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Biography of Roy Barcroft (excerpt)
Roy Barcroft (born Howard Harold Ravenscroft; September 7, 1902 – November 28, 1969) was an American character actor famous for playing villains in B-Westerns and other genres. From 1937 to 1957, he appeared in more than 300 films for Republic Pictures. Film critic Leonard Maltin acclaimed Barcroft as "Republic Pictures' number one bad guy".
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Biography of Ida Gerhardt (excerpt)
Ida Gerhardt (11 May 1905, Gorinchem – 15 August 1997, Warnsveld) was a Dutch classicist and post-symbolist poet. She attended the Erasmus Gymnasium in Rotterdam, where poet J.H. Leopold taught her Classics and left a lasting impact. She studied classical languages in Leiden and Utrecht, graduating cum laude in 1942.
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Biography of Jean Gachet (excerpt)
Jean Gachet (2 June 1894 in Saint-Étienne – 4 February 1968) was a French featherweight boxer. He competed in the 1920s. Gachet won a silver medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics, losing to Paul Fritsch in the final. Olympic results 1st round bye
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Biography of Martin Hellinger (excerpt)
Martin Karl Hellinger (17 July 1904 – 13 August 1988) was a German Nazi dentist who in 1943 was assigned to work at the concentration camp for women at Ravensbrück, with the duty of removing dental gold from those killed at the camp.
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Biography of Clara González (excerpt)
Clara González (11 September 1898 – 11 February 1990) was a Panamanian feminist, lawyer, judge, and activist. She became the first Panamanian woman to earn her Bachelor of Law Degree in 1922. In 1922, she created the Partido Nacional Feminista (PNF, National Feminist Party) to campaign for women's rights and suffrage.
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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.
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Biography of Ana María Martínez Sagi (excerpt)
Anna Maria Martínez Sagi (16 February 1907 – 2 January 2000) was a Spanish poet, trade unionist, journalist, feminist, and athlete. She was a national javelin champion and the first female director of a Spanish football club. During the Spanish Civil War, she followed the Durruti Column as a journalist and later went into exile in France.
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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 Raoul Breton (excerpt)
Raoul Breton, born on August 26, 1896, in Vierzon and died at sea on April 23, 1959, was a French music publisher. Initially a dancer, he ventured into music publishing in 1933, discovering talents like Damia, Mireille, and Jean Nohain. His pivotal encounter with Charles Trenet propelled Trenet to international fame.
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Biography of Pedro Salinas (excerpt)
Pedro Salinas y Serrano (27 November 1891 – 4 December 1951) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27, as well as a university teacher, scholar and literary critic.In 1937, he delivered the Turnbull lectures at Johns Hopkins University.
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Biography of Alberto Talegalli (excerpt)
Alberto Talegalli (2 October 1913 – 10 July 1961) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 37 films between 1952 and 1961. He was born in Pincano (Spoleto), Italy and died in Gualdo Tadino, in the province of Perugia, Italy.
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Biography of Thorbjørn Egner (excerpt)
Thorbjørn Egner (12 December 1912 – 24 December 1990) was a Norwegian playwright, songwriter, and illustrator, best known for his children's books, plays, and musicals. His notable works include "Karius og Baktus" (1949) and "Folk og røvere i Kardemomme by" (1955). He grew up in Oslo's Kampen neighborhood and studied art at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry.
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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.
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Biography of Germaine Rouer (excerpt)
Germaine Joséphine Rouer, born on November 2, 1897, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, where she also passed away on December 26, 1994, in the 4th arrondissement, was a French actress and an honorary member of the Comédie-Française. From her first marriage on December 11, 1926, to the director Pierre Marodon, she had a daughter, Thérèse, who would become an actress known as Thérèse Marney.
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.
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Biography of Edmond Marin la Meslée (excerpt)
Edmond Marin la Meslée, born on February 5, 1912 in Valenciennes and killed in combat on February 4, 1945 in Dessenheim (Haut-Rhin), is the most decorated French aviation ace of the French campaign with sixteen confirmed aerial victories (and four more probable) achieved between January and June 1940. ![]()
Biography of Edmund Lowe (excerpt)
Edmund Sherbourne Lowe (March 3, 1890 – April 21, 1971) was an American actor.His formative experience began in vaudeville and silent film. Lowe was born in San Jose, California.His father was a local judge.His childhood home was at 314 North 1st Street, San Jose.
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Biography of Susie Sharp (excerpt)
Susie Marshall Sharp (July 7, 1907 – March 1, 1996) was an American jurist who served as the first female chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. She was not the first woman to head the highest court in a U.S. ![]()
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.
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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 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.
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Biography of Kiki Palmer (excerpt)
Giulia Fogliata (July 11, 1907 – August 11, 1949), better known by her stage names Kiki Palmer and Daniela Palmer, was an Italian stage, film, and radio actress. Life and career Born in Milan, after an occasional acting experience at the Teatro degli Arcimboldi Palmer left her universitary studies in medicine to became an actress.
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Biography of Lotte Reiniger (excerpt)
Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger (2 June 1899 – 19 June 1981) was a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation.Her best known films are The Adventures of Prince Achmed, from 1926, the first feature-length animated film, and Papageno (1935).
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Biography of Paul Abrioux (excerpt)
Paul Abrioux, born October 22, 1908 in Dijon (Côte-d'Or) and died for France on November 17, 1951 in Ussana in the province of Southern Sardinia in Italy, was a French aviator of the Second World War, "as of aviation”.
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Biography of Fritz Fischer (medical doctor) (excerpt)
Fritz Ernst Fischer (5 October 1912 – 2003) was a Nazi German medical doctor who performed medical atrocities on inmates of the Ravensbrück concentration camp. He was tried and convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the 1947 Doctors' Trial; he was sentenced to life imprisonment, but his sentence was commuted to 15 years and he was released in 1954.
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Biography of Agustín Muñoz Grandes (excerpt)
Agustín Muñoz Grandes (January 27, 1896 – July 11, 1970) was a Spanish general and politician, vice-president of the Spanish Government and minister several times under Francisco Franco. Born in Madrid, he joined the Toledo Infantry Academy and was deployed to Morocco in 1915.
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Biography of Geneviève Félix (excerpt)
Geneviève Félix, born Geneviève Abraham on February 21, 1901, in Paris 10th arrondissement (contrary to incorrect data on Wikipedia; IMDb is right), and died on November 12, 1980, in Antibes, was a French film actress. The daughter of Jean Baptiste Abraham, a gendarme, and Marie Analie Mice Brousse, a seamstress, Geneviève Simonne Marie Abraham was born in Clamart in 1899.
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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.
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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.
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Biography of Ernie Nordli (excerpt)
Ernest Nordli (June 15, 1912 – April 22, 1968) was an American animation designer and layout artist, most notably for Walt Disney Studios. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah to Norwegian immigrant Hans Magnus Nordli (1884-1975) and Hedvig Charlotte Esterblom (1888-1976) who was of Swedish heritage.
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Biography of Riccardo Bacchelli (excerpt)
Riccardo Bacchelli (19 April 1891 – 8 October 1985) was an Italian writer. In 1927 he was one of the founders of the review La Ronda and Bagutta Prize for literature. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature eight times. ![]()
Biography of Pamela Mitford (excerpt)
Pamela Freeman-Mitford (25 November 1907 – 12 April 1994) was one of the Mitford sisters. Pamela Freeman-Mitford was the second daughter of David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron Redesdale, and Sydney Bowles (1880–1963). John Betjeman, who for a time was in love with her, referred to her in his unpublished poem, "The Mitford Girls", as the "most rural of them all" since she preferred to live quietly in the country.
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Biography of Aloha Wanderwell (excerpt)
Aloha Wanderwell (Idris Galcia Hall née Welsh, October 13, 1906 – June 4, 1996) was a Canadian explorer, author, filmmaker, and aviator.Her birth time comes from an article in which she herself gives her birth time. Beginning when she was 16 years old, she become the first woman to circumnavigate the globe, driving a Ford 1918 Model T over a five year period (1922–1927).
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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.
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Biography of Luis Zambrano (excerpt)
Luis Zambrano (Bailadores, State of Mérida, May 1, 1901 - Tovar, State of Mérida, August 15, 1990) was a popular self-taught inventor from the State of Mérida, Venezuela, a mechanical genius. He created dozens of inventions. In 1977 he lost his right hand following an accident with a saw.
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Biography of Paul Lévy (mathematician) (excerpt)
Paul Pierre Lévy (15 September 1886 – 15 December 1971) was a French mathematician who was active especially in probability theory, introducing fundamental concepts such as local time, stable distributions and characteristic functions. Lévy processes, Lévy flights, Lévy measures, Lévy's constant, the Lévy distribution, the Lévy area, the Lévy arcsine law, and the fractal Lévy C curve are named after him.
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Biography of James Edwards (actor) (excerpt)
James Johnson Edwards (March 6, 1918 – January 4, 1970) was an American actor in films and television. His most famous role was as Private Peter Moss in the 1949 film Home of the Brave, in which he portrayed a Black soldier experiencing racial prejudice while serving in the South Pacific during World War II.
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Biography of Virginia Vale (excerpt)
Virginia Vale (born Dorothy Howe, May 20, 1920 – September 14, 2006) was an American film actress. She starred in a number of B-movie westerns but took a variety of other roles as well, notably in Blonde Comet (1941), in which she played a race car driver.
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Biography of Thorleif Heyerdahl (excerpt)
Thorleif Heyerdahl (born 16 April 1900 in Oslo, died 11 February 1981 in Lillehammer) was a Norwegian painter. Heyerdahl lived 20 years of his life on Tjøme, where many of his motifs are also from. He also took motifs from Svolvær and later from Gausdal, Gudbrandsdalen and the Lillehammer area, especially after he moved to Lillehammer in 1953.
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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.
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Biography of Carmen Mondragón (excerpt)
María del Carmen Mondragón Valseca, also known as Nahui Olin (July 8, 1893 – January 23, 1978)), was a Mexican painter, poet, and model. She grew up in a privileged environment, lived in France and Spain during her early years, and married Manuel Rodríguez Lozano. ![]()
Biography of Joan Woodbury (excerpt)
Joan Woodbury, an American actress born in Los Angeles in 1915, began her career in the 1930s, thriving into the 1960s. She grew up in a prominent family, with her mother a former Rose Queen and in vaudeville. Woodbury discovered acting early, leading to roles in films like "Eight Girls in a Boat." Her career rose significantly by 1936, showcasing her ethnic versatility in various roles.
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Biography of Tamara Karsavina (excerpt)
Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (9 March 1885 – 26 May 1978) was a Russian prima ballerina, renowned for her beauty, who was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later of the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev. After settling in Britain at Hampstead in London, she began teaching ballet professionally and became recognised as one of the founders of modern British ballet.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.L.
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Biography of Anton Saefkow (excerpt)
Anton Emil Hermann Saefkow (22 July 1903 – 18 September 1944) was a German Communist and a resistance fighter against the National Socialist régime. He was arrested in July 1944 and executed on 18 September by guillotine. Anton Saefkow was born in Berlin, a member of a socialist working-class family and in 1920 while still a metalworker's apprentice, joined the Young Communist League of Germany to whose Berlin leadership he rose in 1922.
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Biography of Christian Herter (excerpt)
Christian Archibald Herter (March 28, 1895 – December 30, 1966) was an American diplomat and Republican politician who was the 59th Governor of Massachusetts from 1953 to 1957 and United States Secretary of State from 1959 to 1961.He served as president of the board of trustees at the Dexter School from 1937 to 1939.
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Biography of Kurt Tucholsky (excerpt)
Kurt Tucholsky, born on January 9, 1890, in Berlin and died on December 21, 1935, in Gothenburg, was a German journalist and writer. He was one of the most important authors of the Weimar Republic. As a politically engaged journalist and co-editor of the weekly Die Weltbühne, he emerged as a social critic in the tradition of Heinrich Heine. |
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