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Biography of Guido Piovene (excerpt)
Guido Piovene (27 July 1907 – 12 November 1974) was an Italian writer and journalist. Born in Vicenza into a noble family, Piovene graduated in philosophy in Milan and then devoted himself to journalism, notably collaborating with Corriere della Sera, La Stampa and Il Tempo.
Biography of Mabel Addis (excerpt)
Mabel Addis Mergardt, born on May 21, 1912, was an American writer, educator, and the first video game writer. She created The Sumerian Game in 1964 for the IBM 7090, marking her as a pioneer in the video game industry. Mergardt had a rich educational background, earning a degree in ancient history from Barnard College and a master's in education from Columbia University.
Biography of Han van Meegeren (excerpt)
Henricus Antonius "Han" van Meegeren (10 October 1889 – 30 December 1947) was a Dutch painter and portraitist, considered one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century. Van Meegeren became a national hero after World War II when it was revealed that he had sold a forged painting to Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
Biography of Giovanni Testori (excerpt)
Giovanni Testori, born on May 12, 1923, in Novate Milanese, and died on March 16, 1993, in Milan, was an Italian writer, journalist, poet, art critic, literary critic, playwright, screenwriter, director, and painter. In his final years, Testori underwent surgery in the summer of 1990.
Biography of Hollis B. Chenery (excerpt)
Hollis Burnley Chenery (January 6, 1918 – September 1, 1994) was an American economist recognized for his pioneering contributions to development economics. He held positions at Stanford and Harvard before serving as vice president for development policy at the World Bank. Chenery's research, notably his collaboration with Alan Strout on "Foreign assistance and economic development," influenced aid strategies, emphasizing poverty-focused approaches.
Biography of Lucien Barjon (excerpt)
Lucien, Émile, Vincent, Bargeon, known by his stage name Lucien Barjon, was a French actor, born on March 11, 1916, in Sčte, and died on December 31, 2000, in Bagnols-sur-Cčze. Originally an engineer for bridges and roads, he decided to pursue acting and appeared in numerous films and television series.
Biography of Nině Pietrasanta (excerpt)
Nině Pietrasanta, born in Bois-Colombes December 26, 1909, died February 23, 2000, made a name for herself in mountaineering, a field traditionally dominated by men. Orphaned young, she was raised in Milan, cultivating her talents in music, painting, and photography. Passionate about the mountains, she completed her initial climbs in the Alps with guides Giuseppe Chiara and Tita Piaz, gaining fame in the 1930s.
Biography of Boleslaw Barlog (excerpt)
Boleslaw Stanislaus Barlog (28 March 1906 – 17 March 1999) was a German stage, film, and opera director primarily known for his work in reviving the theatrical life of Berlin after World War II. From 1951 until 1972 he served as the Intendant of the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin, the municipal theatre company of West Berlin that at its height employed over 80 actors and operated three theatrical venues—Schiller Theater, Schiller Theater Werkstatt, and Schlosspark Theater.
Biography of Fanny Cradock (excerpt)
Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey, known as Fanny Cradock, was an influential English television cook and writer, prominent from the 1950s to the 1970s. Born in Leytonstone, Essex, she became renowned for her television shows and cookbooks which popularized more elaborate cooking. With her fourth husband, Johnnie Cradock, she often portrayed a comic domestic dynamic that captivated audiences.
Biography of Clarence Weff (excerpt)
Clarence Weff, the pen name of Alexandre Valletti, born in Rome on June 2, 1919 and died on August 30, 2000, was a French screenwriter and author known for his detective and spy novels. Before turning to writing, he held various jobs from fabric salesman to undertaker.
Biography of Caracciolo Parra Pérez (excerpt)
Caracciolo Parra-Pérez, born on March 19, 1888, in Mérida, Venezuela, and died on September 19, 1964, in Paris, was a notable Venezuelan lawyer, historian, and politician. He served as Venezuela's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1941 to 1945. Parra-Pérez was highly respected for his contributions to Venezuelan historiography.
Biography of Alex Mandrčs (excerpt)
Alex Mandrčs, born on June 19, 1877, in Elbeuf and died on April 24, 1947, in Ris-Orangis, was a silent film actor. He is notably known for his role in the 1928 movie "Le mystčre de la tour Eiffel."
Biography of José María Lemus (excerpt)
Lieutenant Colonel José María Lemus López, born on 22 July 1911, was the president of El Salvador from 1956 to 1960. His time of birth comes from the biography "Lemus y la revolución salvadoreńa" by Eleodoro Ventocilla, Ediciones Latinoamérica, 1956. Born in La Unión, El Salvador, he served as undersecretary of defense and later as a minister of the interior.
Biography of Giulio Battiferri (excerpt)
Giulio Battiferri (15 July 1893 – 22 January 1973) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1939 to 1972. He was married to the actress Pina Piovani. Life and career Born in Rome, Battiferri started his career on stage in 1913, working alongside his wife Pina Piovani in the Romanesco dialect stage company Compagnia Romanesca directed by Gastone Monaldi.
Biography of James Douglas (actor) (excerpt)
James Douglas (May 20, 1929 – March 5, 2016) was an American actor probably best known for his role as Grant Colman on As the World Turns (1974–81, with return appearances in 1986 and 1989). Born in Los Angeles, Douglas was the son of Stan Johnson, himself an actor.
Biography of Matías Prats Cańete (excerpt)
Matías Prats Cańete (4 December 1913 - 8 September 2004) was a renowned Spanish radio and television journalist known for his sports commentary. Starting his career post-Spanish Civil War on Radio Algeciras, he later narrated bullfights and football matches on RNE in Málaga.
Biography of Peter Fraser (excerpt)
Peter Fraser CH PC (28 August 1884 – 12 December 1950) was a New Zealand politician who served as the 24th prime minister of New Zealand from 27 March 1940 until 13 December 1949. Born and raised in the Scottish Highlands, Fraser left education early to support his family.
Biography of Tore Deinboll (excerpt)
Tore Eckhoff Deinboll (July 12, 1910 – November 18, 1988) was a Norwegian artist, cartoonist, and illustrator born in Oslo. He studied at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts where he met influential artists like Kaare Espolin Johnson. Deinboll is known for his comics "Den evige ilds land" (The Land of Eternal Fire, 1936-1937) and "Petter Framgutt" (1938), both published in Arbeidermagasinet.
Biography of Jorge Ibargüengoitia (excerpt)
Jorge Ibargüengoitia, born on January 22, 1928, in Guanajuato, Mexico, was a prominent novelist and playwright known for his satirical approach. He gained fame for his works such as "The Dead Girls," "Two Crimes," and "The Lightning of August," which are celebrated in English translation.
Biography of Gaby Casadesus (excerpt)
Gaby Casadesus (August 9, 1901 – November 12, 1999) was a French classical pianist and teacher born in Marseille. She was married to the French pianist Robert Casadesus and their son Jean was also a notable pianist. Born Gabrielle l'Hôte, she studied at the Paris Conservatory with Louis Diémer and Marguerite Long and was awarded the first prize in piano at age 16.
Biography of Jan Baalsrud (excerpt)
Sigurd Baalsrud, MBE (13 December 1917 – 30 December 1988) was a Norwegian commando trained by the British during World War II. Born in Oslo, he joined the Norwegian resistance against the German occupation. During the war, he embarked on a mission to destroy a German airfield control tower, but it was compromised, leading to a harrowing escape.
Biography of Erwin Piscator (excerpt)
Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator (17 December 1893 – 30 March 1966) was a German theatre director and producer. Along with Bertolt Brecht, he was the foremost exponent of epic theatre, a form that emphasizes the socio-political content of drama, rather than its emotional manipulation of the audience or the production's formal beauty.
Biography of Adrian Burk (excerpt)
Adrian Burk was an American NFL quarterback and punter for the Baltimore Colts and Philadelphia Eagles, before becoming an official. A Baylor University graduate, he was notable for tying the record of seven touchdown passes in one game against the Washington Redskins in 1954.
Biography of Walter Krüger (SS general) (excerpt)
Walter Krüger (27 February 1890 – 22 May 1945) was a German SS official during the Nazi era. In World War II, he commanded the SS Division Polizei, the SS Division Das Reich, and the VI SS Army Corps (Latvian). At the end of the war, Krüger committed suicide.
Biography of Kenneth Tynan (excerpt)
Kenneth Peacock Tynan (1927–1980) was a groundbreaking English theatre critic, writer, and literary manager of the National Theatre Company. His birth time comes from the biography Kathleen Tynan, "The Life," Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1987, in which it is stated that he was born in the morning.
Biography of Eulalio González (excerpt)
Eulalio "Lalo" González Ramírez (16 December 1921 – 1 September 2003), nicknamed "Piporro", was a Mexican actor, humorist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter, announcer, film director, and film producer. Early life González was born in the home of his maternal grandfather (Martín Ramírez) in Los Herrera, Nuevo León, to Pablo González Barrera, a customs officer from Ciudad Mier, Tamaulipas, and his wife Elvira Ramírez González.
Biography of Roger Broders (excerpt)
Roger Broders, born on March 2, 1883, in Paris and died in the same city on October 20, 1953, was a French poster artist and illustrator. Works Roger Broders was one of the most prolific poster artists of the 1930s: his work is inseparable from the PLM company, which commissioned over a hundred posters from him between 1922 and 1932.
Biography of Théodore Simon (excerpt)
Théodore Simon, born on July 10, 1873, in Dijon and died on September 4, 1961, in Paris, was a French psychiatrist. He had a distinguished career in asylum medicine, working notably at Dury-les-Amiens, Saint-Yon near Rouen, and the admissions department of Sainte-Anne Hospital.
Biography of Mathias Kemp (excerpt)
Mathias Hubertus Kemp, born on December 31, 1890, in Maastricht and died there on August 7, 1964, was a Dutch poet, journalist, and writer. Initially employed at the Société Céramique pottery factory in Wyck-Maastricht, Kemp later worked as a librarian and freelance journalist.
Biography of Paul Wagner (actor) (excerpt)
Paul Wagner, born on August 24, 1899, in Cologne, Germany, and died on January 11, 1970, was a German actor and the brother of actor Konrad Wagner. He started his film career in the early 1930s, with one of his first notable roles in Richard Oswald's "Der Hauptmann von Köpenick" (1931).
Biography of Claude Tresmontant (excerpt)
Claude Tresmontant (5 August 1925 - 16 April 1997) was a French philosopher skilled in Hebrew and ancient Greek. He taught medieval and scientific philosophy at the Sorbonne and won the Grand Prize of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in 1987.
Biography of Lilla Brignone (excerpt)
Lilla Brignone (23 August 1913 – 24 March 1984) was an Italian film and theater actress. She appeared in 40 films between 1930 and 1982. Her father was film director and actor Guido Brignone and her aunt was actress Mercedes Brignone. Her mother was actress Lola Visconti (pseudonym of Dolores Visconti).
Biography of Pierre Stéphen (excerpt)
Pierre Trambouze, also known as Pierre Stephen, was a French theatre and cinema actor, born on April 28, 1890, in Paris and died on June 3, 1980, in Paris. An amateur painter, he was also known for his caricatures and advertising drawings.
Biography of Atal Bihari Vajpayee (excerpt)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee (25 December 1924 - 16 August 2018) was an Indian politician who served as Prime Minister three times. Concerning his time of birth, there are several conflicting sources. A founding member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he was the first non-Congress Prime Minister to complete a full term.
Biography of Antoine Sanguinetti (excerpt)
Antoine Sanguinetti, born on May 9, 1917, in Cairo and died on July 20, 2004, in Bastelicaccia, was a French fleet vice-admiral and political activist. Graduating from the Naval Academy in 1939, he joined the French Forces fighting during World War II and later commanded the aircraft carrier Clemenceau.
Biography of Steve Sundra (excerpt)
Steve Sundra, born March 27, 1910, in Luxor, Pennsylvania, was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the New York Yankees, Washington Senators, and St. Louis Browns over eight seasons. After moving from Czech coal mining roots in Pennsylvania to Cleveland, Ohio, Sundra excelled in sandlot baseball and began his professional career in 1932.
Biography of Marius Chapuis (excerpt)
Marius Chapuis, a French cinema operator, was born on May 30, 1878, in Lyon and died on November 16, 1961, in Champfromier, Ain. He was one of the early promoters of the Lumičre cinematograph abroad, alongside Alexandre Promio, Félix Mesguich, and Francis Doublier.
Biography of Victor Servranckx (excerpt)
Victor Servranckx, born on June 26, 1897, in Diegem and died on December 11, 1965, in Vilvoorde, was a Belgian painter and sculptor, a pioneer of abstract art in Belgium. Educated at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts, he initially worked in wallpaper design before moving towards abstraction influenced by Italian Futurism and French Purism.
Biography of Soledad Estorach (excerpt)
Soledad Estorach Esterri, born on February 6, 1915, in Albatŕrrec in the Segriŕ comarca (province of Lleida), and died on March 14, 1993, in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, was a feminist political activist and resistance fighter, and the founder of the Mujeres Libres movement, one of the pioneers of women's rights.
Biography of Lillian Hellman (excerpt)
Lillian Florence Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an American playwright, prose writer, memoirist and screenwriter known for her success on Broadway, as well as her communist sympathies and political activism. She was blacklisted after her appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) at the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947–1952.
Biography of André Strohl (excerpt)
André Strohl, born March 20, 1887, in Poitiers and died March 10, 1977, in Paris, was a French physician, co-discoverer of Guillain-Barré syndrome in 1916. Son of Henry Strohl, he was of Alsatian and Bordeaux descent and initially inclined towards sciences. A brilliant student, he earned degrees in natural sciences and physics before completing his doctorates in medicine in 1913 and physics in 1914.
Biography of Shmuel Sambursky (excerpt)
Shmuel Sambursky, also known as Samuel Sambursky (30 October 1900 - 18 May 1990), was a German, Palestinian, and Israeli physicist, professor, and author. His time of birth comes from him, it was written in the diary of his father. Born in Königsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad in Russia), in 1900, he migrated to Palestine in 1924 after studying in Germany.
Biography of Michel Delahaye (excerpt)
Michel Delahaye was a multifaceted French creative, born on September 21, 1929, in Vertou, and passed away on October 22, 2016, in Paris. Initially trained in arts and commerce, he first made his mark with an illustration for the Paris Zoo during his student days.
Biography of Donald Stewart (actor) (excerpt)
Donald Stewart (May 14, 1910 – March 1, 1966) was an American actor and singer, who settled and worked in the United Kingdom. After training at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and several appearances in Broadway musicals (including Life Begins at 8:40), Stewart moved to Britain.
Biography of Carmen Mondragón (excerpt)
María del Carmen Mondragón Valseca, also known as Nahui Olin (July 8, 1893 – January 23, 1978)), was a Mexican painter, poet, and model. She grew up in a privileged environment, lived in France and Spain during her early years, and married Manuel Rodríguez Lozano.
Biography of Vera-Ellen (excerpt)
Vera-Ellen (born Vera-Ellen Rohe on February 16, 1921 – August 30, 1981) was an acclaimed American dancer and actress, best known for her performances alongside stars like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. Starting as a Broadway dancer, she quickly became a prominent Hollywood figure, starring in films such as "On the Town" and "White Christmas."
Biography of Ernie Cheatham (excerpt)
Ernest Clifford Cheatham Jr. (July 27, 1929 – June 14, 2014) was a United States Marine Corps officer, a veteran of the Korean War and the Vietnam War, a recipient of the Navy Cross, and American football defensive tackle who played for the Baltimore Colts and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Biography of Eligio Esquivel Méndez (excerpt)
Eligio Esquivel Méndez (October 31, 1908 – December 17, 1964) was a Mexican engineer and politician who served as the Governor of Baja California from 1959 until his death in 1964. Born in Mérida, Yucatán, he graduated in civil engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1933.
Biography of Andrew J. Evans Jr. (excerpt)
Andrew Julius Evans Jr. (November 11, 1918 – December 25, 2001) was a United States Air Force major general and a flying ace, who was credited in destroying six enemy aircraft in aerial combat and two enemy aircraft on the ground during World War II.
Biography of Charles Philipson (excerpt)
Charles Philipson (October 5, 1928 – September 26, 1990) was a prominent Norwegian jurist and civil servant. He served as an acting Consumer Ombudsman and the director of the Norwegian Competition Authority, before being appointed as a Supreme Court justice in 1984, a role he maintained until his death. |
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