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Biography of Raoul Dandurand (excerpt)
Raoul Dandurand, PC (November 4, 1861 – March 11, 1942) was a Canadian politician and longtime organizer in Quebec for the Liberal Party of Canada. Biography Dandurand graduated from the Faculty of Law at Université Laval, and worked as a corporate lawyer in Quebec.
Biography of Arthur Mille (excerpt)
Arthur Mille, born on July 30, 1854 in Beaupréau (Maine-et-Loire) (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n°47), died on November 15, 1942 in Lyon, was a French politician and businessman. He was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France (1922-1925).
Biography of Giovanni Battista Vitali (excerpt)
Giovanni Battista Vitali (18 February 1632 – 12 October 1692) was an Italian composer and violone player. Vitali was born in Bologna and spent all of his life in the Emilian region, moving to Modena in 1674. His teacher in his early years was probably Maurizio Cazzati (1616–1678), maestro di cappella at the main church in Bologna, San Petronio Basilica from 1657 to 1671.
Biography of William Walker Atkinson (excerpt)
William Walker Atkinson (December 5, 1862 – November 22, 1932) was an attorney, merchant, publisher, and author, as well as an occultist and an American pioneer of the New Thought movement. He is the author of the pseudonymous works attributed to Theron Q.
Biography of John Rogan (excerpt)
John William Rogan (February 16, 1868 – September 12, 1905) was an American man who was the tallest person ever recorded until passed by Robert Wadlow. Biography Rogan, the son of William Rogan, a former slave, was born in Hendersonville, Tennessee, on February 16, 1868.
Biography of Mikhail Kalinin (excerpt)
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (Russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Кали́нин; 19 November 1875 – 3 June 1946), known familiarly by Soviet citizens as "Kalinych", was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician. He served as head of state of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and later of the Soviet Union from 1919 to 1946.
Biography of Louis Niel (excerpt)
Louis Niel, born on October 25, 1872 in Aubin, Aveyron (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on August 18, 1952 in Bastia, Haute-Corse, was a French syndicalist, Secretary General of The General Confederation of Labour (CGT) in 1909.
Biography of Robert W. Chambers (excerpt)
Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 – December 16, 1933) was an American artist and fiction writer, best known for his book of short stories entitled The King in Yellow, published in 1895. During World War I he wrote war adventure novels and war stories, some of which showed a strong return to his old weird style, such as "Marooned" in Barbarians (1917).
Biography of Madame de Brinvilliers (excerpt)
Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers (2 July 1630 (source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Madeleine_Dreux_d%27Aubray) – 17 July 1676) was a French aristocrat accused of three murders. She was convicted on the strength of letters written by her dead lover and a confession obtained by torture, so her guilt remains uncertain.
Biography of François André (businessman) (excerpt)
François André, born on April 6, 1880 in Rosières (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on May 2, 1962 in Cannes, was a French famous businessman, director of hotels and casinos.
Biography of Albert Lasker (excerpt)
Albert Davis Lasker (May 1, 1880 – May 30, 1952) was an American businessman who played a major role in shaping modern advertising. He was raised in Galveston, Texas, where his father was the president of several banks. Moving to Chicago, he became a partner in the advertising firm of Lord & Thomas.
Biography of Clara Zetkin (excerpt)
Clara Zetkin (née Eißner, 5 July 1857 – 20 June 1933) was a German Marxist theorist, activist, and advocate for women's rights. Until 1917, she was active in the Social Democratic Party of Germany, then she joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and its far-left wing, the Spartacist League; this later became the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), which she represented in the Reichstag during the Weimar Republic from 1920 to 1933.
Biography of Frantisek Kupka (excerpt)
František Kupka (23 September 1871 – 24 June 1957), also known as Frank Kupka or François Kupka, was a Czech painter and graphic artist. He was a pioneer and co-founder of the early phases of the abstract art movement and Orphic Cubism (Orphism).
Biography of Édouard Redont (excerpt)
Édouard Redont, born on February 13, 1862 in Champigny, Marne (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on February 13, 1862 in Reims, was a French landscape architect.
Biography of Berta Zuckerkandl (excerpt)
Berta Zuckerkandl-Szeps, born Bertha Szeps (13 April 1864, Vienna – 16 October 1945, Paris) was an Austrian writer, journalist, and art critic. Bertha Szeps was the daughter of Galician Jewish liberal newspaper publisher Moritz Szeps and was raised in Vienna. She was married to the Hungarian anatomist Emil Zuckerkandl.
Biography of Henry Lawson (excerpt)
Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922) was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest short story writer".
Biography of Annie Pétain (excerpt)
Annie Pétain (born Alphonsine Berthe Eugénie Hardon on 5 October 1877 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, municipal archives) – died on 30 January 1962) was the wife of the French military commander and political leader Philippe Pétain who ruled Vichy France between 1940 and 1944.
Biography of Paquin (fashion designer) (excerpt)
Isidore-René Jacob-Paquin, best known as Paquin, born on April 9, 1862 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on December 20, 1907 in Paris, was a French grand couturier and stylist, the husband of French stylist Jeanne Paquin.
Biography of Eugène Cornuché (excerpt)
Eugène Cornuché, born on April 18, 1867 in Paris 9e (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on April 25, 1926 in Paris, was a French entrepreneur, the owner of restaurant Maxim's, the CEO of Trouville-sur-Merc Casino, and the founder of the Deauville Casino.
Biography of Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen (excerpt)
Baron Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen (20 February 1880 in Paris 8e (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 5 November 1923) was a French novelist and poet. His life forms the basis of a fictionalised biography by Roger Peyrefitte. In 1903 a scandal involving school pupils made him persona non grata in the salons of Paris, and dashed his marriage plans; after which he took up residence in Capri in self-imposed exile with his long-time lover, Nino Cesarini.
Biography of Elsie Reford (excerpt)
Elsie Reford was a pioneer of Canadian horticulture, creating one of the largest private gardens in Canada on her estate, Estevan Lodge in eastern Québec. Located in Grand-Métis on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, her gardens have been open to the public since 1962 and operate under the name Les Jardins de Métis and Reford Gardens.
Biography of Eugeni d'Ors (excerpt)
Eugeni d’Ors i Rovira (Catalan pronunciation: ) (Barcelona, 28 September 1881 – Vilanova i la Geltrú, 25 September 1954) was a Spanish writer, essayist, journalist, philosopher and art critic. He wrote in both Catalan and Spanish, sometimes under the pseudonym of Xènius (pronounced ).
Biography of Camille du Gast (excerpt)
Camille du Gast (Marie Marthe Camille Desinge du Gast, Camille Crespin du Gast, 30 May 1868 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate) – 24 April 1942) was one of a trio of pioneering French female motoring celebrities of the Belle Epoque, together with Hélène de Rothschild (Baroness Hélène van Zuylen) and Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart the (Duchess of Uzès).
Biography of Pierre Janet (excerpt)
Pierre Marie Félix Janet (30 May 1859 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 24 February 1947) was a pioneering French psychologist, philosopher and psychotherapist in the field of dissociation and traumatic memory. He is ranked alongside William James and Wilhelm Wundt as one of the founding fathers of psychology.
Biography of Marguerite Durand (excerpt)
Marguerite Durand (January 24, 1864 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 110) – March 16, 1936) was a French stage actress, journalist, and a leading suffragette. She founded her own newspaper, stood for election, had a pet lion and now has the Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand named for her.
Biography of Inessa Armand (excerpt)
Inessa Fyodorovna Armand (born Elisabeth-Inès Stéphane d'Herbenville; May 8, 1874 – September 24, 1920) was a French Russian communist politician, member of the Bolsheviks and feminist who spent most of her life in Russia. Armand, being an important figure in pre-Revolution Russian communist movement and early days of the communist era, had been almost forgotten for a long time (due to deliberate Stalinist censorship, partly in consideration of her relationship with Lenin) until the partial opening of Soviet archives during the 1990s (despite this, many valuable sources regarding her life still remain inaccessible in Russian archives).
Biography of Ngô Quyền (excerpt)
Ngô Quyền (Hán tự: 吳權) (April 17, 897 – February 14, 944) (r. 939–944) was a Vietnamese prefect and general during the Southern Han Dynasty occupation of Giao Châu in the Red River Valley in what is now northern Vietnam. In 938, he soundly defeated the Chinese at the famous Battle of Bạch Đằng River north of modern Haiphong and ended 1,000 years of Chinese domination dating back to 111 BC under the Han Dynasty.
Biography of Alfred Agache (architect) (excerpt)
Hubert Donat Alfred Agache (24 February 1875 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 4 May 1959) was a French architect and urbanist known for his work in Brazil. Agache was born in Tours to Auguste and Catherine Agache. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Victor Laloux.
Biography of Paul Dassault (excerpt)
Darius Paul Dassault born Darius Paul Bloch (13 January 1882 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 3 May 1969) was a French general who was in the French Résistance in World War II. He was born in Paris. His alias Dassault developed when he was in the French Résistance.
Biography of Constance Bulwer-Lytton (excerpt)
Lady Constance Georgina Bulwer-Lytton, usually known as Constance Lytton (born 12 February 1869, Vienna, died 2 May 1923, London) was an influential British suffragette activist, writer, speaker and campaigner for prison reform, votes for women, and birth control. She sometimes used the name Jane Warton.
Biography of Mina Loy (excerpt)
Mina Loy (born Mina Gertrude Löwy; 27 December 1882 – 25 September 1966) was a British-born artist, writer, poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer of lamps, and bohemian. She was one of the last of the first generation modernists to achieve posthumous recognition.
Biography of Jacques Marcel Auburtin (excerpt)
Jacques Marcel Auburtin, sometimes called Jean-Marcel Auburtin, born on May 17, 1872 in Paris 6e (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on August 18, 1926 in Paris 17e, was a French famous architect, the son of architect Alexandre Émile Auburtin (1838-1899).
Biography of David Pinski (excerpt)
David Pinski (April 5, 1872 – August 11, 1959) was a Yiddish language writer, probably best known as a playwright. At a time when Eastern Europe was only beginning to experience the industrial revolution, Pinski was the first to introduce to its stage a drama about urban Jewish workers; a dramatist of ideas, he was notable also for writing about human sexuality with a frankness previously unknown to Yiddish literature.
Biography of Fernand Jacopozzi (excerpt)
Fernand Jacopozzi, born on September 12, 1877 in Florence, died on February 6, 1932 in Paris, was a French engineer of Italian descent. The electrical engineer was famous for his amazing lighting effects on the Eiffel Tower and other places. He was called the wizard of light.
Biography of Elisabeth of the Palatinate (excerpt)
Elisabeth of the Palatinate (26 December 1618 – 11 February 1680), also known as Elisabeth of Bohemia, Princess Elisabeth of the Palatinate, or Princess-Abbess of Herford Abbey, was the eldest daughter of Frederick V, Elector Palatine (who was briefly King of Bohemia), and Elizabeth Stuart.
Biography of Henry Ossawa Tanner (excerpt)
Henry Ossawa Tanner (June 21, 1859 – May 25, 1937) was an American artist and the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. Tanner moved to Paris, France, in 1891 to study, and continued to live there after being accepted in French artistic circles.
Biography of Joe Hill (excerpt)
Joe Hill (Gävle, Sweden, October 7, 1879 – Salt Lake City, Utah, November 19, 1915), born Joel Emmanuel Hägglund and also known as Joseph Hillström, was a Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, familiarly called the "Wobblies").
Biography of Jean Mouliérat (excerpt)
Jean Mouliérat (13 November 1853 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 20 April 1932) was a French tenor. He spent most of his career at the Opéra comique in Paris. At the Opéra-Comique in Paris who hired him, Mouliérat was entrusted with the main roles of the repertoire: Wilhelm Meister in Ambroise Thomas' Mignon, Tybalt in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, Don José in Bizet's Carmen, Tamino in Mozart's The Magic Flute, Alfredo in Verdi's La traviata.
Biography of Vachel Lindsay (excerpt)
Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (/ˈveɪtʃəl ˈlɪnzi/; November 10, 1879 – December 5, 1931 (he committed suicide by drinking a bottle of Lysol) was an American poet. He is considered a founder of modern singing poetry, as he referred to it, in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted.
Biography of Rainis (excerpt)
Rainis was the pseudonym of Jānis Pliekšāns (September 11, 1865 – September 12, 1929), a Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician. Rainis' works include the classic plays Uguns un nakts (Fire and Night, 1905) and Indulis un Ārija (Indulis and Ārija, 1911), and a highly regarded translation of Goethe's Faust.
Biography of Urmuz (excerpt)
Urmuz (Romanian pronunciation: , pen name of Demetru Dem. Demetrescu-Buzău, also known as Hurmuz or Ciriviș, born Dimitrie Dim. Ionescu-Buzeu; March 17, 1883 – November 23, 1923) was a Romanian writer, lawyer and civil servant, who became a cult hero in Romania's avant-garde scene.
Biography of Marthe Borély (excerpt)
Marthe Borely, born Marthe Trial on July 16, 1880 in Sommières (source for her birth time: FDAF, birth certificate n° 39) and died December 27, 1955 in Toulouse, is a woman of letters and literary critic French.
Biography of René Le Senne (excerpt)
René Le Senne (born Ernest René Lesenne; 8 July 1882, Elbeuf (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 1 October 1954, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French idealist philosopher and psychologist.
Biography of Edward B. Titchener (excerpt)
Edward Bradford Titchener (/ˈtiːtʃənər/; 11 January 1867 – 3 August 1927) was a British psychologist who studied under Wilhelm Wundt for several years. Titchener is best known for creating his version of psychology that described the structure of the mind: structuralism.
Biography of Ivan Bunin (excerpt)
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (22 October 1870 – 8 November 1953) was the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried on the classical Russian traditions in the writing of prose and poetry.
Biography of Suzanne Lacore (excerpt)
Suzanne Lacore was a French politician representing the SFIO (French Section of the Workers' International). She was born on 30 May 1875 in Beyssac (Corrèze, France)(birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 28); she died on 6 November 1975 in Milhac d'Auberoche (Dordogne, France).
Biography of Egon Friedell (excerpt)
Egon Friedell (born Egon Friedmann; 21 January 1878, in Vienna; died 16 March 1938, in Vienna) was a prominent Austrian philosopher, historian, journalist, actor, cabaret performer (Kabarettist) and theatre critic. Friedell has been described as a polymath.
Biography of Henri Piéron (excerpt)
Louis Charles Henri Piéron (18 July 1881 – 6 November 1964) was a French psychologist. He was one of the founders of scientific psychology in France. Biography Henri Piéron was Professor of Physiology of Sensation at the Collège de France from 1923 to 1951.
Biography of Leopoldo Alas (excerpt)
Leopoldo García-Alas y Ureña (25 April 1852 – 13 June 1901), also known as Clarín, was a Spanish realist novelist born in Zamora. His inflammatory articles, known as paliques (“chitchat”), as well as his advocacy of liberalism and anti-clericalism, made him a formidable and controversial critical voice.
Biography of Avel Yenukidze (excerpt)
Avel Safronovich Yenukidze (19 May 1877—30 October 1937) was a prominent "Old Bolshevik" and, at one point, a member of the Soviet Central Committee in Moscow. In 1932, along with Mikhail Kalinin and Vyacheslav Molotov, Yenukidze co-signed the infamous "Law of Spikelets". |
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