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- Napoleon, also Napoleon Bonaparte and later known by his name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. He was the DE factor leader of the French Republic as First Consul from 1799 to 1804. As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 until 1814 and again in 1815. Napoleon's political and cultural legacy has endured, and he has been one of the most celebrated and controversial leaders in world history.
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Sir Walter Scott was born August 15, 1771, in Edinburgh, Scotland, as the ninth child (and the fourth surviving) of Walter Scott, a solicitor, and his wife Anne Rutherford. Polio, contracted when he was two, resulted in a crippled left leg, but even this illness did not prevent Scott from growing into a tall and energetic man.
Raised on the old Border tales and ballads that would later influence his historical novels, Scott was a clever and active child. Unfortunately, poor health interrupted his studies at Edinburgh University, and after being apprenticed to his father's legal firm for a year, Scott decided to study law. While visiting the Highlands on business in 1786 and 1787, he met not only Alexander Stewart of Invernahyle (who once fought a duel with Rob Roy MacGregor) but also the famous Scottish poet Robert Burns.
After his first love broke his heart by marrying another man, Scott married a Frenchwoman, Charlotte Charpentier, on Christmas Day, 1797, after a whirlwind romance. They remained happily married until her death in 1826.
Scott began writing poetry at an early age, and so distinguished himself in this that he was offered the Poet Laureateship in 1813, which he turned down. He published his first novel, "Waverley," in 1814, and it quickly became one of the most successful English language novels ever published. Scott chiefly concentrated on novels in his latter years, putting aside his poetry to publish "Ivanhoe" in 1819 and "Rob Roy" in 1817.
After suffering a stroke and apoplectic paralysis in 1831, Scott died on 21 September 1832.- Thomas De Quincey was born on 15 August 1785 in Manchester, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Histoires extraordinaires à faire peur ou à faire rire... (1949), La monja alférez (1987) and De l'assassinat considéré comme un des beaux-arts (1964). He died on 8 December 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
- Charles Morton was born on 15 August 1819 in Hackney, London, England, UK. He died on 18 October 1904 in London, England, UK.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Rust was born on 15 August 1822 in Dessau, Germany. He was a composer, known for Incognito (1936), Der Polizeibericht meldet (1934) and Enjoy Yourselves (1934). He died on 2 May 1892 in Leipzig, Germany.- Bernardo Guimarães was born on 15 August 1825 in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil. He was a writer, known for O Garimpeiro (1920), Escrava Isaura (1929) and A Escrava Isaura (1949). He died on 10 March 1884 in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
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Ernest Blum was born on 15 August 1836 in Paris, France. He was a writer, known for Miss Nitouche (1954). He died on 18 September 1907 in Paris, France.- Ferenc Csepreghy was born on 15 August 1842 in Szalka, Hungary. He was a writer, known for Sárga csikó (1914), A piros bugyelláris (1917) and A piros bugyelláris (1921). He died on 6 February 1880 in Görbersdorf, Lower Silesia, Germany [now Sokolowsko, Dolnoslaskie, Poland].
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Adolf Klein was born on 15 August 1847 in Vienna, Austrian Empire [now Austria]. He was an actor and director, known for Deception (1920), Der Georgitaler (1920) and Das Geheimnis der Mumie (1921). He died on 11 March 1931 in Berlin, Germany.- Robert Kiljander was born on 15 August 1848 in Lapinlahti, Finland. He was a writer, known for Skandaali tyttökoulussa (1960) and Kumarrusmatka (1965). He was married to Olga Dunajev. He died on 14 November 1924.
- Gyp was born on 15 August 1850 in Koetsal Castle, Morbihan, France. Gyp was a writer, known for Le dernier pardon (1913), La storia di Clo-Clo (1923) and Friquet (1919). Gyp was married to N Martel de Joinville. Gyp died on 29 June 1932 in Neuilly, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
- Frank Daniels was born on 15 August 1856 in Dayton, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Crooky (1915), What Happened to Father (1915) and Captain Jinks Should Worry (1916). He was married to Elizabeth Sanson (actress). He died on 12 January 1935 in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
- Keir Hardie was born on 15 August 1856 in Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK. He died on 26 September 1915 in 8 South Park Terrace, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
- E. Nesbit was born on 15 August 1858 in London, England, UK. E. was a writer, known for Masterpiece (1971), The Railway Children Return (2022) and The Phoenix and the Magic Carpet (1995). E. was married to Thomas Tucker and Hubert Bland. E. died on 4 May 1924 in New Romney, Kent, England, UK.
- Emma Calvé was born on 15 August 1858 in Decazeville, Aveyron, France. She was an actress, known for Le paquebot Tenacity (1934), La chambre de la bonne (1918) and Fleur du mal (1922). She was married to Alnor Gaspari (Florentine tenor). She died on 6 January 1942 in Millau, Aveyron, France.
- Charles A. Comiskey was born on 15 August 1859 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He died on 26 October 1931 in Eagle River, Wisconsin, USA.
- Frederick de Lara was born on 15 August 1860 in Boulogne, France. He was an actor, known for The Charlatan (1916). He died on 13 September 1940 in Kensington, London, England, UK.
- Florence Kling Harding was born on 15 August 1860 in Marion, Ohio, USA. She was married to Warren G. Harding and Henry Atherton DeWolfe. She died on 21 November 1924 in Marion, Ohio, USA.
- Scheel Vandel was born on 15 August 1864 in Svendborg, Denmark. Scheel was a writer, known for Capital Execution (1903). Scheel died on 17 January 1918.
- Italo Santelli was born on 15 August 1866 in Carrodano, Regno d'Italia [now Italy]. He was an actor, known for Megölöm ezt a Hacseket! (1933). He died on 8 February 1945 in Budapest, Hungary.
- A great name of the Portuguese theatre, Adelina Abranches was paid a national homage at the Teatro São Luiz as of 1928, and in the presence of General Carmona, the President of the Republic himself. And yet there had been nothing to suggest that Margarida Adelina, born into very poor Lisbon family in 1866, would become such an admired star of the stage. The fact is that, like at the end of a Dickens novel, fate, through a quirk of which it holds the secret, proved favorable to her despite a very problematic beginning in life. Indeed misery had struck after her father had left the family home, forcing his wife, little Adelina and her eight brothers and sisters to work in order to bring back home what little money they could. But the silver lining was that to get a few reis, five-year-old Adelina, still unable to read and write, was propelled on to a stage. Of course she was only an extra in 'Os Meninos Grandes' but she enjoyed the experience and soon expressed the wish to renew it, which she would actually go on doing for... seventy-odd years! She was still only eleven when she created a sensation with her interpretation of a transvestite prince in 'Leonor de Bragança'. After this, she never stopped working, until her death in 1945 at age 79, in Portugal and in Brazil, in classic, popular or avant-garde works. She even founded her own company in the 1910s. As for her contribution to the silver screen it unfortunately remains negligible, the great lady of the Portuguese boards having appeared only in secondary roles and in no more than three pictures, 'Maria do Mar (1930)', 'Lisboa (1930)' and 'A Rosa do Adro (1938)'. But theatre was her vocation, not cinema.
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Albert Ward was born on 15 August 1869 in Aldgate, London, England, UK. He was a director and writer, known for A Member of Tattersall's (1919), The Phantom Picture (1916) and Queen of the Wicked (1916). He died on 9 December 1956 in Wandsworth, London, England, UK.- Vida Varrall was born on 15 August 1870 in St. Pancras, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Yiddle and His Fiddle (1912) and The Bliggs Family at the Zoo (1912). She was married to William Littlejohn. She died on 22 May 1919 in Dublin, Ireland.
- Philippa Frederiksen was born on 15 August 1870 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Champagneruset (1911), I kammerherrens klæder (1914) and Sommerglæder (1940). She died on 21 April 1955 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Shri Aurobindo was born on 15 August 1872 in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India. He died on 5 December 1950 in Pondicchery, India.
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Harold Fraser-Simson was born on 15 August 1872 in London, England, UK. He was a composer, known for A Southern Maid (1934), The Maid of the Mountains (1932) and Knowing Men (1930). He died on 19 January 1944 in London, England, UK.- Geoffrey McDonell was born in London in 1874 and worked in the London Stock Exchange before volunteering for the Boer War. He co-wrote a book entitled The Record of the Mounted Infantry of the City Imperial Volunteers (London, 1902, ISBN 1430460865) about his unit's experiences in South Africa. He emigrated to Canada where he became a "pioneer and fur trapper" according to his World War One enlistment papers - he volunteered at the start of the war and served with Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry in Europe, being decorated for bravery on 11/03/1916 for "conspicuous gallantry". Later in the war he transferred to a Canadian unit that fought with the White Russians against the Red Army in Siberia, and retired as a Lieutenant Colonel. His obituary in the Los Angeles Times states "Col. McDonell, who was 64,years of age, has been a motion picture actor since coming here in 1923". He is buried in the British Veterans' plot in Inglewood Park Cemetery.
- Alfred Athis was born on 15 August 1873 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was a writer, known for Le costaud des Épinettes (1923), Amants et voleurs (1935) and Les deux canards (1934). He was married to Marthe Paula Geneviève Mellot. He died on 12 August 1932 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France.
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Roger Imhof was born on 15 August 1875 in Rock Island, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for This Gun for Hire (1942), Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) and The Grapes of Wrath (1940). He was married to Marcelle Imhof. He died on 15 April 1958 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Born in Brigus Newfoundland in 1875, Captain Bartlett followed his family's profession of fishing and seal hunting. In 1905 he was appointed to command Robert E. Perry's ship Roosevelt for the explorer's expedition to find the North Pole. He again commanded the Roosevelt in Perry's successful 1908 expedition. During this expedition Bartlett went as far north as 87 degrees North while bringing supplies to the final expedition party made up of Perry, Matthew Henson and a group of natives who accompanied them. For this Perry and Bartlett won the National Geographic Society's Gold Medal (Henson, who was Black, received the Hubbard Medal posthumously in 2000). In 1913 Bartlett commanded the Karluk, for Steffanson's Arctic Expedition. The Karluk was crushed in the ice and Bartlett led the survivors to safety on Wrangel Island. He then set out with a single Eskimo companion to reach civilization and arrange their rescue. The official history of the Canadian Coast Guard states that "Bob Bartlett turned disaster into triumph in the finest feat of leadership in Canadian marine history." During World War I Bartlett commanded transports for the US Navy. Between 1925 and 1946 he participated in a 20 arctic expeditions in his schooner the Effie M. Morissey. Bartlett played the sealing ship captain in the movie "The Viking" however was not part of the group that went to film additional footage and was lost when their ship blew up. Bartlett, who loved poetry and classical music, never married. He died in New York of pneumonia in 1946.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was born on 15 August 1875 in London, England, UK. He was a composer, known for Men Are Not Gods (1936), Garden of Treasures (2021) and Young Euro Classic - Höhepunkte (2021). He died on 1 September 1912 in Croydon, Surrey, England, UK.- Charles Alden Seltzer was born on 15 August 1875 in Janesville, Wisconsin, USA. Charles Alden was a writer, known for Drag Harlan (1920), Riddle Gawne (1918) and Square Deal Sanderson (1919). Charles Alden was married to Ella Albert Selzer. Charles Alden died on 9 February 1942 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
- Juliette Benson was born on 15 August 1875 in Framingham, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress, known for The Shadow of Rosalie Byrnes (1920). She died on 22 December 1962 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Julien Luchaire was born on 15 August 1876 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. Julien was a writer, known for Youth in Revolt (1938), Le petit théâtre d'Antenne 2 (1977) and A 3200 Metros de Altitude (1961). Julien was married to Fernande DAURIAC. Julien died on 12 May 1962 in Paris, France.
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Max Reese was born on 15 August 1878 in Halle en Saale, Germany. He was a composer, known for Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) and Pirates of Tortuga (1961). He was married to Josepha Seidel. He died on 22 December 1962 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Cinematographer
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Josef Rona was born on 15 August 1878 in Austria. He is known for Tempesta, die Sturmgeborene (1920), Mykola Dzherya (1927) and Vasya reformator (1926).- Ethel Barrymore was the second of three children seemingly destined for the actor's life of their parents Maurice and Georgiana. Maurice Barrymore had emigrated from England in 1875, and after graduating from Cambridge in law had shocked his family by becoming an actor. Georgiana Drew of Philadelphia acted in her parents' stage company. The two met and married as members of Augustin Daly's company in New York. They both acted with some of the great stage personalities of the mid Victorian theater of America and England. The Barrymore children were born and grew up in Philadelphia. Though older brother Lionel Barrymore began acting early with his mother's relatives in the Drew theater company, Ethel, after a traditional girl's schooling, planned on becoming a concert pianist.
The lure of the stage was perhaps congenital, however. She made her debut as a stage actress during the New York City season of 1894. Her youthful stage presence was at once a pleasure, a strikingly pretty and winsome face and large dark eyes that seemed to look out from her very soul. Her natural talent and distinctive voice only reinforced the physical presence of someone destined to command any role set before her. After the opportunity to appear on the London stage with English great Henry Irving in "The Bells" (1897) and later in "Peter the Great" (1898), she returned to New York to star in the Clyde Fitch play "Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines" (1901) (produced by her friend and benefactor Charles Frohman), which brought her initial American acclaim. Lead roles, such as Nora in Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House" (1905) and starring in "Alice By the Fire" (also 1905), "Mid-Channel" (1910) and "Trelawney of the Wells" (1911) proved her popularity as a warm and charismatic star of American stage. In the meantime she married stockbroker Russell Griswold Colt in 1909 and gave birth to three children while continuing her acting career.
Although the stage was her first love, she did heed the call of the silver screen, and though not achieving the matinée idol image that younger brother John Barrymore garnered in silent movies after similar chemistry on stage, she won over audiences from her first film appearance in The Nightingale (1914). However, her early film roles, steady through 1919, took a back seat to continued stage triumphs: "Declassee" (1919), her impassioned Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet" (1922), "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray" (1924) and, especially, "The Constant Wife" (1926).
She harnessed her considerable talents in the role of an activist as well, being a bedrock supporter of the Actors Equity Association and, in fact, had been a prominent figure in the actors strike of 1919. By 1930 she was entering middle age and her movie roles reflected this. Except for Rasputin and the Empress (1932) with her brothers, the roles were elderly mothers and grandmothers, dowager ladies and spinster aunts. Perhaps wisely she put off Hollywood for over a decade, with stage work that included her most endearing role in "The Corn is Green" (a tour that lasted from 1940 to 1942). She finally moved to Southern California in 1940.
Yet the consummate actress glowed still in the films that came steadily in the mid-'40s and through much of the 1950s. As the mother of Cary Grant in the pensive None But the Lonely Heart (1944) she started off her late film career brilliantly by receiving the Oscar for Best Actress in a supporting role, though she was not satisfied with that effort. Her engaging wit and humanity stood out in even supporting roles, such as, the politically savvy mother of Joseph Cotten in The Farmer's Daughter (1947) and, once again with Cotton, as sympathetic art dealer Miss Spinney, with those eyes, in the haunting screen adaptation of Robert Nathan's novel Portrait of Jennie (1948). There was also a mingling of some TV work to round out her last movies in the late 1950s. In 1955 she saw her book "Memories, An Autobiography" see publication. For the enduring legacy she had already begun years before, a theater named for her was dedicated in New York in 1928. When she passed away in 1959, she was interred near her brothers at Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles. - Rose Quong was born on 15 August 1879 in East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She was an actress, known for The United States Steel Hour (1953). She died on 14 December 1972 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
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Born in Vienna, Austria, in 1879, screenwriter Carl Krusada attended that city's prestigious Polytechnic Institute and Conservatory of Music. Emigrating to the US, he studied at Dearborn College in Chicago. He got into the film business in 1917 as a writer and stayed in it until the early 1940s, turning out well over 100 screenplays. Krusada did a lot of work at Universal Pictures during the silent era, but once sound came in most of the work he got was for minor "B" independent studios like Monogram and even lower-rung "Z" studios like Reliable, Cosmopolitan and Aywon, among others. In the 1930s and 1940s he did a lot of work for shoestring producers Harry S. Webb at Metropolitan Pictures and Bernard B. Ray at Reliable Pictures. The majority of his output was in westerns, but he did the occasional crime thriller and action picture.
He died, age 71, in 1951.- Edward Flanagan was born on 15 August 1880 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for The Hunch (1921), Don't Call Me Little Girl (1921) and They Do It on $8 Per (1919). He was married to Charlotte Abigail Rix. He died on 18 August 1925 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- E.S. O'Reilly was born on 15 August 1880 in Denison Grayson County Texas, USA. He was a writer, known for Shanghai Bound (1927). He died in 1946 in New York, USA.
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Ted Snyder was born on 15 August 1881 in Freeport, Illinois, USA. He is known for Allied (2016), National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) and Magic in the Moonlight (2014). He died on 16 July 1965 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Sarah Krohner was born on 15 August 1881. She was an actress, known for Americaner Shadchen (1940), Mirele Efros (1939) and The Goldbergs (1950). She died on 9 June 1959 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Alfred Wagenknecht was born on 15 August 1881 in Germany. He was a producer, known for The Passaic Textile Strike (1926). He was married to Mary Allison. He died on 26 August 1956 in Illinois, USA.
- Frederik Slott was born on 15 August 1881. He was an actor, known for Anklagebænken (1916). He died on 25 September 1964.
- Benjamin M. Kaye was born on 15 August 1883 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for She Couldn't Say No (1930), She Couldn't Say No (1940) and Kraft Theatre (1947). He died on 25 March 1970 in New York, New York, USA.
- Ivan Mestrovic was born on 15 August 1883 in Vrpolje, Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary [now Croatia]. He died on 16 January 1962 in South Bend, Indiana, USA.
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When her Hollywood career began in 1934, Mary Nash was already a veteran performer, having appeared in vaudeville and on Broadway. Following a brief appearance as a dancer in 1904, she joined Ethel Barrymore in a 1905 off- Broadway production, 'Alice-Sit-by-the-Fire'. This was followed by 'Captain Jinks' and 'The Silver Box' with the same company, and in 1915 she acted in George Bernard Shaw's play 'Major Barbara' at the Playhouse Theatre. The versatile actress was as adept at comedy ('Captain Applejack',1921-22) as she was in drama (Cassie in 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,1933).
She is best remembered on screen for being nasty to Shirley Temple in Heidi (1937) and The Little Princess (1939), and for playing Katharine Hepburn's elegant and proper society mother in The Philadelphia Story (1940). In addition, she gave excellent value-for-money in the role of Emma Louise in Come and Get It (1936) and as the ill-fated queen in the technicolor adventure Cobra Woman (1944). Mary Nash was briefly married to the actor José Ruben ((1888-1969).- Writer
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Ferber initially studied acting. She then worked as a reporter in Milwaukee and Chicago. Travels through America and Europe followed. Ferber became the author of interesting novels with a cultural-historical background. She often designed the plot in such a way that a female figure was in the foreground. In her works she depicts changing environments and American life in a realistic style. Her books often reveal a socially critical attitude. She expanded her narrative approach to create broad family and homeland novels that she linked to the history of the USA or the respective regions. It features the lower Mississippi region in the early 19th century, the time of the fur trade in Seattle, the run on oil in Oklahoma and the settlement of Texas.
She also wrote social comedies as stage plays, which were successful, as well as short stories, dramas and her autobiography. Some of her novels have been made into films. The most famous example is probably "Giant", the film of the same name, in German: "Giganten". It was made into a film in 1956 by director George Stevens with stars such as James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, Dennis Hopper and Rock Hudson. The film became a box office hit worldwide. Edna Ferber also provided the book for the musical "Show Boat" (premiered in 1927). It is about a critical attitude towards segregation and prejudices against blacks. This adaptation brought this socially critical, previously taboo topic to the musical stage for the first time. "Cimarron", a film title from 1960, is also based on the book title of the same name by Edna Ferber.
Her works include "Dawn O'Hara" (1911, German 1916), "Buttered Side Down" (1912), "Fanny Herself" (1917, German 1930: "This is Fanny"), "Half Portions " (1920), "The Girls" (1921, German 1928), "So Big" (1924, German 1927, "A Woman Alone" from 1962), "Show Boat" (1926, German 1929: "That Comedian Ship"), "Mother Knows Best" (1927), "The Royal Family" (1928, German 1931). This was followed by "American Beauty" (1931, German 1957: "The House of the Fathers"), "Dinner at Eight" (1932), "They Brought Their Women" (1933), "Come and Get it" (1935), "Stage Door" (1936), "A Peculiar Treasure" (191939), "Saratoga Drunk" (1941, German 1947), "The Land is Bright" (1941), "Great Son" (1945, German 1950) , "Bravo" (1948), "Ice Palace" (1958) and "Kind of Magic" (1963).- Earl Lynn was born on 15 August 1885 in Iowa, USA. He is known for The Geezer of Berlin (1918).