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Biography of William Randolph Hearst Jr. (excerpt)
William Randolph Hearst Jr.(January 27, 1908 – May 14, 1993) was an American businessman, newspaper publisher and member of the wealthy Hearst family. He was the second son of the publisher William Randolph Hearst.He became editor-in-chief of Hearst Newspapers after the death of his father in 1951.
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Biography of Katherine Anne Porter (excerpt)
Katherine Anne Porter (May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980) was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, poet and political activist. Her 1962 novel Ship of Fools was the best-selling novel in America that year, but her short stories received much more critical acclaim.
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Biography of Stefan Wiechecki (excerpt)
Stefan Wiechecki, known by his pen name Wiech (10 August 1896 – 26 July 1979), was a Polish writer and journalist, best known for his humorous feuilletons that depicted the everyday life of Warsaw and highlighted the city's dialect. Born on 10 August 1896, he began as a court reporter in interwar Poland, capturing the unique personalities of Warsaw's poorer districts. ![]()
Biography of Alejandro Freundt Rosell (excerpt)
Alejandro Freundt Rosell (Lima, February 22, 1895 - August 24, 1970) was a Peruvian magistrate, diplomat, university professor, and politician. He presided over the Superior Court of Piura and served as Minister of Justice and Worship under the government of Manuel Odría (1952-1955).
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Biography of Henri Amiel (excerpt)
Henri Amiel, born on May 17, 1907, in Paris 3rd and passed away on January 25, 1976, in Le Havre, was a French military officer and resistance fighter, Companion of the Liberation. As an officer in the colonial troops, he decided to join the Free French forces at the beginning of World War II, participating in battles in Africa, the Middle East, and France.
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Biography of Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1895) (excerpt)
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (11 March 1895 – 16 November 1903) was the only daughter of Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Named after her great-grandmother, she was nicknamed "Ella." Her life was tragically cut short at the age of eight, during a stay with her aunt, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.
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Biography of Irène Bordoni (excerpt)
Irène Charlotte Bordoni, born on January 16, 1889 in Paris and died on March 19, 1953 in New York, was a French actress and singer. She began her career at the Variétés Theater in Paris, before emigrating to the United States in 1907.
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Biography of William Steinberg (excerpt)
William Steinberg (born Hans Wilhelm Steinberg) was a German conductor born on August 1, 1899, in Cologne and died on May 16, 1978, in New York. After studying under Hermann Abendroth, he became Otto Klemperer's assistant at the Cologne Opera in 1924. ![]()
Biography of Sheila Darcy (excerpt)
Sheila Darcy (born Rebecca Benedict Heffener August 8, 1914 – February 24, 2004), also known as "Rebecca Wassem", was an American film actress of the 1930s and the 1940s. Born Rebecca Benedict Heffener in York, Pennsylvania, Darcy moved to Hollywood when she was 18 to pursue a career in acting.
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Biography of Jean-Paul Sassy (excerpt)
Jean-Paul Sassy, born on July 29, 1915, in Tunis and died on December 9, 1992, in Bourg-la-Reine, was a French director, stage director, and screenwriter. Coming from a Corsican family, he was actively involved in the Resistance during World War II and received several honors.
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Biography of Gabriellino D'Annunzio (excerpt)
Gabriele Maria "Gabriellino" D'Annunzio (10 April 1886 – 8 December 1945) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. He was the son of the Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio. He adapted the 1921 film The Ship from a novel by his father. ![]()
Biography of Aida Lafuente (excerpt)
Aida de la Fuente Penaos (25 February 1915 in León – 13 October 1934 in Oviedo), better known as Aida Lafuente, was a Spanish communist militant who died in the Revolution of 1934 in Asturias after the repression by the Second Spanish Republic.
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Biography of Maurice Ewing (excerpt)
William Maurice "Doc" Ewing (May 12, 1906 – May 4, 1974) was an American geophysicist and oceanographer. Ewing has been described as a pioneering geophysicist who worked on the research of seismic reflection and refraction in ocean basins, ocean bottom photography, submarine sound transmission (including the SOFAR channel), deep sea core samples of the ocean bottom, theory and observation of earthquake surface waves, fluidity of the Earth's core, generation and propagation of microseisms, submarine explosion seismology, marine gravity surveys, bathymetry and sedimentation, natural radioactivity of ocean waters and sediments, study of abyssal plains and submarine canyons.
Biography of Louis Alloin (excerpt)
Louis Alloin was a French politician, born on August 3, 1906, in La Clayette, Saône-et-Loire, and died on December 28, 1978, in Nice.He initially pursued studies in arts, crafts, and commerce and managed a hosiery business. During the Occupation of France in World War II, Alloin was actively involved in the Resistance and led the Liberation Committee of Bron in 1944.
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Biography of José María Albareda (excerpt)
José María Albareda Herrera (Caspe, 15 April 1902 - 26 February 1966, Madrid) was a Spanish soil scientist and science administrator. From its 1939 creation by Francoist Spain to his 1966 death, he was the secretary general and head of the Higher Council of Scientific Research (CSIC), the main Spanish scientific institution.
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Biography of Delmer Daves (excerpt)
Delmer Lawrence Daves (July 24, 1904 – August 17, 1977) was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer, best known for his Westerns such as "Broken Arrow" (1950), "The Last Wagon" (1956), "3:10 to Yuma" (1957), and "The Hanging Tree" (1959).
Biography of Ricardo Flórez (painter) (excerpt)
Ricardo Flórez Gutiérrez de Quintanilla, born on May 7, 1893, in Lima, Peru, and died on October 20, 1983, in Tomayquichua, was a distinguished Peruvian painter. After studying at the National School of Fine Arts in Lima under Teófilo Castillo and Daniel Hernández, he began his career as a professor there.
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Biography of Vicente Segura (excerpt)
General Vicente Segura Martínez was a Mexican military officer and bullfighter who participated in the Mexican Revolution.Born in Pachuca, Hidalgo, on December 12, 1883, he inherited a large fortune and built a bullring in his hometown. On January 27, 1907, he received his bullfighting alternative from Antonio Fuentes Zurita, with Ricardo Torres Reina "Bombita" as witness.
Biography of Johnny Lucadello (excerpt)
John Lucadello (February 23, 1919 – October 30, 2001) was an American professional baseball player.Primarily a second baseman, he appeared in 239 Major League games for the St.Louis Browns (1938–1941; 1946) and New York Yankees (1947). The 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m), 160 lb (73 kg) native of Thurber, Texas, threw and batted right-handed.
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Biography of Pilar de Zubiaurre (excerpt)
Pilar de Zubiaurre (Garai, Basque Country (Spain), July 24, 1884 – Mexico City, Mexico, June 24, 1970) was a Basque intellectual, writer, pianist, and art dealer and manager who lived in exile in Mexico for more than thirty years as a consequence of the Spanish Civil War.
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Biography of Leopoldo Méndez (excerpt)
Leopoldo Méndez (June 30, 1902 – February 8, 1969) was one of Mexico's most important graphic artists and one of that country's most important artists from the 20th century. Méndez's work mostly focused on engraving for illustrations and other print work generally connected to his political and social activism.
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Biography of Herbert Weichmann (excerpt)
Herbert Weichmann (born February 23, 1896, in Landsberg, Silesia, now Gorzów Śląski, Poland, and died October 9, 1983, in Hamburg) was a German lawyer and politician from the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He served as the First Mayor of Hamburg from 1965 to 1971 and as President of the Bundesrat from 1968 to 1969.
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Biography of Max Tailleur (excerpt)
Mozes (Max) Tailleur (June 12, 1909 – October 12, 1990) was a Dutch humorist, known for his Jewish humor, especially his Sam and Moos jokes.Between 1953 and 1988, 1.6 million copies of his joke collections were sold. Born into a modest family in Amsterdam, he failed in careers as a traveling salesman and diamond cutter. ![]()
Biography of Toti Dal Monte (excerpt)
Antonietta Meneghel (June 27, 1893 – January 26, 1975), better known by her stage name Toti Dal Monte, was a renowned Italian lyric soprano. She is best remembered for her role as Cio-cio-san in Puccini's Madama Butterfly, recorded in 1939 with Beniamino Gigli.
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Biography of Juan Negrín (excerpt)
Juan Negrín López (3 February 1892 – 12 November 1956) was a Spanish physician and politician who served as prime minister of the Second Spanish Republic.He was a leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Spanish: Partido Socialista Obrero Español, PSOE) and of the left-leaning Popular Front government during the Spanish Civil War.
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Biography of Joseph L. Rauh Jr. (excerpt)
Joseph Louis Rauh Jr.(January 3, 1911 – September 3, 1992) was one of the United States' foremost civil rights and civil liberties lawyers.In his early career, he served as a lawyer in the Franklin D.Roosevelt administration and a clerk to Supreme Court justices Benjamin N.
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Biography of Teodoro Lolo Fernández (excerpt)
Teodoro "Lolo" Fernández Meyzán (20 May 1913 – 17 September 1996) was a Peruvian professional footballer who played as forward.All his football work was carried out as a player of the Universitario de Deportes of the Peruvian First Division.He was champion, best player and top scorer in the 1939 Copa América.
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Biography of Lluís Nicolau d'Olwer (excerpt)
Lluís Nicolau d'Olwer, born in Barcelona on January 20, 1888, and died in Mexico City on December 24, 1961, was a historian, journalist, and Catalanist Spanish politician. Initially a councilor for the municipality of his hometown, he later became a deputy in the Spanish Congress and served as Minister of Economy during the Second Republic (1933).
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Biography of Paul Rivière (politician) (excerpt)
Paul Rivière, born November 22, 1912, in Montagny (Loire) and died December 15, 1998, in Bron, was a French Compagnon de la Libération, resistance fighter, and politician. He joined the Resistance in 1941 and later participated in the Indochina and Algerian wars.
Biography of Mary Jane Croft (excerpt)
Mary Jane Croft (February 15, 1916 – August 24, 1999) was an American actress best known for roles as Betty Ramsey on I Love Lucy, Miss Daisy Enright on the radio and television versions of Our Miss Brooks, Mary Jane Lewis on The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy, and Clara Randolph on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.
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Biography of Alexis Grüss Senior (excerpt)
Alexis Grüss Senior, born on March 30, 1909, in Briey and deceased on February 3, 1985, in Paris 12th arrondissement, was a French circus artist from a prominent circus family in France. He was particularly known for his work with various circus companies, including Gruss-Jeannet, Radio-Circus, and Cirque Medrano.
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Biography of Hans Werner Richter (excerpt)
Hans Werner Richter (12 November 1908 – 23 March 1993) was a German writer. Born the son of a fisherman in Neu Sallenthin on the island of Usedom, Richter worked first in a bookshop in Swinemünde (now Świnoujście in Poland) and later moved to Berlin.
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Biography of Auguste Champetier de Ribes (excerpt)
Jean Jules Marie Auguste Champetier de Ribes, born on July 30, 1882, in Antony and died on March 6, 1947, in Paris, was a French statesman. He served as a minister under the Third Republic and president of the Council of the Republic under the Fourth Republic.
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Biography of Ernst Sorge (excerpt)
Ernst Sorge (* February 25, 1899, in Vieselbach; † April 28, 1946, in Arnstadt, Thuringia) was a German glaciologist, polar explorer, and geoscientist.He made significant contributions to glaciology with his glacier observations at the Eismitte station in Greenland. Sorge grew up in Berlin and studied geography and sciences before becoming a teacher.
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Biography of Peter Nell (excerpt)
Peter Nell, born Kurt Heinze (October 10, 1907 – November 27, 1957 in Berlin), was a German writer and politician, member of the SED.He served as a representative in the Brandenburg Landtag from 1950 to 1952. Coming from a working-class background, he joined the Socialist Youth at 16 and, in 1927, the KPD.
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Biography of K. T. Stevens (excerpt)
K.T.Stevens, born Gloria Wood on July 20, 1919, was an American film and television actress and the daughter of film producer and director Sam Wood. She began acting as a child in her father's silent film "Peck's Bad Boy" (1921).To establish her own identity, she changed her name to K.T.
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Biography of Harry Liedtke (excerpt)
Harry Liedtke (born October 10, 1882, in Königsberg, Province of East Prussia, German Empire; died April 28, 1945, in Bad Saarow) was a German actor. After his father's death in 1896, Harry Liedtke (the seventh child in a family of twelve) lived in an orphanage.
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Biography of Teodoro Picado Michalski (excerpt)
Teodoro Picado Michalski (10 January 1900 – 1 June 1960) was the president of Costa Rica for four years (1944 to 1948).
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Biography of Harry Lauter (excerpt)
Herman Arthur "Harry" Lauter (June 19, 1914 – October 30, 1990) was an American character actor born in White Plains, New York. Initially a model and rodeo rider, he came from an entertainment family. Lauter’s acting break came in "The Magnificent Rogue" (1946), and he gained recognition for roles in low-budget films, serials, and many TV shows, including "Tales of the Texas Rangers" and "The Roy Rogers Show." ![]()
Biography of Robert van Gulik (excerpt)
Robert Hans van Gulik, born in Zutphen on August 9, 1910, and passed away in The Hague on September 24, 1967, was a Dutch orientalist, diplomat, guqin musician, and writer. He is best known for his Judge Dee mysteries, inspired by an 18th-century Chinese novel.
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Biography of Marcel Lefèvre (pilot) (excerpt)
Marcel Lefèvre, born on March 17, 1918, in Les Andelys (Eure) and died on June 5, 1944, in Moscow, was a French pilot and an aviation ace during World War II. He achieved 14 aerial victories, 11 of which were officially confirmed.
Biography of Søren Christian Sommerfelt (diplomat) (excerpt)
Søren Christian Sommerfelt (9 May 1916 – 14 December 2003) was a Norwegian diplomat.He was born in Kristiania (Oslo) as a son of Søren Christian Sommerfelt (1877–1965) and Sigrid Nicolaysen (1879–1976).He was a great-grandson of Søren Christian Sommerfelt and grandnephew of Adam Hiorth, Halfdan, Christian and Karl Linné Sommerfelt.
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Biography of Shmuel Sambursky (excerpt)
Shmuel Sambursky, also known as Samuel Sambursky (30 October 1900 - 18 May 1990), was a German, Palestinian, and Israeli physicist, professor, and author.His time of birth comes from him, it was written in the diary of his father. Born in Königsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad in Russia), in 1900, he migrated to Palestine in 1924 after studying in Germany.
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Biography of Achille Campanile (excerpt)
Achille Campanile (28 September 1899 – 4 January 1977) was an Italian writer, playwright, journalist and television critic known for his surreal humour and word play. His father was one of the editors of the newspaper La Tribuna. Always a prolific contributor to newspapers and periodicals, Campanile wrote for the newspapers La Tribuna, L'Idea Nazionale and the satirical magazine Il Travaso delle idee.
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Biography of Cecilia Miranda de Carvalho (excerpt)
Cecilia Miranda de Carvalho (née da Cunha; 20 October 1913 – 21 May 2011) was a Brazilian singer. She was Carmen Miranda and Aurora Miranda's sister. Cecilia Miranda da Cunha was born in Rio de Janeiro on October 20, 1913. She was the fourth daughter of the Portuguese marriage José Pinto da Cunha (1887–1938) and Maria Emilia Miranda (1886–1971).
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Biography of Lucía Sánchez Saornil (excerpt)
Lucía Sánchez Saornil (13 December 1895 – 2 June 1970), was a Spanish poet and anarcha-feminist activist, best known for co-founding the Mujeres Libres organisation together with Mercedes Comaposada and Amparo Poch y Gascón. Born into a working-class Madrilenian family, she taught herself from an early age and began writing poems for the burgeoning Futurist and Ultraist movements.
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Biography of Loretta King Hadler (excerpt)
Loretta King Hadler (August 20, 1917 – September 10, 2007) was an American actress, best known for the brevity of her career and her work with director Ed Wood. Born in Phoenix, Arizona, she performed in Mister Roberts at the Sombrero Playhouse during March 1954 with Don Taylor and Marshall Thompson.
Biography of Italia Pennino Coppola (excerpt)
Italia Pennino Coppola (December 12, 1912 – January 21, 2004) was a member of the Coppola family.Her time of birth comes from her daughter. Born in New York City, she was one of six children of Anna (née Giaquinto) and composer Francesco Pennino (1880–1952).
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Biography of Daniel Gloria (excerpt)
Daniel Gloria, born on February 22, 1908, in Beaune and died on October 22, 1989, in Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d'Or, was a Lyonnais painter and mosaicist. He initially painted landscapes in a naturalistic style before evolving towards a more personal interpretation influenced by his avant-garde environment and his encounter with Lyonnais artists focused on abstraction. ![]()
Biography of Jane Jacobs (excerpt)
Jane Isabel Jacobs (née Butzner; May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was an American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who shaped urban studies, sociology, and economics. Her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) criticized "urban renewal" and "slum clearance" for disregarding city-dwellers' needs. |
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