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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 Pierre Naville (excerpt)
Pierre Louis Pyrame Naville, born on February 1, 1904, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, and died on April 24, 1993, in the 6th arrondissement of the same city, was a French writer, politician, and sociologist. A surrealist from 1924 to 1926, a member of the French Communist Party until 1928, and later a Trotskyist before joining the PSU, he pursued a parallel career as a sociologist of labor alongside his political commitments.
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Biography of Lock Martin (excerpt)
Joseph Lockard "Lock" Martin Jr.(October 12, 1916 – January 19, 1959) was an American performer afflicted with gigantism.Martin and a twin brother were born in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; his brother died in childbirth. Martin would eventually grow to over 7 feet tall by adulthood, though his exact height was reported inconsistently.
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Biography of Katherine Loker (excerpt)
Katherine Loker, born August 13, 1915, and passed away June 26, 2008, was an American heiress and philanthropist. She donated tens of millions of dollars to institutions such as CSU Dominguez Hills, Harvard University, and USC, where she was awarded the Presidential Medallion in 2007, the university’s highest honor.
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Biography of A.M. de Jong (excerpt)
Adrianus Michiel de Jong (Nieuw-Vossemeer, March 29, 1888 – Blaricum, October 18, 1943) was a Dutch writer, also using pseudonyms like Frank van Waes. Born in a farming family, he grew up in Nieuw-Vossemeer and Rotterdam. His youth inspired the series Merijntje Gijzens jeugd en jonge jaren.
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Biography of Henry Winterfeld (excerpt)
Henry Winterfeld (April 9, 1901 – January 27, 1990), published under the pseudonym Manfred Michael, was a German writer and artist famous for his children’s and young adult novels. He emigrated to the United States in 1940, where he lived until his death.
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Biography of Eelco van Kleffens (excerpt)
Eelco Nicolaas van Kleffens (born 17 November 1894, died 17 June 1983) was a Dutch politician and diplomat. Descending from a Frisian family of civil servants, he studied law at Leiden University and started his career at the League of Nations and later at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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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. ![]()
Biography of Jeanne Bates (excerpt)
Jeanne Bates (May 21, 1918 – November 28, 2007) was an American radio, film, and television actress. She began her career in radio serials before signing a contract with Columbia Pictures in 1942. Her filmography includes roles in both minor parts and significant appearances in horror and noir films such as The Return of the Vampire (1943) and Shadows in the Night (1946).
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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.
Biography of Anneliese Maier (excerpt)
Born on November 17, 1905, in Tübingen, Germany, Anneliese Maier was a German historian of science renowned for her research on medieval natural philosophy. The daughter of philosopher Heinrich Maier, she studied natural sciences and philosophy in Berlin and Zurich from 1923 to 1926.
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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.
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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 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 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 Wilibald Gurlitt (excerpt)
Wilibald Gurlitt (March 1, 1889, Dresden – December 15, 1963, Freiburg) was a German musicologist. The son of art historian Cornelius Gurlitt, he studied at Heidelberg and Leipzig, focusing on philosophy and musicology, particularly 16th- and 17th-century music. Trained in violin and organ, he also studied composition with Karl Straube, organist in Leipzig.
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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 Ewald Mataré (excerpt)
Ewald Wilhelm Hubert Mataré, born on February 25, 1887, in Burtscheid, Aachen, and passed away on March 28, 1965, in Büderich, was a German painter and sculptor, known for his stylized figures of men and animals. Mataré studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin starting in 1907.
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Biography of Franz Bachér (excerpt)
Franz Hermann Theodor Nils Bachér was a German chemist and university professor, born on May 21, 1894, in Kassel and died on October 15, 1987, in Salzburg. Son of chemist Franz Bachér and grandson of Theodor Storm, he studied chemistry at Marburg, Kiel, and Rostock starting in 1912.
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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.
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Biography of Keith Holyoake (excerpt)
Sir Keith Jacka Holyoake (born February 11, 1904 – died December 8, 1983) was a New Zealand politician.He served as the 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand, briefly in 1957 and then from 1960 to 1972, and as the 13th Governor-General from 1977 to 1980.
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Biography of Juan O'Gorman (excerpt)
Juan O'Gorman O'Gorman (born July 6, 1905, in Coyoacán and died January 17, 1982, in Mexico City) was a Mexican architect and painter. Born into a family of Irish descent, he was the brother of historian Edmundo O'Gorman.He studied architecture at the Academy of San Carlos and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
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Biography of John Wilson McIlvaine (excerpt)
John Wilson McIlvaine (June 22, 1907 – July 1, 1963) was a United States District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He earned a Bachelor of Science from Washington & Jefferson College in 1928, and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Pittsburgh in 1932, before entering private legal practice.
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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.
Biography of Jackie Ormes (excerpt)
Jackie Ormes, born Zelda Mavin Jackson on August 1, 1911, in Pittsburgh and died December 26, 1985, in Chicago, was the first African American woman cartoonist. She began in journalism and rose to fame with Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem in 1937 and the long-running Patty-Jo 'n' Ginger panel.
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Biography of Doris Hill (excerpt)
Doris Hill, born Roberta M. Hill on March 21, 1905, in Roswell, New Mexico, died on March 3, 1976. She was an American actress active in the 1920s and 1930s. Discovered dancing in Los Angeles, she began her film career in 1926 and successfully transitioned to sound films.
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Biography of Tamie Tsuchiyama (excerpt)
Tamie Tsuchiyama (May 8, 1915 – May 12, 1984) was the only Japanese-American to work full time for the Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement Study during World War II. While interned at the Poston War Relocation Center, she produced detailed sociological journals and ethnographic reports.
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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).
Biography of Rico Bulthuis (excerpt)
Rico Bulthuis (August 27, 1911 – October 4, 2009) was a Dutch writer of psychological thrillers and detective novels, as well as an illustrator, puppeteer, photographer, civil servant, and art critic. The son of writer H.J.Bulthuis, he started as an advertising specialist and portrait photographer before becoming an art critic for the Haagsche Courant after World War II.
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Biography of Gordon Oliver (actor) (excerpt)
Gordon Oliver (April 27, 1910 – January 26, 1995) was an American actor and film producer.He appeared in more than 40 films and television shows between 1933 and 1972. Oliver began working in films in 1936, eventually working for Warner Bros., Columbia and RKO. ![]()
Biography of Jack Kirby (excerpt)
Jack Kirby, born Jacob Kurtzberg on August 28, 1917, and died on February 6, 1994, was a groundbreaking American comic book artist, hailed as one of the most influential figures in the medium’s history. Raised in New York, he taught himself to draw by copying newspaper cartoon figures.
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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 Ernst Torgler (excerpt)
Ernst Torgler (April 25, 1893 – January 19, 1963) was a German politician who successively joined the SPD, USPD, KPD, and later returned to the SPD. After training as a salesman, Torgler served in World War I.He joined the SPD in 1911, switched to the USPD in 1918, and to the KPD in 1920.
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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 Gert Heinrich Wollheim (excerpt)
Gert Heinrich Wollheim (September 11, 1894 – April 22, 1974) was a German expressionist painter later associated with the New Objectivity.He fled Nazi Germany and settled in the United States in 1947. Born in Dresden-Loschwitz, he studied at the Weimar College of Fine Arts before serving in World War I, where he was wounded.
Biography of Leopold Abraham Ries (excerpt)
Leopold Abraham Ries (born 15 April 1893 in Groningen, died 10 July 1962 in New York) was a Dutch senior civil servant, appointed Treasurer-General in 1935. A talented jurist from a wealthy Jewish family, he was close to Eelco van Kleffens and an early quiet supporter of gay rights in the Netherlands.
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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 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 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 Roger François (weightlifter) (excerpt)
Roger François, born on October 7, 1900, in Romans, Drôme, and died on February 15, 1949, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, was a French weightlifter. He became the world light-heavyweight champion at the 1922 World Championships in Tallinn. Placing sixth in the middleweight category at the 1924 Summer Olympics, he went on to become the Olympic champion in the same category at the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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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 Werner Kolhörster (excerpt)
Werner Heinrich Gustav Kolhörster (December 28, 1887 – August 5, 1946) was a German physicist and a pioneer in cosmic ray research. Born in Schwiebus (now Świebodzin, Poland), he studied physics at the University of Halle under Friedrich Ernst Dorn. In 1913-1914, replicating Victor Hess' experiments, he ascended to 9 km by balloon, confirming that cosmic ray ionization increases with altitude, proving that these ionizing rays originate from space.
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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 Emilio Amero (excerpt)
Emilio Amero (May 25, 1901, in Ixtlahuacán del Río, Jalisco – April 12, 1976, in Norman, Oklahoma) was a prominent Mexican artist, illustrator, muralist, and educator, central to the Mexican Modern art movement. Shaped by the Mexican Revolution, he expressed his artistic vision through painting, lithography, illustration, photography, and filmmaking.
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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 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 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 Luis Alberto Sánchez (excerpt)
Luis Alberto Sánchez (born October 12, 1900 – died February 6, 1994) was a Peruvian lawyer, philosopher, historian, writer, and influential politician. A longtime member of the APRA party, he served as Senator, Second Vice President of Peru (1985–1990), and briefly as Prime Minister under Alan García.
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Biography of Alberto Buccicardi (excerpt)
Alberto Buccicardi, born on May 11, 1914, and died on December 8, 1970, was a Chilean football player, coach, and later sports journalist. He coached Universidad Católica multiple times, leading the club to its first national title in 1949 and to a tournament win in Catalonia the following year.
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Biography of Jean Voilier (publisher) (excerpt)
Jean Voilier, born Jeanne Loviton on April 1, 1903, in Paris and died on July 20, 1996, was a French lawyer, publisher, and novelist. Raised in an artistic family, she was adopted by publisher Ferdinand Loviton, who gave her his name. |
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