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Biography of Joe E. Brown (actor) (excerpt)
Joseph Evans Brown, born on July 28, 1891, and died on July 6, 1973, was an American actor and comedian, known for his elastic-mouth smile, comedic timing, and friendly on-screen persona. He was one of the most popular American comedians of the 1930s and 1940s, enjoying a long career in both film and radio.
Biography of Ricciotto Canudo (excerpt)
Ricciotto Canudo (2 January 1877, Gioia del Colle – 10 November 1923, Paris) was an early Italian film theoretician who lived primarily in France.In 1913 he published a bimonthly avant-garde magazine entitled Montjoie!, promoting Cubism in particular.Involved in numerous movements yet confined to none, Canudo exuded seemingly boundless energy.
Biography of Bernardus Arps (excerpt)
Bernardus Arps was a Dutch painter known for his landscapes, portraits, and especially his still lifes. Born in Culemborg September 1, 1865, he was the son of a printer and studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam and the Polytechnic School in Delft.
Biography of Hedwig Bleibtreu (excerpt)
Hedwig Bleibtreu (23 December 1868 – 24 January 1958) was an Austrian film actress. She appeared in more than thirty films from 1919 to 1952.Bleibtreu is perhaps best known to international audiences as Alida Valli's furious landlady in The Third Man (1949).
Biography of Selmar Aschheim (excerpt)
Selmar Aschheim (October 4, 1878 – February 15, 1965) was a German gynecologist and a native of Berlin. Born into a Jewish family, he earned his medical doctorate in Freiburg in 1902 and later became the director of the laboratory at the Universitäts-Frauenklinik in Berlin’s Charité.
Biography of Maurice Ewing (excerpt)
William Maurice "Doc" Ewing (May 12, 1906 – May 4, 1974) was an American geophysicist and oceanographer. Ewing has been described as a pioneering geophysicist who worked on the research of seismic reflection and refraction in ocean basins, ocean bottom photography, submarine sound transmission (including the SOFAR channel), deep sea core samples of the ocean bottom, theory and observation of earthquake surface waves, fluidity of the Earth's core, generation and propagation of microseisms, submarine explosion seismology, marine gravity surveys, bathymetry and sedimentation, natural radioactivity of ocean waters and sediments, study of abyssal plains and submarine canyons.
Biography of Friedrich Fichter (excerpt)
Friedrich Fichter (6 July 1869 – 1952) was a professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Basel.His main field of interest was electrochemistry.He initiated the founding of the scientific journal Helvetica Chimica Acta. Life Fichter was born on the July 6th, 1869 and attended the University of Basel from 1888 to 1890 and then the University of Strasbourg.
Biography of Gustavo Arce Correa (excerpt)
Gustavo Arce Correa (19 February 1881 - 1966) was a Mexican lawyer, military officer, and politician, born in Tizimín, Yucatán, and died in Mexico City. He collaborated with General Salvador Alvarado during the revolutionary administration that Alvarado led in Yucatán starting in 1915, when Venustiano Carranza sent him to southeastern Mexico in command of a faction of the Constitutionalist Army.
Biography of Hans Rupe (excerpt)
Johan Hermann Wilhelm Rupe (October 9, 1866 - January 12, 1951) was a professor of organic chemistry at the University of Basel, specializing in terpenes, camphor, and optical activity. Born in Basel, he studied under Julius Piccard in Basel, then under Rudolf Fittig in Strasbourg and Adolf von Baeyer in Munich.
Biography of Antonio Irineo Villarreal (excerpt)
Antonio Irineo Villarreal González (July 16, 1877 in Lampazos, Mexico – December 16, 1944 in Mexico City) was a Mexican politician and soldier.Opposed to Porfirio Díaz’s dictatorship from 1903, he published liberal magazines and was imprisoned.After his release, he fled to the U.S.
Biography of Émile Mayrisch (excerpt)
Albert Jacob Émile Mayrisch (born 10 November 1862 in Eich, Luxembourg – died 5 March 1928 in Châlons-sur-Marne, France) was a Luxembourgish industrialist and businessman. He served as chairman of the board of Arbed. Wikipedia has 10 October in error. From a family of doctors and ironmasters, he was the son of Édouard Mayrisch, a court physician, and Mathilde Metz.
Biography of Irina Paley (excerpt)
Irina Pavlovna Romanova, Princess Paley (December 21, 1903 – November 15, 1990), was the daughter of Grand Duke Paul Romanov and his second wife, Olga Valerianovna von Pistohlkors. Early Life: Irina was born in Paris as her parents were exiled for marrying without Tsar Nicholas II's permission.
Biography of Louis Réard (excerpt)
Louis Réard (10 October 1896 – 16 September 1984) was a French automotive engineer and fashion designer known for introducing the modern bikini in July 1946. In 1940, he took over his mother’s lingerie business near the Folies Bergère in Paris. Noticing women rolling up their swimsuits for a better tan, he designed a swimsuit exposing the midriff.
Biography of Francesco Valagussa (excerpt)
Francesco Valagussa, born on August 2, 1872, in Pistoia and died on May 24, 1950, in Rome, was an Italian pediatrician and politician. Graduating in 1897, he became a professor of pediatrics in 1902 and served as the chief assistant at the pediatric clinic in Rome for twelve years.
Biography of Isaac Puente (excerpt)
Isaac Puente Amestoy (3 June 1896 – 1 September 1936), born in Las Carreras near Biscay, was a Basque physician and Spanish anarchist of a strong anarchist communist bent, who adhered to concerns around birth control, hygiene and sexuality. He promoted anarcho-naturism, and was active in the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT).
Biography of Anna Kavan (excerpt)
Anna Kavan (born Helen Emily Woods; April 10, 1901 – December 5, 1968) was a British novelist, short story writer, and painter.Born into an affluent family in Cannes, she endured a lonely and unstable childhood.After marrying Donald Ferguson and living in Burma, she returned to London, where she began publishing under her married name.
Biography of Vincenzo Scarpetta (excerpt)
Vincenzo Scarpetta (born May 4, 1876, and passed away August 3, 1952) was an Italian actor, director, playwright, and composer. The son of Eduardo Scarpetta, he was the stepbrother of Eduardo, Peppino, Titina De Filippo, Eduardo Passarelli, and Pasquale De Filippo. After his father retired, he became the head of his theater company and was a pioneer of Neapolitan and Italian cinema.
Biography of Charles Trowbridge (actor) (excerpt)
Charles Silas Richard Trowbridge (January 10, 1888 (Wikipedia has 1882 in error) – October 30, 1967) was an American film actor. Born in Veracruz, Mexico, he was the older brother of actor Jack Rockwell and cousin of author John Townsend Trowbridge. Before acting, he ran a coffee plantation in Hawaii and worked in architecture.
Biography of Émile Decré (excerpt)
Émile Decré (28 July 1897 – 17 February 1973) was a French businessman and heir to the Decré department stores, founded by his grandfather Jules-César Decré.During World War I, he helped manage the family business alongside his brother. In 1930, he oversaw the renovation of the stores with architect Henri Sauvage and founded the Nantes chapter of the Christian Employers’ Confederation.
Biography of Ludwig Aschoff (excerpt)
Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff (10 January 1866 – 24 June 1942) was a German physician and pathologist. He is regarded as one of the most influential pathologists of the early 20th century and the most important German pathologist after Rudolf Virchow.
Biography of Émile Allegret (excerpt)
Émile Allegret, born on April 24, 1907, in Dijon and passed away on November 22, 1990, in Vaux-sur-Mer, was a French military officer and resistance fighter, Companion of the Liberation. He enlisted in the Air Force in 1926, becoming a test pilot and engineer.
Biography of Herbert Selpin (excerpt)
Herbert Selpin (29 May 1904 – 1 August 1942) was a German film director, editor, and screenwriter known for light entertainment during the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Berlin, he worked in various fields before joining UFA studios, where he worked on Faust by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau.
Biography of Josette Andriot (excerpt)
Camille Élisa Andriot, known as Josette Andriot (23 August 1886 – 13 May 1942), was a French actress from the silent film era of the 1910s. Without theatrical training, she began her career in 1909 at Laboratoires Éclair, standing out as an actress thanks to her athletic skills (swimming, cycling, horse riding).
Biography of Christina Broom (excerpt)
Christina Broom, born on December 28, 1862, in London and passed away on June 5, 1939, in Margate, was a Scottish photographer, recognized as the UK’s first female photojournalist. After the failure of her family business in 1903, she taught herself photography and started selling postcard prints near Buckingham Palace.
Biography of Jacques de Bernonville (excerpt)
Count Jacques Charles Noel Dugé de Bernonville (December 20, 1897 – April 26, 1972) was a French collaborationist and senior officer in the Vichy regime's Milice. He tracked down and executed Resistance fighters and participated in deporting French Jews to Drancy and extermination camps.
Biography of Caesar Rudolf Boettger (excerpt)
Caesar Rudolf Boettger (20 May 1888 – 8 September 1976) was a German zoologist from Frankfurt am Main, specializing in malacology. He earned his PhD from the University of Bonn in 1912 and conducted expeditions in Africa and the Orient. During WWI, he served in France and Turkey.
Biography of Hedda Andersson (excerpt)
Hedda Albertina Andersson (April 24, 1861 – September 7, 1950) was a Swedish physician and the second female student at Lund University, as well as the second woman in Sweden to become a university-educated physician. Born into a family of traditional folk healers, she was encouraged by her mother and grandmother to pursue formal medical education to avoid accusations of quackery.
Biography of Hugo Fischer (politician) (excerpt)
Hugo Fischer (born January 17, 1902, in Munich, died July 11, 1979, in Holzkirchen) was a German politician and chief of staff of the NSDAP Reich Propaganda Directorate. Fischer joined the NSDAP in 1922 and participated in Hitler's 1923 coup, receiving the Golden Party Badge and the Blood Order.
Biography of Elfriede Kaiser-Nebgen (excerpt)
Elfriede Kaiser-Nebgen (11 April 1890 – 22 October 1983) was a German social scientist and labor activist involved in Christian trade unions (CTU) and similar organizations. She took part in the German resistance to Nazism before and during World War II.
Biography of Boy Capel (excerpt)
Arthur Edward Capel CBE (20 December 1881 – 22 December 1919), known as Boy Capel, was an English polo player best remembered as Coco Chanel’s lover and patron. Born into a British family with roots in England, Ireland, and France, he became a wealthy shipping merchant and prominent figure of high society by 1909.
Biography of Frans Masereel (excerpt)
Frans Masereel, born on July 30, 1889, in Blankenberge (province of West Flanders, Belgium) and died on January 3, 1972, in Avignon (France), was a Belgian engraver, painter, and illustrator. He primarily worked in Switzerland, Germany, and France. An engaged artist, humanist, libertarian, and pacifist antimilitarist, deeply affected by the bloody turmoil of World War I, his works uncompromisingly denounce the horrors of war, oppression, and social injustice.
Biography of Marian Januszajtis-Zegota (excerpt)
Marian Józef Żegota-Januszajtis (3 April 1889, Częstochowa, Piotrków Governorate - 24 March 1973, Royal Tunbridge Wells) was a Polish military commander and politician. One of the founders of Polish paramilitary pro-independence organizations in Austrian partition, and last commander of the 1st Brigade of Polish Legions.
Biography of Willy Rosen (excerpt)
Willy Rosen (18 July 1894 – 1 October 1944) was a German-Jewish composer, songwriter, and renowned cabaret player. Rosen was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp on 1 October 1944. Rosen was born Willy Julius Rosenbaum in Magdeburg, Germany. In 1942, Rosen was incarcerated in the Westerbork transit camp, and in 1944 deported to Theresienstadt on 4 September 1944 and then on to the Auschwitz concentration camp on 29 September, where he was murdered.
Biography of Guy La Chambre (excerpt)
Guy La Chambre, born on June 5, 1898, in Paris and died on May 25, 1975, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French politician. A lawyer by profession, he served as a minister before and after the war, and as a deputy of Ille-et-Vilaine from 1928 to 1942, and again from 1951 to 1958.
Biography of Winifred Cullis (excerpt)
Winifred Cullis (June 2, 1875 - November 13, 1956) was a British physiologist and the first woman to hold a chair at a medical school in the UK. Born in Gloucester, she studied at Cambridge and earned a doctorate in science from the University of London in 1908.
Biography of Leopoldo Méndez (excerpt)
Leopoldo Méndez (June 30, 1902 – February 8, 1969) was one of Mexico's most important graphic artists and one of that country's most important artists from the 20th century. Méndez's work mostly focused on engraving for illustrations and other print work generally connected to his political and social activism.
Biography of Alfons Sack (excerpt)
Alfons Gustav Sack (August 7, 1887 – March 31, 1945) was a German lawyer known for defending far-right figures during the Weimar Republic and Nazi officials later on. In the 1920s, Sack defended nationalist activists accused of political violence, including in the trial of Walther Rathenau's assassins.
Biography of Henri van Booven (excerpt)
Hendrik Cornelis Alexander (Henri) van Booven (7 July 1877 in Haarlem – 31 January 1964 in The Hague) was a Dutch writer and journalist. His most successful work was the novel Tropenwee (Tropical agony, 1904), a thinly veiled autobiographical literary report of a mission to Congo in 1898, somewhat similar to Heart of Darkness.
Biography of Mary Roberts Rinehart (excerpt)
Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 – September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie. Rinehart published her first mystery novel, The Circular Staircase, in 1908, which introduced the "had I but known" narrative style. Rinehart is also considered the earliest known source of the phrase "the butler did it", in her novel The Door (1930), although the exact phrase does not appear in her work and the plot device had been used prior to that time.
Biography of Ruth Etting (excerpt)
Ruth Etting (November 23, 1896 – September 24, 1978) was an American singer and actress from the 1920s and 1930s, known as "America's sweetheart of song." She recorded over 60 hits, including Shine On, Harvest Moon, Ten Cents a Dance, and Love Me or Leave Me.
Biography of Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann (excerpt)
Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann (October 18, 1876 – July 17, 1943) was a German modernist painter and the wife of painter Hans Purrmann. Born into a prominent family of scholars and entrepreneurs, she received a broad education in arts and languages. After studying painting in Berlin and Paris, she exhibited successfully at renowned salons like the Salon d’Automne and Salon des Indépendants.
Biography of Gipsy Smith (excerpt)
Rodney "Gipsy" Smith MBE (31 March 1860 – 4 August 1947) was a British evangelist who conducted evangelistic campaigns in the United States and Great Britain for over 70 years. He was an early member of The Salvation Army and a contemporary of Fanny Crosby and acquaintance of G.
Biography of Fritz Rumpf (excerpt)
Fritz Rumpf, born on February 16, 1856, in Frankfurt am Main and passed away on July 23, 1927, in Potsdam, was a German painter known for his landscapes and architectural works, favoring Baroque and Rococo styles. From an intellectual family, he studied at the Städel School in Frankfurt, the Kassel Kunsthochschule, and the Berlin University of the Arts.
Biography of Rose Grane (excerpt)
Rose Cremer, known as Rose Grane, was a French theater and silent film actress. She was born on January 14, 1889, in Liancourt, Oise, and passed away on July 2, 1931, at the age of 42 in Tlemcen, Algeria. The daughter of Louis Victor Crémer, a shoemaker, and Marie-Louise Cosmann, a housewife, Rose Crémer was born on Roger-Duplessis Street in Liancourt on January 14, 1889.
Biography of María Domínguez Remón (excerpt)
María Domínguez Remón (1 April 1882 – 7 September 1936) was a Spanish journalist, poet, and republican socialist politician. In 1932, she was the first democratic mayor of the Second Spanish Republic in the town of Gallur, Zaragoza. She was shot by Francoists at the beginning of the Civil War.
Biography of Juan Negrín (excerpt)
Juan Negrín López (3 February 1892 – 12 November 1956) was a Spanish physician and politician who served as prime minister of the Second Spanish Republic.He was a leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Spanish: Partido Socialista Obrero Español, PSOE) and of the left-leaning Popular Front government during the Spanish Civil War.
Biography of Hans Posse (excerpt)
Hans Posse (6 February 1879 – 7 December 1942) was a German art historian and museum curator, best known for his role in assembling Hitler's art collection for the Führermuseum in Linz. He studied art history at the University of Vienna under Franz Wickhoff after initial studies in history and philology at Marburg.
Biography of Johnston McCulley (excerpt)
John William Johnston McCulley (February 2, 1883 – November 23, 1958) was an American writer of hundreds of stories, fifty novels and numerous screenplays for film and television, and the creator of the character Zorro. Born in Ottawa, Illinois, and raised in Chillicothe, Illinois, McCulley graduated from Chillicothe Township High School in 1901.
Biography of Bruno Balz (excerpt)
Bruno Balz (6 October 1902 in Berlin – 14 March 1988 in Bad Wiessee) was a German songwriter and schlager lyricist. From writing for the first German sound film until his retirement in the 1960s, Balz penned the lyrics to over a thousand popular hits, many in collaboration with composer Michael Jary.
Biography of Amalia Guglielminetti (excerpt)
Amalia Guglielminetti (5 April 1881 – 4 December 1941) was an Italian poet and writer born in Turin.After her father’s death in 1886, her family moved in with her grandfather, who enrolled her in a religious school. She began her literary career in 1901 with Gazzetta del Popolo and published her first poetry collection, Voci di Giovinezza, in 1903. |
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