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Biography of Ester Horn (excerpt)
Ester Horn, born Ester Lind Jynge on June 19, 1902, in Kristiania, and passed away on April 14, 1993, in Stabekk, Bærum, was a Norwegian humanist. Along with her husband Kristian Horn, she was among the founders of the Association for Civil Confirmation in 1950 and the Human-Ethical Union in 1956.
Biography of Robert Lachmann (excerpt)
Robert Lachmann (28 November 1892 – 8 May 1939) was a German ethnomusicologist, polyglot (German, English, French, Arabic), orientalist and librarian. He was an expert in the musical traditions of the Middle East, a member of the Berlin School of Comparative Musicology and one of its founding fathers.
Biography of Raffaele Bendandi (excerpt)
Raffaele Bendandi (1893–1979), an Italian clockmaker, was known for his earthquake predictions. Self-taught, he became interested in planetary motion and seismology after witnessing a solar eclipse in 1905. Bendandi theorized, without scientific backing, that earthquakes were caused by planetary alignments. He gained fame for his predictions, notably the one in 1924, which missed by two days.
Biography of Alberto Vargas (excerpt)
Alberto Vargas is a Peruvian painter, illustrator and designer, born February 11, 1896 in Arequipa and died December 30, 1982 in Los Angeles. He is particularly known for his drawings of pin-ups. Alberto Vargas, born in Arequipa, was the son of a successful photographer.
Biography of Pauline Chabanny (excerpt)
Pauline Eugenie Chabanny (born Gauthier; 20 August 1881 – 13 August 1994) was a French supercentenarian whose age was validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). Born as Pauline Eugenie Gauthier in Loiret, Centre-Val de Loire, France, she took the surname Chabanny upon marriage.
Biography of Erwin Finlay-Freundlich (excerpt)
Erwin Finlay-Freundlich FRSE FRAS (1885–1964) was a German astronomer and a pupil of Felix Klein. He collaborated with Albert Einstein and proposed experiments to test the general theory of relativity through astronomical observations of gravitational redshift. Born in Wiesbaden, Germany, he studied at the Charlottenburg Polytechnic and Göttingen University.
Biography of Ilse Trautschold (excerpt)
Ilse Gertrud Trautschold (1906-1991) was a German actress and cabaret performer. Born in Charlottenburg, the daughter of an actor, she began her career as a choir singer at 14 and trained at the Volksbühne Berlin. She joined the leftist Berlin cabaret "Die Wespen" in 1926 and performed in various theaters and films during the Nazi era.
Biography of Peggy Solomon (excerpt)
Margery Lee Golder Solomon, born Mastbaum on August 14, 1908, and died on March 4, 1995, was an American bridge player from Philadelphia. In 1942, as Peggy Golder, she became the 33rd Life Master of the ACBL, and the third woman to achieve this rank after Sally Young and Helen Sobel.
Biography of Wanda Osiris (excerpt)
Wanda Osiris (pronounced ; born Anna Menzio, italianized as Vanda Osiri during the Fascist era; 3 June 1905 – 11 November 1994) was an Italian revue soubrette, actress and singer. Life and career Born in Rome, Italy, the daughter of a groom, she studied violin at a young age.
Biography of Angela Jurdak Khoury (excerpt)
Angela Jurdak Khoury (September 24, 1915 - May 29, 2011) was a Lebanese diplomat and college professor based in Washington, D.C. Career Khoury taught sociology at the American University of Beirut beginning in 1938, the university's first woman instructor. She served as assistant director of the Allied Powers Radio Poll for Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine during World War II.
Biography of Henry Bouquillard (excerpt)
Henry Bouquillard, born June 14, 1908, in Nevers and killed in combat over London on March 11, 1941, was a French aviator and a Companion of the Liberation. A prominent figure in the Free French Air Forces, Bouquillard joined England in July 1940 and served in the 245th Squadron, participating in the Battle of Britain where he achieved two confirmed victories.
Biography of Guy Krohg (excerpt)
Guy Krohg (27 July 1917 – 19 October 2002) was a Norwegian painter, illustrator and scenographer. He was born in Oslo, the son of painter Per Krohg and grandson of Christian Krohg and Oda Krohg. He was married to Lilian Smith from 1940, and to actress Sossen Krohg from 1949.
Biography of Germaine Dulac (excerpt)
Germaine Dulac, born Charlotte Élisabeth Germaine Saisset-Schneider on November 17, 1882, in Amiens, and died on July 20, 1942, in Paris, was a French film director, producer, and screenwriter. She began her career in 1906 as a feminist journalist for La Française.
Biography of Elisabeth Lupka (excerpt)
Elisabeth Lupka (27 October 1902 – 8 January 1949) was a Nazi female guard at two prison camps during World War II. Lupka was born in Klein-Damner, German Empire (present-day Dąbrówka Mała, Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland). She got married in 1934, had no children and soon divorced.
Biography of Paulette Ray (excerpt)
Paulette Mireille Caillol, known as Paulette Ray, born on March 29, 1902, in Neuilly-sur-Seine and died on July 23, 1987, in Nice, was a French actress. She was the sister of actress Pierrette Caillol (1898-1991) and the sister-in-law of director Yvan Noé (1895-1953).
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.
Biography of Jacoba Hol (excerpt)
Jacoba Hol (21 September 1886 – 15 October 1964) was a Dutch physical geographer. In 1945, she was appointed professor of physical geography at the Geographic Institute at Utrecht University. This made her the first female 'normal' professor in the Netherlands.
Biography of Virginia d'Albert-Lake (excerpt)
Virginia d'Albert-Lake (4 June 1910 – 20 September 1997) was a member of the French Resistance during World War II. She worked with the Comet Escape Line. She and her husband Philippe helped 67 British and American airmen evade German capture. She was arrested on June 12, 1944 and imprisoned by the Germans in Ravensbrück concentration camp and other camps for the remainder of the war.
Biography of Ann Richards (actress) (excerpt)
Shirley Ann Richards (13 December 1917 (Wikipedia gives 20 December, by mistake) – 25 August 2006) was an Australian actress and author, prominent in 1930s Australian cinema with Cinesound Productions and later in Hollywood as an MGM starlet. Notable works include "It Isn't Done" (1937), "Dad and Dave Come to Town" (1938), "An American Romance" (1944), and "Sorry, Wrong Number" (1948).
Biography of Martha Gellhorn (excerpt)
Martha Ellis Gellhorn (8 November 1908 – 15 February 1998) was an American novelist, travel writer, and journalist who is considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century. Gellhorn reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career.
Biography of Jacques Raverat (excerpt)
Jacques Pierre Paul Raverat (20 March 1885 – 6 March 1925) was a French painter; Raverat was the son of Georges Pierre Raverat and Helena Lorena Raverat, née Caron; he was born in Paris, France, in 1885. Raverat started at Bedales School in Steep, Hampshire in 1898.
Biography of Asbjørg Borgfelt (excerpt)
Asbjørg Borgfelt (31 October 1900 – 5 June 1976) was a Norwegian sculptor. Personal life She was the daughter of Samuel Borgfeldt (1872-1936) and Magnhild Telma Sæther (1876-1941). In 1937 she married sculptor Per Hurum (1910–1989). Career Borgfeldt first studied art in Kristiania at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry (Statens Håndverks- og Kunstindustriskole) with Wilhelm Rasmussen (1879–1965).
Biography of Ferhat Abbas (excerpt)
Ferhat Abbas (24 August 1899 – 24 December 1985) was an Algerian politician who acted in a provisional capacity as the then yet-to-become independent country's Prime Minister from 1958 to 1961, as well as the first President of the National Assembly and the first acting Chief of State after independence.
Biography of Olave Baden-Powell (excerpt)
Olave St Clair Baden-Powell, Baroness Baden-Powell GBE (née Soames; 22 February 1889 – 25 June 1977) was the first Chief Guide for Britain and the wife of Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (the founder of Scouting and co-founder of Girl Guides).
Biography of Friedel Apelt (excerpt)
Friedel Apelt (1 November 1902 - 12 December 2001) was a German political activist, trades union official and politician (KPD/SED). During the Nazi years she participated actively in anti-fascist resistance, and spent much of the time in prison or as a concentration camp internee.
Biography of Marcel Hansenne (excerpt)
Marcel Fernand Hansenne (born January 24, 1917 in Paris and died March 22, 2002 in Fourqueux) was a French athlete specializing in the 800 meters. He stood 1.81 meters tall and weighed 70 kg. Until the age of 18, he played basketball at Intrépide du Sacré-cœur, a youth club in Tourcoing affiliated with the Fédération gymnastique et sportive des patronages de France (FGSPF).
Biography of Charles Bardot (excerpt)
Charles Bardot was a French international football player, born on April 7, 1904, in Conakry, Guinea, and died in late April 1973 in Cannes. He played as a center forward. He earned six caps and scored three goals for the French national A team between 1925 and 1932.
Biography of Deborah Cavendish (excerpt)
Deborah Vivien Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, DCVO, formerly Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford, was an English aristocrat, writer, memoirist, and socialite, the youngest and last surviving Mitford sister, known for her association with British high society. Born in Kensington, London, she married Lord Andrew Cavendish, becoming Duchess of Devonshire in 1950.
Biography of Edith Kiss (excerpt)
Edith Bán Kiss, also Edit, née Rott (21 November 1905 - 27 October 1966) was a Hungarian sculptor and painter. In the autumn of 1944, she was deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in northern Germany and then transferred to the Daimler-Benz factory at Ludwigsfelde where she was forced to work on aircraft engines for the Luftwaffe.
Biography of Maria Silva Cruz (excerpt)
Maria Silva Cruz (April 20, 1915 – August 23, 1936), an Andalusian anarchist known as "La Libertaria," was a hero of the Casas Viejas Uprising in Spain. Born in Cádiz, her parents were day laborers, and her father and uncle were members of the CNT, an anarchist group.
Biography of Edith Carlmar (excerpt)
Edith Carlmar (born Edith Mary Johanne Mathiesen; 15 November 1911 – 17 May 2003) was a Norwegian actress and Norway's first female film director. She is known for films such as Aldri annet enn bråk (1954), Fjols til fjells (1957), and Ung flukt (The Wayward Girl, 1959).
Biography of Lisa Della Casa (excerpt)
Lisa Della Casa (2 February 1919 – 10 December 2012) was a Swiss soprano most admired for her interpretations of major heroines in operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss, and of German lieder. She was also described as “the most beautiful woman on the operatic stage”.
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 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.
Biography of Janet Flanner (excerpt)
Janet Flanner (March 13, 1892 – November 7, 1978) was an American writer and pioneering narrative journalist who served as the Paris correspondent of The New Yorker magazine from 1925 until she retired in 1975. She wrote under the pen name "Genêt".
Biography of Marcel Michelin (excerpt)
Marcel Michelin (Paris, April 12, 1886 - Ohrdruf, January 21, 1945), son of André Michelin, was a French businessman. Founder and first president in 1911 of the Association sportive Michelin (later AS Montferrand), a resistance fighter during World War II, he died in deportation at Buchenwald.
Biography of Lucienne Radisse (excerpt)
Lucienne Radisse (4 December 1899 in Neuilly-sur-Seine – 19 January 1997 in Asnières-sur-Seine) was a French cellist and actress, the wife of journalist Jean Fannius and daughter-in-law of composer Henri Büsser, having married his son Yves in her second marriage in 1932.
Biography of Giuseppe Armellini (excerpt)
Giuseppe Armellini (born October 24, 1887, in Rome, and died July 16, 1958, in Rome) was an Italian astronomer and mathematician. He was a graduate in engineering and mathematics and made significant contributions to celestial mechanics. After experiences in Paris and Meudon, he taught in Turin, Pisa, and then in Rome, where he directed the Rome Observatory.
Biography of Fred Haas (excerpt)
Frederick Theodore Haas Jr. (January 3, 1916 – January 26, 2004) was an American professional golfer. Amateur career Haas was born in Portland, Arkansas. After graduating from Dermott High School, he graduated from Louisiana State University in 1937, winning the NCAA individual championship in his senior year.
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.
Biography of Philippe la Chapelle (excerpt)
Philippe Céleste (Philippe) la Chapelle ('s Gravenhage, August 1, 1882 - Amsterdam, July 16, 1969) was a Dutch actor. He was born the son of the writer Suze la Chapelle-Roobol and Celestinus Philippus la Chapelle. He is the grandfather of actress Nel Kars.
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Sauvage (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Sauvage, born in 1908 and passed away in 1991, was a French Catholic bishop who led the diocese of Annecy from 1962 to 1987. Initially a teacher and seminary superior, he was appointed by Pope John XXIII shortly before the Second Vatican Council.
Biography of Amparo Alvajar (excerpt)
María del Amparo Alvajar López Jean, commonly known as Amparo Alvajar (August 11, 1916 - May 1998), was a multifaceted Spanish journalist, dramatist, and writer from Galicia, also notable for her work as a translator for international organizations. Born in A Coruña, she was deeply involved in the political and cultural movements of her time, working initially in the Second Republic's secret services.
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.
Biography of Arturo Uslar Pietri (excerpt)
Arturo Uslar Pietri (May 16, 1906 - February 26, 2001) was a prominent Venezuelan intellectual, historian, writer, TV producer, and politician. Born in Caracas to parents with diverse cultural backgrounds, Uslar Pietri played a significant role in Venezuelan politics and culture.
Biography of Karl Wolff (excerpt)
Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff (13 May 1900 – 17 July 1984) was a German SS functionary who served as Chief of Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS (Heinrich Himmler) and an SS liaison to Adolf Hitler during World War II. He ended the war as the Supreme SS and Police Leader in occupied Italy and helped arrange for the early surrender of Axis forces in that theatre, effectively ending the war there several days sooner than in the rest of Europe.
Biography of Andrei Platonov (excerpt)
Andrei Platonovich Platonov (born Klimentov (Russian: Климе́нтов); 28 August (O.S. 16 August) 1899 – 5 January 1951) was a Soviet Russian novelist, short story writer, philosopher, engineer, playwright, and poet. Although Platonov regarded himself as a communist, his principal works remained unpublished in his lifetime because of their skeptical attitude toward collectivization of agriculture (1929–1940) and other Stalinist policies, as well as for their experimental, avant-garde form infused with existentialism.
Biography of Paolo Fortunati (excerpt)
Paolo Fortunati, born on April 26, 1906, in Talmassons and passed away on January 27, 1980, in Bologna, was an Italian politician and statistician. He graduated in law from the University of Padua in 1927 and became a professor of statistics at the Universities of Ferrara and Palermo, eventually becoming a full professor and director of the Statistics Institute at the University of Bologna.
Biography of Frieda Nugel (excerpt)
Frieda Nugel (18 June 1884 - 6 November 1966) was a pioneering German mathematician and civil rights advocate, one of the first women in Germany to obtain a mathematics doctorate in 1912 at Halle University. Born in Cottbus, she initially worked as a private tutor and later taught at schools in Cottbus and Emden, while also focusing on women's rights.
Biography of Edmund Bacon (architect) (excerpt)
Edmund Norwood Bacon (May 2, 1910 – October 14, 2005) was an American urban planner, architect, educator, and author. During his tenure as the executive director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission from 1949 to 1970, his visions shaped today's Philadelphia, the city of his birth, to the extent that he is sometimes described as "The Father of Modern Philadelphia". |
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