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Biography of Dada Vaswani (excerpt)
Jashan Pahlajrai Vaswani (2 August 1918 – 12 July 2018), better known as Dada Vaswani, was an Indian spiritual leader. He promoted vegetarianism and animal rights, and was the spiritual head at the Sadhu Vaswani Mission founded by his Guru, Sadhu Vaswani.
Biography of Anton Saefkow (excerpt)
Anton Emil Hermann Saefkow (22 July 1903 – 18 September 1944) was a German Communist and a resistance fighter against the National Socialist régime. He was arrested in July 1944 and executed on 18 September by guillotine. Anton Saefkow was born in Berlin, a member of a socialist working-class family and in 1920 while still a metalworker's apprentice, joined the Young Communist League of Germany to whose Berlin leadership he rose in 1922.
Biography of Francisco Ferrer (excerpt)
Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia (January 14, 1859 – October 13, 1909), widely known as Francisco Ferrer (Spanish pronunciation: ), was a Spanish radical freethinker, anarchist, and educationist behind a network of secular, private, libertarian schools in and around Barcelona. His execution, following a revolt in Barcelona, propelled Ferrer into martyrdom and grew an international movement of radicals and libertarians, who established schools in his model and promoted his schooling approach.
Biography of Francis X. Bushman (excerpt)
Francis Xavier Bushman (January 10, 1883 – August 23, 1966) was an American film actor and director. His career as a matinee idol started in 1911 in the silent film His Friend's Wife. He gained a large female following and was one of the biggest stars of the 1910s and early 1920s.
Biography of Pedro Salinas (excerpt)
Pedro Salinas y Serrano (27 November 1891 – 4 December 1951) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27, as well as a university teacher, scholar and literary critic. In 1937, he delivered the Turnbull lectures at Johns Hopkins University.
Biography of Gualtiero Tumiati (excerpt)
Gualtiero Tumiati ( 8 May 1876 – 23 April 1971) was an Italian actor and stage director. Life and career Born in Ferrara, Tumiati studied at the College of the Oaks in Florence and there he attended the acting courses held by Luigi Rasi.
Biography of Alfredo Varelli (excerpt)
Alfredo Varelli (born Alfredo Ciavarella, 13 August 1914 (Wikipedia and IMDb have 31 August) – 18 August 1996) was an Italian film actor whose career spanned more than six decades. Varelli was born Alfredo Ciavarella and debuted in Alessandro Blasetti's 1934 film Vecchia guardia.
Biography of Carl Oberg (excerpt)
Carl Albrecht Oberg (27 January 1897 – 3 June 1965) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. He served as Senior SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) in occupied France, from May 1942 to November 1944, during the Second World War, Oberg came to be known as the Butcher of Paris.
Biography of Cornelia Sorabji (excerpt)
Cornelia Sorabji (15 November 1866 – 6 July 1954) was an Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer. She was the first female graduate from Bombay University, and the first woman to study law at Oxford University. Returning to India after her studies at Oxford, Sorabji became involved in social and advisory work on behalf of the purdahnashins, women who were forbidden to communicate with the outside male world, but she was unable to defend them in court since, as a woman, she did not hold professional standing in the Indian legal system.
Biography of Emil Schaudt (excerpt)
Johann Emil Schaudt, (* August 14, 1871 in Stuttgart; † April 6, 1957 in Berlin) was a German architect, predominantly designing commercial and administrative buildings in Hamburg and Berlin. / Life Schaudt studied architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart and the Technical University of Vienna.
Biography of Susie Sharp (excerpt)
Susie Marshall Sharp (July 7, 1907 – March 1, 1996) was an American jurist who served as the first female chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. She was not the first woman to head the highest court in a U.
Biography of George O'Brien (actor) (excerpt)
George O'Brien, born on April 19, 1899, in San Francisco, was a prominent American actor during the silent and early sound film eras. Notable for his role in F. W. Murnau's 1927 film "Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans," O'Brien started his career in Hollywood as a cameraman assistant and stuntman.
Biography of Tucker McGuire (excerpt)
Anne Tucker McGuire (29 January 1913 in Winchester, Virginia, US – 3 August 1988 in London, England) was an American-born actress who appeared largely in British films and television. She married actor Tom Macaulay. She appeared in the 1949 West End musical Her Excellency.
Biography of Martin Hellinger (excerpt)
Martin Karl Hellinger (17 July 1904 – 13 August 1988) was a German Nazi dentist who in 1943 was assigned to work at the concentration camp for women at Ravensbrück, with the duty of removing dental gold from those killed at the camp.
Biography of Margarete Buber-Neumann (excerpt)
Margarete Buber-Neumann (née Thüring; 21 October 1901 – 6 November 1989) was a German writer. As a senior Communist Party of Germany member and Gulag survivor, which turned her into staunch anti-communist, she wrote the famous memoir Under Two Dictators. It begins with her arrest in Moscow during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, followed by her imprisonment as a political prisoner in both the Soviet Gulag and the Nazi concentration camp system, after being handed over by the NKVD to the Gestapo during World War II.
Biography of Vladimir Vernadsky (excerpt)
Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky, also spelt Volodymyr Ivanovych Vernadsky (Russian: Владимир Иванович Вернадский, Ukrainian: Володимир Іванович Вернадський; 12 March (O.S. 28 February) 1863 – 6 January 1945) was a Russian, Ukrainian, and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist who is considered one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and radiogeology.
Biography of Alice Orlowski (excerpt)
Alice Orlowski (30 September 1903 – 21 May 1976) was a German concentration camp guard at several of the Nazi concentration camps in German-occupied Poland (1939-1945) during World War II. After the war, a Polish court convicted of her crimes against humanity, and she served 10 years in prison in Poland.
Biography of Agostino Salvietti (excerpt)
Agostino Salvietti (22 August 1882 (Wikipedia has 28 August) - 2 December 1967) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than forty films from 1924 to 1964. In 1936-37, he was among the leaders of the "Fascist Union of Operetta, Revue, and Variety Workers.
Biography of Holmes Herbert (excerpt)
Holmes Herbert (born Horace Edward Jenner; 30 July 1882 – 26 December 1956) was an English character actor who appeared in Hollywood films from 1915 to 1952, often as a British gentleman. Career Holmes Herbert never made a film in his native country but managed to appear in 228 films during his career in the U.
Biography of Louise Closser Hale (excerpt)
Louise Closser Hale (October 13, 1872 – July 26, 1933) was an American actress, playwright and novelist. Career Acting Hale made her theatrical debut in Detroit in an 1894 production of In Old Kentucky. She initially acted with touring troupes in the Midwest. Her Broadway debut was in Arizona (1900).
Biography of Corrie ten Boom (excerpt)
Cornelia Arnolda Johanna "Corrie" ten Boom (15 April 1892 – 15 April 1983) was a Dutch watchmaker and later a Christian writer and public speaker, who worked with her father, Casper ten Boom, her sister Betsie ten Boom and other family members to help many Jewish people escape from the Nazis during the Holocaust in World War II by hiding them in her home.
Biography of Jean Gachet (excerpt)
Jean Gachet (2 June 1894 in Saint-Étienne – 4 February 1968) was a French featherweight boxer. He competed in the 1920s. Gachet won a silver medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics, losing to Paul Fritsch in the final. Olympic results 1st round bye
Biography of Georges Fourest (excerpt)
Georges Fourest is a French writer and poet, born in Limoges on April 6, 1864, and died in Paris on January 25, 1945. Georges Fourest pursued law studies at the University of Toulouse, then in Paris, but did not practice as a lawyer, humorously declaring himself as a "lawyer.
Biography of Sidónio Pais (excerpt)
Sidónio Bernardino Cardoso da Silva Pais CavC OA CavA (pronounced ; 1 May 1872 – 14 December 1918) was a Portuguese politician, military officer, and diplomat, who served as the fourth president of the First Portuguese Republic in 1918. One of the most divisive figures in modern Portuguese history, he was referred to by the writer Fernando Pessoa as the "President-King", a description that stuck in later years and symbolizes his regime.
Biography of Waclaw Berent (excerpt)
Wacław Berent (Warsaw, 28 September 1878 (his time of birth comes from the biography Hanna Muszyńska-Hoffmann "In the circle of Berent") – 19 November or 22 November 1940, Warsaw) was a Polish novelist, essayist and literary translator from the Art Nouveau period, publishing under the pen names S.
Biography of Saint-Granier (excerpt)
Saint-Granier, whose real name was Jean Adolphe Alfred de Granier de Cassagnac, was a French actor and singer-songwriter, born on May 27, 1890, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris and died on June 25, 1976, in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine). A creator of numerous revues, he was also a screenwriter, radio personality, and journalist.
Biography of Günter Raphael (excerpt)
Günter Raphael (30 April 1903 – 19 October 1960) was a German composer. Born in Berlin, Raphael was the grandson of composer Albert Becker. His first symphony was premiered by Wilhelm Furtwängler in 1926 in Leipzig with the Gewandhaus Orchestra. From 1926 to 1934 he taught in Leipzig, but illness and the rise of Fascism – he was declared a "half-Jew" – made this difficult for him.
Biography of Pavel Florensky (excerpt)
Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky (also P. A. Florenskiĭ, Florenskii, Florenskij; Russian: Па́вел Алекса́ндрович Флоре́нский; Armenian: Պավել Ֆլորենսկի, romanized: Pavel Florenski; 21 January 1882 – December 8, 1937) was a Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor, polymath, neomartyr and folk saint.
Biography of Kenje Ogata (excerpt)
Kenje Ogata (June 1, 1918 (birth certificate) – January 18, 2012) was an American soldier and one of five documented people of Japanese descent to serve in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Ogata boarded a train to Chicago, Illinois, to join the service.
Biography of Tony Zale (excerpt)
Anthony Florian Zaleski (May 29, 1913 – March 20, 1997), known professionally as Tony Zale, was an American boxer. Zale was born and raised in Gary, Indiana, a steel town, which gave him his nickname, "Man of Steel", reinforced by his reputation of being able to take fearsome punishment and still rally to win.
Biography of Robert de Saint Jean (excerpt)
Robert de Saint Jean (12 June 1901 – 16 January 1987) was a French writer and journalist. He was the companion of the French-speaking American writer Julien Green. Like the latter, he kept a diary which he published and allows to understand the French cultural life over several decades.
Biography of Maurits Sabbe (excerpt)
Maurits Sabbe, born Maurice Charles Marie Guillaume Sabbe (Bruges, 9 February 1873 – Antwerp, 12 February 1938), was a Flemish man of letters and educator who became curator of the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp. Life He was a son of Julius Sabbe and the eldest of seven children.
Biography of Richard Gaines (excerpt)
Richard Houston Gaines (July 23, 1904 – July 20, 1975) was an American actor. He appeared in over 75 film and television productions between 1940 and 1962. Early years Gaines was born in Indian Territory and grew up in Texas, learning "to handle the ax, the plough, and the lariat".
Biography of Francis Popy (excerpt)
François Joseph Popy, known as Francis Popy, was a French composer born on July 1, 1874, in the Croix-Rousse district of Lyon and died in Belleville (now Belleville-en-Beaujolais) on January 29, 1928. His music is representative of the Belle Époque. The Later Years
Biography of Gertrud Luckner (excerpt)
Gertrud Luckner (born Jane Hartmann; 26 September 1900 – 31 August 1995) was a Christian social worker involved in the German resistance to Nazism. A member of the banned German Catholic Peace Movement, she organised food packages for Jews deported to Poland, and travelled Germany giving assistance to Jewish families.
Biography of Enzo Paci (excerpt)
Enzo Paci (born September 18, 1911, in Monterado and died July 21, 1976, in Milan) was an Italian philosopher, one of the representatives of Existentialism in Italy, before turning towards phenomenology. He studied philosophy at the University of Milan, where he was notably a student of Antonio Banfi, and then began teaching at the University of Pavia, before returning to the University of Milan where he spent the remainder of his career.
Biography of Elly Ney (excerpt)
Elly Ney (27 September 1882 – 31 March 1968) was a German romantic pianist who specialized in Beethoven, and was especially popular in Germany. Personal life Elly Ney was married twice; first, in 1911, to the Dutch conductor Willem van Hoogstraten. They had one daughter, Eleonore (1918–2007).
Biography of Jessie Redmon Fauset (excerpt)
Jessie Redmon Fauset (April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961) was an editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator. Her literary work helped sculpt African-American literature in the 1920s as she focused on portraying a true image of African-American life and history.
Biography of Hugh Ramsay (excerpt)
Hugh Ramsay (25 May 1877 – 5 March 1906) was an Australian artist. Early life and education Miss Nellie Patterson (1903), daughter of Ambrose Patterson, niece of Nellie Melba Ramsay was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 25 May 1877, the son of John Ramsay.
Biography of Marjorie Grene (excerpt)
Marjorie Glicksman Grene (December 13, 1910 - March 16, 2009) was an American philosopher who focused on existentialism and the philosophy of science, particularly biology. She taught at the University of California at Davis from 1965 to 1978 and was an Honorary University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech from 1988 until her death.
Biography of Stefan Wolpe (excerpt)
Stefan Wolpe (25 August 1902, Berlin – 4 April 1972, New York City) was a German-Jewish-American composer. He was associated with interdisciplinary modernism, with affiliations ranging from the Bauhaus, Berlin agitprop theater and the kibbutz movement to the Eighth Street Artists' Club, Black Mountain College, and the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music.
Biography of Mathilde Kschessinska (excerpt)
Mathilde-Marie Feliksovna Kschessinska (Polish: Matylda Maria Krzesińska; Russian: Матильда Феликсовна Кшесинская; 31 August (O.S. 19 August) 1872 in Ligovo – 6 December 1971 in Paris; also known as Princess Romanovskaya-Krasinskaya after her marriage) was a Polish/Russian ballerina from the noble family Krzesiński.
Biography of Paul Ogorzow (excerpt)
Paul Ogorzow (29 September 1912 – 26 July 1941), also known as the S-Bahn Murderer, was a German serial killer and rapist who was active in Nazi-era Berlin between 1939 and 1941, during the height of the Second World War. An employee of Deutsche Reichsbahn, he exploited the regular wartime blackouts in order to commit numerous murders and sex crimes, mostly targeting lone female passengers traveling aboard Berlin's S-Bahn commuter rail system, and solitary housewives whose husbands had been called up for military service.
Biography of Severo Ochoa (excerpt)
Severo Ochoa de Albornoz (24 September 1905 – 1 November 1993) was a Spanish physician and biochemist, and winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Arthur Kornberg for their discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)".
Biography of Luis Zambrano (excerpt)
Luis Zambrano (Bailadores, State of Mérida, May 1, 1901 - Tovar, State of Mérida, August 15, 1990) was a popular self-taught inventor from the State of Mérida, Venezuela, a mechanical genius. He created dozens of inventions. In 1977 he lost his right hand following an accident with a saw.
Biography of Max Koegel (excerpt)
Otto Max Koegel (16 October 1895 – 27 June 1946) was a Nazi officer who served as a commander at Lichtenburg, Ravensbrück, Majdanek and Flossenbürg concentration camps. In 1946 he was arrested for his role in The Holocaust, but hanged himself in prison before he could stand trial.
Biography of Georgette Vallejo (excerpt)
Georgette Marie Philippart Travers (Paris, 7 January 1908 – Lima, 1984), French writer and poet. She was the wife of the Peruvian poet César Vallejo of international fame, considered by Mario Benedetti to be a "human paradigm", while the American poet-monk Thomas Merton points out that "the project for the translation of his poetry is of an urgent and enormous importance for the entire human race.
Biography of Janis Rozentals (excerpt)
Janis Rozentāls (March 18, 1866 - December 26, 1916) was a celebrated Latvian painter. Born in Bebri Farmstead, Saldus, Courland, Russian Empire, he embarked on his career early in Riga and then at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts. He set up an art studio in Saldus in 1899 but moved to Riga in 1901.
Biography of Lino Salini (excerpt)
Umberto Lino Salini (* December 27, 1889 in Frankfurt am Main; † December 20, 1944 in Würzburg) was a German painter and caricaturist. Salini is often compared to Heinrich Zille because he liked to choose motifs for his drawings from a specific milieu: the apple wine taverns of Sachsenhausen.
Biography of Fritz Fischer (medical doctor) (excerpt)
Fritz Ernst Fischer (5 October 1912 – 2003) was a Nazi German medical doctor who performed medical atrocities on inmates of the Ravensbrück concentration camp. He was tried and convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the 1947 Doctors' Trial; he was sentenced to life imprisonment, but his sentence was commuted to 15 years and he was released in 1954. |
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