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Biography of Paul Doumer (excerpt)
Paul Doumer (March 22, 1857 – May 7, 1932) was the President of France from June 13, 1931 until his assassination. Born in Aurillac, in the Cantal département, in France. He was Governor-General of French Indochina from 1897 to 1902. After returning from French Indochina, Doumer served as President of the Chamber of Deputies (a post equivalent to the speaker of parliament) from 1902 to 1905. ![]()
Biography of Marc Bloch (excerpt)
Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch (July 6, 1886 (birth time source: Gauquelin) – June 16, 1944) was a French historian of medieval France in the period between the First and Second World Wars, and a founder of the Annales School. Bloch was shot by the Gestapo during the German occupation of France for his work in the French Resistance.
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Biography of E.E. Smith (excerpt)
E.E.Smith, also Edward Elmer Smith, Ph.D., E.E."Doc" Smith, Doc Smith, "Skylark" Smith, and (to family) Ted (May 2, 1890 - August 31, 1965) was a food engineer (specializing in doughnut and pastry mixes) and early science fiction author who wrote the Lensman series and the Skylark series, among others.
Biography of Roger Chapelain-Midy (excerpt)
Roger Chapelain-Midy, born August 24, 1904 in Paris, died April 1, 1992 in Paris, was a French painter.
Biography of Pierre Alcover (excerpt)
Pierre Alcover (14 March 1893 – 14 November 1957) was a French film actor. He starred in 40 films between 1918 and 1943. In 1920 he starred in the film Champi-Tortu. One of his most notable performances was in Marcel L'Herbier's 1928 film L'Argent, as the corrupt banker Saccard.
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Biography of Herbert Marcuse (excerpt)
Herbert Marcuse (July 19, 1898, Berlin, Germany – July 29, 1979) was a German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. Celebrated as the "Father of the New Left," his best known works are Eros and Civilization, One-Dimensional Man and The Aesthetic Dimension. ![]()
Biography of Victor Grignard (excerpt)
François Auguste Victor Grignard (May 6, 1871 in Cherbourg (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - December 13, 1935 in Lyon) was a Nobel Prize-winning French chemist. Grignard was the son of a sail maker.After studying mathematics at Lyon he transferred to chemistry, becoming a professor at the University of Nancy in 1910. ![]()
Biography of Konstantin von Neurath (excerpt)
Konstantin Freiherr von Neurath (2 February 1873 – 14 August 1956) was a German diplomat, Foreign Minister of Germany (1932-1938) and Reichsprotektor (Governor) of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (1939-1941).Neurath remained titular Protector until 1943. Early life He was born in Vaihingen an der Enz, Kingdom of Württemberg, the son of minor Swabian nobility.
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Biography of Henri Jeanson (excerpt)
Henri Jeanson, (b.6 March 1900, Paris - d.6 November 1970, Équemauville) was a French writer and journalist.He was a "satrap" in the "College of Pataphysics". As a journalist before World War II Jeanson was born on the 6th of March in Paris.His father was a teacher.
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Biography of Edmond Sée (excerpt)
Edmond Sée, born on March 21, 1875 in Bayonne (birth time source: Lescaut), died in 1959, was a French journalist, playwright, and author.
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Biography of James Finlayson (excerpt)
James Henderson "Jimmy" Finlayson (August 27, 1887 – October 9, 1953) was a Scottish-American actor who worked in both silent and sound comedies. Bald, with a fake moustache, Finlayson had many trademark comic mannerisms and is famous for his squinting, outraged, "double take and fade away" head reaction, and characteristic expression "d'ooooooh." ![]()
Biography of Lucien Gaudin (excerpt)
Lucien Gaudin (September 27, 1886, Arras, France – September 23, 1934) was a French fencer and olympic champion both in foil and in épée competition. He received gold medals in both foil individual and in épée individual at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.
Biography of Marcel Prélot (excerpt)
Marcel Prélot, born October 30, 1898 in Janville ((Eure-et-Loir), died December 26, 1972 in Puget (Var), was a French politician, member of UDR (Union démocratique pour la Ve République).
Biography of Hedwig Reicher-Kindermann (excerpt)
Hedwig Reicher-Kindermann, born in Trieste, July 15, 1853 and died in 1883, was a German soprano opera singer, the daugther of German singer A. Kindermann. ![]()
Biography of Auguste Vaillant (excerpt)
Auguste Vaillant (December 27 1861 in Mézières, France (in Ardennes, not sur Seine) - February 3, 1894) was a French anarchist, most famous for his bomb attack on the French Chamber of Deputies in 1893. The government's reaction to this attack was the passing of the infamous repressive Lois scélérates.
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Biography of Bernard Grasset (editor) (excerpt)
Bernard Félix Joseph Grasset, born on March 6, 1881 in Chambéry (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on October 20, 1955 in Paris, was a French famous editor. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Gabriel Domergue (excerpt)
Jean-Gabriel Domergue, born March 4, 1889 in Bordeaux, died in 1962, was a French painter. ![]()
Biography of Paul Nizan (excerpt)
Paul Nizan (February 7, 1905 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – May 23, 1940, age 35) was a French philosopher and writer. He was born in Tours and studied in Paris where he befriended fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre at the Lycée Henri IV. ![]()
Biography of Ethel Barrymore (excerpt)
Ethel Barrymore (August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959) was an Academy Award-winning American actress and a member of the famous Barrymore family. Early life Ethel Barrymore was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second child of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew.
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Biography of Jakob Wassermann (excerpt)
Jakob Wassermann (March 10, 1873 - January 1, 1934) was a Jewish-German writer and novelist. Life Born in Fürth, Wassermann was the son of a shopkeeper and lost his mother at an early age.He showed literary interest early and published various pieces in small newspapers. ![]()
Biography of Hilaire Belloc (excerpt)
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (27 July 1870 – 16 July 1953) was a French-born writer who became a naturalised British subject in 1902.He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. Recent biographies of Belloc have been written by A.
Biography of André Berley (excerpt)
André Berley, born André Edmond Obrecht January 13, 1890 in Paris and died November 26, 1936 in Paris at 4:00 pm, was a French actor. Filmography (extract) # The House Across the Street (1937) .... Renaudeau ... aka "La maison d'en face" - France (original title) ![]()
Biography of Theodore Dreiser (excerpt)
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist.He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. ![]()
Biography of Jacques de Bollardière (excerpt)
Jacques Pâris de Bollardière (16 December 1907, Châteaubriant, Loire-Atlantique (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 130) – 22 February 1986) was a French Army general, famous for his non-violent positions during the 1960s. Biography Early life Bollardière studied at the Military Academy of Saint-Cyr; he graduated in 1930 with the rank of sergeant, for insubordination (Saint-Cyr cadets normally graduate as commissioned officers, with the rank of sous-lieutenant). ![]()
Biography of Robinson Jeffers (excerpt)
John Robinson Jeffers (January 10, 1887–January 20, 1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Most of Jeffers' poetry was written in classic narrative and epic form, but today he is also known for his short verse, and considered an icon of the environmental movement. ![]()
Biography of Kurt Gerstein (excerpt)
Kurt Gerstein (August 11, 1905 – July 25, 1945) was a German SS officer and member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS.He witnessed mass murders in the Nazi extermination camps Belzec and Treblinka.He contacted the Swedish diplomat Göran von Otter as well as members of the Catholic Church with contacts to Pope Pius XII in order to inform the international public about the Holocaust.
Biography of Margaret Hone (excerpt)
Margaret Ethelwyn Hone (2 October 1892 – 14 October 1969) was an influential mid–20th century astrologer and astrological author.She was also known as "Peg Hone". She was born at Studley, Warwickshire, England. Margaret Hone's best known book was "The Modern Text Book of Astrology" which was adopted as the official text-book for the F.A.S.
Biography of Rudolf Bing (excerpt)
Sir Rudolf Bing (January 9, 1902 – September 2, 1997) was an Austrian-born opera impresario.Bing was General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York from 1950 to 1972.He was knighted in 1971. Career Born Rudolph Franz Joseph Bing in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire to a well-to-do Jewish family (his father was an industrialist) Bing studied at the University of Vienna and as a young man worked in theatrical and concert agencies. ![]()
Biography of Rafael Alberti (excerpt)
Rafael Alberti Merello (Cádiz, December 16, 1902 - October 28, 1999) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27.Alberti published his first books of poetry towards the end of the 1920s: Marinero en tierra ('Sailor on Dry Land', 1925), La Amante ('The Mistress', 1926) and El alba del alhelí ('The Dawn of the Wallflower', 1927). ![]()
Biography of Barnes Wallis (excerpt)
Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, CBE FRS, RDI, FRAeS (26 September 1887 – 30 October 1979), was an English scientist, engineer and inventor.He is best known for inventing the bouncing bomb used by the RAF in Operation Chastise (the "Dambusters" raid) to attack the Möhne, Sorpe, and Eder dams in the Ruhr area in May 1943, during World War II. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Brossolette (excerpt)
Pierre Brossolette (June 25, 1903 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - March 22, 1944) was a French socialist, journalist and member of French Resistance. Pierre Brossolette was born in Paris, France.He graduated from l'École Normale Supérieure in 1925 and joined the Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière in 1929. ![]()
Biography of Georges Migot (excerpt)
Georges Migot, born February 27, 1891 in Paris, died January 5, 1976 in Levallois-Perret (Hauts de Seine), was a French composer, writer and painter. Bibliography (extract) Léon Vallas : Georges Migot (Paris, 1923), Pierre Wolff : La route d'un musicien : Georges Migot (Paris, 1933 - Georges Migot, étude générale (Paris, Leduc 1933), ![]()
Biography of Wanda Capodaglio (excerpt)
Wanda Capodaglio, born January 1, 1889 in Asti and died August 29, 1980 in Castelfranco di Sopra, was an Italian actress. Filmography (extract) * Piccolo hotel , di Piero Ballerini (1939) * Avanti c'è posto , di Mario Bonnard (1942) ![]()
Biography of Legs Diamond (excerpt)
Jack "Legs" Diamond (born Jack Nolan; July 10, 1897 - December 18, 1931), also known as Gentleman Jack, was a famous Irish-American gangster in Philadelphia and New York City during the Prohibition era. A bootlegger and close associate of gambler Arnold Rothstein, Diamond survived a number of attempts on his life between 1916 and 1931, causing him to be known as the "clay pigeon of the underworld." In 1930, Diamond's nemesis Dutch Schultz remarked to his own gang, "Ain't there nobody that can shoot this guy so he don't bounce back." ![]()
Biography of John Martin-Harvey (excerpt)
John Martin Harvey (22 June 1863 – 14 May 1944), known after his knighthood in 1921 as Sir John Martin-Harvey, was a romantic actor of the English theatre. Born at Bath Street, Wivenhoe in the English county of Essex, he was the son of John Harvey, a yacht-designer and shipbuilder, and Margaret Diana Mary Goyder. ![]()
Biography of Alexei Kosygin (excerpt)
Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Косы́гин, Aleksej Nikolajevič Kosygin; French: Alexis Nikolaievitch Kossyguine) (February 20 (March 4, Gregorian calendar) 1904 – December 18, 1980) was a Soviet politician and administrator. Serving as Premier of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1980, he was considered a reformer in the Soviet leadership and the main rival to hardline Communist Party leader Leonid Brezhnev. ![]()
Biography of René Maran (excerpt)
René Maran (declared on 22 November 1887 - 9 May 1960) was a French Guyanese poet and novelist, and the first black writer to win the French Prix Goncourt (in 1921).He was born rue Blondel, Fort-de-France, at home, on November 5, 1887 at 10:30 a.m. ![]()
Biography of John Mills (excerpt)
Sir John Mills (born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills; 22 February 1908 – 23 April 2005) was an English actor, who made more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades. Life and career Mills was born at the Watts Naval School in North Elmham, Norfolk, England, and grew up in Felixstowe, Suffolk. ![]()
Biography of Giovanni Segantini (excerpt)
Giovanni Segantini (January 15, 1858 - September 28, 1899) was an Italian painter. He was born at Arco in Trentino. His mother, who died in 1863, came from an old mountain family.His father, a commoner, left for Milan, to seek his fortune with another son, leaving Segantini behind. ![]()
Biography of Karl Valentin (excerpt)
Karl Valentin (born Valentin Ludwig Fey, 4 June 1882, Munich - 9 February 1948, Planegg, Germany) was a Bavarian comedian, cabaret performer, clown, author and film producer who had significant influence on German Weimar culture. Valentin, as a star of many silent films in the 1920s, was sometimes called the "Charlie Chaplin of Germany". ![]()
Biography of Ogden Nash (excerpt)
Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet best known for writing pithy and funny light verse. At the time of his death in 1971, the New York Times said his "droll verse with its unconventional rhymes made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry".
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Biography of Jack Oakie (excerpt)
Jack Oakie (Born Lewis Delaney Offield on November 12, 1903 – January 23, 1978) was an American actor, starring mostly in films, but also working on stage, radio and television. Early life Oakie was born as Lewis Delaney Offield in Sedalia, Missouri. ![]()
Biography of Hans Rosbaud (excerpt)
Hans Rosbaud (July 22, 1895, Graz, Austria – December 29, 1962, Lugano, Switzerland) was an Austrian conductor, particularly associated with the music of the twentieth century. As children, Hans and his brother Paul Rosbaud performed with their mother, who taught piano. Hans continued studying music at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main, under the tutelage of Bernhard Sekles in composition and Alfred Hoehn in piano. ![]()
Biography of Fuad I of Egypt (excerpt)
Fuad I, born Ahmed Fuad, (Arabic: فؤاد الأول Fu'ād al-Awwal), (March 26, 1868 - April 28, 1936), was the Sultan and later King of Egypt and Sudan, Sovereign of Nubia, Kordofan, and Darfur.The ninth ruler of Egypt and Sudan from the Muhammad Ali dynasty, he became Sultan of Egypt and Sudan in 1917, succeeding his elder brother Sultan Husayn Kamil.
Biography of Denise Zola (excerpt)
Denise Zola, born Septembre 20, 1889 in Paris, is the daugther of French writer Emile Zola and Jeanne Rozerot. ![]()
Biography of Jerome Kern (excerpt)
Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of popular music.He wrote around 700 songs, including such classics as Ol' Man River, A Fine Romance, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, All the Things You Are and The Way You Look Tonight. ![]()
Biography of André-Gaston Prételat (excerpt)
André-Gaston Prételat (14 November 1874, Wassy, Champagne, France – 6 December 1969, Paris, France) was a general in the French Army. Military career 1910-1918 His first post, from 1910 to 1912, was as military attaché to Tangier.During the First World War he was the chief of staff of 70th Division (1915) and then of XXIII Corps (1916), before becoming the commanding officer of the 159th Regiment and Deputy Chief of Staff to Gouraud's French Fourth Army (1917), and finally Chief of Staff of the Fourth Army.
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Biography of Henry Bowers (excerpt)
Lieutenant Henry Robertson (Birdie) Bowers (July 29, 1883 - March 29, 1912) was one of Robert Falcon Scott's polar party on the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913) who all died during their return from the South Pole. Early life Bowers was born on 29 July 1883 in Greenock, of Scottish descent, and was raised alone by his mother after his father died in Rangoon when he was three years old. ![]()
Biography of Marcel Jouhandeau (excerpt)
Marcel Jouhandeau (born in Guéret, July 26, 1888 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - died in Rueil-Malmaison, April 7, 1979) was a French writer. Marcel Jouhandeau grew up in a world of women presided over by his grandmother.Under the influence of a young woman from the Carmel of Limoges, he embraced a mystical form of Catholicism and for a time thought to enter the orders.
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Biography of Evelyn Laye (excerpt)
Evelyn Laye (10 July 1900 – 17 February 1996) was an English theatre actress. Born Elsie Evelyn Lay in Bloomsbury, London, England, Laye made her first stage appearance in August 1915 at the Theatre Royal, Brighton as Nang-Ping in Mr. Wu, and her first London appearance at the East Ham Palace on 24 April, 1916, in the revue Honi Soit, in which she subsequently toured. |
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