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Biography of Mikhail Astangov (excerpt)
Mikhail Fyodorovich Astangov (Russian: Михаи́л Фёдорович Аста́нгов), pseudonym of M.F. Ruzhnikov (Ружников) (3 November (O.S. 21 October) 1900 in Warsaw – 20 April 1965 in Moscow) was a Soviet actor, and an acclaimed People's Artist of the USSR (1955). Selected filmography The Oppenheim Family (1939)
Biography of Gabrielle Duchêne (excerpt)
Gabrielle Duchêne (26 February 1870 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 200) – 3 August 1954) was a French feminist and pacifist who was active in the French section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Duchêne was present at the founding conference of the Universal Assembly for Peace in Brussels in September 1936.
Biography of Vera Menchik (excerpt)
Vera Frantsevna Menchik (1 March (Gregorian calendar) (16 February Julian calendar) 1906 – 26 June 1944) was a British-Czechoslovak-Russian chess player who became the world's first women's chess champion. She also competed in chess tournaments with some of the world's leading male chess masters, with occasional successes including two wins over future world champion Max Euwe.
Biography of Marcelle de Jouvenel (excerpt)
Marcelle Georgette Fernande de Jouvenel des Ursins, born Prat, is a French writer and psi subject, born on April 12, 1896 in Neuilly-sur-Seine (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died on May 20, 1971 in the same town. She was the wife of Bertrand de Jouvenel, and the mother of Roland de Jouvenel (died May 2, 1946 at the age of 14, typhoid).
Biography of Royal Rife (excerpt)
Royal Raymond Rife (May 16, 1888 – August 5, 1971) was an American inventor and early exponent of high-magnification time-lapse cine-micrography. He is best known for a claimed 'beam ray' invention during the 1930s, which he thought could treat some diseases by "devitalizeing disease organisms" through vibration.
Biography of Vernon Lee (excerpt)
Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the British writer Violet Paget (14 October 1856 – 13 February 1935). She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics. An early follower of Walter Pater, she wrote over a dozen volumes of essays on art, music, and travel.
Biography of Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (excerpt)
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (10 January 1883 (O.S. 29 December 1882) – 23 February 1945), nicknamed the Comrade Count, was a Russian and Soviet writer who wrote in many genres but specialized in science fiction and in historical novels. During World War II he served on the Extraordinary State Commission of 1942-1947 which "ascertained without reasonable doubt" the mass extermination of people in gas vans by the German occupiers.
Biography of Lucienne Bogaert (excerpt)
Lucienne Bogaert (born Lucienne Jeanne Gabrielle Lefebvre; 6 January 1892 in Caudry, Nord (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 4 February 1983 in Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine) was a French actress. She started her career in theatre, but later also worked in film.
Biography of Vsevolod Vishnevsky (excerpt)
Vsevolod Vitalievich Vishnevsky (Russian: Все́волод Вита́льевич Вишне́вский, December 21 (O.S. December 8) 1900 – February 28, 1951) was a Soviet dramatist and prose writer. He was born in 1900 in Saint Petersburg and educated at a Petersburg gymnasium. During World War I he enrolled in Baltic Fleet as sea cadet.
Biography of Erast Garin (excerpt)
Erast Pavlovich Garin (10 November (O.S. 28 October) 1902 – 4 September 1980) was a Soviet and Russian actor, director and screenwriter. He was, together with Igor Ilyinsky and Sergey Martinson, one of the leading comic actors of Vsevolod Meyerhold's company and of the Soviet cinema.
Biography of Alexey Dushkin (excerpt)
Alexey Nikolayevich Dushkin (6 January 1904 (24 December 1904 julian calendar) – 8 October 1977) was a Soviet architect, best known for his 1930s designs of the Kropotkinskaya and Mayakovskaya stations of the Moscow Metro. He worked primarily for subway and railroads and is also noted for his Red Gate Building, one of the Seven Sisters.
Biography of Henri Laurens (excerpt)
Henri Laurens (February 18, 1885 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Paris archives V4E6278) – May 5, 1954) was a French sculptor and illustrator. Later Laurens was drawn to a new gathering of artistic creativity in Montparnasse. From 1915 he began to sculpt in the Cubist style after meeting Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris and Fernand Léger.
Biography of Eileen Agar (excerpt)
Eileen Forrester Agar RA (1 December 1899 – 17 November 1991) was a British painter and photographer associated with the Surrealist movement. In 1911, the Agar family, Scottish father and American mother, left Argentina for London where Eileen enrolled in the Byam Shaw School of Fine Art in 1919, then in the Underwood School of Painting and sculpture.
Biography of Asik Veysel (excerpt)
Âşık Veysel (born Veysel Şatıroğlu; 25 October 1894 – 21 March 1973) was a Turkish ashik and highly regarded poet of the Turkish folk literature. He was born in the Sivrialan village of the Şarkışla district, in the province of Sivas.
Biography of Frederick Trump (excerpt)
Frederick Trump (born Friedrich Trump, or possibly Friedrich Drumpf; 14 March 1869 – 30 May 1918) was a German–American businessman and the patriarch of the Trump family. Born in Kallstadt, in the Kingdom of Bavaria (now in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany), he immigrated to the United States at the age of 16 and started working as a barber.
Biography of Nikolay Cherkasov (excerpt)
Nikolay Konstantinovich Cherkasov (Russian: Никола́й Константи́нович Черка́сов; 27 July (O.S. 14 July) 1903 – 14 September 1966) was a Soviet and Russian actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1947). Cherkasov was one of Stalin's favorite actors and played title roles in Sergei Eisenstein's monumental sound films Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Parts I & II of Ivan the Terrible (1945 & 1946; though Part II was not officially released until 1958 for political reasons).
Biography of Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier (excerpt)
Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier (9 January 1861 in Aix-les-Bains (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 26 October 1930 in Paris) was a French landscape architect, trained with Alphand and became conservateur of the promenades of Paris. He developed an arboretum at Vincennes and the gardens of the Champ-de-Mars below the Eiffel Tower.
Biography of Mehmet Akif Ersoy (excerpt)
Mehmet Akif Ersoy (20 December 1873 – 27 December 1936) was an Ottoman-born Turkish poet, writer, academic, politician, and the author of the Turkish National Anthem. Widely regarded as one of the premiere literary minds of his time, Ersoy is noted for his command of the Turkish language, as well as his patriotism and role in the Turkish War of Independence.
Biography of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar (excerpt)
Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar (23 June 1901 – 24 January 1962) was a Turkish poet, novelist, literary scholar and essayist, widely regarded as one of the most important representatives of modernism in Turkish literature. In addition to his literary and academic career, Tanpınar was also a member of the Turkish Parliament between 1944 and 1946.
Biography of Norman Bethune (excerpt)
Henry Norman Bethune (March 3, 1890 – November 12, 1939; Chinese: 亨利·诺尔曼·白求恩; pinyin: Hēnglì Nuò’ěrmàn Báiqiú’ēn) was a Canadian physician, medical innovator, and noted communist. Bethune came to international prominence first for his service as a frontline surgeon supporting the Republican faction during the Spanish Civil War.
Biography of Nicole Girard-Mangin (excerpt)
Nicole Girard-Mangin (October 11, 1878 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 4536) – June 6, 1919) was the first female doctor to serve in the French Army. She served in several roles during the entire First World War. She was also a specialist in tuberculosis (TB).
Biography of Albert Boissière (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste-Eugene-Albert Boissière, born January 26, 1864 in Thiberville (Eure)(birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died December 18, 1939, is a writer and a French serialist, author of crime novel. He is a serialist in the daily Le Figaro. Two of his novels A crime has been committed and The man without a figure are staging a comic judge, M Marathon who is stubbornly mistaken.
Biography of Max Deutsch (excerpt)
Max Deutsch (17 November 1892 – 22 November 1982) was an Austrian-French composer, conductor, and academic teacher. He studied with Arnold Schönberg and was his assistant. Teaching at the Sorbonne and the École Normale de Musique de Paris, he influenced notable students such as Philippe Capdenat, Donald Harris, György Kurtág and Philippe Manoury.
Biography of Dorothy Wrinch (excerpt)
Dorothy Maud Wrinch (12 September 1894 – 11 February 1976; married names Nicholson, Glaser) was a mathematician and biochemical theorist best known for her attempt to deduce protein structure using mathematical principles. She was a champion of the controversial 'cyclol' hypothesis for the structure of proteins.
Biography of Elizaveta Karamihailova (excerpt)
Elisabeth Ivanova Kara-Michailova (Bulgarian: Елисавета Иванова Карамихайлова), alternatively Elisabeth Karamichailova, born on September 3, 1897 in Vienna, Autstria, was a Bulgarian physicist of a Bulgarian father and an English mother. She was among the handful of female nuclear physics pioneers at the beginning of the 20th century, established the first practical courses of particle physics in Bulgaria and was the first woman to hold a professorial title in the country.
Biography of Iulia Hasdeu (excerpt)
Iulia Hasdeu (Romanian pronunciation: ; 14 November 1869 in Bucharest – 29 September 1888 in Bucharest) was a Romanian poet, the daughter of writer and philologist Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu. From a very young age, Hasdeu wrote poems and prose in both Romanian and French, taught herself foreign languages and studied piano and opera singing.
Biography of Paul Cornu (excerpt)
Paul Cornu (June 15, 1881 (birth time source : Janine Tissot, birth certificate n° 5) – 6 June 1944) was a French engineer, inventor and aviator. At a young age, he helped his father in his transports company. He made history by designing the world's first successful manned rotary wing aircraft.
Biography of Manfred von Ardenne (excerpt)
Manfred von Ardenne (20 January 1907 – 26 May 1997) was a German researcher and applied physicist and inventor. He took out approximately 600 patents in fields including electron microscopy, medical technology, nuclear technology, plasma physics, and radio and television technology.
Biography of Anna Coleman Ladd (excerpt)
Anna Coleman Watts Ladd (July 15, 1878 – June 3, 1939) was an American sculptor in Manchester, Massachusetts, who devoted her time throughout World War I to soldiers who were disfigured. She devoted herself to portraiture and was well regarded. Her portrait of Eleanora Duse was one of only three that the actress ever allowed.
Biography of Jeanne Chauvin (excerpt)
Jeanne Chauvin (22 April 1862 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 20) – 7 September 1926) was the second woman to obtain a degree in law in France, in 1890. Her application to be sworn in as a lawyer was at first rejected, but after the law was changed in 1900 she was the second French woman to be authorized to plead at the bar (after Olga Petit.
Biography of James Franck (excerpt)
James Franck (26 August 1882 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth record from Hamburg State Archives) – 21 May 1964) was a German physicist who won the 1925 Nobel Prize for Physics with Gustav Hertz "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom".
Biography of Lela Karagianni (excerpt)
Eleni "Lela" Karagianni also written Karayanni (24 June 1898 (6 July Gregorian calendar) - 8 September 1944) was a Greek resistance leader during World War II. The wife of an Attican pharmacist and the mother of seven children, Karagianni worked to coordinate Greek resistance cells and their activities against the occupying Axis forces.
Biography of André Colomer (excerpt)
André Colomer (4 December 1886 in Cerbère (Pyrénées-Orientales – 7 October 1931 in Moskow) was a French poet and anarchist. Publications Roland Malmos (roman). le Réfractaire (drame en trois actes). À nous deux, Patrie ! (mémoires), paru en feuilleton dans L’Action d’art en 1919-1920, édité en brochure en 1925.
Biography of Ilya Starinov (excerpt)
Colonel Ilya Grigoryevich Starinov 2 August (O.S. 20 July) 1900, village of Voynovo, today's Oryol Oblast – 18 November 2000) was a Soviet military officer. Starinov joined the Red Army in 1918 and participated in the Russian Civil War. In 1921 he attended a military college for railway troops and served with the Soviet railway troops in the 1920s.
Biography of Mikhail Tomsky (excerpt)
Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky (Russian: Михаи́л Па́влович То́мский, born Mikhail Pavlovich Yefremov – sometimes transliterated as Efremov; Михаи́л Па́влович Ефре́мов; 31 October 1880 – 22 August 1936) was a factory worker, trade unionist and Bolshevik leader. He was the Soviet leader of the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions.
Biography of Mikhail Gurevich (excerpt)
Mikhail Iosifovich Gurevich (12 January 1893 (O.S. 31 December 1892) – 12 November 1976) was a Soviet aircraft designer who co-founded the Mikoyan-Gurevich military aviation bureau along with Artem Mikoyan. The bureau is famous for its fighter aircraft, rapid interceptors and multi-role combat aircraft which were staples of the Soviet Air Forces throughout the Cold War.
Biography of Lewis Strauss (excerpt)
Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss (January 31, 1896 – January 21, 1974) was an American businessman, philanthropist, and naval officer who served two terms on the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), the second as its chairman. He was a major figure in the development of nuclear weapons, the nuclear energy policy of the United States, and nuclear power in the United States.
Biography of Lazare-Lévy (excerpt)
Lazare Lévy, also hyphenated as Lazare-Lévy, (18 January 1882 – 20 September 1964) was an influential French pianist, organist, composer and pedagogue. As a virtuoso pianist he toured throughout Europe, in North Africa, Israel, the Soviet Union and Japan. He taught for many years at the Paris Conservatoire.
Biography of V. Volodarsky (excerpt)
V. Volodarsky (Russian: В. Володарский; December 11, 1891 (December 23, Gregorian calendar) – June 20, 1918) was a Marxist revolutionary and early Soviet politician. He was assassinated in 1918. Volodarsky was assassinated on June 20, 1918 by Grigory Ivanovich Semyonov, a member of the Central Battle Unit of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, during labor unrest at the Obukhov Works in Petrograd.
Biography of Wanda Wasilewska (excerpt)
Wanda Wasilewska, also known by Russian name Vanda Lvovna Vasilevskaya (21 January 1905 – 29 July 1964), was a Polish and Ukrainian Soviet novelist and journalist and a left-wing political activist who became a devoted communist. She fled the German attack on Warsaw in September 1939 and took up residence in Soviet-occupied Lviv and eventually in the Soviet Union.
Biography of Louis Ganne (excerpt)
Louis-Gaston Ganne (5 April 1862 in Buxières-les-Mines (Allier) – 13/14 July 1923 in Paris) was a conductor and composer of French operas, operettas, ballets, and marches. Ganne was born in the Auvergne region of France and grew up in Issy-les-Moulineaux, in the suburbs of Paris.
Biography of Arthur Bernède (excerpt)
Arthur Bernède (5 January 1871 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 20 March 1937) was a French writer, poet, opera libretist, and playwright. He was born in Redon, Ille-et-Vilaine department, in Brittany. In 1919, Bernède joined forces with actor René Navarre, who had played Fantômas in the Louis Feuillade serials, and writer Gaston Leroux, the creator of Rouletabille, to launch the Société des Cinéromans, a production company that would produce films and novels simultaneously.
Biography of Xavier Leroux (excerpt)
Xavier Henry Napoleón Leroux (11 October 1863 – 2 February 1919) was a French composer and a teacher at the Paris Conservatory. He was married to the famous soprano Meyrianne Héglon (1867-1942). Born in Italy at Velletri, 30 km south-east of Rome, Leroux was the son of a French military bandleader.
Biography of Kwon Ki-ok (excerpt)
Kwon Ki-ok (11 January 1901 – 19 April 1988), or Quan Jiyu in Chinese, was the first Korean female aviator, as well as one of the first female pilots in China. She went in exile in China during the Japanese occupation of Korea, and became a lieutenant colonel in the Republic of China Air Force.
Biography of Bert Acosta (excerpt)
Bertrand Blanchard Acosta (January 1, 1895 – September 1, 1954) was a record-setting aviator. He and Clarence D. Chamberlin set an endurance record of 51 hours, 11 minutes, and 25 seconds in the air. He later flew in the Spanish Civil War in the Yankee Squadron.
Biography of Boris Galerkin (excerpt)
Boris Grigoryevich Galerkin (surname more accurately romanized as Galyorkin; 4 March (O.S. 20 February) 1871 – 12 July 1945), born in Polotsk, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire, was a Soviet mathematician and an engineer. Galerkins name is forever attached to the finite element method, which is a way to numerically solve partial differential equations
Biography of Marcel Cachin (excerpt)
Marcel Cachin (20 September 1869 – 12 February 1958) was a French politician. In 1891, Cachin joined Jules Guesde French Workers' Party (POF). In 1905, he joined the new French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) and won election to the Chamber of Deputies representing the Seine in 1914.
Biography of Maurice Nédoncelle (excerpt)
Maurice Nédoncelle, born October 30, 1905 in Roubaix (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died November 27, 1976 in Strasbourg, is a French priest and philosopher. Author of books on John Henry Newman and Friedrich von Hügel, he then decides to develop a philosophy of the person who founds true existence in freedom.
Biography of Natalia Paley (excerpt)
Princess Natalia Pavlovna Paley (Russian: Наталья Павловна Палей; 5 December 1905 – 27 December 1981) was a Russian aristocrat who was a non-dynastic member of the Romanov family. A daughter of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia, she was a first cousin of the last Russian emperor, Nicholas II.
Biography of Anton Ackermann (excerpt)
Anton Ackermann (real name: Eugen Hanisch, 25 November 1905 Thalheim, Saxony – 4 May 1973 East Berlin) was an East German politician. In 1953, he briefly served as Minister of Foreign Affairs. From 1949 to 1953, he was the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. |
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