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Biography of Robert Boudrioz (excerpt)
Robert Boudrioz, born on February 12, 1887, in Versailles and who died on June 22, 1949, in Paris, was a French film director, screenwriter, journalist, storyteller, and songwriter. His full name was Robert Pierre Frédéric Boudriot. In 1918, he married Camille Vayssières in Bergerac. ![]()
Biography of John Collier (fiction writer) (excerpt)
John Henry Noyes Collier (born 3 May 1901 in London, died 6 April 1980) was a British writer and screenwriter, best known for his short stories, many published in The New Yorker from the 1930s to the 1950s.His acclaimed collection Fancies and Goodnights won the International Fantasy Award and remains in print.
Biography of Günther Stapenhorst (excerpt)
Günther Gustav von Stapenhorst (June 25, 1883 – February 2, 1976) was a German naval officer turned film producer. After serving in the Imperial Navy and working in export, he entered the film industry in 1924 and joined UFA in 1928, overseeing productions like Emil and the Detectives.
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Biography of August Wilhelm Dieffenbacher (excerpt)
August Wilhelm Dieffenbacher (August 14, 1858 – December 14, 1940) was a German painter and illustrator.He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Ludwig von Löfftz and Wilhelm von Lindenschmit the Younger. He debuted in 1888 with Verfolgt at the Academy’s jubilee exhibition.
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Biography of Henricus Cornelius Rümke (excerpt)
Henricus Cornelius Rümke, born January 16, 1893, in Leiden and died May 22, 1967, in Zurich, was a Dutch psychiatrist, author, and professor, influential in shaping psychiatry in the Netherlands. He studied medicine in Amsterdam and trained at the Valeriuskliniek, where he met his wife, Nelly Bakker.
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Biography of Philipp Harth (excerpt)
Philipp Harth (born 9 July 1885 in Mainz – died 25 December 1968 in Bayrischzell) was a German sculptor best known for his animal figures in wood, stone, and bronze. Originally trained as a lithographer and sculptor, he lived in Munich, Paris, Berlin, and Rome, and taught at the progressive Odenwald School.
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Biography of Hans Brass (excerpt)
Hans Brass (9 July 1885 – 30 May 1959) was a German Expressionist painter and graphic artist. The son of a Prussian officer, he left the Hauptkadettenanstalt to pursue art, studying briefly in Magdeburg and at Munich’s Debschitz School. He worked as a graphic artist in Berlin and married Clara Krause in 1908.
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Biography of Albert Brasseur (excerpt)
Jules Dumont, known as Albert Brasseur (February 12, 1860 – May 13, 1932), was a French actor, opera singer, and theatre director.The son of the famous comedian Jules Brasseur, he was initially destined for a military career before a chance event led him to the stage, where he debuted at 17 in La Fleur d’Oranger.
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Biography of Caspar Ritter (excerpt)
Caspar Ritter (7 February 1861, Esslingen am Neckar - 18 July 1923, Ermatingen) was a Swiss painter best known for portraits of women, but he also created genre scenes and nudes. Born into a large family, he grew up in Winterthur with his grandfather, where he completed his secondary education.
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Biography of Maria Gomes Valentim (excerpt)
Maria Gomes Valentim (July 9, 1896 – June 21, 2011) was the world’s oldest living person from November 4, 2010 until her death. Born and deceased in Carangola, Minas Gerais, Brazil, she lived there all her life. She was officially recognized by Guinness World Records in May 2011, after proof showed she was older than her American predecessors, themselves successors to Eugénie Blanchard.
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Biography of Kate Barnard (excerpt)
Catherine Ann “Kate” Barnard (May 23, 1875 – February 23, 1930) was the first woman elected to a state office in Oklahoma and the eleventh woman in the United States to hold statewide public office. Elected in 1907, she served as Oklahoma’s first Commissioner of Charities and Corrections for two four-year terms, the only position the 1907 state constitution allowed women to hold.
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Biography of Karel de Nerée tot Babberich (excerpt)
Christophe Karel Henri de Nerée tot Babberich, born on 18 March 1880 in Zevenaar and died on 19 October 1909 in Todtmoos, was a Dutch symbolist artist and author influenced by Beardsley, Toorop, and the decadent movement. Born into an aristocratic family, he began drawing and writing in 1898, inspired by Baudelaire, Verlaine, and d'Annunzio.
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Biography of Frans de Nerée tot Babberich (excerpt)
Frans Joseph Marie de Nerée tot Babberich, born on 13 February 1882 in Zevenaar and died on 5 June 1929 in The Hague, was a Dutch painter, draftsman, and sculptor. He sometimes used the pseudonym Larec Eeren, an anagram of his brother Carel's name.
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Biography of Lili Grenier (excerpt)
Lili Grenier, sometimes Lilly or Lily Grenier, born Noémi Amélie Sans on October 9, 1863, and deceased on September 10, 1936, was a model and muse for late nineteenth-century artists.At sixteen, she posed for Princess Mathilde Bonaparte, herself an artist, before joining Fernand Cormon’s studio in Montmartre.
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Biography of Walter Conz (excerpt)
Walter Conz (27 July 1872, Stuttgart - 13 May 1947, Überlingen) was a German painter and etcher, and a professor at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts. He studied in Stuttgart and then in Karlsruhe under Ernst Schurth, Caspar Ritter, Gustav Schönleber, and Leopold von Kalckreuth, also attending their master classes.
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Biography of Otto Güntter (excerpt)
Otto Güntter (born 30 October 1858, died 30 March 1949) was a German philologist and the long-serving director of the Schiller National Museum in Marbach. Influenced by Friedrich Theodor Vischer, he studied philosophy and modern philology in Tübingen, later continuing his education in France and England.
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Biography of Nicolás Guillén (excerpt)
Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista, born July 10, 1902, in Camagüey and died July 16, 1989, in Havana, was a Cuban poet, journalist, and politician, widely regarded as Cuba’s national poet. His revolutionary ideals led to exile under Batista before returning in 1959.
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Biography of Bruno Finzi (excerpt)
Bruno Finzi, born on 12 February 1899 in Gardone Val Trompia and died on 10 September 1974 in Milan, was an Italian mathematician, engineer, and physicist. After earning a Laurea in engineering in 1920 and another in mathematics in 1921 from the University of Pavia, he became the assistant of Umberto Cisotti at the Polytechnic University of Milan in 1922.
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Biography of Hattie Caraway (excerpt)
Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway, born February 1, 1878, and died December 21, 1950, was an American politician who served as U.S.Senator from Arkansas from 1931 to 1945.She was a groundbreaking figure in American politics. Caraway was the first woman elected to the Senate, the first to serve a full term, and the first to be reelected.
Biography of Rudolf Dittler (excerpt)
Rudolf Dittler (November 2, 1881 – January 21, 1959) was a German physiologist and university professor.He studied medicine in Freiburg, Munich, Berlin, and Leipzig, earning his doctorate in 1907 and his habilitation in 1909, becoming associate professor in 1915. During World War I, he served as chief physician and commander of a medical company, receiving both classes of the Iron Cross.
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Biography of Günther Weisenborn (excerpt)
German writer and anti-Nazi resistance fighter, Günther Weisenborn (10 July 1902 – 26 March 1969) was known for his politically engaged literary work and opposition to the Nazi regime. He collaborated with Bertolt Brecht, Slatan Dudow, and Hanns Eisler on the play The Mother, adapted from Gorky.
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Biography of José Storie (excerpt)
José Storie (born 2 April 1899 in Bruges – died 29 July 1961) was a Belgian painter best known for his portraits. Educated in Bruges, Brussels, and Paris, he received a thorough artistic training, though it was disrupted by World War I.
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Biography of Enrico Avanzi (excerpt)
Enrico Avanzi, born on January 19, 1888, in Soiano del Lago and died on March 17, 1974, in Pisa, was an Italian geneticist and agronomist.After graduating with honors in agricultural sciences at the University of Pisa, he obtained his libera docenza in agronomy in 1917 and taught there until 1928.
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Biography of Wander de Haas (excerpt)
Wander Johannes de Haas (March 2, 1878 – April 26, 1960) was a Dutch physicist and mathematician. He is best known for his groundbreaking contributions to physics, including the Shubnikov–de Haas effect, the de Haas–van Alphen effect, and the Einstein–de Haas effect.
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Biography of Ernestina de Champourcín (excerpt)
Ernestina de Champourcín (born 10 July 1905 in Vitoria-Gasteiz, died 27 March 1999 in Madrid) was a Spanish poet linked to the Generation of ’27. Born into an aristocratic family, she received a refined education and developed a passion for poetry and languages early on.
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Biography of Giovanni Agamennone (excerpt)
Giovanni Agamennone, born June 25, 1858 in Rieti and died October 3, 1949 in Rome, was an Italian geologist and seismologist.He earned his physics degree from the University of Rome in 1884. He worked at the geodynamic observatory in Ischia and later at the Central Office of Meteorology and Geophysics in Rome.
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Biography of Gianfranco Giachetti (excerpt)
Gianfranco Giachetti, born in Florence on September 17, 1888, and deceased in Rome on November 29, 1936, was an Italian stage and film actor. Raised artistically in Venice, he began his career in amateur companies before joining Ferruccio Benini’s troupe in 1914 and later Giovan Battista Bosio’s company after World War I, where he excelled in Goldoni’s plays.
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Biography of Willem Keesom (excerpt)
Willem Hendrik Keesom (June 21, 1876 – March 3, 1956) was a Dutch physicist born on Texel.A student of Nobel Prize laureate Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, he devoted his work to the study of helium and molecular interactions. In 1921, he developed the first mathematical description of dipole–dipole interactions, later known as Keesom interactions.
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Biography of Gilda de Abreu (excerpt)
Gilda de Abreu (September 23, 1904 – June 4, 1979) was a Brazilian actress, singer, writer, and film director. Born into a wealthy family, she first built a career on stage, performing in operettas and musicals, before gaining recognition in 1936 with the romantic comedy Bonequinha de Seda, which opened the door to cinema.
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Biography of Mario Maratelli (excerpt)
Mario Maratelli, born on November 20, 1879, in Vercelli and died on April 20, 1955, in San Germano Vercellese, was an Italian agronomist. He is best remembered for discovering and selecting the rice variety that bears his name, which became a landmark in Italian rice cultivation.
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Biography of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (excerpt)
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (21 September 1853 – 21 February 1926) was a Dutch experimental physicist, best known as the first to liquefy helium in 1908, reaching the record temperature of 1.5 kelvin.His groundbreaking work earned him the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Biography of Ernst Bresslau (excerpt)
Ernst Ludwig Bresslau, born on 10 July 1877 in Berlin and died on 9 May 1935 in São Paulo, was a German zoologist. The son of historian Harry Bresslau, he grew up in Strasbourg from 1890, where he studied medicine and natural sciences at the university, earning his PhD in 1902.
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Biography of Dirk Coster (excerpt)
Dirk Coster (5 October 1889 – 12 February 1950) was a Dutch physicist and professor of physics and meteorology at the University of Groningen.He is best known as the co-discoverer of hafnium (element 72) in 1923, alongside George de Hevesy, through X-ray spectroscopic analysis of zirconium ore.
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Biography of Eugène Bourgouin (excerpt)
Marie Joseph Eugène Bourgouin, born on February 12, 1880, in Reims and died on October 30, 1924, in Paris, was a French sculptor.He distinguished himself through a wide range of works, from statuary to religious and decorative objects. He first worked on the restoration of Reims Cathedral before entering the École nationale des arts décoratifs in 1901 and later the École des beaux-arts.
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Biography of William Strang (excerpt)
William Strang, born February 13, 1859 in Dumbarton, Scotland, and died April 12, 1921 in Bournemouth, England, was a Scottish painter and printmaker who also produced book illustrations. He was a member of several prestigious institutions, including the Royal Academy in London.
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Biography of Soledad Chacón (excerpt)
Soledad Chávez de Chacón, born on August 10, 1890 in Albuquerque and died on August 4, 1936, was the first woman elected Secretary of State of New Mexico and the first Hispanic woman elected to statewide office in the United States.
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Biography of Vicente Celestino (excerpt)
Antônio Vicente Filipe Celestino (September 12, 1894 – August 23, 1968) was a Brazilian singer, composer, and actor of Italian descent.Born in Rio de Janeiro to a modest Calabrian immigrant family, he was one of twelve children, several of whom also pursued artistic careers.
Biography of René Maupré (excerpt)
Charles René de Chauffour, known as René Maupré, born July 9, 1888 in the 9th arrondissement of Paris and died April 6, 1976 in Nice, was a French actor and comedian. He is best known for Theodora (1921) and the two films of the same title, The Ragpicker of Paris (1913) and (1924).
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Biography of Mariano Benlliure (excerpt)
Mariano Benlliure y Gil (8 September 1862 – 9 November 1947) was a Spanish sculptor and medallist, renowned for his public monuments and religious works in a heroic realist style.Born in Valencia, he began sculpting bullfighting scenes as a teenager and exhibited a wax model at the 1876 Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes.
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Biography of Léon Moussinac (excerpt)
Léon Moussinac, born January 19, 1890 in Migennes and died March 10, 1964 in Paris, was a French writer, journalist, historian, and film critic.The son of a stationmaster, he lost his father in 1907 and had to work while completing law studies.
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Biography of Édouard Belin (excerpt)
Édouard Belin, born on March 5, 1876, in Vesoul and deceased on March 4, 1963, in Territet, Switzerland, was a French photographer and inventor. In 1907 he created the Bélinographe, a device that allowed the transmission of photographs over telegraph networks and telephone lines.
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Biography of René Cresté (excerpt)
René Auguste Cresté, born on December 5, 1881 in Paris 19th and died on November 30, 1922 in Paris 20th, was a French actor of stage and silent film.First noticed as a romantic leading man on stage, he performed in Claudine à Paris by Colette, Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo and Adrienne Lecouvreur by Eugène Scribe.
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Biography of Milly (actress) (excerpt)
Milly, born Carla Mignone on February 26, 1905, and died September 22, 1980, was an Italian singer, actress, and cabaret performer. Her father abandoned the family in 1910, and she was raised by her mother.As a child, she performed with her brother, comedian Totò Mignone, and her sister Mity.
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Biography of Aníbal Milhais (excerpt)
Aníbal Augusto Milhais (July 9, 1895 – June 3, 1970), born and deceased in Valongo (Murça), is remembered as the most decorated Portuguese soldier of World War I. He became widely known by the nickname “Soldado Milhões” (Soldier Millions), a play on his name suggesting that he was “worth a million men” on the battlefield.
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Biography of Gerald Finzi (excerpt)
Gerald Raphael Finzi, born July 14, 1901 in London and died September 27, 1956 in Oxford, was an English composer whose music is deeply infused with poetic sensibility. Best known for his choral works, he also wrote orchestral and concert pieces, including Dies natalis and concertos for cello and clarinet.
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Biography of Vittorio Giovanni Rossi (excerpt)
Vittorio Giovanni Rossi, born January 8, 1898 in Santa Margherita Ligure and died January 4, 1978 in Rome, was an Italian journalist and writer. He is buried in the Santa Margherita Ligure cemetery, where a museum dedicated to him is located inside Villa Durazzo.
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Biography of Richard Koch (physician) (excerpt)
Richard Hermann Koch, born September 3, 1882, in Frankfurt am Main and died July 30, 1949, in Jessentuki in the Caucasus (USSR), was a German physician, internist, balneologist, historian, and theorist of medicine.Coming from a Jewish family, he studied medicine in Lausanne, Munich, Heidelberg, and Berlin, and earned his doctorate in Leipzig in 1909. |
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