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Biography of Edmond Diet (excerpt)
Edmond Diet, born September 25, 1855 in Paris and died in 1924, was a French musician and composer.
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Biography of Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (excerpt)
Henri Alexandre Deslandres (July 24, 1853 – January 15, 1948) was a French astronomer, director of the Meudon and Paris Observatories. Deslandres' undergraduate years at the École Polytechnique were played out against the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War and the chaos of the Paris Commune so, on graduation in 1874, he responded to the continuing military tension with the emerging Germany by embarking on a military career. ![]()
Biography of Kenneth Grahame (excerpt)
Kenneth Grahame (8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a British writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon, which was much later adapted into a Disney film.
Biography of Simone Beck (excerpt)
Simone "Simca" Beck (7 July 1904 in Normandy, France - 20 December 1991) was a French cookbook author and cooking teacher who, along with colleagues Julia Child and Louisette Bertholle, played a significant role in the introduction of French cooking technique and recipes into American kitchens.
Biography of Henri Guisol (excerpt)
Henri Guisol, born October 12, 1904 in Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), died May 1&, 1994 in Saint-Raphaël (Var), was a French actor and comedian. Filmography (extract) * 1931 : La Chienne de Jean Renoir * 1935 : Le Domino vert de Henri Decoin et Herbert Selpin ![]()
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Manitoba is a province of Canada at the longitudinal centre of the country. It is Canada's fifth-most populous province, with a population of 1,278,365 as of 2016. The easternmost of the three prairie provinces, Manitoba covers 649,950 square kilometres (250,900 sq mi) of widely varied landscape, from arctic tundra and the Hudson Bay coastline in the north to dense boreal forest, large freshwater lakes, and prairie grasslands in the central and southern regions.
Biography of Christine Hartley (excerpt)
Christine Hartley, born May 31, 1897 in London and died Decmeber 25, 1985, was a British businessman and magician, a member of the Fraternity of Inner Light. The Fraternity of the Inner Light was a magical society and Western Mystery School.
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Biography of Ermanno Roveri (excerpt)
Ermanno Roveri, born October 5, 1903 in Milano, died December 28, 1968 in Milano, was an Italian actor. Filmography (extract) "Promessi sposi, I" (1967) (mini) TV Series .... Fra' Fazio Avventure di topo Gigio, Le (1965) ... aka The Italian Mouse (UK) ... aka The Magic World of Topo Gigio (USA) ![]()
Biography of Jacques Maritain (excerpt)
Jacques Maritain (18 November 1882 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 28 April 1973) was a French Catholic philosopher. Raised as a Protestant, he converted to Catholicism in 1906. An author of more than 60 books, he is responsible for reviving St.
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Biography of Gérard Bauër (excerpt)
Gérard Bauër, born October 7, 1888 in Le Vésinet, died in 1967, was a French author, journalist and editorialist. He was member of Academie Goncourt. ![]()
Biography of Hans Adolf Krebs (excerpt)
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs (August 25, 1900–November 22, 1981) was a German, later British medical doctor and biochemist. Krebs is best known for his identification of two important metabolic cycles: the urea cycle and the citric acid cycle. The latter, the key sequence of metabolic chemical reactions that produces energy in cells, is also known as the Krebs cycle and earned him a Nobel Prize in 1953.
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Biography of Max von Schillings (excerpt)
Max von Schillings (April 19, 1868 – Berlin, July 24, 1933) was a German conductor, composer and theatre director. He was chief conductor at the Berlin State Opera from 1919 to 1925. Schilling's opera Mona Lisa (1915) was internationally successful and was even performed at the Metropolitan Opera. ![]()
Biography of Jules Bordet (excerpt)
Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet (Soignies (Belgium) 13 June 1870 – 6 April 1961) was a Belgian immunologist and microbiologist. The bacterial genus Bordetella is named for him. Ballin of Medicine at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium) and began his work at the Pasteur Institute in Paris in 1894, where, in the laboratory of Elie Metchnikoff, he described phagocytosis of bacteria by white blood cells. ![]()
Biography of Hideyo Noguchi (excerpt)
Hideyo Noguchi (野口 英世, Noguchi Hideyo., November 24, 1876 – May 21, 1928), also known as Seisaku Noguchi (野口清作, Noguchi Seisaku.), was a prominent Japanese bacteriologist who discovered the agent of syphilis in 1911. Early life Noguchi Hideyo was born in Inawashiro, Fukushima prefecture in 1876.
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Biography of Benjamin Rabier (excerpt)
Benjamin Rabier (December 30, 1864, La Roche-sur-Yon - 1939, Faverolles) is a French illustrator, comic book artist and animator. He became famous for creating La vache qui rit, and is one of the precursors of animal comics. His work has inspired many other artists, notably Hergé and Edmond-François Calvo.
Biography of William McEwan Younger (excerpt)
William McEwan Younger, born September 6, 1905 in Melrose, is a Scottish entrepreneur and businessman, the Chairman of Scottish and Newcastle Breweries Lts. ![]()
Biography of Richard Rodgers (excerpt)
Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. ![]()
Biography of Wilhelm Frick (excerpt)
Wilhelm Frick (12 March 1877 – 16 October 1946) was a prominent Nazi official, serving as Minister of the Interior of the Third Reich. After the end of World War II, he was executed for war crimes. Early life and family Frick was born in Königsberg, Bavaria, Germany, the last of four children of teacher Wilhelm Frick the elder and his wife Henriette (née Schmidt). ![]()
Biography of Saint-Pol-Roux (excerpt)
Paul-Pierre Roux, best known as Saint-Pol-Roux, born January 15, 1861 in Marseille, died October 18, 1940 in Brest, was a French symbolist poet. Works (extract) Sous le nom de Paul Roux Maman!, Ollendorff, 1883 Garçon d'honneur, Ollendorff, 1883 Le Poète, Ghio, 1883 ![]()
Biography of Frank Lloyd (excerpt)
Frank Lloyd (23 September 1886, Glasgow, UK - 10 August 1960, Santa Monica, California, United States) was an Academy Award-winning film director, scriptwriter and producer. Lloyd was among the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and its president between 1934 and 1935. ![]()
Biography of Wilhelm Adam (excerpt)
Wilhelm Adam (September 15, 1877 – 8 April 1949) was a German general who served as chief of staff for the Reichswehr in the period before Adolf Hitler. Adam was born on in Ansbach, joining the German Army in 1897, and serving in Bavarian telegraph and Communication units before being detached to the Bavarian War Academy in 1907.
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Biography of Cesare Polacco (excerpt)
Cesare Polacco, born May 14, 1900 ni Venice, died March 2, 1986 in Rome, was an Italian actor and voice actor. Filmography (extract) * Teresa Confalonieri, regia di Guido Brignone (1934) * Freccia d'oro, regia di Corrado D'Errico (1935) ![]()
Biography of Daniel-Rops (excerpt)
Henri Daniel-Rops (Épinal, January 19, 1901 - Aix-les-Bains, July 27, 1965), French writer and historian whose real name was Henri Petiot. Early life He was the son of a military officer. Daniel-Rops was a student of the Faculty of Law and Literature in Grenoble.
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Biography of Johan Wagenaar (excerpt)
Johan Wagenaar (1 November 1862, Utrecht – 17 June 1941, Den Haag) was a Dutch composer and organist. Life Born out of wedlock, he was the son of Cypriaan Gerard Berger van Hengst and Johanna Wagenaar. Wagenaar's parents were of different social strata: his father was an aristocrat, while his mother was of more humble origins. ![]()
Biography of Walther Model (excerpt)
Otto Moritz Walter Model (IPA: ) (24 January 1891 – 21 April 1945) was a German general and later field marshal during World War II. He is noted for his defensive battles in the latter half of the war, mostly on the Eastern Front but also in the west, and for his close association with Adolf Hitler and Nazism.
Biography of Auguste Louis Fauchard (excerpt)
August Louis Fauchard, born March 5, 1881, was a French organist and composer.
Biography of Georges van Parys (excerpt)
Georges Van Parys (born Paris 10e, 7 June 1902 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – died there 27 January 1971) was a French composer of film music and operettas. Among his musical influences were the group Les Six, Maurice Ravel, and Claude Debussy.
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Biography of Jules-Emile Verschaffelt (excerpt)
Jules-Émile Verschaffelt (27 January 1870, Ghent – 22 December 1955) was a Belgian physicist. He worked at Kamerlingh Onnes’s laboratory in Leiden from 1894 to 1906 and once again from 1914 to 1923. From 1906 to 1914 he worked at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. ![]()
Biography of Laurens Van der Post (excerpt)
Sir Laurens Jan van der Post (aka Laurens van der Post) (December 13, 1906 – December 16, 1996) was a 20th century Afrikaner author of many books, farmer, war hero, political adviser to British heads of government, godparent of Prince William, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer, and conservationist.
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Biography of Frederick Rolfe (excerpt)
Frederick William Rolfe, better known as Baron Corvo, and also calling himself 'Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe', (July 22, 1860 - October 25, 1913), was an English writer, novelist, artist, fantasist and eccentric. Life and work Rolfe was born in London, the son of a piano manufacturer; he left school at the age of fourteen and became a teacher. ![]()
Biography of Bennett Cerf (excerpt)
Bennett Alfred Cerf (May 25, 1898 - August 27, 1971) was a publisher and co-founder of Random House, also known for his own compilations of jokes and puns, for regular personal appearances lecturing across the United States, and for his television appearances in the panel game show What's My Line. ![]()
Biography of Rockwell Kent (excerpt)
Rockwell Kent (June 21, 1882–March 13, 1971) was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and writer. Rockwell Kent was born in Tarrytown, New York, the same year as fellow American artists George Bellows and Edward Hopper. Kent lived much of his early life in and around New York City, and moved in his mid-40s to an Adirondack farmstead that he called Asgaard where he lived and painted until his death.
Biography of Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge (excerpt)
Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge (3 November 1904 – 16 November 1988) was born Janet Lee in Lochgelly, Scotland The daughter of a miner (who later gave up work in the mines to run a hotel), she inherited her father's socialist inclinations, and like him joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP). ![]()
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 Eddie Cantor (excerpt)
Eddie Cantor (January 31, 1892 (some sources give 22 or 23 September) - October 10, 1964) was an American comedian, singer, actor, and songwriter. Familiar to Broadway, radio and early television audiences, this "Apostle of Pep" was regarded almost as a family member by millions because his top-rated radio shows revealed intimate stories and amusing anecdotes about his wife Ida and five children.
Biography of Thomas Thomson (excerpt)
Thomas Thomson, born December 8, 1889 in Aberdeen, is a Scottish ecclesiastic, minister in the Church of Scotland, and Chaplin to the Queen.
Biography of John H. Nelson (excerpt)
John H. Nelson, born December 10, 1903 in Gloucester, Masachussetts, died May 23, 1984, was an American scientist. ![]()
Biography of J. B. Priestley (excerpt)
John Boynton Priestley, OM (13 September 1894 – 14 August 1984) was an English novelist and broadcaster. Early years Priestley was born in what he described as an "ultra-respectable" suburb of Bradford. His father was a headteacher whilst his mother died young. On leaving grammar school Priestley worked in the wool trade of his native city, but had ambitions to become a writer. ![]()
Biography of Ray Ventura (excerpt)
Raymond Ventura (16 April 1908, Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - 30 March 1979, Palma de Mallorca, Spain) was a French jazz bandleader. He played a significant role in popularizing jazz in France in the 1930s. Career Ventura played piano in a group called The Collegiate Five from 1924, which recorded under the name Ray Ventura and His Collegians for Columbia Records beginning in 1928.
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Biography of Claude Aveline (excerpt)
Claude Aveline, born Evgen Avtsine July 19, 1901 in Paris and died November 4, 1992 in Paris, was a French writer, poet and a member of The French Resistance. ![]()
Biography of Henri Manguin (excerpt)
Henri Charles Manguin (Paris, March 23, 1874-1949) was a French painter, associated with Les Fauves. Manguin entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts to study under Gustave Moreau, as did Matisse and Charles Camoin with whom he became close friends. Like them, Manguin made copies of Renaissance art in the Louvre.
Biography of Victor Benjamin Neuburg (excerpt)
Victor Benjamin Neuburg (6 May 1883 - 30 May 1940) was an English poet and writer. He also wrote on the subjects of theosophy and occultism. He was an associate of Aleister Crowley and the publisher of the early works of Pamela Hansford Johnson and Dylan Thomas. ![]()
Biography of Irene Rich (excerpt)
Irene Rich (October 13, 1891 - April 22, 1988) was an American actress who worked in both silent pictures and talkies. Career Born Irene Luther in Buffalo, New York, Rich worked for Will Rogers, who used her in eight pictures including Water Water Everywhere (1920), The Strange Boarder (1920), Jes' Call Me Jim (1920), Boys Will Be Boys (1921), and The Ropin' Fool (1921). ![]()
Biography of Henri Ziegler (excerpt)
Henri Ziegler (18 November, 1906 in Limoges – 24 July, 1998, in Paris) was one of the founders of Airbus and its first president. A Polytechnic engineer and graduate of “Sup’Aéro” (the national aerospace engineering school) as well as a French air force officer and test pilot, he was a founding father of Airbus Industrie (along with Roger Béteille and Felix Kracht) and became its first CEO.
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Biography of Emile Mathis (excerpt)
Émile Ernest Charles Mathis, born March 15, 1880 in Strasbourg, died August 3, 1956 in Genève, is a French engineer and businessman, founder of firm Mathis. Mathis produced cars between 1910 and 1950. History Originally, Émile Mathis was a leading car dealer in Strasbourg, Alsace, handling Fiat, De Dietrich and Panhard-Levassor, among other makes from his Auto-Mathis-Palace.
Biography of Madeleine Christie (excerpt)
Madeleine Christie, born January 18, 1904 in Edinburgh, is a Scottish actress. Filmography (extract) "Body & Soul" . Sister Godric (5 episodes, 1993) - Episode #1.5 (1993) TV episode . Sister Godric - Episode #1.4 (1993) TV episode .
Biography of Alois Wiesinger (excerpt)
Alois Wiesinger, born on June 3, 1885 in Pettenbach, died on January 3, 1955 à Schlierback, was an Austrian writer, editor, publisher, and parapsychologist (source: Steinbrecher).
Biography of Gustav Knuth (excerpt)
Gustav Knuth, born July 7, 1901 in Brunswick, died February 1, 1987 in Küsnacht, was a German actor. He is the father of Klaus Knuth. Filmography (extract) 1935 : Der Ammenkönig 1937 : Heimweh : Christof Peleikis, Fischer und Steuermann 1938 : Schatten über St. ![]()
Biography of Wilhelm Marx (excerpt)
Wilhelm Marx (January 15, 1863 (birth time source: Lescaut)– August 5, 1946) was a German lawyer, Catholic politician and a member of the Centre Party. He was Chancellor of the German Reich twice, from 1923 to 1925 and again from 1926 to 1928, and also served briefly as minister president of Prussia in 1925, during the Weimar Republic. ![]()
Biography of Sinclair Lewis (excerpt)
Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters. |
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