1895 births

Bert Lahr, born Irving Lahrheim, (August 13, 1895 - December 4, 1967) was a Jewish-American comic actor. Fittingly born a "Leo", he is best remembered today for his role as the Cowardly Lion (and the farmworker "Zeke") in the classic 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, but known during his life for a career in burlesque, vaudeville and Broadway. Dropping out of school at the age of fifteen to join a juvenile vaudeville act, Lahr worked his way up to top billing on the Columbia Burlesque Circuit. In 1927 he moved to Broad ...

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Cicely Mary Barker (June 28, 1895 - February 16, 1973) was the illustrator who created the famous Flower Fairies. As a child she was greatly influenced by the works of the illustrator Kate Greenaway, whom she assiduously copied in her formative years. Her principle influence, however, which she duly credited, was the artwork of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Cicely Mary Barker was born in Croydon, England,and died in Worthing Hospital ...

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Christian Archibald Herter (March 28, 1895 – December 30, 1966) was a United States politician and statesman; Governor of Massachusetts, and Secretary of State 1959-1961. He was born in Paris, France to American parents, and attended school there before moving to New York City, where he attended the Browning School. He graduated from Harvard University in 1915 and in the following year was attache to the American Embassy in Berlin. He participated in the 1919 meeting that resulted in the US Counc ...

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Joseph Frank Keaton Jr. (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966), always known as Buster Keaton, was a popular and influential American silent-film comic actor and filmmaker. His trademark was physical comedy with a stoic, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname The Great Stone Face. His innovative work as a director made great contributions to the development of the art of cinema. A 2002 world-wide poll by Sight and Sound ranked Keaton's The General as the 15th best film of all time. ...

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• Buster Keaton - Early life in vaudeville
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• Buster Keaton - Marriages
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• Buster Keaton - Death
• Buster Keaton - Legacy and contribution
• Buster Keaton - Filmography
• Buster Keaton - Books
• Buster Keaton - Notes

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Wilhelm Kempff (November 25, 1895 – May 23, 1991) was a German pianist and composer. Kempff was born in Jüterbog, Germany and studied in Berlin and Potsdam. He toured widely throughout contintental Europe and much of the rest of the world, but did not make his first London appearance until 1951, and did not play in New York until 1964. He gave his last public performance in Paris ...

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Long was well known for eccentric behavior, leading some to suspect that he suffered from bipolar disorder. In his last term in office his wife and others attempted to remove him on the grounds of mental instability. He was never formally diagnosed with any mental illness, and a large part of the motivation for this effort may have been political; his wife's involvement may have been related to his affair with stripper Blaze Starr. Additionally, in his later years he was alleged to have ...

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Earl Long, Earl Long - Eccentricity and hospitalization, Earl Long - Trivia

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In 1936 he was the head of the Yankee Squadron in the Spanish Civil War with Eddie August Schneider and perhaps 5 others. Bert was living at 46 West 17th Street in New York City when he left for Spain. Time magazine wrote on December 21, 1936: Hilariously celebrating in the ship's bar of the Normandie with their first advance pay checks from Spain's Radical Government, six able U.S. aviators were en route last week for Madrid to join Bert Acosta, pilot of Admiral Byrd's transatlantic flight, in doing battle agai ...

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Bert Acosta, Bert Acosta - Birth, Bert Acosta - Eduation, Bert Acosta - Early aviation, Bert Acosta - Marriage, Bert Acosta - Endurance record, Bert Acosta - Atlantic crossing, Bert Acosta - Honduras flight, Bert Acosta - Spanish Civil War, Bert Acosta - Death, Bert Acosta - Timeline, Bert Acosta - Selected coverage in Time magazine, Bert Acosta - Selected coverage in newspapers, Bert Acosta - Reference, Bert Acosta - External link

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Keaton was born into the world of vaudeville. His father, Joseph Hallie Keaton, and Harry Houdini owned a travelling show called the Mohawk Indian Medicine Company, which performed on stage and sold patent medicine on the side. Keaton was born in the town of Piqua (PICK-way), Kansas, the small town where his mother, Myra Edith Cutler, happened to go into labor. The boarding house in which he was born was later destroyed by a tornado. Currently on this site is a memorial plaque, and nearby is a rural water company that maintains a one-room Keaton museum. Piqua is so small that the annual ...

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Buster Keaton, Buster Keaton - Early life in vaudeville, Buster Keaton - Silent film era, Buster Keaton - Marriages, Buster Keaton - Sound era and television, Buster Keaton - Death, Buster Keaton - Legacy and contribution, Buster Keaton - Filmography, Buster Keaton - Books, Buster Keaton - Notes

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Anderson was born in Centerville, South Dakota on October 23, 1895. He was educated in the public school system of South Dakota, attended Dakota Wesleyan University 1913-1915, and the University of Michigan 1915-1916, though he never received a degree from either institution. His father broke his back in 1916, and Anderson left the University of Michigan to go home to help support his family. He worked for several months for a newspaper in Mitchell, South Dakota until he became seriously ill with tuberculosis. He was not aware of his illness until he attempted to join the m ...

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Clinton Presba Anderson, Clinton Presba Anderson - Early life and career, Clinton Presba Anderson - Truman Administration, Clinton Presba Anderson - Senate career, Clinton Presba Anderson - Election, Clinton Presba Anderson - Accomplishments, Clinton Presba Anderson - Reference

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Edna Purviance was born in Paradise Valley, Nevada to Louise and Madison Gates Purviance. At the age of three, her family moved to Lovelock, Nevada to take part in the hotel industry. In 1902, her parents were divorced and her mother was later re-married to Robert Nurnberger, a German plumber. Growing up, Purviance was a talented piano player. Upon her high school graduation in 1913, Purviance attended business college in San Francisco. In 1915, Charlie Chaplin was working on his second film with Essanay Studios, working out of Niles, ...

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Edna Purviance, Edna Purviance - Biography, Edna Purviance - Filmography, Edna Purviance - External link

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Following this, he moved to Detroit, where he was fortunate to occupy the post of chief engineer of the Gray Motor Company, a manufacturer of marine engines. In 1920, he invented a silent spring-driven clock. This invention brought Laurens enough money to leave Gray Motor Company and rent his own space in New York, where he was to develop the synchronous electric motor that he would use later in the manufacture of his electric clocks and which would ultimately ...

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Laurens Hammond, Laurens Hammond - Youth, Laurens Hammond - Early inventions, Laurens Hammond - University, Laurens Hammond - Inventions, Laurens Hammond - Military, Laurens Hammond - Retirement

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Haya de la Torre was born in Trujillo in the north of the country. In 1913 he enrolled in Trujillo University to study literature, where he met and forged a solid friendship with the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. He then enrolled in the National University of San Marcos in Lima. He was instrumental in bringing the ideas of the Argentine University Reform movement (La Reforma) to San Marcos, and administrative reforms were instituted in 1919. Part of the reform movement was university extension programs, through which the university students ...

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Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre - Life, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre - Ideas, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre - Quotation

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He became interested in the third law of thermodynamics as a field of research during his experimental research for his Ph.D. research under Professor G.E. Gibson comparing the relative entropies of glycerine crystals and glass. The principal objective of his researches was to demonstrate through range of appropriate tests that the third law of thermodynamics is a basic natural law. In 1926, he proposed a method for observing temperatures considerably below one kelvin (−457.87 degrees Fahrenheit or −272.15 degrees Celsius). His work with D.P. MacDougall ...

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William Giauque, William Giauque - Early life and career, William Giauque - Research career, William Giauque - Absolute zero, William Giauque - Personal life, William Giauque - External link

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The circumstances of Rappe's death in 1921 became a Hollywood scandal and were published widely by the media of the time. The official cause of her death was listed as peritonitis caused by a ruptured bladder a few days after attending a September 5th party at a hotel in San Francisco, California hosted by Arbuckle. The exact events of the infamous party are still unclear, with witnesses relating numerous versions of what happened. It was alleged that she died as a result of a violent sexual assault by Fatty Arbuckle. Other rumors circulated that Rappe died of injuries resulting from an earlier botched a ...

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Virginia Rappe, Virginia Rappe - Birth, Virginia Rappe - Career, Virginia Rappe - Death, Virginia Rappe - Burial, Virginia Rappe - Timeline, Virginia Rappe - External link

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Stefan Rowecki was born December 25, 1895 in Piotrków Trybunalski. In his home town he was one of the organizers of a secret scouting organization. During World War I he was conscripted to the Austro-Hungarian army and then to the First Brigade of the Polish Legions. He was interned in August 1917 after most of his unit refused to pledge loyalty to the Emperor of Austria. In February 1918 he was released from the internment camp in Beniaminów and joined the Po ...

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Stefan Rowecki, Stefan Rowecki - Biography

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On May 13, 1922, in Mexicali, Mexico, Valentino married costume designer and art director Natacha Rambova. This resulted in him being jailed for bigamy, since his divorce from Acker was not finalized. California law at the time required that divorcing couples wait a full year after a divorce before remarrying. Valentino and Rambova remarried a year later. Blood and Sand, released in 1922, and co-starring Lila Lee and the popular silent screen vamp Nita Naldi, further established Valentino as the leading male star of the time. H ...

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Rudolph Valentino, Rudolph Valentino - Childhood and youth, Rudolph Valentino - Education, Rudolph Valentino - New York, Rudolph Valentino - Hollywood and first marriage, Rudolph Valentino - The Sheik, Rudolph Valentino - Second marriage, Rudolph Valentino - United Artists, Rudolph Valentino - Chicago Tribune, Rudolph Valentino - Death, Rudolph Valentino - Funeral, Rudolph Valentino - Trivia, Rudolph Valentino - Rumours, Rudolph Valentino - Filmography, Rudolph Valentino - Selected coverage in the New York Times

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Grumman mortgaged his house and Swirbul's mother borrowed $6,000 to set up Grumman Aeronautical Engineering Co. Because both Grumman and Swirbul had grown up on Long Island and liked the region, they decided to locate the company there. They set-up shop with $64,325 in capital on January 2, 1930 in an abandoned auto showroom-garage in Baldwin that had once been the Cox-Klemin Aircraft Co. factory. The new company repaired damaged Loening amphibians, built aluminum pontoons, and produced aluminum truck bodies until receiving its first Navy pr ...

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Leroy Grumman, Leroy Grumman - Early life, Leroy Grumman - Work, Leroy Grumman - Grumman Company, Leroy Grumman - Early WWII, Leroy Grumman - Late WWII, Leroy Grumman - Post-war, Leroy Grumman - Late in life

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Born in the small traditional town of São Bento do Sapucaí in São Paulo state, he was the son of Col. Francisco das Chagas Salgado (who was also a druggist and local political leader) and teacher Ana Francisca Rennó Cortez. A very active child at school, he had special interest for math and geometry. After the loss of his father, when he was 16 (fact that is said to have made him a bitter young man), his intere ...

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Plínio Salgado, Plínio Salgado - Early life, Plínio Salgado - Integralism, Plínio Salgado - Late career

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When Lovett became secretary of defense, the end of the Korean War was not yet in sight. Thus the long-range rearmament program continued to be one of his main concerns. Like Marshall, Lovett believed that the United States erred seriously at the end of World War II: "We did not just demobilize . . . we just disintegrated." As secretary of defense he designed a rearmament program intended both to meet the demands of the Korean conflict and to serve as a deterrent and mobilization base in future military emergencies. As Lovett put it, "Hereto ...

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Robert A. Lovett, Robert A. Lovett - Early life, Robert A. Lovett - Early government career, Robert A. Lovett - Secretary of Defense, Robert A. Lovett - Later life, Robert A. Lovett - Reference

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During his time in the OGPU he served in a wide range of positions, the most important of which was the Deputy Chief of the Econemic Directorate and as head of the Border Guards in Georgia. In the early 1930s he was transferred to the INO, the branch of the KGB responsible for overseas operations. In Orlov's new position he was responsible for a number of successful innovations in Soviet foreign intelligence gathering especially in his use of moles. He pioneered the extensive use of 'illegal' agents who operated without official diplo ...

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Alexander Orlov, Alexander Orlov - Early years, Alexander Orlov - Career in Russian spy agencies, Alexander Orlov - Work during the Spanish Civil War, Alexander Orlov - Defection, Alexander Orlov - Sources, Alexander Orlov - External link

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