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Biography of María Bernaldo de Quirós (excerpt)
María Salud Bernaldo de Quirós (26 March 1898 – 26 September 1983) was the first woman in Spain to earn a pilot's licence, passing her test in early October 1928 and receiving the licence from the Escuela Nacional Aeronáutica (National Aeronautical School) on the following 24 November.
Biography of Jean Batten (excerpt)
Jean Gardner Batten CBE OSC (15 September 1909 – 22 November 1982) was a New Zealand aviator. Born in Rotorua, she became the best-known New Zealander of the 1930s, internationally, by making a number of record-breaking solo flights across the world.
Biography of Miyamoto Yuriko (excerpt)
Miyamoto Yuriko (宮本 百合子, 13 February 1899 – 21 January 1951) was a Japanese novelist, short-story writer, social activist, and literary critic active during the Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan. She is best known for her autobiographical fiction and involvement in proletarian and women's liberation movements.
Biography of Otto Nebel (excerpt)
Otto Nebel (25 December 1892 – 12 September 1973) was a German painter and poet, born in Berlin, Germany. The artist liked to experiment especially with the linocut, a great favorite among the German Expressionists and a medium that they imbued with new life.
Biography of Irmgard Bartenieff (excerpt)
Irmgard Bartenieff (1900 Berlin – 1981 New York City) was a dance theorist, dancer, choreographer, physical therapist, and a leading pioneer of dance therapy. A student of Rudolf Laban, she pursued cross-cultural dance analysis, and generated a new vision of possibilities for human movement and movement training.
Biography of Marguerite Bervoets (excerpt)
Marguerite Bervoets, born in La Louvière, (6 March 1914 - 7 August 1944) was a Belgian resistance fighter during World War 2. On 8 August 1942 Marguerite and another resistance member, Cécile Detournay, went to the edge of Chièvres Airfield for the purpose of photographing newly installed anti-aircraft guns.
Biography of Maurice Faivre (excerpt)
Maurice Faivre (19 March 1926 birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 4 November 2020) was a French Général and political scientist. He fought for France in the Algerian War, on which he published numerous works. Awards Cross for Military Valour (1957)
Biography of Ferenc Münnich (excerpt)
Ferenc Münnich (18 November 1886 – 29 November 1967) was a Hungarian Communist politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Hungary from 1958 to 1961. He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army in World War I, and fought in the Eastern front.
Biography of Léon Bollée (excerpt)
Léon Bollée (1 April 1870 – 16 December 1913) was a French automobile manufacturer and inventor. Bollée's family were well known bellfounders and his father, Amédée Bollée (1844–1917), was the major pioneer in the automobile industry who produced several steam cars. Both Léon Bollée and his older brother Amédée-Ernest-Marie (1867–1926) became automobile manufacturers.
Biography of Denis Peploe (excerpt)
Denis Frederic Neal Peploe (25 March 1914 – 22 May 1993) was a Scottish artist and sculptor known for his landscapes. During the war he served with the Royal Artillery and the Special Operations Executive where he was hurt in a motorcycle accident.
Biography of Fritz Ascher (excerpt)
Fritz Ascher (17 October 1893 in Berlin, Germany – 26 March 1970 in Berlin, Germany) was a German artist, whose work is characterized by Expressionist and Symbolist sensitivity. In paintings, works on paper and poetry he explored existential questions and themes of contemporary social and cultural relevance, of spirituality and mythology.
Biography of Bruno Rossi (excerpt)
Bruno Benedetto Rossi (13 April 1905 – 21 November 1993) was an Italian experimental physicist. He made major contributions to particle physics and the study of cosmic rays. A 1927 graduate of the University of Bologna, he became interested in cosmic rays.
Biography of Salvo Randone (excerpt)
Salvatore "Salvo" Randone (25 September 1906 – 6 March 1991) was an Italian theatrical, television and film actor. Born in Syracuse, Sicily, Randone debuted on stage in mid-1920s and, after some years in which he played roles of little weight, he became in the fifties one of the most critically appreciated actors in Italian theatre.
Biography of Dirk Witte (excerpt)
Dirk Hermanus Witte (Zaandam, June 29, 1885 – Diemen, November 15, 1932) was a Dutch songwriter and singer. His most famous song is Mens, dare to live (1917). This became known through the performance of Jean-Louis Pisuisse. It was later recorded by Willy Alberti, Ramses Shaffy, The Amazing Stroopwafels and Wende Snijders, among others.
Biography of Carola Lorenzini (excerpt)
Carolina (Carola) Elena Lorenzini (15 August 1889 – 23 November 1941) was a pioneer Argentine aviator. Lorenzini was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the seventh of eight children. From 1938 to 1940, Lorenzini was involved in an air exploration mission to fly all of Argentina's 14 provinces and make aerial maps for transport and mail flights.
Biography of Mary Eaton (excerpt)
Mary Eaton (January 29, 1901 – October 10, 1948) was an American stage actress, singer, and dancer in the 1910s and 1920s, probably best known today from her appearance in the first Marx Brothers film, The Cocoanuts (1929). A professional performer since childhood, she enjoyed success in stage productions such as the Ziegfeld Follies.
Biography of Paul Gordeaux (excerpt)
Paul Gordeaux born Philippe, Georges, Emmanuel Gordolon on April 4, 1891 in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) (source for his birth time: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died on March 4, 1974 in the same city, is a journalist, historian, dramatic critic, man of letters and French humorist.
Biography of Leyla Mammadbeyova (excerpt)
Leyla Alasgar qizi Mammadbeyova, née Zeynalova (Azerbaijani: Leyla Ələsgər qızı Məmmədbəyova; 17 September 1909 – 1989), was the first Azerbaijani female aviator. She also was the first female pilot of Transcaucasia, of Southern Europe and of Middle East. Mammadbeyova was trained as a professional aviator at the Baku Airclub and performed her first flight in 1931.
Biography of Doc Severinsen (excerpt)
Carl Hilding "Doc" Severinsen (born July 7, 1927 in Arlington, Oregon) is an American jazz trumpeter who led the band on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Severinsen was the principal pops conductor for several American orchestras during and after his time on The Tonight Show.
Biography of Jeannette Guyot (excerpt)
Jeannette Guyot (February 26, 1919 – April 10, 2016) was a French Resistance operative who went on to become one of the Second World War's most decorated women. She is one of only two women to hold the American Distinguished Service Cross obtained during the war.
Biography of Carlos Casagemas (excerpt)
Carles Antoni Cosme Damià Casagemas i Coll (Carlos Casagemas) (September 27, 1880, in Barcelona, Spain – February 17, 1901, in Paris, France) was a Spanish painter and poet. He is known for his friendship with Pablo Picasso, who painted several portraits of Casagemas.
Biography of Herrera Helenio (excerpt)
Helenio Herrera Gavilán (10 April 1910 – 9 November 1997) was an Argentine, naturalized French, football player and manager. He is best remembered for his success with the Inter Milan team known as Grande Inter in the 1960s. During his managerial career, Herrera won four La Liga titles in Spain (with Atlético Madrid and Barcelona) and three Serie A titles in Italy with Inter.
Biography of Ery Bos (excerpt)
Ery Bos (October 3, 1908 - March 10, 2005) was a German dancer and film actress. She established herself as a star in the cinema of the Weimar Republic, but was forced to flee following the takeover of the Nazi Party due to her Jewish background.
Biography of Shelby Foote (excerpt)
Shelby Dade Foote Jr. (November 17, 1916 – June 27, 2005) was an American writer, historian and journalist. Although he primarily viewed himself as a novelist, he is now best known for his authorship of The Civil War: A Narrative, a three-volume history of the American Civil War.
Biography of Beatriz Aguirre (excerpt)
Beatriz Ofelia Aguirre Valdez (March 23, 1925 – September 29, 2019) was a Mexican film and television actress. She died on 29 September 2019 at the age of 94. Filmography Film roles 1947 The Tiger of Jalisco Rosita 1949 The Perez Family Clara 1950 Over the Waves Lolita 1953 Flight 971 Enfermera 1960 My Mother Is Guilty Lucía Arellano
Biography of Thurgood Marshall (excerpt)
Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice.
Biography of Maurice Nasil (excerpt)
Maurice Nasillski said Maurice Nasil, born July 8, 1913 in Algiers (birth time source: birth certificate online at cineartistes.com, Wikipedia has July 7 by mistake) and died January 6, 2003 in Paris 9th, is a French actor. He has played notably in The Cow and the Prisoner, The President and The Jungle Book (as a French voice).
Biography of Wanda Hendrix (excerpt)
Dixie Wanda Hendrix (November 3, 1928 – February 1, 1981) was an American film and television actress. Career and marriages She made her first film, Confidential Agent, in 1945 at the age of 16 and for the first few years of her career was consistently cast in "B" pictures.
Biography of George Andrew Olah (excerpt)
George Andrew Olah (born Oláh György; May 22, 1927 – March 8, 2017) was a Hungarian and American chemist. His research involved the generation and reactivity of carbocations via superacids. For this research, Olah was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994 "for his contribution to carbocation chemistry.
Biography of Hanan Aharon Cidor (excerpt)
Hanan Aharon Cidor, born on November 12, 1905 in Berlin, died on March 8, 1985 in Jerusalem, was a German-Israeli diplomat. He worked for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was Israeli Ambassador to the Netherlands from 1957 to 1963.
Biography of Carol Emshwiller (excerpt)
Carol Emshwiller (April 12, 1921 – February 2, 2019) was an American writer of avant garde short stories and science fiction who has won prizes ranging from the Nebula Award to the Philip K. Dick Award. Ursula K. Le Guin has called her "a major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist, one of the strongest, most complex, most consistently feminist voices in fiction".
Biography of Hans Beimler (communist) (excerpt)
Hans Beimler (2 July 1895 – 1 December 1936) was a trade unionist, Communist-Party official, deputy in the 1933 Reichstag, an outspoken opponent of the Nazis and a volunteer in the international brigades fighting for the Spanish Republic. Hans Beimler was granted national hero status in the German Democratic Republic, with military divisions, ships, factories, schools and streets named in his honour.
Biography of Takashi Shimura (excerpt)
Takashi Shimura (Shimura Takashi, March 12, 1905 – February 11, 1982) was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 200 films between 1934 and 1981. He is particularly noted for his appearances in 21 of Akira Kurosawa's 30 films (more than any other actor), including as a lead actor in Drunken Angel (1948), Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (1954).
Biography of Germain Bazin (excerpt)
Germain René Michel Bazin (24 September 1901 – 2 May 1990) was a French art historian, curator at the Louvre Museum from 1951 to 1965. Life Germain Bazin was born in Suresnes on 24 September 1901. He studied art history at the University of Paris.
Biography of Ivo Garrani (excerpt)
Ivo Garrani (6 February 1924 – 25 March 2015) was an Italian actor and voice actor. In films since 1952, Garrani is possibly best known for his role as Prince Vajda in Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960). Born in Introdacqua, Garrani was a student at the Faculty of Engineering in Rome when started his theatrical career, at first as amateur, then entering the stage company of Carlo Tamberlani in 1943.
Biography of Matilde Moisant (excerpt)
Matilde Josephine Moisant (September 13, 1878 – February 5, 1964) was an American pioneer aviator. She was the second woman in the United States to get a pilot's license. Moisant learned to fly at Alfred's Moisant Aviation School on Long Island, New York.
Biography of Georges Henri Rivière (excerpt)
Georges-Henri Rivière (5 June 1897 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 24 March 1985) was a French museologist, and innovator of modern French ethnographic museology practices. In 1929 and 1930, Rivière was on the editorial board of Documents, to which he also contributed articles, such as “The Ethnographical museum of the Trocadéro" (1929, issue 1), as well as chronicles on popular culture such as “Religion and ‘Folies-Bergère’” (1930, issue 4), and profiles on jazz musicians such as Eddie South and Hayman Swayze.
Biography of Riet van Grunsven (excerpt)
Maria Catharina van Grunsven (1918–2004), also known as Riet van Grunsven or Riet van de Haterd-van Grunsven, was an armed member of the Dutch Resistance during World War II. One of 21 people who became “line crossers,” special agents who helped to maintain a secret connection between occupied and liberated Netherlands across the waterways of the Biesbosch and the Merwede, she operated as a courier for part of the larger Biesbosch resistance group, and the Albrecht intelligence group.
Biography of B. R. Ambedkar (excerpt)
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and political leader who headed the committee drafting the Constitution of India from the Constituent Assembly debates, served as Law and Justice minister in the first cabinet of Jawaharlal Nehru, and inspired the Dalit Buddhist movement after renouncing Hinduism.
Biography of Elena Caragiani-Stoenescu (excerpt)
Elena Caragiani-Stoenescu (13 May 1887 in Tecuci – 29 March 1929 in Bucharest) was the first woman aviator in Romania. Her first flight occurred in 1912, accompanied by her horse riding instructor Mircea Zorileanu, and her no 1591 license was achieved from the International Aeronautical Federation, in 1914, in France.
Biography of Annie de Montfort (excerpt)
Annie de Montfort (16 December 1897 – 10 November 1944) was a French writer and physician and a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War. Early life She was born Arthémise Deguirmendjian-Shah-Vekil in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Her parents were born in Turkey and were Armenian in origin.
Biography of Kata Pejnovic (excerpt)
Kata Pejnović, née Bogić (21 March 1899 – 1966), was a Yugoslav feminist and politician. Life Kata Pejnović was born on 21 March 1899 in the village of Smiljan in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to a poor Serbian family.
Biography of Maria Tallchief (excerpt)
Elizabeth Marie Tallchief (Osage family name: Ki He Kah Stah Tsa; January 24, 1925 – April 11, 2013) was an American ballerina. She was considered America's first major prima ballerina. She was the first Native American (Osage Nation) to hold the rank, and is said to have revolutionized ballet.
Biography of Mariya Smirnova (excerpt)
Mariya Vasilyevna Smirnova (Russian: Мария Васильевна Смирнова; 31 March 1920 – 10 July 2002) was a squadron commander in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment (nicknamed the "Night Witches") of the Soviet Air Forces during the Second World War.
Biography of Lisa Ullmann (excerpt)
Lisa Ullmann (17 June 1907, in Berlin – 25 January 1985, in Chertsey) was a German-British dance and movement teacher, predominantly remembered for her work in association with dance pioneer Rudolf Laban. Ullmann taught in Nuremberg and at the Essen Folkwang School, where she worked for Kurt Jooss.
Biography of Claire Luce (excerpt)
Claire Luce (October 15, 1903 – August 31, 1989) was an American stage and screen actress, dancer and singer. Among her few films were Up the River (1930), directed by John Ford and starring Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart in their feature film debuts (Luce played Bogart's love interest), and Under Secret Orders, the English-language version of G.
Biography of Joseph Abadie (excerpt)
Joseph Louis Irenée Jean Abadie (15 December 1873, Tarbes – 1934) was a French neurologist who is remembered for naming Abadie's symptom. Brief biography Joseph Louis Irenée Jean Abadie was born in 1873 in Tarbes, département Hautes-Pyrénées, France. He studied medicine at the University of Bordeaux, qualifying in 1900.
Biography of George Grosz (excerpt)
George Grosz (German: ; born Georg Ehrenfried Groß; July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups during the Weimar Republic.
Biography of Madeleine Pauliac (excerpt)
Madeleine Jeanne Marie Pauliac (17 September 1912 – 13 February 1946) was a French doctor and a member of the French Resistance. Her experience in post-World War II Poland formed the basis for the movie Les Innocentes. Life Pauliac was born in Villeneuve-sur-Lot.
Biography of Jacobus Oud (excerpt)
Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud, commonly called J. J. P. Oud (9 February 1890 – 5 April 1963) was a Dutch architect. His fame began as a follower of the De Stijl movement. Oud was born in Purmerend, the son of a tobacco and wine merchant. |
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