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Biography of Carel Willink (excerpt)
Albert Carel Willink (7 March 1900 – 19 October 1983) was a well known Dutch painter who called his style of Magic realism "imaginary realism". Willink was born in Amsterdam, the eldest son of the mechanic Jan Willink and Wilhelmina Altes. His father was an amateur artist who encouraged his son to paint.
Biography of Albert Michel (actor) (excerpt)
Albert-Michel, born October 3, 1909 in Nancy (birth certificate n° 2209), died July 6, 1981 in Paris, was a French actor and comedian. He has appeared in 222 films, series, and television plays. He owes his fame mainly to the play La Bonne Planque, in which he played Péquinet alongside Bourvil.
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Biography of Lowell Thomas (excerpt)
Lowell Jackson Thomas (April 6, 1892 – August 29, 1981) was an American writer, broadcaster, and traveller best known as the man who made Lawrence of Arabia famous. So varied were Thomas's activities that when it came time for the Library of Congress to catalog his memoirs they were forced to put them in "CT" ("biographies of subjects who do not fit into any other category") in their classification. ![]()
Biography of Ferdinand Morton (excerpt)
Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton (October 20, 1890 (source: Imdb) – July 10, 1941) was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer. Widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz, Morton claimed to have invented jazz in 1902. Morton was composer of the first Jazz composition ever published, Jelly Roll Blues, in 1915.
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Biography of Ernst Heinrich Heinkel (excerpt)
Ernst Heinkel (January 24, 1888 – January 30, 1958) was a German aircraft designer and manufacturer. Early life He was born in Grunbach and as a young man became an apprentice machinist at a foundry. He initially became interested in aviation through a fascination with zeppelins, and in 1909 attended an international airshow in Frankfurt am Main.
Biography of Brice Parain (excerpt)
Brice Parain, born on March 10, 1897 in Courcelles-sous-Jouarre, died on March 20, 1971, was a French philosopher and writer. Publications (extract) * Essai sur la misère humaine, Grasset, 1934 * Retour à la France, Grasset, 1936
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Biography of Gaston Berger (excerpt)
Gaston Berger (1896-1960) was a French futurist, who created the Centre International de Prospective in Paris. He wrote a remarkably lucid analysis of Edmund Husserl's Phenomenology. ![]()
Biography of David O. Selznick (excerpt)
David O. Selznick, born David Selznick (May 10, 1902 – June 22, 1965), was an American film producer. He is best known for producing Gone with the Wind (1939) which earned him an Oscar for Best Picture. Early years Selznick was born to a Jewish family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of silent movie distributor Lewis J.
Biography of Alec Badenoch (excerpt)
Alec William Badenoch, born June 23, 1903 in Banff, is a Scottish surgeon and physician. ![]()
Biography of Barbara Hepworth (excerpt)
Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism, and with such contemporaries as Ivon Hitchens, Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo she helped to develop modern art (sculpture in particular) in Britain.
Biography of Edith Randall (excerpt)
Edith Randall, born October 10, 1897 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, died November 16, 1978 in Hollywood, was an American professional astrologer, teacher of astrology and author. ![]()
Biography of Max Bill (excerpt)
Max Bill (22 December 1908 – 8 December 1994) was a Swiss architect, artist, painter, typeface designer, and graphic designer. Bill was born in Winterthur. After an apprenticeship as a silversmith during 1924-1927, Bill took up studies at the Bauhaus in Dessau under many teachers including Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Oskar Schlemmer in 1927-1929.
Biography of Jean Schneider (excerpt)
Jean Schneider, born on November 3, 1903 in Mtz, died on May 14, 2004, was a French historian and writer, a specialist of the the Middle Ages. Selected publications: Étude sur la fortune d'un patricien messin du XIIIe siècle, Arnoul Aixiet, in Annuaire de la Société d'Histoire et d'Archéologie de la Lorraine, 1938 ![]()
Biography of Robert Watson-Watt (excerpt)
Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, FRS FRAeS (April 13, 1892–December 5, 1973), is considered by many to be the "inventor of radar". Radar development was first started elsewhere (see History of radar), but Watson-Watt created the first workable radar system, turning the theory into one of the most important war-winning weapons. ![]()
Biography of Hermione Baddeley (excerpt)
Hermione Baddeley (13 November 1906 – 19 August 1986) was a celebrated Academy Award-nominated English character actress of theatre, film and television. Originally Hermione Youlanda Ruby Clinton-Baddeley, she was born in Broseley, Shropshire, England. A descendant of British Revolutionary War general Sir Henry Clinton, she and her older sister (the actress Angela Baddeley of Upstairs, Downstairs fame) moved in elevated social circles, Hermione's first husband being the Hon. ![]()
Biography of Fumimaro Konoe (excerpt)
Prince Fumimaro Konoe (Kyūjitai: 近衞 文麿, Shinjitai: 近衛 文麿, Konoe Fumimaro) (sometimes Konoye, October 12, 1891–December 16, 1945) was a Japanese politician and the 34th (June 4, 1937–January 5, 1939), 38th (July 22, 1940–July 18, 1941) and 39th (July 18, 1941–October 18, 1941) Prime Minister of Japan. ![]()
Biography of John Archibald Wheeler (excerpt)
John Archibald Wheeler (July 9, 1911 – April 13, 2008) was an American theoretical physicist who was largely responsible for reviving interest in general relativity in the United States after World War II. Wheeler also worked with Niels Bohr in explaining the basic principles behind nuclear fission.
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Biography of Paul Ramadier (excerpt)
Paul Ramadier (March 17, 1888, La Rochelle (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - October 14, 1961) was a prominent French Socialist politician of the Third and Fourth Republics. Mayor of Decazeville starting in 1919, he served as the first Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic in 1947.
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Biography of Claudius Dornier (excerpt)
Claude (Claudius) Honoré Desiré Dornier born in Kempten im Allgäu (May 14, 1884 - December 5, 1969) was a German airplane builder and founder of Dornier GmbH. His legacy remains in the few aircraft named after him, including the Dornier Do 18 and the 12-engine Dornier Do X flying boat, for decades the world's largest and most powerful airplane. ![]()
Biography of Henry Potez (excerpt)
Potez was a French aircraft manufacturer founded as Aéroplanes Henry Potez by Henry Potez at Aubervilliers in 1919. The firm began by refurbishing war-surplus SEA IV aircraft, but was soon building new examples of an improved version, the Potez VII. During the inter-war years, Potez built a range of small passenger aircraft and a series of military reconnaissance biplanes that were also licence-built in Poland. ![]()
Biography of Giacomo Matteotti (excerpt)
Giacomo Matteotti (22 May 1885 – 10 June 1924) was an Italian socialist politician. On 30 May 1924, he openly spoke in the Italian Parliament alleging the Fascists committed fraud in the recently held elections, and denounced the violence they used to gain votes.
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Biography of Alan Villiers (excerpt)
Captain Alan John Villiers (23 September 1903 – 3 March 1982) was an author, adventurer, photographer and Master Mariner. Born in Melbourne, Australia, he first went to sea at age 15 and sailed all the world's oceans on board traditionally rigged vessels including the full rigged ship Joseph Conrad. ![]()
Biography of Martha Eggerth (excerpt)
Hungarian-born American singer-actress Marta Eggerth, sometimes listed as Martha Eggerth, has maintained her performing career for over 70 years. She starred in over 40 films and performed a concert in New York in 2007, aged 95. Born as Márta Eggerth on April 17, 1912 in Budapest, she began singing at age 11. ![]()
Biography of Adlai Stevenson (excerpt)
Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (Los Angeles, February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American politician, noted for his intellectual demeanor and advocacy of liberal causes in the Democratic Party. He served one term as governor of Illinois and ran, unsuccessfully, for president against Dwight D. ![]()
Biography of Ninon Vallin (excerpt)
Ninon Vallin (September 8, 1886 - November 22, 1961) was a French soprano who achieved considerable popularity in opera, operetta, and recitals during a career which lasted for more than four decades. Career Ninon Vallin was born at Montalieu-Vercieu (in Isère), and studied at the Lyons Conservatoire.
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Biography of Jacques Doriot (excerpt)
Jacques Doriot (26 September 1898, Bresles, Oise—22 February 1945, near Mengen, Württemberg) was a French politician prior to and during World War II. He began as a Communist but then turned Fascist. Early life and politics Doriot moved to Saint Denis, near Paris, at an early age and became a labourer.
Biography of Georges Passelecq (excerpt)
Georges Passelecq, born March 29, 1909 in Ixelles, died February 27, 1999 in Maredsous, was a Belgian Catholic priest.
Biography of Terence Cawthorne (excerpt)
Terence Cawthorne, born September 29, 1902 in Aberdeen, is a Scottish otolaryngologist, physician and surgeon. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Pflimlin (excerpt)
Pierre Eugène Jean Pflimlin (February 5, 1907 - June 27, 2000) was a French Christian Democratic politician who served as the penultimate Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic for a few weeks in 1958, before being replaced by Charles de Gaulle during the crisis of that year.
Biography of Pierre Heckel (excerpt)
Pierre Heckel, born March 12, 1902 in Sarreguemines, is a French astrologer.
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Biography of Robert Le Vigan (excerpt)
Robert Le Vigan, born Robert-Charles-Alexandre Coquillaud January 7, 1900 in Paris 18e (birth time source: Évelyne Lucas, birth certificate) and die October 12, 1972 in Tandi, Argentina, was a French actor. Filmography (extract) # Ley del mar (1952) . Rafael # Rio turbio (1952) .
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Biography of Roger Frey (excerpt)
Roger Frey (11 June 1913, Nouméa, New Caledonia (birth time source: Didier Geslain – September 13, 1997) was a French politician. He was Minister of the Interior and president of the Constitutional Council of France. Monokini prosecution In 1964, he enforced the prosecution of the use of monokini, a women's one-piece bathing suit that leaves the breasts uncovered. ![]()
Biography of Guillaume Dubois (excerpt)
Guillaume Dubois (6 September 1656 – 10 August 1723) was a French cardinal and statesman. Early years Dubois, the third of the four great Cardinal-Ministers (Richelieu, Mazarin, Dubois, and Fleury), was born in Brive-la-Gaillarde, in Limousin. He was, according to his enemies, the son of an apothecary, his father being in fact a doctor of medicine of respectable family, who kept a small drug store as part of the necessary outfit of a country practitioner.
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Biography of Louis Aimar (excerpt)
Louis Aimar, born January 3, 1911 in Pagno, Italy, died September 2005, was a French (from April 6, 1933) bicycle racer.
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Biography of Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (excerpt)
Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (11 December 1911 – 18 April 1986) was a German naval officer, and a submarine commander during World War II. He was sixth among the top ten Aces of the Deep during the Second Battle of the Atlantic against the Allies, in terms of tonnage of merchant ships sunk. ![]()
Biography of Jacques Massu (excerpt)
Jacques Émile Massu (5 May 1908 – 26 October 2002) was a French general who fought in World War II, First Indochina War, Algerian War and the Suez crisis. Early life Jacques Massu was born in Chalons-sur-Marne to a family of military officers; his father was an artillery officer.
Biography of Francis de Bourguignon (excerpt)
Francis de Bourguignon, born May 29, 1890 in Brussels, died April 11, 1961, was a Belgian musician, composer and music teacher. Selected works * 1927 Dans l'île de Pinang op. 13 voor (klein) orkest * 1927 En Floride op.
Biography of Christine Hartley (excerpt)
Christine Hartley, born May 31, 1897 in London and died Decmeber 25, 1985, was a British businessman and magician, a member of the Fraternity of Inner Light. The Fraternity of the Inner Light was a magical society and Western Mystery School. ![]()
Biography of Anita Page (excerpt)
Anita Evelyn Pomares (August 4, 1910 – September 6, 2008), better known as Anita Page, was a Salvadoran-American film actress who reached stardom in the last years of the silent film era. She became a highly popular young star, reportedly at one point receiving the most fan mail of anyone on the MGM lot.
Biography of Henri Guisol (excerpt)
Henri Guisol, born October 12, 1904 in Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), died May 1&, 1994 in Saint-Raphaël (Var), was a French actor and comedian. Filmography (extract) * 1931 : La Chienne de Jean Renoir * 1935 : Le Domino vert de Henri Decoin et Herbert Selpin
Biography of Simone Beck (excerpt)
Simone "Simca" Beck (7 July 1904 in Normandy, France - 20 December 1991) was a French cookbook author and cooking teacher who, along with colleagues Julia Child and Louisette Bertholle, played a significant role in the introduction of French cooking technique and recipes into American kitchens.
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Biography of Robert Agnew (excerpt)
Robert Agnew (or Bobby Agnew), born June 4, 1899 in Dayton, Kentucky, died November 8, 1983 in Palm Springs, California, was an American actor. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0013149/ ) # Little Man, What Now. (1934) (uncredited) .. Bit Role # Business Is a Pleasure (1934)
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Biography of Louis Massignon (excerpt)
Louis Massignon (July 25, 1883–October 31, 1962) was a French scholar of Islam and its history. Although a Catholic himself, he tried to understand Islam from within and thus had a great influence on the way Islam was seen in the West; among other things, he paved the way for a greater openness inside the Catholic Church towards Islam as it was documented in the pastoral Vatican II declaration Nostra Aetate. ![]()
Biography of Jean Ray (author) (excerpt)
Jean Ray is the best-known pseudonym among the many used by Raymundus Joannes de Kremer (8 July 1887 – 17 September 1964), a prolific Belgian (Flemish) writer. Although he wrote journalism, stories for young readers in Dutch by the name John Flanders, and scenarios for comic strips and detective stories, he is best known for his tales of the fantastique written in French under the name Jean Ray.
Biography of Yukichi Chuganji (excerpt)
Yukichi Chuganji (中願寺 雄吉 Chūganji Yūkichi., March 23, 1889 – September 28, 2003) was a Japanese supercentenarian and "..was recognised by Guinness World Records as the oldest man.." in Japan until his death at age 114 years 189 days. A retired silkworm breeder, he lived in the city of Ogori, Fukuoka Prefecture, with his 74-year-old daughter Kyoko.
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Biography of Ermanno Roveri (excerpt)
Ermanno Roveri, born October 5, 1903 in Milano, died December 28, 1968 in Milano, was an Italian actor. Filmography (extract) "Promessi sposi, I" (1967) (mini) TV Series .... Fra' Fazio Avventure di topo Gigio, Le (1965) ... aka The Italian Mouse (UK) ... aka The Magic World of Topo Gigio (USA) ![]()
Biography of Hans Adolf Krebs (excerpt)
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs (August 25, 1900–November 22, 1981) was a German, later British medical doctor and biochemist. Krebs is best known for his identification of two important metabolic cycles: the urea cycle and the citric acid cycle. The latter, the key sequence of metabolic chemical reactions that produces energy in cells, is also known as the Krebs cycle and earned him a Nobel Prize in 1953.
Biography of William McEwan Younger (excerpt)
William McEwan Younger, born September 6, 1905 in Melrose, is a Scottish entrepreneur and businessman, the Chairman of Scottish and Newcastle Breweries Lts. ![]()
Biography of Amedeo Nazzari (excerpt)
Amedeo Nazzari (Cagliari, 10 December 1907 – Rome, 7 November 1979) was an Italian actor. Star of Italian cinema during the 40's and 50's. He made several melodramas with Raffaello Matarazzo, such as Catene in 1949. Nazzari acts himself in Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria. ![]()
Biography of Michael Wilding (excerpt)
Michael Wilding (23 July 1912 – 8 July 1979) was an English actor. Early life Born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England, Wilding was a successful commercial artist when he joined the art department of a London movie studio in 1933. He soon embarked on an acting career. |
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