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#9901

Kate Cory

1861 - 1958 (97 years)

Kate Cory was an American photographer and artist. She studied art in New York, and then worked as commercial artist. She traveled to the southwestern United States in 1905 and lived among the Hopi for several years, recording their lives in about 600 photographs.

#9902

Jean Painlevé

1902 - 1989 (87 years)

Jean Painlevé was a photographer and filmmaker who specialized in underwater fauna. He was the son of mathematician and twice prime minister of France Paul Painlevé. Upbringing A few days after Painlevé was born, his mother, Marguerite Petit de Villeneuve, died from complications arising from an infection contracted during childbirth. Painlevé, an only son, was raised by his father's sister Marie, a widow.

#9903

Willem van Bemmel

1630 - 1708 (78 years)

Willem van Bemmel, or Guillaume, or Wilhelm von Bemmel , was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter who moved to Germany. He was born in Utrecht, where he was a student of Herman Saftleven. He made a Grand Tour to Rome, spending first the years 1647–9 in Venice before moving to Rome where he stayed for six years and became a member of the Bentvueghels. From Rome he crossed the Alps to Nuremberg. He died in Nuremberg, aged 78.

#9904

Constantin C. Teodorescu

1892 - 1972 (80 years)

Constantin C. Teodorescu was a Romanian engineer. Born in Bucharest to a low-ranking employee of the Education Ministry, he attended primary school in his native city. Subsequently, he went to Iași on a scholarship, first going to the Costache Negruzzi High School, followed by the National High School. He graduated from the latter institution's science department in 1911, then winning a place at the National School for Bridges and Roads. There, his professors included Anghel Saligny, Elie Radu, Ion Ionescu-Bizeț, David Emmanuel and Nicolae Vasilescu-Karpen. After obtaining a degree as a bridg...

#9905

Victor Fürth

1893 - 1984 (91 years)

Victor Fürth , was a Czech-Jewish architect working in Prague until 1939. Life His firm designed the Te-Ta department Store in Prague. This 7-story building can be seen at Jungmannova Street 747/28 110 00 Praha-Nové Město . It was renovated in 1997 at which time underground parking was added, and an apartment wing was included in the rear. The reinforced concrete building contains a parterre which allows passage between Jungmannova Street and the Franciscan Garden.

#9906

Geoffrey de Havilland

Geoffrey de Havilland

1882 - 1965 (83 years)

Captain Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, was an English aviation pioneer and aerospace engineer. The aircraft company he founded produced the Mosquito, which has been considered the most versatile warplane ever built, and his Comet was the first jet airliner to go into production.

#9907

Silston Cory-Wright

1888 - 1976 (88 years)

Silston Cory-Wright was an English-born New Zealand engineer, university lecturer, soldier, and company director. Early life Silston Cory-Wright was born at Sigglesthorne Hall, Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, on 22 September 1888. He was the son of George Henry Cory Wright and his wife, Ellen Green Wade. The grandson of Sir William Wright, the double-barrelled surname came about as a result of a disagreement between George's side of the family and his half-siblings.

#9908

John Muir

1918 - 1977 (59 years)

John Muir was a structural engineer who worked for National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics , who "dropped out," 1960s-style, to become a writer and long-haired car mechanic with a garage in Taos, New Mexico, specializing in maintenance and repair of Volkswagens. He was a distant relative of the naturalist John Muir.

#9909

Henry Payne

1871 - 1945 (74 years)

Henry Payne FRAeS M.Inst.C.E. was dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Melbourne. He was also the first occupant of the Corporation Chair of Engineering, South African College, Cape Town where he designed and equipped the Civil and Mechanical Engineering Departments. Payne's entry in the Dictionary of National Biography describes him as 'Dignified in manner and precise in speech, he was respected as a man of principle'.

#9910

Fritz Kortner

1892 - 1970 (78 years)

Fritz Kortner was an Austrian stage and film actor and theatre director. Life and career Kortner was born in Vienna as Fritz Nathan Kohn into a Jewish family. He studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. After graduating, he joined Max Reinhardt in Berlin in 1911 and then Leopold Jessner in 1916. After his breakthrough performance in Ernst Toller's Transfiguration in 1919, he became one of Germany's best-known character actors and the nation's foremost performer of Expressionist works. He also appeared in over ninety films beginning in 1916.

#9911

Edward B. Durham

1875 - Present (151 years)

Edward Benjamin Durham was an American mining engineer and Professor at Columbia University and the University of California, Berkeley, especially known for his work on mine surveying. Biography Durham received his MA in mining at the Columbia University in 1893, where he was classmate of Halbert Powers Gillette.

#9912

William Robinson

William Robinson

1840 - 1921 (81 years)

William Robinson was an American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer and businessman. He invented the first track circuit used in railway signaling, a major development that improved railroad safety and efficiency.

#9913

Fabian Franklin

Fabian Franklin

1853 - 1939 (86 years)

Fabian Franklin was a Hungarian-born American engineer, mathematician and journalist, husband of Christine Ladd-Franklin. Life and work The Franklin family migrated from Hungary to Philadelphia when Fabian Franklin was four years old and they afterwards moved to Washington, D.C. in 1861. He was educated at Columbian College where he graduated Ph.B. in 1869. Franklin worked the following seven years as surveyor and engineer for the Baltimore City Council.

#9914

Jack Magee

1883 - 1968 (85 years)

John Joseph Magee was an American track and field coach. He was head coach at Bowdoin College from 1913 to 1955 and assistant coach of the United States Olympic track and field team in 1924, 1928 and 1932.

#9915

Edward Benjamin Cushing

1863 - 1924 (61 years)

Edward Benjamin Cushing was an engineer and academic administrator. He served as the Chairman of the Board of Regents of Texas A&M University in 1912. Biography Early life Edward Benjamin Cushing was born in Houston, Texas to E.H. and Matilda Cushing. His father was an outspoken Southern Democrat and owner of The Telegraph, a Houston newspaper. He graduated from the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, now known as Texas A&M University, in 1880.

#9916

Louis Boutan

1859 - 1934 (75 years)

Louis Marie-Auguste Boutan was a French biologist and photographer. He was a pioneer in the field of underwater photography. Biography The son of , he was born in Versailles and studied biology and natural history at the University of Paris. In 1880, he was named deputy head assigned to organize the French exhibit at the Melbourne International Exhibition . He stayed in Australia for 18 months, travelling the continent and identifying new animal species. In 1886, Boutan was named maître de conférences at the University of Lille. In the same year, he learned how to dive. In 1893, he was named professor at the Laboratoire Arago.

#9917

Wolfgang Liebeneiner

1905 - 1987 (82 years)

Wolfgang Georg Louis Liebeneiner was a German actor, film director and theatre director. Beginnings He was born in Liebau in Prussian Silesia. In 1928, he was taught by Otto Falckenberg, the director of the Munich Kammerspiele, in acting and directing.

#9918

Hubert Oswald Stier

1838 - 1907 (69 years)

Hubert Oswald Stier was a German architect and university lecturer. He built mainly train stations, museums, and churches primarily in the Neo-Renaissance style. Most of his works are located in Berlin and Hanover.

#9919

Witold Nowacki

1911 - 1986 (75 years)

Prof Witold Nowacki HFRSE PPAS was a Polish mathematician and expert on the mechanics of elasticity and thermoelasticity. He served as President of the Polish Academy of Sciences from 1978 to 1980 and was the first President of the Society of the Interaction of Mathematics and Mechanics.

#9920

Richard Burbage

Richard Burbage

1567 - 1619 (52 years)

Richard Burbage was an English stage actor, widely considered to have been one of the most famous actors of the Globe Theatre and of his time. In addition to being a stage actor, he was also a theatre owner, entrepreneur, and painter. He was the younger brother of Cuthbert Burbage. They were both actors in drama. Burbage was a business associate and friend to William Shakespeare.

#9921

Ugo Tognazzi

1922 - 1990 (68 years)

Ugo Tognazzi was an Italian actor, director, and screenwriter. Early life Tognazzi was born in Cremona, in northern Italy but spent his youth in various localities as his father was a travelling clerk for an insurance company.

#9922

John Moran

1831 - 1903 (72 years)

John Moran was a pioneering American photographer and artist. Moran was a prominent landscape, architectural, astronomical and expedition photographer whose career began in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area during the 1860s.

#9923

Paul Beck Goddard

1811 - 1866 (55 years)

Paul Beck Goddard was an American physician and editor of medical books who also made pioneering contributions to photography. He graduated from the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania in 1832. As well as practicing as a physician and surgeon, he was professor of anatomy at Franklin Medical College of Philadelphia, and a member of the American Philosophical Society .

#9924

Edgar Norwerth

1884 - 1950 (66 years)

Edgar Norwerth was a Polish architect. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics.

#9925

Lynton Richards Kistler

1897 - 1993 (96 years)

Lynton Richards Kistler was an American master printmaker, small book publisher, and author. He became known as the best stone lithographer in the United States, at the peak of his career in 1950s. He owned and operated the lithography press, Kistler of Los Angeles.

#9926

Harry Hopkins

1912 - 1986 (74 years)

Henry James Hopkins was a New Zealand civil engineer and university professor. He was born in Dwellingup, Western Australia, Australia on 11 August 1912. In the 1980 New Year Honours, Hopkins was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.

#9927

Andrei Mironov

1941 - 1987 (46 years)

Andrei Aleksandrovich Mironov was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor who played lead roles in some of the most popular Soviet films, such as The Diamond Arm, Beware of the Car and Twelve Chairs. Mironov was also a popular singer.

#9928

Barse Miller

1904 - 1973 (69 years)

Barse Miller was an American watercolorist, muralist, illustrator, and art educator. He was a professor of art at Queens College for 26 years. His work is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

#9929

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 .

#9930

Henry Marshall Steven

1893 - 1969 (76 years)

Henry Marshall Steven CBE FRSE was a 20th-century Scottish forester and academic. He was Editor of "Forestry" magazine from 1926 to 1946. Life Steven was born in West Lothian, the son of Mary and Robert Steven. He was educated at Bathgate School. He studied science at the University of Edinburgh graduating with a BSc in 1915. In 1917 he was appointed as Statistics Officer for the Timber Supply Department for the remainder of the World War I. After the war he resumed studies and gained a doctorate from the University of Edinburgh in 1921. He then began working as a Research Officer for the newly created Forestry Commission.

#9931

David Hand

1900 - 1986 (86 years)

David Dodd Hand was an American animator and animation filmmaker known for his work at Walt Disney Productions. He worked on numerous Disney shorts during the 1930s and eventually became supervising director on the animated features Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Bambi.

#9932

Toshiwo Doko

1896 - 1988 (92 years)

Toshiwo Doko was a Japanese engineer born in Mitsu District, Okayama, Manager, President and Chairman of Ishikawajima Heavy Industry and Toshiba. Background Dokō was a key manager in the Japanese economic miracle after World War II, in particular, from 1974 to 1980 when he helmed the Toshiba Corporation and was appointed chairman of the Japan Business Federation .

#9933

J. C. Williamson

J. C. Williamson

1845 - 1913 (68 years)

James Cassius Williamson was an American actor and later Australia's foremost impresario, founding the J. C. Williamson's theatrical and production company. Born in Pennsylvania, Williamson moved with his family to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His father died when he was eleven years old. He acted in amateur theatricals and joined a local theatre company as a call-boy at the age of 15, soon taking roles and eventually moving to New York where he played for several years at Wallack's Theatre and then other New York theatres. In 1871, he became the leading comedian at the California Theatre in San ...

#9934

Hans Pape

1894 - 1970 (76 years)

Hans Pape was a German painter. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics. He trained and worked in Münster. External links

#9935

George E. Morrow

1840 - 1900 (60 years)

George Espy Morrow was an American academic from Ohio. Born into a notable political family, he fought in the Civil War, then attended the University of Michigan Law School. After a decade as a newspaper editor, he became a professor at the Iowa Agricultural College, eventually becoming chair of the College of Agriculture. In 1877, he took a similar position at the University of Illinois College of Agriculture. There, he maintained an experimental field now known as the Morrow Plots, a National Historic Landmark. Morrow was president at the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College from 18...

#9936

William Callyhan Robinson

1834 - 1911 (77 years)

William Callyhan Robinson was an American jurist and academic. Life After studies at Norwich Academy and Williston Seminary, he matriculated at Wesleyan University in 1850, leaving the college at the close of his sophomore year in 1852. Subsequently, Robinson entered Dartmouth College, graduating from the latter institution in 1854 . He then entered the Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and graduated in 1857. Ordained to the Episcopalian ministry, he served first at Pittston, Pennsylvania , and then at Scranton, Pennsylvania . After a religious conversion, he was rece...

#9937

Palle Suenson

1904 - 1987 (83 years)

Palle Suenson was a Danish modernist architect. He was the son of Professor Edouard Suenson, engineer, and of Henriette Benedicte Hartmann. Biography After studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, he first worked with Kay Fisker and Søren Christian Larsen and Kaj Gottlob before starting an autonomous activity as architect in 1930. He rapidly established himself as a leading modernist architect in Denmark, a pioneer in this style, and is remembered today for numerous iconic buildings, such as the B&W building on Christianshavn. The buildings are reputed for their simpl...

#9938

Daniel Massey

1798 - 1856 (58 years)

Daniel Massey was an American-born blacksmith and businessman in what is now Newcastle, Ontario, who began production of agricultural implements in 1847. Life and career Massey was born in Windsor, Vermont, to Daniel Massey Sr. and Rebecca Kelley. The Massey family originated in Cheshire, England, and arrived in America around 1630, first in Essex, Massachusetts, and later in New Hampshire and Watertown, New York.

#9939

Theodore Roberts

Theodore Roberts

1861 - 1928 (67 years)

Theodore Roberts was an American film and stage actor. Early life Roberts was born in San Francisco, California. He was a cousin of the stage actress Florence Roberts. His choice of a career disappointed his mother and his father .

#9940

Don S.S. Goodloe

1878 - 1959 (81 years)

Rev. Don Speed Smith Goodloe , born in the Lowell community, near Paint Lick, Kentucky, was a black teacher who became a pioneer for racial integration in the Unitarian church. He was the first principal of the Maryland Normal and Industrial School at Bowie for the Training of Colored Youth, also known as Maryland State Normal School No. 3—which later became Bowie State University.

#9941

William Galloway

1840 - 1927 (87 years)

Sir William Galloway was a Scottish mining engineer, professor and industrialist. He spent much of his life as an Inspector of Mines, before being offered the post of Professor of Mining at the University College of Wales. His life was spent improving the lot of miners and working to determine the causes of explosions and accidents in mines and finding ways of preventing them or alleviating their impact. His efforts were recognised in 1924, when, at the age of 83, he was knighted.

#9942

John Moffat

1841 - 1918 (77 years)

John Moffat was a Scottish-born entrepreneur who developed a mining and industrial empire around Loudoun Mill and Irvinebank in North Queensland which drove the development of north-eastern Australia. He was a devout Swedenborgian who was famous for both vision and enterprise. He was born in Newmilns , Ayrshire and spent most of his youth immersed in books. Extremely shy in temperament, he was known to hide whenever visitors approached. It was a habit he was to retain throughout his life.

#9943

Josiah Wedgwood II

1769 - 1843 (74 years)

Josiah Wedgwood II , the son of the English potter Josiah Wedgwood, continued his father's firm and was a Member of Parliament for Stoke-upon-Trent from 1832 to 1835. He was an abolitionist, and detested slavery.

#9944

Samuel Train Dutton

1849 - 1919 (70 years)

Samuel Train Dutton was the superintendent of schools at Teachers College, Columbia University. He was a founder of the New York Peace Society and the treasurer of the American College for Girls at Constantinople.

#9945

Igor Ilyinsky

1901 - 1987 (86 years)

Igor Vladimirovich Ilyinsky was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, director and comedian. Hero of Socialist Labour and People's Artist of the USSR . Early years Igor Ilyinsky was born on 24 July 1901 in Moscow. At age 16 he entered the Theatre Studio of Theodore Komisarjevsky and in half a year already debuted on the professional stage in Komissarzhevskaya Theatre. His first theatre role was that of the "Old Man" in Aristophanes' play Lysistrata. In 1920, he joined the Vsevolod Meyerhold Theatre. The young actor's style was in correspondence with the principles of Meyerhold, and so Ilyinsky soon became the central actor of that theatre.

#9946

Andrew Bryan

1893 - 1988 (95 years)

Sir Andrew Meikle Bryan was a Scottish mining engineer and academic. Life Andrew Bryan was born on 1 March 1893, the son of John Bryan, of Hamilton, Lanarkshire, and was educated at Greenfields School and at the former Hamilton Academy and is listed as a notable former pupil of the school in the Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association Magazine, February 1950, feature on Hamilton Academy in the article series 'Famous Scottish Schools'.

#9947

George Washington

1871 - 1946 (75 years)

George Constant Louis Washington was a Belgian inventor and businessman. He is best remembered for his improvement of an early instant coffee process and for the company he founded to mass-produce it, the G. Washington Coffee Company.

#9948

H. B. Warner

1875 - 1958 (83 years)

Henry Byron Warner was an English film and theatre actor. He was popular during the silent era and played Jesus Christ in The King of Kings. In later years, he successfully moved into supporting roles and appeared in numerous films directed by Frank Capra. Warner's most recognizable role to modern audiences is Mr. Gower in It's a Wonderful Life, directed by Capra. He appeared in the original 1937 version of Lost Horizon as Chang, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

#9949

Haig P. Manoogian

1916 - 1980 (64 years)

Haig Manoogian was an Armenian-American professor of film at New York University who served as the main influence for many filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese, who was a student of his at New York University. Martin Scorsese called Manoogian teachings “The most precious gift I have ever received.”

#9950

Luchino Visconti

Luchino Visconti

1287 - 1349 (62 years)

Luchino Visconti was lord of Milan from 1339 to 1349. He was also a condottiero, and lord of Pavia. Biography Ruler of Pavia from 1315, five years later he was podestà of Vigevano, where he erected the castle that is still visible. In 1323, along with all his family, he was excommunicated with the charge of heresy. The charges of heresy and excommunication were later withdrawn and he became a Papal Vicar in 1341.

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