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Biography of Paul Delvaux (excerpt)
Paul Delvaux (September 23, 1897 – July 20, 1994) was a Belgian painter, famous for his surrealist paintings with female nudes. Delvaux was born in Antheit in the Belgian province of Liège, the son of a lawyer. The young Delvaux took music lessons, studied Greek and Latin, and absorbed the fiction of Jules Verne and the poetry of Homer.
Biography of Tallulah Bankhead (excerpt)
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead (January 31, 1902 – December 12, 1968) was an American actress and talk-show host. Early life and family Bankhead was born in Huntsville, Alabama to William Brockman Bankhead and Adelaide Eugene Sledge, and was named after her maternal grandmother .
Biography of Katherine Mansfield (excerpt)
Kathleen Mansfield Murry (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent New Zealand modernist writer of short fiction who wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield. Mansfield was born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp into a socially prominent family in Wellington, New Zealand.
Biography of Lúcia dos Santos (excerpt)
Lúcia de Jesus dos Santos, O.C.D. (March 22, 1907 (birth time source: Filipe Ferreira, birth certificate) – February 13, 2005), also known as Lúcia of Fátima and by her religious name Sister Maria Lúcia of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart, was a Portuguese Catholic Carmelite nun and one of the three children, including her cousins, Jacinta and Francisco Marto, who claimed to witness Marian apparitions in Fátima in 1917.
Biography of Aram Khatchaturian (excerpt)
Aram Khachaturian (June 6, 1903–May 1, 1978) was a Soviet-Armenian composer whose works were often influenced by Armenian folk music. Life Aram Khachaturian was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, Imperial Russia to a poor Armenian family. In his youth, he was fascinated by the music he heard around him, but at first he did not study music or learn to read it.
Biography of Claus von Stauffenberg (excerpt)
Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German army officer and one of the leading figures of the failed July 20 Plot of 1944 to kill German dictator Adolf Hitler and seize power in Germany.
Biography of Dorothy Boyd (excerpt)
Dorothy Boyd (14 April 1907 – 1996) was an English film actress. She appeared in 38 films between 1926 and 1940. She was born in Sanderstead, Surrey, England and died in England. Career Without any previous stage experience, she came to films when she appeared in three short films made in the Phonofilm sound-on-film process, Knee Deep in Daisies (1926), The Sentence of Death (1927), and The Burglar and the Girl (1928).
Biography of Johann Pachelbel (excerpt)
Johann Pachelbel (pronounced /ˈpækəlbɛl/, German IPA: , , or ) (September 1, 1653 – March 3, 1706) was a German Baroque composer, organist and teacher who brought the south German organ tradition to its peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to the development of the chorale prelude and fugue have earned him a place among the most important composers of the middle Baroque era.
Biography of Mahalia Jackson (excerpt)
Mahalia Jackson (October 26, 1911 – January 27, 1972) was an American Grammy Award-winning gospel singer, widely regarded as the best in the history of the genre and is the first "Queen of Gospel Music". Mahalia Jackson became one of the most influential gospel singers in the world.
Biography of Oliver Hardy (excerpt)
Oliver Hardy (born Norvell Hardy; January 18, 1892 – August 7, 1957) was an American actor, most remembered for his role in one of the world's most famous double acts, Laurel and Hardy, with his friend Stan Laurel. Name He did not adopt the name "Oliver" until 1914, doing so as a tribute to his father, who had died when Hardy was an infant.
Biography of Gypsy Rose Lee (excerpt)
Gypsy Rose Lee (also known as Rose Louise Hovick and Louise Hovick) (b. February 9, 1911/1914 (birth date and time source: conflicting data) – April 26, 1970) was an American actress, burlesque entertainer, and writer whose 1957 memoir, which included a scathing portrait of her domineering mother, was made into the stage musical and film Gypsy.
Biography of Werner Heisenberg (excerpt)
Werner Karl Heisenberg (December 5, 1901 – February 1, 1976) was a celebrated German physicist and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum mechanics and acknowledged to be one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century. Heisenberg was the head of the German nuclear energy project under the Nazi regime, though the nature of this project, and his work in this capacity, has been heavily debated.
Biography of Stan Laurel (excerpt)
Stan Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson; June 16, 1890 – February 23, 1965) was an English comic actor, writer and director, famous as part of the comedy double-act Laurel and Hardy, whose career stretched from the silent films of the early 20th century until post-World War II.
Biography of Marcel Aymé (excerpt)
Marcel Aymé (March 29, 1902 - October 14, 1967) was a French novelist, children's writer , humour writer and also a movie and theater playwright. Marcel Aymé was born in Joigny, in the Yonne département (Bourgogne). He studied in the Collège de Dole, and worked among other as a journalist in Paris.
Biography of Gopi Krishna (excerpt)
Gopi Krishna (1903 - 1984) of India was a yogi, mystic, teacher, social reformer, and writer. His autobiography is known under the title Kundalini: The Evolutionary Energy in Man. In the 1970s he founded together with Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker a research foundation "for western sciences and eastern wisdom".
Biography of Barbara Hutton (excerpt)
Barbara Woolworth Hutton (November 14, 1912 – May 11, 1979) was an American debutante, socialite, heiress, and philanthropist. She was dubbed the "Poor Little Rich Girl", first when she was given a lavish and expensive debutante ball in 1930, amid the Great Depression, and later due to a notoriously troubled private life.
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The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor within New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and its metal framework was built by Gustave Eiffel.
Biography of Maurice Chevalier (excerpt)
Maurice Chevalier (September 12, 1888 – January 1, 1972) was a Belgian-French actor, singer, and popular entertainer. Chevalier's signature songs included "Louise", "Mimi", and "Valentine." His trademark was a casual straw hat, which he always wore on stage with his tuxedo.
Biography of John von Neumann (excerpt)
John von Neumann (December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath. He had perhaps the widest coverage of any mathematician of his time, integrating pure and applied sciences and making major contributions to many fields, including mathematics, physics, economics, computing, and statistics.
Biography of Robert Delaunay (excerpt)
Robert Delaunay (1885 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)-1941, October 25) was a French artist who used orphism, similar to abstraction and cubism in his work. Delaunay concentrated on orphism, while his later works were more abstract, reminiscent of Paul Klee. His key influence related to bold use of colour, and a clear love of experimentation of both depth and tone.
Biography of Margaret Mead (excerpt)
Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901, Philadelphia – November 15, 1978, New York City) was an American cultural anthropologist. Early years Mead was the first of five children, born into a Quaker family, raised near Doylestown, Pennsylvania by her university professor at the University at Pennsylvania father, Edward Sherwood Mead, and social-activist mother, Emily Fogg Mead.
Biography of René Clément (excerpt)
René Clément March 18, 1913, Bordeaux – March 17, 1996, Monte Carlo, Monaco) was a French film director and screenwriter. Clément studied architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he developed an interest in filmmaking. In 1936, he directed his first film, a 20 minute short written and featuring Jacques Tati.
Biography of John Huston (excerpt)
thJohn Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director and actor. He was known for directing the films, The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Key Largo (1948), The African Queen (1951), The Misfits (1960), and The Man Who Would Be King (1975).
Biography of Pierre Mendès France (excerpt)
Pierre Mendès France (11 January 1907 - 18 October 1982), French politician, was born in Paris, into a family of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish origin (Mendes de França). Third Republic and World War II He was educated at the University of Paris, graduating with a doctorate in law and becoming the youngest member of the Paris Bar association in 1928.
Biography of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (excerpt)
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (Olga Nikolaevna Romanova) (Tsarskoe Selo, Russia, November 15 1895 – July 17, 1918) (after 1900, Olga's birthday was celebrated on the 16th of November) was the eldest daughter of the last autocratic ruler of the Russian Empire, Emperor Nicholas II, and of Empress Alexandra of Russia.
Biography of Magda Goebbels (excerpt)
Johanna Maria Magdalena "Magda" Goebbels (11 November 1901 – 1 May 1945) was the wife of Nazi Germany's Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. A prominent member of the Nazi party, she was a close ally and political supporter of Adolf Hitler. As Berlin was being overrun by the Red Army at the end of World War II, she murdered her six children with Goebbels and then committed suicide.
Biography of Danny Kaye (excerpt)
Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; January 18, 1911 (birth time source: Gar Osten quotes Kaye's widow by phone, AFA DX., a 1938 ship's passenger list as well as the social security death index give 1911 as his birth year) – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer, dancer, comedian, musician, and philanthropist.
Biography of Balthus (excerpt)
Balthazar Klossowski de Rola (February 29, 1908 in Paris – February 18, 2001) was an esteemed Polish/French modern artist whose work was ultimately anti-modern. Life and work Style and themes Balthus' style is primarily classical and academic. Though his technique and compositions were inspired by pre-renaissance painters, there are also eerie intimations reminiscent of contemporary surrealists like de Chirico.
Biography of John Cage (excerpt)
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer. He was a pioneer of chance music, non-standard use of musical instruments, and electronic music. He is perhaps best known for his 1952 composition 4'33", whose three movements are performed without a single note being played.
Biography of Félix Houphouët-Boigny (excerpt)
Félix Houphouët-Boigny (pronounced ) (October 18, 1905 - December 7, 1993) was the first President of Côte d'Ivoire (1960 - 1993) and was previously elected to the French parliament and appointed minister in the government of France several times between 1957 and 1961.
Biography of Francisco Xavier (excerpt)
Chico Xavier was a popular medium in Brazil´s spiritism movement. In his life he wrote more than 400 books in a process known as Automatic writing. He was born in 1910 and died in 2002. Biography Francisco Cândido Xavier (April 2, 1910 - June 30, 2002), was the most popular and prolific medium in 20th century Brazil's Spiritism movement.
Biography of Golda Meir (excerpt)
Golda Meir (Hebrew: גולדה מאיר, Arabic: جولدا مائير, born Golda Mabovitch, May 3, 1898 (14 May gregorian calendar) - December 8, 1978, known as Golda Myerson from 1917-1956) was the fourth prime minister of the State of Israel. Golda Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel on March 17, 1969, after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister .
Biography of Edgar P. Jacobs (excerpt)
Edgard Félix Pierre Jacobs, (30 March 1904 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth certificate) - 20 February 1987), better known under his pen name Edgar P. Jacobs, was a Belgian comic book creator (writer and artist), born in Brussels, Belgium. He was one of the founding fathers of the European comics movement, through his collaborations with Hergé and the graphic novel series that made him famous, Blake and Mortimer.
Biography of Carl Orff (excerpt)
Carl Orff (July 10, 1895 – March 29, 1982) was a 20th-century German composer, most famous for Carmina Burana (1937). He was also successful and influential in the field of music education. Life Orff was born in Munich, Germany and came from a Bavarian family that was very active in the German military.
Biography of Etty Hillesum (excerpt)
Ester "Etty" Hillesum (January 15, 1914 in Middelburg, The Netherlands (birth time source: Astro-Kring, birth certificate) — November 30, 1943 in Auschwitz, Poland) was a young Jewish writer whose letters and diaries, kept between 1941 and 1943 describe life under Nazi rule in Amsterdam during the the German occupation of World War II.
Biography of François Mauriac (excerpt)
François Mauriac (October 11, 1885 (birth time source: birth certificate, Didier Geslain) – September 1, 1970) was a French author, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is acknowledged to be one of the greatest Roman Catholic writers of the 20th century.
Biography of Roberto Assagioli (excerpt)
Roberto Assagioli (Venice, February 27, 1888 (birth time source: Bordoni, birth certificate) - Capolona d'Arezzo, August 23, 1974) was an Italian psychiatrist who was the founder of the psychological movement known as Psychosynthesis. "Only the development of his inner powers can offset the dangers inherent in man's losing control of the tremendous natural forces at his disposal and becoming the victim of his own achievements.
Biography of Egon Schiele (excerpt)
Egon Schiele (June 12, 1890 – October 31, 1918) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. Schiele's work is noted for its intensity, and the many self-portraits the artist produced.
Biography of Lal Bahadur Shashtri (excerpt)
Lal Bahadur Shastri (Hindi लालबहादुर शास्त्री) (October 2, 1904 - January 11, 1966) was the second Prime Minister of independent India and a significant figure in the Indian independence movement. Early life and freedom struggle Lal Bahadur was born in the year 1904 in Mughalsarai, Uttar Pradesh as Lal Bahadur Srivastava.
Biography of Robert Taylor (excerpt)
Robert Taylor (August 5, 1911 (birth time source: from the biography "Robert Taylor," from Jane Wayne) – June 8, 1969), was an American actor. Early life Born Spangler Arlington Brugh in Filley, Nebraska, he was the son of Andrew Brugh, a farmer turned doctor, and Ruth Brugh.
Biography of Czeslaw Milosz (excerpt)
Czesław Miłosz (Lithuanian: Česlovas Milošas) (June 30, 1911 – August 14, 2004) was a Polish poet, prose writer and translator of Lithuanian origin and subsequent American citizenship. His World War II-era sequence The World, is a collection of 20 "naive" poems.
Biography of Kurt Gödel (excerpt)
Kurt Gödel (IPA: ) (April 28, 1906 Brno (Brünn), Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) – January 14, 1978 Princeton, New Jersey) was an Austrian American mathematician and philosopher. One of the most significant logicians of all time, Gödel's work has had immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century, a time when many, such as Bertrand Russell, A.
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Cuba gained formal independence from the U.S. on May 20, 1902, as the Republic of Cuba. Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba (Spanish: República de Cuba (About this soundlisten)), is a country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.
Biography of Doris Duke (excerpt)
Doris Duke (November 22, 1912 – October 28, 1993) was an American heiress and philanthropist. Early Life Born in New York City, Doris Duke was the only child of tobacco and electric energy tycoon James Buchanan Duke and his second wife, Southern aristocrat Nanaline Holt Inman.
Biography of Renée Adorée (excerpt)
Renée Adorée (September 30, 1897 – October 5, 1933) was a French actress, who had appeared in Hollywood silent movies during the 1920s. Early life Born Jeanne de La Fonte in Hamburg, Germanye, she was the daughter of circus artists and who, by age five, was performing in the circus with her parents.
Biography of Guy de Rothschild (excerpt)
Baron Guy Édouard Alphonse Paul de Rothschild (May 21, 1909 – June 12, 2007) was a French banker and member of the Rothschild family. He chaired the bank Rothschild Frères from 1967 to 1979, when it was nationalized by the French government, and maintained possessions in other French and foreign companies including Imerys.
Biography of Bebe Daniels (excerpt)
Bebe Daniels (January 14, 1901 - March 16, 1971) was an American actress. She began in Hollywood in the silent movie era and later gained fame on radio and television in England. Early life and career Daniels was born Phyllis Daniels in Dallas, Texas.
Biography of Nadia Boulanger (excerpt)
Nadia Boulanger (September 16, 1887 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – October 22, 1979) was an influential French composer, conductor, and music professor. An outstanding music educator at the highest level, she taught many of the most important composers and conductors of the 20th century.
Biography of Oskar Kokoschka (excerpt)
Oskar Kokoschka (1 March 1886 – 22 February 1980) was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes. Biography He was born in Pöchlarn, second child to Gustav Josef Kokoschka and Maria Romana Kokoschka. His older brother died in infancy in 1887; he had a sister, Berta (born in 1889) and a brother, Bohuslav (born in 1892).
Biography of Wilhelm Furtwängler (excerpt)
Wilhelm Furtwängler (January 25, 1886 – November 30, 1954) was a German conductor and composer. Furtwängler was born in Berlin into a prominent family. His father Adolf was an archaeologist, his mother a painter. Most of his childhood was spent in Munich, where his father taught at the university. |
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