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Biography of Ann Richards (actress) (excerpt)
Shirley Ann Richards (13 December 1917 (Wikipedia gives 20 December, by mistake) – 25 August 2006) was an Australian actress and author, prominent in 1930s Australian cinema with Cinesound Productions and later in Hollywood as an MGM starlet. Notable works include "It Isn't Done" (1937), "Dad and Dave Come to Town" (1938), "An American Romance" (1944), and "Sorry, Wrong Number" (1948).
Biography of Paulette Ray (excerpt)
Paulette Mireille Caillol, known as Paulette Ray, born on March 29, 1902, in Neuilly-sur-Seine and died on July 23, 1987, in Nice, was a French actress. She was the sister of actress Pierrette Caillol (1898-1991) and the sister-in-law of director Yvan Noé (1895-1953).
Biography of Guy Krohg (excerpt)
Guy Krohg (27 July 1917 – 19 October 2002) was a Norwegian painter, illustrator and scenographer. He was born in Oslo, the son of painter Per Krohg and grandson of Christian Krohg and Oda Krohg. He was married to Lilian Smith from 1940, and to actress Sossen Krohg from 1949.
Biography of Jacoba Hol (excerpt)
Jacoba Hol (21 September 1886 – 15 October 1964) was a Dutch physical geographer. In 1945, she was appointed professor of physical geography at the Geographic Institute at Utrecht University. This made her the first female 'normal' professor in the Netherlands.
Biography of Henry Bouquillard (excerpt)
Henry Bouquillard, born June 14, 1908, in Nevers and killed in combat over London on March 11, 1941, was a French aviator and a Companion of the Liberation. A prominent figure in the Free French Air Forces, Bouquillard joined England in July 1940 and served in the 245th Squadron, participating in the Battle of Britain where he achieved two confirmed victories.
Biography of Virginia d'Albert-Lake (excerpt)
Virginia d'Albert-Lake (4 June 1910 – 20 September 1997) was a member of the French Resistance during World War II. She worked with the Comet Escape Line. She and her husband Philippe helped 67 British and American airmen evade German capture. She was arrested on June 12, 1944 and imprisoned by the Germans in Ravensbrück concentration camp and other camps for the remainder of the war.
Biography of Ester Horn (excerpt)
Ester Horn, born Ester Lind Jynge on June 19, 1902, in Kristiania, and passed away on April 14, 1993, in Stabekk, Bærum, was a Norwegian humanist. Along with her husband Kristian Horn, she was among the founders of the Association for Civil Confirmation in 1950 and the Human-Ethical Union in 1956.
Biography of Gussie Moran (excerpt)
Gertrude "Gussie" Moran was an American tennis player active in the 1940s and 1950s, ranking 4th nationally. Born and died in California, she experienced family tragedy during World War II. Known for her Wimbledon 1949 attire, designed by Ted Tinling, it featured visible lace-trimmed knickers, causing a stir and earning her the nickname "Gorgeous Gussie.
Biography of Georgie Abrams (excerpt)
Georgie Abrams (November 11, 1918 – June 30, 1994) was an American boxer who came very close to winning the World Middleweight Championship in November 1941 against Tony Zale and was a top contender for the title in the early 1940s.
Biography of Germaine Dulac (excerpt)
Germaine Dulac, born Charlotte Élisabeth Germaine Saisset-Schneider on November 17, 1882, in Amiens, and died on July 20, 1942, in Paris, was a French film director, producer, and screenwriter. She began her career in 1906 as a feminist journalist for La Française.
Biography of Elisabeth Lupka (excerpt)
Elisabeth Lupka (27 October 1902 – 8 January 1949) was a Nazi female guard at two prison camps during World War II. Lupka was born in Klein-Damner, German Empire (present-day Dąbrówka Mała, Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland). She got married in 1934, had no children and soon divorced.
Biography of Sarah Goldberg (spy) (excerpt)
Sarah Goldberg, born on January 1, 1921 in Warta, Poland, and died on June 10, 2003 in Brussels, was a member of the Soviet espionage network Red Orchestra and an armed resistor during World War II. She was also among the founding members of Amnesty International in Belgium.
Biography of Martha Gellhorn (excerpt)
Martha Ellis Gellhorn (8 November 1908 – 15 February 1998) was an American novelist, travel writer, and journalist who is considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century. Gellhorn reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career.
Biography of Roald Aas (excerpt)
Roald Edgar Aas (25 March 1928 – 18 February 2012) was a speed skater and cyclist from Norway. He was born in Oslo. Aas was the number two speed skater in Norway through the entire 1950s—initially after Hjalmar Andersen, later after Knut Johannesen.
Biography of Jacques Raverat (excerpt)
Jacques Pierre Paul Raverat (20 March 1885 – 6 March 1925) was a French painter; Raverat was the son of Georges Pierre Raverat and Helena Lorena Raverat, née Caron; he was born in Paris, France, in 1885. Raverat started at Bedales School in Steep, Hampshire in 1898.
Biography of Paul Marco (excerpt)
Paul Marco (June 10, 1927 – May 14, 2006) was an American actor who often appeared in movies made by Ed Wood, including the "Kelton Trilogy" of Bride of the Monster, Night of the Ghouls and Plan 9 from Outer Space, in which he played a bumbling, fearful policeman named Kelton.
Biography of Rodolfo Acosta (excerpt)
Rodolfo Pérez Acosta (July 29, 1920 – November 7, 1974) was a Mexican-American character actor who became known for his roles as Mexican outlaws or American Indians in Hollywood western films. He was sometimes credited as Rudolfo Acosta. After the war, Acosta worked in stage and film, leading to a role in John Ford's 1947 film "The Fugitive".
Biography of Friedel Apelt (excerpt)
Friedel Apelt (1 November 1902 - 12 December 2001) was a German political activist, trades union official and politician (KPD/SED). During the Nazi years she participated actively in anti-fascist resistance, and spent much of the time in prison or as a concentration camp internee.
Biography of Alberto Vargas (excerpt)
Alberto Vargas is a Peruvian painter, illustrator and designer, born February 11, 1896 in Arequipa and died December 30, 1982 in Los Angeles. He is particularly known for his drawings of pin-ups. Alberto Vargas, born in Arequipa, was the son of a successful photographer.
Biography of Olave Baden-Powell (excerpt)
Olave St Clair Baden-Powell, Baroness Baden-Powell GBE (née Soames; 22 February 1889 – 25 June 1977) was the first Chief Guide for Britain and the wife of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (the founder of Scouting and co-founder of Girl Guides).
Biography of Deborah Cavendish (excerpt)
Deborah Vivien Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, DCVO, formerly Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford, was an English aristocrat, writer, memoirist, and socialite, the youngest and last surviving Mitford sister, known for her association with British high society. Born in Kensington, London, she married Lord Andrew Cavendish, becoming Duchess of Devonshire in 1950.
Biography of Ferhat Abbas (excerpt)
Ferhat Abbas (24 August 1899 – 24 December 1985) was an Algerian politician who acted in a provisional capacity as the then yet-to-become independent country's Prime Minister from 1958 to 1961, as well as the first President of the National Assembly and the first acting Chief of State after independence.
Biography of Edith Carlmar (excerpt)
Edith Carlmar (born Edith Mary Johanne Mathiesen; 15 November 1911 – 17 May 2003) was a Norwegian actress and Norway's first female film director. She is known for films such as Aldri annet enn bråk (1954), Fjols til fjells (1957), and Ung flukt (The Wayward Girl, 1959).
Biography of Marcel Hansenne (excerpt)
Marcel Fernand Hansenne (born January 24, 1917 in Paris and died March 22, 2002 in Fourqueux) was a French athlete specializing in the 800 meters. He stood 1.81 meters tall and weighed 70 kg. Until the age of 18, he played basketball at Intrépide du Sacré-cœur, a youth club in Tourcoing affiliated with the Fédération gymnastique et sportive des patronages de France (FGSPF).
Biography of Rosemary Murphy (excerpt)
Rosemary Murphy (January 13, 1925 – July 5, 2014) was a German-American actress of stage, film, and television. She was nominated for three Tony Awards for her stage work, as well as two Emmy Awards for television work, winning once, for her performance in Eleanor and Franklin (1976).
Biography of Curt Sachs (excerpt)
Curt Sachs, born June 29, 1881, and died February 5, 1959, was a German musicologist and a founder of modern organology, the study of musical instruments. He co-created the Hornbostel–Sachs system with Erich von Hornbostel. Born in Berlin, Sachs studied music but earned a doctorate in art history.
Biography of Charles Bardot (excerpt)
Charles Bardot was a French international football player, born on April 7, 1904, in Conakry, Guinea, and died in late April 1973 in Cannes. He played as a center forward. He earned six caps and scored three goals for the French national A team between 1925 and 1932.
Biography of Maria Silva Cruz (excerpt)
Maria Silva Cruz (April 20, 1915 – August 23, 1936), an Andalusian anarchist known as "La Libertaria," was a hero of the Casas Viejas Uprising in Spain. Born in Cádiz, her parents were day laborers, and her father and uncle were members of the CNT, an anarchist group.
Biography of Otto Nordmann (excerpt)
Otto Nordmann, born on September 14, 1876 in Bad Harzburg and died on May 26, 1946 in Holzminden, was a German surgeon and president of the German Society for Surgery in 1939. From a family of craftsmen, he initially studied economics before switching to medicine at the universities of Freiburg, Göttingen, and Berlin.
Biography of Sergei Bulgakov (excerpt)
Sergei Nikolayevich Bulgakov (Russian: Серге́й Никола́евич Булга́ков; 28 July (O.S. 16 July) 1871 – 13 July 1944) was a Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, and economist. Orthodox writer and scholar David Bentley Hart has said that Bulgakov was "the greatest systematic theologian of the twentieth century.
Biography of Maud Mannoni (excerpt)
Maud Mannoni (born Magdalena Van der Spoel; 22 October 1923 – 15 March 1998) was a French psychoanalyst of Belgian origin, who married Octave Mannoni and became a major figure of the Lacanian movement. Life She was born as Magdalena Van der Spoel in the Belgian city of Kortrijk, but spent her early childhood in Ceylon.
Biography of Lazare Pytkowicz (excerpt)
Lazare Pytkowicz (1928-2004) was a French Resistance fighter and a Companion of the Liberation. Born in Paris, he joined the Resistance at age twelve after being arrested during the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup and escaping. Known as "Petit Louis," he served as a liaison agent in Lyon for the United Movements of the Resistance (MUR), and later for the National Liberation Movement (MLN) in Paris.
Biography of Max Factor Sr. (excerpt)
Max Factor Sr. (September 15, 1872 – August 30, 1938), born Maksymilian Faktorowicz, was a Polish-American businessman, beautician, entrepreneur and inventor. As a founder of the cosmetics giant Max Factor & Company, he largely developed the modern cosmetics industry in the United States and popularized the term "make-up" in noun form based on the verb.
Biography of Caso Nigrisoli (excerpt)
The Nigrisoli Case, also known as the Curaro Murder, involves the homicide committed by the physician Carlo Nigrisoli on March 14, 1963, in Bologna, where he killed his wife Ombretta Galeffi in their family clinic. Born into a family that founded the Nigrisoli Clinic, Carlo married Ombretta in 1950 despite opposition from his father.
Biography of Janet Flanner (excerpt)
Janet Flanner (March 13, 1892 – November 7, 1978) was an American writer and pioneering narrative journalist who served as the Paris correspondent of The New Yorker magazine from 1925 until she retired in 1975. She wrote under the pen name "Genêt".
Biography of Edith Kiss (excerpt)
Edith Bán Kiss, also Edit, née Rott (21 November 1905 - 27 October 1966) was a Hungarian sculptor and painter. In the autumn of 1944, she was deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in northern Germany and then transferred to the Daimler-Benz factory at Ludwigsfelde where she was forced to work on aircraft engines for the Luftwaffe.
Biography of Gregorio Marañón (excerpt)
Gregorio Marañón y Posadillo, OWL (19 May 1887 – 27 March 1960) was a Spanish physician, scientist, historian, writer and philosopher. He married Dolores Moya in 1911, and they had four children (Carmen, Belén, María Isabel and Gregorio). Gregorio Marañón, a Spanish intellectual known for his austere, humanist, and liberal values, is considered one of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century.
Biography of Lucienne Radisse (excerpt)
Lucienne Radisse (4 December 1899 in Neuilly-sur-Seine – 19 January 1997 in Asnières-sur-Seine) was a French cellist and actress, the wife of journalist Jean Fannius and daughter-in-law of composer Henri Büsser, having married his son Yves in her second marriage in 1932.
Biography of Marcel Michelin (excerpt)
Marcel Michelin (Paris, April 12, 1886 - Ohrdruf, January 21, 1945), son of André Michelin, was a French businessman. Founder and first president in 1911 of the Association sportive Michelin (later AS Montferrand), a resistance fighter during World War II, he died in deportation at Buchenwald.
Biography of Craig Dixon (excerpt)
Craig Kline Dixon (March 3, 1926 – February 25, 2021) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the 110 meter hurdles. He competed for the United States in the 1948 Summer Olympics held in London, Great Britain in the 110 meter hurdles where he won the bronze medal.
Biography of Harvey Haddix (excerpt)
Harvey Haddix Jr. (September 18, 1925 – January 8, 1994) was an American MLB left-handed pitcher and pitching coach. He played for teams including the St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates. Haddix is renowned for pitching 12 perfect innings in 1959 against the Milwaukee Braves.
Biography of Jérôme Lejeune (excerpt)
Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune (13 June 1926 – 3 April 1994) was a French pediatrician and geneticist, best known for his work on the link of diseases to chromosome abnormalities, most especially the link between Down Syndrome and trisomy-21 and cri du chat syndrome, amongst several others, and for his subsequent strong opposition to, in his opinion, the improper and immoral use of amniocentesis prenatal testing for eugenic purposes through selective and elective abortion.
Biography of Helene Stöcker (excerpt)
Helene Stöcker (13 November 1869 – 24 February 1943) was a German feminist, pacifist, journalist, author, and gender activist. She successfully campaigned to keep same sex relationships between women legal, but she was unsuccessful in her campaign to legalise abortion. She was a pacifist in Germany and joined the Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft.
Biography of Philippe la Chapelle (excerpt)
Philippe Céleste (Philippe) la Chapelle ('s Gravenhage, August 1, 1882 - Amsterdam, July 16, 1969) was a Dutch actor. He was born the son of the writer Suze la Chapelle-Roobol and Celestinus Philippus la Chapelle. He is the grandfather of actress Nel Kars.
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Sauvage (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Sauvage, born in 1908 and passed away in 1991, was a French Catholic bishop who led the diocese of Annecy from 1962 to 1987. Initially a teacher and seminary superior, he was appointed by Pope John XXIII shortly before the Second Vatican Council.
Biography of Giuseppe Armellini (excerpt)
Giuseppe Armellini (born October 24, 1887, in Rome, and died July 16, 1958, in Rome) was an Italian astronomer and mathematician. He was a graduate in engineering and mathematics and made significant contributions to celestial mechanics. After experiences in Paris and Meudon, he taught in Turin, Pisa, and then in Rome, where he directed the Rome Observatory.
Biography of Geneviève Félix (excerpt)
Geneviève Félix, born Geneviève Abraham on February 21, 1901, in Paris 10th arrondissement (contrary to incorrect data on Wikipedia; IMDb is right), and died on November 12, 1980, in Antibes, was a French film actress. The daughter of Jean Baptiste Abraham, a gendarme, and Marie Analie Mice Brousse, a seamstress, Geneviève Simonne Marie Abraham was born in Clamart in 1899.
Biography of Andrei Platonov (excerpt)
Andrei Platonovich Platonov (born Klimentov (Russian: Климе́нтов); 28 August (O.S. 16 August) 1899 – 5 January 1951) was a Soviet Russian novelist, short story writer, philosopher, engineer, playwright, and poet. Although Platonov regarded himself as a communist, his principal works remained unpublished in his lifetime because of their skeptical attitude toward collectivization of agriculture (1929–1940) and other Stalinist policies, as well as for their experimental, avant-garde form infused with existentialism.
Biography of Louis Kerly (excerpt)
Louis Ernest Formager known as Louis Kerly, born June 18, 1872 in Pontoise (Seine-et-Oise) and died November 23, 1936 in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, is a French actor and comedian. Selected filmography Monte Carlo (1925) My Priest Among the Rich (1925) My Priest Among the Poor (1926)
Biography of Joan Woodbury (excerpt)
Joan Woodbury, an American actress born in Los Angeles in 1915, began her career in the 1930s, thriving into the 1960s. She grew up in a prominent family, with her mother a former Rose Queen and in vaudeville. Woodbury discovered acting early, leading to roles in films like "Eight Girls in a Boat. |
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