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Biography of Maria Branyas (excerpt)
Maria Branyas Morera (March 4, 1907 – August 19, 2024) was an American-born Catalan supercentenarian.She was recognized as the world’s oldest living person from January 2023 until her death in August 2024 at the age of 117. Born in San Francisco to a Spanish family, she lived in the U.S.
Biography of Yevgeni Preobrazhensky (excerpt)
Yevgeni Alekseyevich Preobrazhensky (1886–1937) was a Russian revolutionary and economist. A member of the governing Central Committee of the Bolshevik faction and its successor, the All-Union Communist Party, Preobrazhensky is remembered as a leading voice for the rapid industrialisation of peasant Russia through a concentration on state-owned heavy industry.
Biography of Giuseppe Di Vittorio (excerpt)
Giuseppe Di Vittorio, also known under the pseudonym Nicoletti (August 11, 1892 – November 3, 1957), was an Italian syndicalist and communist politician. He was one of the most influential trade union leaders of the labour movement after World War I.
Biography of Jules-Auguste Lemire (excerpt)
Jules Auguste Lemire (April 23, 1853 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, departmental archives) – March 7, 1928), French priest and social reformer, was born at Vieux-Berquin (Nord). He organized a society called La Ligue française du coin de terre et du foyer, the object of which was to secure, at the expense of the state, a piece of land for every French family desirous of possessing one.
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 Lise de Baissac (excerpt)
Lise Marie Jeanette de Baissac MBE (11 May 1905 – 29 March 2004), code names Odile and Marguerite, was born in Mauritius of French descent and British nationality.She was an agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) organization in France during World War II.
Biography of Marie-Anne de Bovet (excerpt)
Marie-Anne de Bovet (February 12, 1855 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 1128) - .) was a French writer.From 1893 to 1930, she published 35 novels, in addition to other works. Though she traveled widely, she wrote mainly on Ireland (three books) and Algeria; she also visited Scotland, Greece and Poland.
Biography of Felix de Weldon (excerpt)
Felix Weihs de Weldon (April 12, 1907 – June 3, 2003) was an Austrian-born American sculptor. His most famous pieces include the United States Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima Memorial, 1954) in Arlington County, Virginia and the Malaysian National Monument (1966) in Kuala Lumpur.
Biography of Jean Toomer (excerpt)
Jean Toomer (born Nathan Pinchback Toomer, December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and modernism.His reputation stems from his novel Cane (1923), which Toomer wrote during and after a stint as a school principal at a black school in rural Sparta, Georgia.
Biography of Dmitry Maksutov (excerpt)
Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov (23 April (O.S.11 April) 1896 – 12 August 1964) was a Russian / Soviet optical engineer and amateur astronomer.He is best known as the inventor of the Maksutov telescope. Maksutov's most well known contribution in the field of optics was made in 1941, when he invented the Maksutov telescope.
Biography of Alexei Rykov (excerpt)
Alexei Ivanovich Rykov (25 February 1881 – 15 March 1938) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician most prominent as Premier of Russia and the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1929 and 1924 to 1930 respectively. Rykov joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1898, and after it split into Bolshevik and Menshevik factions in 1903, he joined the Bolsheviks—led by Vladimir Lenin.
Biography of Grove (cartoonist) (excerpt)
William Nolgrove, known as William Napoléon Grove or simply Grove, born July 5, 1901 in Paris 6e (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) , died in 1975 in Cannes, is a French cartoonist, known for his long collaboration with Le Canard enchaîné.
Biography of Marius Casadesus (excerpt)
Marius Casadesus (October 24, 1892 – October 13, 1981) was a French violinist and composer.He was the brother of Henri Casadesus, uncle of the famed pianist Robert Casadesus, and grand-uncle to Jean Casadesus. Marius Casadesus achieved perhaps his greatest fame (or notoriety) through his association with the Adélaïde Concerto attributed to Mozart.
Biography of Charles Quef (excerpt)
Charles Paul Florimond Quef (1 November 1873, Lille – 2 July 1931, Paris) was a French organist and composer. He studied at the conservatory in Lille, and later he attended the Paris Conservatory where he studied with Charles-Marie Widor, Louis Vierne and Alexandre Guilmant.
Biography of Grigori Sokolnikov (excerpt)
Grigori Yakovlevich Sokolnikov (born Hirsch Brilliant or Girsh Yankelevich Brilliant; 1888–1939) was a Russian old Bolshevik revolutionary, economist, and Soviet politician. Sokolnikov was arrested on 26 July 1936.He was sufficiently broken under interrogation, either through torture or more probably through threats to harm his young wife and daughter, that he not only incriminated himself, but was made to confront Bukharin, in Lazar Kaganovich's office, and accuse him of being part of a conspiracy to restore capitalism in the USSR.
Biography of Nikolai Semashko (excerpt)
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Semashko (September 20 1874 – May 18, 1949), was a Russian statesman who became People's Commissar of Public Health in 1918, and served in that role until 1930. He was one of the organizers of the health system in the Soviet Union, an academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1944) and of the RSFSR (1945).
Biography of Édouard de Max (excerpt)
Eduard Alexandru Max, known as Édouard de Max, born February 14, 1869 in Iași (Moldavia region in Romania), and died October 28, 1924 in Paris, is a French theater and film actor of Romanian origin. He protected André Gide who wrote Saul for him, as well as Jean Cocteau, then 19 years old (1908), and whose style fascinated him.
Biography of Israël Querido (excerpt)
Israël Querido (1 October 1872, Amsterdam – 5 August 1932, Amsterdam) was a Dutch naturalist novelist. His novels are sympathetic to workers and the Socialist movement.
Biography of John Williams (actor) (excerpt)
John Williams (15 April 1903 – 5 May 1983) was a Tony Award-winning British stage, film, and television actor.He is remembered for his role as Chief Inspector Hubbard in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder, as the chauffeur in Billy Wilder's Sabrina (both 1954), and as the second "Mr.
Biography of Aaron Soltz (excerpt)
Aaron Aleksandrovich Soltz (10 March 1872 (22 March Gregorian calendar) - 30 April 1945) was an Old Bolshevik and a Soviet politician and lawyer. He was informally known as the "conscience of the Party". While partially responsible for the Soviet repressions he was one of very few high-ranking Joseph Stalin loyalists who openly objected to the Great Purge; he died in a psychiatric clinic after years of involuntary commitment.
Biography of Suzanne Duchamp (excerpt)
Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti (20 October 1889 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth certificate n° 31) – 11 September 1963) was a French Dadaist painter and collagist.Due to the fact that she was a woman in the male prominent Dada movement, she was rarely considered an artist in her own right.
Biography of Ivan Teodorovich (excerpt)
Ivan Adolfovich Teodorovich (Russian: Ива́н Адольфо́вич Теодо́рович; Polish: Iwan Adolfowicz Teodorowicz) (September 10 (O.S.August 29), 1875 in Smolensk – September 20, 1937) was a Russian Bolshevik activist, and the first Commissar for Food when the Council of People's Commissars was established (October - November 1917).
Biography of Emilio Pujol (excerpt)
Emili Pujol Vilarrubí (10 September 1886 – 21 November 1980) was a Spanish composer, guitarist and a leading teacher of the classical guitar. Emili Pujol was born in the little village of Granadella just outside Lleida, Spain.He began his studies with Francisco Tárrega in 1902, when he was sixteen years of age.
Biography of Alexey Eisner (excerpt)
Alexey Eisner (18 October 1905 (5 October O.S.), in St.Petersburg – 30 November 1984, in Moscow), was a Russian poet, translator and writer. His poem "Looming Autumn, Yellow Bushes .." was published in 1932 and became a textbook and was very popular in literary émigré circles.
Biography of Theo van Doesburg (excerpt)
Theo van Doesburg (30 August 1883 – 7 March 1931) was a Dutch artist, who practiced painting, writing, poetry and architecture. He is best known as the founder and leader of De Stijl. He was married to artist, pianist and choreographer Nelly van Doesburg.
Biography of Aleksandr Gerasimov (painter) (excerpt)
Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Gerasimov (12 August 1881 (gregorian calendar) – 23 July 1963) was a leading proponent of Socialist Realism in the visual arts, and painted Joseph Stalin and other Soviet leaders. Gerasimov was born on 12 August 1881 in Kozlov (now Michurinsk) in Tambov Governorate.
Biography of Léon Bérard (physician) (excerpt)
Léon Eugène Bérard (17 February 1870, in Morez – 2 September 1956, in Lyon) was a French surgeon and oncologist.He was the younger brother of Hellenist scholar Victor Bérard (1864–1931). He studied medicine in Lyon.Obtaining his doctorate in 1896.In 1898 he earned his agrégation in surgery, later being assigned as a surgeon to Lyon hospitals (1901).
Biography of Vecihi Hürkus (excerpt)
Vecihi Hürkuş (6 January 1896 – 16 July 1969) was a Turkish aviation engineer and aviation pioneer, who fought during World War I and the Turkish War of Independence. He designed and manufactured the first airplane in Turkey, and also founded the country's first airline company.
Biography of Grigor Kozintsev (excerpt)
Grigori Mikhaylovich Kozintsev (22 March (O.S.9 March) 1905 – 11 May 1973) was a Soviet theatre and film director.He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1964.In 1965 he was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival.
Biography of Ricardo Mella (excerpt)
Ricardo Mella Cea (April 13, 1861 – August 7, 1925) was one of the first writers, intellectuals and anarchist activists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Spain.He was characterized as an erudite in various subjects and versed in languages, mastering French, English and Italian.
Biography of Ernest Dumont (excerpt)
Ernest François Dumont, born October 13, 1877 in the 17th arrondissement of Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), the city where he died on December 11, 1941 in his home in the 15th arrondissement, is a French lyricist. Ernest Dumont co-authored numerous works (songs and monologues) with Louis Bénech, notably Nuits de Chine, L'Hirondelle du faubourg, L'Étoile du marin, Riquita, Dans les jardins de l'Alhambra, Du gris, La Femme aux bijoux ..
Biography of María Conesa (excerpt)
María Conesa, also known as La Gatita Blanca (The White Kitten) (December 12, 1892 – September 9, 1978), was a Spanish-born Mexican stage, television, film actress and vedette. She was one of the principal stars of the Revue and Vaudeville in México and Latin America in the early 20th century.
Biography of Alfred Touny (excerpt)
Alfred Touny (24 October 1886 – April 1944) was a French soldier, lawyer and businessman who became one of the leaders of the French Resistance during World War II (1939–45). He was arrested by the Gestapo towards the end of the war and shot.
Biography of Edwin Arlington Robinson (excerpt)
Edwin Arlington Robinson (December 22, 1869 – April 6, 1935) was an American poet.Robinson won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on three occasions and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times. At the age of 21, Edwin entered Harvard University as a special student.
Biography of Jane de La Vaudère (excerpt)
Jane de la Vaudère (April 15, 1857 – July 26, 1908) was the pen name of Jeanne Scrive, a French novelist, poet and playwright. Jane de la Vaudere was born April 15, 1857, in Paris.Her father was a famous doctor, Gaspard-Léonard Scrive, Surgeon-General of the French Army during the Crimean War.
Biography of Wilhelm Pieck (excerpt)
Friedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck (3 January 1876 – 7 September 1960) was a German politician and a communist. In 1949, he became the first President of the German Democratic Republic, an office abolished upon his death. His successor as head of state was Walter Ulbricht, who served as chairman of the Council of State.
Biography of Alexey Shchusev (excerpt)
Alexey Viktorovich Shchusev (8 October (O.S. 26 September) 1873 – 24 May 1949) was an acclaimed Russian and Soviet architect whose works may be regarded as a bridge connecting Revivalist architecture of Imperial Russia with Stalin's Empire Style. There are two notable Constructivist designs of Shchusev: the Ministry of Agriculture or Narkomzem in Moscow (1928–1933) and the Institute of Resorts in Sochi (1927–1931), considered to be a major source for Alvar Aalto's Paimio Sanatorium.
Biography of Thea Rasche (excerpt)
Theodora Rasche (12 August 1899 – 25 February 1971) was Germany's first female aerobatics pilot. In 1927, her father bought her a BFW Flamingo, registration number D-1120, and in July, she set off for the United States, the first of five trips.
Biography of Charmion (excerpt)
Laverie Vallee née Cooper (July 18, 1875 – February 6, 1949), best known by her stage name Charmion, was an American vaudeville trapeze artist and strongwoman whose well-publicized suggestive performance was captured on film in 1901 by Thomas Edison. Career According to the Journal of Sport History article "Flying, Flirting, and Flexing: Charmion's Trapeze Act, Sexuality, and Physical Culture at the Turn of the Twentieth Century", she made her debut on December 25, 1897, at Koster and Bial's vaudeville theatre in New York City.
Biography of James Huneker (excerpt)
James Gibbons Huneker (January 31, 1857 – February 9, 1921) was an American art, book, music, and theater critic and journalist.A colorful individual and an ambitious writer, he was "an American with a great mission," in the words of his friend, the critic Benjamin De Casseres, and that mission was to educate Americans about the best cultural achievements, native and European, of his time.
Biography of Alice Ball (excerpt)
Alice Augusta Ball (July 24, 1892 – December 31, 1916) was an American chemist who developed the "Ball Method", the most effective treatment for leprosy during the early 20th century.She was the first woman and first African American to receive a master's degree from the University of Hawaiʻi, and was also the university's first female and African American chemistry professor.
Biography of Bruno Rossi (excerpt)
Bruno Benedetto Rossi (13 April 1905 – 21 November 1993) was an Italian experimental physicist. He made major contributions to particle physics and the study of cosmic rays. A 1927 graduate of the University of Bologna, he became interested in cosmic rays. To study them, he invented an improved electronic coincidence circuit, and travelled to Eritrea to conduct experiments that showed that cosmic ray intensity from the West was significantly larger than that from the East.
Biography of Marie Hackin (excerpt)
Marie Parmentier, married name Marie Hackin, (7 September 1905 - 24 February 1941) was an archaeologist and Resistance member who worked with her husband Joseph Hackin who also was an archaeologist, philologist, and Resistance member. Marie Hackin's father was from Luxembourg. She died in 1941 when she was in a sea convoy trying to go from Liverpool into the Atlantic ocean en route to Africa, when the ship was sunk by a German submarine.
Biography of Boris Iofane (excerpt)
Boris Mihailovich Iofan (April 28th 1891–March 11th 1976) was a Jewish Soviet architect, known for his Stalinist architecture buildings like 1931 House on the Embankment and the 1931-1933 winning draft of the Palace of Soviets. In 1931, Iofan completed the elite block-wide House on the Embankment (official name Дом Правительства, Government Building).
Biography of Mitsuyo Maeda (excerpt)
Mitsuyo Maeda (前田 光世 Maeda Mitsuyo, born November 18, 1878 – November 28, 1941), a Brazilian naturalized as Otávio Maeda, was a Japanese judōka (judo expert) and prizefighter in no holds barred competitions, also being one of the first documented mixed martial artists of the modern era for he frequently challenged practitioners of other arts and sports.
Biography of Pyotr Kapitsa (excerpt)
Pyotr Kapitsa, born July 8, 1894 (gregorian calendar), died April 8, 1984, was a Soviet physicist known for his research in low-temperature physics. His time of birth comes from Les Cahiers Astrologiques, n° 22. He worked with Ernest Rutherford at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge before the Soviet Union prevented his return to Britain.
Biography of John Heartfield (excerpt)
John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld; 19 June 1891 – 26 April 1968) was a German visual artist who pioneered the use of art as a political weapon. Some of his most famous photomontages were anti-Nazi and anti-fascist statements. Heartfield also created book jackets for book authors, such as Upton Sinclair, as well as stage sets for contemporary playwrights, such as Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator.
Biography of Wilhelm Herzog (excerpt)
Wilhelm Herzog (12 January 1884 in Berlin - 4 April 1960) was a German historian of literature and culture, dramatist, encyclopedist, and pacifist. Life He studied economics, Germanistics and history of art in Berlin.After publishing works about Lichtenstein (1905) and Heinrich von Kleist (1907), he became the editor of the literary magazine Pan.
Biography of Grete Hermann (excerpt)
Grete (Henry-)Hermann (March 2, 1901 – April 15, 1984) was a German mathematician and philosopher noted for her work in mathematics, physics, philosophy and education. She is noted for her early philosophical work on the foundations of quantum mechanics, and is now known most of all for an early, but long-ignored critique of a no-hidden-variable theorem by John von Neumann.
Biography of Isaac Babel (excerpt)
Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (13 July (Gregorian calendar) 1894 – 27 January 1940) was a Russian writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator. He is best known as the author of Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories—stories from the life of Jewish gangsters from Odessa led by Benya Krik (prototype – Mishka Yaponchik). |
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