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#13251

John Brown

1904 - 1957 (53 years)

John Brown was a British actor. Early years Brown was born in Hull, Yorkshire, England. Radio Brown had major roles in several popular radio shows: He was "John Doe" in the Texaco Star Theater's version of Fred Allen's Allen's Alley, played Irma's love interest Al in My Friend Irma, both "Gillis" and Digby "Digger" O'Dell in The Life of Riley, , "Broadway" in The Damon Runyon Theatre, and "Thorny" the neighbor on the radio version of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Perhaps his most memorable piece of work is the ‘Broadway’ role; once heard, many find it impossible to think of the narrator of Damon Runyon’s stories as anyone else.

#13252

Frits Hartvigson

1841 - 1919 (78 years)

Frits Hartvigson was a Danish pianist and teacher, who spent many years in England and gave a number of important English concerto premieres. Career Frits Seligmann Hartvigson was born in Grenå, Jutland in 1841. His first lessons were with his mother. He later studied under Niels Gade, Gebauer and Anton Rée in Copenhagen. He made his debut at age 14, and by 17 he was touring throughout Norway. He had further study in Berlin under Hans von Bülow in 1859–62. Bülow recommended he study under his then father-in-law Franz Liszt, but this did not occur. He did, however, meet Liszt, and it was ...

#13253

William Carr

1862 - 1925 (63 years)

William Carr was a British biographer, historian, magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant for Norfolk, England. Life William Carr was born in Gomersal House, Yorkshire, to William Carr, magistrate and local squire. He was educated, first at Marlborough College, and then in 1882 went to University College, Oxford. His strength was in history where he won the three historical essay prizes: Stanhope ; Lothian ; and Arnold .

#13254

Elisabeth Grümmer

1911 - 1986 (75 years)

Elisabeth Grümmer was a German soprano. She has been described as "a singer blessed with elegant musicality, warm-hearted sincerity, and a voice of exceptional beauty". Life Elisabeth Schilz was born in Niederjeutz [now Yutz, near Diedenhofen , Alsace-Lorraine] to German parents. In 1918, her family was expelled from Lorraine, and they settled in Meiningen, where she studied theater and made her stage debut as Klärchen in Goethe's Egmont.

#13255

Sigurd Odland

1857 - 1937 (80 years)

Sigurd Vilhelm Odland was a Norwegian theologian and church leader. Odland was born in Bergen. After receiving his theology degree in 1879, he studied at various universities in Germany. He was the recipient of university stipends for many years until 1894, when he became a professor of theology at the University of Oslo, specializing in New Testament studies.

#13256

William Beaudine

William Beaudine

1892 - 1970 (78 years)

William Washington Beaudine was an American film director. He was one of Hollywood's most prolific directors, turning out films in remarkable numbers and in a wide variety of genres. Life and career Born in New York City, Beaudine began his career as an actor in 1909, aged 17, with American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. He married Marguerite Fleischer in 1914 and they stayed married until his death. Her sister was the mother of actor Bobby Anderson. Beaudine's brother Harold Beaudine was a director of short, action-filled comedies.

#13257

James Murdoch

1856 - 1921 (65 years)

James Murdoch was a Scottish Orientalist scholar and journalist, who worked as a teacher in the Empire of Japan and Australia. From 1903 to 1917, he wrote his "monumental" three-volume A History of Japan, the first comprehensive history of Japan in the English language . In 1917 he began teaching Japanese at the University of Sydney and in 1918 he was appointed the foundation professor of the School of Oriental Studies there.

#13258

Gus Arnheim

1897 - 1955 (58 years)

Gus Arnheim was an American pianist and an early popular band leader. He is noted for writing several songs with his first hit being "I Cried for You" from 1923. He was most popular in the 1920s and 1930s. He also had a few small acting roles.

#13259

Wingy Manone

1900 - 1982 (82 years)

Joseph Matthews "Wingy" Manone was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, singer, and bandleader. His recordings included "Tar Paper Stomp", "Nickel in the Slot", "Downright Disgusted Blues", "There'll Come a Time ", and "Tailgate Ramble".

#13260

John Black

1783 - 1855 (72 years)

John Black was a British journalist and newspaper editor. Early years Born in Berwickshire, Black's father was Ebenezer Black, a farm worker and former peddler who had married a co-worker on the farm, Janet Gray. Ebenezer Black died four years after they were married, leaving Janet to raise both a son and a daughter by herself. Within a decade, both Black's mother and sister had died as well. He was taken in by his uncle, also a worker on the farm, who sent him to the parish school at Duns before articling him out to a local writer. During this time, Black read extensively from the local subs...

#13261

Anthony Pini

1902 - 1989 (87 years)

Carlos Antonio Pini OBE was a cellist, known as a soloist, orchestral section leader and chamber musician. He was principal cellist of five major British orchestras between 1932 and 1976, and a teacher at the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

#13262

Bobby Hackett

1915 - 1976 (61 years)

Robert Leo Hackett was a versatile American jazz musician who played Swing music, Dixieland jazz and Mood music, now called Easy Listening, on trumpet, cornet, and guitar. He played Swing with the bands of Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman in the late 1930s and early 1940s, he played Dixieland music from the 1930s into the 1970s in a variety of groups with many of the major figures in the field, and he was a featured soloist on the first ten of the numerous Jackie Gleason mood music albums during the 1950s.

#13263

Mircea Florian

1888 - 1960 (72 years)

Mircea Florian was a Romanian philosopher and translator. Active mainly during the interwar period, he was noted as one of the leading proponents of rationalism, opposing it to the Trăirist philosophy of Nae Ionescu. His work, comprising some 20 books, shows Florian as a disciple of centrists and rationalists such as Constantin Rădulescu-Motru and Titu Maiorescu.

#13264

Pee Wee Russell

1906 - 1969 (63 years)

Charles Ellsworth "Pee Wee" Russell was an American jazz musician. Early in his career he played clarinet and saxophones, but he eventually focused solely on clarinet. With a highly individualistic and spontaneous clarinet style that "defied classification", Russell began his career playing traditional jazz, but throughout his career incorporated elements of newer developments such as swing, bebop, and free jazz. Writing in 1961, the poet Philip Larkin commented: "No one familiar with the characteristic excitement of his solos, their lurid, snuffling, asthmatic voicelessness, notes leant on t...

#13265

David White

1916 - 1990 (74 years)

David White was an American stage, film, and television actor best known for playing Darrin Stephens's boss Larry Tate from 1964 to 1972 on the ABC situation comedy Bewitched. Early life Born on April 4, 1916, in Denver, Colorado, he later moved with his family to Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Los Angeles City College and began acting at the Pasadena Playhouse and the Cleveland Play House. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps during World War II, and after his discharge, made his Broadway debut in 1949 in Leaf and Bough.

#13266

Bourvil

1917 - 1970 (53 years)

André Robert Raimbourg , better known as André Bourvil , and mononymously as Bourvil, was a French actor and singer best known for his roles in comedy films, most notably in his collaboration with Louis de Funès in the films Le Corniaud and La Grande Vadrouille . For his performance in Le Corniaud, he won a Special Diploma at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival.

#13267

Václav Vondrák

1859 - 1925 (66 years)

Wenzel Vondrák was a Czech Slavist and professor at the universities of Vienna and Brno. Life From 1872 to 1880, Vondrák attended gymnasium in Prachatice and České Budějovice. He moved to Vienna, starting to study Roman philology, but soon switching to Slavic philology under Franz Miklosich. He obtained a doctoral degree in 1884. From 1881 to 1891, Vondrák worked as a private teacher for various aristocratic families. In 1893, he attained habilitation in Slavic languages and literature in Vienna. In 1903, he was appointed to professor extraordinarius at the Vienna University. In 1919, he was ...

#13268

Alexander Belskiy

Alexander Belskiy

1921 - 1977 (56 years)

Alexander Andreevich Belskiy was a Soviet specialist in literary criticism, Anglicist . Alexander Belskiy founded Perm school of research in non-Russian Philology. Also, he founded the Faculty of Philology at Perm State University and he was its first Dean in 1960–1964 and 1971–1977. Moreover, he founded the Department of Foreign literature at Perm State University, and he was its Head in 1965–1977. His famous student is Boris Proskurnin, the Dean of Faculty of Foreign languages and Literature at Perm State University.

#13269

Dwijendranath Tagore

Dwijendranath Tagore

1840 - 1926 (86 years)

Dwijendranath Tagore was an Indian Bengali poet, song composer, philosopher, mathematician and painter. He was one of the pioneers of shorthand and notation in Bengali script. He was the eldest son of Debendranath Tagore and the eldest brother of Rabindranath Tagore.

#13270

Wynonie Harris

1915 - 1969 (54 years)

Wynonie Harris was an American blues shouter best remembered as a singer of upbeat songs, featuring humorous, often ribald lyrics. He had fifteen Top 10 hits between 1946 and 1952. Harris is attributed by many music scholars to be one of the founding fathers of rock and roll. His "Good Rocking Tonight" is mentioned at least as a precursor to rock and roll.

#13271

John Williams

1761 - 1818 (57 years)

John Williams was an English poet, satirist, journalist and miscellaneous writer, best known by the pseudonym of Anthony Pasquin. Life He was born in London on 28 April 1761, and was sent in 1771 to Merchant Taylors' School. There he was beaten for an epigram on Mr. Knox, the third master. At the age of seventeen he was placed with a painter, but he gave up art to become an author and translator. When he was about eighteen he wrote a defence of David Garrick against William Kenrick, earning Garrick's friendship.

#13272

Ian Keith

1899 - 1960 (61 years)

Ian Keith was an American actor. Early years Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Keith grew up in Chicago. He was educated at the Francis Parker School there and played Hamlet in a school production at age 16.

#13273

Jimmy Garrison

1934 - 1976 (42 years)

James Emory Garrison was an American jazz double bassist. He is best remembered for his association with John Coltrane from 1961 to 1967. Career Garrison was born in Miami, Florida and moved to Philadelphia when he was 10, where he learned to play bass during his senior year of high school. Garrison came of age in the 1950s Philadelphia jazz scene, which included fellow bassists Reggie Workman and Henry Grimes, pianist McCoy Tyner and trumpeter Lee Morgan. Between 1957 and 1962, Garrison played and recorded with trumpeter Kenny Dorham; clarinetist Tony Scott; drummer Philly Joe Jones; and sax...

#13274

Ryuichi Kaji

1896 - 1978 (82 years)

Ryuichi Kaji was a Japanese journalist and political critic. Life He was born in Hyogo Prefecture. Having graduated from the Department of Law of Tokyo University, he joined the East-Asiatic Commercial Intelligence Institute at Tokyo of the South Manchuria Railway. Later he joined the Asahi Shimbun and in 1945, he became head the editorial board and wrote essays in Tensei Jingo. In 1947, he headed the Department of Publication of Asahi Shimbun. Later he became Instructor at Dokkyo University, and a member of the Ministry of Education's University educational accreditation committee and a mem...

#13275

Richard Wilson

1920 - 1987 (67 years)

Richard Wilson was an American science fiction writer and fan. He was a member of the Futurians, and was married for a time to Leslie Perri, who had also been a Futurian. His books included the novels The Girls from Planet 5 ; 30-Day Wonder ; and And Then the Town Took Off ; and the collections Those Idiots from Earth and Time Out for Tomorrow . His short stories included "The Eight Billion" ; "Mother to the World" ; and "The Story Writer" .

#13276

John Orr

1885 - 1966 (81 years)

John Orr, FBA was an English-born Scottish-Australian scholar of French language and philology, and a translator of French literature. Early life and education Orr was born in 1885 in Cumberland to Scottish parents. When he was still a boy, the family migrated to Tasmania, where he attended Launceston High School and the University of Tasmania . He won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Balliol College, Oxford, beginning in 1905. He initially studied classics, switching to law for his finals, which he sat in 1909. A period of ill health led him to France and Switzerland for recuperation; there,...

#13277

Carlos Salzedo

1885 - 1961 (76 years)

Carlos Salzedo was a French harpist, pianist, composer and conductor. His compositions presented the harp as a virtuoso instrument. He influenced many composers with his new ideas for the harp's sounds, and was influential in New York's new music scene through his work leading the International Composers' Guild with Edgard Varèse.

#13278

Cedric Sharpe

1891 - 1978 (87 years)

Cedric Sharpe, ARCM, Hon RAM was a British cellist, composer and music professor of the early to mid-20th century. He studied cello at the Royal College of Music later becoming professor of cello at the Royal Academy of Music – the start of a teaching career that was to span almost four decades before he retired in 1966 at the age of 75. During the inter-War years he became a prominent player of both chamber and orchestral music; his repertoire included both British and European contemporary music. He recorded for HMV and was broadcast by the BBC. He composed a number of original pieces mostl...

#13279

Erle V. Painter

1881 - 1968 (87 years)

Erle Vansant Painter , or Doc, was an American chiropractor and athletic trainer for the Boston Braves and New York Yankees . He also helped direct the Brooklyn YMCA, and was a professor at Florida Southern College. Due to his role as trainer for the Yankee organization he was credited with "modernizing training methods for professional athletes".

#13280

Léon Metchnikoff

1838 - 1888 (50 years)

#13281

Charles Wood

1866 - 1926 (60 years)

Charles Wood was an Irish composer and teacher; his students included Ralph Vaughan Williams at Cambridge and Herbert Howells at the Royal College of Music. He is primarily remembered and performed as an Anglican church music composer, but he also wrote songs and chamber music, particularly for string quartet.

#13282

Maybelle Carter

1909 - 1978 (69 years)

"Mother" Maybelle Carter was an American country musician and "among the first" to use the Carter scratch, with which she "helped to turn the guitar into a lead instrument." It was named after her. She was a member of the original Carter Family act from the late 1920s until the early 1940s and a member of the Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle group.

#13283

Memphis Minnie

1897 - 1973 (76 years)

Lizzie Douglas , better known as Memphis Minnie, was a blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter whose recording career lasted for over three decades. She recorded around 200 songs, some of the best known being "When the Levee Breaks", "Me and My Chauffeur Blues", "Bumble Bee" and "Nothing in Rambling".

#13284

Ernst von Dohnányi

1877 - 1960 (83 years)

Ernst von Dohnányi was a Hungarian composer, pianist and conductor. He used a German form of his name on most published compositions. Biography Dohnányi was born in Pozsony, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary . He was the son of Frigyes Dohnányi and his wife Ottilia Szlabey. He first studied music with his father, a professor of mathematics and an amateur cellist, and then when he was eight years old, with Carl Forstner, organist at the local cathedral. In 1894, in his 17th year, he moved to Budapest and enrolled in the Royal National Hungarian Academy of Music, studying piano with István Th...

#13285

Tampa Red

1904 - 1981 (77 years)

Hudson Whittaker , known as Tampa Red, was an American Chicago blues musician. His distinctive single-string slide guitar style, songwriting and bottleneck technique influenced other Chicago blues guitarists such as Big Bill Broonzy, Robert Nighthawk, Muddy Waters, and Elmore James. In a career spanning over 30 years, he also recorded pop, R&B and hokum songs. His best-known recordings include "Anna Lou Blues", "Black Angel Blues", "Crying Won't Help You", "It Hurts Me Too", and "Love Her with a Feeling".

#13286

Dorothy Ashby

1932 - 1986 (54 years)

Dorothy Jeanne Thompson , better known as Dorothy Ashby, was an American jazz harpist, singer and composer. Hailed as one of the most "unjustly under loved jazz greats of the 1950s" and the "most accomplished modern jazz harpist," Ashby established the harp as an improvising jazz instrument, beyond earlier use as a novelty or background orchestral instrument, proving the harp could play bebop as adeptly as the instruments commonly associated with jazz, such as the saxophone or piano.

#13287

Gunnar Rudberg

1880 - 1954 (74 years)

Gunnar Rudberg was an internationally renowned Swedish classical philologist. He was the father of geomorphologist Sten Rudberg. Life In 1919, after being Associate Professor of Greek Language and Literature in Uppsala, Rudberg became Professor of Classical Philology in Oslo. From 1933 until his retirement in 1945 he was Professor of Greek Language and Literature in Uppsala.

#13288

Johan Storm

1836 - 1920 (84 years)

Johan Fredrik Breda Storm was a Norwegian professor, linguist and philologist. He is known for his development of the Norvegia transcription. Biography Johan Storm was born at Lom in Gudbrandsdalen. His father, Ole Johan Storm was the chaplain in Lom at the time of his birth. In 1838, the family moved to Rendalen in Hedmark where his father was the parish priest and subsequently to Lardal in Vestfold. After the death of his father, his family moved to Christiania . He was from a family of six, including his brother, historian and professor Gustav Storm.

#13289

Bennie Moten

1894 - 1935 (41 years)

Benjamin Moten was an American jazz pianist and band leader born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. He led his Kansas City Orchestra, the most important of the regional, blues-based orchestras active in the Midwest in the 1920s, and helped to develop the riffing style that would come to define many of the 1930s big bands. The jazz standard "Moten Swing" bears his name.

#13290

Joe Harriott

1928 - 1973 (45 years)

Joseph Arthurlin Harriott was a Jamaican jazz musician and composer, whose principal instrument was the alto saxophone. Initially a bebopper, he became a pioneer of free-form jazz. Born in Kingston, Harriott moved to the United Kingdom as a working musician in 1951 and lived in the country for the rest of his life. He was part of a wave of Caribbean jazz musicians who arrived in Britain during the 1950s, including Dizzy Reece, Harold McNair, Harry Beckett and Wilton Gaynair.

#13291

Joe Morris

1922 - 1958 (36 years)

Joseph Lee Morris was an American jazz and rhythm and blues trumpeter. Biography Born in Montgomery, Alabama, United States, Morris began his career as a jazz trumpeter, working and recording with Earl Bostic, Milt Buckner, Arnett Cobb, Dizzy Gillespie, Johnny Griffin, Buddy Rich, Dinah Washington, Big Joe Turner, and Lionel Hampton.

#13292

Josef Swickard

1866 - 1940 (74 years)

Josef Swickard was a Prussian-born veteran stage and screen character actor, who had toured with stock companies in Europe, South Africa, and South America. Career Swickard emigrated to the United States from the German Empire in 1882. He was a stage actor for several years before entering films with D.W. Griffith in 1912 and by 1914 was playing supporting roles for Mack Sennett. He appeared in Charles Chaplin's Laughing Gas and Caught in a Cabaret. He remained with Sennett until 1917, when he settled into his prolific career of playing mostly aristocratic characters.

#13293

Marcella Sembrich

Marcella Sembrich

1858 - 1935 (77 years)

Prakseda Marcelina Kochańska , known professionally as Marcella Sembrich, was a Polish dramatic coloratura soprano. She is known for her extensive range of two and a half octaves, precise intonation, charm, portamento, vocal fluidity, and impressive coloratura. Her voice was regarded as flute-like, sweet, pure, light, and brilliant. She had an important international singing career, chiefly at the New York Metropolitan Opera and the Royal Opera House, in London.

#13294

Hampton Hawes

1928 - 1977 (49 years)

Hampton Barnett Hawes Jr. was an American jazz pianist. He was the author of the memoir Raise Up Off Me, which won the Deems-Taylor Award for music writing in 1975. Early life Hampton Hawes was born on November 13, 1928, in Los Angeles, California. His father, Hampton Hawes Sr., was minister of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles. His mother, the former Gertrude Holman, was Westminster's church pianist. Hawes' first experience with the piano was as a toddler sitting on his mother's lap while she practiced. He was reportedly able to pick out fairly complex tunes by the age of three.

#13295

Moritz Heyne

1837 - 1906 (69 years)

Moritz Heyne was a German Germanic linguist . He taught as a professor at the University of Halle , University of Basel , University of Göttingen . He worked with Jakob Grimm to edit his dictionary after 1867.

#13296

Riccardo Zandonai

1883 - 1944 (61 years)

Riccardo Zandonai was an Italian composer and conductor. Biography Zandonai was born in Borgo Sacco, Rovereto, then part of Austria-Hungary. As a young man, he showed such an aptitude for music that he entered the Pesaro Conservatorio in 1899 and completed his studies in 1902; he completed the nine-year curriculum in only three years. Among his teachers was Pietro Mascagni, who regarded him highly.

#13297

Lauri J. Karttunen

#13298

Alan Hale Sr.

1892 - 1950 (58 years)

Alan Hale Sr. was an American actor and director. He is best remembered for his many character roles, in particular as a frequent sidekick of Errol Flynn, as well as films supporting Lon Chaney, Wallace Beery, Douglas Fairbanks, James Cagney, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, and Ronald Reagan. Hale was usually billed as Alan Hale and his career in film lasted 40 years. His son, Alan Hale Jr., also became an actor and remains most famous for playing "the Skipper" on the television series Gilligan's Island.

#13299

Otto Goldschmidt

1829 - 1907 (78 years)

Otto Moritz David Goldschmidt was a composer, conductor, pianist and educator, whose works included a piano concerto and other piano pieces, and an oratorio, Ruth, on a biblical theme, written for the Three Choirs Festival. From a prosperous mercantile family in Hamburg, he studied under Felix Mendelssohn at the Leipzig Conservatoire and quickly established himself as a pianist. Among the singers whom he accompanied was "the Swedish Nightingale", the soprano Jenny Lind. They married in 1852, after which she insisted on being billed as "Madame Lind-Goldschmidt".

#13300

Denzil Best

1917 - 1965 (48 years)

Denzil DaCosta Best was an American jazz percussionist and composer born in New York City. He was a prominent bebop drummer in the 1950s and early 1960s. Biography Best was born in New York City, into a musical Caribbean family originally from Barbados. Trained on piano, trumpet, and bass, he concentrated on the drums starting in 1943. Between 1943 and 1944, he worked with Ben Webster, and subsequently with Coleman Hawkins , Illinois Jacquet and Chubby Jackson. The drummer was known to sit in at Minton's Playhouse. He took part in a recording with George Shearing in 1948 and was a founding member of his Quartet, remaining there until 1952.

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