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Biography of Nelson Rodrigues (excerpt)
Nelson Falcão Rodrigues (August 23, 1912 – December 21, 1980) was a Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist. In 1943, he helped usher in a new era in Brazilian theater with his play Vestido de Noiva (The Wedding Dress), considered revolutionary for the complex exploration of its characters' psychology and its use of colloquial dialogue.
Biography of Paul Huvelin (excerpt)
Paul Huvelin, born on July 22, 1902 in Chorey-les-Beaune (Côte-d'Or), died in October 1995, was a French entrepreneur and syndicalist. He was the President of The Conseil national du patronat français (CNPF) between 1966 and 1972.
Biography of René Deltgen (excerpt)
Renatus Heinrich Deltgen born 30 April 1909 in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg; died 29 January 1979 in Cologne, Germany) was a Luxembourgian stage and film actor, who spent most of his career in Germany. Selected filmography Das Mädchen Johanna (1935) One Too Many on Board (1935)
Biography of Heinrich George (excerpt)
Georg August Friedrich Hermann Schulz (9 October 1893 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, Michael Keller, birth certificate) – 25 September 1946), better known as Heinrich George, was a German stage and film actor. George is noted for having spooked the young Bertolt Brecht in his first directing job, a production of Arnolt Bronnen's Parricide (1922), when he refused to continue working with the director.
Biography of Klaus Fuchs (excerpt)
Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988) was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who supplied information from the American, British, and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after World War II.
Biography of Noël Gallon (excerpt)
Noël Gallon (11 September 1891 – 26 December 1966) was a French composer and music educator. His compositional output includes several choral works and vocal art songs, 10 preludes, a Toccata for piano, a Sonata for flute and bassoon, a Fantasy for piano and orchestra, an Orchestral Suite, and the lyrical drama Paysans et Soldats (1911).
Biography of Georges Jouatte (excerpt)
Georges Jouatte (17 June 1892 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 13 February 1969) was a 20th-century French operatic singer (tenor) and singing professor. Jouatte was born in Villefagnan (Charente). Just after World War I, he began his career as a dancer at the Casino de Paris in order to finance his singing studies at the Conservatoire de Paris.
Biography of Raymond Chandler (excerpt)
Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression.
Biography of Marcel Rochas (excerpt)
Marcel (Louis Jules) Rochas, born on February 24, 1902 in Paris 11e (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on March 14, 1955 in Paris 7e, was a French fashion designer and perfumer, the founder of Rochas, a fashion, beauty, and perfume house.
Biography of Jacques Lenoir (excerpt)
Jacques Lenoir, born on August 13, 1918 in Avignon (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth cetificate), died on December 23, 2008 in Sanary-sur-Mer, was a French high official. He was the Prefet de Police de Paris(1971-1973).
Biography of Buenaventura Durruti (excerpt)
José Buenaventura Durruti Dumange (14 July 1896 (birth time source: the book "Durruti en la Revolución Española", by Abel Paz (pseudonym of the writer and historian Diego Camacho, page 48) – 20 November 1936) was a Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant involved with the CNT, FAI and other anarchist organisations during the period leading up to and including the Spanish Civil War.
Biography of Ramón Mercader (excerpt)
Jaime Ramón Mercader del Río (7 February 1913 – 18 October 1978), more commonly known as Ramón Mercader, was a Spanish communist and NKVD agent who assassinated the Russian Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in August 1940. He served 20 years in Mexican prison for the murder.
Biography of Marilyn Miller (excerpt)
Marilyn Miller (born Mary Ellen Reynolds, September 1, 1898 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, Astrological Magazine, Vol. 75, Issues 1-6, p. 489, accuracy in question) – April 7, 1936) was one of the most popular Broadway musical stars of the 1920s and early 1930s.
Biography of Nathanael West (excerpt)
Nathanael West (born Nathan Weinstein; October 17, 1903 – December 22, 1940) was an American author and screenwriter. He is remembered for two darkly satirical novels: Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of the Locust (1939), set respectively in the newspaper and Hollywood film industries.
Biography of Félix Trombe (excerpt)
Felix Trombe (19 March 1906 in Nogent, France – 26 March 1985 in Ganties, France) was a French engineer. He is best known for his pioneering work in passive solar building design with the Trombe wall, which bears his name.
Biography of Jacques Draeger (excerpt)
Jacques Draeger, born on October 18, 1903 in Montrouge (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on March 12, 2002 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French editor.
Biography of Eugénie Cotton (excerpt)
Eugénie Cotton (13 October 1881 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 27)– 16 June 1967) was a French scientist and Women's rights activist. She was a founding member and the first president of the Women's International Democratic Federation. She was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize in 1951 and the Gold medal from the World Peace Council in 1961.
Biography of Erich Neumann (excerpt)
Erich Neumann (23 January 1905 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth registry entry from Berlin archives) – 5 November 1960), was a psychologist, philosopher, writer, and student of Carl Jung. Neumann was born in Berlin to a Jewish family. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1927 and then continued to study medicine at the University of Berlin, where he acquired his first degree in medicine in 1933.
Biography of Henri Sellier (excerpt)
Henri Charles Sellier (22 December 1883 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 24 November 1943) was a French administrator, urban planner and Socialist politician. He did much to develop garden cities in the Paris region. He was Minister of Health in 1936–37.
Biography of François Brousse (excerpt)
François Brousse (May 7, 1913 in Perpignan - October 25, 1995 in Clamart) was a philosophy professor who had mainly taught in the Languedoc-Roussillon region and is the author of some 80 works including poetry, essays (metaphysical, astronomical, historical and esoteric), novels, plays and storybooks.
Biography of Luis Cernuda (excerpt)
Luis Cernuda (born Luis Cernuda Bidón September 21, 1902 – November 5, 1963) was a Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27. During the Spanish Civil War, in early 1938, he went to the UK to deliver some lectures and this became the start of an exile that lasted till the end of his life.
Biography of Maria Valtorta (excerpt)
Maria Valtorta (14 March 1897 – 12 October 1961) was a Roman Catholic Italian writer and poet. She was a Franciscan tertiary and a lay member of the Servants of Mary who reported reputed personal conversations with, and dictations from, Jesus Christ.
Biography of Édouard Cortès (excerpt)
Edouard Léon Cortès (1882 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives) – 1969) was a French post-impressionist artist of French and Spanish ancestry. He is known as "Le Poète Parisien de la Peinture" or "the Parisian Poet of Painting" because of his diverse Paris cityscapes in a variety of weather and night settings.
Biography of Marguerite Perey (excerpt)
Marguerite Catherine Perey (19 October 1909 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 112) – 13 May 1975) was a French physicist and a student of Marie Curie. In 1939, Perey discovered the element francium by purifying samples of lanthanum that contained actinium.
Biography of Bessie Coleman (excerpt)
Bessie Coleman (January 26, 1892 – April 30, 1926) was an early American civil aviator. She was the first African-American woman, and also the first Native-American, to hold a pilot license. She earned her pilot license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale on June 15, 1921, and was the first black person to earn an international pilot's license.
Biography of Robert Charron (excerpt)
Robert Charron is a French boxer born June 23, 1918 in Buxerolles (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 6)) and died March 11, 1995 in Poitiers. Professional in 1942, he became France's middleweight champion on December 1, 1944 at the Winter Circus after winning points against Edouard Tenet.
Biography of Eugène Huat (excerpt)
Eugène Huat (born 8 February 1907 in Reims (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 305)) was a French boxer who was champion of France and Europe at flyweight, and fought four times for world titles at bantamweight. He finished with a record of 80 wins, 44 defeats, and 9 draws.
Biography of Pierre Meunier (excerpt)
Pierre Meunier, born on August 15, 1908 in Dijon (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on April 16, 1996 in Arnay-le-Duc, was a French politician, a member of the French Resistance and a friend of Jean Moulin.
Biography of Louis Arretche (excerpt)
Louis Gerald Arretche, born on August 13, 105 in Saint-Justin (Landes)(birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate. Wikipedia gives August 12)), died on December 20, 1991 in Paris, was a French architect and urban planner.
Biography of Eiji Toyoda (excerpt)
Eiji Toyoda (豊田 英二, Toyoda Eiji, 12 September 1913 – 17 September 2013) was a Japanese industrialist. He was largely responsible for bringing Toyota Motor Corporation to profitability and worldwide prominence during his tenure as president and later, as chairman. As a managing director of Toyota Motor, Toyoda failed in his first attempt to crack the U.
Biography of Virginia Hall (excerpt)
Virginia Hall Goillot DSC, Croix de Guerre, MBE (April 6, 1906 – July 8, 1982), code named Marie and Diane, was an American who worked with the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in France during World War II.
Biography of Peggy Hopkins Joyce (excerpt)
Peggy Hopkins Joyce (born Marguerite Upton; May 26, 1893 – June 12, 1957) was an American actress, artist's model and dancer. In addition to her performing career, Joyce was known for her flamboyant life, with numerous engagements, six marriages to wealthy men, subsequent divorces, a series of scandalous affairs, a collection of diamonds and furs, and a generally lavish lifestyle.
Biography of Henri Ey (excerpt)
Henri Ey (10 August 1900, Banyuls-dels-Aspres – 8 November 1977, Banyuls-dels-Aspres) was a French neurologist, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and philosopher. Ey developed an "organodynamic psychology" and a theory of the structure of states of consciousness, in which he developed ideas of Pierre Janet and John Hughlings Jackson.
Biography of Halil Inalcik (excerpt)
Halil İnalcık (7 September 1916 – 25 July 2016) was a Turkish historian of the Ottoman Empire. His highly influential research centered on social and economic approaches to the empire. His academic career started at Ankara University, where he completed his PhD and worked between 1940 and 1972.
Biography of Pyotr Pavlenko (excerpt)
Pyotr Andreyevich Pavlenko (Russian: Пётр Андре́евич Павле́нко), (born July 11, 1899, in St. Petersburg; died June 16, 1951, in Moscow), was a Soviet writer, screenwriter and war correspondent. He became a member of the CPSU in 1920. He was part of the Soviet trade delegation in Turkey from 1924 to 1927.
Biography of Georges Boulogne (excerpt)
Georges Boulogne (1 July 1917 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 23 August 1999) was a French football (soccer) player and manager, better known for his stint as France national football team manager. He was born in Haillicourt. He played amateur football for AC Amboise and CO Saint-Dizier, where he started his coaching career.
Biography of R. K. Narayan (excerpt)
Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami (10 October 1906 – 13 May 2001), was an Indian writer known for his work set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. He was a leading author of early Indian literature in English along with Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao.
Biography of Max Aub (excerpt)
Max Aub Mohrenwitz (June 2, 1903, Paris – July 22, 1972 Mexico City) was a Mexican-Spanish experimentalist novelist, playwright and literary critic. In 1965 he founded the literary periodical Los Sesenta (the Sixties), with editors that included the poets Jorge Guillén and Rafael Alberti.
Biography of Edmond Jouhaud (excerpt)
Edmond Jouhaud (2 April 1905 – 4 September 1995) was one of four French generals who briefly staged a putsch in Algeria in April 1961. As Army General he had been the Inspector General of the Air Force in French North Africa.
Biography of Ramaswamy Venkataraman (excerpt)
Ramaswamy Venkataraman (4 December 1910 – 27 January 2009) was an Indian lawyer, Indian independence activist and politician who served as a Union Minister and as the eighth President of India. Venkataraman was born in Rajamadam village in Tanjore district, Madras Presidency.
Biography of Tetyana Yablonska (excerpt)
Tetyana Yablonska (Ukrainian: Яблонська Тетяна Нилівна) (24 February 1917 – 17 June 2005) was a Ukrainian painter. Her early vital pictures are devoted to work and a life of Ukrainian people ("Bread", 1949). She has passed to generalizing images of the nature, differing a subtlety of plastic and color rhythms ("Anonymous heights", 1969; "Flax", 1977).
Biography of Susanne Langer (excerpt)
Susanne Katherina Langer (/ˈlæŋər/; née Knauth; December 20, 1895 – July 17, 1985) was an American philosopher, writer, and educator and was well known for her theories on the influences of art on the mind. She was one of the first women in American history to achieve an academic career in philosophy and the first woman to be popularly and professionally recognized as an American philosopher.
Biography of Faina Ranevskaya (excerpt)
Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya (Russian: Фаина Георгиевна Раневская, born Faina Girschevna Feldman, 27 August (O.S. 15 August) 1896 - 19 July 1984), is recognized as one of the greatest Soviet actresses in both tragedy and comedy. She was also famous for her aphorisms.
Biography of Serge Raynaud de la Ferrière (excerpt)
Serge Raynaud de la Ferrière (18 January 1916 – 27 December 1962) was a French Initiatic philosopher. He was born in Paris, France, the son of Georges Constantine Louis Raynaud, who was an engineer, and Virginie Marie Billet. His parents moved to Brussels, Belgium when he was two years old, and his mother died there when he was only five years of age.
Biography of Nora Barnacle (excerpt)
Nora Barnacle (21 March 1884 – 10 April 1951) was the muse and wife of Irish author James Joyce. Barnacle and Joyce had their first romantic assignation in 1904 on a date celebrated worldwide as the "Bloomsday" of his modernist novel Ulysses, a book that she did not, however, enjoy.
Biography of Conrad Aiken (excerpt)
Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973) was an American writer, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, a play, and an autobiography. Named poetry consultant of the Library of Congress from 1950–1952, Conrad Aiken earned numerous prestigious national writing awards, including a National Book Award, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the National Institute of Arts and Letters Gold Medal and the National Medal for Literature.
Biography of Jean Dubuisson (excerpt)
Jean Dubuisson (September 18, 1914 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – October 22, 2011) was a French architect who is regarded as one of the leading practitioners of the French post-World War II years. Beyond a classical culture gained at the École des Beaux Arts and on his travels in Italy and Greece, Dubuisson was strongly influenced by Mies van der Rohe, Arne Jacobsen, and Walter Gropius.
Biography of Marie-Louise von Franz (excerpt)
Marie-Louise von Franz (4 January 1915 – 17 February 1998) was a Swiss Jungian psychologist and scholar, known for her psychological interpretations of fairy tales and of alchemical manuscripts. Career Von Franz worked with Carl Jung, whom she met in 1933 and with whom she collaborated until his death in 1961.
Biography of Simone Levaillant (excerpt)
Simone Levaillant, born Adèle Simonne Levaillant on November 19, 1904 in Saint-Étienne (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate), died in deportation on March 30, 1943 in Lublin Maïdaneck (Poland), was a feminist and resistant militant. She had been the first woman lawyer to join the Bar of Saint-Etienne.
Biography of Bernard Privat (excerpt)
Bernard Privat (25 October 1914 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 11 October 1985) was a French writer and editor. Biography Bernard Privat received the Prix Femina for Au pied du mur in 1959. He was also in charge of the éditions Grasset for over twenty-five years. |
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