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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 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 Ruth Rewald (excerpt)
Ruth Rewald (born June 5, 1906, in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, and likely killed in Auschwitz in 1942) was a German children’s author of Jewish origin.Her work combined revolutionary proletarian literature with humanist themes. After abandoning her law studies, she published her first children’s books in 1931, focusing on social issues like working children’s lives and feelings of statelessness.
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Biography of Elinor Wylie (excerpt)
Elinor Wylie (September 7, 1885 – December 16, 1928) was an American poet and writer, renowned in the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Somerville, New Jersey, she grew up in Washington in a prominent family: her grandfather was the Governor of Pennsylvania, and her father was the U.S.
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Biography of Friedrich Sämisch (excerpt)
Friedrich (Fritz) Sämisch (Berlin, September 20, 1896 – Berlin, August 16, 1975) was a German chess grandmaster.He won the first Austrian Championship in Vienna in 1921, though this edition was unofficial.He also finished 3rd in the 1925 Baden-Baden tournament, behind Alexander Alekhine and Akiba Rubinstein.
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Biography of Richard Cromwell (actor) (excerpt)
Richard Cromwell (born LeRoy Melvin Radabaugh, January 8, 1910 – October 11, 1960) was an American actor. His career peaked with roles in Jezebel (1938) alongside Bette Davis and Henry Fonda, and Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) by John Ford, again with Fonda. He first rose to fame with The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), starring Gary Cooper.
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Biography of Ernst Balcke (excerpt)
Ernst Balcke (*April 9, 1887, Berlin – †January 16, 1912, Gatow) was a German author, best known for his friendship with poet Georg Heym, with whom he tragically died while skating on the Havel. The eldest son of a banker, Balcke grew up in Berlin-Schöneberg near the Heym family.
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Biography of Cläre Jung (excerpt)
Cläre Jung (2 February 1892 – 25 March 1981) was a German journalist, writer, and political activist. Born into a middle-class family, she became involved with Berlin’s expressionist poet circle and the journal Die Aktion, where she worked with her partner Franz Jung.
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Biography of Evelina Paoli (excerpt)
Evelina Paoli, born Lina Vianello (30 March 1878 – 28 December 1974), was an Italian actress. Born in Florence to a bourgeois family, she began her theatrical career at 18 with Achille Vitti's company and later joined Eleonora Duse's troupe, touring from 1900 to 1902.
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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 Kurt von Kleefeld (excerpt)
Kurt von Kleefeld (born 16 October 1881 in Kassel as Kurt Kleefeld, died 1934 in Berlin) was a German lawyer, executive director of the House, President of the Chamber and executive director of the princely mines and industrial activities of the princely Hohenlohe family.
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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.
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Biography of Steffen Ahrends (excerpt)
Steffen Ahrends (16 August 1907 – 31 October 1992) was a German-born architect, son of architect Bruno Ahrends.His son, Peter Ahrends, born in 1933 in Berlin, is also an architect based in Dublin, Ireland. After graduating from Landheim Schondorf in 1924, Ahrends studied at the Technical Hochschule in Berlin and later at the Bauhaus in Weimar (1925–1929) under Otto Bartning and Ernst Neufert.
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Biography of Manuel Cabré (excerpt)
Manuel Cabré, born on January 25, 1890, in Barcelona and passed away on February 26, 1984, in Caracas, was a renowned Venezuelan painter, especially celebrated for his landscapes. The son of sculptor Ángel Cabré i Magriñá, he grew up in Venezuela and joined the Caracas Academy of Fine Arts at 14, where his father taught.
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Biography of Victor Bourgeois (excerpt)
Victor Bourgeois (born August 28, 1897, in Charleroi; died July 24, 1962, in Ixelles) was a Belgian architect and urban planner, a leading figure of the modernist movement. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, he co-edited the 7 Arts magazine (1922-1929) with his brother Pierre, focusing on the seven arts, including cinema, and co-founded the Club des Amis du Septième Art (CASA).
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Biography of Felice Casorati (excerpt)
Felice Casorati (4 December 1883 – 1 March 1963) was an Italian painter, sculptor, and printmaker known for his figure compositions, portraits, and still lifes with unusual perspective effects. Born in Novara, he abandoned piano studies after an illness and turned to art.
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Biography of Käte Stresemann (excerpt)
Käte Stresemann (née Kleefeld; July 15, 1883 – July 23, 1970) was the wife of German Chancellor, Foreign Minister, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Gustav Stresemann. Admired for her elegance and intelligence, she was a prominent social figure in the 1920s, hosting diplomatic gatherings at her Berlin salon.
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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 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 Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (excerpt)
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (31 July 1884 – 2 February 1945) was a German conservative politician, monarchist, executive, economist, civil servant and opponent of the Nazi regime.He opposed anti-Jewish policies while he held office and was opposed to the Holocaust. Had the 20 July plot to overthrow Hitler's dictatorship in 1944 succeeded, Goerdeler would have served as the Chancellor of the new government.
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Biography of Robert Busnel (excerpt)
Robert Busnel (14 September 1914 – 15 March 1991) was a French professional basketball player, coach, and administrator.Standing 1.92 m tall, he played as a power forward. Busnel was made an Officer of the Legion of Honor in 1989 and awarded the Olympic Order by the IOC in 1990.
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Biography of Joaquín Zamacois (excerpt)
Joaquín Zamacois y Soler was a Chilean-Spanish composer, music educator, and author, born on December 15, 1894, in Santiago, Chile, and died on September 8, 1976, in Barcelona. Coming from a renowned family of Spanish artists, he was the son of composer Joaquín Zamacois y Zabala and the nephew of notable writers, singers, and painters.
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Biography of Dorothy West (novelist) (excerpt)
Dorothy West (June 2, 1907 – August 16, 1998) was an American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and magazine editor associated with the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement in the 1920s and 1930s that celebrated black art, literature, and music. She was one of the few Black women writers to be published in major literary magazines in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Biography of Simone Louise des Forest (excerpt)
Simone Louise Pinet de Borde des Forest (March 7, 1910 – November 15, 2004) was a French racing driver, a pioneer in women's motorsports. She earned her driver’s license in 1929, a rarity for women at the time. By 1930, she began competing in car races and became a professional driver.
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Biography of Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (excerpt)
Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (Gustaf Adolf Oscar Fredrik Arthur Edmund; 22 April 1906 – 26 January 1947) was a Swedish prince who for most of his life was second in the line of succession to the Swedish throne. He was the eldest son of Gustaf VI Adolf, who was crown prince for most of his son's life and ascended the Swedish throne three years after his son's death.
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Biography of Salvador Novo (excerpt)
Salvador Novo López (July 30, 1904 – January 13, 1974) was a Mexican writer, poet, playwright, translator, and the official chronicler of Mexico City. A member of Los Contemporáneos and the Mexican Academy of Language, he significantly influenced Mexican politics, culture, and society.
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Biography of Ed Walker (American veteran) (excerpt)
Edgar Walker (August 28, 1917 – October 28, 2011) was an American World War II veteran, businessman, publisher, and writer.He was a member of "Castner's Cutthroats," an elite reconnaissance unit in the Aleutian Islands. Born in San Juan Bautista, California, he enlisted in the Army in 1937 and developed a passion for Alaska, where he joined Castner's Cutthroats.
Biography of Robert Oboussier (excerpt)
Robert Oboussier (July 9, 1900 – June 9, 1957) was a Swiss composer and music critic. He began his musical studies in Heidelberg and Mannheim, then continued at the Zurich Conservatory under Volkmar Andreae and Carl Vogler. He later studied composition in Berlin with Philipp Jarnach and conducting with Siegfried Ochs and Rudolf Krasselt.
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Biography of Ernst Karchow (excerpt)
Ernst Günther Karchow (*23 September 1892 in Berlin; †7 October 1953 in Berlin) was a German actor, director, theater manager, and radio actor. The son of merchant and actor Albert Rudolph Karchow, he studied at Max Reinhardt's drama school in Berlin.He began his career at the Deutschen Theater and in Vienna before serving as a soldier in World War I (1914–1918).
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Biography of Vern Olsen (excerpt)
Vern Jarl Olsen (March 16, 1918 – July 13, 1989) was an American professional baseball player and a left-handed pitcher for the Chicago Cubs (1939–42; 1946). Born in Hillsboro, Oregon, Olsen excelled in the minor leagues (23, 19, and 18 wins from 1937 to 1939).
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Biography of Pauline Pô (excerpt)
Pauline Pô (August 28, 1904 – October 16, 1979) was a French actress and the winner of the 1921 Miss France contest, then called La plus belle Femme de France. Originally from Ajaccio, she first won the Miss Corse title in 1920 before being crowned Reine de Beauté des Provinces de France in 1921.
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Biography of Ernst Blass (excerpt)
Ernst Blass (October 17, 1890, Berlin – January 23, 1939, Berlin), also known by the pseudonyms Daniel Stabler and Erich Sternow, was a prominent Expressionist poet, critic, and writer. A close friend of Kurt Hiller, he joined Der Neue Club, alongside early Expressionist writers such as Georg Heym and Jakob van Hoddis.
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Biography of Georg Alfred Stockburger (excerpt)
Georg Alfred Stockburger (born May 12, 1907, in Kusterdingen, Landkreis Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg; died April 5, 1986, in Tübingen) was a German painter, draftsman, and graphic artist. As a young man, Stockburger was encouraged by his teachers to pursue his talent for drawing and trained at the Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts.
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Biography of Dorothy Yost (excerpt)
Dorothy Yost (April 25, 1899 – June 10, 1967) was a prominent screenwriter of both silent and sound films, contributing to over 90 productions.Born in St.Louis, Missouri, she passed away in Monrovia, California. Before turning to screenwriting, she performed in theater plays.
Biography of Henri Bosc (excerpt)
Henri Bosc, born Henri Marie Joseph Danviolet in Perpignan on August 18, 1884, was a French theater and film actor.He was married to actress Cécile Guyon, with whom he had a daughter, actress Denise Bosc. His in-laws were deeply rooted in the theater world, with his father-in-law Alexandre Guyon fils and grandfather-in-law Alexandre Guyon père, both being actors.
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Biography of Isabelle Rivière (excerpt)
Isabelle Fournier, née Rivière (July 16, 1889 – June 18, 1971), was a French writer. The sister of Alain-Fournier, she was the daughter of schoolteachers Marie-Albanie Barthe and Augustin Fournier. She married Jacques Rivière, a writer and director of the Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF).
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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.
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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 Carlos Pellicer (excerpt)
Carlos Pellicer Cámara (January 16, 1897, Villahermosa – February 16, 1977) was a modernist Mexican poet renowned for his depictions of nature and a sensual energy shared with Octavio Paz. His time of birth comes from the biography "Mirando el río de aquellas tardes: estudio sobre Carlos Pellicer" by Samuel Gordon, ICT, Government of the State of Tabasco, 1990.
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Biography of Jelle Zijlstra (excerpt)
Jelle Zijlstra, born on August 27, 1918, and died on December 23, 2001, was a Dutch politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) and an economist. He earned a PhD in public economics from the Rotterdam School of Economics and became a professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam before entering politics.
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Biography of James Denis (aviator) (excerpt)
James Denis (February 1, 1906 – June 21, 2003) was a French military officer and Compagnon de la Libération.A skilled pilot, he joined the Free French Forces in 1940, flying to England with five companions. He fought in North Africa and the Middle East, serving with the Royal Air Force before forming the Escadrille française de chasse n°1.
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Biography of Franco Rasetti (excerpt)
Franco Dino Rasetti (August 10, 1901 – December 5, 2001) was an Italian-born (later naturalized American) physicist, paleontologist, and botanist. A collaborator of Enrico Fermi, he contributed to key discoveries about nuclear fission but refused to work on the Manhattan Project for moral reasons.
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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 Charles Brink (excerpt)
Charles Oscar Brink FBA (born Karl Oskar Levy; 13 March 1907 – 2 March 1994) was a German-Jewish classicist and Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge University. After an education and an early career as a lexicographer in Weimar Germany, Brink emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1938.
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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 Naomi W. Randall (excerpt)
Naomi Harriet Ward Randall (born October 5, 1908 – died May 17, 2001) was a songwriter, author, and leader in the Primary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). In 1957, she wrote the lyrics to the hymn "I Am a Child of God", originally created as a children's song and now translated into over 90 languages.
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Biography of Pierre Bourgeois (poet) (excerpt)
Pierre Bourgeois (born December 4, 1898, in Charleroi; died May 25, 1976) was a Belgian poet and filmmaker. The younger brother of architect Victor Bourgeois, he co-edited the 7 Arts magazine from 1922 to 1929.This publication, dedicated to geometric abstraction, aimed to synthesize various arts, including painting, sculpture, literature, and cinema.
Biography of Don Ingalls (excerpt)
Donald G. Ingalls (July 29, 1918 – March 10, 2014) was an American screenwriter and television producer. A B-17 pilot during World War II, he later became a test pilot before joining the Los Angeles Police Department, where he met Gene Roddenberry.
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Biography of Léon Langeron (excerpt)
Léon Langeron (December 5, 1888 – June 29, 1963) was a French professor of medicine. A graduate of the University of Lyon, he became a hospital physician in 1926 before joining the Free Faculty of Medicine in Lille in 1927. For 35 years, he led the medical department at the Hôpital de la Charité, shaping both research and medical education. ![]()
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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