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Biography of Claudia Jones (excerpt)
Claudia Jones, née Claudia Vera Cumberbatch (21 February 1915 – 24 December 1964), was a Trinidad and Tobago-born journalist and activist. As a child she migrated with her family to the US, where she became a political activist and black nationalist through Communism, using the false name Jones as "self-protective disinformation".
Biography of Jacques Heim (excerpt)
Jacques Heim (8 May 1899 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 8 January 1967) was a French fashion designer and costume designer for theater and film, and was a manufacturer of women's furs. From 1930 to his death in 1967, he ran the fashion house (maison de couture) Jacques Heim, which closed in 1969.
Biography of Tom Morel (excerpt)
Théodose Morel, known as Tom Morel (1 August 1915, in Lyon (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 10 March 1944, in Entremont) was a career military officer and French Resistance fighter. A student, then instructor, at the Saint-Cyr military academy, he fought for the French Army against the Italians in the Alps.
Biography of Marcel Duhamel (excerpt)
Marcel Duhamel (16 July 1900 in Paris 16e (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 6 March 1977 in Saint-Laurent-du-Var) was a French actor and screenwriter, founder of the Série noire publishing imprint. He played The Foreman in Jean Renoir's 1936 The Crime of Monsieur Lange.
Biography of Juliette Verneuil (excerpt)
Juliette Bellonie Marie Vaucheret, best known as Juliette Verneuil, born on October 22, 1893 in Paris, died on June 13, 1984 in Villefranche-sur-Mer, was a French comedian and actress. Filmography (selection) 1922 : Les Roquevillard de Julien Duvivier 1935 : Golgotha de Julien Duvivier - Marie
Biography of René Belin (excerpt)
René Belin (14 April 1898 in Bourg-en-Bresse (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 2 January 1977 in Lorrez-le-Bocage) was a French trade unionist and politician. In the 1930s he became one of the leaders of the French General Confederation of Labour.
Biography of Étienne Souriau (excerpt)
Étienne Souriau (April 26, 1892 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – November 19, 1979) was a French philosopher, best known for his work in aesthetics. Son of Paul Souriau, he studied at the École Normale Supérieure and received his agrégation of philosophy in 1925.
Biography of Franck Bauer (excerpt)
Franck Bauer, born on July 2, 1918 in Troyes, Aube (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on April 6, 2018 (age 99), is a French radio broadcaster, musician, and high official. Franck Bauer transmitted coded messages to underground networks in France during the Nazi occupation, from 1940 to 1944.
Biography of Jacques Carlu (excerpt)
Jacques Carlu (7 April 1890 Bonnières-sur-Seine (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 3 December 1976 Paris) was a French architect and designer, working mostly in Art Deco style, active in France, Canada, and in the United States. Through the 1910s Carlu studied on site with British city planner Thomas Hayton Mawson, Pittsburgh architects Palmer and Hornbostel, and in the Paris studios of Victor Laloux.
Biography of Robert Gall (excerpt)
Robert Gall (May 27, 1918, Saint-Fargeau, Yonne (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – May 16, 1990) was a French lyricist. He married Cécile Berthier, daughter of Paul Berthier, co-founder of Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois. Robert and Cécile are parents of singer France Gall.
Biography of Simone Berteaut (excerpt)
Simone Berteaut, born on May 29, 1918 in Lyon 2e (birth time and year source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on May 30, 1975, was a French author, a close friend of French famous singer Edith Piaf.
Biography of Pierre Dufau (excerpt)
Pierre Dufau (21 June 1908 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 26 September 1985) was a French architect. He is particularly known for his work on the reconstruction of Amiens after World War II, including the railway station, and the Tour Europlaza in Paris.
Biography of Ernst Thälmann (excerpt)
Ernst Thälmann (16 April 1886 – 18 August 1944) was the leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during much of the Weimar Republic. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1933 and held in solitary confinement for eleven years, before being shot in Buchenwald on Adolf Hitler's personal orders in 1944.
Biography of Fernand Point (excerpt)
Fernand Point (25 February 1897 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 4 March 1955) was a French chef and restaurateur and is considered to be the father of modern French cuisine. He founded the restaurant La Pyramide in Vienne near Lyon.
Biography of Henri Contet (excerpt)
Henri Contet, born on May 8, 1904 in Anost (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on April 15, 1998 in Paris, was a French engineer, critic, actor, playwright, and journalist. He has worked for many famous singers, like Édith Piaf, Yves Montand, Mireille Mathieu, Ute Lemper, Mireille Mathieu, Georgette Lemaire, Catherine Ribeiro, Mano Solo, Catherine Ringer, and Arthur H.
Biography of Jean Oberlé (excerpt)
Jean Oberlé (12 January 1900, Brest (birth date and time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 2 March 1961, Paris) was a French painter who became a member of the French Resistance. Born in Brest in 1900, he illustrated a number of contemporary books and worked for different Parisian newspapers and magazines, of which le Crapouillot was the most important.
Biography of Jean Chaintron (excerpt)
Jean Chaintron, born on August 28, 1906 in Lyon, died on January 7, 1989 in Paris, was a French politician, socialist and former communist, a member of the French Resistance.
Biography of Paul Angoulvent (excerpt)
Paul-Joseph Angoulvent, born on April 21, 1899 in Le Mans (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on July 27, 1976 near Auxerre, was a French curator and editor. He was the manager of Presses universitaires de France (PUF, English: University Press of France), the largest French university publishing house.
Biography of Jiroemon Kimura (excerpt)
Jiroemon Kimura (木村 次郎右衛門, Kimura Jirōemon, 19 April 1897 – 12 June 2013) was a Japanese supercentenarian who lived for 116 years and 54 days. He became the oldest verified male in history on 28 December 2012, when he surpassed the age of Christian Mortensen who had died in 1998.
Biography of Marthe Borély (excerpt)
Marthe Borely, born Marthe Trial on July 16, 1880 in Sommières (source for her birth time: FDAF, birth certificate n° 39) and died December 27, 1955 in Toulouse, is a woman of letters and literary critic French.
Biography of René Le Senne (excerpt)
René Le Senne (born Ernest René Lesenne; 8 July 1882, Elbeuf (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 1 October 1954, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French idealist philosopher and psychologist.
Biography of Nabi Tajima (excerpt)
Nabi Tajima (田島 ナ ビ, Tajima Nabi), born August 4, 1900 in the village of Kikai in West Kikai-shima and died April 21, 2018 in Kikai, is a Japanese supercentenary. From September 15, 2017 until April 21, 2018, she is the dean of humanity.
Biography of Luigi Russolo (excerpt)
Luigi Russolo (30 April 1885 – 6 February 1947) was an Italian Futurist painter, composer, builder of experimental musical instruments, and the author of the manifesto The Art of Noises (1913). He is often regarded as one of the first noise music experimental composers with his performances of noise music concerts in 1913–14 and then again after World War I, notably in Paris in 1921.
Biography of Latife Usaki (excerpt)
Latife Uşaklıgil (born Fatıma-tüz Zehra Latife Uşakîzâde; with the honorifics, Latife Hanım) (17 June 1898 – 12 July 1975) was Mustafa Kemal Pasha's (later Atatürk) wife between 1923 and 1925. She was related from her father's side to Turkish novelist Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil.
Biography of Ivan Bunin (excerpt)
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (22 October 1870 – 8 November 1953) was the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was noted for the strict artistry with which he carried on the classical Russian traditions in the writing of prose and poetry.
Biography of Andrey Kolmogorov (excerpt)
Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov (25 April 1903 – 20 October 1987) was a Soviet mathematician who made significant contributions to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity. After the death of Joseph Stalin, cybernetics, a science from the West, became possible with progressive destalinization and proved to be fundamental in the development of the Russian space program.
Biography of René Deltgen (excerpt)
Renatus Heinrich Deltgen born 30 April 1909 in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg; died 29 January 1979 in Cologne, Germany) was a Luxembourgian stage and film actor, who spent most of his career in Germany. Selected filmography Das Mädchen Johanna (1935) One Too Many on Board (1935)
Biography of Nelson Rodrigues (excerpt)
Nelson Falcão Rodrigues (August 23, 1912 – December 21, 1980) was a Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist. In 1943, he helped usher in a new era in Brazilian theater with his play Vestido de Noiva (The Wedding Dress), considered revolutionary for the complex exploration of its characters' psychology and its use of colloquial dialogue.
Biography of Paul Huvelin (excerpt)
Paul Huvelin, born on July 22, 1902 in Chorey-les-Beaune (Côte-d'Or), died in October 1995, was a French entrepreneur and syndicalist. He was the President of The Conseil national du patronat français (CNPF) between 1966 and 1972.
Biography of Heinrich George (excerpt)
Georg August Friedrich Hermann Schulz (9 October 1893 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, Michael Keller, birth certificate) – 25 September 1946), better known as Heinrich George, was a German stage and film actor. George is noted for having spooked the young Bertolt Brecht in his first directing job, a production of Arnolt Bronnen's Parricide (1922), when he refused to continue working with the director.
Biography of Suzanne Lacore (excerpt)
Suzanne Lacore was a French politician representing the SFIO (French Section of the Workers' International). She was born on 30 May 1875 in Beyssac (Corrèze, France)(birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 28); she died on 6 November 1975 in Milhac d'Auberoche (Dordogne, France).
Biography of Georges Jouatte (excerpt)
Georges Jouatte (17 June 1892 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 13 February 1969) was a 20th-century French operatic singer (tenor) and singing professor. Jouatte was born in Villefagnan (Charente). Just after World War I, he began his career as a dancer at the Casino de Paris in order to finance his singing studies at the Conservatoire de Paris.
Biography of Klaus Fuchs (excerpt)
Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988) was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who supplied information from the American, British, and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after World War II.
Biography of Noël Gallon (excerpt)
Noël Gallon (11 September 1891 – 26 December 1966) was a French composer and music educator. His compositional output includes several choral works and vocal art songs, 10 preludes, a Toccata for piano, a Sonata for flute and bassoon, a Fantasy for piano and orchestra, an Orchestral Suite, and the lyrical drama Paysans et Soldats (1911).
Biography of Marcel Rochas (excerpt)
Marcel (Louis Jules) Rochas, born on February 24, 1902 in Paris 11e (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on March 14, 1955 in Paris 7e, was a French fashion designer and perfumer, the founder of Rochas, a fashion, beauty, and perfume house.
Biography of Jacques Lenoir (excerpt)
Jacques Lenoir, born on August 13, 1918 in Avignon (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth cetificate), died on December 23, 2008 in Sanary-sur-Mer, was a French high official. He was the Prefet de Police de Paris(1971-1973).
Biography of Raymond Chandler (excerpt)
Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression.
Biography of Buenaventura Durruti (excerpt)
José Buenaventura Durruti Dumange (14 July 1896 (birth time source: the book "Durruti en la Revolución Española", by Abel Paz (pseudonym of the writer and historian Diego Camacho, page 48) – 20 November 1936) was a Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant involved with the CNT, FAI and other anarchist organisations during the period leading up to and including the Spanish Civil War.
Biography of Marilyn Miller (excerpt)
Marilyn Miller (born Mary Ellen Reynolds, September 1, 1898 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, Astrological Magazine, Vol. 75, Issues 1-6, p. 489, accuracy in question) – April 7, 1936) was one of the most popular Broadway musical stars of the 1920s and early 1930s.
Biography of François-Benjamin Chaussemiche (excerpt)
François-Benjamin Chaussemiche (June 4, 1864 – 1945) was a French architect. Chaussemiche was born in Tours, and in 1883 entered the École des Beaux-Arts where he became a student and later colleague of Victor Laloux. He won the Prix de Rome for architecture in 1893, and served as chief architect of the Palace of Versailles from 1917-1924, during which time he created the Parc botanique de Jussieu (now the Arboretum de Chèvreloup).
Biography of Ramón Mercader (excerpt)
Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río (7 February 1913 – 18 October 1978), more commonly known as Ramón Mercader, was a Spanish communist and NKVD agent who assassinated the Russian Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in August 1940. He served 20 years in Mexican prison for the murder.
Biography of Jacques Draeger (excerpt)
Jacques Draeger, born on October 18, 1903 in Montrouge (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on March 12, 2002 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French editor.
Biography of Eugénie Cotton (excerpt)
Eugénie Cotton (13 October 1881 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 27)– 16 June 1967) was a French scientist and Women's rights activist. She was a founding member and the first president of the Women's International Democratic Federation. She was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize in 1951 and the Gold medal from the World Peace Council in 1961.
Biography of Nathanael West (excerpt)
Nathanael West (born Nathan Weinstein; October 17, 1903 – December 22, 1940) was an American author and screenwriter. He is remembered for two darkly satirical novels: Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of the Locust (1939), set respectively in the newspaper and Hollywood film industries.
Biography of Émile Henry (anarchist) (excerpt)
Émile Henry (26 September 1872 in Barcelona – 21 May 1894 in Paris, France) was a French anarchist, who on 12 February 1894 detonated a bomb at the Café Terminus in the Parisian Gare Saint-Lazare killing one person and wounding twenty.
Biography of Félix Trombe (excerpt)
Felix Trombe (19 March 1906 in Nogent, France – 26 March 1985 in Ganties, France) was a French engineer. He is best known for his pioneering work in passive solar building design with the Trombe wall, which bears his name.
Biography of Erich Neumann (excerpt)
Erich Neumann (23 January 1905 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth registry entry from Berlin archives) – 5 November 1960), was a psychologist, philosopher, writer, and student of Carl Jung. Neumann was born in Berlin to a Jewish family. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1927 and then continued to study medicine at the University of Berlin, where he acquired his first degree in medicine in 1933.
Biography of Henri Sellier (excerpt)
Henri Charles Sellier (22 December 1883 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 24 November 1943) was a French administrator, urban planner and Socialist politician. He did much to develop garden cities in the Paris region. He was Minister of Health in 1936–37.
Biography of Luis Cernuda (excerpt)
Luis Cernuda (born Luis Cernuda Bidón September 21, 1902 – November 5, 1963) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27. During the Spanish Civil War, in early 1938, he went to the UK to deliver some lectures and this became the start of an exile that lasted till the end of his life.
Biography of François Brousse (excerpt)
François Brousse (May 7, 1913 in Perpignan - October 25, 1995 in Clamart) was a philosophy professor who had mainly taught in the Languedoc-Roussillon region and is the author of some 80 works including poetry, essays (metaphysical, astronomical, historical and esoteric), novels, plays and storybooks. |
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