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Biography of Bach (actor) (excerpt)
Charles-Joseph Pasquier (1882 (birth time source : Didier Geslain, municipal archives) – 1953), known by his stage name of Bach, was a French actor, singer and music hall performer. Selected filmography The Regiment's Champion (1932) The Blaireau Case (1932) Bach the Millionaire (1933) Bach the Detective (1936)
Biography of Mariana Dragescu (excerpt)
Marie Ana Aurelia (Mariana) Drăgescu (7 September 1912 – 24 March 2013) was a Romanian military aviator during World War II. She was the last surviving member of the White Squadron, a team of female aviators who flew medical aircraft during World War II.
Biography of Margot Duhalde (excerpt)
Margot Duhalde Sotomayor (12 December 1920 – 5 February 2018) was a Chilean pilot who served with the Air Transport Auxiliary of the Royal Air Force in World War II. She was Chile's first female military pilot and first female air traffic controller.
Biography of Abel Decaux (excerpt)
Abel Decaux (11 February 1869 – 19 March 1943) was a French organist and composer. He studied organ with Charles-Marie Widor and Alexandre Guilmant, and composition with Jules Massenet. He served as organist at the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur, in Paris, for 25 years until 1923, when he went to the US to teach organ at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY.
Biography of Marcel Zanini (excerpt)
Marcel Zanini (real name Zannini, born September 9, 1923 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a French jazz musician. His family arrived in Marseille in 1930 and settled there. His father was Neapolitan and his mother was Greek. He began learning the clarinet in 1942 and joined the orchestra of Leo Missir in 1946.
Biography of Alfred Kubin (excerpt)
Alfred Leopold Isidor Kubin (10 April 1877 – 20 August 1959) was an Austrian printmaker, illustrator, and occasional writer. Kubin is considered an important representative of Symbolism and Expressionism. From 1892 to 1896, he was apprenticed to the landscape photographer Alois Beer, although he learned little.
Biography of Grete Hermann (excerpt)
Grete (Henry-)Hermann (March 2, 1901 – April 15, 1984) was a German mathematician and philosopher noted for her work in mathematics, physics, philosophy and education. She is noted for her early philosophical work on the foundations of quantum mechanics, and is now known most of all for an early, but long-ignored critique of a no-hidden-variable theorem by John von Neumann.
Biography of Maurice de Rothschild (excerpt)
Maurice Edmond Karl de Rothschild (19 May 1881 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 4 September 1957) was a French art collector, vineyard owner, financier and politician. He was born into the Rothschild banking family of France. Rothschild inherited a fortune from the childless Adolphe Carl von Rothschild (1823–1900) of the Naples branch of the family and moved to Geneva, Switzerland where he perpetuated the new Swiss branch of the family.
Biography of Yuri Shaporin (excerpt)
Yuri Alexandrovich Shaporin (November 8 (O.S. October 27) 1887 – 9 December 1966), PAU, was a Russian-Ukrainian Soviet composer. After the Bolshoi Drama Theater was established in 1919, he served as its musical director until 1928. He then worked with the Russian State Pushkin Academy Drama Theater — also known as the Alexandrinsky Theater — until 1934.
Biography of Bayard Rustin (excerpt)
Bayard Rustin (March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987) was an African American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights. Rustin worked with A. Philip Randolph on the March on Washington Movement, in 1941, to press for an end to racial discrimination in employment.
Biography of Frank Glasgow Tinker (excerpt)
Frank Glasgow Tinker (July 14, 1909 – June 13, 1939) was an American volunteer fighter pilot for the Fuerzas Aéreas de la República Española ("Air Forces of the Spanish Republic"; FARE), during the Spanish Civil War. Tinker was credited officially with shooting down eight enemy aircraft and was the highest-scoring American air ace of the war.
Biography of Konstantin Simonov (excerpt)
Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov, born Kirill (28 November (O.S. 15 November) 1915 – 28 August 1979), was a Soviet author, journalist, and a war poet. He was a playwright and a wartime correspondent, most famous for his poem Wait for Me. During the war years, he wrote the plays Russian People, Wait for Me, So It Will Be, the short novel Days and Nights, and two books of poems, With You and Without You and War.
Biography of Daniil Shafran (excerpt)
Daniil Borisovich Shafran (Russian: Даниил Борисович Шафран, 13 January 1923 – 7 February 1997) was a Soviet Russian cellist. Shafran made a number of concert tours and recordings together with his first wife, pianist Nina Musinian. Later on, he formed a long-lasting partnership with the pianist Anton Ginsburg.
Biography of Max Douy (excerpt)
Max Douy is a French chief decorator, born June 20, 1914 in Issy-les-Moulineaux (Seine) (source for his birth time: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died July 2, 2007 (aged 93) in Nogent -on-Marne (Val-de-Marne). He collaborates on a continuous basis with Claude Autant-Lara, carrying out meticulous work for Le Rouge et le Noir.
Biography of Alexander Fadeyev (writer) (excerpt)
Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Фаде́ев; 24 December (O.S. 11 December) 1901 – 13 May 1956) was a Soviet writer, one of the co-founders of the Union of Soviet Writers and its chairman from 1946 to 1954. In 1945, he wrote the novel, The Young Guard (based upon real events of World War II) about the underground Komsomol organization named Young Guard, which fought against the Nazis in the occupied city Krasnodon (in the Ukrainian SSR).
Biography of Mary Ellis (pilot) (excerpt)
Mary Ellis (née Wilkins; 2 February 1917 – 24 July 2018) was a British ferry pilot, and one of the last surviving British women pilots from the Second World War. In October 1941, she joined the Air Transport Auxiliary, and was posted to a pool of women flyers based in Hamble in Hampshire.
Biography of Max d'Ollone (excerpt)
Maximilien-Paul-Marie-Félix d'Ollone (13 June 1875 – 15 May 1959) was a 20th-century French composer. Born in Besançon, d'Ollone started composing very early, entering the Paris Conservatoire at 6, winning many prizes, receiving the encouragement of Gounod, Saint-Saëns, Massenet, Thomas and Delibes. His teachers at the Conservatoire were Lavignac, Massenet, Gédalge and Lenepveu; he won the Prix de Rome in 1897.
Biography of Walter Gotell (excerpt)
Walter Jack Gotell (15 March 1924 – 5 May 1997) was a German actor, known for his role as General Gogol, head of the KGB, in the Roger Moore-era of the James Bond film series, as well as having played the role of Morzeny, a villain, in From Russia With Love.
Biography of Renée Simonot (excerpt)
Jeanne Renée Deneuve (10 September 1911 – 11 July 2021), known professionally as Renée-Jeanne Simonot, was a French actress and voice artist. She was married to actor Maurice Dorléac, the mother of actresses Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac and the grandmother of actor Christian Vadim and actress Chiara Mastroianni.
Biography of Ernest Dumont (excerpt)
Ernest François Dumont, born October 13, 1877 in the 17th arrondissement of Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), the city where he died on December 11, 1941 in his home in the 15th arrondissement, is a French lyricist. Ernest Dumont co-authored numerous works (songs and monologues) with Louis Bénech, notably Nuits de Chine, L'Hirondelle du faubourg, L'Étoile du marin, Riquita, Dans les jardins de l'Alhambra, Du gris, La Femme aux bijoux .
Biography of Suzanne Borel (excerpt)
Marie Nancy Suzanne "Suzy" Bidault (née Borel; 18 October 1904 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 1983) – 8 November 1995) was the first French woman to become a diplomat when she was employed as an attaché at the Quai d'Orsay on 1 July 1930 after passing the entrance examination to the French Foreign Ministry.
Biography of Nikolay Bogolyubov (excerpt)
Nikolay Nikolayevich Bogolyubov (Russian: Никола́й Никола́евич Боголю́бов; 21 August 1909 (gregorian calendar) – 13 February 1992), also transliterated as Bogoliubov and Bogolubov, was a Soviet mathematician and theoretical physicist known for a significant contribution to quantum field theory, classical and quantum statistical mechanics, and the theory of dynamical systems; he was the recipient of the 1992 Dirac Prize.
Biography of Dorothy L. Sayers (excerpt)
Dorothy Leigh Sayers (13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was an English crime writer and poet. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. She is best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between the First and Second World Wars that feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey.
Biography of Marie Dollinger (excerpt)
Maria "Marie" Dollinger-Hendrix (28 October 1910 – 10 August 1994) was a German track and field athlete who competed in sprinting events and the 800 metres. She represented Germany at three consecutive Olympic Games: 1928, 1932 and 1936. She set an early Olympic record for the 800 m then the 100 m four years later.
Biography of Georges Perros (excerpt)
Georges Poulot, known as Georges Perros, born August 31, 1923 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 2722; Wikipedia gives August 23, an error) and died in Paris (Laënnec hospital) on January 24, 1978 (cancer of the larynx), is a French writer and actor.
Biography of Müzeyyen Senar (excerpt)
Müzeyyen Senar (16 July 1918 – 8 February 2015) was a Turkish classical music performer, known as the "Diva of the Republic". Senar began her musical career in 1931, entering the Anadolu Musiki Cemiyeti ("Anatolia Musical Association") in Üsküdar, where she was educated by kemenche virtuoso Kemal Niyazi Seyhun and oud player Hayriye.
Biography of Jacques Puisais (excerpt)
Jacques Puisais (8 June 1927 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 6 December 2020) was a French oenologist and taste philosopher born in Poitiers. Holder of a PhD in chemistry, he directed the laboratoire départemental et régional d'analyse in Tours.
Biography of Lydia Litvyak (excerpt)
Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak (Russian: Лидия Владимировна Литвяк; 18 August 1921, in Moscow – 1 August 1943, in Krasnyi Luch), also known as Lilya, was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War II. Historians' estimates for her total victories range from five to twelve solo victories and two to four shared kills in her 66 combat sorties.
Biography of Sara Ginaite (excerpt)
Sara Ginaite-Rubinson (17 March 1924 – 2 April 2018) was a Jewish Lithuanian-born Canadian author and academic. During the Second World War she was a resistance fighter during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania, becoming a Jewish partisan in 1942. She was about to complete her secondary school education when Germany invaded Lithuania in 1941.
Biography of Mark Reizen (excerpt)
Mark Osipovich Reizen, also Reisen or Reyzen (3 July (O.S. 21 June) 1895 – November 25, 1992), PAU, was a leading Soviet opera singer with a beautiful and expansive bass voice. Reizen was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1941, 1949 and 1951.
Biography of Juhan Smuul (excerpt)
Juhan Smuul (18 February 1922 – 13 April 1971) was an Estonian writer. Until 1954 he used the given name Johannes Schmuul. Smuul was born in Koguva village on the island of Muhu to Jüri and Ruudu Schmuul. He had three older sisters: Salme, Linda, and Liisa and one younger sister, Aliide, as well as six half-siblings from his father's first marriage.
Biography of Michele Greco (excerpt)
Michele Greco (12 May 1924 – 13 February 2008) was a member of the Sicilian Mafia and a convicted murderer. Greco died in prison while serving multiple life sentences. His nickname was Il Papa ("The Pope") due to his ability to mediate between different Mafia families.
Biography of Saadat Hasan Manto (excerpt)
Saadat Hasan Manto (11 May 1912 – 18 January 1955) was a writer, playwright and author born in Ludhiana active in British India and later, after the partition, in Pakistan. Writing mainly in the Urdu language, he produced 22 collections of short stories, a novel, five series of radio plays, three collections of essays and two collections of personal sketches.
Biography of Samuil Marshak (excerpt)
Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak (alternative spelling: Samuil Yakovlevich Marchak) (Russian: Самуи́л Я́ковлевич Марша́к; 3 November (O.S. 22 October) 1887 – 4 July 1964) was a Russian and Soviet writer of Jewish origin, translator and poet who wrote for both children and adults.
Biography of Dora Dougherty Strother (excerpt)
Dr. Dora Jean Dougherty Strother (also known as Dora Dougherty McKeown and/or Dora Strother McKeown; November 27, 1921 – November 19, 2013), was best known as a Woman Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and B-29 Superfortress demonstration pilot. She was a U.
Biography of Sylvia Beach (excerpt)
Sylvia Beach (March 14, 1887 – October 5, 1962), born Nancy Woodbridge Beach, was an American-born bookseller and publisher who lived most of her life in Paris, where she was one of the leading expatriate figures between World War I and II.
Biography of Tempest Storm (excerpt)
Tempest Storm (born Annie Blanche Banks; February 29, 1928 – April 20, 2021), also dubbed "The Queen Of Exotic Dancers," was an American burlesque star and motion picture actress. Along with Lili St. Cyr, Sally Rand, and Blaze Starr, she was one of the best-known burlesque performers of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
Biography of Ernest Oppenheimer (excerpt)
Sir Ernest Oppenheimer (22 May 1880 – 25 November 1957), KStJ was a diamond and gold mining entrepreneur, financier and philanthropist, who controlled De Beers and founded the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa. Career Ernest Oppenheimer was born in Friedberg, German Empire, the son of Edward Oppenheimer, a cigar merchant, and his wife, Nanette (née Hirschhorn) Oppenheimer.
Biography of Frieda Belinfante (excerpt)
Frieda Belinfante (May 10, 1904 in Amsterdam – April 26, 1995 in Santa Fe, New Mexico) was a Dutch cellist, conductor, a prominent lesbian and a member of the Dutch resistance during World War II. After the war, Belinfante immigrated to the United States and continued her career in music.
Biography of Lev Sverdlin (excerpt)
Lev Naumovich Sverdlin (Russian: Лев Наумович Свердлин; 16 November 1901 - 29 August 1969) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He appeared in more than forty films from 1936 to 1969. Selected filmography Year Title Role Notes 1936 By the Bluest of Seas Yussef 1939 Minin and Pozharsky 1943 Wait for Me Nasreddin in Bukhara
Biography of Francis Bonnardel (excerpt)
Francis Bonnardel, born January 24, 1928 in Bagnolet (source for his time of birth: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 22), is a former French boxer. Bonnardel was also a sucessfull jockey.
Biography of Nikolai Semashko (excerpt)
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Semashko (September 20 1874 – May 18, 1949), was a Russian statesman who became People's Commissar of Public Health in 1918, and served in that role until 1930. He was one of the organizers of the health system in the Soviet Union, an academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1944) and of the RSFSR (1945).
Biography of Jacqueline de Chambrun (excerpt)
Jacqueline de Chambrun (1920-2013) was a French physician and activist. She was a member of the French Resistance during World War II. She campaigned for abortion rights as well as human rights for the homeless and undocumented immigrants in France. De Chambrun was a paediatrician.
Biography of Mark Bernes (excerpt)
Mark Naumovich Bernes (Russian: Ма́рк Нау́мович Берне́с) (October 8 (O.S. September 25) 1911, Nezhin, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire – August 16, 1969, Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Soviet actor and singer of Jewish ancestry (his father's last name was Neumann), who performed some of the most poignant songs to come out of World War II, including Dark Night (Russian: Тёмная ночь, Tyomnaya noch; 1943) and Cranes (Russian: Журавли, Zhuravli; 1969).
Biography of Nikolay Burdenko (excerpt)
Nikolay Nilovich Burdenko (Russian: Николай Нилович Бурденко; 22 May 1876 – 11 November 1946) was a Russian and Soviet surgeon, the founder of Russian neurosurgery. He was Surgeon-General of the Red Army (1937–1946), an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (from 1939), an academician and the first director of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (1944–1946), a Hero of Socialist Labor (from 1943), Colonel General of medical services, and a Stalin Prize winner (1941).
Biography of Bobbi Trout (excerpt)
Evelyn "Bobbi" Trout (January 7, 1906 – January 24, 2003) was an early American aviator, notable for her pioneering flying activities. Trout began her aviation career at the age of 16; however, her first solo flight and solo certificate was only given on April 30, 1928.
Biography of Susana Ferrari Billinghurst (excerpt)
Susana Ferrari Billinghurst (20 March 1914 – 13 August 1999) was an Argentine aviator of Italian, English, and Irish descent. She was the first woman in South America to earn a commercial pilot's license, in 1937. In 1937, Billinghurst became the first woman in South America to earn a commercial pilot's license.
Biography of Carl Einstein (excerpt)
Carl Einstein (26 April 1885 – 5 July 1940), born Karl Einstein, was an influential German Jewish writer, art historian, anarchist and critic. Regarded as one of the first critics to appreciate the development of Cubism, as well as for his work on African art and influence on the European avant-garde, Einstein was a friend and colleague of such figures as George Grosz, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso and Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler.
Biography of Nonna Mordyukova (excerpt)
Noyabrina Viktorovna Mordyukova (Russian: Но́нна (Ноябри́на) Ви́кторовна Мордюко́ва; 25 November 1925 – 6 July 2008) was a Soviet actress and People's Artist of the USSR (1974). She was the star of films like director Denis Yevstigneyev's Mama and Nikita Mikhalkov's 1980s hit Family Relations.
Biography of Maksym Rylsky (excerpt)
Maksym Tadeyovych Rylsky (Ukrainian: Максим Тадейович Рильський; Russian: Максим Фадеевич Рыльский; 19 March (O.S. 7 March) 1895 in Kiev – 24 July 1964 id.) was a Ukrainian poet, journalist, translator, academician, Doctor of Philological Sciences. The 1920s were marked by the poet's creative flourishing: his collections "Through storm and snow" (1925), "The 13th spring" (1926), "Where roads meet", "Hum and rumbling" (both 1929). |
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