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#15251

Arnold Ridley

1896 - 1984 (88 years)

William Arnold Ridley, OBE was an English playwright and actor, earlier in his career known for writing the play The Ghost Train and later in life in the British TV sitcom Dad's Army as the elderly bumbling Private Godfrey, as well as in spin-offs including the feature film version and the stage production.

#15252

Franz Schreker

1878 - 1934 (56 years)

Franz Schreker was an Austrian composer, conductor, librettist, teacher and administrator. Primarily a composer of operas, Schreker developed a style characterized by aesthetic plurality , timbral experimentation, strategies of extended tonality and conception of total music theatre into the narrative of 20th-century music.

#15253

Isham Jones

1894 - 1956 (62 years)

Isham Edgar Jones was an American bandleader, saxophonist, bassist and songwriter. Career Jones was born in Coalton, Ohio, United States, to a musical and mining family. His father, Richard Isham Jones , was a violinist. The family moved to Saginaw, Michigan, where Jones grew up and started his first ensemble for church concerts. In 1911 one of Jones's earliest compositions "On the Alamo" was published by Tell Taylor Inc.

#15254

Peter Cornelius

1824 - 1874 (50 years)

Carl August Peter Cornelius was a German composer, writer about music, poet and translator. Life He was born in Mainz to Carl Joseph Gerhard and Friederike Cornelius, actors in Mainz and Wiesbaden. From an early age he played the violin and composed, eventually studying with Tekla Griebel-Wandall and composition with Heinrich Esser in 1841. He lived with his painter uncle Peter von Cornelius in Berlin from 1844 to 1852, and during this time he met prominent figures such as Alexander von Humboldt, the Brothers Grimm, Friedrich Rückert and Felix Mendelssohn.

#15255

Robert Fuchs

1847 - 1927 (80 years)

Robert Fuchs was an Austrian composer and music teacher. As Professor of music theory at the Vienna Conservatory, Fuchs taught many notable composers, while he was himself a highly regarded composer in his lifetime.

#15256

Nikolai Tomsky

1900 - 1984 (84 years)

Nikolai Vasilyevich Tomsky was a much-decorated Soviet sculptor, designer of many well-known ceremonial monuments of the Socialist Realism era. Biography Born in the village of Staro Ramushevo in Novgorod province, into a blacksmith's family, Tomsky studied in Leningrad. In 1927, graduated from the Arts and Crafts College.

#15257

Wendy Barrie

1912 - 1978 (66 years)

Wendy Barrie was a British-American film and television actress. Early life Barrie was born in London to English parents. Her father, Francis Charles John Graigoe Jenkin KC, was an employee of the Great Western Railway , who then joined the Royal Fusiliers in 1902. Her mother was Ellen McDonagh. Hollywood gave her a more exotic parentage with her father being a King's Counsel. She received her education at a convent school in England and a finishing school in Switzerland.

#15258

Jan Michał Rozwadowski

Jan Michał Rozwadowski

1867 - 1935 (68 years)

Jan Michał Rozwadowski was a Polish linguist and a professor at the Jagiellonian University. He was also the president of the Polish Academy of Learning.

#15259

Monte Blue

1887 - 1963 (76 years)

Gerard Montgomery Blue was an American film actor who began his career as a romantic lead in the silent era; and for decades after the advent of sound, he continued to perform as a supporting player in a wide range of motion pictures.

#15260

Red Nichols

1905 - 1965 (60 years)

Ernest Loring "Red" Nichols was an American jazz cornetist, composer, and jazz bandleader. Biography Early life and career Nichols was born in Ogden, Utah, United States. His father was a college music professor, and Nichols was something of a child prodigy, playing difficult set pieces for his father's brass band by the age of 12. Young Nichols heard the early recordings of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and later those of Bix Beiderbecke, and these had a strong influence on him. His style became polished, clean, and incisive.

#15261

Lois Wilson

1894 - 1988 (94 years)

Lois Wilson was an American actress who worked during the silent film era. She also directed two short films and was a scenario writer. Early life Born to Andrew Kenley Wilson and Constance in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Wilson's family moved to Alabama when she was still very young. She earned a degree from Alabama Normal College , and became a school teacher for young children, soon leaving to pursue a film career.

#15262

Derek Bickerton

#15263

William Thomas Goode

1859 - 1932 (73 years)

William Thomas Goode was a British academic, linguist and journalist. As special correspondent for The Manchester Guardian, he interviewed Vladimir Lenin in Moscow in 1919. On his return journey from Moscow, he was arrested by Estonian authorities and then detained aboard a British warship. He was active in the Labour Party until his death.

#15264

Gene de Paul

1919 - 1988 (69 years)

Gene Vincent de Paul was an American pianist, composer and songwriter. Biography Born in New York City, he served in the United States Army during World War II. He was married to Billye Louise Files of Jack County, Texas.

#15265

Sleepy John Estes

1899 - 1977 (78 years)

John Adam Estes , performing as Sleepy John Estes, was an American blues guitarist, songwriter and vocalist. His music influenced such artists as The Beatles, Bob Dylan and Led Zeppelin. Life and career Estes was born in Ripley, Tennessee, either in 1899 or 1900 . In 1915, his father, a sharecropper who played guitar, moved the family to Brownsville, Tennessee. Not long after, Estes lost the sight in his right eye when a friend threw a rock at him. At the age of 19, while working as a field hand, he began to perform professionally, mostly at parties and picnics, with the accompaniment of Hammie Nixon, a harmonica player, and James "Yank" Rachell, a guitarist and mandolin player.

#15266

Edward Burlingame Hill

1872 - 1960 (88 years)

Edward Burlingame Hill was an American composer. Career After graduating from Harvard University in 1894, Hill studied music in Boston with John Knowles Paine, Frederick Field Bullard , Margaret Ruthven Lang, and George Elbridge Whiting, and in Paris with Charles Marie Widor. Finally, on his return to Boston, he pursued studies with George Whitefield Chadwick. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1908, remaining until his retirement in 1940. His later-famous pupils included Leonard Bernstein, Roger Sessions, Elliott Carter, Walter Piston, Ross Lee Finney and Virgil Thomson. Among a range of o...

#15267

Milton Sills

1882 - 1930 (48 years)

Milton George Gustavus Sills was an American stage and film actor of the early twentieth century. Biography Sills was born in Chicago, Illinois, into a wealthy family. He was the son of William Henry Sills, a successful mineral dealer, and Josephine Antoinette Troost Sills, an heiress from a prosperous banking family. Upon completing high school, Sills was offered a one-year scholarship to the University of Chicago, where he studied psychology and philosophy. After graduating, he was offered a position at the university as a researcher and within several years worked his way up to become a pr...

#15268

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.

#15269

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 ...

#15270

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 .

#15271

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.

#15272

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.

#15273

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.

#15274

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.

#15275

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.

#15276

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".

#15277

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...

#15278

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.

#15279

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.

#15280

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.

#15281

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...

#15282

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.

#15283

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.

#15284

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 ...

#15285

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.

#15286

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.

#15287

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.

#15288

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.

#15289

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.

#15290

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...

#15291

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...

#15292

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" .

#15293

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,...

#15294

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.

#15295

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...

#15296

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".

#15297

Léon Metchnikoff

1838 - 1888 (50 years)

#15298

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.

#15299

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.

#15300

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".

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