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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 Ida Veldhuyzen van Zanten (excerpt)
Ida Laura Veldhuyzen van Zanten (22 June 1911 – 19 October 2000) was a Dutch pilot and social worker who was a member of the Dutch resistance during the Second World War and a pilot in the British Air Transport Auxiliary.
Biography of Paul Marion (politician) (excerpt)
Paul Jules André Marion (27 June 1899, Asnières-sur-Seine – 2 March 1954) was a French Communist and subsequently far right journalist and political activist.He served as the French Minister of Information from 1941 to 1944. Early years Marion joined the French Communist Party in 1922 and wrote for L'Humanité as well as being elected to the party's central committee in 1926.
Biography of Olga Sanfirova (excerpt)
Olga Aleksandrovna Sanfirova (2 May (O.S. 19 April) 1917 – 13 December 1944) was a captain and squadron commander in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment during World War II. She was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 23 February 1945, making her the first Tatar woman awarded the title.
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 Colette Thomas (actress) (excerpt)
Colette Thomas, a French writer and actress born December 28, 1918 and died October 10, 2006, is known for her sole book, "The Testament of the Dead Daughter". Her life was marked by encounters with renowned philosophers and a passion for theater, despite failing the Conservatoire's exam.
Biography of Emma Padilla (excerpt)
Emma Padilla (April 27, 1899 – July 3, 1966 (respiratory failure, cerebral thrombosis, diabetes, age 67)) was Mexico's first film star. She was noted for her resemblance to, and copying the mannerisms of, Italian film star Pina Menichelli, particularly in La luz (1917), which was essentially a copy of the successful Italian film Il Fuoco (1915) starring Menichelli.
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 Karl Gebhardt (excerpt)
Karl Gebhardt (November 23, 1897 – June 2, 1948) was a Nazi doctor, the personal physician of Heinrich Himmler and one of the main coordinators and authors of medical experiments on prisoners of the Ravensbrück and Auschwitz concentration camps. After the war, Gebhardt was one of twenty-three defendants in the doctors' trial, held before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.
Biography of Germaine L'Herbier-Montagnon (excerpt)
Germaine L'Herbier-Montagnon, born June 13, 1895 in Tournon (today Tournon-sur-Rhône), and died in this same city on July 29, 1986, was an IPSA pilot nurse - acronym referring to the Amicale nurse-pilots and air first-aiders created in the 1930s with the mission of "practical training of nurses, with a view to their assignment to the Health Services and annexes of the Air Force" - which, after the defeat of June 1940, created on his own initiative and directed the Mission for the search for the dead and missing of the Air Force.
Biography of Claude Bonnier (excerpt)
Claude Bonnier is an aeronautical engineer, French resistance fighter, born November 4, 1897 in Paris and died February 10, 1944 in Bouscat, in the suburbs of Bordeaux. Role in the Resistance He quickly joined the Resistance and settled first in Algiers then joined London in 1943.
Biography of Therese Brandl (excerpt)
herese Brandl (1 February 1902 – 24 January 1948) was a Nazi concentration camp guard. In March 1942, Brandl was among the SS women assigned to Auschwitz I concentration camp.Her duties included watching over women in the sorting sheds and as the SS Rapportaufseherin.
Biography of Ilektra Apostolou (excerpt)
Ilektra Apostolou (Greek: Ηλέκτρα Αποστόλου, 1912 - 26 July 1944) was a member of the Young Communist League of Greece, United Panhellenic Organization of Youth and the Communist Party of Greece, participating in the Greek Resistance. She was also a proponent of woman's rights.
Biography of Arnoldo Foà (excerpt)
Arnoldo Foà OMRI (24 January 1916 – 11 January 2014) was an Italian actor, voice actor, theatre director, singer and writer.He appeared in more than 130 films between 1938 and 2014. Foà was born in Ferrara, Italy, to a Jewish family, though Foà was an atheist in his adult life.
Biography of René Schickele (excerpt)
René Schickele (4 August 1883 – 31 January 1940) was a German-French writer, essayist and translator. Schickele was born in Obernai, Alsace, the son of a German vineyard owner and police officer and a French mother.He studied literature, history, science and philosophy in Strasbourg, Munich, Paris and Berlin.
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 Gregorio Marañón (excerpt)
Gregorio Marañón y Posadillo, OWL (19 May 1887 – 27 March 1960) was a Spanish physician, scientist, historian, writer and philosopher.He married Dolores Moya in 1911, and they had four children (Carmen, Belén, María Isabel and Gregorio). Gregorio Marañón, a Spanish intellectual known for his austere, humanist, and liberal values, is considered one of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century.
Biography of Lou Bandy (excerpt)
Lodewijk Ferdinand Dieben (April 19, 1890 – June 24, 1959), known as Lou Bandy, was a popular Dutch singer and conferencier between the world wars. Raised in The Hague, he worked various jobs before starting his entertainment career in 1915. Initially performing with his brother as The Bandy Brothers, he later pursued a solo career.
Biography of Ethel Catherwood (excerpt)
Ethel Hannah Catherwood (April 28, 1908 – September 26, 1987) was a Canadian athlete. Born in Hannah, North Dakota, United States, Ethel Catherwood was raised and educated in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, where she excelled at baseball, basketball and track and field athletics.
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 Margaret St. Clair (excerpt)
Margaret St.Clair (17 February 1911 – 22 November 1995) was an American fantasy and science fiction writer, who also wrote under the pseudonyms Idris Seabright and Wilton Hazzard. She was especially prolific in the 1950s, producing such acclaimed and much-reprinted stories as "The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles" (1951), "Brightness Falls from the Air" (1951), "An Egg a Month from All Over" (1952), and "Horrer Howce" (1956).
Biography of Orli Wald (excerpt)
Orli Wald (July 1, 1914 – January 1, 1962) was a member of the German Resistance in Nazi Germany. She was arrested in 1936 and charged with high treason, whereupon she served four and a half years in a women's prison, followed by "protective custody" in Nazi concentration camps until 1945, when she escaped.
Biography of Willy van Hemert (excerpt)
Willy van Hemert (29 March 1912 – 26 June 1993) was a Dutch actor and theatre and television director, but is best known as a songwriter who penned two winning Dutch songs for the Eurovision Song Contest. Biography Van Hemert was born in Utrecht in 1912 as Willem Catharinus van Hemert.
Biography of Wendell Corey (excerpt)
Wendell Reid Corey (March 20, 1914 – November 8, 1968) was an American stage, film, and television actor. He was President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a board member of the Screen Actors Guild, and also served on the Santa Monica City Council.
Biography of Glenn Langan (excerpt)
Glenn Langan (July 8, 1917 – January 26, 1991) was an American character actor on stage and films. Early years Born in Denver, Colorado, Langan was the son of Thomas Langan and Kate Quinn Langan. He attended schools there. His early training in acting came in Denver, where he was stage manager at Elitch's Gardens, handling various behind-the-scenes duties.
Biography of Paul Sacher (excerpt)
Paul Sacher (28 April 1906 – 26 May 1999) was a Swiss conductor, patron and billionaire businessman. His time birth comes from the biography "Symphonie der Träume: das Leben von Paul Sacher" by Lesley Stephenson (Rüffer & Rub, 2001). At the time of his death Sacher was majority shareholder of pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche and was considered the third richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of US$13 billion.
Biography of Virginia Biddle (excerpt)
Virginia Biddle (17 December 1910 – 21 February 2003) was an American revue performer and showgirl.She was a regular performer in Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies shows until 1931. In July 1931, Biddle sustained burns to her feet and ankles in the explosion of Harry Richman's yacht, the Chavalmar II.
Biography of Henri Lafont (excerpt)
Henri Chamberlin, known as Henri Lafont, born in the 13th arrondissement of Paris on April 22, 1902, and executed by firing squad at Fort de Montrouge in Arcueil on December 26, 1944, was a career criminal and a French collaborator who, during World War II, served as the head of the French Gestapo (the "Carlingue") under German occupation.
Biography of Boris Taslitzky (excerpt)
Boris Taslitzky, sometimes Boris Tazlitsky (September 30, 1911 – December 9, 2005), was a French painter with left-wing sympathies, best known for his figurative depictions of some difficult moments in the history of the twentieth century. His work is considered as representative of Socialist realism in art in France.
Biography of Hans Finne-Grønn (excerpt)
Hans Fredrik Leganger Finne-Grønn (25 September 1903 – 9 March 2001) was a Norwegian painter. He was born in Oslo as a son of lawyer and museum director Stian Herlofsen Finne-Grønn (1869–1953) and Margrethe Borchgrevink (1873–1963).He was a brother of ambassador Jørgen Finne-Grønn (1905–1998).
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 Thea Tewi (excerpt)
Thea Tewi (June 24, 1902 – July 5, 1999) was a German-born American sculptor and lingerie designer. Initially a prominent lingerie designer in New York during the 1940s, Tewi transitioned to sculpture after 1950.Born Thea Wittner in Berlin, she fled Nazi Germany with her family in 1938, gaining U.S.
Biography of Daisy Fellowes (excerpt)
Daisy Fellowes, born Marguerite Séverine Philippine Decazes de Glucksberg on April 29, 1890, in Paris and died on December 13, 1962, was a prominent figure in European high society, renowned for her beauty. Daughter of the Duke Decazes and heiress to the Singer fortune, she was a journalist for Harper's Bazaar and authored several novels.
Biography of Albertina Rasch (excerpt)
Albertina Rasch (January 19, 1891 – October 2, 1967) was a naturalized American dancer, company director, and choreographer. Career Rasch began performing before the age of fourteen.During the American “dance craze” of the 1910s, she left Vienna for the United States, appearing in shows at the New York Hippodrome, also known as “the National Amusement Institution of America” and the Winter Garden.
Biography of Elena Garro (excerpt)
Elena Garro (December 11, 1916 – August 22, 1998) was a Mexican author, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and novelist. Considered a pioneer of Magical Realism, though she rejected the label, her works Un hogar sólido (1958), Los Recuerdos del Porvenir (1963), and La Semana de Colores (1964) are among the earliest examples of the movement.
Biography of Aldo Fabrizi (excerpt)
Aldo Fabrizi, born Aldo Fabbrizi on November 1, 1905, and passing on April 2, 1990, was an acclaimed Italian actor, director, screenwriter, and comedian. Best known for his role as the priest in Roberto Rossellini's neorealist drama "Rome, Open City," and for his comedic partnerships with Totò, Fabrizi began his career on stage in 1931 in Rome.
Biography of Óscar Esplá (excerpt)
Óscar Esplá y Triay (August 5, 1886 – January 6, 1976) was a renowned Spanish composer.The Conservatorio Superior de Música in Alicante is named in his honor, and since 1955, the city of Alicante has awarded the Óscar Esplá international prize for composition.
Biography of Eric Liddell (excerpt)
Eric Henry Liddell (16 January 1902 – 21 February 1945) was a Scottish sprinter, rugby player and Christian missionary. Born in Qing China to Scottish missionary parents, he attended boarding school near London, spending time when possible with his family in Edinburgh, and afterwards attended the University of Edinburgh.
Biography of Eva Jessye (excerpt)
Eva Jessye (January 20, 1895 – February 21, 1992) was an American conductor who was the first black woman to receive international distinction as a professional choral conductor.She is notable as a choral conductor during the Harlem Renaissance.She created her own choral group which featured widely in performance.
Biography of Ossi Oswalda (excerpt)
Ossi Oswalda, born Oswalda Amalie Anna Stäglich on February 2, 1898, and passed away on March 7, 1947, was a German actress famous for her roles in silent films, many directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Her characters were often eccentric, spoiled, and child-like, earning her the nickname 'The German Mary Pickford'.
Biography of María Arias Bernal (excerpt)
María Arias Bernal, known as María Pistolas (1884–1923), was a Mexican schoolteacher and revolutionary agitator during the Mexican Revolution. Supporting President Francisco I. Madero until his assassination by Victoriano Huerta, Arias notably defended Madero’s tomb against Huerta's regime. She founded the Women's Loyalty Club to promote Madero's legacy and led protests.
Biography of Lin Jaldati (excerpt)
Lin Jaldati (born Rebekka Brilleslijper; 13 December 1912 – 31 August 1988) was a Dutch-born, East German-based Yiddish singer.She was a Holocaust survivor, and one of the last people to see Anne Frank.After the war she published an article, "Memories of Anne Frank," in Joachim Hellwig and Günther Deicke's book A Diary for Anne Frank.
Biography of Helen Harrison-Bristol (excerpt)
Helen Marcelle Harrison Bristol (December 7, 1909 – April 27, 1995) was a pioneering Canadian female civil aviation instructor and the first Canadian Air Transport Auxiliary ferry pilot during World War II. In 1939, she was appointed chief flying instructor at the Sheffield Aero Club, then journeyed to the United States to earn that country's commercial pilot's certificate.
Biography of Julian Tuwim (excerpt)
Julian Tuwim (13 September 1894 – 27 December 1953), known also under the pseudonym "Oldlen" as a lyricist, was a Polish poet, born in Łódź, then part of the Russian Partition. He was educated in Łódź and in Warsaw where he studied law and philosophy at Warsaw University.
Biography of André Chotin (excerpt)
André Roger Chotin alias André E. Chotin, born January 26, 1892 in the 10th arrondissement of Paris and died January 10, 1954 in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, is a French decorator, artistic director and director of cinema. He made his debut as an actor in Jacques Copeau's theatrical company, with which he played several plays at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in 1917 and 1918.
Biography of Emmanuel Brihaye (excerpt)
Emmanuel Brihaye, born September 30, 1913 in Glageon in the North, died June 22, 2004, was a French engineer, soldier and test pilot. Decorations Officer of the Legion of Honor, Croix de guerre 39-45, Medal of Aeronautics, Soviet decorations: Merit for the Fatherland and Order of Victory.
Biography of Lothar Müthel (excerpt)
Lothar Müthel (né Lothar Max Lütcke; 18 February 1896 – 4 September 1964) was a German stage and film actor and director. Müthel was born in Berlin, where he attended the acting school of Max Reinhardt, Schauspielschule, Berlin.Following the Anchluss of Austria to Nazi Germany, Müthel was appointed as director of the Burgtheater in Vienna.
Biography of Ellen Osiier (excerpt)
Ellen Osiier (13 August 1890 – 6 September 1962) was a Danish foil fencer.Osiier was born in Hjørring, Nordjylland, Denmark. The 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris was the first Olympic Games to feature women's fencing.Osiier, then 33, won the gold medal and went undefeated in the 16 matches she fenced in the event.
Biography of Sophie of Greece and Denmark (excerpt)
Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark (26 June 1914 - 24 November 2001) was a Greek and Danish princess, and later Princess of Hesse-Kassel and Hanover through her marriages. Her birth time comes from a letter from her grandmother Victoria from Hesse-Darmstadt.
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Maria Ulfah Soebadio Sastrosatomo (18 August 1911 – 15 April 1988), better known by her first married name Maria Ulfah Santoso, was an Indonesian politician and women's rights activist who served as Minister of Social Affairs under Prime Minister Sutan Sjahrir. |
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