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Biography of Elzbieta Zawacka (excerpt)
Elżbieta Zawacka (19 March 1909 – 10 January 2009), known also by her war-time nom de guerre Zo, was a Polish university professor, scouting instructor, SOE agent and a freedom fighter during World War II. She was promoted to brigadier general of the Polish Army (the second woman in the history of the Polish Army to hold this rank) by President Lech Kaczyński on 3 May 2006.
Biography of Vladimir Pozner (excerpt)
Vladimir Solomonovich Pozner (Russian: Влади́мир Соломо́нович По́знер; 5 January 1905 in Paris – 19 February 1992 in Paris) was a French writer and translator of Russian-Jewish descent. His family fled the pogroms to take up residence in France. Pozner expanded on his inherited cultural socialism to associate both in writing and politics with anti-fascist and communist groups in the inter-war period.
Biography of Rosa Stallbaumer (excerpt)
Rosa (Hoffman) Stallbaumer (30 November 1897 – 23 November 1942) was a member of the Austrian Resistance during World War II. Her name is one of 124 names of women and men from Tyrol, Austria inscribed on the Liberation Monument at The Eduard-Wallnöfer-Platz in Innsbruck in recognition of both her involvement in resisting National Socialism and of her death at Auschwitz, following her incarceration at that Nazi concentration camp as punishment for helping Jewish targets of Nazi persecution escape to Italy.
Biography of Jerry Wexler (excerpt)
Gerald Wexler (January 10, 1917 – August 15, 2008) was a music journalist turned music producer, and was a major influence on American popular music from the 1950s through the 1980s. He coined the term "rhythm and blues", and was integral in signing and/or producing many of the biggest acts of the time, including Ray Charles, the Allman Brothers, Chris Connor, Aretha Franklin, Led Zeppelin, Wilson Pickett, Dire Straits, Dusty Springfield and Bob Dylan.
Biography of Alma Rosé (excerpt)
Alma Maria Rosé (3 November 1906 – 4/5 April 1944) was an Austrian violinist of Jewish descent. Her uncle was the composer Gustav Mahler. She was deported by the Nazis to the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. There, for 10 months, she directed an orchestra of female prisoners who played for their captors to stay alive.
Biography of René Alleau (excerpt)
René Alleau (6 June 1917 – 18 October 2013) was a French author, historian and consulting engineer. The focus of his numerous works are symbology and alchemy, the occult and secret societies. As well as his own works, he contributed articles in these fields to the Encyclopædia Universalis.
Biography of Hanna Van de Voort (excerpt)
Hanna Van de Voort (born in Meerlo, November 26, 1904 and died in Utrecht on July 26, 1956), also known as Aunt Hanna, was a Dutch nurse and resistance fighter during the Second World War. Together with Nico Dohmen and Kurt Loewenstein, she placed 123 Jewish children in foster families in North Limburg, saving them from deportation and death.
Biography of Hélène Solomon-Langevin (excerpt)
Hélène Solomon-Langevin (25 May 1909 – 16 January 1995) was a French politician. She was elected to the National Assembly in 1945 as one of the first group of French women in parliament. Solomon-Langevin was born in Fontenay-aux-Roses in 1909, the daughter of physicist Paul Langevin.
Biography of Daniel Schorr (excerpt)
Daniel Louis Schorr (August 31, 1916 – July 23, 2010) was an American journalist who covered world news for more than 60 years. He was most recently a Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio (NPR). Schorr won three Emmy Awards for his television journalism.
Biography of Edmée Jarlaud (excerpt)
Edmée Jarlaud, born Edmée Jeanne Jacob on July 10, 1910 in Paris 20th and died in April 1939 in Beynes (Yvelines), was a French aviator who broke several records including that of female endurance on a glider (5 hours) on September 15, 1937.
Biography of Léon Bourjade (excerpt)
Jean-Pierre Léon Bourjade (Montauban, May 25, 1889 – Papua New Guinea, October 22, 1924) was a French aviation ace and missionary. Tributes A few years after his death, the famous aviator Jean Mermoz, during one of his crossings of the South Atlantic by plane, had a serious oil leak which assured him of perdition at sea; although an atheist, he addressed a “prayer” to his pilot colleague Léon Bourjade and landed in extremis on a beach in Senegal, the propeller “flagged”.
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The Fusillade de Fourmies is an event which happened on 1 May 1891 in Fourmies, in the French Nord department. This day, the troop fired on a peaceful demonstration of workers claiming "C'est les huit heures qu'il nous faut !" (it's the eight-hour day we need), killing nine people and injuring 35 others.
Biography of Rahel Sanzara (excerpt)
Rahel Sanzara (also Sansara; pseudonym for Johanna Bleschke) (9 February 1894 – 8 February 1936) was a German dancer, actress and novelist. Johanna Bleschke was the oldest of a town musician's four children. After graduating from a school for 'higher daughters', she went into an apprenticeship as a bookbinder in Blankenburg.
Biography of Andrée Viénot (excerpt)
Andrée Viénot (7 June 1901 – 20 October 1976) was a French politician. Andrée Viénot was born as Andrée Mayrisch on 7 June 1901 in Dudelange. She studied political economy in London School of Economics. In 18 July 1929 she married Pierre Viénot (1897–1944), who was a war veteran, and became a cabinet minister.
Biography of Gaston Baugnies de Saint-Marceaux (excerpt)
Gaston Baugnies de Saint-Marceaux, born August 2, 1914 in Paris 17th and died May 2, 1986, was a French aviator. Commander of the Legion of Honor and holder of the highest French and Soviet distinctions, Gaston de Saint-Marceaux left the Air Force with the rank of Brigadier General, to which he was appointed on January 1, 1965.
Biography of Mala Zimetbaum (excerpt)
Malka Zimetbaum, also known as "Mala" Zimetbaum or "Mala the Belgian" (26 January 1918 – 15 September 1944), was a Belgian woman of Polish Jewish descent, known for her escape from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. She is also remembered for her lifesaving acts in favor of other prisoners during her captivity at Auschwitz and for the resistance she displayed at her execution following her being recaptured, when she tried committing suicide before the guards were able to execute her, then slapped the guard who tried to stop her, before eventually being killed.
Biography of Yves Carbon (excerpt)
Yves Carbon, born April 3, 1911 in Lembeye, died October 25, 1949 (air crash at age 38), was a French aviator.
Biography of Paul Guillaume (art dealer) (excerpt)
Paul Guillaume (28 November 1891 in Paris – 1 October 1934 in Paris) was a French art dealer. Dealer of Chaïm Soutine and Amedeo Modigliani, he was one of the first to organize African art exhibitions. He also bought and sold many works from cutting-edge artists of the time, such as Henri Matisse, Constantin Brâncuși, Pablo Picasso, and Giorgio de Chirico.
Biography of Geneviève Lefevre-Seillier (excerpt)
Geneviève Estelle Lefevre-Sellier, name sometimes indicated as Lefevre-Sellier and Lefebvre-Sellier, born March 5, 1911 in Juvignies in Oise and died May 24, 2012 in Liancourt-Saint-Pierre, was a French soldier of the Second World War. Geneviève Lefevre-Sellier, a name sometimes referred to as Lefevre-Sellier and Lefebvre-Sellier in military history books, was part of the first female corps of the Air Force created by Charles Tillon in the winter of 1944-1945 and followed the course organized in Châteauroux.
Biography of Jacques André (aviator) (excerpt)
Jacques André (25 February 1919 – 2 April 1988) was a French fighter pilot in the Normandie-Niemen Regiment, which flew on the Eastern Front of World War II. He was one of four french citizens awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
Biography of Helen Wagner (excerpt)
Helen Losee Wagner (September 3, 1918 – May 1, 2010) was an American actress. Born in Lubbock, Texas, she is best known for her role as Nancy Hughes McClosky on the soap opera As the World Turns. After appearing in the soap opera for some 50 years, at the time of her death she was the longest serving actor on an American soap opera.
Biography of Ingeborg Waern Bugge (excerpt)
Ingeborg Wærn Bugge (5 March 1899 – 26 January 1991) was a Swedish architect. She was one of the first formally educated female architects in Sweden. She designed residential buildings and schools, and worked on renovation projects for churches. Work In 1929, she started her own architectural firm with another alumna from the Royal Institute of Technology, Kjerstin Göransson-Ljungman .
Biography of Jadwiga Dzido (excerpt)
Jadwiga Dzido (1918–1985) was a Polish resistance worker and pharmacy student who was arrested by the Gestapo in 1941 and deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp where she was subjected to forced operations. She was infected with bacteria, dirt and slivers of glass to test the effects of sulphonamide on healing infected wounds.
Biography of Louis Bernicot (excerpt)
Louis Bernicot, born December 13, 1883 in the port of Aber Wrac'h (municipality of Landéda, North Finistère), died November 29, 1952 in Saint-Nexans (Dordogne), is a French navigator known for his world tour solo from August 1936 to May 1938, i.
Biography of Jean Luchaire (excerpt)
Jean Luchaire (21 July 1901 (birth certificate n° 331) – 22 February 1946) was a French journalist and politician who became the head of the French collaborationist press in Paris during the German military occupation. Luchaire supported the Révolution nationale declared by the French Government after it relocated to the spa town of Vichy in 1940.
Biography of Lilla Hellesen (excerpt)
Lilla Hellesen (13 October 1902 – 28 October 1963) was a Norwegian painter. She was born in Oslo, Norway as the daughter of the doctor Engel Emil Herman Hellesen and actress Marie Mejlænder. Hellesen studied at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry 1921–22 and the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo 1922–25.
Biography of Édmée Chandon (excerpt)
Édmée Marie Juliette Chandon (21 November 1885 – 8 March 1944) was an astronomer known for being the first professional female astronomer in France. She worked at the Paris Observatory from 1908 until her retirement in 1941. Biography The eldest of five children, Chandon was born to Marie Duhan and merchant François Chandon on 21 November 1885 in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.
Biography of Jean Milhau (painter) (excerpt)
Jean Louis Édouard Milhau is a French painter of the 20th century, born on December 21, 1902, in Mèze (Hérault) and died in Châtenay-Malabry (Hauts-de-Seine) on May 7, 1985.
Biography of Sylvie (actress) (excerpt)
Louise Pauline Mainguené, known as Sylvie (3 January 1883 – 5 January 1970), was a French actress. The daughter of a sailor and a teacher, Sylvie entered an acting conservatory where she won a class comedy award unanimously. She started her professional career in 1903 and she earned her first success with The Old Heidelberg.
Biography of Silvio Zavala (excerpt)
Silvio Arturo Zavala Vallado (February 7, 1909 – December 4, 2014) was a Mexican historian who was considered to be a pioneer in law history studies and Mexico’s institutions. Early life Silvio Zavala was born on February 7, 1909, in Mérida, Yucatán. He studied at the National University of Mexico and at the University of Madrid, where he received a Ph.
Biography of Raymond Reding (excerpt)
Raymond Reding, born on February 23, 1920, in Louviers (Normandy, France) and passed away on April 26, 1999, in Anderlecht (Brussels-Capital Region), was a Belgian comic book author who primarily illustrated the theme of sports. Comic book albums (Author's series) Éric Castel Jari Section R
Biography of Fred M. Wilcox (excerpt)
Fred McLeod Wilcox (December 22, 1907 – September 23, 1964) was an American motion picture director. He worked for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for many years and is best remembered for directing Lassie Come Home (1943) and Forbidden Planet (1956). These films were entered in the National Film Preservation Board's National Film Registry in 1993 and 2013 respectively.
Biography of Abraham Zacuto (excerpt)
Abraham Zacuto (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם בֵּן שְׁמוּאֵל זַכּוּת, romanized: Avraham ben Shmuel Zacut, Portuguese: Abraão ben Samuel Zacuto; 12 August 1452 – c. 1515) was a Castilian astronomer, astrologer, mathematician, rabbi and historian who served as Royal Astronomer to King John II of Portugal.
Biography of Suzanne Grinberg (excerpt)
Suzanne Grinberg ( 25 January 1888 - 5 July 1972) was a pioneering French lawyer, feminist and pacifist. She was one of the women who participated in the Inter-Allied Women's Conference which opened in Paris in February 1919. In 1920, she was vice-president of the Association du Jeune Barreau and secretary of the central committee of the French Union for Women's Suffrage.
Biography of Sheila Sherlock (excerpt)
Dame Sheila Patricia Violet Sherlock DBE, FRCP FRCPE FRS HFRSE FMGA FCRGA (31 March 1918 – 30 December 2001) was a British physician and medical educator who is considered the major 20th-century contributor to the field of hepatology (the study of the liver).
Biography of Élisabeth de Rothschild (excerpt)
Élisabeth, Baroness de Rothschild (née Pelletier de Chambure; a.k.a. Lili; 9 March 1902 – 23 March 1945) was a member by marriage of the wine-making branch of the Rothschild family. Biography Born in Paris as Élisabeth Pelletier de Chambure, into a wealthy Catholic family whose roots were in the Burgundy region.
Biography of Pierre Avezard (excerpt)
Pierrevezard, also known as "Petit Pierre", born December 30, 1909 in Vienne-en-Val (Loiret) and died July 24, 1992 in Jargeau (Loiret), was a French creator of art brut. Disabled and self-taught, he is the author of the "manège de Petit Pierre", exhibited at La Fabuloserie in Dicy in the Yonne.
Biography of Rose Heilbron (excerpt)
Dame Rose Heilbron, DBE (19 August 1914 – 8 December 2005) was a British barrister who served as a High Court judge. Her career included many "firsts" for a woman – she was the first woman to achieve a first class honours degree in law at the University of Liverpool, the first woman to win a scholarship to Gray's Inn, one of the first two women to be appointed King's Counsel in England, the first woman to lead in a murder case, the first woman recorder, the first woman judge to sit at the Old Bailey, and the first woman treasurer of Gray's Inn.
Biography of Max Bozzoni (excerpt)
Max Bozzoni is a French dancer and ballet teacher born May 30, 1917 in Paris and died April 19, 2003 in Guainville.
Biography of Vittorio Pozzo (excerpt)
ttorio Pozzo (2 March 1886 in Rome (Wikipedia says Turin) – 21 December 1968 in Turin) was an Italian football player, manager and journalist. The creator of the Metodo tactical formation, Pozzo is regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time, and is the only manager to guide a national team to two FIFA World Cup titles as coach, leading the Italy national team to victory in the 1934 and 1938 FIFA World Cups.
Biography of Zoe Akins (excerpt)
Zoe Byrd Akins (October 30, 1886 – October 29, 1958) was an American playwright, poet, and author. She won the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for drama for The Old Maid. Career and life Her first major dramatic work was Papa, written in 1914. The comedy failed even though it greatly impressed both H.
Biography of Rosa Manus (excerpt)
Rosette Susanna "Rosa" Manus was born 20 August 1881 and died either at Auschwitz or Ravensbruck in 1942. She was a Jewish Dutch pacifist and female suffragist and was involved in women's movements and anti-war movements. She served as the President of the Society for Female Suffrage, the Vice President of the Dutch Association for Women's Interests and Equal Citizenship, and was one of the founding members of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) as well as its secretary.
Biography of Adrienne Ames (excerpt)
Adrienne Ames (born Ruth Adrienne McClure; August 3, 1907 – May 31, 1947) was an American film actress. Early in her career she was known as Adrienne Truex. Early years Ames was born in Fort Worth, Texas, one of six children of Samuel Hugh McClure and Flora Parthenia (née Potter) McClure.
Biography of Vicki Garvin (excerpt)
Victoria Garvin (December 18, 1915 – June 11, 2007) was an American political activist, Pan-Africanist, and self-described "working class internationalist." While growing up in a working-class family during the height of the Great Depression, Garvin was exposed early on to the realities of both proletariat and racial exploitation.
Biography of Dagmar Myhrvold (excerpt)
Dagmar Myhrvold (April 19, 1898 – April 21, 1972) was a Norwegian actress. After attending Sofie Bernhoft's school, Myhrvold spent a year studying theater in Copenhagen. In 1916 she was able to make her debut as a participant in Edvard Drabløs's touring theater.
Biography of Victoria Ocampo (excerpt)
Ramona Victoria Epifanía Rufina Ocampo CBE (7 April 1890 (her birth time had been displayed on the Spanish Wikipedia, without an original source.) – 27 January 1979) was an Argentine writer and intellectual. Best known as an advocate for others and as publisher of the literary magazine Sur, she was also a writer and critic in her own right and one of the most prominent South American women of her time.
Biography of Louis Saalborn (excerpt)
Louis Saalborn (Louis Alexander Abraham Zaalborn, born June 13, 1891 in Rotterdam and died June 18, 1957 (aged 66, unknown unspecified) in Amsterdam) is a Dutch director, actor, painter and musician. Louis Saalborn was one of the pioneers of abstract art and had exhibitions with Erich Wichmann (nl) and Theo van Doesburg.
Biography of Maria Vetulani de Nisau (excerpt)
Maria de Nisau née Vetulani (27 November 1898 – 2 September 1944) was a Polish woman soldier, combatant for Poland's independence, and participant in the Polish-Ukrainian War and World War II. She was the daughter of an engineer, Franciszek Vetulani (1856−1921), and Katarzyna Ipohorska-Lenkiewicz (1868−1915).
Biography of Albert de Mirimonde (excerpt)
Albert de Mirimonde, born September 2, 1897 in Montmorency (birth certificate no. 76) and died January 7, 1985, was a French magistrate and author. He was notably President of the Chamber at the Court of Auditors (1957-1967), member of the Council of National Museums and art critic.
Biography of Juan Vicente Pérez (excerpt)
Juan Vicente Pérez Mora (27 May 1909 – 2 April 2024) was a Venezuelan supercentenarian who, until his death at the age of 114 years, 311 days, was the world's oldest verified living man following the death of Spain's Saturnino de la Fuente García on 18 January 2022. |
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