peppino and the..
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Biography of Maria Mandl (excerpt)
Maria Mandl (10 January 1912 – 24 January 1948) was an Austrian SS-Helferin ("SS helper") and war criminal known for her role in the Holocaust as a high-ranking official at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. She is linked to the deaths of over 500,000 prisoners.
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Biography of Fritz Jacobsen (excerpt)
Fritz John Jacobsen (born 21 May 1896 in Berlin-Charlottenburg – died 3 August 1981 in Nuremberg) was a German World War I flying ace credited with eight confirmed aerial victories and two unconfirmed. Fascinated by aviation from 1909, he became a test pilot and instructor before joining the German air troops in 1915. |
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