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Biography of Rose Valland (excerpt)
Rose Antonia Maria Valland (1 November 1898 – 18 September 1980) was a French art historian, member of the French Resistance, captain in the French military, and one of the most decorated women in French history. She secretly recorded details of the Nazi plundering of National French and private Jewish-owned art from France; and, working with the French Resistance, she saved thousands of works of art.
Biography of Jean Roger-Ducasse (excerpt)
Jean Jules Aimable Roger-Ducasse (Bordeaux, 18 April 1873 – Le Taillan-Médoc (Gironde), 19 July 1954) was a French composer. Jean Roger-Ducasse studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Emile Pessard and André Gedalge, and was the star pupil and close friend of Gabriel Fauré.
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 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 Pavlo Virsky (excerpt)
Pavlo Pavlovych Virsky (Ukrainian: Павло Павлович Вірський), born on February 25, 1905 (Gregorian calendar) in Odessa, Russian Empire, died on July 5, 1975 in Kiev.), PAU (People's Artist of the USSR), was a dancer, balletmaster, choreographer, and founder of the P.
Biography of Maksym Rylsky (excerpt)
Maksym Tadeyovych Rylsky (Ukrainian: Максим Тадейович Рильський; Russian: Максим Фадеевич Рыльский; 19 March (O.S.7 March) 1895 in Kiev – 24 July 1964 id.) was a Ukrainian poet, journalist, translator, academician, Doctor of Philological Sciences. The 1920s were marked by the poet's creative flourishing: his collections "Through storm and snow" (1925), "The 13th spring" (1926), "Where roads meet", "Hum and rumbling" (both 1929).
Biography of Léon Moreau (excerpt)
Léon Moreau (13 July 1870 – 11 April 1946) was a French/Breton composer, winner of the second prize for composition in the Prix de Rome of 1899. Born in Brest, he was active as a piano teacher and composer in Brest and Paris.
Biography of Rhené-Baton (excerpt)
René-Emmanuel Baton, known as Rhené-Baton (5 September 1879 – 23 September 1940), was a French conductor and composer.Though born in Courseulles-sur-Mer, Normandy, his family originated in Vitré in neighbouring Brittany.He returned to the region at the age of 19, and many of his compositions express his love of the area.
Biography of Manuel Infante (excerpt)
Manuel Infante (July 29, 1883 – April 21, 1958) was a Spanish composer long resident in France. A native of Osuna, Infante studied piano and composition with Enrique Morera, and settled in Paris in 1909.While there, he presented numerous concerts of Spanish music; a Spanish nationalist element is predominant in his own works.
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 Armand Cuvillier (excerpt)
Armand Cuvillier (October 3, 1887 (source for his time of birth: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - April 23, 1973) is a professor of philosophy and French journalist. Ranked first in the October special session of the philosophy aggregation of 19191, he became a teacher in many high schools, including Lycée Louis-le-Grand.
Biography of Salomėja Nėris (excerpt)
Salomėja Nėris (real name Salomėja Bačinskaitė - Bučienė) (November 17, 1904 – July 7, 1945) was a Lithuanian poet. Salomėja Nėris was awarded the State Literature Prize in 1938. She was a member of the Catholic youth and student organization Ateitis.
Biography of Claire Luce (excerpt)
Claire Luce (October 15, 1903 – August 31, 1989) was an American stage and screen actress, dancer and singer.Among her few films were Up the River (1930), directed by John Ford and starring Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart in their feature film debuts (Luce played Bogart's love interest), and Under Secret Orders, the English-language version of G.
Biography of Kintaro Hattori (excerpt)
Kintarō Hattori, born November 21, 1860 in Edo and died March 1, 1934 (aged 73), is a Japanese watchmaker and jeweler. In 1877, Kintarō Hattori opened a watch repair shop in Kyōbashi. With the success obtained, he founded in 1881 the watch firm Seiko, a Japanese high-end watchmaking company.
Biography of Bobbi Trout (excerpt)
Evelyn "Bobbi" Trout (January 7, 1906 – January 24, 2003) was an early American aviator, notable for her pioneering flying activities.Trout began her aviation career at the age of 16; however, her first solo flight and solo certificate was only given on April 30, 1928.
Biography of Wanda Gertz (excerpt)
Major Wanda Gertz (13 April 1896 – 10 November 1958) was a Polish woman of noble birth, who began her military career in the Polish Legion during World War I, dressed as a man, under the pseudonym of "Kazimierz 'Kazik' Żuchowicz".
Biography of Manolo Hugué (excerpt)
Manuel Martinez Hugué, better known simply as Manolo (29 April 1872 – 17 November 1945), was a Catalan Spanish sculptor in the noucentisme movement.Although a friend of Pablo Picasso, his style was much closer to that of Aristide Maillol. In 1910, together with Frank Burty Haviland and Déodat de Séverac he went to Céret, soon followed for short or long periods by most of the Cubist artists, including Picasso, Georges Braque, Max Jacob and Juan Gris.
Biography of Agnes de Mille (excerpt)
Agnes George de Mille (September 18, 1905 – October 7, 1993) was an American dancer and choreographer. Career De Mille arrived in New York in 1938 and later began her association with the fledgling American Ballet Theatre (then called the Ballet Theatre) in 1939.
Biography of Alfred Binet (excerpt)
Alfred Binet (8 July 1857 – 18 October 1911), born Alfredo Binetti, was a French psychologist who invented the first practical IQ test, the Binet–Simon test.In 1904, the French Ministry of Education asked psychologist Alfred Binet to devise a method that would determine which students did not learn effectively from regular classroom instruction so they could be given remedial work.
Biography of Mary Heath (excerpt)
Mary, Lady Heath (17 November 1896 – 9 May 1939) was an Irish aviator and began life as Sophie Catherine Theresa Mary Peirce-Evans in Knockaderry, County Limerick, near the town of Newcastle West. She was one of the best known women in the world for a five-year period from the mid-1920s.
Biography of Nikolay Semyonov (excerpt)
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov (or Semënov), ForMemRS 15 April (O.S.3 April) 1896 – 25 September 1986) was a Russian/Soviet physicist and chemist.Semyonov was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the mechanism of chemical transformation. In 1925, Semyonov, together with Yakov Frenkel, studied kinetics of condensation and adsorption of vapors.
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 Rosina Ferrario (excerpt)
Rosina Ferrario (28 July 1888 – 3 July 1959) was the first Italian woman to receive a pilot's licence when she passed her test on 3 January 1913 at Vizzola, Lombardy, in a Caproni monoplane. She received Licence No. 203 from the Aeroclub of Italy.
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).
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 Georgy Pyatakov (excerpt)
Georgy (Yury) Leonidovich Pyatakov (Russian: Георгий Леонидович Пятаков; August 6 (August 18 Gregorian Calendar), 1890 – January 30, 1937) was a Bolshevik revolutionary leader and a Politician during the Russian Revolution. Pyatakov was placed in charge of the management of Donbass coal mining industry in 1921, becoming a deputy head of the Gosplan (State Planning Committee) of the RSFSR in 1922, and deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council of the National Economy of the USSR.
Biography of Dmitry Likhachov (excerpt)
Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachov (Russian: Дми́трий Серге́евич Лихачёв, also Dmitri Likhachev or Likhachyov; 28 November (O.S. 15 November) 1906 – 30 September 1999) was a Russian medievalist, linguist, and concentration camp survivor. During his lifetime, Likhachov was considered the world's foremost scholar of the Old East Slavic language and its literature.
Biography of Rosina Anselmi (excerpt)
Rosina Anselmi ( 26 July 1880 – 23 May 1965) was an Italian stage, television and film actress.She was a prominent actress in the Sicilian language theater, especially in the province of Catania. Born in Catania into a family of stage actors, Anselmi began acting with her father Alessandro, then with Nino Martoglio in some comedies written by him.
Biography of Otto Nebel (excerpt)
Otto Nebel (25 December 1892 – 12 September 1973) was a German painter and poet, born in Berlin, Germany. The artist liked to experiment especially with the linocut, a great favorite among the German Expressionists and a medium that they imbued with new life.
Biography of Victor Fleming (excerpt)
Victor Lonzo Fleming (February 23, 1889 – January 6, 1949) was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer.His most popular films were Gone with the Wind, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director, and The Wizard of Oz (both 1939).
Biography of Aida de Acosta (excerpt)
Aida de Acosta Root Breckinridge (July 28, 1884 – May 26, 1962) was an American socialite and the first woman to fly a powered aircraft solo. In 1903, while in Paris with her mother, she caught her first glimpse of dirigibles. She then proceeded to take only three flight lessons, before taking to the sky by herself.
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 Marie-Louise Charpentier (excerpt)
Marie-Louise Charpentier, also known as Lily Charpentier (26 November 1905 - 24 June 1998), was a nurse, social worker, and active member of the French Resistance in Brittany during World War II. Her most well known accomplishment was hiding a Jewish woman and her two grandchildren from German forces and arranging their safe passage to relatives in the south of France.
Biography of Yuri Shaporin (excerpt)
Yuri Alexandrovich Shaporin (November 8 (O.S.October 27) 1887 – 9 December 1966), PAU, was a Russian-Ukrainian Soviet composer. After the Bolshoi Drama Theater was established in 1919, he served as its musical director until 1928.He then worked with the Russian State Pushkin Academy Drama Theater — also known as the Alexandrinsky Theater — until 1934.
Biography of Willi Bredel (excerpt)
Willi Bredel (2 May 1901 – 27 October 1964) was a German writer and president of the DDR Academy of Arts, Berlin. Born in Hamburg, he was a pioneer of socialist realist literature. His propaganda material, along with those of Walter Ulbricht and Erich Weinert was used in an attempt to lure the 6th Army into surrendering at the Battle of Stalingrad.
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 August Jakobson (excerpt)
August Jakobson (2 September 1904 – 23 May 1963) was an Estonian writer and politician.He was the only Estonian playwright among his contemporaries whose plays were untouched by Soviet censorship and reached other Soviet states.He has been described as the leading Stalinist in Soviet Estonian drama.
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 Sergei Vasilenko (excerpt)
Sergei Nikiforovich Vasilenko (30 March 1872 (O.S.18 March) – 11 March 1956) was a Russian and Soviet composer and music teacher whose compositions showed a strong tendency towards mysticism. Vasilenko was born in Moscow and originally studied Law at Moscow University, but then changed direction and studied at the Moscow Conservatory from 1896 to 1901 as a pupil of Sergei Taneyev and Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov.
Biography of Ruth Elder (excerpt)
Ruth Elder (September 8, 1902 – October 9, 1977) was an aviation pioneer and actress.She carried private pilot certificate P675, and was known as the "Miss America of Aviation." She was a charter member of the Ninety-Nines. In 1927 she took off from New York in the airplane American Girl, George Haldeman as her pilot, in an attempt to become the first woman transatlantic airplane rider.
Biography of Pierre Fournier (cellist) (excerpt)
Pierre Léon Marie Fournier (24 June 1906 – 8 January 1986) was a French cellist who was called the "aristocrat of cellists" on account of his elegant musicianship and majestic sound. Biography He was born in Paris, the son of a French Army general.
Biography of Giuseppe Borgese (excerpt)
Giuseppe Antonio Borgese (12 November 1882 – 4 December 1952) was an Italian writer, journalist and literary critic. In his early years he founded several literary reviews, including the Dannunzian Hermes (1904), and worked for newspapers such as Corriere della Sera, La Stampa and Il Mattino.
Biography of Ben Nye (excerpt)
Benjamin Emmet Nye, Sr.(January 12, 1907 – February 9, 1986) was an American makeup artist for the Hollywood film industry for over four decades, from the 1930s to the early 1980s.He worked on over five hundred 20th Century Fox films both in and out of Hollywood.
Biography of Kandrat Krapiva (excerpt)
Kandrat Krapiva (5 March (O.S.22 February) 1896 – 7 January 1991) was a Belarusian writer, playwright, social activist, and literary critic.He was the winner of two Stalin Prizes in 1941 and 1951 and winner of the USSR State Prize in 1971.
Biography of Kurt Schwitters (excerpt)
Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948) was a German artist, poet, painter, and sculptor, who was born in Hanover, Germany. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including dadaism, constructivism, surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography, and what came to be known as installation art.
Biography of Princess Hélène of Orléans (excerpt)
Princess Hélène of Orléans (French: Princesse Hélène Louise Henriette d'Orléans; 13 June 1871 – 21 January 1951) was a member of the deposed Orléans royal family of France and, by marriage to the head of a cadet branch of the Italian royal family, the Duchess of Aosta.
Biography of Elena Gogoleva (excerpt)
Elena Gogoleva or Yelena Gogoleva (7 April 1900 (O.S.25 March 1900) Moscow– 15 November 1993) was a Soviet film and stage actress, actress of the Maly Theatre in Moscow from 1918 to 1993.She was a People's Artist of the USSR (1949), Hero of Socialist Labour (1974), and the winner of three Stalin Prizes (1947, 1948, 1949).
Biography of Igor Moiseyev (excerpt)
Igor Alexandrovich Moiseyev (21 January (O.S.8 January) 1906 – 2 November 2007) has been widely acclaimed as the greatest 20th-century choreographer of character dance, a dance style similar to folk dance but with more professionalism and theatrics. Born in Kiev, Russian Empire, he was the only child of a Russian lawyer and a French-Romanian seamstress.
Biography of Isidor Philipp (excerpt)
Isidor Edmond Philipp (first name sometimes spelled Isidore) (2 September 1863 – 20 February 1958) was a French pianist, composer, and pedagogue of Jewish Hungarian descent.He was born in Budapest and died in Paris. He left for the United States in 1941 and taught in New York and L'Alliance Francais in Louiseville, Quebec, Canada.
Biography of Mary Eaton (excerpt)
Mary Eaton (January 29, 1901 – October 10, 1948) was an American stage actress, singer, and dancer in the 1910s and 1920s, probably best known today from her appearance in the first Marx Brothers film, The Cocoanuts (1929).A professional performer since childhood, she enjoyed success in stage productions such as the Ziegfeld Follies. |
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