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Biography of Jean Huré (excerpt)
Jean Huré (17 September 1877 in Gien, in Loiret department – 27 January 1930 in Paris) was a French composer and organist. Though educated at a monastery in Angers, as a musician, he was mostly self-taught. His only published organ work is the 1913 Communion pour une Messe de Minuit à Noël. ![]()
Biography of Wilhelm Ostwald (excerpt)
Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald (Latvian: Vilhelms Ostvalds; 2 September 1853 (birth time source: Ebertin, birth certificate) – 4 April 1932) was a Baltic German chemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 for his work on catalysis, chemical equilibria and reaction velocities.
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Biography of Willie Keeler (excerpt)
William Henry Keeler (March 3, 1872 - January 1, 1923) in Brooklyn, New York, nicknamed "Wee Willie", was a right fielder in professional baseball who played from 1892 to 1910, primarily for the Baltimore Orioles and Brooklyn Superbas in the National League, and the New York Highlanders in the American League.
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Biography of Frank W. Benson (excerpt)
Frank Weston Benson, frequently referred to as Frank W. Benson, (March 24, 1862 – November 15, 1951) was an American artist from Salem, Massachusetts known for his Realistic portraits, American Impressionist paintings, watercolors and etchings. He began his career painting portraits of distinguished families and murals for the Library of Congress.
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Biography of Alison Skipworth (excerpt)
Alison Skipworth (25 July 1863 – 5 July 1952) was an English stage and screen actress. She was born Alison Mary Elliott Margaret Groom in London. Skipworth made her first stage appearance at Daly's Theatre in London in 1894, in A Gaiety Girl.
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Biography of Henri Rivière (painter) (excerpt)
Henri Rivière (March 11, 1864 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – August 24, 1951) was a French artist and designer best known for his creation of a form of shadow play at the Chat Noir cabaret, and for his post-Impressionist illustrations of Breton landscapes and the Eiffel Tower. ![]()
Biography of Italo Svevo (excerpt)
Aron Ettore Schmitz (December 19, 1861 – September 13, 1928), better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo (Italian: ), was an Italian writer and businessman, known as a novelist, playwright, and short story writer. Life and career Born in Trieste (then in Austrian Empire, after 1867 Austria-Hungary) as Aron Ettore Schmitz to a Jewish family that originated in Germany, Italo Svevo (literally Italian Swabian) wrote the classic novel La Coscienza di Zeno (rendered as Confessions of Zeno, or Zeno's Conscience) and self-published it in 1923.
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Biography of Victor Sjöström (excerpt)
Victor David Sjöström (Swedish: ; in the United States sometimes known as Victor Seastrom; 20 September 1879 – 3 January 1960) was a pioneering Swedish film director, screenwriter and actor. He began his career in Sweden, before moving to Hollywood in 1924.
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Biography of Gilles de la Tourette (excerpt)
Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette (30 October 1857 – 26 May 1904) was a French physician and the eponym of Tourette syndrome, a neurological condition. He was born in "the small town of Saint-Gervais-les-Trois-Clochers, in the district of Châtellerault near the city of Loudun, France", and died in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Biography of Marius Vazeilles (excerpt)
Marius Vazeilles (July 29, 1881 in Messeix (Puy-de-Dôme) (birth time source: Didier Geslain)–June 7, 1973 in Meymac (Corrèze)) was a French archaeologist, syndicalist, and politician. ![]()
Biography of Albert Thomas (minister) (excerpt)
Albert Thomas (June 16, 1878 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - May 7, 1932) was a prominent French Socialist and the first Minister of Armament for the French Third Republic during World War I. Following the Treaty of Versailles, he was nominated as the first Director General of the International Labour Office, a position he held until his death in 1932.
Biography of Archduke Charles of Austria (1607-1632) (excerpt)
Charles of Austria (15 September 1607 – 30 July 1632) was infante of Spain, the second son of Philip III of Spain and Margaret of Austria. Life Charles was the younger brother of Philip IV and as long as the King remained childless was heir to the Spanish throne.
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Biography of Platon Kerzhentsev (excerpt)
Platon Mikhailovich Kerzhentsev (Russian: Плато́н Миха́йлович Ке́рженцев), real name Lebedev (Ле́бедев) (16 August (gregorian calendar) 1881 – 2 June 1940) was a Russian state and party official, journalist, historian, playwright and arts theorist who was involved with the Proletkult movement. From 29 December 1930 – 23 March 1933 he served as Administrator of Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars, and was the second person to fill that post.
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Biography of Georges Varney (excerpt)
Georges Varney, born on December 12, 1864 in Metz (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on May 12, 1930 in Paris, was a French Vice admiral during World War I. Awards Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur Croix de guerre 1914-1918 avec citation de l'Armée navale ![]()
Biography of Ethel Griffies (excerpt)
Ethel Griffies (born Ethel Woods, 26 April 1878, Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire – 9 September 1975, London) was an English actress of stage, screen, and television. She appeared in numerous plays, 90 movies, and 10 TV episodes in a career that lasted from 1881 - when she was brought onstage as a baby by her parents - until 1967. ![]()
Biography of Marie Bonaparte (excerpt)
Princess Marie Bonaparte (2 July 1882 – 21 September 1962) was a French author and psychoanalyst, closely linked with Sigmund Freud. Her wealth contributed to the popularity of psychoanalysis, and enabled Freud's escape from Nazi Germany. Marie Bonaparte was a great-grandniece of Emperor Napoleon I of France.
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Biography of Francis de Miomandre (excerpt)
Francis de Miomandre (born 22 May, 1880 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 498) – 1 August, 1959) was a French novelist and well-known translator from Spanish into French. Biography He was born in Tours, Indre-et-Loire and educated in Marseille. He began writing in his early twenties and won the Prix Goncourt in 1908 for his novel, Écrit sur de l'eau. ![]()
Biography of Madeleine Pelletier (excerpt)
Madeleine Pelletier (18 May 1874 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 29 December 1939) was a French physician, psychiatrist, first-wave feminist, and socialist activist. Biography Pelletier originally trained as an anthropologist studying the relationship between skull size and intelligence after Paul Broca with Charles Letourneau and Léonce Manouvrier.
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Biography of Maurice Constantin-Weyer (excerpt)
Maurice Constantin-Weyer (April 24, 1881, Bourbonne-les-Bains, Haute-Marne (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 34) – October 22, 1964, Vichy, Allier) was a French writer. His best known novel is Un homme se penche sur son passé, Prix Goncourt 1928 (tr.
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Biography of Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (excerpt)
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (29 January 1867 – 28 January 1928) was a journalist, politician and best-selling Spanish novelist in various genres whose most widespread and lasting fame in the English-speaking world is from Hollywood films adapted from his works. Biography He was born in Valencia. ![]()
Biography of Konstantin Stanislavski (excerpt)
Konstantin Sergeievich Stanislavski (né Alexeiev; 17 January 1863 – 7 August 1938) was a seminal Russian theatre practitioner. He was widely recognised as an outstanding character actor and the many productions that he directed garnered a reputation as one of the leading theatre directors of his generation. ![]()
Biography of Frederick Soddy (excerpt)
Frederick Soddy FRS (2 September 1877 – 22 September 1956) was an English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions. He also proved the existence of isotopes of certain radioactive elements.
Biography of Carlos Chagas (excerpt)
Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro Chagas, or Carlos Chagas (Portuguese: , ; 1879–1934), was a Brazilian sanitary physician, scientist and bacteriologist who worked as a clinician and researcher. He discovered Chagas disease, also called American trypanosomiasis in 1909, while working at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro. ![]()
Biography of Charles Alderton (excerpt)
Charles Courtice Alderton (born June 21, 1857 in Brooklyn, New York, died on May 29, 1941) was an American pharmacist, and the creator of the carbonated soft drink Dr Pepper. He attended school in England, studied medicine in Texas, and worked as a pharmacist in Waco, in a shop called "Morrison's Old Corner Drug Store", where he formulated Dr Pepper.
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Biography of Nance O'Neil (excerpt)
Nance O'Neil (aka Nancy O'Neil; October 8, 1874 – February 7, 1965) was an American actress of stage and silent cinema of the early 20th century, dubbed the American Bernhardt. Early life O'Neil was born in Oakland, California, as Gertrude Lamson to George Lamson and Arre Findley. ![]()
Biography of Fritz Kreisler (excerpt)
Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler (February 2, 1875 – January 29, 1962) was an Austrian-born violinist and composer. One of the most famous violin masters of his or any other day, and regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time, he was known for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing.
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Biography of Agnes Morton (excerpt)
Agnes Morton (born 6 March 1872, Halstead, Essex, England - died 5 April 1952 Kensington, London, England) was a former British female tennis player. She twice reached the Ladies Singles finals at the 1908 and 1909 Wimbledon Championships and claimed victory in 1914 in Ladies Doubles with partner Elizabeth Ryan. ![]()
Biography of Gifford Beal (excerpt)
Gifford Beal (January 24, 1879 – February 5, 1956) was an American artist noted for his work as a painter, watercolorist, printmaker and muralist. Early life Born in New York City, Gifford Beal was the youngest son in a family of six surviving children.
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Biography of Gian Carlo de' Medici (excerpt)
Gian Carlo de' Medici (4 July 1611 – 22 January 1663) was an Italian cardinal. He was the second son of Grand Duke Cosimo II of Tuscany and his wife, Maria Maddalena of Austria. Biography Born a Prince of Tuscany, Gian Carlo was the second son and third child of Grand Duke Cosimo II and his wife, Maria Maddalena of Austria. ![]()
Biography of Henri Fauconnier (excerpt)
Henri Fauconnier (26 February 1879 Musset Barbezieux (Charente)(birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 13) – 14 April 1973 Paris) was a French writer, known mainly for his novel, Malaysia, which won the Prix Goncourt in 1930. He was part of the Groupe de Barbezieux. ![]()
Biography of Lucy Maud Montgomery (excerpt)
Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with Anne of Green Gables. The book was an immediate success. ![]()
Biography of Charles Ives (excerpt)
Charles Edward Ives (/aɪvz/; October 20, 1874 – May 19, 1954) was an American modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though his music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years.
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Biography of Henri Deberly (excerpt)
Henri Deberly, born on May 28, 1882 in Amiens (France) (birth time source: Didier Geslain) and died in 1947, was a French writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1926. His avant-garde tomb in Viroflay is by the artist René Iché. Selected works ![]()
Biography of Carl Nielsen (excerpt)
Carl August Nielsen (Danish: ; 9 June 1865 – 3 October 1931) was a Danish musician, conductor and violinist, widely recognized as his country's most prominent composer. Brought up by poor but musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he demonstrated his musical abilities at an early age.
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Biography of Benjamin Tucker (excerpt)
Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (April 17, 1854 – June 22, 1939) was a proponent, in the 19th century, of American individualist anarchism, which he called "unterrified Jeffersonianism," and editor and publisher of the individualist anarchist periodical Liberty. Early life and influences Tucker was born on April 17, 1854 in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts. ![]()
Biography of Francis William Aston (excerpt)
Francis William Aston FRS (1 September 1877 – 20 November 1945) was a British chemist and physicist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes, in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his enunciation of the whole number rule. ![]()
Biography of Nadezhda Krupskaya (excerpt)
Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya (Russian: Наде́жда Константи́новна Кру́пская, IPA: ; 26 February 1869 – 27 February 1939) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, politician, and the wife of Vladimir Lenin from 1898 until his death in 1924. She served as the Soviet Union's Deputy Minister of Education from 1929 until her death in 1939. ![]()
Biography of John Ireland (composer) (excerpt)
John Nicholson Ireland (13 August 1879 – 12 June 1962) was an English composer and teacher of classical music. The majority of his output consists of piano miniatures and of songs with piano. His best-known works include the hymn "The Holy Boy" and a setting of the poem "Sea Fever" by John Masefield.
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Biography of John-Antoine Nau (excerpt)
John Antoine Nau (November 19, 1860–March 17, 1918), real name Eugène Léon Édouard Torquet, was a French poet and writer most famous for his novel Enemy Force, which won the first Prix Goncourt in 1903. Life He was born on November 19, 1860, in San Francisco, California and was thus an American citizen. ![]()
Biography of Jacques Guerlain (excerpt)
Jacques Edouard Guerlain (French pronunciation: ; 7 October 1874 (birth time source: Laura Michiels., Archives de Colombes (103)) – 2 May 1963) was a French perfumer, the third and most famous of the Guerlain family. One of the most prolific and influential perfumers of the 20th century, over eighty of Guerlain’s perfumes remain known, though certain estimates suggest he composed some four hundred.
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Biography of Jacques Hadamard (excerpt)
Jacques Salomon Hadamard ForMemRS (French: ; 8 December 1865 – 17 October 1963) was a French mathematician who made major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations. Biography The son of a teacher, Amédée Hadamard, of Jewish descent, and Claire Marie Jeanne Picard, Hadamard was born in Versailles, France and attended the Lycée Charlemagne and Lycée Louis-le-Grand, where his father taught. ![]()
Biography of Luisa Casati (excerpt)
Luisa, Marchesa Casati Stampa di Soncino (23 January 1881 – 1 June 1957), was an Italian heiress, muse, and patroness of the arts in early 20th-century Europe. Casati was known for her eccentricities that delighted European society for nearly three decades. The beautiful and extravagant hostess to the Ballets Russes was something of a legend among her contemporaries. ![]()
Biography of Julia Marlowe (excerpt)
Julia Marlowe (August 17, 1865 – November 12, 1950) was an English-born American actress known for her interpretations of William Shakespeare. Life and career Marlowe was born as Sarah Frances Frost near Keswick, Cumberland, England, to John Frost and Sarah (Strong) Hodgson. When she was four her family emigrated to the United States. ![]()
Biography of Alexandra Kollontai (excerpt)
Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (Russian: Алекса́ндра Миха́йловна Коллонта́й — née Domontovich, Домонто́вич; 31 March 1872 – 9 March 1952) was a Russian Communist revolutionary, first as a member of the Mensheviks, then from 1915 on as a Bolshevik. In 1923, Kollontai was appointed Soviet Ambassador to Norway, one of the first women to hold such a post. ![]()
Biography of Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (excerpt)
Sigismund of Luxemburg (14 February 1368 – 9 December 1437) was Prince-elector of Brandenburg from 1378 until 1388 and from 1411 until 1415, King of Hungary and Croatia from 1387, King of Germany from 1411, King of Bohemia from 1419, King of Italy from 1431, and Holy Roman Emperor for four years from 1433 until 1437, the last male member of the House of Luxemburg. ![]()
Biography of Armand Jean Le Bouthillier de Rancé (excerpt)
Armand Jean Le Bouthillier de Rancé (January 9, 1626 Paris – October 27, 1700 Soligny-la-Trappe), abbot and founder of the Trappist Cistercians. He was originally intended for the Knights of Malta. The illness of his older brother caused his father to dedicate him to ecclesiastical service, in order to preserve in the family the former numerous benefices.
Biography of Benjamin Vallotton (excerpt)
Benjamin Vallotton, born on January 10, 1877 in Gryon, died in 1962 in Sanary-sur-Mer, was a Swiss writer and journalist.
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Biography of Gustave Geley (excerpt)
Gustav Geley (April 11, 1860 (birth time source: Didier Geslain)-July 15, 1924 (airplane accident)) was a French physician, psychical researcher and director of the Institute Metapsychique International from 1919 to 1924. Career Geley was born in 1868 at Montceau-les-Mines, France. He studied medicine in Annecy. ![]()
Biography of Sara Roosevelt (excerpt)
Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt (September 21, 1854 – September 7, 1941) was the second wife of James Roosevelt I (from 1880), the mother of President of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt, her only child, and subsequently the mother-in-law of Eleanor Roosevelt. ![]()
Biography of Paula Modersohn-Becker (excerpt)
Paula Modersohn-Becker (February 8, 1876 (birth time source: Arno Muller and Sy Scholfield, birth certificate) – November 21, 1907) was a German painter and one of the most important representatives of early expressionism. In a brief career, cut short by an embolism at the age of 31, she created a number of groundbreaking images of great intensity. |
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