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Biography of Napoleon Hill (excerpt)
Napoleon Hill (October 26, 1883–November 8, 1970) was an American author who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature. "What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve" is one of Hill's hallmark expressions.
Biography of Cole Porter (excerpt)
Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter from Peru, Indiana. His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate (1948) (based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew), Fifty Million Frenchmen and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day," "I Get a Kick Out of You," and "I've Got You Under My Skin.
Biography of Bertold Brecht (excerpt)
Bertolt Brecht (born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht; February 10, 1898 – August 14, 1956) was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director. A seminal theatre practitioner of the twentieth century, Brecht's achievement is equally significant in dramaturgy and in theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble—the post-war theatre company operated by Brecht and his wife and long-time collaborator, the actress Helene Weigel—with its internationally acclaimed productions.
Biography of B. F. Skinner (excerpt)
Burrhus Frederic "Fred" Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990), Ph.D. was a highly influential American psychologist, author, inventor, advocate for social reform and poet. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until retirement in 1974.
Biography of Richard I of England (excerpt)
Richard I (8 September 1157 – 6 April 1199) was King of England from 6 July 1189 until his death. He was known as Richard the Lionheart, or Cœur de Lion even before his accession because of his military reputation. Richard was a central Christian commander during the Third Crusade and remains one of the very few Kings of England remembered by reputation, not number.
Biography of François Duvalier (excerpt)
Dr. François Duvalier, known as "Papa Doc" (April 14, 1907 (birth time source: Luc de Marre) – April 21, 1971), was the President of Haiti from 1957 and later dictator (President for Life) from 1964 until his death. His rule was marked by autocracy, corruption, and reliance on private armies (see Tonton Macoute) to maintain power.
Biography of Annabella (actress) (excerpt)
Annabella (July 14, 1907 – September 18, 1996) was a French cinema actress who achieved her greatest success in French cinema, but who also achieved some success in Hollywood films of the late 1930s. Born Suzanne Georgette Charpentier in Paris, France, Annabella made her film debut in 1927 and over the following decade established herself as one of France's most popular cinema actresses.
Biography of Abraham Maslow (excerpt)
Abraham (Harold) Maslow (April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was an American psychologist. He is mostly noted today for his proposal of a hierarchy of human needs and is considered the father of humanistic psychology. Life Born in Brooklyn, New York, Maslow was the first of seven children of Jewish immigrants from Russia.
Biography of Otto Dix (excerpt)
Otto Dix (December 2, 1891 - July 25, 1969) was a German painter and printmaker. Noted for his ruthless depictions of Weimar society and of the brutality of war, he is one of the most important artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity).
Biography of Milton Erickson (excerpt)
Milton Hyland Erickson, MD (born 5th December 1901 in Aurum, Nevada, died 25th March 1980 in Phoenix, Arizona) was an American psychiatrist specializing in medical hypnosis and family therapy. He was founding president of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis and a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychopathological Association.
Biography of Jean Genet (excerpt)
Jean Genet (December 19, 1910 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – April 15, 1986), was a a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later took to writing.
Biography of Meher Baba (excerpt)
Meher Baba (Persian: مهر بابا Devanāgarī: महर बाबा ), born Merwan Sheriar Irani (February 25, 1894 – January 31, 1969), was an Indian guru of Persian descent. Educated at St. Vincent's High School in Pune, India, as well as Deccan College, he led a normal school life, showing no particular inclination toward spiritual matters.
Biography of Jeane Dixon (excerpt)
Jeane L. Dixon (January 5, 1904 – January 25, 1997) was one of the best-known American astrologers and psychics of the 20th century, due to her syndicated newspaper astrology column, some well-publicized predictions, and a best-selling biography. Early life Dixon was born as Lydia Emma Pinckert to German immigrants, Gerhart and Emma Pinckert, in Medford, Wisconsin, but raised in Missouri and California.
Biography of Norman Rockwell (excerpt)
Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was a 20th century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States, where Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over more than four decades.
Biography of Duke Ellington (excerpt)
Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington (April 29, 1899–May 24, 1974) was an American jazz composer, pianist, and band leader who has been one of the most influential figures in jazz, if not in all American music. As a composer and a band leader especially, Ellington's reputation has increased since his death, with thematic repackagings of his signature music often becoming best-sellers.
Biography of Anna Akhmatova (excerpt)
Anna Andreyevna Gorenko (23 June 1889 – 5 March 1966), better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova (/ɑːkˈmeɪtəvə/; Russian: Анна Ахматова, IPA: ), was a Russian modernist poet, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Russian canon. Akhmatova's work ranges from short lyric poems to intricately structured cycles, such as Requiem (1935–40), her tragic masterpiece about the Stalinist terror.
Biography of Deng Xiaoping (excerpt)
Deng Xiaoping (simplified Chinese: 邓小平; traditional Chinese: 鄧小平; pinyin: Dèng Xiǎopíng; Wade-Giles: Teng Hsiao-p'ing; August 22, 1904 – February 19, 1997) was a prominent Chinese politician and reformer, and the late leader of the Communist Party of China (CCP). Deng never held office as the head of state or the head of government, but served as the de facto leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to the early 1990s.
Biography of Dr. Seuss (excerpt)
Theodor Seuss Geisel (March 2, 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts – September 24, 1991) was an American writer and cartoonist most widely known for his children's books written under the pen name Dr. Seuss. He published over 60 children's books, which were often characterized by imaginative characters, rhyme, and frequent use of trisyllabic meter.
Biography of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (excerpt)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies (March 27, 1886 -August 17, 1969) was a German architect. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, along with Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture.
Biography of Madame de Montespan (excerpt)
Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart-Mortemart, marquise de Montespan (October 5, 1640 – May 27, 1707), known as Madame de Montespan, was a famous mistress of Louis XIV of France. Early life Born at the chateau of Tonnay-Charente, in today's Charente-Maritime, France, the daughter of Gabriel de Rochechouart, duc de Mortemart.
Biography of Marthe Robin (excerpt)
Marthe Robin, born March 13 1902 in Châteauneuf-of-Galaure (Drome), in the district of Moïlles, and deceased on February 6 1981, was a French, inedic and stigmatized mystic.
Biography of Django Reinhardt (excerpt)
Jean "Django" Reinhardt (January 23, 1910 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – May 16, 1953) was a Belgian Sinto Gypsy jazz guitarist. He was one of the first prominent jazz musicians to be born in Europe, and one of the most renowned jazz guitarists of all time.
Biography of J. Paul Getty (excerpt)
Jean Paul Getty (December 15, 1892 (birth time source: Helen Allen) – June 6, 1976) was an American industrialist and founder of the Getty Oil Company. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, into a family already in the petroleum business, he was one of the first people in the world with a fortune of over $1 billion U.
Biography of Jack Dempsey (excerpt)
Jack "Manassa Mauler" Dempsey (June 24, 1895 – May 31, 1983) was an American boxer who held the world heavyweight title from 1919 to 1926. Dempsey's aggressive style and punching power made him one of the most popular boxers in history.
Biography of Ray Kroc (excerpt)
Raymond Albert Kroc (October 5, 1902 - January 14, 1984) took over the then small-scale McDonald's Corporation franchise in 1954 and built it into the most successful fast food operation in the world. Kroc was included in the TIME 100 list of the world's most influential builders and titans of industry, and amassed a $500 million fortune during his lifetime.
Biography of Bruno Groening (excerpt)
Bruno Gröning (May 30, 1906 in Danzig – January 26, 1959 in Paris) was a German mystic who gave lectures on faith healings. He was active in Germany in the 1940s and 1950s after World War II. Gröning had no formal medical training.
Biography of Anna Magnani (excerpt)
Anna Magnani (March 7, 1908 - September 26, 1973) was one of the best Italian's and world actress, with stage experience and an Academy Award win, for her lusty portrayal of a Sicilian widow in The Rose Tattoo. Born in Rome, she was brought up in poverty by her maternal grandmother in a slum district of the city.
Biography of Marcel Petiot (excerpt)
Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot (January 17, 1897 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – May 25, 1946) was a French doctor who was convicted of multiple murders after the discovery of the remains of twenty six people in his home in Paris after World War II.
Biography of Hervé Bazin (excerpt)
Hervé Bazin (Jean-Pierre Hervé-Bazin) (April 7, 1911, Angers - February 17, 1996, Angers) was a French writer, whose best-known novels covered semi-autobiographical topics of teenage rebellion and dysfunctional families. Bazin had a difficult childhood living in bigoted bourgeois family. He opposed his authoritarian mother, ran away several times during his teens, and refused Catholic teachings.
Biography of Louis Aragon (excerpt)
Louis Aragon (3 October 1897 (birth time source: Didier Geslain. There is no time of birth on his birth certificate. But Bordoni quotes Berthon, from a birth register) – 24 December 1982) was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France.
Biography of Erich Maria Remarque (excerpt)
Erich Maria Remarque (born Erich Paul Remark; 22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970) was a German novelist. His landmark novel All Quiet on the Western Front (1928), about the German military experience of World War I, was an international best-seller which created a new literary genre, and was subsequently made into the film All Quiet on the Western Front (1930).
Biography of Martha Graham (excerpt)
Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American dancer and choreographer. She is regarded as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance. Early years She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, a small town that is now part of Pittsburgh.
Biography of Vittorio de Sica (excerpt)
Vittorio De Sica (July 7, 1901 (source: Italian, German and French Wikipedia, some sources give 1902)–November 13, 1974) was a critically acclaimed Italian neorealist director and actor. Born into poverty in Sora (province of Frosinone), near Rome, he began his career as a theatre actor in the early 1920s and joined Tatiana Pavlova's theatre company in 1923.
Biography of Boris Pasternak (excerpt)
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (10 February (O.S. 29 January) 1890 – 30 May 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pasternak's first book of poems, My Sister, Life, was published in Berlin in 1922 and soon became an important collection in the Russian language.
Biography of Jean Anouilh (excerpt)
Jean Anouilh (June 23, 1910 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – October 3, 1987) was a French dramatist He was born in Cérisole, a small village on the outskirts of Bordeaux and had Basque ancestry. His father was a tailor and Anouilh maintained that he inherited from him a pride in conscientious craftmanship.
Biography of Manfred von Richthofen (excerpt)
Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (May 2, 1892 (birth time source: birth certificate) - April 21, 1918) was a German fighter pilot known as The Red Baron. He was the most successful flying ace of World War I, and was credited with 80 confirmed air combat victories.
Biography of Jose Raul Capablanca (excerpt)
José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (November 19, 1888 (birth time source: Jerry DeGattis, birth certificate) – March 8, 1942) was a Cuban world-class chess player in the early to mid-twentieth century. One of the first five unofficial grandmasters, he held the title of world chess champion from 1921 to 1927.
Biography of Maria Dabrowska (excerpt)
Maria Dąbrowska (; 6 October 1889 – 19 May 1965) was a Polish writer, novelist, essayist, journalist and playwright, author of the popular Polish historical novel Noce i dnie (Nights and Days) written between 1932 and 1934 in four separate volumes.
Biography of Alfonso Garcia Robles (excerpt)
Alfonso García Robles (20 March 1911 – 2 September 1991) was a Mexican diplomat and politician who, in conjunction with Sweden's Alva Myrdal, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. García Robles was born in Zamora, Michoacán, and trained in law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) before joining his country's foreign service in 1939.
Biography of Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (excerpt)
tanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (February 24, 1885 (birth time source: PTA, birth certificate)– September 18, 1939) more commonly known as "Witkacy" was a Polish playwright, novelist, painter, photographer and philosopher. Life Born in Warsaw, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz was the son of painter, architect and art critic Stanisław Witkiewicz.
Biography of Oscar Niemeyer (excerpt)
Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (December 15, 1907 – December 5, 2012), known as Oscar Niemeyer (Brazilian Portuguese: ), was a Brazilian architect who is considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture.
Biography of Nicolas de Staël (excerpt)
Nicolas de Staël (January 5, 1914, Saint Petersburg - March 16, 1955, Antibes) (French nationality, of Russian origin) was a painter known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting. He also worked with collage, illustration and textiles.
Biography of Astrid of Sweden (excerpt)
Astrid, Queen of the Belgians (born Princess Astrid Sofia Lovisa Thyra of Sweden) (November 17, 1905 - August 29, 1935) was the Queen consort of Léopold III of the Belgians. Princess Astrid of Sweden was born on November 17, 1905. She was the youngest daughter of Prince Carl of Sweden, Duke of Västergötland, and Princess Ingeborg of Denmark.
Biography of Georges Bataille (excerpt)
Georges Bataille (French IPA: ) (September 10, 1897 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – July 9, 1962) was a French writer and philosopher, though he avoided this last term himself. Life and work Bataille was born in Billom (Auvergne). He initially considered priesthood and went to a Catholic seminary but renounced his faith in 1922.
Biography of Gloria Swanson (excerpt)
Gloria Swanson (March 27, 1899 - April 4, 1983), was an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning American Hollywood actress. She was prolific during the silent film era, but her career declined with the advent of "talkies." She is now best known for her comeback role in the film Sunset Boulevard (1950), in which—mirroring her own life—she portrayed a former silent movie star largely forgotten by audiences of the day.
Biography of Karen Blixen (excerpt)
Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (April 17, 1885 – September 7, 1962), née Karen Dinesen, was a Danish author also known under her pen name Isak Dinesen. Blixen wrote works both in Danish and in English. She is best known, at least in English, for Out of Africa, her account of living in Kenya, and one of her stories, Babette's Feast, both of which have been adapted into highly acclaimed motion pictures.
Biography of George Gershwin (excerpt)
George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin. George Gershwin composed both for Broadway and for the classical concert hall.
Biography of Jean-Louis Barrault (excerpt)
Jean-Louis Barrault (September 8, 1910 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – January 22, 1994 in Le Vésinet) was a French actor, director and mime artist, training that served him well when he portrayed the 19th-century mime Jean-Gaspard Deburau (Baptiste Debureau) in Marcel Carné's 1945 film Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise).
Biography of Ernst Jünger (excerpt)
Ernst Jünger, (March 29, 1895 – February 17, 1998) was a German novelist who accounted on his war experiences. Many regard him as one of Germany's greatest modern writers and a hero of the conservative revolutionary movement following World War I.
Biography of Gilles de Rais (excerpt)
Gilles de Rais (also spelled Retz) (September 10, 1404 – October 26, 1440) was a French noble, soldier, and one time brother-in-arms of Joan of Arc. He was later accused and ultimately convicted of torturing, raping and murdering dozens, if not hundreds, of young children, mainly boys. |
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