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Biography of Gershom Scholem (excerpt)
Gershom Scholem (5 December 1897 – 21 February 1982) was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian, regarded as the founder of the modern academic study of Kabbalah. He became the first professor of Jewish mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Biography of Edda Ciano (excerpt)
Edda Ciano, Countess of Cortellazzo and Buccari (née Mussolini; 1 September 1910 – 9 April 1995) was the daughter of Benito Mussolini, fascist Prime Minister of Italy from 1922 to 1943. Her husband, the fascist propagandist and Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano, was executed in January 1944 for his role in Mussolini's ousting.
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Biography of Luigi Cacciatore (excerpt)
Luigi Cacciatore (1900–1951) was an Italian socialist politician who served as the minister of posts and communications in 1947.He was a member and one of the leaders of the Italian Socialist Party. Cacciatore was born in Mercato San Severino, near Salerno, on 26 July 1900.
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Biography of Virgilio Polara (excerpt)
Virgilio Polara (born in Modica on July 7, 1887, died in Messina on August 25, 1974) was an Italian physicist. A student at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa from 1904, he graduated in physics in 1908 under the mentorship of Angelo Battelli, whom he assisted until 1911.
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Biography of Fernande Barrey (excerpt)
Fernande Barrey (January 9, 1893, in Paris 10e – July 14, 1960, in Paris) was a French artist's model and painter. She left Picardy around 1908 for Paris, where she initially survived as a child prostitute. She later became a model for artists such as Amedeo Modigliani and Chaïm Soutine, who encouraged her to study painting and art history at the École des Beaux-Arts.
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Biography of Lucian Zabel (excerpt)
Lucian Zabel (Lucien), born Gerhard Zabel (* May 26, 1893, in Kolberg - † April 24, 1936, in Berlin), was a German commercial graphic artist. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich before becoming a student of Julius Klinger in Berlin.
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Biography of Peretz Naftali (excerpt)
Peretz Naftali (March 19, 1888 – April 30, 1961) was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician who held several ministerial positions in the 1950s. Born Fritz Naftali in Berlin, he joined the German Social Democratic Party in 1911 and served in the German Army during World War I.
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Biography of Paul Berthier (composer) (excerpt)
Paul Berthier (June 23, 1884 – February 6, 1953) was a French organist and composer, known for his contributions to sacred music. A student of Vincent d’Indy at the Schola Cantorum, he co-founded the Petits Chanteurs à la Croix de Bois choir in 1906.
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Biography of Werner Scholem (excerpt)
Werner Scholem (December 29, 1895 – July 17, 1940) was a German politician.A member of the Reichstag for the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1924 to 1928, he was arrested in 1933 due to his Jewish background and communist activities.
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Biography of Keyes Metcalf (excerpt)
Keyes DeWitt Metcalf (April 13, 1889 – November 3, 1983) was an American librarian, recognized as one of the 100 most influential leaders in the field. His time of birth comes from him, in "Random Recollections of an Anachronism: Or, Seventy-five Years of Library Work, Volume 1" by Keyes DeWitt Metcalf (Readex Books, 1980).
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Biography of Hartmut Kallmann (excerpt)
Hartmut Kallmann (born on February 5, 1896, in Berlin, and died on June 11, 1978) was a German physicist, known for his work on the scintillation counter for gamma ray detection. Kallmann was born into a Jewish family in Berlin and studied at the University of Göttingen, completing his dissertation under Max Planck in 1920.
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Biography of Gaston Baty (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Gaston Baty was a theater practitioner, born in Pélussin (Loire) on May 26, 1885, and died in the same town on October 13, 1952. He was one of the founders of the theatrical "Cartel" in 1927, alongside Louis Jouvet, Charles Dullin, and Georges Pitoëff.
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Biography of Jeanne Mammen (excerpt)
Jeanne Mammen (21 November 1890 – 22 April 1976) was a German painter, illustrator, and printmaker. Her work is associated with the New Objectivity, Symbolism, and Cubism movements. She is best known for her depictions of queer women and Berlin city life during the Weimar period.
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Biography of Jean-Paul Neveu (excerpt)
Jean-Paul Neveu, sometimes Jean Neveu, born on February 20, 1918, in Paris 10th arrondissement, and passed away on October 28, 1949, was a French pianist. He was the brother of violinist Ginette Neveu and performed with her in numerous concerts. Both he and his sister died in a plane crash.
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Biography of Alfred Gause (excerpt)
Alfred Gause, born on February 14, 1896, in Königsberg, and died on September 30, 1967, in Bonn, was a German Generalleutnant who served in the Heer of the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, a prestigious decoration for extreme bravery on the battlefield or successful military leadership.
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Biography of Fernando Santiván (excerpt)
Fernando Santiván (pseudonym of Fernando Antonio Santibañez Puga, 1 July 1886 – 12 July 1973) was a Chilean writer and winner of the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1952. Born in Arauco to a Spanish father and a Chilean mother, he became an orphan at age 8.
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Biography of Oscar Grimes (excerpt)
Oscar Ray Grimes Jr. (April 14, 1915 – May 19, 1993) was an American utility infielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Cleveland Indians (1938–1942), New York Yankees (1943–1946) and Philadelphia Athletics (1946). Grimes batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Minerva, Ohio.
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Biography of Philip Cochran (excerpt)
Philip Gerald Cochran (January 29, 1910 – August 26, 1979) was an officer in the U.S.Army Air Corps and U.S.Army Air Forces. During World War II, he was instrumental in developing tactical air combat, air transport, and air assault techniques, particularly in Burma as co-commander of the 1st Air Commando Group.
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Biography of Konrad Wolff (excerpt)
Konrad Wolff (11 March 1907 – 23 October 1989) was a German pianist and musicologist. Born in Berlin, he studied at the University of Heidelberg and Berlin, earning a Doctor of Law degree.He was close friends with Stephan Kuttner and Hsu Dau-lin.
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Biography of Rose Grane (excerpt)
Rose Cremer, known as Rose Grane, was a French theater and silent film actress. She was born on January 14, 1889, in Liancourt, Oise, and passed away on July 2, 1931, at the age of 42 in Tlemcen, Algeria. The daughter of Louis Victor Crémer, a shoemaker, and Marie-Louise Cosmann, a housewife, Rose Crémer was born on Roger-Duplessis Street in Liancourt on January 14, 1889.
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Biography of Eudora Welty (excerpt)
Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American short story writer, novelist, and photographer. She is known for her works portraying the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty received numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Order of the South.
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Biography of Mary Poonen Lukose (excerpt)
Mary Poonen Lukose (2 August 1886 - 2 October 1976) was an Indian gynecologist, obstetrician and the first female Surgeon General in India. She was the founder of a Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Nagarcoil and the X-Ray and Radium Institute, Thiruvananthapuram, served as the head of the Health Department in the Princely State of Travancore and was the first woman legislator of the state.
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Biography of Elsa Gindler (excerpt)
Elsa Gindler (19 June 1885 – 8 January 1961) was a somatic bodywork pioneer in Germany. Born in Berlin, teacher of gymnastik, student of Hedwig Kallmeyer (who, in turn, had been a student of Genevieve Stebbins). From her personal experience of recovering from tuberculosis (it is said by concentrating on breathing only with her healthy lung and resting the diseased lung), Gindler originated a school of movement education, in close collaboration with Heinrich Jacoby.
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Biography of Oskar Maria Graf (excerpt)
Oskar Maria Graf (July 22, 1894 – June 28, 1967) was a German-American writer known for his autobiographical narratives about life in Bavaria. Born in Berg, Bavaria, Graf fled his family in 1911 to live in Munich’s bohemian circles.During World War I, he was discharged after refusing orders and being institutionalized.
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Biography of Louis Castin (excerpt)
Louis Castin, born August 25, 1918 in Montluçon, died July 26, 1979 in Lyon, was a French aviator, a flying ace in World War II.
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Biography of Doris Kenyon (excerpt)
Doris Margaret Kenyon (September 5, 1897 – September 1, 1979) was an American film and television actress. She grew up in Syracuse, New York, where her father, Dr. James B. Kenyon, was a Methodist minister. Doris studied at Packer College Institute and Columbia University, singing in church choirs.
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Biography of Norbert Casteret (excerpt)
Norbert Casteret (19 August 1897 – 20 July 1987) was a famous French caver, adventurer and writer, and is one of the most recognisable names in caving worldwide. Following Édouard-Alfred Martel (the "father of modern speleology", although Casteret sometimes also enjoys this title), Casteret, along with Robert de Joly, became a leading figure of French speleology between the world wars and into the middle of the 20th century.
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Biography of Paul Guiraud (psychiatrist) (excerpt)
Paul Guiraud, born on August 4, 1882, in Cessenon (Hérault) and died on April 21, 1974, in Paris, was a French psychiatrist. In 1922, he co-authored, alongside Maurice Dide, a seminal manual on psychiatric clinical practice that remained a reference until the 1950s.
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Biography of Soup Campbell (baseball) (excerpt)
Clarence "Soup" Campbell (March 7, 1915 – February 16, 2000) was an American professional baseball player, serving as a backup outfielder for the Cleveland Indians from 1940 to 1941.A left-handed batter and right-handed thrower, he stood 6 ft 1 in and weighed 188 lbs.
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Biography of Pierre Daura (excerpt)
Pierre Daura (born Pedro Francisco Daura y García, February 21, 1896, Ciudadela, Minorca – 1976, Rockbridge Baths, Virginia) was a Spanish painter. Born to a family of musicians and textile merchants, he lost his mother at the age of seven. He studied at La Llotja, Barcelona’s School of Fine Arts, under José Ruiz Blanco, Picasso’s father.
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Biography of Felix Jentzsch (excerpt)
Felix Hermann Ferdinand Jentzsch (*September 14, 1882, Königsberg – †November 10, 1946, Berlin) was a German physicist specializing in applied optics, known for his contributions to microscopy innovations. He studied at TH Berlin-Charlottenburg and the University of Berlin, earning his doctorate in 1908 on electron emission from heated metal oxides.
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Biography of Miguel Covarrubias (excerpt)
José Miguel Covarrubias Duclaud (Mexico City, November 22, 1904 – February 3, 1957), also known as El Chamaco, was a Mexican artist and researcher. His time of birth comes from the biography "Covarrubias" by Adriana Williams and Doris Ober (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994).
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Biography of Louis Longequeue (excerpt)
Louis Longequeue (born November 30, 1914, in Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, died August 11, 1990, in Limoges) was a French politician affiliated with the Socialist Party, best known for serving as the mayor of Limoges from 1956 to 1990. Born into a family of teachers, he studied pharmacy and joined the Resistance during World War II, notably in the Haute-Vienne Medical Resistance Committee.
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Biography of Lola Álvarez Bravo (excerpt)
Lola Álvarez Bravo (April 1, 1903 – July 31, 1993) was Mexico’s first female photographer and a key figure in the post-revolutionary cultural renaissance. In 1964, she received the Premio José Clemente Orozco for her contributions to photography and cultural preservation. ![]()
Biography of Ruth Etting (excerpt)
Ruth Etting (November 23, 1896 – September 24, 1978) was an American singer and actress from the 1920s and 1930s, known as "America's sweetheart of song." She recorded over 60 hits, including Shine On, Harvest Moon, Ten Cents a Dance, and Love Me or Leave Me.
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Biography of Isaac José Pardo (excerpt)
Isaac José Pardo Soublette (Caracas, 14 October 1905 - 3 March 2000), was a Venezuelan intellectual of German-Jewish extraction known for his essays: Esta tierra de gracia (1955) and Fuegos bajo el agua. La invención de la utopía (1983). Also, was part of the Generation of 1928, movement against the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez; founder of the party Unión Republicana Democrática (URD) in 1945, director of El Nacional, redactor of the humorist paper El Morrocoy Azul, and principal authority of the Supreme Electoral Council of Venezuela in 1963.
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Biography of Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (excerpt)
Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Sibylle Calma Marie Alice Bathildis Feodora; 18 January 1908 – 28 November 1972) was a member of the Swedish royal family and the mother of the current king of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf. Her approximate time of birth comes from the Deutsches Volksblatt newspaper, 20 January 1908, stating she was "born in the evening."
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Biography of Cary Odell (excerpt)
Cary Odell (December 20, 1910 – January 19, 1988) was an American art director. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction. He was employed for several decades by Columbia Pictures. He was born in Indiana and died in San Luis Obispo, California.
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Biography of Hans Quest (excerpt)
Hans Quest (August 20, 1915 – March 29, 1997) was a German actor and director, active in film, television, radio, and theater. Born into a family of musicians, he studied at the Schauspielschule in Berlin (1933-1935) and began his career in Wuppertal before joining the Preußisches Staatstheater in Berlin until his military service in 1939.
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Biography of Lion Feuchtwanger (excerpt)
Lion Feuchtwanger (7 July 1884 – 21 December 1958) was a German Jewish novelist and playwright.A prominent figure in the literary world of Weimar Germany, he influenced contemporaries including playwright Bertolt Brecht. Feuchtwanger's Judaism and fierce criticism of the Nazi Party, years before it assumed power, ensured that he would be a target of government-sponsored persecution after Adolf Hitler's appointment as chancellor of Germany in January 1933.
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Biography of Aleksander Zabczynski (excerpt)
Aleksander Bożydar Żabczyński (July 24, 1900 – May 31, 1958) was a Polish actor and singer. A key figure in Polish interwar cinema, he was renowned for playing romantic lead roles in numerous films. His career spanned theater, cabaret, and film, making him one of the most popular actors of his time.
Biography of Michelle Vian (excerpt)
Michelle Vian (born Michelle Marie Léglise, June 12, 1920 – December 13, 2017) was a French translator and poet, known for her role alongside Boris Vian. Married to Boris Vian from 1941 to 1953, she contributed to his writing and introduced him to Anglo-American literature.
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Biography of Heinrich Jacoby (excerpt)
Heinrich Jacoby (3 April 1889 – 25 November 1964), originally a musician, was a German educator whose teaching was based on developing sensitivity and awareness.His collaboration with his colleague Elsa Gindler (1885–1961), whom he met in 1924 in Berlin, played a great role in his researches.
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Biography of Olivier Alain (organist) (excerpt)
Olivier Georges Alain (August 3, 1918 – February 28, 1994) was a French organist, pianist, musicologist, and composer. Born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, he came from a family of musicians, the son of Albert Alain and brother of Jehan and Marie-Claire Alain. He studied at the Paris Conservatory, winning first prizes in composition (1951) and musical analysis (1950).
Biography of Marcel-Louis Baugniet (excerpt)
Marcel-Louis Baugniet, born on March 18, 1896, in Liège and passed away on February 1, 1995, in Brussels, was a Belgian avant-garde artist. A painter, he also worked with collages, ceramics, illustration, tapestries, furniture design, and art criticism. He studied at the Brussels Academy alongside Paul Delvaux and René Magritte before training in Paris with Ossip Zadkine and Fernand Léger.
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Biography of Berta Bobath (excerpt)
Berta Bobath, MBE (5 December 1907 – 20 January 1991), was a German physiotherapist who created the Bobath concept in 1948, a rehabilitation method widely used for neurologically impaired patients. Born in Berlin as Berta Ottilie Busse, she initially worked with gymnasts.
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Biography of Charles Derennes (excerpt)
Charles Derennes, born on August 4, 1882, in Villeneuve-sur-Lot and died on April 27, 1930, in Paris, was a French writer. The son of a teacher and Breton writer, he spent his childhood in Villeneuve-sur-Lot and studied at the lycée in Talence.
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Biography of Gabriele De Rosa (excerpt)
Gabriele De Rosa (June 24, 1917 – December 8, 2009) was an Italian historian, politician, and writer. A law graduate from the University of Turin, he fought at El Alamein in 1942 and later published La passione di El Alamein. After the war, influenced by Benedetto Croce, he joined the Resistance and founded a Christian-social movement.
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Biography of Suzanne Aron Benoit-Lévy (excerpt)
Suzanne Aron, born Benoit-Lévy on January 25, 1896, in Paris, and passed away on October 28, 1988, in Paris, was a French Jewish educator and co-founder of École Yabné in 1948 alongside Chief Rabbi Henri Schilli. During World War II, she was hidden by Jeanne Brousse, recognized as Righteous Among the Nations, who also protected Rabbi Schilli's daughters. ![]()
Biography of Joe E. Brown (actor) (excerpt)
Joseph Evans Brown, born on July 28, 1891, and died on July 6, 1973, was an American actor and comedian, known for his elastic-mouth smile, comedic timing, and friendly on-screen persona. He was one of the most popular American comedians of the 1930s and 1940s, enjoying a long career in both film and radio. |
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