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Biography of André Chantemesse (excerpt)
André Chantemesse (October 13, 1851 - February 25, 1919) was a French bacteriologist. After graduation from the University of Paris in 1884, he traveled to Berlin to study bacteriology at the laboratory of Robert Koch (1843-1910). Chantemesse is primarily known for his collaborative work done with Georges-Fernand Widal (1862-1929) at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. ![]()
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Kimberley is the capital and largest city of the Northern Cape Province of South Africa.It is located approximately 110 km east of the confluence of the Vaal and Orange Rivers.The city has considerable historical significance due to its diamond mining past and the siege during the Second Anglo-Boer war. ![]()
Biography of Leopold Stokowski (excerpt)
Leopold Stokowski (born Antoni Stanisław Bolesławowicz) (April 18, 1882 – September 13, 1977) was a famous orchestral conductor, well known for his freehand performing style that spurned the traditional baton. Stokowski performed with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony of the Air.
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Biography of Marcel Lévesque (excerpt)
Marcel Lévesque, born on December 6, 1877 in Paris (birth time source: birth certificate, Michel Gauquelin), died on February 16, 1962 in Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames, was a French actor, comedian, and screenwriter. Filmography (extract) 1909 : L'Arrestation de la duchesse de Berry réalisé par le Film d'Art
Biography of Albert Devèze (excerpt)
Albert Joseph Charles Devèze (6 June 1881, Ypres, West Flanders (source: lescaut) - 28 November 1959, Brussels) was a Belgian liberal politician and minister.Devèze was a doctor in law and a lawyer.He was a liberal municipality Council member in Schaerbeek and in Ixelles and a member of parliament for the district of Brussels (1912–1939 and 1946–1958) and for the district of Verviers (1939–1946).
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Biography of Saint-Georges de Bouhélier (excerpt)
Stéphane-Georges Lepelletier de Bouhélier, best known as Saint-Georges de Bouhélier, born on May 19, 1876 in Rueil-Malmaison (Hauts-de-Seine), died on December 20, 1947 in Montreux (Switzerland), was a French poet, novelist, and playwright, the son of journaliste and author Edmond Lepelletier.
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Biography of Heinrich Hertz (excerpt)
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (February 22, 1857 – January 1, 1894) was a German physicist who clarified and expanded the electromagnetic theory of light that had been put forth by Maxwell. He was the first to satisfactorily demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic waves by building an apparatus to produce and detect VHF or UHF radio waves. ![]()
Biography of Rudolf Otto (excerpt)
Rudolf Otto (September 25, 1869–6 March 1937) was an eminent German Lutheran theologian and scholar of comparative religion. Life Born in Peine near Hanover, Otto attended the Gymnasium Andreanum in Hildesheim and studied at the universities of Erlangen and Göttingen, where he wrote his dissertation on Martin Luther's understanding of the Holy Spirit, and his habilitation on Kant. ![]()
Biography of Albert Edelfelt (excerpt)
Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt (21 July 1854 (birth time source: "Kyosti Tarvainen argues by email, that the date is 21 July Gregorian Calendar: "Finland was at that time a part of Russia. But we used the new time systems (since we were earlier a part of Sweden)."") – 18 August 1905) was a Finnish painter.
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Biography of P. G. Wodehouse (excerpt)
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) (IPA: /ˈwʊdhaʊs/) was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 30 years after his death. ![]()
Biography of Natalie Clifford Barney (excerpt)
Natalie Clifford Barney (31 October 1876 – 2 February 1972) was an American expatriate who lived, wrote and hosted a literary salon in Paris.She was a noted poet, memoirist and epigrammatist. Barney's salon was held at her home on Paris's Left Bank for more than 60 years and brought together writers and artists from around the world, including many leading figures in French literature along with American and British Modernists of the Lost Generation.
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Biography of Édouard Le Roy (excerpt)
Édouard Louis Emmanuel Julien Le Roy (June 18, 1870 Paris – November 10, 1954 Paris; French pronunciation: ( listen) ) was a French philosopher and mathematician. Le Roy was received at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) in 1892, and at the agrégation in mathematics in 1895.
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Biography of William II, Prince of Orange (excerpt)
William II, Prince of Orange (May 27, 1626 – November 6, 1650), stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands from March 14, 1647 until his death. His time of birth comes from the biography "Het leven van Prins Willem II (1626-1650)" by Jan Eysten (Meulenhoff, 1916).
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Biography of D. W. Griffith (excerpt)
David Llewelyn Wark "D. W." Griffith (January 22 1875 – July 23, 1948) was a premier pioneering Academy Award-winning American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance (1916). ![]()
Biography of Emilia Pardo Bazán (excerpt)
Emilia Pardo Bazán (16 September 1851 – 12 May 1921) (also known as Emilia, countess de Pardo Bazán) was a Spanish author and scholar from Galicia. Life Pardo Bazán was born in A Coruña, a city in the region of Galicia, Spain, and the culture of that area was incorporated into some of her most popular novels, including Los pazos de Ulloa ("The Manors of Ulloa") and its sequel, La madre naturaleza ("Mother Nature"). ![]()
Biography of Percival Lowell (excerpt)
Percival Lawrence Lowell (March 13, 1855–November 12, 1916) was a businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and formed the beginning of the effort that led to the discovery of Pluto 14 years after his death.
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Biography of Alcide de Gasperi (excerpt)
Alcide De Gasperi (3 April 1881 – 19 August 1954) was an Italian statesman and politician. He is considered to be one of the Founding fathers of the European Union, along with the Frenchman Robert Schuman and the German Konrad Adenauer. ![]()
Biography of Sophie Chotek (excerpt)
Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (Czech: Žofie Marie Josefína Albína hraběnka Chotková z Chotkova a Vojnína, German: Sophie Maria Josephine Albina Gräfin Chotek von Chotkow und Wognin); 1 March 1868 - 28 June 1914) was the morganatic wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
Biography of Llewellyn George (excerpt)
Llewellyn Worldwide (formerly Llewellyn Publications) is a New Age publisher, currently based in Woodbury, Minnesota, a suburb of St. Paul. Llewellyn's mission is to "serve the trade and consumers worldwide with options and tools for exploring new worlds of mind & spirit, thereby aiding in the quests of expanded human potential, spiritual consciousness, and planetary awareness." ![]()
Biography of Georges Feydeau (excerpt)
Georges Feydeau, (8 December 1862 - 5 June 1921) was a French playwright of the era known as La Belle Epoque.He was known for his many lively farces. Feydeau was born in Paris, the son of novelist Ernest-Aimé Feydeau and Léocadie Bogaslawa Zelewska.
Biography of Léo Lelée (excerpt)
Léopold Lelée or Léo Lelée, born in Chemazé (Mayenne, December 13, 1872, died in Arles, June 26, 1947, was a French illustrator, artist and aquarellist.
Biography of Jacques Duboin (excerpt)
Jacques Duboin, born September 17, 1878 in Saint-Julien-en-Genevois (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died March 17, 1976 in Versailles, was a French businessman, industrialist, bankier and politician. (* Wikipedia gives 1879 but other sources give 1878). Bibliography (extract) 1923 : Réflexions d'un « Français moyen » (Payot, éd.)
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Biography of Guy Favières (excerpt)
Guy Favières, born Guy Jean Marie Perret June 1, 1876 in Paris (birth time source: Michaël Mandl, birth certificate) and died March 30, 1963, was a French actor and comedian. Filmography (extract) * 1912 : La Reine Élisabeth (Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth) de Henri Desfontaines, Louis Mercanton et Gaston Roudès ![]()
Biography of Pieter Zeeman (excerpt)
Pieter Zeeman (Schuddebeurs, May 25, 1865 – Amsterdam, October 9, 1943) (pronounced ) was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for his discovery of the Zeeman effect. Childhood and youth Pieter Zeeman was born in Zonnemaire, a small town on the island of Schouwen-Duiveland, Netherlands to Catharinus Forandinus Zeeman, a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, and Willemina Worst. ![]()
Biography of Dietrich Eckart (excerpt)
Dietrich Eckart (23 March 1868 - 26 December 1923) was a German politician, one of the important early members of the National-Socialist German Workers' Party and a participant of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. Eckart was born in Neumarkt, Germany (near Nuremberg) in 1868, the son of a royal notary and lawyer. ![]()
Biography of Alphonse Allais (excerpt)
Alphonse Allais (October 20, 1854 - October 28, 1905) was a French writer, journalist and humorist born in Honfleur, Calvados. He is the author of many collections of whimsical writings.A poet as much as a humorist, he in particular cultivated the verse form known as holorhyme, i.e.
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Biography of Maria Ouspenskaya (excerpt)
Maria Ouspenskaya (Russian: Мария Успенская; July 29, 1876 – December 3, 1949) was a Russian actress who achieved success as a stage actress as a young woman in Russia, and as an elderly woman in Hollywood films. Early life Ouspenskaya was born in Tula, Russia to a lawyer father. ![]()
Biography of Louis, Grand Condé (excerpt)
Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé (8 September 1621 (birth time source: “Condé, le héros fourvoyé”, éditions de Fallois, 2011, pages 55-56, author Simone Bertière) – 11 December 1686) was a French general and the most famous representative of the Condé branch of the House of Bourbon. ![]()
Biography of André Gedalge (excerpt)
André Gedalge (27 December 1856 - 5 February 1926), was an influential French composer and teacher. André Gedalge was born at 75 rue des Saints-Pères, in Paris, where he first worked as a bookseller and editor specializing in livres de prix for public schools. ![]()
Biography of Yvette Guilbert (excerpt)
Yvette Guilbert (b.January 20, 1865, Paris – d.February 4, 1944, Aix-en-Provence) was a music-hall singer and actress. Born into abject poverty as Emma Laure Esther Guilbert, Guilbert began singing as a child but at age sixteen worked as a model at the Printemps department store in Paris.
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Biography of André Antoine (excerpt)
André Antoine (31 January 1858, Limoges (Haute-Vienne)(birth time source: birth certificate, Didier Geslain) - 19 October 1943, Le Pouliguen (Loire-Atlantique), French actor, theatre manager, film director, author, and critic who is considered the inventor of modern mise en scène in France.
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Biography of Scott Joplin (excerpt)
Scott Joplin (November 24, 1868 – April 1, 1917) was an African-American composer and pianist, born near Texarkana, Texas, into the first post-slavery generation.He achieved fame for his unique ragtime compositions, and was dubbed the "King of Ragtime." During his brief career, he wrote forty-four original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas.
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Biography of Aubert Frère (excerpt)
Aubert Frère, born August 21, 1881 in Grévillers (Pas-de-Calais), died June 13, 1944 in Struthof, Bas-Rhin, was a French General.
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Biography of Renee Vivien (excerpt)
Renée Vivien, born Pauline Mary Tarn (June 11, 1877-November 18, 1909) was a British poet who wrote in the French language.She took to heart all the mannerisms of Symbolism, as one of the last poets to claim allegiance to the school.
Biography of Maurice-René Frechet (excerpt)
Maurice Fréchet (September 2, 1878 – June 4, 1973) was a French mathematician.He made major contributions to the topology of point sets and introduced the entire concept of metric spaces.He also made several important contributions to the field of statistics and probability, as well as calculus. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Beaupré (excerpt)
Edouard Beaupré (January 9, 1881 – July 3, 1904) was a circus and freak show giant, wrestler, strongman, and a star in Barnum and Bailey's circus. Life Beaupré was the eldest of 20 children born to Gaspard and Florestine (born Piché) Beaupré in the newly founded parish of Willow Bunch, Saskatchewan, Canada, and was the first child to be baptized in the parish.
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Biography of Maxfield Parrish (excerpt)
Maxfield Parrish (July 25, 1870 – March 30, 1966) was an American painter and illustrator. Life Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he began drawing for his own amusement as a child.His given name was Frederick Parrish but he later adopted the maiden name of his paternal grandmother, Maxfield, as his middle name, and later as his professional name.
Biography of René Giffey (excerpt)
René Henri Giffey, born on March 8, 1884 in Paris, died on September 1, 1965, was a French draftsman, cartoonist, author, and illustrator. ![]()
Biography of Karl Hofer (excerpt)
Karl Christian Ludwig Hofer or Carl Hofer (11 October 1878 in Karlsruhe – 3 April 1955 Berlin (West)) was a German expressionist painter.One of the most prominent painters of expressionism, he never was a member of one of the expressionist painting groups, like "Die Brücke", who influenced him.
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Biography of E. M. Forster (excerpt)
Edward Morgan Forster OM, CH (1 January 1879 in Marylebone, London – 7 June 1970), was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist.He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society. ![]()
Biography of Franz Marc (excerpt)
Franz Marc (February 8, 1880 – March 4, 1916) was one of the principal painters and printmakers of the German Expressionist movement. Career Marc was born of Wilhelm and Sophie Marc, Wilhelm a professional landscape painter and Sophie a strict Calvinist. Marc was born in 1880, in the German town of Munich and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich starting in 1900.
Biography of Fagus (poet) (excerpt)
Fagus, born January 22, 1872 in Bruxelles, died February 8, 1933 in Paris, was a Belgian and French journalist, poet and catholic author. Selected works La Danse Macabre Rythmes Le Sacre des Innocents ![]()
Biography of Rodolphe Salis (excerpt)
Rodolphe Salis, born May 19, 1851 in Châtellerault (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died in 1897, was a French artist, owner and host of French cabaret Le Chat Noir. Le Chat Noir (French for "The Black Cat") was a 19th-century cabaret in the bohemian Montmartre district of Paris.
Biography of Eugène Milon (excerpt)
Eugène Milon, born September 23, 1859 in Loury, died in 1917, was a French carpenter. He was one of the managers who had built the Tour Eiffel in Paris. ![]()
Biography of John J. Pershing (excerpt)
General of the Armies John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing, GCB (Hon) (September 13, 1860 – July 15, 1948) was a general officer in the United States Army. Pershing is the only person to be promoted in his own lifetime to the highest rank ever held in the United States Army—General of the Armies (a retroactive Congressional edict passed in 1976 promoted George Washington to the same rank but with higher seniority).
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Biography of René Seyssaud (excerpt)
René Seyssaud, born on June 15, 1867 in Marseille, died on Saint-Chamas, was a French artist and painter. ![]()
Biography of Henri Barbusse (excerpt)
Henri Barbusse (May 17, 1873, Asnières-sur-Seine (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 88) - August 30, 1935, Moscow) was a French novelist, journalist and communist. Born in Asnieres-sur-Seine, France in 1873, he grew up in a small town but in early life left for Paris in 1889 at age 16. ![]()
Biography of Florence Foster Jenkins (excerpt)
Florence Foster Jenkins (July 19, 1868–November 26, 1944) was an American socialite and amateur operatic soprano who was known and ridiculed for her lack of rhythm, pitch, and tone; her aberrant pronunciation; and her generally poor singing ability. Personal life Born Narcissa Florence Foster in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Mary Jane (née Hoagland 1851–1930) and Charles Dorrance Foster (1836–1909). ![]()
Biography of Gustaf V of Sweden (excerpt)
Gustav V (Oscar Gustav Adolf) (16 June 1858 – 29 October 1950) was King of Sweden from 1907 until his death. He was the eldest son of King Oscar II of Sweden and Sophia of Nassau, a half-sister of Adolphe I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg. ![]()
Biography of Julio Romero de Torres (excerpt)
Julio Romero de Torres ( November 9, 1874 – May 10, 1930 ) was a Spanish painter. He was born and he died in Córdoba, Spain, where he lived most of his life. As the son of well known painter Rafael Romero Barros, director of Córdoba's Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes, Julio began his training at the Escuela de Bellas Artes from the age 10. |
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