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Biography of Willi Stoph (excerpt)
Wilhelm Stoph (9 July 1914 – 13 April 1999) was an East German politician. He served as Prime Minister (Chairman of the Council of Ministers) of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 1964 to 1973, and again from 1976 until 1989.
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Biography of André Salvat (excerpt)
André Salvat (16 May 1920 – 9 February 2017) was a colonel in the French Army. He was a veteran of World War II, the First Indochina War and the Algerian War. He was made a Companion of the Liberation for his World War II service. ![]()
Biography of Resat Nuri Güntekin (excerpt)
Reşat Nuri Güntekin (25 November 1889 – 7 December 1956) was a Turkish novelist, storywriter and playwright. His best known novel, Çalıkuşu ("The Wren", 1922) is about the destiny of a young Turkish female teacher in Anatolia. This work is translated into Persian by Seyyed Borhan Ghandili.
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Biography of Simone Barbier (excerpt)
Simone Barbier (born 19 January 1903) was a French tennis player. She reached the doubles final at the 1930 French Championships with compatriot Simonne Mathieu in which they lost in straight sets to Elizabeth Ryan and Helen Wills Moody. In 1929 and 1930 she competed in the Wimbledon Championships, reaching the second round in singles, the quarterfinal in doubles with Mathieu and the second round in mixed doubles partnering Jacques Grandguillot.
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Biography of Sylvia Beach (excerpt)
Sylvia Beach (March 14, 1887 – October 5, 1962), born Nancy Woodbridge Beach, was an American-born bookseller and publisher who lived most of her life in Paris, where she was one of the leading expatriate figures between World War I and II. ![]()
Biography of Konstantin Simonov (excerpt)
Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov, born Kirill (28 November (O.S. 15 November) 1915 – 28 August 1979), was a Soviet author, journalist, and a war poet. He was a playwright and a wartime correspondent, most famous for his poem Wait for Me. During the war years, he wrote the plays Russian People, Wait for Me, So It Will Be, the short novel Days and Nights, and two books of poems, With You and Without You and War.
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Biography of Tikhon Khrennikov (excerpt)
Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov (10 June (O.S. 28 May) 1913 – 14 August 2007) was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist, and leader of the Union of Soviet Composers, who was also known for his political activities. He wrote three symphonies, four piano concertos, two violin concertos, two cello concertos, operas, operettas, ballets, chamber music, incidental music and film music. ![]()
Biography of Dorothy L. Sayers (excerpt)
Dorothy Leigh Sayers (13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was an English crime writer and poet. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. She is best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between the First and Second World Wars that feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. ![]()
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 Adélaďde Concerto attributed to Mozart.
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Biography of Janis Rudzutaks (excerpt)
Jānis Rudzutaks (Russian: Ян Эрнестович Рудзутак; 15 August (3 August old style) 1887 – 29 July 1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician. Rudzutaks was suddenly expelled from the Politburo and Central Committee on 24 May 1937, on the same day as the Red Army Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky.
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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.
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Biography of Jean Erdman (excerpt)
Jean Erdman (February 20, 1916 – May 4, 2020) was an American dancer and choreographer of modern dance as well as an avant-garde theater director. Career Erdman distinguished herself as a principal dancer in Graham's company in solo roles such as the Ideal Spectator in Every Soul is a Circus, the Speaking Fate in Punch and the Judy and the One Who Speaks in Letter to the World, Graham's ode to the American poet, Emily Dickinson.
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Biography of Boris Lyatoshinsky (excerpt)
Boris Mykolayovych Lyatoshinsky or Lyatoshynsky (Ukrainian: Бори́с Миколáйович Лятоши́нський, Borys Mykolayovych Lyatoshyns′kyi; January 3, 1895 – April 15, 1968) was a Ukrainian composer, conductor, and teacher. A leading member of the new generation of twentieth-century Ukrainian composers, he was awarded a number of accolades, including the honorary title of People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR and two Stalin State Prizes.
Biography of Mark Reizen (excerpt)
Mark Osipovich Reizen, also Reisen or Reyzen (3 July (O.S. 21 June) 1895 – November 25, 1992), PAU, was a leading Soviet opera singer with a beautiful and expansive bass voice. Reizen was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1941, 1949 and 1951.
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Biography of Alexander Vertinsky (excerpt)
Alexander Nikolayevich Vertinsky (Russian: Александр Николаевич Вертинский, 21 March (O.S. 9 March) 1889 — 21 May 1957) was Russian and Soviet artist, poet, singer, composer, cabaret artist and actor who exerted seminal influence on the Russian tradition of artistic singing. By November 1920, Vertinsky decided to leave Russia with the bulk of his clientele.
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Biography of Antonio Buero Vallejo (excerpt)
Antonio Buero Vallejo (September 29, 1916, Guadalajara - April 29, 2000, Madrid) was a Spanish playwright associated with the Generation of '36 movement and considered the most important Spanish dramatist of the Spanish Civil War. During the civil war, he served as a medical aid in the Republican army.
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Biography of Al Purdy (excerpt)
Alfred Wellington Purdy, OC OOnt (December 30, 1918 – April 21, 2000) was a 20th-century Canadian free verse poet. Purdy's writing career spanned fifty-six years. His works include thirty-nine books of poetry; a novel; two volumes of memoirs and four books of correspondence, in addition to his posthumous works.
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Biography of Valery Larbaud (excerpt)
Valery Larbaud (29 August 1881 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 2 February 1957) was a French writer and poet. Počmes par un riche amateur, published in 1908, received Octave Mirbeau's vote for prix Goncourt. Three years later, his novel Fermina Márquez, inspired by his days as a boarder at Sainte-Barbe-des-Champs at Fontenay-aux-Roses, had some prix Goncourt votes in 1911 but did not win; nonetheless, it is still considered to be a minor classic of French literature and one of Larbaud's best known works. ![]()
Biography of Yevgeny Zamyatin (excerpt)
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (20 January (Julian) / 1 February (Gregorian), 1884 – 10 March 1937), sometimes anglicized as Eugene Zamyatin, was a Russian author of science fiction, philosophy, literary criticism, and political satire. He was also an naval engineer. Despite being the son of a Russian Orthodox priest, Zamyatin lost his faith in Christianity at an early age and became a Bolshevik.
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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 Yelena Kuzmina (actress) (excerpt)
Yelena Aleksandrovna Kuzmina 17 February 1909 (Gregorian calendar) – 15 October 1979) was a Soviet actress. She appeared in 20 films between 1929 and 1978. She was the recipient of three Stalin Prizes (1946, 1948, 1951) and was named a People's Artist of Russia in 1950.
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Biography of Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (excerpt)
Erik Maria Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (born July 31, 1909 in Tobelbad, Styria, Austria-Hungary (birth time source: a YouTube video. There is no original source. 3:52 GMT corresponds to 3:52 AM legal time) ; died May 26, 1999, in Lans, Tyrol), was an Austrian political scientist and journalist.
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Biography of Gertrude Tompkins Silver (excerpt)
Gertrude "Tommy" Tompkins Silver (October 16, 1911 – disappeared October 26, 1944) was the only Women Airforce Service Pilots member to go missing during World War II. Gertrude Vreeland Tompkins was born October 16, 1911, in Jersey City, New Jersey, the daughter of Vreeland Tompkins, founder of Smooth-On, Inc. ![]()
Biography of Mariana Dragescu (excerpt)
Marie Ana Aurelia (Mariana) Drăgescu (7 September 1912 – 24 March 2013) was a Romanian military aviator during World War II. She was the last surviving member of the White Squadron, a team of female aviators who flew medical aircraft during World War II.
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Biography of Gidsken Jakobsen (excerpt)
Gidsken Nilsine Jakobsen (1 August 1908 – 13 June 1990) was a Norwegian aviation pioneer. At the age of 20, Jakobsen became only the second Norwegian woman to be awarded a pilot's license (after Dagny Berger in 1927), having achieved the highest position of the ten students attending the course.
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Biography of Nikolai Kryuchkov (excerpt)
Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov (Russian: Николай Афанасьевич Крючков; 6 January 1911 – 13 April 1994) was a Soviet and Russian film actor. He appeared in 94 films between 1932 and 1993. Awards Two Orders of Lenin (1940, 1980) Stalin Prize the first degree (1941) People's Artist of the RSFSR (1950)
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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 Norman Hartnell (excerpt)
Sir Norman Bishop Hartnell, KCVO (12 June 1901 – 8 June 1979) was a leading British fashion designer, best known for his work for the ladies of the Royal Family. Hartnell gained the Royal Warrant as Dressmaker to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in 1940; and Royal Warrant as Dressmaker to Queen Elizabeth II in 1957. ![]()
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 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.
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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.
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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 Max Douy (excerpt)
Max Douy is a French chief decorator, born June 20, 1914 in Issy-les-Moulineaux (Seine) (source for his birth time: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died July 2, 2007 (aged 93) in Nogent -on-Marne (Val-de-Marne). He collaborates on a continuous basis with Claude Autant-Lara, carrying out meticulous work for Le Rouge et le Noir.
Biography of Henry Barraud (excerpt)
Henry Barraud (sometimes Henri) (23 April 1900 – 28 December 1997) was a French composer. He was born in Bordeaux. He was a student of Louis Aubert at the Conservatoire de Paris, but in 1927 failed to graduate, apparently because of his refusal to follow orthodox methods.
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Biography of Joseph Ortiz (activist) (excerpt)
Joseph Ortiz, nicknamed Joey, born April 4, 1917 in Guyotville (Algeria)(now Aďn Benian)(birth certificate, André Barbault) and died February 15, 1995 in Toulon (Var, France), was, January 24, 1960, one of the leaders of the rioters of the Barricade Week in Algiers , with the deputy Pierre Lagaillarde, Guy Forzy, Jean-Baptiste Biaggi, Marcel Ronda and the student unionist Jean-Jacques Susini. ![]()
Biography of Hannah Höch (excerpt)
Hannah Höch (1 November 1889 – 31 May 1978) was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage. Photomontage, or fotomontage, is a type of collage in which the pasted items are actual photographs, or photographic reproductions pulled from the press and other widely produced media.
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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 Karl Shapiro (excerpt)
Karl Jay Shapiro (November 10, 1913 – May 14, 2000) was an American poet. He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946. In his later work, he experimented with more open forms, beginning with The Bourgeois Poet (1964) and continuing with White-Haired Lover (1968).
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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.
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Biography of Victor Klemperer (excerpt)
Victor Klemperer (9 October 1881 – 11 February 1960) was a German Romance languages scholar who also became known as a diarist. His journals, published in Germany in 1995, detailed his life under the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, and the German Democratic Republic.
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Biography of Alexander Fadeyev (writer) (excerpt)
Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Фаде́ев; 24 December (O.S. 11 December) 1901 – 13 May 1956) was a Soviet writer, one of the co-founders of the Union of Soviet Writers and its chairman from 1946 to 1954. In 1945, he wrote the novel, The Young Guard (based upon real events of World War II) about the underground Komsomol organization named Young Guard, which fought against the Nazis in the occupied city Krasnodon (in the Ukrainian SSR).
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Biography of Albert Barillé (excerpt)
Albert Barillé (14 February 1920 – 5 February 2009) was a French television producer, creator, screenwriter, cartoonist, and founder of Procidis. He is the creator of the puppet animated series Les Aventures de Colargol, and the series Once Upon a Time.
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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 Katherine Dunham (excerpt)
Katherine Mary Dunham (June 22, 1909 – May 21, 2006) was an American dancer, choreographer, creator of the Dunham Technique, author, educator, anthropologist, and social activist. Dunham had one of the most successful dance careers in African-American and European theater of the 20th century, and directed her own dance company for many years.
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Biography of Mildred Bruce (excerpt)
Mildred Mary Petre (10 November 1895 – 21 May 1990) was a British record-breaking racing motorist, speedboat racer and aviator in the 1920s and 1930s, and later, successful businesswoman. Commonly referred to as Mrs Victor Bruce, she was also known in contemporary references as Mary Petre Bruce, Mildred Bruce, Mildred Mary Bruce and Mary Victor Bruce.
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Biography of Lilian Rolfe (excerpt)
Lilian Vera Rolfe, MBE (26 April 1914 – 5 February 1945) was an Allied secret agent in the Second World War. Second World War At the onset of the Second World War, Rolfe worked at the British Embassy in Rio de Janeiro before going to London, England in 1943 to join the Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
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Biography of Lev Sverdlin (excerpt)
Lev Naumovich Sverdlin (Russian: Лев Наумович Свердлин; 16 November 1901 - 29 August 1969) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He appeared in more than forty films from 1936 to 1969. Selected filmography Year Title Role Notes 1936 By the Bluest of Seas Yussef 1939 Minin and Pozharsky 1943 Wait for Me Nasreddin in Bukhara
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 Frieda Belinfante (excerpt)
Frieda Belinfante (May 10, 1904 in Amsterdam – April 26, 1995 in Santa Fe, New Mexico) was a Dutch cellist, conductor, a prominent lesbian and a member of the Dutch resistance during World War II. After the war, Belinfante immigrated to the United States and continued her career in music.
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Biography of Dore Hoyer (excerpt)
Dore Hoyer (12 December 1911 – 31 December 1967) was a German expressionist dancer and choreographer. She is credited as "one of the most important solo dancers of the Ausdruckstanz tradition." Inspired by Mary Wigman, she developed her own solo programmes and toured widely before and after the Second World War. |
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