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Biography of Ottorino Respighi (excerpt)
Ottorino Respighi (July 9, 1879 - April 18, 1936) was an Italian composer, musicologist and conductor. He is best known for his orchestral Roman trilogy: Fontane di Roma - "Fountains of Rome"; Pini di Roma - "Pines of Rome"; and Feste Romane - "Roman Festivals". ![]()
Biography of Marie Bashkirtseff (excerpt)
Marie Bashkirtseff (Мария Константиновна Башкирцева; November 12, 1858 (November 24, Gregorian calendar) — October 31, 1884) was a Ukrainian-born Russian diarist, painter and sculptor. Born Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva in Gavrontsy near Poltava, to a wealthy noble family, she grew up abroad, traveling with her mother across most of Europe. ![]()
Biography of Désiré-Joseph Mercier (excerpt)
Désiré-Félicien-François-Joseph Cardinal Mercier (November 21, 1851—January 23, 1926) was a Belgian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Mechelen from 1906 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1907. Mercier is noted for his staunch resistance to the German occupation of 1914, and is considered to have been the mentor of Leo Cardinal Suenens. ![]()
Biography of Edith Cavell (excerpt)
Edith Louisa Cavell (December 4, 1865–October 12, 1915) was a British World War I nurse and humanitarian. She is celebrated for helping hundreds of Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium. Her subsequent execution received significant sympathetic press coverage worldwide. “Patriotism is not enough…” Her strong religious belief propelled Cavell to help all those who needed help - whether a member of the German forces or the Allied forces. ![]()
Biography of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (excerpt)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (August 15, 1875–September 1, 1912) was a black, English composer who achieved such success he was called "The Black Mahler." History Coleridge-Taylor was born in Holborn, London, to a Sierra Leonean (Krio) father, Daniel Peter Hughes Taylor, and an English mother, Alice Hare Martin.
Biography of Isabelle Pagan (excerpt)
Isabelle Pagan, born December 12, 1867 in Dairsie, Scotland, died in 1960, was a Scottish astrologer, theosophist, lecturer and writer. ![]()
Biography of Harvey Firestone (excerpt)
Harvey Samuel Firestone (December 20, 1868 – February 7, 1938) was the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, one of the first global makers of automobile tires and an important contributor to North American economic growth during the 20th century. ![]()
Biography of René Dumesnil (excerpt)
René, Alphonse, Adolphe Dumesnil, born on June 19, 1879 in Rouen (birth time source: Lescaut), died on December 24, 1967 in Paris, was a French physician, critic, author, and musicologist. Publications (extracts) Le Rythme musical — 1921 ; 2e éd. ![]()
Biography of Hugh Dowding (excerpt)
Air Chief Marshal Hugh Caswell Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding , (24 April 1882 - 15 February 1970) was a British officer in the Royal Air Force. He was the commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain. Early life ![]()
Biography of Victor Grignard (excerpt)
François Auguste Victor Grignard (May 6, 1871 in Cherbourg (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - December 13, 1935 in Lyon) was a Nobel Prize-winning French chemist. Grignard was the son of a sail maker. After studying mathematics at Lyon he transferred to chemistry, becoming a professor at the University of Nancy in 1910. ![]()
Biography of Max Reger (excerpt)
Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (March 19, 1873 – May 11, 1916) was a German composer, organist, pianist and teacher. Life Born in Brand, Bavaria, Reger studied music in Munich and Wiesbaden with Hugo Riemann. From September 1901 he settled in Munich, where he obtained concert offers and where his rapid rise to fame began. ![]()
Biography of Georges Dufrénoy (excerpt)
Georges Dufrénoy (June 20, 1870 (birth time source: Lescaut) – December 9, 1943) was a French post-Impressionist painter associated with Fauvism. Biography He was born in Thiais, France. His family lived at 2 Place des Vosges in Paris in a historic 17th century building in which he lived all his life.
Biography of Marie Dressler (excerpt)
Marie Dressler (November 9, 1868 – July 28, 1934) was an Academy Award-winning Canadian actress. Biography Born Leila Marie Koerber in Cobourg, Ontario to parents Alexander Rudolph Koerber (who was Austrian) and Anna Henderson. The young Dressler was able to hone her talents to make other people laugh, and began her acting career when she was fourteen. ![]()
Biography of Walter Chrysler (excerpt)
Walter Percy Chrysler (April 2, 1875 – August 18, 1940) was an American automobile pioneer. He was born in Wamego, Kansas and grew up in Ellis, Kansas. From 1905-1906, Chrysler worked for the Fort Worth and Denver Railway in Childress, a West Texas city considered the "Gateway to the Texas Panhandle. ![]()
Biography of Jules Bonnot (excerpt)
Jules Bonnot (October 14, 1876 - April 28, 1912) was a French illegalist famous for his involvement in a criminal anarchist organization dubbed "The Bonnot Gang" by the French press. He viewed himself as a professional and avoided bloodshed, preferring to outwit his targets. ![]()
Biography of Hubert Lyautey (excerpt)
Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey (November 17, 1854 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - July 27, 1934) was a French general, the first Resident-General in Morocco from 1912 to 1925 and from 1921 Marshal of France. Early life Lyautey was born at Nancy (Lorraine). ![]()
Biography of Konstantin von Neurath (excerpt)
Konstantin Freiherr von Neurath (2 February 1873 – 14 August 1956) was a German diplomat, Foreign Minister of Germany (1932-1938) and Reichsprotektor (Governor) of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (1939-1941). Neurath remained titular Protector until 1943. Early life He was born in Vaihingen an der Enz, Kingdom of Württemberg, the son of minor Swabian nobility. ![]()
Biography of Albert Samain (excerpt)
Albert Victor Samain (April 3, 1858 — August 18, 1900) was a French poet and writer of the Symbolist school. Born in Lille, his family were Flemish and had long lived in the town or its suburbs. At the time of the poet's birth, his father, Jean-Baptiste Samain, and his mother, Elisa-Henriette Mouquet, conducted a business in "wines and spirits" at 75 rue de Paris. ![]()
Biography of Hilaire Belloc (excerpt)
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (27 July 1870 – 16 July 1953) was a French-born writer who became a naturalised British subject in 1902. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. Recent biographies of Belloc have been written by A.
Biography of Hedwig Reicher-Kindermann (excerpt)
Hedwig Reicher-Kindermann, born in Trieste, July 15, 1853 and died in 1883, was a German soprano opera singer, the daugther of German singer A. Kindermann. ![]()
Biography of Booth Tarkington (excerpt)
Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. Biography Booth Tarkington was born Newton Booth Tarkington in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was the son of John S. ![]()
Biography of Ethel Barrymore (excerpt)
Ethel Barrymore (August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959) was an Academy Award-winning American actress and a member of the famous Barrymore family. Early life Ethel Barrymore was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second child of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgiana Drew.
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Biography of Bernard Grasset (editor) (excerpt)
Bernard Félix Joseph Grasset, born on March 6, 1881 in Chambéry (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on October 20, 1955 in Paris, was a French famous editor.
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Biography of Edmond Sée (excerpt)
Edmond Sée, born on March 21, 1875 in Bayonne (birth time source: Lescaut), died in 1959, was a French journalist, playwright, and author. ![]()
Biography of J. P. Morgan Jr. (excerpt)
John Pierpont Morgan, Jr. (September 7, 1867 — September 9, 1943) was an American philanthropist. He was born in Chicago and graduated from Harvard in 1886, where he was a member of Delta Phi and Delta Kappa Epsilon. He was the son of banking tycoon, J. ![]()
Biography of Auguste Vaillant (excerpt)
Auguste Vaillant (December 27 1861 in Mézières, France (in Ardennes, not sur Seine) - February 3, 1894) was a French anarchist, most famous for his bomb attack on the French Chamber of Deputies in 1893. The government's reaction to this attack was the passing of the infamous repressive Lois scélérates. ![]()
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Madeira (/məˈdɪərə/ mə-DEER-ə, US also /-ˈdɛər-/ -DAIR-, Portuguese: ), officially the Autonomous Region of Madeira (Portuguese: Região Autónoma da Madeira), is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal, the other being the Azores. It is an archipelago situated in the North Atlantic Ocean, in a region known as Macaronesia, just under 400 kilometres (250 mi) to the north of the Canary Islands and 520 kilometres (320 mi) west of Morocco. ![]()
Biography of Hugo de Vries (excerpt)
Hugo Marie de Vries (Feb 16, 1848, Haarlem - May 21, 1935, Lunteren) was a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists. He is known chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes, rediscovering Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity in the 1890s, and for developing a mutation theory of evolution. ![]()
Biography of Karl Valentin (excerpt)
Karl Valentin (born Valentin Ludwig Fey, 4 June 1882, Munich - 9 February 1948, Planegg, Germany) was a Bavarian comedian, cabaret performer, clown, author and film producer who had significant influence on German Weimar culture. Valentin, as a star of many silent films in the 1920s, was sometimes called the "Charlie Chaplin of Germany". ![]()
Biography of John Martin-Harvey (excerpt)
John Martin Harvey (22 June 1863 – 14 May 1944), known after his knighthood in 1921 as Sir John Martin-Harvey, was a romantic actor of the English theatre. Born at Bath Street, Wivenhoe in the English county of Essex, he was the son of John Harvey, a yacht-designer and shipbuilder, and Margaret Diana Mary Goyder. ![]()
Biography of Theodore Dreiser (excerpt)
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. ![]()
Biography of Giovanni Segantini (excerpt)
Giovanni Segantini (January 15, 1858 - September 28, 1899) was an Italian painter. He was born at Arco in Trentino. His mother, who died in 1863, came from an old mountain family. His father, a commoner, left for Milan, to seek his fortune with another son, leaving Segantini behind. ![]()
Biography of Miguel Primo de Rivera (excerpt)
Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, 2. Marqués de Estella (Jerez de la Frontera, January 8, 1870 - Paris, March 16, 1930) was a Spanish dictator, aristocrat, and a military official who was appointed Prime Minister by the King and who for seven years (1923-1930) was a dictator, ending the turno system of alternating parties.
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Biography of Jakob Wassermann (excerpt)
Jakob Wassermann (March 10, 1873 - January 1, 1934) was a Jewish-German writer and novelist. Life Born in Fürth, Wassermann was the son of a shopkeeper and lost his mother at an early age. He showed literary interest early and published various pieces in small newspapers. ![]()
Biography of Oskar Schmitz (excerpt)
Oskar Schmitz, born April 16, 1873 in Bad Homburg, died December 18, 1931, was a German author and astrologer. ![]()
Biography of Georges Sorel (excerpt)
Georges Eugène Sorel (2 November, 1847 in Cherbourg (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 29 August, 1922 in Boulogne-sur-Seine) was a French philosopher and theorist of revolutionary syndicalism. His notion of the power of myth in people's lives inspired Marxists and Fascists, it is, together with his defense of violence, the contribution for which he is most often remembered. ![]()
Biography of Paul Doumer (excerpt)
Paul Doumer (March 22, 1857 – May 7, 1932) was the President of France from June 13, 1931 until his assassination. Born in Aurillac, in the Cantal département, in France. He was Governor-General of French Indochina from 1897 to 1902. After returning from French Indochina, Doumer served as President of the Chamber of Deputies (a post equivalent to the speaker of parliament) from 1902 to 1905.
Biography of Jean Ajalbert (excerpt)
Jean Ajalbert, born on June 10, 1863 in Clichy-la-Garenne (birth time source: Gauquelin, birth time source), died in 1947 in Cahors, was a French writer, art critic, and lawyer. Publications: Sur le vif. Vers impressionnistes. Lettre-préface de Robert Caze. ![]()
Biography of William Gibbs McAdoo (excerpt)
William Gibbs McAdoo, Jr. (October 31, 1863 – February 1, 1941) was an American lawyer and political leader who served as a U.S. Senator, United States Secretary of the Treasury and director of the United States Railroad Administration (USRA). By virtue of his position as Secretary of the Treasury, in August 1914, he also served as the first Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. ![]()
Biography of Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (excerpt)
Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Alfred Alexander William Ernest Albert; 15 October 1874 – 6 February 1899) was born a member of the British Royal Family. Early life Prince Alfred of Edinburgh was born on 15 October 1874 at Buckingham Palace, London.
Biography of Emile Noirot (excerpt)
Émile Noirot, born June 5, 1853 in Roanne, died in 1924 in Le Bourzat, was a French painter. ![]()
Biography of Grazia Deledda (excerpt)
Grazia Deledda (September 28, 1871 (2:00 AM Cagliari time) - August 15, 1936) was an Italian writer whose works won her a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926. Born in Nuoro, Sardinia, into a bourgeois family, she attended elementary school and then was educated by a private tutor (a guest of one of her relatives) and moved on to study literature on her own. ![]()
Biography of Roger Martin du Gard (excerpt)
Roger Martin du Gard (March 23, 1881 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - August 22, 1958) was a French author and winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature. Trained as a paleographer and archivist, Martin du Gard brought to his works a spirit of objectivity and a scrupulous regard for details.
Biography of Howard L. Cornell (excerpt)
Howard L. Cornell, born July 23, 1872 in Hartsville en Pennsylvania, died February 13, 1939 in Los Angeles (heart failure), was an American author, teacher and astrologer. ![]()
Biography of Flinders Petrie (excerpt)
Professor Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie FRS (3 June 1853 – 28 July 1942), known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology. He held the first chair of Egyptology in the United Kingdom, and excavated at many of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt, such as Naukratis, Tanis, Abydos and Amarna. ![]()
Biography of André-Gaston Prételat (excerpt)
André-Gaston Prételat (14 November 1874, Wassy, Champagne, France – 6 December 1969, Paris, France) was a general in the French Army. Military career 1910-1918 His first post, from 1910 to 1912, was as military attaché to Tangier. During the First World War he was the chief of staff of 70th Division (1915) and then of XXIII Corps (1916), before becoming the commanding officer of the 159th Regiment and Deputy Chief of Staff to Gouraud's French Fourth Army (1917), and finally Chief of Staff of the Fourth Army. ![]()
Biography of Eusapia Palladino (excerpt)
Eusapia Palladino (alternate spelling: Eusapia Paladino; 1854-1918) was a famous Spiritualist medium born in Minervino Murge, Italy. Life and work In her early life, Eusapia Palladino was married to a traveling conjuror. In Italy, France, Germany, Warsaw, Poland, and St. Petersburg, Russia, Palladino was noted to allegedly display extraordinary powers in the dark: levitating and elongating herself, bringing forth flowers, physically materializing the dead, producing spirit hands and faces in wet clay, levitating tables, playing musical instruments under the table without contact, directly communicating with the dead through her spirit guide, John King, etc. ![]()
Biography of Philippe Gaubert (excerpt)
Philippe Gaubert (July 5, 1879 – July 8, 1941) was a French musician who was a distinguished performer on the flute, a respected conductor, and a composer, primarily for the flute. Gaubert was born in Cahors in Southwest France. He became one of the most prominent French musicians between the two World Wars. ![]()
Biography of Jesse L. Lasky (excerpt)
Jesse Louis Lasky, Sr. (September 13, 1880 – January 13, 1958) was a pioneer Hollywood film producer, a key founder of Paramount Pictures with Adolph Zukor, and father of screenwriter Jesse Lasky Jr. Born in San Francisco, California, he worked at a variety of jobs but began his entertainment career as a vaudeville performer that eventually led to the motion picture business. ![]()
Biography of Fulgence Bienvenue (excerpt)
Fulgence Bienvenüe (January 27, 1852 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives) – August 3, 1936) was a French civil engineer, best known for his role in the construction of the Paris Métro. A native of Uzel in Brittany, he graduated as a civil engineer in 1872. |
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