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Biography of Jean Lenoir (composer) (excerpt)
Jean Lenoir pseudonym for Jean Bernard Daniel Neuberger (26 February 1891 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 19 January 1976) was a French songwriter, whose work included chansons and romantic light film songs. Lenoir was born in Paris.His most famous song, for which he wrote both melody and lyrics, was Parlez-moi d'amour (1930).
Biography of Fyodor Sergeyev (excerpt)
Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev (March 19, 1883 – July 24, 1921), better known as Comrade Artyom (това́рищ Артём), was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, agitator, and journalist. He was a close friend of Sergei Kirov and Joseph Stalin. Sergeyev was an ideologist of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic.
Biography of Victoria Kent (excerpt)
Victoria Kent Siano (March 6, 1892 – September 25, 1987) was a Spanish lawyer and republican politician. Shortly after her arrival in Madrid, she joined the Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Españolas y la Juventud Universitaria Femenina (a women's rights organization), directed by Maria Espinosa de los Monteros.
Biography of Niña de la Puebla (excerpt)
Dolores Jiménez Alcántara (20 July 1908 (source: her Spanish Wikipedia page), in La Puebla de Cazalla, Seville – 14 June 1999, Malaga), known as "Niña de la Puebla "(in Spanish: "The girl from La Puebla"; La Puebla is her birthplace) was one of the greatest flamenco and Andalusian copla singers.
Biography of Léon Agel (excerpt)
Léon Agel, pen name of Léon André Angelliaume, born December 19, 1910 in the 14th arrondissement of Paris (source for his time of birth: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died January 24, 1999 in Hyères, is an editor and French lyricist working Porte Saint-Martin in Paris.
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 Hasan Âli Yücel (excerpt)
Hasan Âli Yücel (17 December 1897 in Istanbul – 26 February 1961) was a Turkish writer, teacher and politician who served as Minister of National Education of Turkey from December 1938 to August 1946.He is remembered for his reforms of the education system, and the foundation of Village Institutes.
Biography of Lilli Henoch (excerpt)
Lilli Henoch (26 October 1899 – September 1942) was a German track and field athlete who set four world records and won 10 German national championships, in four different disciplines. Henoch set world records in the discus (twice), the shot put, and the 4 × 100 meters relay events.
Biography of Johnny Mercer (excerpt)
John Herndon Mercer (November 18, 1909 – June 25, 1976) was an American lyricist, songwriter, and singer.He was also a record label executive who co-founded Capitol Records with music industry businessman Buddy DeSylva and Glenn E.Wallichs. He is best known as a Tin Pan Alley lyricist, but he also composed music.
Biography of Yevgeny Zamyatin (excerpt)
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (20 January (Julian) / 1 February (Gregorian), 1884 – 10 March 1937), sometimes anglicized as Eugene Zamyatin, was a Russian author of science fiction, philosophy, literary criticism, and political satire.He was also an naval engineer. Despite being the son of a Russian Orthodox priest, Zamyatin lost his faith in Christianity at an early age and became a Bolshevik.
Biography of V. Volodarsky (excerpt)
V.Volodarsky (Russian: В.Володарский; December 11, 1891 (December 23, Gregorian calendar) – June 20, 1918) was a Marxist revolutionary and early Soviet politician.He was assassinated in 1918. Volodarsky was assassinated on June 20, 1918 by Grigory Ivanovich Semyonov, a member of the Central Battle Unit of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, during labor unrest at the Obukhov Works in Petrograd.
Biography of Elsa Andersson (aviation pioneer) (excerpt)
Elsa Teresia Andersson (27 April 1897 in Strövelstorp, Sweden – 22 January 1922 (age 24)) was Sweden's first female aviator and stunt parachutist. She was the daughter of a poor farmer in Strövelstorp in the Scanian countryside.Her mother died when she was aged six.
Biography of Mercedes de Acosta (excerpt)
Mercedes de Acosta (March 1, 1892 – May 9, 1968) was an American poet, playwright, and novelist.Although she failed to achieve artistic and professional distinction, de Acosta is known for her many lesbian affairs with celebrated Broadway and Hollywood personalities including Alla Nazimova, Isadora Duncan, Eva Le Gallienne, and Marlene Dietrich.
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 Eugénie Dauzat (excerpt)
Eugénie Dauzat, born Eugénie Licheron on December 6, 1900 in Neuville (Puy-de-Dôme)(birth time source: Marc Brun, birth certificate n° 9) and died January 12, 2013 in Lezoux (Puy-de-Dôme), aged 112 years and 37 days, is a supercentenaire, wrongly considered as the oldest of the French, twice.
Biography of Philippe Kieffer (excerpt)
Philippe Kieffer MBE MC (24 October 1899 – 20 November 1962), capitaine de frégate in the French Navy, was a French officer and political personality, and a hero of the Free French Forces. Liberation of France On 6 June 1944, at 0731, the Bérets verts ("Green berets") landed in Ouistreham, Benouville, Amfreville and Bavant, designated as Sword Beach.
Biography of Mireille Havet (excerpt)
Mireille Havet ( 4 October 1898, Médan – 21 March 1932, Crans-Montana, Switzerland) was a French poet, diarist, novelist, and lyricist. She wrote lyrics for songs composed by John Alden Carpenter and intended for Éva Gauthier.She wrote a novel, Carnaval, published in 1923.
Biography of Louis Bénech (lyricist) (excerpt)
Louis Bénech, born September 24, 1875 in the 5th arrondissement of Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), city where he died on March 19, 1925 in his home in the 10th arrondissement, physician, is a French lyricist, composer and publisher.
Biography of Xavier Leroux (excerpt)
Xavier Henry Napoleón Leroux (11 October 1863 – 2 February 1919) was a French composer and a teacher at the Paris Conservatory.He was married to the famous soprano Meyrianne Héglon (1867-1942). Born in Italy at Velletri, 30 km south-east of Rome, Leroux was the son of a French military bandleader.
Biography of Lev Mekhlis (excerpt)
Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis (January 13, 1889 (gregrorian calendar) – February 13, 1953) was a Soviet politician and high commander of the Red Army from 1937 to 1940. He was one of the main Stavka representatives during World War II who was responsible for five to seven Soviet fronts.
Biography of Wanda Wasilewska (excerpt)
Wanda Wasilewska, also known by Russian name Vanda Lvovna Vasilevskaya (21 January 1905 – 29 July 1964), was a Polish and Ukrainian Soviet novelist and journalist and a left-wing political activist who became a devoted communist. She fled the German attack on Warsaw in September 1939 and took up residence in Soviet-occupied Lviv and eventually in the Soviet Union.
Biography of Léo Daniderff (excerpt)
Léo Daniderff (Gaston-Ferdinand Niquet; 15 February 1878 in Angers, France (birth time and date source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 24 October 1943 in Rosny-sous-Bois, France) was a French composer of the pre-World War II era. His 1917 comical song, a foxtrot-shimmy named "Je cherche après Titine" (lyrics by Louis Mauban and Marcel Bertal), became world-famous due to Charlie Chaplin's singing it in gibberish in Modern Times (1936), especially because it was the first time his character ever spoke in the movies and Chaplin did not want The Tramp to use any particular language.
Biography of Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier (excerpt)
Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier (9 January 1861 in Aix-les-Bains (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 26 October 1930 in Paris) was a French landscape architect, trained with Alphand and became conservateur of the promenades of Paris.He developed an arboretum at Vincennes and the gardens of the Champ-de-Mars below the Eiffel Tower.
Biography of Mikhail Yanshin (excerpt)
Mikhail Mikhailovich Yanshin (Russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Я́ншин) (2 November (20 October O.S.) 1902 – 17 July 1976) was a Soviet stage and film actor. Yanshin was born in the city of Yukhnov, located in the present-day Kaluga Oblast.As a young man he worked as a carpenter.
Biography of Witold Gombrowicz (excerpt)
Witold Marian Gombrowicz (August 4, 1904 – July 24, 1969) was a Polish writer and playwright.His works are characterised by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and absurd, anti-nationalist flavor.In 1937 he published his first novel, Ferdydurke, which presented many of his usual themes: problems of immaturity and youth, creation of identity in interactions with others, and an ironic, critical examination of class roles in Polish society and culture.
Biography of Camille Marbo (excerpt)
Marguerite Borel known as Camille Marbo (11 April 1883 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 103) – 5 February 1969) née Marguerite Appell, was a 20th-century French writer, president and laureate of the Prix Femina in 1913 and president of the Société des gens de lettres.
Biography of Willy Birgel (excerpt)
Willy Birgel (19 September 1891 (birth time source: birth certificate, Arno Müller, vol 2) – 29 December 1973), born Wilhelm Maria Birgel, was a German theatre and film actor. Birgel began his acting career before World War I on the stage in his native city of Cologne, and came to movies rather late.
Biography of Resat Nuri Güntekin (excerpt)
Reşat Nuri Güntekin (25 November 1889 – 7 December 1956) was a Turkish novelist, storywriter and playwright.His best known novel, Çalıkuşu ("The Wren", 1922) is about the destiny of a young Turkish female teacher in Anatolia.This work is translated into Persian by Seyyed Borhan Ghandili.
Biography of Jean Erdman (excerpt)
Jean Erdman (February 20, 1916 – May 4, 2020) was an American dancer and choreographer of modern dance as well as an avant-garde theater director. Career Erdman distinguished herself as a principal dancer in Graham's company in solo roles such as the Ideal Spectator in Every Soul is a Circus, the Speaking Fate in Punch and the Judy and the One Who Speaks in Letter to the World, Graham's ode to the American poet, Emily Dickinson.
Biography of Laurie Lee (excerpt)
Laurence Edward Alan "Laurie" Lee, MBE (26 June 1914 – 13 May 1997) was an English poet, novelist and screenwriter, who was brought up in the small village of Slad in Gloucestershire. His most notable work is the autobiographical trilogy Cider with Rosie (1959), As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969), and A Moment of War (1991).
Biography of Dorothy Wrinch (excerpt)
Dorothy Maud Wrinch (12 September 1894 – 11 February 1976; married names Nicholson, Glaser) was a mathematician and biochemical theorist best known for her attempt to deduce protein structure using mathematical principles. She was a champion of the controversial 'cyclol' hypothesis for the structure of proteins.
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 Jutta Graae (excerpt)
Jutta Regitse Pilegaard Graae (28 April 1906 – 25 March 1997) was a Danish bank employee who became a member of the Danish resistance during the German occupation of Denmark in World War II. After first working as a contact for the resistance worker Ebbe Munck in Stockholm, she became so deeply involved in illegal activities that she had to move to Stockholm herself in September 1943.
Biography of Igor Tamm (excerpt)
Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm (8 July 1895 – 12 April 1971) was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Ilya Mikhailovich Frank, for their 1934 discovery of Cherenkov radiation. In 1951, together with Andrei Sakharov, Tamm proposed a tokamak system for the realization of CTF on the basis of toroidal magnetic thermonuclear reactor and soon after the first such devices were built by the INF.
Biography of Erast Garin (excerpt)
Erast Pavlovich Garin (10 November (O.S.28 October) 1902 – 4 September 1980) was a Soviet and Russian actor, director and screenwriter.He was, together with Igor Ilyinsky and Sergey Martinson, one of the leading comic actors of Vsevolod Meyerhold's company and of the Soviet cinema.
Biography of Pierre Cour (excerpt)
Pierre Cour (5 April 1916 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 22 December 1995) was a French songwriter who wrote songs for several generations of artists. He wrote a number of successful songs in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Among those who recorded his songs are Dalida, Roger Whittaker, Petula Clark, Vicky Leandros, Paul Mauriat, Nana Mouskouri, Claudine Longet, German Montero, Jean-Claude Annoux and Enrico Macias.
Biography of Pavel Cherenkov (excerpt)
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (July 28, 1904 – January 6, 1990) was a Soviet physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1958 with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm for the discovery of Cherenkov radiation, made in 1934. In 1934, while working under S.
Biography of France Hamelin (excerpt)
France Hamelin (14 July 1918 – 9 March 2007), born France Aline Haberer, was a French artist, a militant pacifist, and a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War. After the outbreak of war, Haberer, who had been studying art and philosophy at Bordeaux, joined the Resistance, where she met her future husband, Lucien Hamelin.
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 Camilla Horn (excerpt)
Camilla Horn (25 April 1906 – 14 August 1996) was a German dancer and a film star of the silent and sound era. She starred in several Hollywood films of the late 1920s and in a few British and Italian productions.
Biography of Jean Gilles (French Army officer) (excerpt)
Jean Marcellin Joseph Calixte Gilles (14 October 1904 – 10 August 1961) was a French Army General. He was born in Perpignan, France on 14 October 1904. His father, Joseph Gilles, was killed in the First World War. Gilles took part in the capture of Elba in June 1944 and then landed in Provence and with 1re armée française (1st French Army), participated in the liberation of southern and eastern France and the 1945 campaign into Germany.
Biography of Viktor Nekrasov (excerpt)
Viktor Platonovich Nekrasov (Russian: Ви́ктор Плато́нович Некра́сов, Viktor Platonovič Nekrasov) (17 June 1911, Kiev – 3 September 1987, Paris) was a Russian writer, journalist and editor. After Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, Nekrasov took advantage of the first wave of destalinization to publish In the Home Town (1954), a novel which marked a departure from the Stalin-era socialist realism in Soviet literature.
Biography of Vasily Chapayev (excerpt)
Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev or Chapaev (Russian: Васи́лий Ива́нович Чапа́ев; February 9 1887 – September 5, 1919) was a celebrated Russian soldier and Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War. During World War I, he fought as a non-commissioned officer and was awarded the Cross of St.
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 Milena Jesenská (excerpt)
Milena Jesenská (10 August 1896 – 17 May 1944) was a Czech journalist, writer, editor and translator. Milena Jesenská, coming from a Bohemian aristocratic family, lost her mother at the age of thirteen and had a distant relationship with her father, a renowned surgeon.
Biography of Boris Polevoy (excerpt)
Boris Nikolaevich Polevoy (or Polevoi) (17 March (O.S. 4 March) 1908 – 12 July 1981) was a Soviet writer and journalist. He is the author of the book Story of a Real Man about Soviet World War II fighter pilot Aleksey Maresev.
Biography of Charles Léandre (excerpt)
Charles Lucien Léandre (22 July 1862 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 24 May 1934), French caricaturist and painter, was born at Champsecret (Orne), and studied painting under Émile Bin and Alexandre Cabanel. From 1887 Léandre figured among the exhibitors of the Salon, where he showed numerous portraits and genre pictures, but his popular fame is due to his comic drawings and caricatures.
Biography of William Grant Still (excerpt)
William Grant Still (May 11, 1895 – December 3, 1978) was an American composer of nearly 200 works, including five symphonies and nine operas. Often referred to as the "Dean of Afro-American Composers", Still was the first American composer to have an opera produced by the New York City Opera.
Biography of Jean Talairach (excerpt)
Jean Talairach (January 15, 1911 – March 15, 2007) was a psychiatrist and neurosurgeon who practiced at the Sainte-Anne Hospital Center in Paris, and who is noted for the Talairach coordinates, which are relevant in stereotactic neurosurgery. Talairach was the son of a pianist, and learned the cello to a professional level.
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) |
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