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Biography of Franz Radziwill (excerpt)
Johann Franz Wilhelm Eduard Radziwill (* 6. Februar 1895 in Strohausen, heute Rodenkirchen in der Wesermarsch; † 12. August 1983 in Wilhelmshaven) war ein deutscher Künstler des Magischen Realismus. Sein Œuvre umfasst verschiedene Schaffensperioden: ein expressionistisches Frühwerk, ein magisch-realistisches Hauptwerk und ein symbolistisches Spätwerk.
Biography of Juvencio Valle (excerpt)
Juvencio Valle, also known by the pseudonym Gilberto Concha Riffo (November 6, 1900 – February 12, 1999), was a noted Chilean poet. He is a recipient of the Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile, a National Prize awarded to poets of high reputation.
Biography of Elliott Roosevelt (general) (excerpt)
Elliott Roosevelt (September 23, 1910 – October 27, 1990) was an American aviation official and wartime officer in the United States Army Air Forces, reaching the rank of brigadier general. He was a son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
Biography of Catherine Pozzi (excerpt)
Catherine Pozzi, born July 13, 1882 in Paris and died December 3, 1934 in the same city, is a French poet and woman of letters. Catherine Pozzi, born into an aristocratic and bourgeois family in Paris in the late 19th century, was the daughter of Samuel Pozzi, a renowned surgeon, and Thérèse Loth-Cazalis.
Biography of Beverly Cleary (excerpt)
Beverly Atlee Cleary (née Bunn; April 12, 1916 – March 25, 2021) was an American writer of children's and young adult fiction. One of America's most successful authors, 91 million copies of her books have been sold worldwide since her first book was published in 1950.
Biography of Zofia Nalkowska (excerpt)
Zofia Nałkowska (10 November 1884, in Warsaw, Congress Poland – 17 December 1954, in Warsaw) was a Polish prose writer, dramatist, and prolific essayist. She served as the executive member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature (1933–1939) during the interwar period.
Biography of Charlotte Susa (excerpt)
Charlotte Susa (1 March 1898 – 28 July 1976) was a German actress. Susa was born Charlotta Wegmüller in Gut Gaußen (now part of Kretingalė), East Prussia and first appeared on a stage in 1915 at Tilsit. She chose her mother's maiden name "Susa" as her stage name and began a successful career as a singer and actress at different German opera and operetta stages, e.
Biography of Karolina Lanckoronska (excerpt)
Countess Karolina Maria Adelajda Franciszka Ksawera Małgorzata Edina Lanckorońska (11 August 1898 — 25 August 2002) was a Polish noble, World War II resistance fighter, philanthropist, and historian. Lanckorońska bequeathed her family's enormous art collection to Poland only after her homeland became free from communism and Soviet domination during the Revolutions of 1989.
Biography of Jeanne Provost (excerpt)
Jeanne Provost (28 November 1887 – 24 November 1980) was a French stage and film actress. She was a member of the Comédie-Française from 1907 to 1912. In 1928 she appeared in the original cast of Marcel Pagnol's play Topaze. Selected filmography
Biography of B. H. Liddell Hart Liddell Hart (excerpt)
Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart (31 October 1895 – 29 January 1970), commonly known throughout most of his career as Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, was a British soldier, military historian, and military theorist. He wrote a series of military histories that proved influential among strategists.
Biography of Gert Jynge (excerpt)
Gert Hyld Jynge (1904–1994) was a Norwegian painter, graphic artist and draftsman. His production mainly took place in the interwar period, i.e. from the mid-1920s until 1948, when, according to his own statement, he "gave up". He exhibited at the Autumn Exhibition for the last time in 1961.
Biography of Gina Palerme (excerpt)
Gina Palerme (born Marie Louise Irène de Maulmont, 18 December 1885 – 26 December 1977) was a French actress and dancer. Biography Gina Palerme was born Marie Louise Irène de Maulmont (also spelled Maumont) on 18 December 1885, the daughter of Baron Marie Antoine Aymard Hubert de Maulmont (1850–1891) and Antoinette Gazenaud (born 1853).
Biography of Vicki Baum (excerpt)
Hedwig "Vicki" Baum was an Austrian writer, famous for her novel "Menschen im Hotel" ("People at a Hotel"), which became a hit film and musical. Born in Vienna into a Jewish family, Baum faced the early loss of her mother and lived under a tyrannical father.
Biography of Alexander Hall (excerpt)
Alexander Hall (January 11, 1894 – July 30, 1968) was an American film director, film editor and theatre actor. Biography Hall acted in the theatre from the age of 4 through 1914, when he began to work in silent movies. Following his military service in World War I, he returned to Hollywood and pursued a career in film production.
Biography of Valli Valli (excerpt)
Valli Valli, born Valli Knust (11 February 1882 – 4 November 1927), was a musical comedy actress and silent film performer born in Berlin, Germany. She was descended from an old English family and lived most of her life in England.
Biography of Trygve Klingenberg (excerpt)
Trygve Olavssøn Klingenberg (born 18 February 1900, died 12 January 1987) was a Norwegian architect. He was the brother of the architect Ørn Klingenberg, with whom he also worked in partnership. Education and work After graduating in art in 1917, Klingenberg briefly attended the War College before studying at the architecture department at NTH in 1918–22.
Biography of Anthony Warde (excerpt)
Anthony Warde (born Benjamin Schwartz; November 4, 1908 (Wikipedia has an error) – January 8, 1975) was an American actor who appeared in over 150 movies from 1937 to 1964. Early years Born as Benjamin Schwartz in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on New Year's Day 1909, Warde was raised in Danbury, Connecticut.
Biography of Nelson Algren (excerpt)
Nelson Algren (born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham; March 28, 1909 – May 9, 1981) was an American writer. His 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm won the National Book Award and was adapted as the 1955 film of the same name.
Biography of Maisie Renault (excerpt)
Maisie Renault (13 December 1907 – 7 April 2003) was a French Resistance fighter, a member of the Confrérie Notre-Dame network, she was arrested in 1942 and deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1944. Awards Renault received the Legion of Honor, the Croix de Guerre and the Resistance medal.
Biography of Louis Nallard (excerpt)
Louis Nallard, born June 17, 1918 in Algiers and died October 15, 2016 in Paris, is a French non-figurative painter of the new School of Paris. Born in 1918 in Algiers, Louis Nallard lost his mother to the Spanish flu and was raised by his grandparents.
Biography of Enrico Pea (excerpt)
Enrico Pea, born October 29, 1881 in Seravezza and died August 11, 1958 in Forte dei Marmi, was an Italian writer, poet and playwright, winner of the Viareggio Prize. Pea's literary production can be divided into two periods: the first is that of Moscardino (1922), translated into English by Ezra Pound, and other works in which, despite his religious torments, he is incomparable in the description of scenes of popular life, in a disordered ecstasy of recounting between sighs and cries, the memories of villagers in mourning, the glories and triumphs of superstition and sex, the dark stories of those who travel and those who return.
Biography of Per Aabel (excerpt)
Per Pavels Aabel (25 April 1902 – 22 December 1999) was a Norwegian actor, artist, dancer, choreographer and instructor. Per Aabel was the son of Hauk Aabel, a popular Norwegian comedian and actor in Norwegian and Swedish silent film, and the actress Svanhild Johannessen.
Biography of Christian Kittilsen (excerpt)
Christian Kittilsen (born 1907 in Oslo, died 1977 in Austbygde i Tinn) was a Norwegian cartoonist, draftsman, painter and illustrator. Kittilsen studied medicine from 1926 to 1931, but interrupted his studies and chose art instead. He completed a short painting course with Carl von Hanno, but was otherwise self-taught.
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 Tito Lusiardo (excerpt)
Tito Lusiardo (September 13, 1896 – June 25, 1982 in Buenos Aires) was an iconic Argentine film actor and tango singer of the classic era. Lusiardo began acting for film in 1933 and made some 50 film appearances as an actor. He began appearing in tango films in the 1930s such as Idolos de la radio (1934), Así es el tango (1937), Adiós Buenos Aires (1938) and Así te quiero (1942).
Biography of Henry Charbonneau (excerpt)
Henry Charbonneau (pseudonym: Henry Charneau) (12 December 1913 in Saint-Maixent-l'École (birth certificate n° 64), Deux-Sèvres – 2 January 1983 in La Roche-sur-Yon) was a French far right politician and writer. The son of a soldier, Charbonneau initially came to political activism as a member of the Action Française before embarking on a varied career with a number of far right groups.
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 Jadwiga Pilsudska (excerpt)
Jadwiga Piłsudska-Jaraczewska (28 February 1920 – 16 November 2014) was a Polish pilot, who served in the Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War. She was one of two daughters of Józef Piłsudski. Life and career Piłsudska was born on 28 February 1920 in Warsaw, the younger daughter of Marshal Józef Piłsudski, Poland's Chief of State (1918–22) and dictator (1926–1935), by the woman who would later become his second wife, Aleksandra Piłsudska (née Aleksandra Szczerbińska).
Biography of Hilde Radusch (excerpt)
Hilde Radusch (6 November 1903 – 2 August 1994) was a German political activist (KPD, SPD) who became involved in anti-fascist resistance. As the 20th century progressed, she became increasingly prominent as a feminist and lesbian activist. Throughout her life Radusch kept a diary.
Biography of Geneviève Aclocque (excerpt)
Geneviève Aclocque (Léopoldine Marcelle Geneviève Aclocque) (5 May 1884 - 28 August 1967) was a French historian. In 1906, She became the first woman to be admitted to the École Nationale des Chartes. She graduated in 1910. In 1917 she published a “historical study of the trades at Chartres.
Biography of Mélinée Manouchian (excerpt)
Mélinée Manouchian (born Melina Assadourian or Soukémian; 1913 - 1989) was a French-Armenian résistante and the widow of Missak Manouchian. She was born in 1913 in Constantinople as Melina Assadourian (or Soukémian). During the Armenian genocide she lost her parents and was taken, along with her elder sister, to a Protestant orphanage in Smyrne.
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 Alexander Imich (excerpt)
Alexander Herbert Imich (February 4, 1903 – June 8, 2014) was a Polish-American chemist, parapsychologist, zoologist and writer who was the president of the Anomalous Phenomena Research Center in New York City. He was born in 1903 in Częstochowa, Poland (then part of the Russian Empire) to a Jewish family.
Biography of Eugene Allen (excerpt)
Eugene Charles Allen (July 14, 1919 – March 31, 2010) was an American waiter and butler who worked for the US government at the White House for 34 years until he retired as the head butler in 1986. Allen's life was the inspiration for the 2013 film The Butler.
Biography of Alf Løvberg (excerpt)
Alf Gunnar Løvberg (19 September 1898 (Wikipedia gives 1899 in error) – 17 October 1986) was a Norwegian painter from Oslo. Løvberg, who was the son of an orchestra musician, was a student of Christian Krohg and Halfdan Strøm at the Norwegian Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo.
Biography of Jeanne Matthey (excerpt)
Jeanne-Marie Matthey-Jonais (25 January 1886 – 24 November 1980) was a French tennis player. She competed during the first two decades of the 20th century. Matthey won the French Open Women's Singles Championship four times in succession from 1909 to 1912, but lost the 1913 final to Marguerite Broquedis.
Biography of Fritz Rentrop (excerpt)
Fritz Rentrop, born on November 19, 1917, in Münster, Westphalia, and presumed dead on February 2, 1945, was an officer of the Waffen-SS during World War II, holding the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
Biography of Jacques Vaché (excerpt)
Jacques Vaché (7 September 1895 – 6 January 1919) was a friend of André Breton, an artist and author. Vaché was one of the chief inspirations behind the Surrealist movement. As Breton said: "En littérature, je me suis successivement épris de Rimbaud, de Jarry, d'Apollinaire, de Nouveau, de Lautréamont, mais c'est à Jacques Vaché que je dois le plus"
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 Alice Zeppilli (excerpt)
Alice Zeppilli (28 August 1881 (Wikipedia incorrectly lists 1885) – 14 September 1969) was a French operatic soprano of Italian heritage who had an active international singing career from 1901 to 1930. The pinnacle of her career was in the United States where she enjoyed great popularity between 1906 and 1914; particularly in the cities of Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia.
Biography of Suhayr al-Qalamawi (excerpt)
Sahier al-Qalamawi (Arabic: سهير القلماوي; July 20, 1911 – May 4, 1997) was a significant literary figure and politician from Egypt who shaped Arabic writing and culture through her writing, feminist activism, and advocacy. She was one of the first women to attend Cairo University and in 1941 became the first Egyptian woman to earn her Master of Arts Degree and PhD for her work in Arabic literature.
Biography of Eduardo Mallea (excerpt)
Eduardo Mallea (14 August 1903 in Bahía Blanca – 12 November 1982 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine essayist, cultural critic, writer and diplomat. In 1931 he became editor of the literary magazine of La Nación. Eduardo Mallea began studying law, which he abandoned in 1926 to devote himself to literature.
Biography of Marie Reynoard (excerpt)
Marie Reynoard, born in Bastia (Haute-Corse) on October 28, 1897, and died in Ravensbrück (Germany) on January 30, 1945, was a heroine of the Grenoble Resistance during the Second World War. Biography A brilliant student, she joined the prestigious École normale supérieure de jeunes filles (Sèvres); in 1921, she taught in Cahors and then in Marseilles, before being appointed in 1936 to the Lycée Stendhal in Grenoble.
Biography of Elise Reiman (excerpt)
Olga Elise Reiman (October 17, 1911 – August 26, 1993) was an American ballet dancer and dance educator. After starting her career working with choreographer Adolph Bolm, she danced at the American Ballet and Ballet Society, both forerunners of the New York City Ballet, and originated several roles for choreographer George Balanchine.
Biography of Herta Ehlert (excerpt)
Herta Ehlert (née Liess; 26 March 1905 – 4 April 1997) was a female guard at many Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust. During the war On 15 November 1939, Ehlert was called for Schutzstaffel (SS) work by the Labor Exchange, and began working at Ravensbrück concentration camp.
Biography of Arthur Blake (actor) (excerpt)
Arthur Blake (February 24, 1914 – March 24, 1985) was an American actor and nightclub entertainer who was famous for his female impersonations; particularly those of Bette Davis, Carmen Miranda, and Eleanor Roosevelt. He performed in nightclubs in cities throughout the United States and United Kingdom in the 1940s and the 1950s.
Biography of Martha Desrumaux (excerpt)
Martha Desrumaux (18 October 1897 - 30 November 1982) was a militant communist and a member of the French Resistance. Martha Desrumaux was born on October 18, 1897, in Comines in France. She was an emblematic figure of the workers' movement and the French internal resistance.
Biography of Otto Nagel (excerpt)
Otto Nagel (27 September 1894 – 12 July 1967) was a German painter, graphic designer and long-time head of the Berlin Academy of Arts who was one of the most prolific artists of East Germany. Life Born at Berlin-Wedding, Nagel was the son of a carpenter and social democrat.
Biography of Hildegard Lachert (excerpt)
Hildegard Martha Lächert (19 March 1920 – 14 April 1995) was a female guard, or Aufseherin, at several concentration camps controlled by Nazi Germany. She became publicly known for her service at Ravensbrück, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau. In October 1942, 22-year-old German nurse Lächert was assigned to Majdanek concentration camp as an Aufseherin, where she was notably brutal.
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. |
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