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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 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 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 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 Although Platonov regarded himself as a communist, his principal works remained unpublished in his lifetime because of their skeptical attitude toward collectivization of agriculture (1929–1940) and other Stalinist policies, as well as for their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.
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 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 Arturo Uslar Pietri (excerpt)
Arturo Uslar Pietri (May 16, 1906 - February 26, 2001) was a prominent Venezuelan intellectual, historian, writer, TV producer, and politician. Born in Caracas to parents with diverse cultural backgrounds, Uslar Pietri played a significant role in Venezuelan politics and culture.
Biography of Asbjørg Borgfelt (excerpt)
Asbjørg Borgfelt (31 October 1900 – 5 June 1976) was a Norwegian sculptor. Personal life She was the daughter of Samuel Borgfeldt (1872-1936) and Magnhild Telma Sæther (1876-1941). In 1937 she married sculptor Per Hurum (1910–1989). Career Borgfeldt first studied art in Kristiania at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry (Statens Håndverks- og Kunstindustriskole) with Wilhelm Rasmussen (1879–1965).
Biography of Frits Went (excerpt)
Friedrich August Ferdinand Christian Went ForMemRS (June 18, 1863 – July 24, 1935) was a Dutch botanist. Went was born in Amsterdam. He was professor of botany and director of the Botanical Garden at the University of Utrecht. His eldest son was the Dutch botanist Frits Warmolt Went, who in 1927 as a graduate student worked on plant hormones, specifically the role of auxin in phototropism.
Biography of Louise Petrén-Overton (excerpt)
Hedvig Louise Beata Petrén-Overton, born August 12, 1880, and passed away January 14, 1977, was a Swedish mathematician and the first woman in Sweden to earn a doctorate in mathematics. Growing up as one of twelve children in a family with strong mathematical heritage, she was left free to focus on her studies.
Biography of Fred Haas (excerpt)
Frederick Theodore Haas Jr. (January 3, 1916 – January 26, 2004) was an American professional golfer. Amateur career Haas was born in Portland, Arkansas. After graduating from Dermott High School, he graduated from Louisiana State University in 1937, winning the NCAA individual championship in his senior year.
Biography of Jakob Kaiser (excerpt)
Jakob Kaiser (8 February 1888 – 7 May 1961) was a German politician and resistance leader during World War II. Jakob Kaiser was born in Hammelburg, Lower Franconia, Kingdom of Bavaria. Following in his father's footsteps, Kaiser began a career as a bookbinder.
Biography of Carlo Bonacini (excerpt)
Carlo Bonacini (born August 15, 1867, in Modena, Italy, and died January 1, 1944, in Modena) was an Italian mathematician and physicist. After graduating in 1888 in Pisa, he started his teaching career in middle schools, the Technical Institute, and Muratori Classical Lyceum in Modena.
Biography of Paolo Fortunati (excerpt)
Paolo Fortunati, born on April 26, 1906, in Talmassons and passed away on January 27, 1980, in Bologna, was an Italian politician and statistician. He graduated in law from the University of Padua in 1927 and became a professor of statistics at the Universities of Ferrara and Palermo, eventually becoming a full professor and director of the Statistics Institute at the University of Bologna.
Biography of Héra Mirtel (excerpt)
Marie-Louise Victorine Bessarabo (pen names, Héra Mirtel, Juliette de Boulogne, Juliette de Lotus; 24 October 1868 - 21 March 1931) was a French writer, woman of letters, militant feminist, salonnier, lecturer, and ardent suffragist. She was also a spiritist and a "believer in the Black Mass," a stock exchange gambler, a plotter for the restoration of the royalist regime in France, as well as an advisor of other women in matrimony and affairs of the heart.
Biography of Edmund Bacon (architect) (excerpt)
Edmund Norwood Bacon (May 2, 1910 – October 14, 2005) was an American urban planner, architect, educator, and author. During his tenure as the executive director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission from 1949 to 1970, his visions shaped today's Philadelphia, the city of his birth, to the extent that he is sometimes described as "The Father of Modern Philadelphia".
Biography of Frieda Nugel (excerpt)
Frieda Nugel (18 June 1884 - 6 November 1966) was a pioneering German mathematician and civil rights advocate, one of the first women in Germany to obtain a mathematics doctorate in 1912 at Halle University. Born in Cottbus, she initially worked as a private tutor and later taught at schools in Cottbus and Emden, while also focusing on women's rights.
Biography of Bjarne Øen (excerpt)
Bjarne Øen (6 November 1898 – 20 September 1994) was a significant figure in the Royal Norwegian Air Force, serving as a pilot, military officer, and Lieutenant General. During World War II, he was pivotal in establishing the Royal Norwegian Air Force in Canada and the UK.
Biography of Sixto Escobar (excerpt)
Sixto Escobar, born on March 23, 1913, in Barceloneta and died on November 17, 1979, was a Puerto Rican professional boxer and Puerto Rico's first world champion in the bantamweight division. Beginning his professional career in 1931, Escobar amassed a record of 21 wins, 1 draw, and 1 loss as an amateur.
Biography of Kurt Tucholsky (excerpt)
Kurt Tucholsky, born on January 9, 1890, in Berlin and died on December 21, 1935, in Gothenburg, was a German journalist and writer. He was one of the most important authors of the Weimar Republic. As a politically engaged journalist and co-editor of the weekly Die Weltbühne, he emerged as a social critic in the tradition of Heinrich Heine.
Biography of Concha Espina (excerpt)
María de la Concepción Jesusa Basilisa Rodríguez-Espina y García-Tagle, short form Concha Espina, 15 April 1869 in Santander – 19 May 1955 in Madrid), was a Spanish writer. She was nominated for a Nobel prize in literature 25 times in 28 years.
Biography of Rex Bell (excerpt)
Rex Bell, born George Francis Beldam on October 16, 1903, was an American actor and politician, predominantly known for his roles in Western films. His film debut was in 1928's "Wild West Romance." Notably, he starred in the 1930 movie "True to the Navy," alongside Clara Bow, whom he married in 1931.
Biography of Achille Majeroni (excerpt)
Achille Majeroni (24 August 1881 – 12 October 1964) was an Italian film actor. Born in Syracuse, Sicily, son of Achille Majeroni and his second wife Graziosa Bignetti, he made his stage debut at age twelve with the Marazzi-Diligenti company. He later formed his own company, specializing in Shakespearean works.
Biography of Gilbert Roland (excerpt)
Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso, known professionally as Gilbert Roland, was a Mexican-born American actor. Born on December 11, 1905, in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, he planned to become a bullfighter like his father. His family fled to the U.S. during Pancho Villa's reign, and he later moved to Hollywood.
Biography of Jean Morin (1916-2008) (excerpt)
Jean Morin (June 23, 1916 - September 6, 2008) was a magistrate of the Court of Audit, a member of the Resistance, a senior civil servant, Secretary General of the Merchant Navy, and in retirement, a director or chairman of numerous companies, often focused on maritime professions, or those in advertising.
Biography of Charlotte Lysès (excerpt)
Charlotte Augustine Hortense Lejeune, known as Charlotte Lysès, was born on May 17, 1877, in Paris's 8th arrondissement and died on April 6, 1956, in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Alpes-Maritimes. She was a French theater and film actress. She was the first wife of Sacha Guitry from 1907 to 1918.
Biography of Arne Korsmo (excerpt)
Arne Korsmo, born on August 14, 1900, died on August 29, 1968, was a prominent Norwegian architect and proponent of the international architectural style. He completed his education at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1926 and went on to collaborate with leading architects in Oslo.
Biography of Rudolf Nelson (excerpt)
Rudolf Nelson, born on April 8, 1878, died February 5, 1960, was a German composer known for hit songs, film music, operettas, vaudevilles, and as the founder of the Nelson Revue, pivotal in 1930s Berlin nightlife. Raised in Berlin in a poor Jewish family, Nelson started piano early and later won a scholarship to the Stern Conservatory.
Biography of Ole Reistad (excerpt)
Ole Imerslun Reistad (June 26, 1898 - December 22, 1949) was a Norwegian military officer and accomplished sportsman. He competed in the modern pentathlon at the 1920 Summer Olympics and became Norwegian champion in the sport. He competed in military patrol at the 1928 Winter Olympics, winning the event.
Biography of Zona Gale (excerpt)
Zona Gale (August 26, 1874 – December 27, 1938), also known as Zona Gale Breese, was an American writer and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921. Her works, inspired by her hometown, portrayed realistic characters and deep emotional undercurrents.
Biography of Karl Wolff (excerpt)
Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff (13 May 1900 – 17 July 1984) was a German SS functionary who served as Chief of Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS (Heinrich Himmler) and an SS liaison to Adolf Hitler during World War II. He ended the war as the Supreme SS and Police Leader in occupied Italy and helped arrange for the early surrender of Axis forces in that theatre, effectively ending the war there several days sooner than in the rest of Europe.
Biography of Alfonso Rodríguez Castelao (excerpt)
Alfonso Daniel Manuel Rodríguez Castelao (29 January 1886 – 7 January 1950), commonly known as Castelao, was a Galician politician, writer, painter and doctor. He is one of the fathers of Galician nationalism, promoting Galician identity and culture, and was one of the main names behind the cultural movement Xeración Nós.
Biography of Max Wagner (excerpt)
Max Wagner (January 12, 1902 (Wikipedia gives another birth data) – November 16, 1975) was a Mexican-born American film actor who specialized in playing small parts such as thugs, gangsters, sailors, henchmen, bodyguards, cab drivers and moving men, appearing more than 400 films in his career, most without receiving screen credit.
Biography of Antonio Gasbarrini (excerpt)
Antonio Gasbarrini, born in Civitella del Tronto on March 26, 1882, was an eminent Italian physician known for his significant contributions to internal medicine, particularly gastroenterology. Orphaned during his school years, Gasbarrini excelled academically, enabling him to study at the University of Siena where he graduated with honors in 1908.
Biography of Jean Verdier (Cardinal) (excerpt)
Jean Verdier, PSS (February 19, 1864 – April 9, 1940), was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, serving as Archbishop of Paris from 1929 until his death and elevated to cardinalate in the same year. Born to a humble family in Lacroix-Barrez, Aveyron, Verdier studied at the seminary in Rodez before joining the Society of Saint-Sulpice in 1886.
Biography of Sady Zañartu (excerpt)
Sady Zañartu (May 6, 1893 – March 5, 1983) was a Chilean writer who created foundational works in the genres of Criollismo, historical anecdote, and patriotic valorization of the nation. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1974. Sady Zañartu, born in Taltal, Chile, was the younger of two sons to parents who were farmers and miners.
Biography of John Yeon (excerpt)
John Yeon (October 29, 1910 – March 13, 1994) was an American architect in Portland, Oregon, in the mid-twentieth century. He is regarded as one of the early practitioners of the Northwest Regional style of Modernism. Largely self-taught, Yeon’s wide ranging activities encompassed planning, conservation, historic preservation, art collecting, and urban activism.
Biography of Paul Vignaux (philosopher) (excerpt)
Paul Vignaux, born December 18, 1904, in Péronne and died August 26, 1987, in Zaragoza, was a French philosopher and medievalist, specializing in the history of medieval philosophy. A prominent trade unionist, he was instrumental in the secularization of the French Christian Workers' Confederation (CFTC).
Biography of Rachel Baes (excerpt)
Rachel Baes (August 1, 1912 – June 8, 1983) was a Belgian surrealist painter and photographer. Born in Ixelles to painter Émile Baes, she started painting young, influenced by Flemish Expressionism. She exhibited in Paris in 1929. Baes' romantic involvement with Flemish nationalist Joris Van Severen deeply impacted her life, especially after his execution in 1940.
Biography of Amparo Alvajar (excerpt)
María del Amparo Alvajar López Jean, commonly known as Amparo Alvajar (August 11, 1916 - May 1998), was a multifaceted Spanish journalist, dramatist, and writer from Galicia, also notable for her work as a translator for international organizations. Born in A Coruña, she was deeply involved in the political and cultural movements of her time, working initially in the Second Republic's secret services.
Biography of Émile Dehelly (excerpt)
Émile Léon Auguste Dehelly, born on August 7, 1871, in Fresnoy-le-Grand (Aisne) and died on September 4, 1969, in Paris (5th arrondissement), was a French actor and a member of the Comédie-Française. Coming to Épernon (Eure-et-Loir) with his father when he was young, he was drafted with the number 104 during his military conscription in 1893 in Maintenon.
Biography of Unity Mitford (excerpt)
Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford (8 August 1914 – 28 May 1948) was a British socialite closely associated with Adolf Hitler. A staunch supporter of Nazism, fascism, and antisemitism, she was part of Hitler's inner circle. After World War II broke out, Mitford attempted suicide in Munich, sustaining severe brain damage.
Biography of Angela Piskernik (excerpt)
Angela Piskernik (27 August 1886 – 23 December 1967) was an Austro-Yugoslav botanist and conservationist, noted for her efforts in natural preservation. Born in Bad Eisenkappel, Southern Carinthia, Austria, she earned a Ph.D. in botany from the University of Vienna. Her work spanned teaching in secondary schools and working for the museum in Ljubljana.
Biography of Paul Sacher (excerpt)
Paul Sacher (28 April 1906 – 26 May 1999) was a Swiss conductor, patron and billionaire businessman. His time birth comes from the biography "Symphonie der Träume: das Leben von Paul Sacher" by Lesley Stephenson (Rüffer & Rub, 2001). At the time of his death Sacher was majority shareholder of pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche and was considered the third richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of US$13 billion.
Biography of August Zehender (excerpt)
August Zehender (28 April 1903 – 11 February 1945) was a German SS commander during the Nazi era. He led the SS Division Maria Theresia during World War II and was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.
Biography of Pamela Mitford (excerpt)
Pamela Freeman-Mitford (25 November 1907 – 12 April 1994) was one of the Mitford sisters. Pamela Freeman-Mitford was the second daughter of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale, and Sydney Bowles (1880–1963). John Betjeman, who for a time was in love with her, referred to her in his unpublished poem, "The Mitford Girls", as the "most rural of them all" since she preferred to live quietly in the country.
Biography of René Taton (excerpt)
René Taton, born on April 4, 1915, in L'Échelle in the Ardennes and died on August 9, 2004, in Ajaccio, was a French historian of science and co-editor of the Revue d'histoire des sciences. He directed the Centre Alexandre-Koyré and was instrumental in establishing the history of science as a professional discipline.
Biography of Roldano Lupi (excerpt)
Roldano Lupi, an Italian actor, was born on February 8, 1909, in Milan and died on August 13, 1989, in Rome. He studied accounting but began his acting career in local amateur theater. His professional stage debut came in 1938 under the direction of Kiki Palmer, propelling his career. |
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