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Biography of John B. Goodenough (excerpt)
John Bannister Goodenough (born 25 July 1922) is an American professor and solid-state physicist. He is currently a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at The University of Texas at Austin. He is widely credited for the identification and development of the lithium-ion battery as well as for developing the Goodenough–Kanamori rules for determining the sign of the magnetic superexchange in materials.
Biography of Ramaswamy Venkataraman (excerpt)
Ramaswamy Venkataraman (4 December 1910 – 27 January 2009) was an Indian lawyer, Indian independence activist and politician who served as a Union Minister and as the eighth President of India. Venkataraman was born in Rajamadam village in Tanjore district, Madras Presidency.
Biography of Edmond Jouhaud (excerpt)
Edmond Jouhaud (2 April 1905 – 4 September 1995) was one of four French generals who briefly staged a putsch in Algeria in April 1961. As Army General he had been the Inspector General of the Air Force in French North Africa.
Biography of Nicolas Bataille (excerpt)
Nicolas Bataille (March 14, 1926, Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 283) – October 28, 2008, Paris) was a French comedian and director. Biography The son of a Parisian architect, Nicolas Bataille (born Roger Bataille) debuted as an actor during the Occupation of France while following the dramatic teachings of René Simon, Tania Balachova, and the comedian Solange Sicard.
Biography of André Strappe (excerpt)
André Strappe (23 February 1928 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 9 February 2006) was a French footballer who played striker, and later served as a manager. During his career, Strappe played for Lille OSC (1948–58), Le Havre AC (1958–61), FC Nantes (1961–63), and SC Bastia (1963).
Biography of Pierre Lacoste (excerpt)
Pierre Lacoste (23 January 1924 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 11 January 2020) was a French marine officer and government official. He served as President of the Fédération des professionnels de l'intelligence économique in 2006. In 1982, Pierre Marion was dismissed as Directorate-General for External Security by François Mitterrand.
Biography of Tetyana Yablonska (excerpt)
Tetyana Yablonska (Ukrainian: Яблонська Тетяна Нилівна) (24 February 1917 – 17 June 2005) was a Ukrainian painter. Her early vital pictures are devoted to work and a life of Ukrainian people ("Bread", 1949). She has passed to generalizing images of the nature, differing a subtlety of plastic and color rhythms ("Anonymous heights", 1969; "Flax", 1977).
Biography of Noëlla Rouget (excerpt)
Noëlla Rouget (25 December 1919 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 22 November 2020) was a French resistant and teacher. She spoke of her experiences in the 1980s in Switzerland, Haute-Savoie, and Ain. On 31 January 1944, she was deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp with almost 1000 others.
Biography of Hilda Nilsson (excerpt)
Hilda Nilsson (24 May 1876 – 10 August 1917) was a Swedish serial killer from Helsingborg who became known as "the angel maker on Bruks Street". She is one of Sweden's most notorious female serial killers. In 1917, she was imprisoned for murdering eight children.
Biography of Susanne Langer (excerpt)
Susanne Katherina Langer (/ˈlæŋər/; née Knauth; December 20, 1895 – July 17, 1985) was an American philosopher, writer, and educator and was well known for her theories on the influences of art on the mind. She was one of the first women in American history to achieve an academic career in philosophy and the first woman to be popularly and professionally recognized as an American philosopher.
Biography of Yvette Chassagne (excerpt)
Yvette Madeleine Chassagne (28 March 1922 (birth time source: Dreuille, Auréas AstroPC) – 4 September 2007) was a French civil servant. She was the first woman to hold the position of prefect in France. In 1981, she was named prefect for Loir-et-Cher by François Mitterrand.
Biography of Nora Barnacle (excerpt)
Nora Barnacle (21 March 1884 – 10 April 1951) was the muse and wife of Irish author James Joyce. Barnacle and Joyce had their first romantic assignation in 1904 on a date celebrated worldwide as the "Bloomsday" of his modernist novel Ulysses, a book that she did not, however, enjoy.
Biography of Herwarth Walden (excerpt)
Herwarth Walden (actual name Georg Lewin; 16 September 1879, in Berlin – 31 October 1941, in Saratov, Russia) was a German Expressionist artist and art expert in many disciplines. He is broadly acknowledged as one of the most important discoverers and promoters of German avant-garde art in the early twentieth century (Expressionism, Futurism, Dadaism, Magic Realism).
Biography of Faina Ranevskaya (excerpt)
Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya (Russian: Фаина Георгиевна Раневская, born Faina Girschevna Feldman, 27 August (O.S. 15 August) 1896 - 19 July 1984), is recognized as one of the greatest Soviet actresses in both tragedy and comedy. She was also famous for her aphorisms.
Biography of Paul Ethuin (excerpt)
Paul Ethuin (Bruay-sur-l'Escaut, 24 September 1924 – Reims, 1 November 2011) was a French conductor who was particularly associated with building up the opera company in Rouen and who conducted an important Ring Cycle in France in the 1960s. Considered a strict and rigorous conductor, his support for young singers was well-acknowledged.
Biography of Marie-Louise von Franz (excerpt)
Marie-Louise von Franz (4 January 1915 – 17 February 1998) was a Swiss Jungian psychologist and scholar, known for her psychological interpretations of fairy tales and of alchemical manuscripts. Career Von Franz worked with Carl Jung, whom she met in 1933 and with whom she collaborated until his death in 1961.
Biography of Robert Héliès (excerpt)
Robert Héliès, born February 8, 1927 in Brest (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died on February 19, 2019, is a French footballer turned international referee. He has refereed many high-level international matches including the final of the European Cup of Champions Clubs in May 1972, Ajax Amsterdam-Inter Milan.
Biography of Serge Raynaud de la Ferrière (excerpt)
Serge Raynaud de la Ferrière (18 January 1916 – 27 December 1962) was a French Initiatic philosopher. He was born in Paris, France, the son of Georges Constantine Louis Raynaud, who was an engineer, and Virginie Marie Billet. His parents moved to Brussels, Belgium when he was two years old, and his mother died there when he was only five years of age.
Biography of Louise Saumoneau (excerpt)
Louise Saumoneau (17 December 1875 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 759) – 23 February 1950) was a French feminist who later renounced feminism as being irrelevant to the class struggle. She became a union leader and a prominent socialist.
Biography of Adile Nasit (excerpt)
Adile Naşit (17 June 1930 – 11 December 1987) was a Turkish actress, who is best known for being the partner of Münir Özkul in movies like Happy Days and in Hababam Sınıfı (Hababam Class). She also starred in many plays, movies, and a children's programme called Uykudan Önce (Before Sleep) as a storyteller.
Biography of Conrad Aiken (excerpt)
Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973) was an American writer, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, a play, and an autobiography. Named poetry consultant of the Library of Congress from 1950–1952, Conrad Aiken earned numerous prestigious national writing awards, including a National Book Award, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the National Institute of Arts and Letters Gold Medal and the National Medal for Literature.
Biography of Joe Robinson (actor) (excerpt)
Joseph Robinson (31 May 1927 – 3 July 2017) was an English actor and stuntman born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. He was a champion professional wrestler, as were his father Joseph and his grandfather John. His brother, Doug Robinson, is also an actor and stuntman.
Biography of Ida Vitale (excerpt)
Ida Vitale (born November 2, 1923, in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan writer. She played an important role in the Uruguayan art movement known as the 'Generation of 45': Carlos Maggi, Manuel Flores Mora, Ángel Rama (who also became her second husband), Emir Rodríguez Monegal, Idea Vilariño, Carlos Real de Azúa, Carlos Martínez Moreno, Mario Arregui, Mauricio Muller, José Pedro Díaz, Amanda Berenguer, Tola Invernizzi, Mario Benedetti, Líber Falco, Juan Cunha, Juan Carlos Onetti, among others.
Biography of Jean Dubuisson (excerpt)
Jean Dubuisson (September 18, 1914 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – October 22, 2011) was a French architect who is regarded as one of the leading practitioners of the French post-World War II years. Beyond a classical culture gained at the École des Beaux Arts and on his travels in Italy and Greece, Dubuisson was strongly influenced by Mies van der Rohe, Arne Jacobsen, and Walter Gropius.
Biography of Margaret Keane (excerpt)
Margaret D. H. Keane (born Peggy Doris Hawkins, September 15, 1927) is an American artist known for her paintings of subjects with big eyes. She mainly paints women, children, or animals in oil or mixed media. The work achieved commercial success through inexpensive reproductions on prints, plates, and cups.
Biography of Marina Ginestà (excerpt)
Marina Ginestà i Coloma (29 January 1919 – 6 January 2014) was a French-born Catalan veteran of the Spanish Civil War, journalist and a member of the Unified Socialist Youth. She became famous due to the photo taken by Juan Guzmán on the rooftop of Plaça de Catalunya 9, 08002 Barcelona, Catalonia, Barcelona during the July 1936 military uprising in Barcelona.
Biography of Simone Levaillant (excerpt)
Simone Levaillant, born Adèle Simonne Levaillant on November 19, 1904 in Saint-Étienne (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate), died in deportation on March 30, 1943 in Lublin Maïdaneck (Poland), was a feminist and resistant militant. She had been the first woman lawyer to join the Bar of Saint-Etienne.
Biography of Bernard Privat (excerpt)
Bernard Privat (25 October 1914 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 11 October 1985) was a French writer and editor. Biography Bernard Privat received the Prix Femina for Au pied du mur in 1959. He was also in charge of the éditions Grasset for over twenty-five years.
Biography of Reinhold Glière (excerpt)
Reinhold Moritzevich Glière, born Reinhold Ernest Glier, which was later converted for standardization purposes; 11 January 1875 (O.S. 30 December 1874) – 23 June 1956), was a Soviet Ukrainian and Russian composer, of German and Polish descent. As Taneyev's pupil and an 'associated' member of the circle around the Petersburg publisher Mitrofan Belyayev, it appeared Glière was destined to be a chamber musician.
Biography of Michel Boscher (excerpt)
Michel Boscher, born on November 19, 1922 in Évry-Petit-Bourg (now Évry)(birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 42), died on September 26, 2008 in Paris, was a French politician. He as the mayor of Évry since 1947 until 1977.
Biography of Barthélemy Guérini (excerpt)
Barthélemy Guérini , best known as Mémé Guérini, born on April 25, 1908 in Calenzana (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on March 1, 1982 in La Valette, Montpellier, was a French dominant figure in the post-war milieu of Marseille, with his brother Antoine Guérini.
Biography of Guy Deplus (excerpt)
Guy Deplus (29 August 1924 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 14 January 2020) was a French clarinetist. Deplus studied clarinet at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he would later become a professor of clarinet, and received Premiers Prix in clarinet and chamber music.
Biography of Royal Rife (excerpt)
Royal Raymond Rife (May 16, 1888 – August 5, 1971) was an American inventor and early exponent of high-magnification time-lapse cine-micrography. He is best known for a claimed 'beam ray' invention during the 1930s, which he thought could treat some diseases by "devitalizeing disease organisms" through vibration.
Biography of Harold Sakata (excerpt)
Harold Sakata (ハロルド 坂田 Harorudo Sakata), born Toshiyuki Sakata (坂田 敏行 Sakata Toshiyuki, July 1, 1920 – July 29, 1982) was an American Olympic weightlifter, professional wrestler, and film actor. He won a silver medal for the United States at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London in weightlifting.
Biography of Mikhail Astangov (excerpt)
Mikhail Fyodorovich Astangov (Russian: Михаи́л Фёдорович Аста́нгов), pseudonym of M.F. Ruzhnikov (Ружников) (3 November (O.S. 21 October) 1900 in Warsaw – 20 April 1965 in Moscow) was a Soviet actor, and an acclaimed People's Artist of the USSR (1955). Selected filmography The Oppenheim Family (1939)
Biography of Léon Gautier (military) (excerpt)
Léon Gautier (27 October 1922 – 3 July 2023) was a French soldier, who was France's last surviving veteran of D-Day. Gautier was born in Rennes, Brittany, in the French Third Republic, on 27 October 1922. He enlisted in the French Navy after the start of the Second World War, and fled to the U.
Biography of Gabrielle Duchêne (excerpt)
Gabrielle Duchêne (26 February 1870 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 200) – 3 August 1954) was a French feminist and pacifist who was active in the French section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Duchêne was present at the founding conference of the Universal Assembly for Peace in Brussels in September 1936.
Biography of Maurice Laban (excerpt)
Maurice Laban (born 30 October 1914 at Biskra, died 5 June 1956 at Boudouane), a pied-noir, was a founding member of the Algerian Communist Party (PCA). In 1936, he joined the International Brigades to fight in the Spanish Civil War. In the mid-1950s, he was a member of the Combattants de la Libération, the guerrilla group established by the PCA after the outbreak of the Algerian War.
Biography of Ahmet Ertegun (excerpt)
Ahmet Ertegun (July 31 (O.S. 18 July) 1923 – December 14, 2006) was a Turkish-American businessman, songwriter and philanthropist. Ertegun was the co-founder and president of Atlantic Records. He discovered and championed many leading rhythm and blues and rock musicians. Ertegun also wrote classic Blues and pop songs.
Biography of M.G. Ramachandran (excerpt)
Maruthur Gopala Ramachandran (17 January 1917 – 24 December 1987), also popularly known as M.G.R., was an Indian politician, actor, philanthropist and filmmaker who served as the chief minister of Tamil Nadu from 1977 till his death in 1987. He was the founder of AIADMK and mentor of J.
Biography of John Cheever (excerpt)
John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs." His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester suburbs, old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born, and Italy, especially Rome.
Biography of André Lavagne (excerpt)
André Lavagne (12 July 1913 in Paris – 21 March 2014 in Paris) was a French composer. He mostly worked on short movies, such as: L'amour maternel chez les animaux (1944) and Un amour de parapluie (1951). He was born in Paris.
Biography of Vera Menchik (excerpt)
Vera Frantsevna Menchik (1 March (Gregorian calendar) (16 February Julian calendar) 1906 – 26 June 1944) was a British-Czechoslovak-Russian chess player who became the world's first women's chess champion. She also competed in chess tournaments with some of the world's leading male chess masters, with occasional successes including two wins over future world champion Max Euwe.
Biography of Marcelle de Jouvenel (excerpt)
Marcelle Georgette Fernande de Jouvenel des Ursins, born Prat, is a French writer and psi subject, born on April 12, 1896 in Neuilly-sur-Seine (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died on May 20, 1971 in the same town. She was the wife of Bertrand de Jouvenel, and the mother of Roland de Jouvenel (died May 2, 1946 at the age of 14, typhoid).
Biography of Henry Bernard (architect) (excerpt)
Henry Bernard (21 February 1912, Albertville, France – 10 December 1994) was a French architect and urban planner. Bernard received his diploma in architecture in 1938. That same year he won first prize in the Prix de Rome. Afterwards he worked as an architect in charge of civil buildings and national monuments, a position concerned with the renovation of historic buildings.
Biography of Jacques Brunius (excerpt)
Jacques B. Brunius, French actor, director and writer, was born Jacques Henri Cottance in Paris 17e on September 16, 1906 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), and died in Exeter, Devon (UK), on April 24, 1967. He was cremated in Sidmouth, with a tribute by Mesens.
Biography of Ayhan Isik (excerpt)
Ayhan Işık (born Ayhan Işıyan; 5 May 1929 – 16 June 1979) was one of the pioneers of Turkish cinema and actors in Turkey, and among the most famous Turkish leading actors in the 1950s and 1960s. Film after film, year after year, Işık's fame grew.
Biography of Arcabas (excerpt)
Jean-Marie Pirot (December 26, 1926 – August 23, 2018), popularly known as Arcabas (a name given to him by his pupils), was a French contemporary sacred artist. He became known for his works in Saint-Hugues-de-Chartreuse church. From 1969 to 1972, he was appointed guest artist by the Canadian government, and was a professor of the University of Ottawa, where he created "l’atelier collectif expérimental".
Biography of Robert Auzelle (excerpt)
Robert Auzelle, born on June 9, 1913 in Coulommiers (birth time source: Didier Geslain. Wikipedia gives June 8), died on December 22, 1983 in Paris, was a French architect and urban planner.
Biography of Eileen Agar (excerpt)
Eileen Forrester Agar RA (1 December 1899 – 17 November 1991) was a British painter and photographer associated with the Surrealist movement. In 1911, the Agar family, Scottish father and American mother, left Argentina for London where Eileen enrolled in the Byam Shaw School of Fine Art in 1919, then in the Underwood School of Painting and sculpture. |
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