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#16051

Eric Aldwinckle

1909 - 1980 (71 years)

Eric Aldwinckle was a Canadian Official war artist, designer and one of the most prominent illustrators of the 20th century. He was also a teacher at the Ontario College of Art, 1936–42; Principal of New School of Design and Vice-Principal of the Ontario College of Art, 1946.

#16052

James Young

1872 - 1948 (76 years)

James Young was an American film director, actor, and screenwriter of the silent era. Before films Young had a successful career as a stage actor appearing on Broadway and throughout the country, and was the author of a notable 1905 book on theatrical makeup. Young directed more than 90 films between 1912 and 1928. He also appeared as an actor in 60 films between 1909 and 1917.

#16053

Luo Niansheng

1904 - 1990 (86 years)

Luo Niansheng was a Chinese translator. He was known for translating Ancient Greek literature into Chinese. Biography Luo was born in Weiyuan County, Sichuan in July 1904. He entered Tsinghua University in 1922. After graduation, Luo studied in Ohio State University, Columbia University and Cornell University. Luo returned to China in 1934, and he worked as a professor in Peking University, Sichuan University, and Tsinghua University. Later, Luo was transferred to Chinese Academy of Social Science to work as a researcher.

#16054

Otto Adolf Wenzel Kade

1927 - 1980 (53 years)

Otto Adolf Wenzel Kade was a German specialist in Russian language and translation scholar. During the postwar years he started out as a self-taught interpreter of Russian and teacher of Czech and Russian. Afterwards he has appointed at several posts at the translation institute of Karl Marx University, Leipzig. His doctoral dissertation Subjektive und objektive Faktoren im Übersetzungsprozeß was probably the first translation studies dissertation in Germany; it appeared as a supplement to the journal Fremdsprachen under the title "Zufall und Gesetzmäßigkeit in der Übersetzung" . In this wor...

#16055

Moritz Hauptmann

Moritz Hauptmann

1792 - 1868 (76 years)

Moritz Hauptmann , was a German music theorist, teacher and composer. His principal theoretical work is the 1853 Die Natur der Harmonie und der Metrik explores numerous topics, particular the philosophy of music.

#16056

Henry Nutcombe Oxenham

1829 - 1888 (59 years)

Henry Nutcombe Oxenham was an English ecclesiologist, theologian, author and translator. Originally ordained in the Church of England, he later converted to the Roman Catholic faith and was received into that Church.

#16057

Émile Sauret

1852 - 1920 (68 years)

Émile Sauret was a French violinist and composer. Sauret wrote over 100 violin pieces, including a famous cadenza for the first movement of Niccolò Paganini's First Violin Concerto, and the "Gradus ad Parnassum" .

#16058

Claire Du Brey

1892 - 1993 (101 years)

Claire Du Brey was an American actress. She appeared in more than 200 films from 1916 to 1959. Her name is sometimes rendered as Claire Du Bray or as Claire Dubrey. Early years Du Brey was born in Bonner's Ferry, Idaho, to an Irish-American mother, Lilly , later Mrs. Richard Fugitt. Her parents married on November 9, 1891 in Pocatello, Bannock County, Idaho. She was raised Catholic and attended a convent school.

#16059

Adolf Schiffer

1873 - 1950 (77 years)

Adolf Schiffer was a Hungarian-born Czech cellist and teacher of Jewishish heritage, who for many years served as professor in cello at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. He is best remembered as being the link between two great cello teachers – being a student of David Popper and the teacher of János Starker.

#16060

Wolfgang Fortner

1907 - 1987 (80 years)

Wolfgang Fortner was a German composer, composition teacher and conductor. Life Fortner was born in Leipzig. From his parents, who were both singers, Fortner very early on had intense contact with music.

#16061

Vic Dickenson

1906 - 1984 (78 years)

Victor Dickenson was an American jazz trombonist. His career began in the 1920s and continued through musical partnerships with Count Basie , Sidney Bechet , and Earl Hines. Life and career Born in Xenia, Ohio, in 1906, Dickenson wanted to be a plasterer like his father, but he abandoned the idea after injuring himself by falling off a ladder. He studied organ from 1922, then changed to performing trombone with local bands. He made his recording debut in December 1930 as a vocalist with Luis Russell's band. He joined Blanche Calloway's orchestra in the early 1930s. He led his own groups both ...

#16062

Ralph Ince

1887 - 1937 (50 years)

Ralph Waldo Ince was an American pioneer film actor, director and screenwriter whose career began near the dawn of the silent film era. Ralph Ince was the brother of John E. Ince and Thomas H. Ince.

#16063

Samuel Sanford

1849 - 1910 (61 years)

Samuel Simons Sanford was an American pianist and educator. Early life He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Education He studied piano in New York with William Mason . He went to Paris and studied with Alfred Jaëll, Louis Plaidy , Théodore Ritter , and Édouard Batiste. In 1869, he became acquainted with Anton Rubinstein, and later studied with him.

#16064

John White

1826 - 1891 (65 years)

John White was an English public servant and ethnographer in New Zealand, known for his work on the history and traditions of the Māori people. Life Son of Francis White, he was born in England, and went out to New Zealand with his father in 1832, settling first at Kororāreka. His uncle, William White, was a Wesleyan missionary in nearby Hokianga and may have encouraged their emigration to New Zealand. Kororāreka was sacked by the Māori forces at the beginning of the Flagstaff War in 1845, and the White family moved to Auckland.

#16065

Tom Wilson

1931 - 1978 (47 years)

Thomas Blanchard Wilson Jr. was an American record producer best known for his work in the 1960s with Bob Dylan, the Mothers of Invention, Simon & Garfunkel, the Velvet Underground, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Eddie Harris, Nico, Eric Burdon and the Animals, the Blues Project, the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, and others.

#16066

Allen Jenkins

1900 - 1974 (74 years)

Allen Curtis Jenkins was an American character actor and singer who worked on stage, film, and television. He may be best known to baby-boomer audiences as the voice of Officer Dibble on the Hanna-Barbera TV cartoon series Top Cat .

#16067

Elizabeth Cotten

1893 - 1987 (94 years)

Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten was an American folk and blues musician. She was a self-taught left-handed guitarist who played a guitar strung for a right-handed player, but played it upside down. This position meant that she would play the bass lines with her fingers and the melody with her thumb. Her signature alternating bass style has become known as "Cotten picking". NPR stated "her influence has reverberated through the generations, permeating every genre of music."

#16068

Bess Flowers

1898 - 1984 (86 years)

Bess Flowers was an American actress best known for her work as an extra in hundreds of films. She was known as "The Queen of the Hollywood Extras," appearing in more than 350 feature films and numerous comedy shorts in her 41-year career.

#16069

David Smith

1872 - 1930 (58 years)

David Smith was an English film director and cinematographer of the silent era. He directed more than 70 films between 1915 and 1927. He was born in Faversham, Kent, and died in Santa Barbara, California. He was the older brother of Albert E. Smith, one of the co-founders of the Vitagraph Studios.

#16070

William Henry Bell

1873 - 1946 (73 years)

William Henry Bell, known largely by his initials, W H Bell , was an English composer, conductor and lecturer. Biography Bell was born in St Albans and was a chorister at St Albans Cathedral. He studied organ, violin and piano in London at the Royal Academy of Music along with composition under Frederick Corder, and modal counterpoint privately with Charles Villiers Stanford. He won the Goss Scholarship in 1899. He mainly made his living as an organist and lecturer; he was Professor of Harmony at the Royal Academy of Music where he taught from 1909 to 1912. In 1911 Bell was Director of Music ...

#16071

Alexander Goedicke

1878 - 1958 (80 years)

Alexander Fyodorovich Goedicke was a Russian and Soviet composer and pianist. Goedicke was a professor at Moscow Conservatory. With no formal training in composition, he studied piano at the Moscow Conservatory with Galli, Pavel Pabst and Vasily Safonov. Goedicke won the Anton Rubinstein Competition in 1900. Despite his lack of traditional guidance, his compositional efforts were rewarded when he won the Rubinstein Prize for Composition at the young age of 23. Goedicke died at the age of 80 on 9 July 1957.

#16073

Al Haig

1922 - 1982 (60 years)

Alan Warren Haig was an American jazz pianist, best known as one of the pioneers of bebop. Biography Haig was born in Newark, New Jersey, and raised in nearby Nutley. In 1940, he majored in piano at Oberlin College. He started performing with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker in 1945, and performed and recorded under Gillespie from 1945 to 1946, as a member of Eddie Davis and His Beboppers in 1946 , and the Eddie Davis Quintet in 1947, under Parker from 1948 to 1950, and under Stan Getz from 1949 to 1951. The Gillespie quintet, which included Haig, recorded four 78 r.p.m. sides for Guild Rec...

#16074

Lucius Edwin Smith

1822 - 1900 (78 years)

Lucius Edwin Smith was a United States lawyer, editor, clergyman and educator. Biography Smith graduated from Williams College in 1843, studied law in Williamstown, and was admitted to the bar in 1845. He served during 1847/8 as associate editor of the Hartford Courant, and in 1849 as associate editor, with Henry Wilson, of the Boston Republican. From 1849 to 1854 he was assistant corresponding secretary of the American Baptist Missionary Union, Boston. The next three years he spent in Newton Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1857, and became in 1858 pastor of the Baptist church in ...

#16075

Karl Davydov

1838 - 1889 (51 years)

Karl Yulievich Davydov was a Russian cellist, described by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the "czar of cellists". He was also a composer, mainly for the cello. His name also appears in various different spellings: Davydov, Davidoff, Davidov, and more, with his first name sometimes written as Charles or Carl.

#16076

Sahib Shihab

1925 - 1989 (64 years)

Sahib Shihab was an American jazz and hard bop saxophonist and flautist. He variously worked with Luther Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Fletcher Henderson, Tadd Dameron, Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Clarke, John Coltrane and Quincy Jones among others.

#16077

Eduard Steuermann

Eduard Steuermann

1892 - 1964 (72 years)

Eduard Steuermann was an Austrian-born American pianist and composer. Steuermann studied piano with Vilém Kurz at the Lemberg Conservatory and Ferruccio Busoni in Berlin, and studied composition with Engelbert Humperdinck and Arnold Schoenberg. He played the piano part in the first performance of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and premiered his Piano Concerto. He continued his association with Schoenberg as a pianist for the composer's Society for Private Musical Performances in Vienna, and made an arrangement for piano trio of Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht. He performed in the radio premiere of...

#16078

Isa Miranda

1909 - 1982 (73 years)

Isa Miranda was an Italian actress with an international film career. Biography Miranda was born Ines Isabella Sampietro in Milan, the daughter of a street car conductor. When she was 10 years old, she began working as an errand girl for a dressmaker. She later had jobs in a box factory and a handbag factory. When she was 15, she became a model, a job that provided enough income for her to learn bookkeeping and typing in night school. She worked as a typist while attending the Accademia dei Filodrammatici in Milan and trained as a stage actress. She went on to play bit parts in Italian films in Rome.

#16079

Setsuzo Kotsuji

1899 - 1973 (74 years)

was a Japanese Orientalist, and the son of a Shinto priest who descended from a long line of Shinto priests. During the Holocaust he helped Jewish refugees to escape the Nazis, arranging for them to stay first in Kobe and later in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. He also fought against Nazi-inspired anti-Jewish propaganda. A book about how he helped Jewish refugees was written by Japanese actor Jundai Yamada and published in April 2013 by NHK Shuppan.

#16080

Charles Winninger

Charles Winninger

1884 - 1969 (85 years)

Charles J. Winninger was an American stage and film actor, most often cast in comedies or musicals. Life and career Winninger was born in Athens, Wisconsin, the son of Rosalia and Franz Winninger. His parents were Austrian immigrants. He began as a vaudeville actor. His most famous stage role was as Cap'n Andy Hawks in the original production of Show Boat, the Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II musical classic, in 1927. He played the role in the 1932 stage revival and the 1936 film version of the show. He became so identified with the role and with his persona as a riverboat captain that he pl...

#16081

Hiranmoy Ghoshal

1908 - 1969 (61 years)

Hiranmoy Ghoshal is a Bengali writer, diplomat, translator and linguist from West Bengal, India. He was a lecturer at the University of Warsaw. Ghoshal was a multilingual person who was able to speak 26 languages. He spied for Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

#16082

Paul Verhoeven

1901 - 1975 (74 years)

Paul Joseph Verhoeven was a German actor as well as a film and theatre director. Early life Verhoeven was born in the town of Unna. He had 13 siblings. The family lived in modest circumstances. Career He directed and acted in over 50 films. He wrote over 20 film scripts, the first of which was Das kleine Hofkonzert in 1935, an operetta with music by Edmund Nick based on a comedy by Verhoeven and Toni Impekoven.

#16083

Paul Fix

1901 - 1983 (82 years)

Peter Paul Fix was an American film and television character actor who was best known for his work in Westerns. Fix appeared in more than 100 movies and dozens of television shows over a 56-year career between 1925 and 1981. Fix portrayed Marshal Micah Torrance, opposite Chuck Connors's character in The Rifleman from 1958 to 1963. He later appeared with Connors in the 1966 Western film Ride Beyond Vengeance.

#16084

Sohrab Modi

1897 - 1984 (87 years)

Sohrab Merwanji Modi was an Indian stage and film actor, director and producer. His films include Khoon Ka Khoon , a version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, Sikandar, Pukar, Prithvi Vallabh, Jhansi ki Rani, Mirza Ghalib, Jailor and Nausherwan-E-Adil . His films always carried a message of strong commitment to social and national issues.

#16085

Pete "Guitar" Lewis

1913 - 1970 (57 years)

Pete "Guitar" Lewis was an American rhythm and blues guitarist and occasional harmonica player, best known as a session musician and performer with Johnny Otis in the late 1940s and 1950s. Biography Though details of his life are uncertain, researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc state that he was born Carl Lewis in Hilly, LA. Influenced in his guitar playing by T-Bone Walker, he was discovered by Johnny Otis performing in an amateur hour event at the Barrelhouse Club in Los Angeles in 1947. He was recruited to Otis' band, and performed and recorded with him until about 1956. One reviewer s...

#16086

Victor Varconi

1891 - 1976 (85 years)

Victor Varconi was a Hungarian actor who initially found success in his native country, as well as in Germany and Austria, in silent films, before relocating to the United States, where he continued to appear in films throughout the sound era. He also appeared in British and Italian films.

#16087

Frank Pettingell

Frank Pettingell

1891 - 1966 (75 years)

Frank Edmund George Pettingell was an English actor. Pettingell was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, and educated at Manchester University. During the First World War he served with the King's Liverpool Regiment.

#16088

Ralph J. Gleason

Ralph J. Gleason

1917 - 1975 (58 years)

Ralph Joseph Gleason was an American music critic and columnist. He contributed for many years to the San Francisco Chronicle, was a founding editor of Rolling Stone magazine, and cofounder of the Monterey Jazz Festival. A pioneering jazz and rock critic, he helped the San Francisco Chronicle transition into the rock era.

#16089

Vincenzo Galilei

1520 - 1591 (71 years)

Vincenzo Galilei was an Italian lutenist, composer, and music theorist. His children included the astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei and the lute virtuoso and composer Michelagnolo Galilei. Vincenzo was a figure in the musical life of the late Renaissance and contributed significantly to the musical revolution which demarcates the beginning of the Baroque era.

#16090

Raymond Hatton

1887 - 1971 (84 years)

Raymond William Hatton was an American film actor who appeared in almost 500 motion pictures. Biography Hatton was born in Red Oak, Iowa. His physician father steered him toward a career in medicine. However, Hatton had become enamored of being on stage after he acted in a school play, and he left home to go into acting as a career.

#16091

Charles Stevenson

1887 - 1943 (56 years)

Charles Stevenson was an American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 136 films between 1914 and 1925. He was born in Sacramento, California, and died in Palo Alto, California. Filmography Film

#16092

Konráð Gíslason

Konráð Gíslason

1808 - 1891 (83 years)

Konráð Gíslason was an Icelandic grammarian and philologist, and one of the Fjölnismenn, a group of Icelandic intellectuals who spearheaded the revival of Icelandic national consciousness in the 19th century. He was by royal appointment member of the 1849 Danish Constituent Assembly.

#16093

Eva Novak

1898 - 1988 (90 years)

Eva Barbara Novak was an American film actress, who was quite popular during the silent film era. Biography On February 14, 1898, Eva Barbara Novak was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Joseph Jerome Novak, an immigrant from Bohemia, and Barbara Medek. Her older sister, Johana, also became an actress. Joseph Novak died when Eva was still a child and Barbara was left to raise five children.

#16094

Hans Blüher

1888 - 1955 (67 years)

Hans Blüher was a German writer and philosopher. He attained prominence as an early member and "first historian" of the Wandervogel movement. He was aided by his taboo breaking rebellion against schools and the Church. He was received with some genuine interest but sometimes perceived as scandalous.

#16095

Johann Nepomuk David

Johann Nepomuk David

1895 - 1977 (82 years)

Johann Nepomuk David was an Austrian composer. Life and career David was born in Eferding. He was a choirboy in the monastery of Sankt Florian and studied at an episcopal teacher training college in Linz, 1912–1915, after which he became a school teacher. He studied briefly at both the Musikhochschule and the university of Vienna . He returned to Linz in 1922, where he acted as musical director of the Linz "Kunststelle" until 1924. From January 1925 until the autumn of 1934 he was a teacher at a local catholic school, founded and directed a Bach choir, and was organist at a Protestant church at Wels.

#16096

Matthäus Aurogallus

Matthäus Aurogallus

1490 - 1543 (53 years)

Matthäus Aurogallus, was a Bohemian linguist. Born in Chomutov , Bohemia, as Matthäus Goldhahn, Aurogallus served as professor of Hebrew at the University of Wittenberg and was a colleague of Philip Melanchthon and Martin Luther. He assisted Luther in the revision of the reformer's translation of the Old Testament and made valuable contributions to the academic study of Hebrew.

#16097

Hoagy Carmichael

Hoagy Carmichael

1899 - 1981 (82 years)

Hoagland Howard Carmichael was an American musician, composer, songwriter, actor and lawyer. Carmichael was one of the most successful Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the 1930s, and was among the first singer-songwriters in the age of mass media to utilize new communication technologies such as television, microphones, and sound recordings.

#16098

William Hayman Cummings

William Hayman Cummings

1831 - 1915 (84 years)

William Hayman Cummings was an English musician, tenor and organist at Waltham Abbey. Cummings was born in Sidbury in Devon. He was educated at St Paul's Cathedral Choir School and the City of London School, becoming a pupil of Dr E. J. Hopkins, J. W. Hobbs and Alberto Randegger, and was for many years a chorister in St Paul's Cathedral and the Temple Church.

#16099

Gracie Fields

1898 - 1979 (81 years)

Dame Gracie Fields was an English actress, singer, comedian and star of cinema and music hall who was one of the top ten film stars in Britain during the 1930s and was considered the highest paid film star in the world in 1937. She was known affectionately as Our Gracie and the Lancashire Lass and for never losing her strong, native Lancashire accent. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire and an Officer of the Venerable Order of St John in 1938, and a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1979.

#16100

Luigi Pavese

1897 - 1969 (72 years)

Luigi Pavese was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Born in Asti, Pavese started his career in 1916 working as a silent film actor at 19 years of age. He then began his theatrical debut in 1921 and eventually worked his way up to becoming a film actor by the 1930s. He appeared in more than 170 films between 1916 and 1969. By the time World War II ended, Pavese's popularity as an actor increased. He often portrayed characters with certain professions such as clerks, lawyers, soldiers, officers and notaries in comedy films and made frequent collaborations with other actors such as Totò...

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