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Biography of Paul Ancel (excerpt)
Paul, Albert Ancel, born September 21, 1873 in Nancy, was a French scientist, a corresponding member of Académie des sciences (zoology and anatomy).
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Biography of William Allen White (excerpt)
William Allen White (February 10, 1868 – January 31, 1944) was a renowned American newspaper editor, politician, and author. Between World War I and World War II White became the iconic middle American spokesman for thousands throughout the United States. Life
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Biography of Sean O'Casey (excerpt)
Seán O'Casey (Irish: Seán Ó Cathasaigh, born John Casey) (30 March 1880 – 18 September 1964) was a major Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.
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Biography of Alexander Gaden (excerpt)
Alexander Gaden (February 20, 1873 (source: Imdb), Montreal, Canada - .) was a Canadian silent film actor. He starred in 32 films between 1912 and 1923. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0300561/) 1923 The Net The Inspector 1921 White Oak Mark Granger 1920 Cynthia of the Minute William Claret 1919 The Capitol James Carroll 1919 The Bandbox Benjamin Staff 1916 The Quality of Faith Albert Richards 1916 I Accuse Robert Gray 1916 The Drifter Harold Derwent 1916 As a Woman Sows Loren Hayward 1915 The Unbroken Road John Radford 1914 The Futility of Revenge (short) 1914 Tempest and Sunshine (short) 1914 On the High Seas (short) 1914 In All Things Moderation (short) 1914 The Lady of the Island (short)
Biography of Charles Camoin (excerpt)
Charles Camoin (September 23, 1879 –1965) was a French painter associated with the Fauves. Born in Marseilles, France, Camoin met Henri Matisse in Gustave Moreau's class at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Matisse and his friends (including Camoin, Henri Manguin, Albert Marquet, Georges Rouault, André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck), formed the original group of artists labeled the Fauves (meaning "the wild beasts") for their wild, expressionist-like use of color. ![]()
Biography of Nicolas Berdiaev (excerpt)
Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev (or Berdiaev, Berdjaev, Berdiaeff) (Николай Александрович Бердяев) (March 19 1874 – March 24, 1948) was a Russian religious and political philosopher. Early Life and Education Berdyaev was born in Kiev into an aristocratic military family. He spent a solitary childhood at home, where his father's library allowed him to read widely. ![]()
Biography of Francis Thompson (excerpt)
Francis Thompson (16 December 1859 – 13 November 1907) was an English poet and ascetic. After attending college, he moved to London to become a writer, but in menial work, became addicted to opium, and was a street vagrant for years.
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Biography of Gabriel Hanotaux (excerpt)
Albert Auguste Gabriel Hanotaux, known as Gabriel Hanotaux, (november 19, 1853 – april 11, 1944) was a French statesman and historian. He was born at Beaurevoir in the département of Aisne. He studied history at the École des Chartes, and became maître de conférence in the École des Hautes Études. ![]()
Biography of Tsunesaburo Makiguchi (excerpt)
Tsunesaburō Makiguchi (牧口 常三郎, 1871–1944) was Sōka Gakkai's first president. He was born in Kashiwazaki, a small village in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, on June 6, 1871. Adopted by the Makiguchi family, he moved to Hokkaidō, Japan's northernmost island, at the age of 14.
Biography of Gabriel Montoya (excerpt)
Gabriel Montoya, born October 20, 1868 in Alès, died in 1914, was a French composer, poet, author and physician. He was very famous in French cabaret Le Chat noir in Montmartre, Paris. Songs and poetry collections (extract) - La chanson du macchabée (musique de Gaston Maquis)
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Biography of James Rolph (excerpt)
James “Sunny Jim” Rolph, Jr. (August 23, 1869 (birth time source: Nolle) – June 2, 1934) was an American politician and a member of the Republican Party. He was elected to a single term as the 27th governor of California from January 6, 1931 until his death on June 2, 1934 at the height of the Great Depression. ![]()
Biography of Louis Raemaekers (excerpt)
Louis Raemaekers (April 6, 1869 in Roermond (source: Gauquelin) - July 26, 1956 in Scheveningen) was a Dutch painter and cartoonist for the Amsterdam Telegraaf during World War I, noted for his anti-German stance. He was born in Roermond, Netherlands in 1869 as the son of an ethnically German newspaper editor. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Duhem (excerpt)
Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (10 June 1861 – 14 September 1916) was a French physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science, best known for his writings on the indeterminacy of experimental criteria and on scientific development in the Middle Ages. Duhem also made major contributions to the science of his day, particularly in the fields of hydrodynamics, elasticity, and thermodynamics.
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Biography of Albert Dupuis (excerpt)
Albert Dupuis (1 March 1877 (birth time source: Lescaut) – 19 September 1967) was a Belgian composer. Biography Albert Dupuis was born in Verviers on 1 March 1877. The son of a music teacher, Dupuis studied the finesses of theviolin, the piano and theflute from the age of 8, at the conservatory in his hometown, Verviers, wherer also Guillaume Lekeu, composer of classical music, and Henri Vieuxtemps, composer and violonist,. ![]()
Biography of Grock (excerpt)
Grock (January 10, 1880 – July 14, 1959), born Charles Adrien Wettach, was a Swiss clown. Early life Grock was born in Berne, Switzerland. He started early as a performer, learning musicianship and acrobatic skills from his father and during summers spent with the circus in his mid-teens. ![]()
Biography of Albert Lebrun (excerpt)
Albert Lebrun (29 August 1871 – 6 March 1950) was a French politician, President of France from 1932 to 1940, and as such was the last president of the Third Republic. He was a member of the center-right Democratic Republican Alliance (ARD).
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Biography of Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant (excerpt)
Paul-Henri-Benjamin Baluet d'Estournelles, baron de Constant de Rébecque (22 November 1852 – 15 May 1924), was a French diplomat and politician, advocate of international arbitration and winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize for Peace. He was born at La Flèche (Sarthe) in the Loire valley to an old aristocratic family which traced its genealogy back to the Crusades; the renowned Revolution-era writer and politician Benjamin Constant was his great-uncle. ![]()
Biography of Roger de Bussy-Rabutin (excerpt)
Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy (April 13, 1618 - April 9, 1693), commonly known as Bussy-Rabutin, was a French memoir-writer. He was the cousin and frequent correspondent of Madame de Sévigné. Born at Epiry, near Autun, he represented a family of distinction in Burgundy, and his father, Léonor de Rabutin, was lieutenant general of the province of Nivernais. ![]()
Biography of Emily Greene Balch (excerpt)
Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 – January 9, 1961) was an American academic, writer, and pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 (the prize that year was shared with John Mott), notably for her work with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).
Biography of A.E. Thierens (excerpt)
A.E. Thierens, born December 20, 1875 in Den Briel (Brielle), died December 30, 1941, was a Dutch professional astrologer and author.
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Biography of Vincent Aderente (excerpt)
Vincent Aderente, born February 20, 1880 in Naples, died in 1941, was an Italian artist and painter. ![]()
Biography of Peter Chalmers Mitchell (excerpt)
Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell CBE FRS DSc LLD (23 November 1864–1945), zoologist, was Secretary of the Zoological Society of London from 1903 to 1935. During this time he directed the policy of the London Zoo, and created the world's first open zoological park known as Whipsnade Wild Animal Park. ![]()
Biography of Florent Schmitt (excerpt)
French composer. He entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1889, studying under Albert Lavignac, Theodore Dubois, Jules Massenet, and Gabriel Fauré. In 1900 Schmitt won the Prix de Rome on his fourth attempt. Schmitt wrote 138 works with opus numbers. He composed examples of most of the major forms of music, except for opera. ![]()
Biography of Mabel Collins (excerpt)
Mabel Collins (9 September 1851 - 31 March 1927) was a theosophist and author of over 46 books. She was born in London. Works (extract) The Blossom and the Fruit (1888) The Idyll of the White Lotus (1890) Morial the Mahatma (1892) ![]()
Biography of John Cowper Powys (excerpt)
John Cowper Powys (pronounced /ˌdʒɒn ˌkuːpər ˈpoʊ.ɪs/) (8 October 1872 – 17 June 1963) was a British novelist and lecturer. Powys was born in Shirley, Derbyshire, in 1872, the son of the Reverend Charles Francis Powys (1843–1923), who was vicar of Montacute, Somerset for thirty-two years, and Mary Cowper Johnson, a descendent of the poet William Cowper. ![]()
Biography of Boris Sidis (excerpt)
Boris Sidis, Ph.D., M.D. (October 12, 1867 - October 24, 1923) was a Russian psychologist, physician, psychiatrist, and philosopher of education. Sidis founded the New York State Psychopathic Institute and the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. He was the father of the child prodigy William James Sidis. ![]()
Biography of Edward Westermarck (excerpt)
Edvard Alexander Westermarck (20 November 1862 (source not archived) – 3 September 1939) was a Swedish speaking Finnish philosopher and sociologist. Among other subjects, he studied exogamy and the incest taboo. He is known for first noting the Westermarck effect in which infants raised together are unable to form sexual feelings for one another as adults, regardless of their genetic relationship. ![]()
Biography of Eric Gill (excerpt)
Arthur Eric Rowton Gill (22 February 1882 – 17 November 1940) was a British sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. He is a controversial figure, with his well-known religious views and subject matter being seen as at odds with his sexual and paraphiliac behaviour and erotic art.
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Biography of Franklin Pierce Adams (excerpt)
Franklin Pierce Adams (November 15, 1881, Chicago, Illinois – March 23, 1960, New York City, New York) was an American columnist (under the pen name F.P.A.) and wit, best known for his newspaper column, "The Conning Tower", and his appearances as a regular panelist on radio's Information Please. ![]()
Biography of Ewald Banse (excerpt)
Ewald Hermann Banse, born May 23, 1883 in Brunswick, died October 31, 1953, was a German author and professor, specialist of military science. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Jacques Waltz (excerpt)
Jean-Jacques Waltz (b.Colmar, 23 February 1873 - 10 June, 1951), also known as "Oncle Hansi", or simply "Hansi" ("little John") was a French artist of Alsatian origin. He was a staunch pro-French activist, and is famous for his cute drawings, some of which contain harsh critics against the German of the time.
Biography of L. Knegt (excerpt)
L. Knegt, born December 26, 1882 in Delftshaven-Rotterdam, died in 1957, was a Dutch professional astrologer and author.
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Biography of Teixeira de Pascoaes (excerpt)
Teixeira de Pascoaes, born Joaquim Pereira Teixeira de Vasconcelos November 8, 1877 in Amarante and died December 14, 1952, was a Portuguese poet and writer. Bibliography (extract) * 1895 -Embriões (poesía) * 1896 -Belo (poesía)-1ª parte
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Biography of Barney Barnato (excerpt)
Barney Barnato (born Barnett Isaacs) (12 June 1852 – 14 June 1897) was a British Randlord, one of the entrepreneurs who gained control of diamond mining, and later gold mining, in South Africa from the 1870s. Background He was born in 1852 in a slum in Whitechapel in the East End of London, and was educated by Moses Angel at the Jews' Free School. ![]()
Biography of Louis Sullivan (excerpt)
Louis Henri Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) was an American architect, and has been called the "father of modernism." He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper, was an influential architect and critic of the Chicago School, was a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School.
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Biography of Damon Runyon (excerpt)
Damon Runyon (8 October 1880 (source: Marc Penfield, some other sources give 3 or 4 October)) – 10 December 1946) was a newspaperman and writer. He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era.
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Biography of Curnonsky (excerpt)
Maurice Edmond Sailland (October 12, 1872, Angers, France – July 22, 1956, Paris), better known by his pen-name Curnonsky (nicknamed 'Cur'), and dubbed the Prince of Gastronomy, was the most celebrated writer on gastronomy in France in the 20th century. He wrote or ghost-wrote over 65 books and enormous numbers of newspaper columns. ![]()
Biography of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser (excerpt)
Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, born October 1, 1856 in Perth, died in 1930, was a Scottish musician, composer and author. Biography on http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/about/bgallery/Gallery/records/nineteen1/kennedyfr.html Marjory Kennedy was the daughter of the well-known singer David Kennedy who died in while on tour in Ontario, Canada in 1886. ![]()
Biography of Robert Bosch (excerpt)
Robert Bosch (September 23, 1861 - March 12, 1942) was a German industrialist, engineer and inventor, founder of Robert Bosch GmbH. Bosch was born in Langenau/Württ. He was the eleventh of twelve children. His parents came from a class of well-situated farmers from the region. ![]()
Biography of Rafael Sabatini (excerpt)
Rafael Sabatini (April 29, 1875 - February 13, 1950) was an Italian/British writer of novels of romance and adventure. Life Rafael Sabatini was born in Jesi, Italy, to an English mother and Italian father. His parents were opera singers who became teachers. ![]()
Biography of Margaret Dumont (excerpt)
Margaret Dumont (October 20, 1882 – March 6, 1965) was an American comedic actress, born Daisy Juliette Baker. She is remembered mostly for being the comic foil to Groucho Marx in seven of the Marx Brothers films. Groucho called her "practically the fifth Marx brother" (In fact, there were five Marx brothers - and a sixth, who died as a child - but only four of them ever performed together on film). ![]()
Biography of Charles Gravier (excerpt)
Charles Joseph Gravier, born March 4, 1865 in Orléans, died November 15, 1937 in Paris, was a French zoologist. Selected publications 1901 — Méthode de récolte, de fixation et de conservation des invertébrés (arthropodes exceptés) (Paris : Impr. nationale). 1904 — Rapport sur une mission scientifique à la Côte française des Somalis (Paris : Impr.
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Biography of Luisa Tetrazzini (excerpt)
Luisa Tetrazzini (June 28, 1871 - April 28, 1940) was an Italian lyric coloratura soprano. Tetrazzini's voice was remarkable for its phenomenal flexibility, thrust and thrilling tone. She enjoyed a tremendously successful operatic and concert career in Europe and America from the 1890s through to the 1920s.
Biography of Charles Herbais de Thun (excerpt)
Charles Herbais de Thun, born October 12, 1862 in Beaurieux, died in 1946, was a French biographor, author and astrologer. ![]()
Biography of Jean Dampt (excerpt)
Jean Baptiste Auguste Dampt (January, 2, 1854 - September 26, 1945) was a French sculptor, medalist, and jeweler. Born in Venarey-les-Laumes as the son of a cabinetmaker, Dampt studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Dijon, then in 1874 under the leadership of François Jouffroy and Paul Dubois at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris . ![]()
Biography of Paul Elie Ranson (excerpt)
Paul Ranson (March 29 1861 – February 20, 1909) was a French painter and writer. Paul-Elie Ranson was born in Limoges and studied at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs there before moving to Paris and transferring to the Académie Julian in 1886. ![]()
Biography of Saturnin Fabre (excerpt)
Saturnin Fabre, born April 4, 1884 in Sens (Yonne), died October 24, 1961 in Montgeron (Essonne), was a French actor and comedian. Filmography (extract) * 1911 : Les Deux Collègues, d'Albert Capellani, avec André Simon * 1911 : L'Envie d'embrasser, de Georges Monca, avec Madeleine Guitty ![]()
Biography of Charles Koechlin (excerpt)
Charles Louis Eugène Koechlin (November 27, 1867–December 31, 1950) was a French composer, teacher and writer on music. Koechlin was born in Paris, and was the youngest child of a large family. His mother’s family came from Alsace and he identified with that region; his maternal grandfather had been the noted philanthropist and textile manufacturer Jean Dollfus, and Koechlin inherited his strongly developed social conscience. ![]()
Biography of Émile Moselly (excerpt)
Émile Chénin - (Moselly) (12 August 1870 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 2 October 1918) was a French novelist. He was born in Paris. Biography He graduated with an Associate of Arts degree in the exams of 1895 (he was then 25 years old).
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Biography of Wallace Hartley (excerpt)
Wallace Henry Hartley (2 June 1878 - 15 April 1912) was a violinist and bandleader on the RMS Titanic on its maiden voyage. He became famous for leading the eight member band as the ship sank on 15 April 1912. |
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