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A. E. van Vogt
Alfred Elton van Vogt (April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000) was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded by some as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the "Golden Age" of the genre.
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Ace Parker
Clarence "Ace" Parker, (born May 17, 1912) is a former quarterback who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers (1937–1941), Boston Yanks (1945), and the New York Yankees. He was an All-American tailback at Duke University in 1936. Parker also played Major League Baseball from 1936 to 1937 with the Philadelphia Athletics.
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (, abbreviated NSDAP), commonly known as the Nazi Party. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and served as head of state as Führer und Reichskanzler from 1934 to 1945.
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Akiva Vroman
Akiva Vroman (; 21 May 1912–1989) was an Israeli geologist.
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Alan Turing
Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS ( ; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954), was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science and providing a formalization of the concept of the algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, playing a significant role in the creation of the modern computer.
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Alexis Carrel
Alexis Carrel (June 28, 1873 – November 5, 1944) was a French surgeon, biologist and eugenicist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912.
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Alfred Deller
Alfred George Deller CBE (31 May 1912 – 16 July 1979), was an English singer and one of the main figures in popularizing the return of the countertenor voice in Renaissance and Baroque music during the 20th Century.
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Alfred Wegener
Alfred Lothar Wegener (1 November 1880 – November 1930) was a German scientist, geophysicist, and meteorologist.
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Alois Brunner
Alois Brunner (born April 8, 1912, reports of death contested) is an Austrian Nazi war criminal. Brunner was Adolf Eichmann's assistant, and Eichmann referred to Brunner as his "best man." As commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944, Alois Brunner is held responsible for sending some 140,000 European Jews to the gas chambers. Nearly 24,000 of them were deported from the Drancy camp. He was condemned to death in absentia in France in 1954 for crimes against humanity. In 1961 and in 1980, Brunner lost an eye and the fingers of his left hand, respectively, as a result of letter bombs sent to him by Mossad. In 2003, The Guardian described him as "the world's highest-ranking Nazi fugitive believed still alive." Brunner was last reported to be living in Syria, where the government has so far rebuffed international efforts to locate or apprehend him.
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Anne Brown
Anne Wiggins Brown (August 9, 1912 — died March 13, 2009) was an African American soprano who created the role of "Bess" in the original production of George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess in 1935. She was also a radio and concert singer. She settled in Norway in her 30s and later became a Norwegian citizen.
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Archibald Butt
Major Archibald Willingham Butt (September 26, 1865 – April 15, 1912) was an influential military aide to U.S. presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. Before becoming an aide to Roosevelt, Butt had pursued a career in journalism and served in the Spanish-American War. He died in the sinking of the .
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Archibald Cox
Archibald Cox, Jr., (May 17, 1912 – May 29, 2004) was an American lawyer and law professor who served as U.S. Solicitor General under President John F. Kennedy. He became known as the first special prosecutor for the Watergate scandal. During his career, he was a pioneering expert on labor law and also an authority on constitutional law.
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Art Gilmore
Arthur "Art" Gilmore (March 18, 1912 – September 25, 2010) was an American voice actor and announcer whose voice has been heard in radio and television programs, movies, trailers, advertising promotions and documentary films.
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August Strindberg
Johan August Strindberg (; 22 January 1849 – 14 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, and essayist. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics. A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition so innovative that many were to become technically possible to stage only with the advent of film. He is considered the "father" of modern Swedish literature and his The Red Room (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel.
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Austin Lane Crothers
Austin Lane Crothers (May 17, 1860 – May 25, 1912), a member of the United States Democratic Party, was the 46th Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1908 to 1912.
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Barbara Hutton
Barbara Woolworth Hutton (November 14, 1912 – May 11, 1979) was an American socialite dubbed by the media as the "Poor Little Rich Girl" because of her troubled life. She donated Winfield House to the United States government, to be used as the residence of the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, in a symbolic $1 transaction following World War II.
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Ben Hogan
William Ben Hogan (August 13, 1912 – July 25, 1997) was an American golfer, and is generally considered one of the greatest golfers in the history of the game. Born within six months of two other acknowledged golf greats of the twentieth century, Sam Snead and Byron Nelson, Hogan is notable for his profound influence on the golf swing theory and his legendary ball-striking ability, for which he remains renowned among players and fans. His life is depicted in the biographical film Follow the Sun (1951).
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Betty Astell
Betty Astell (23 May 1912 – 26 July 2005) was an English actress.
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Birdie Tebbetts
George Robert "Birdie" Tebbetts (November 10, 1912 – March 24, 1999) was an American catcher, manager, scout and front office executive in Major League Baseball.
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Boris Chertok
Boris Chertok (Борис Черток) (born March 1, 1912 in Lodz, Russian Empire) is a prominent Soviet and Russian rocket designer, responsible for control systems of a number of ballistic missiles and spacecraft. Author of a four-volume book Rockets and People, the definitive source of information about the history of the Soviet space program.
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Bram Stoker
Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned.
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Byron Nelson
John Byron Nelson, Jr. (February 4, 1912 – September 26, 2006) was an American PGA Tour golfer between 1935 and 1946.
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Carl Laemmle
:This article is about Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal Pictures. See also Carl Laemmle, Jr., for an article about his son.
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Carl Marzani
Carl Aldo Marzani (4 March 1912 - 11 December 1994), was an American leftwing political activist and publisher. He was successively a Communist Party organizer, volunteer soldier in the Spanish Civil War, United States federal intelligence official, documentary filmmaker, author, and publisher. During World War II he served in the federal intelligence agency, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and later the U.S. Department of State. He picked the targets for the Doolittle raid on Tokyo, which took place on April 18, 1942. Marzani served nearly three years in prison for having concealed his Communist Party membership while in the OSS.
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Carlo Ponti
Carlo Ponti (11 December 1912 – 10 January 2007) was an Italian film producer with over 140 production credits, and the husband of Italian movie star Sophia Loren.
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Casimir Funk
Kazimierz Funk (February 23, 1884 – November 20, 1967), commonly anglicized as Casimir Funk, was a Polish biochemist. A son of Polish Jews
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Catherine Scorsese
Catherine Cappa Scorsese (April 16, 1912 – January 6, 1997) was an American actress, and also the mother of director Martin Scorsese.
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Cedric Phatudi
Cedric Namedi Phatudi (27 May 1912 - 7 October 1987) was the Chief Minister of Lebowa, one of the controversial South African bantustans.
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Charles Addams
Charles "Chas" Samuel Addams (January 7, 1912 – September 29, 1988) was an American cartoonist known for his particularly black humor and macabre characters. Some of the recurring characters, who became known as The Addams Family, became the basis for two live-action television series, two animated TV series, three motion pictures, and a Broadway musical.
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Chen Kenmin
Chen Kenmin (; ; June 27, 1912 – May 12, 1990) was a Japanese chef of Chinese origin, also known as the father of Chen Kenichi, the Iron Chef Chinese on the television show Iron Chef.
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Chuck Jones
Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio. He directed many of the classic short animated cartoons starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Sylvester, Pepé Le Pew and the other Warners characters, including Duck Amuck, One Froggy Evening and ''What's Opera, Doc?'' (all three of which were later inducted into the National Film Registry) and Jones' famous "Hunting Trilogy" of Rabbit Fire, Rabbit Seasoning, and Duck! Rabbit! Duck! (1951–1953).
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Clara Barton
Clarissa Harlowe "Clara" Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was a pioneer American teacher, nurse, and humanitarian. She is best remembered for organizing the American Red Cross.
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Claude Pompidou
Claude Jacqueline Pompidou (13 November 1912 – 3 July 2007) was the wife of President of France Georges Pompidou. She was a philanthropist and a patron of modern art, especially through the Centre Georges Pompidou.
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Clifford Hansen
Clifford Peter Hansen (October 16, 1912 – October 20, 2009) was a Republican politician from the American state of Wyoming. He served as both the 26th Governor (1963–1967) and U.S. senator (1967–1978). Earlier, he was the president of the board of trustees of his beloved alma mater, the University of Wyoming at Laramie in Albany County, the state's only four-year institution of higher learning. He was also a county commissioner in Jackson, the seat of Teton County in far northwestern Wyoming. Before his death on October 20, 2009, he was the oldest living former U.S. Senator as well as the third oldest living former U.S. Governor. The oldest living former senator is now Harry F. Byrd, Jr., an Independent from Virginia.
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Conlon Nancarrow
Conlon Nancarrow (October 27, 1912 – August 10, 1997) was a United States-born composer who lived and worked in Mexico for most of his life. He became a Mexican citizen in 1955.
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Conroy Maddox
Conroy Maddox (27 December 1912 – 14 January 2005), was an English surrealist painter, collagist, writer and lecturer; and a key figure in the Birmingham Surrealist movement.
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Danny Thomas
Danny Thomas (January 6, 1912 – February 6, 1991) was an American nightclub comedian and television and film actor, best known for starring in the television sitcom Make Room for Daddy, or The Danny Thomas Show. He is also the founder of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. He is the father of Marlo Thomas, Terre Thomas and Tony Thomas.
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David Astor
Francis David Langhorne Astor CH (5 March 1912, London – 7 December 2001, London) was an English newspaper publisher and member of the prominent Astor family.
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David Langton
: ''For the fictional television character, please see David Langton (General Hospital)
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David Packard
David Packard (September 7, 1912 – March 26, 1996) was a co-founder of Hewlett-Packard (1939), serving as president (1947–1964), CEO (1964–1968), and Chairman of the Board (1964–1968, 1972–1993). He served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1969–1971 during the Nixon administration. Packard was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1988 and is noted for many technological innovations and philanthropic endeavors.
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David R. Brower
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Dean Amadon
Dean Amadon (June 5, 1912 – January 12, 2003) was an American ornithologist and an authority on birds of prey.
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Dorothy Height
Dorothy Irene Height (March 24, 1912 – April 20, 2010) was an American administrator, educator, and social activist. She was the president of the National Council of Negro Women for forty years, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994, and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2004.
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Edgar Evans
Petty Officer Edgar Evans (7 March 1876 – 17 February 1912) was one of Robert Falcon Scott's companions on his ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole in 1911–1912.
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Edward Adrian Wilson
Edward Adrian Wilson ("Uncle Bill") (23 July 1872 – 29 March 1912) was a notable English polar explorer, physician, naturalist, painter and ornithologist.
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Edward Mills Purcell
Edward Mills Purcell (August 30, 1912 – March 7, 1997) was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for his independent discovery (published 1946) of nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and in solids. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has become widely used to study the molecular structure of pure materials and the composition of mixtures.
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Eleanor Powell
Eleanor Torrey Powell (November 21, 1912 – February 11, 1982) was an American film actress and dancer of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her exuberant solo tap dancing.
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Elihu Root
Elihu Root (February 15, 1845 – February 7, 1937) was an American lawyer and statesman and the 1912 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the prototype of the 20th century "wise man", who shuttled between high-level government positions in Washington, D.C. and private-sector legal practice in New York City.
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Eloy Alfaro
José Eloy Alfaro Delgado (June 25, 1842 in Montecristi, Ecuador — January 28, 1912 in Quito Ecuador) was a caudillo and President of Ecuador from 1895 to 1901 and from 1906 to 1911. He became one the strongest opponents of pro-Catholic conservative President Gabriel Garcia Moreno. For his central role in the Liberal Revolution of 1895 and for having fought conservatism for almost 30 years, he is known as the Viejo Luchador ("Old Warrior").
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Emperor Taishō
The was the 123rd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 30 July 1912, until his death in 1926.
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Enoch Powell
John Enoch Powell, MBE (16 June 1912 – 8 February 1998) was a British politician, who served as a Conservative Party MP from 1950-1974. He was an early advocate of monetarism and served as Minister of Health (1960-1963) but attained most prominence in 1968, when he made the controversial Rivers of Blood speech, warning on the alleged dangers of mass immigration from Commonwealth nations. For this, he was sacked from his position as Shadow Defence Secretary (1965-1968) in the shadow cabinet of Edward Heath.
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Erich Honecker
Erich Honecker (; 25 August 1912 – 29 May 1994) was a German Communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 1971 until 1989.
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Erich Leinsdorf
Erich Leinsdorf (born Erich Landauer) (February 4, 1912 – September 11, 1993) was a naturalized American Austrian conductor. He performed and recorded with leading orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States and Europe, earning a reputation for exacting standards as well as an acerbic personality. He also published books and essays on musical matters.
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Essie Summers
Essie Summers (born Ethel Snelson Summers on July 24, 1912 in Christchurch, New Zealand - d. August 27, 1998) was a New Zealand author who wrote so vividly of the people and landscape of her native country that she was offered The Order Of the British Empire for her contributions to New Zealand tourism.
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Eva Braun
Eva Anna Paula Braun, died Eva Anna Paula Hitler (6 February 1912 – 30 April 1945) was the longtime companion and, for a brief time, wife, of Adolf Hitler. Braun met Hitler in Munich when she was 17 years old while working as an assistant and model for his personal photographer and began seeing him often about two years later. She attempted suicide twice during their early relationship. By 1936 she was a part of his household at the Berghof near Berchtesgaden and by all accounts lived a materially luxurious and sheltered life throughout World War II. Braun kept up habits which met Hitler's disapproval, such as smoking, wearing makeup and nude sunbathing. Braun enjoyed photography and many of the surviving colour photographs of Hitler were taken by her. She was a key figure within Hitler's inner social circle, but did not attend public events with him until the summer of 1944, when her sister married an officer on his personal staff.
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Foster Brooks
Foster Brooks (May 11, 1912 – December 20, 2001) was an American actor and comedian most famous for his portrayal of a lovable drunken man in nightclub performances and television programs.
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Francis Rogallo
Francis Melvin Rogallo (January 27, 1912–September 1, 2009) was an American aeronautical engineer inventor born in Sanger, California, U.S.A.; he is credited with the invention of the Rogallo wing, or "flexible wing", a precursor to the modern hang glider and paraglider. His patents ranged over mechanical utility patents and ornamental design patents for wing controls, airfoils, target kite, flexible wing, and advanced configurations for flexible wing vehicles.
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Frank K. Edmondson
Frank K. Edmondson (August 1, 1912 – December 8, 2008) was an American astronomer.
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Franz Reichelt
Franz Reichelt, also known as Frantz Reichelt or François Reichelt (1879 – February 4, 1912), was an Austrian-born French tailor, inventor and parachuting pioneer, now sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor, who is remembered for his accidental death by jumping from the Eiffel Tower while testing a wearable parachute of his own design. Reichelt had become fixated on developing a suit for aviators that would convert into a parachute and allow them to survive a fall should they be forced to leave their aircraft. Initial experiments conducted with dummies dropped from the fifth floor of his apartment building had been successful, but he was unable to replicate those early successes with any of his subsequent designs.
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Fritz Hellwig
Dr. Fritz Hellwig (born 3 August 1912) was a German CDU politician and European Commissioner. He was born in Saarbrücken.
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Frédéric Passy
Frédéric Passy (May 20, 1822 - June 12, 1912?) was a French economist and a joint winner (together with Henry Dunant) of the first Nobel Peace Prize awarded in 1901.
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Gene Kelly
Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer. A major exponent of 20th century filmed dance, Kelly was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable characters that he played on screen.
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George Cisar (actor)
George Cisar (July 28, 1912 — June 13, 1979) played over one hundred roles in two decades as a character actor in film and television, often in prominent Hollywood productions. He frequently played background parts such as policemen or bartenders.
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George Emil Palade
George Emil Palade (November 19, 1912 – October 7, 2008) was a Romanian-American cell biologist. In 1974, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Albert Claude and Christian de Duve, for discovering the vacuole.
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George Grossmith
George Grossmith (9 December 1847 – 1 March 1912) was an English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer. His performing career spanned more than four decades. As a writer and composer, he created 18 comic operas, nearly 100 musical sketches, some 600 songs and piano pieces, three books and both serious and comic pieces for newspapers and magazines.
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George O. Petrie
George O. Petrie (November 16, 1912 – November 16, 1997) was an American television actor.
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Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann (15 November 1862—6 June 1946) was a German dramatist and novelist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912.
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Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn Theodore Seaborg (; April 19, 1912 – February 25, 1999) was an American scientist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements", contributed to the discovery and isolation of ten elements, and developed the actinide concept, which led to the current arrangement of the actinoid series in the periodic table of the elements. He spent most of his career as an educator and research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley where he became the second Chancellor in its history and served as a University Professor. Seaborg advised ten presidents from Truman to Clinton on nuclear policy and was the chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 to 1971 where he pushed for commercial nuclear energy and peaceful applications of nuclear science. Throughout his career, Seaborg worked for arms control. He was signator to the Franck Report and contributed to the achievement of the Limited Test Ban Treaty, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Seaborg was a well-known advocate of science education and federal funding for pure research. He was a key contributor to the report "A Nation at Risk" as a member of President Reagan's National Commission on Excellence in Education and was the principal author of the Seaborg Report on academic science issued in the closing days of the Eisenhower administration.
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Gloria Guinness
Gloria Guinness (August 27, 1912 – November 9, 1980), born Gloria Rubio y Alatorre, was a Mexican-born socialite and fashion icon of the 20th century, and a contributing editor to ''Harper's Bazaar'' from 1963 until 1971. She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1964.
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Gunther Plaut
Wolf Gunther Plaut, CC, O.Ont (born November 1, 1912) is a Reform rabbi and author. Plaut was the rabbi of Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto for several decades and since 1978 is its Senior Scholar.
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Gustaf Dalén
Nils Gustaf Dalén (30 November 1869 – 9 December 1937) was a Swedish Nobel Laureate and industrialist, the founder of the AGA company and inventor of the AGA cooker and the Dalén light. In 1912 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "invention of automatic regulators for use in conjunction with gas accumulators for illuminating lighthouses and buoys".
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Gustave de Molinari
Gustave de Molinari (March 3, 1819, Liège – January 28, 1912, Adinkerke) was an economist born in Belgium associated with French laissez-faire liberal economists such as Frédéric Bastiat and Hippolyte Castille. Living in Paris, in the 1840s, he took part in the "Ligue pour la Liberté des Échanges" (Free Trade League), animated by Frédéric Bastiat. On his death bed in 1850, Bastiat described Molinari as the continuator of his works. In 1849, shortly after the revolutions of the previous year, Molinari published two works: an essay, "The Production of Security", and a book, Les Soirées de la Rue Saint-Lazare, describing how a market in justice and protection could advantageously replace the state.
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György Sándor
György Sándor (21 September 1912 – 9 December 2005) was a Hungarian pianist, friend of Béla Bartók and champion of his music.
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Hans Leussink
Hans Leussink (2 January 1912, Schüttorf – 16 February 2008) was a German teacher and politician. He served as the country's Minister for Education and Research from 1969 to 1972.
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Harriet Quimby
Harriet Quimby (May 1, 1875 – July 1, 1912) was an early American aviator and a movie screenwriter.
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Harry Holtzman
Harry Holtzman (1912-1987) was an American artist and founding member of the American Abstract Artists group.
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Heinrich Harrer
Heinrich Harrer (; July 6, 1912 – January 7, 2006) was an Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer, and author.
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Henri Poincaré
Jules Henri Poincaré (29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912) () was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, and a philosopher of science. He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as The Last Universalist, since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime.
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Henry Armstrong
Henry Jackson Jr. (December 12, 1912, Columbus, Mississippi - October 22, 1988, Los Angeles, California) was a world boxing champion who fought under the name Henry Armstrong. He is universally regarded as one of the greatest fighters of all time by many boxing critics and fellow professionals.
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Herbert C. Brown
Herbert Charles Brown (May 22, 1912 – December 19, 2004) was a chemist and Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate for his work with organoboranes.
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Herbert Mataré
Herbert Franz Mataré (born September 22, 1912) is a German physicist. The focus of his research is the field of semiconductor research. His best-known work is the first functional "European" transistor, which he developed and patented together with Heinrich Welker in the vicinity of Paris in 1948, at the same time and independently from the Bell Labs engineers. Mataré lives in California. Born in Aachen, he is the nephew of the sculptor Ewald Mataré (1887-1965).
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Herman Johannes
Herman Johannes, (born Rote Island, East Nusa Tenggara, May 28, 1912, died Yogyakarta, October 17, 1992), was an Indonesian professor, scientist and politician. He was the rector of the Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta (1961-1966), Coordinator for Higher Education from 1966 to 1979, a member of Indonesia’s Presidential Supreme Advisory Council (DPA) from 1968 to 1978, and the Minister for Public Works and Energy (1950-1951). He was also a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO from 1954 to 1957.
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Hubert Latham
Arthur Charles Hubert Latham (10 January 1883 – 25 June 1912) was a French aviation pioneer. He was the first person to attempt to cross the English Channel in an aeroplane. Due to engine failure during his first of two attempts to cross the Channel, he became the first person to land an aeroplane on a body of water.
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Ida Straus
Ida Straus, born Rosalie Ida Blun (February 6, 1849 – April 15, 1912) was an American homemaker and wife of the co-owner of the Macy's department store. She and her husband Isidor died on board the RMS Titanic.
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Irv Kupcinet
Irv Kupcinet (July 31, 1912 – November 10, 2003) was an American newspaper columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and a broadcast personality based in Chicago, Illinois. He was popularly known by the nickname "Kup".
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Irving Layton
Irving Layton, OC (March 12, 1912 – January 4, 2006) was a Romanian-born Canadian poet. He was known for his "tell it like it is" style which won him a wide following but also made enemies. As T. Jacobs notes in his biography (2001), Layton fought Puritanism throughout his life:
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Isidor Straus
Isidor Straus (February 6, 1845 – April 15, 1912)—a German Jewish American—was co-owner of the Macy's department store with his brother Nathan. He also served briefly as a member of the United States House of Representatives.. He died with his wife, Ida, as a result of the sinking of the passenger ship RMS Titanic.
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Ivan Yakubovsky
Ivan Ignatyevich Yakubovsky (; 7 January 1912, Zaitsava, now Horki Raion, Mahilyow Voblast, Belarus - 30 November 1976, Moscow) was a Marshal of the Soviet Union, twice made a Hero of the Soviet Union and serving as commander-in-chief of the Warsaw Pact from 1967 to 1976.
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J. Bruce Ismay
Joseph Bruce Ismay (12 December 1862 – 17 October 1937) was an English businessman who served as chairman and managing director of the White Star Line of steamships. He came to international attention as the highest-ranking White Star official among the 706 people (vs. 1,517 fatalities from crew and passengers totaling 2,223) to survive the maiden voyage of his company's marquee ocean liner, the RMS Titanic.
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J. Walter Kennedy
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Jack Lawrence
Jack Lawrence (April 7, 1912 – March 16, 2009) was an American songwriter. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1975.
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Jackson Pollock
Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality, sometimes struggling with alcoholism. In 1945, he married the artist Lee Krasner, who became an important influence on his career and on his legacy.
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Jacques Ellul
Jacques Ellul (January 6, 1912 – May 19, 1994) was a French philosopher, law professor, sociologist, lay theologian, and Christian anarchist. He wrote several books about the "technological society" and the intersection between Christianity and politics, such as Anarchy and Christianity (1991)—arguing that anarchism and Christianity are socially following the same goal.
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James Callaghan
Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC (27 March 1912 – 26 March 2005), was a British Labour politician, who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980. Commonly known as Jim Callaghan (and nicknamed Sunny Jim, Gentleman Jim, Lucky Jim or Big Jim), Callaghan is the only person to have served in all four of the Great Offices of State: Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary.
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James S. Sherman
James Schoolcraft Sherman (October 24, 1855 – October 30, 1912) was a United States Representative from New York and the 27th Vice President of the United States. He was a member of the Baldwin, Hoar, and Sherman families.
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Jay Silverheels
Jay Silverheels (May 26, 1912 – March 5, 1980) was a Canadian Mohawk Indian actor. He was well known for his role as Tonto, the faithful American Indian companion of the Lone Ranger in a long-running American television series.
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Jean Françaix
Jean René Désiré Françaix (May 23, 1912, Le Mans – September 25, 1997, Paris) was a French neoclassical composer, pianist, and orchestrator, known for his prolific output and vibrant style.
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Jean Vilar
Jean Vilar (25 March 1912 - 28 May 1971) was a French man of the theatre, who created in 1947 the Avignon theatre festival.
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Jean-Hilaire Aubame
Jean-Hilaire Aubame (10 November 1912 – 16 August 1989) was a Gabonese politician active during both the colonial and independence periods. The French journalist Pierre Péan said that Aubame's training "as a practicing Catholic and a customs official helped to make him an integrated man, one of whom political power was not an end in itself."
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John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer, philosopher, poet, music theorist, artist, printmaker, and amateur mycologist and mushroom collector. A pioneer of chance music, electronic music and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde. Critics have lauded him as one of the most influential American composers of the 20th century. He was also instrumental in the development of modern dance, mostly through his association with choreographer Merce Cunningham, who was also Cage's romantic partner for most of their lives.
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John Cheever
John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer. Sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs," his fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester suburbs, old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born, and Italy, especially Rome. He is "now recognized as one of the most important short fiction writers of the 20th century." While Cheever is perhaps best remembered for his short stories (including "The Enormous Radio," "Goodbye, My Brother," "The Five-Forty-Eight," "The Country Husband," and "The Swimmer"), he also wrote a number of novels, such as The Wapshot Chronicle (National Book Award, 1958), The Wapshot Scandal (William Dean Howells Medal, 1965), Bullet Park (1969), and Falconer (1977).
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John Jacob Astor IV
John Jacob Astor IV (July 13, 1864–April 15, 1912) was an American millionaire businessman, real estate builder, inventor, writer, a member of the prominent Astor family and a lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War. He died in the sinking of the .
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John McCain
John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican nominee for president in the 2008 United States election.
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John Schrank
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Jorge Amado
Jorge Amado de Faria (August 10, 1912 – August 6, 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the Modernist school. He was the best-known of modern Brazilian writers, his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, notably Dona Flor and her Two Husbands (Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos) in 1978. His work dealt largely with the poor urban black and mulatto communities of Bahia.
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Joseph Stein
Joseph Stein (born May 30, 1912) is an American playwright best known for writing the books for such musicals as Fiddler on the Roof and Zorba.
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José Ferrer
José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón (January 8, 1912 – January 26, 1992), best known as José Ferrer, was a Puerto Rican actor, as well as a theater and film director. He was the first Hispanic actor to win an Academy Award.
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Judith Furse
Judith Furse (4 March 1912 – 29 August 1974) was an English actress.
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Jules Massenet
Jules (Émile Frédéric) Massenet (May 12, 1842August 13, 1912) was a French composer best known for his operas. His compositions were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he ranks as one of the greatest melodists of his era. Soon after his death, Massenet's style went out of fashion, and many of his operas fell into almost total oblivion. Apart from Manon and Werther, his works were rarely performed. However, since the mid-1970s, many operas of his such as Thaïs and Esclarmonde have undergone periodic revivals.
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Julia Child
Julia Child (née McWilliams) (August 15, 1912 - August 13, 2004) was an American chef, author, and television personality. She is recognized for introducing French cuisine to the American public with her debut cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and her subsequent television programs, notably The French Chef, which premiered in 1963.
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Karl Hass
:For the classical music radio host, see Karl Haas.
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Karl Malden
Karl Malden (born Mladen George Sekulovich, Serbian Cyrillic: Младен Ђорђе Секуловић; March 22, 1912 – July 1, 2009) was an American actor. In a career that spanned more than seven decades, he featured in classic Marlon Brando films such as A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront and One-Eyed Jacks. Among other notable film roles were Archie Lee Meighan in Baby Doll, Zebulon Prescott in How the West Was Won and General Omar Bradley in Patton. His best-known role was on television as Lt. Mike Stone on the 1970s crime drama, The Streets of San Francisco. During the 1980s, he was spokesman for American Express, reminding cardholders "Don't leave home without it".
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Kathleen Ferrier
Kathleen Mary Ferrier CBE (22 April 19128 October 1953) was an English contralto. She came to prominence as a singer during and immediately after the Second World War, and was especially remembered for her courageous performances during her final illness.
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Kathleen Ollerenshaw
Dame Kathleen Mary Ollerenshaw, née Timpson, DBE (born 1 October 1912, Withington, Manchester) is a British mathematician and politician. Deaf since the age of eight, she loved doing arithmetic problems as a child. At the age of 19, she gained admittance to Somerville College, Oxford to study mathematics. She completed her doctorate at Somerville in 1945 on "Critical Lattices" under the supervision of Theo Chaundy. She wrote five original research papers which were sufficient for her to earn her DPhil degree without the need of a formal written thesis.
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Katsumi Tezuka
(born August 31, 1912) is a Japanese actor. He is best known for playing monsters in several Toho science fiction and horror films directed by Ishirō Honda.
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Kazimierz Leski
Kazimierz Leski, nom de guerre Bradl (June 21, 1912–May 27, 2000), was a Polish engineer, co-designer of Polish submarines ORP Sęp and ORP Orzeł, a fighter pilot, and an officer of the World War II Home Army's intelligence and counter-intelligence. He is credited, during World War II, with at least 25 journeys across German-held Europe, usually in the uniform of a Wehrmacht Major General.
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Kim Il Sung
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Kim Philby
'''Harold Adrian Russell 'Kim' Philby''' (1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988) was a high-ranking member of British intelligence who worked as a spy for and later defected to the Soviet Union. A communist, he served as an NKVD and KGB operative.
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Konrad Emil Bloch
Konrad Emil Bloch (b. January 21, 1912 – October 15, 2000) was a German American biochemist. Bloch received Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1964 (joint with Feodor Lynen) for discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism.
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Kristina Söderbaum
Kristina Söderbaum (Stockholm, Sweden 5 September 1912 - Hitzacker, Germany 12 February 2001) was a Swedish-born German film actress, producer and photographer.
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Kurt Sanderling
Kurt Sanderling (born September 19, 1912) is an East Prussian conductor.
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Lady Bird Johnson
Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Taylor Johnson (December 22, 1912 – July 11, 2007) was First Lady of the United States from 1963 to 1969 during the presidency of her husband Lyndon B. Johnson. Throughout her life, she was an advocate for beautification of the nation's cities and highways and conservation of natural resources and made that her major initiative as First Lady. After leaving the White House in 1969 and her husband's death in 1973, Lady Bird became an entrepreneur, creating the $150 million LBJ Holdings Company, and was a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honors.
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Larry LaPrise
Larry LaPrise (Roland Lawrence LaPrise, born: 11 November 1912 in Detroit, Michigan, died: 04 April 1996 in Gooding, Idaho) at one point held the U.S. copyright for the song Hokey Pokey.
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Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence George Durrell (27 February 1912 – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer, though he resisted affiliation with Britain and preferred to be considered cosmopolitan. It has been posthumously suggested that Durrell never had British citizenship, though more accurately, he became defined as a non-patrial in 1968 due to the amendment to the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962. Hence, he was denied the right to enter or settle in Britain under new laws and had to apply for a visa for each entry. His most famous work is the tetralogy The Alexandria Quartet.
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Lawrence Oates
Captain Lawrence Edward Grace ("Titus") Oates (17 March 1880 – 16 March 1912) was an English Antarctic explorer, known for the manner of his death, when he walked from a tent into a blizzard, with the words "I am just going outside and may be some time".
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Leonid Kantorovich
Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich () (19 January 1912, Saint Petersburg – 7 April 1986, Moscow) was a Soviet/Russian mathematician and economist, known for his theory and development of techniques for the optimal allocation of resources. He was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1975 and the only winner of this prize from the USSR.
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Lightnin' Hopkins
Sam "Lightnin’" Hopkins (March 15, 1912 — January 30, 1982) was a country blues guitarist, from Houston, Texas, United States. Rolling Stone included Hopkins at number 71 on their list of the 100 greatest guitarist of all time.
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Louis Cyr
Louis Cyr, baptised Cyprien-Noé Cyr (October 10, 1863 – November 10, 1912) was a famous Canadian strongman. His recorded feats include lifting 1000 pounds (454 kg) with one finger and carrying 8552 pounds (1967 kg) on his back. He is the 'uncontested and incontestible' strongest man ever to live.
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Lucien Laurin
Lucien Laurin (March 18, 1912 in Joliette, Quebec, Canada – June 26, 2000 at Key Largo, Florida) was a French-Canadian jockey and Hall of Fame Thoroughbred horse trainer.
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Ludwig Bölkow
Ludwig Bölkow (June 30, 1912 – July 25, 2003) was one of the aeronautical pioneers of Germany.
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Marta Eggerth
Marta Eggerth (born April 17, 1912, Budapest) is a singer/actress from "The Silver Age of Operetta". Many of the 20th century's most famous operetta composers, including Franz Lehár, Fritz Kreisler, Robert Stoltz, Oscar Straus, and Paul Abraham, composed works especially for her. Eggerth, who debuted in her early teens and remains active into her late 90s, has enjoyed a celebrated stage and film career.
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Mary Carlisle
Mary Carlisle (born February 3, 1912) is a retired American actress and singer.
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Mary Walter
Mary Walter (September 10, 1912 – February 25, 1993) was a Filipino actress whose 8 decade-long film acting career saw her transformation from a romantic lead in the silent film era into a wizened fixture in horror movies in the late 1980s and early 1990s. For her body of work accomplished in an especially long career, she was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from both the Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences and the Gawad Urian.
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Max Rousié
Max Rousié (18 July 1912 - 2 June 1959) was a French rugby league and rugby union footballer who rose to prominence in the 1930s. He was a dual-code international, eventually becoming captain of the French rugby league team.
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Millvina Dean
Elizabeth Gladys Millvina Dean (2 February 1912 – 31 May 2009) was the last remaining survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, which occurred on 15 April 1912. At nine weeks of age, she was also the youngest passenger on board the ship.
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Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman (July 31, 1912 November 16, 2006) was an American economist, statistician, a professor at the University of Chicago, and the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics. Among scholars, he is best known for his theoretical and empirical research, especially consumption analysis, monetary history and theory, and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy.
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Minnie Pearl
Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon (October 25, 1912 – March 4, 1996), known professionally as Minnie Pearl, was an American country comedienne who appeared at the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years (from 1940 to 1991) and on the television show Hee Haw from 1969 to 1991.
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Monty Stratton
Monty Franklin Pierce Stratton (May 21, 1912 – September 29, 1982), nicknamed "Gander", was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He was born in Wagner, Texas, USA.
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Mykola Lysenko
Mykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko (, – ) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist.
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Nancy Wake
Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, AC, GM (born 30 August 1912) served as a British agent during the later part of World War II. She became a leading figure in the maquis groups of the French Resistance and became one of the Allies' most decorated servicewomen of the war.
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Natalino Otto
Natalino Otto, stage name of Natale Codognotto (25 December 1912 - 4 October 1969) was an Italian singer. He started the swing genre in Italy.
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Norman Levinson
Norman Levinson (August 11, 1912 – October 10, 1975) was an American mathematician. Some of his major contributions were in the study of Fourier transforms, complex analysis, non-linear differential equations, number theory, and signal processing. He worked closely with Norbert Wiener in his early career. He joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1937. In 1954, he was awarded the Bôcher Memorial Prize of the American Mathematical Society. In 1974 he published a paper proving that more than a third of the zeros of the Riemann zeta function lie on the critical line, a result later improved to two fifths by Conrey.
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Odette Sansom
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Ollie Johnston
Oliver Martin Johnston, Jr. (October 31, 1912 – April 14, 2008) was an American motion picture animator. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, and the last surviving at the time of his death. He was recognized by The Walt Disney Company with its Disney Legend Award in 1989. His work was recognized with the National Medal of Arts in 2005.
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Osborne Reynolds
Osborne Reynolds (23 August 1842 – 21 February 1912) was a prominent innovator in the understanding of fluid dynamics. Separately, his studies of heat transfer between solids and fluids brought improvements in boiler and condenser design.
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Otto Schoetensack
Otto Schoetensack (; July 12, 1850 - December 23, 1912) was a German industrialist and later professor of anthropology. During an archeological dig he directed the worker Daniel Hartmann found the lower jaw of a hominid, which Schoetensack later named the Homo heidelbergensis.
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Otto von Habsburg
Otto von Habsburg (born 20 November 1912), also known as Otto Habsburg-Lothringen in Austria, was the head of the House of Habsburg and heir to the thrones of the former Austria-Hungary, now Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has been the Habsburg pretender to the Austrian throne since 1922.
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Ottoman Empire
The Sublime Ottoman State (Ottoman Turkish, Persian: دَوْلَتِ عَلِيّهٔ عُثمَانِیّه Devlet-i ʿAliyye-yi ʿOsmâniyye, Modern Turkish: Yüce Osmanlı Devleti or Osmanlı İmparatorluğu) was an empire that lasted from 1299 to 1923.
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Palle Huld
Palle Huld (born 2 August 1912) is a Danish film actor. He appeared in 40 films between 1933 and 2000.
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Pat Nixon
Thelma Catherine "Pat" Ryan Nixon (March 16, 1912 – June 22, 1993) was the wife of Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States, and was First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974. She was commonly known as Patricia or Pat Nixon.
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Patrick White
Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990), an Australian author, was widely regarded as a major English-language novelist of the 20th century. From 1935 until his death, he published 12 novels, two short-story collections and eight plays.
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Paul Sabatier
Paul Sabatier (August 3, 1858 - March 4, 1928), was a French clergyman and historian who produced the first modern biography of St. Francis of Assisi. He is the brother of Auguste Sabatier.
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Perkins Bass
Perkins Bass (born October 6, 1912) is a former elected official from the U.S. state of New Hampshire, including four terms as a U.S. Representative from 1955 to 1963. He is the father of Charles F. Bass, a former U.S. Representative from New Hampshire, and son of Robert P. Bass, who was governor of the state from 1911 to 1913.
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Perry Como
Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como (May 18, 1912 – May 12, 2001) was an American singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with it in 1943. "Mr. C.", as he was nicknamed, sold millions of records for Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and pioneered a weekly musical variety television show, which set the standards for the genre and proved to be one of the most successful in television history. His combined success on television and popular recordings was not matched by any other artist of the time. A popular television performer and recording artist, Perry Como produced numerous hit records with record sales so high the label literally stopped counting at Como's behest. His weekly television shows and seasonal specials were broadcast throughout the world and his popularity seemingly had no geographical or language boundaries. Como's appeal spanned generations and he was widely respected for both his professional standards and the conduct in his personal life. In the official RCA Records Billboard magazine memorial, his life was summed up in these few words: "50 years of music and a life well lived. An example to all." Composer Ervin Drake said of him,"... [o]ccasionally someone like Perry comes along and won't 'go with the flow' and still prevails in spite of all the bankrupt others who surround him and importune him to yield to their values. Only occasionally."
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Philip Hart
Philip Aloysius Hart (December 10, 1912 – December 26, 1976) was a Democratic United States Senator from Michigan from 1959 until 1976. He was nicknamed the Conscience of the Senate.
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Philip Parmalee
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Philip Simmons
Philip Simmons (June 9, 1912 - June 22, 2009) was an American artisan and blacksmith specializing in the craft of ironwork. Simmons spent 77 years as a blacksmith, focusing on decorative iron work. When he began his career, blacksmiths in Charleston made practical, everyday household objects, such as horseshoes. By the time he retired 77 years later, the craft was considered as art form rather than a practical profession.
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Pope John Paul I
Pope John Paul I (Latin: Ioannes Paulus PP. I, Italian: Giovanni Paolo I), born Albino Luciani, (17 October 1912 – 28 September 1978), reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church and as Sovereign of Vatican City from 26 August 1978 until his death 33 days later. His reign is among the shortest in papal history, resulting in the most recent Year of Three Popes. John Paul I was the first Pope born in the 20th century.
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Ralph DePalma
Ralph DePalma (December 18, 1882 – March 31, 1956) was an Italian-American racecar driving champion, most notably winner of the 1915 Indianapolis 500. His entry at the International Motorsports Hall of Fame estimates that he won about 2000 races. DePalma won the 1908, 1909, 1910, and 1911 American AAA national dirt track championships and is credited with winning 24 American Champ car races. He won the Canadian national championship in 1929. DePalma estimated that he had earned $1.5 million by 1934 after racing for 27 years. He is inducted in numerous halls of fame. He competed on boards and dirt road courses and ovals.
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Reta Shaw
Reta Shaw (September 13, 1912 – January 8, 1982, South Paris, Me.) was an American character actress known for playing authoritative women, housekeepers, and domineering wives, especially on television. She was a graduate of the Leland Powers School of the Theater in Boston.
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Roald Amundsen
Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (; 16 July 1872 – c. 18 June 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the first Antarctic expedition to reach the South Pole between 1910 and 1912. He was the first person to reach both the North and South Poles. He is also known as the first to traverse the Northwest Passage. He disappeared in June 1928 while taking part in a rescue mission. Amundsen with Douglas Mawson, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
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Robert Falcon Scott
Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868 – 29 March 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13. During this second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that they had been preceded by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition. On their return journey, Scott and his four comrades all perished from a combination of exhaustion, starvation and extreme cold.
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Robert Jacobsen
Robert Julius Tommy Jacobsen (4 June 1912, Copenhagen - 26 January 1993, Tågelund) was a Danish sculptor and painter.
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Roberta McCain
Roberta Wright McCain (born February 7, 1912) is the widow of Admiral John S. McCain, Jr. (married from 1933 to 1981) and mother of the Republican Arizona Senator and two-time Presidential candidate John McCain.
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Roy Fuller
Roy Broadbent Fuller (11 February 1912 – 27 September 1991) was an English writer, known mostly as a poet. He was born in Failsworth, Lancashire, and brought up in Blackpool. He worked as a lawyer (solicitor) for a building society, serving in the Royal Navy 1941-1946.
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Said Akl
Said Akl (, also transliterated Said Aql and Saeed Akl; born July 4, 1912) is a prominent Lebanese poet, writer and ideologue. He was born in Zahle, Lebanon, and is considered one of the most important modern Lebanese poets.
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Salvador Luria
Salvador Edward Luria (Turin, August 13, 1912 – Lexington, February 6, 1991) was an Italian microbiologist and a Nobel laureate (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) for his pioneering work with Max Delbrück and Alfred Hershey on phages in molecular biology.
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Sam Snead
Samuel Jackson Snead (May 27, 1912 – May 23, 2002) was an American professional golfer who was one of the top players in the world for most of four decades. He and two of the other greatest golfers of all time, Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson, were born within six months of each other in 1912. Snead won a record 82 PGA Tour events.
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Sarah Bernhardt
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Sonja Henie
Sonja Henie (April 8, 1912 - October 12, 1969) was a Norwegian figure skater and American actress. She was a three-time Olympic Champion (1928, 1932, 1936), a ten-time World Champion (1927–1936) and a six-time European Champion (1931–1936). Henie won more Olympic and World titles than any other ladies figure skater. At the height of her acting career she was one of the highest paid stars in Hollywood.
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Studs Terkel
Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for The Good War, and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.
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T. Y. Lin
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Ted Drake
Edward Joseph "Ted" Drake (16 August 1912 – 30 May 1995) was an English football player and manager. As a player, he first played for Southampton but made his name playing for Arsenal in the 1930s, winning two league titles and an FA Cup, as well as five caps for England. He was also a cricketer, but only ever played sparingly for Hampshire. After retiring from playing football, he became a manager, and while in charge of Chelsea he took the club to its only league title of the 20th century.
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Thanom Kittikachorn
Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn (August 11, 1911 - June 16, 2004, Thai ถนอม กิตติขจร) was a military dictator of Thailand. A staunch anti-Communist, Thanom oversaw a decade of military rule in Thailand from 1963 to 1973, until public protests which exploded into violence forced him to step down. His return from exile in 1976 sparked protests which led to a massacre of demonstrators, followed by a military coup.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) His last name is, according to Roosevelt himself, "pronounced as if it was spelled 'Rosavelt.' That is in three syllables. The first syllable as if it was 'Rose.'" ; An [http://vvl.lib.msu.edu/record.cfm?recordid=509 Audio recording] in which Roosevelt pronounces his own last name distinctly. To listen at the correct speed, slow the recording down by 20%. Retrieved on July 12, 2007. ) was the 26th President of the United States. He is noted for his energetic personality, range of interests and achievements, leadership of the Progressive Movement, and his "cowboy" image and robust masculinity. He was a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the short-lived Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party of 1912. Before becoming President (1901–1909) he held offices at the municipal, state, and federal level of government. Roosevelt's achievements as a naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier are as much a part of his fame as any office he held as a politician.
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Thomas Byles
Father Thomas Roussel Davids Byles (26 February 1870 – 15 April 1912) was a Catholic priest who famously remained on board the RMS Titanic as she was sinking after colliding with an iceberg, hearing confessions and giving absolution.
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Toke Townley
Toke Antony Townley, born 6 November 1912 in Great Dunmow, died 27 September 1984 in Leeds, was an English actor.
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Tom Richardson
Tom Richardson (11 August 1870, Byfleet, Surrey – 2 July 1912, Chambéry, France) was an English cricketer. A fast bowler, Richardson relied to a great extent on the break-back (a fast ball moving from off to leg), a relatively long run-up and high arm which allowed him to gain sharp lift on fast pitches even from the full, straight length he always bowled. He played 358 first-class cricket matches and 14 Tests, taking a total of 2,104 wickets. In the four consecutive seasons from 1894 to 1897 he took 1,005 wickets, a figure surpassed over such a period only by the slow bowler AP Freeman. He took 290 wickets in 1905, again a figure only exceeded by Freeman (twice). In 1963 Neville Cardus selected him as one of his "Six Giants of the Wisden Century".
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Ty Cobb
Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb (December 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961), nicknamed "The Georgia Peach," was an American outfielder in baseball born in Narrows, Georgia. Cobb spent 22 seasons with the Detroit Tigers, the last six as the team's player-manager, and finished his career with the Philadelphia Athletics.
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Ustad Amir Khan
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Vadim Salmanov
The composer Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov (born in Saint Petersburg on 4 November 1912, died in Leningrad on 27 February 1978) is perhaps best known for his Symphony No. 2.
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Victor Grignard
François Auguste Victor Grignard (May 6, 1871 in Cherbourg - December 13, 1935 in Lyon) was a Nobel Prize-winning French chemist.
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Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years (1917–1924), as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a socialist economic system.
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W. Willard Wirtz
William Willard Wirtz (March 14, 1912 – April 24, 2010) was a former U.S. administrator, cabinet officer, attorney, and law professor. He served as the Secretary of Labor between 1962 and 1969 under the administrations of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. At the time of his death, he was the last living member of President John F. Kennedy's cabinet.
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Walt Gorney
Walter Gorney (April 12, 1912 – March 5, 2004) was an American actor. He was known for his role as Crazy Ralph, the drunken old man who warns "You're all doomed!" in the 1980 hit horror movie Friday the 13th. He reprised his role in the sequel Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981). He also had an uncredited role as the narrator for the prologue to , making him the first actor in Friday the 13th history to have two different roles in the franchise.
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Walter Benona Sharp
Walter Benona Sharp (12 December 1870 - 28 November 1912) was an American oil drilling pioneer, innovator and philanthropist.
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Walter Sisulu
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Wendy Hiller
Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller DBE (15 August 1912 – 14 May 2003) was an English film and stage actress, who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly sixty years. Despite many notable film performances, she chose to remain primarily a stage actress.
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Wernher von Braun
Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (March 23, 1912 – June 16, 1977) was a German-American rocket scientist, engineer, space architect, and one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Germany and the United States during and after World War II. A one-time member of the Nazi party and a commissioned SS officer, von Braun would later be regarded as the preeminent rocket engineer of the 20th century in his role with the United States civilian space agency NASA.
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Wilbur Scoville
Wilbur Lincoln Scoville (1865 – 1942) was an American chemist and is best known for his creation of "The Scoville Organoleptic Test", now standardized as the Scoville scale. He devised the test and scale in 1912 while working at the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical company to measure piquancy, or "hotness", of various chile peppers. Wilbur was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut on January 22. He married Cora B. Upham on September 1, 1891 in Wollaston (Quincy, Massachusetts). He had two children, Amy Augusta, born Aug 21, 1892 and Ruth Upham, born Oct 21, 1897.
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Wilbur Wright
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Wilfrid Voynich
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William Booth
William Booth (10 April 1829 – 20 August 1912) was a British Methodist preacher who founded the Salvation Army and became its first General (1878–1912). The Christian movement, with a quasi-military structure and government - but with no physical weaponry - founded in 1865, has spread from London, England, to many parts of the world and is known for being one of the largest distributors of humanitarian aid.
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William F. Walsh
William Francis Walsh (born July 11, 1912) was a Republican-Conservative member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.
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William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th President of the United States and later the 10th Chief Justice of the United States. He is the only person to have served in both offices.
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William Lederer
William Julius Lederer, Jr. (March 31, 1912 – December 5, 2009) was an American author,
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William T. Cahill
William Thomas Cahill (June 25, 1912 July 1, 1996) was an American Republican Party politician who served as the 46th Governor of New Jersey, from 1970 to 1974, and who represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1959 to 1967 and the state's 6th district from 1967 to 1970.
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Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States. A leader of the Progressive Era, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913. With Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft dividing the Republican Party vote, Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912.
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Woody Guthrie
Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his guitar. His best-known song is "This Land Is Your Land", which is regularly sung in American schools. Many of his recorded songs are archived in the Library of Congress. Such songwriters as Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs and Tom Paxton have acknowledged their debt to Guthrie as an influence.
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Yukio Ozaki
was a liberal Japanese politician, born in modern-day Sagamihara, Kanagawa. Ozaki served in the House of Representatives of the Japanese Diet for 63 years, from 1890-1953.
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Zohra Segal
Zohra Segal (born 27 April 1912) is an Indian stage and film actress, who started her career as dancer with legendary dancer Uday Shankar in 1935, and worked with him for the next eight years. She has appeared in many Bollywood films as well as English language films and television series. She is most known for her appearances in Bhaji on the Beach (1992), The Mystic Masseur (2001), Bend It Like Beckham (2002), Dil Se (1998) and Cheeni Kum (2007); and the TV series, The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Tandoori Nights (1985–87), Amma And Family (1996).. Considered a doyenne of Indian theatre, she acted with Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA), and Prithviraj Kapoor's Prithvi Theatre for fourteen years, during the period travelled over India, with the troupe
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Alaska
Alaska () is the largest state of the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait. Approximately half of Alaska's 698,473 residents live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. As of 2009, Alaska remains the least densely populated state of the U.S.
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Albania
Albania ( , , Gheg Albanian: Shqipnia/Shqypnia), officially known as the Republic of Albania (, pronounced ), is a country in South Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the west, and on the Ionian Sea to the southwest. It is less than from Italy, across the Strait of Otranto which links the Adriatic Sea to the Ionian Sea.
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Baltimore
Baltimore () is the largest independent city in the United States and the largest city and cultural center of the U.S. state of Maryland. The city is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay. Baltimore is sometimes referred to as Baltimore City in order to distinguish it from surrounding Baltimore County. Founded in 1729, Baltimore is a major U.S. seaport and is situated closer to major Midwestern markets than any other major seaport on the East Coast. Baltimore's Inner Harbor was once the second leading port of entry for immigrants to the United States and a major manufacturing center. The harbor is now home to Harborplace, a shopping, entertainment, and tourist center, and the National Aquarium in Baltimore. After a decline in manufacturing, Baltimore shifted to a service-oriented economy. Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital are now the city's largest employers.
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Beverly Hills Hotel
The Beverly Hills Hotel is a hotel on Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California. It was opened on May 12, 1912 by Margaret J. Anderson and her son, Stanley S. Anderson, who had been managing the Hollywood Hotel. The original main building of The Beverly Hills Hotel was designed by Pasadena architect Elmer Grey, in the Mediterranean Revival style. The extensive gardens of the grounds were designed by landscape architect Wilbur David Cook. The iconic signage and the addition were designed by Paul Williams. It was the first building in the greater area, leading to the creation of a surrounding city, and is often referred to, by the local population (and others such as cab drivers), simply as The Hotel. Since the city's inception, the hotel has been a central meeting place for residents and business people, especially from Los Angeles's movie and television industries.
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Boston
Boston (pronounced ) is the capital and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. Boston city proper had a 2009 estimated population of 645,169, making it the twentieth largest in the country. Boston is also the anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area called Greater Boston, home to 4.5 million people and the tenth-largest metropolitan area in the country. Greater Boston as a commuting region includes six Massachusetts counties, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Plymouth, and Worcester, all of Rhode Island and parts of New Hampshire; it is home to 7.5 million people, making it the fifth-largest Combined Statistical Area in the United States.
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Bulgaria
Bulgaria ( , Balgariya, ), officially the Republic of Bulgaria (, Republika Balgariya, ), is a country in Southern Europe. Bulgaria borders five other countries: Romania to the north (mostly along the Danube), Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia to the west, and Greece and Turkey to the south. The Black Sea defines the extent of the country to the east.
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Chicago, Illinois
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City of Halifax
The City of Halifax (est. 1841) was the capital of the province of Nova Scotia and shire town of Halifax County, and was the largest city in Atlantic Canada until it was amalgamated into Halifax Regional Municipality in 1996. It is no longer an incorporated city and is a community of HRM.
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Cobh
Cobh () is a seaport town on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland. The locality, which had had several different Irish-language names, was first referred to as Cove ("The Cove of Cork") in 1750. It was renamed Queenstown in 1849 to commemorate a visit by Queen Victoria and so remained until the name Cobh (closer to the Irish spelling) was restored in 1922 with the foundation of the Irish Free State.
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Cuba
The Republic of Cuba (; , ) is an island country in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos.
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Edirne
Edirne (Greek: Adrianoupoli, Bulgarian: Одрин, Romanian: Adrianopol, Hungarian: Drinápoly) is a city in Eastern Thrace, the westernmost part of Turkey, close to the borders with Greece and Bulgaria. Edirne served as the capital city of the Ottoman Empire from 1365 to 1457, when Constantinople (Istanbul) became the empire's new capital. At present, Edirne is the capital of the Edirne Province in Turkish Thrace. The city's estimated population in 2009 was 141,570, up from 119,298 in 2000. It has consulates of Bulgaria, Germany (Honorary), Greece, Romania (Honorary) and Slovakia (Honorary). Its sister cities are Haskovo and Yambol in Bulgaria and Alexandroupoli in Greece.
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English Channel
The English Channel (, the "sleeve") is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Great Britain from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about long and varies in width from at its widest, to only in the Strait of Dover. It is the smallest of the shallow seas around the continental shelf of Europe, covering an area of some .
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Greece
Greece (; , Elláda, ; , Hellás, ), also known as Hellas and officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία, Ellīnikī́ Dīmokratía, ), is a country in southeastern Europe. Situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula, Greece has land borders with Albania, the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of mainland Greece, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the tenth longest coastline in the world at in length, featuring a vast number of islands (approximately 1400, of which 227 are inhabited), including Crete, the Dodecanese, the Cyclades, and the Ionian Islands among others. Eighty percent of Greece consists of mountains, of which Mount Olympus is the highest at .
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Holbrook, Arizona
Holbrook () is a city in Navajo County, Arizona, United States. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city was 5,126. The city is the county seat of Navajo County.
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Istanbul
Istanbul (), historically known as Constantinople(See Names of Istanbul for further information) is the largest city in Turkey and 5th largest city proper in the world with a population of 12.8 million, also making it the second largest metropolitan area in Europe by population, and the largest metropolitan city proper. Istanbul is also a megacity, as well as the cultural, economic, and financial centre of Turkey. The city covers 39 districts of the Istanbul province. It is located on the Bosphorus Strait and encompasses the natural harbour known as the Golden Horn, in the northwest of the country. It extends both on the European (Thrace) and on the Asian (Anatolia) sides of the Bosphorus, and is thereby the only metropolis in the world that is situated on two continents. Istanbul is a designated alpha world city.
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Italy
Italy (; ), officially the Italian Republic (), is a country located in south-central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia along the Alps. To the south it consists of the entirety of the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia — the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea — and many other smaller islands. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within Italy, whilst Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland. The territory of Italy covers some and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 60.4 million inhabitants, it is the sixth most populous country in Europe, and the twenty-third most populous in the world.
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Michigan
Michigan () is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is a French corruption of the Ojibwe word mishigama, meaning "large water" or "large lake".
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Montenegro
Montenegro ( or ; Montenegrin: Crna Gora, Црна Гора, , meaning "Black Mountain") is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast, Kosovo to the east and Albania to the southeast. Its capital and largest city is Podgorica, while Cetinje is designated as the Prijestonica (Пријестоница), meaning the former Royal Capital City.
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Morocco
Morocco (, al-Maġrib; Berber: Amerruk / Murakuc; French: Maroc), officially the Kingdom of Morocco (المملكة المغربية, al-Mamlakah al-Maġribiyya), is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of nearly 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², including the disputed Western Sahara which is mainly under Moroccan administration. Morocco has a coast on the Atlantic Ocean that reaches past the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean Sea. It is bordered by Spain to the north (a water border through the Strait and land borders with three small Spanish-controlled exclaves, Ceuta, Melilla, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera), Algeria to the east, and Mauritania to the south.
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New Mexico
New Mexico() is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also part of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth- most sparsely inhabited U.S. state.
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Nicaragua
Nicaragua ( ) officially the Republic of Nicaragua (, ), is a representative democratic republic. It is the largest country in Central America with an area of 130,373 km2. The country is bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The Pacific Ocean lies to the west of the country, the Caribbean Sea to the east. The country's Caribbean coast is part of the Western Caribbean Zone. Falling within the tropics, Nicaragua sits between 11 degrees and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere. Nicaragua's abundance of biologically significant and unique ecosystems contribute to Mesoamerica's designation as a biodiversity hotspot. The capital city of Nicaragua is Managua. Roughly one quarter of the nation's population lives in the Nicaraguan capital, making it the second largest city and metropolitan area in Central America (following Guatemala City).
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Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.
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Ollie Johnston
Oliver Martin Johnston, Jr. (October 31, 1912 – April 14, 2008) was an American motion picture animator. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, and the last surviving at the time of his death. He was recognized by The Walt Disney Company with its Disney Legend Award in 1989. His work was recognized with the National Medal of Arts in 2005.
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Regina, Saskatchewan
Regina ( - "ridge-eye-na") is the capital of Saskatchewan, Canada. The city is the second largest in the province (after Saskatoon), and is a cultural and commercial metropole for southern Saskatchewan. Its summer agricultural exhibition was originally established in 1884 as the Assiniboia Agricultural Association and since the mid-1960s has been styled "Buffalo Days". It is governed by Regina City Council. Regina is the cathedral city of the Roman Catholic and Romanian Orthodox Dioceses of Regina and the Anglican Diocese of Qu'Appelle. Citizens of Regina are referred to as Reginans. The city is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Sherwood No. 159.
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Republic of China
The Republic of China (ROC), commonly known as Taiwan, is a state in East Asia located off the east coast of mainland China. Subject to an ongoing dispute with the People's Republic of China (PRC) that has left it with limited formal diplomatic relations, the government of the Republic of China currently governs the islands of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor islands. Neighbouring states include the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south.
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Royal Ontario Museum
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is the largest museum in Canada for world culture and natural history, and among the largest museums in North America. With its main entrance facing Bloor Street in Downtown Toronto, the museum is situated north of Queen's Park and east of Philosopher's Walk in the University of Toronto. Founded in 1912, the museum has maintained close relations with the university throughout its history, often sharing expertise and resources. The museum remained under direct control and management of the University of Toronto until 1968, when it became an independent institution.
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Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (), commonly known as Saudi Arabia, occasionally spelled '''Sa'udi Arabia''', is the largest Arab country of the Middle East. It is bordered by Jordan and Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south. The Persian Gulf lies to the northeast and the Red Sea to its west. It has an estimated population of 28 million, and its size is approximately . The kingdom is sometimes called "The Land of the Two Holy Mosques" in reference to Mecca and Medina, the two holiest places in Islam. The two mosques are Masjid al-Haram (in Mecca) and Masjid Al-Nabawi (in Medina). The current kingdom was founded by Abdul-Aziz bin Saud, whose efforts began in 1902 when he captured the Al-Saud’s ancestral home of Riyadh, and culminated in 1932 with the proclamation and recognition of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, though its national origins go back as far as 1744 with the establishment of the First Saudi State. Saudi Arabia's government takes the form of an Islamic absolute monarchy. Human rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have repeatedly expressed concern about the state of human rights in Saudi Arabia.
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Serbia
Serbia (pronounced: ), officially the Republic of Serbia (), is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central- and Southeastern Europe, covering the southern lowlands of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans. Serbia borders Hungary to the north; Romania and Bulgaria to the east; the Republic of Macedonia to the south; and Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro to the west; its border with Albania is disputed. Serbia's capital city, Belgrade, is among the most populous in Southeastern Europe.
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Stockholm
Stockholm () is the capital and the largest city of Sweden. It is the site of the national Swedish government, the Riksdag (parliament), and the official residence of the Swedish monarch as well as the prime minister. Since 1980, the monarch has resided at Drottningholm Palace outside of Stockholm and uses the Royal Palace of Stockholm as his workplace and official residence. As of 2009, the Stockholm metropolitan area is home to approximately 22% of Sweden's population. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden with a population of 829,417 in the municipality (2009), 1.25 million in the urban area (2005), and 2 million in the 6650 km² large metropolitan area (2009).
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Sweden
Sweden (pronounced , ), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: ), is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and water borders with Denmark, Germany, and Poland to the south, and Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Russia to the east. Sweden is also connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund.
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Switzerland
Switzerland (, , , ), officially the Swiss Confederation (Confoederatio Helvetica in Latin, hence its ISO country codes CH and CHE), is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe where it is bordered by Germany to the north, France to the west, Italy to the south, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east.
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The Hague
The Hague (with capital T; Dutch: ', officially also ') is the third largest city in the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam, with a population of 485,818 (as of May 31, 2009) (population of agglomeration: 1,011,459) and an area of approximately 100 km². It is located in the west of the country, in the province of South Holland, of which it is also the provincial capital. The Hague is, like Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht and Almere, part of the Randstad metropolitan area, with 6,659,300 inhabitants.
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Toronto, Ontario
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Tripoli
Tripoli ( ' - also طرابلس الغرب''' ' Libyan vernacular: ' ; derived from "Τρίπολη"; the Greek word for "three cities" in Greek: Τρίπολις ) is the largest city and capital of Libya.
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Turkey
Turkey (), known officially as the Republic of Turkey (), is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. Turkey is one of the six independent Turkic states. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan (the exclave of Nakhchivan) and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast. The Mediterranean Sea and Cyprus are to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and the Black Sea is to the north. The Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles (which together form the Turkish Straits) demarcate the boundary between Eastern Thrace and Anatolia; they also separate Europe and Asia.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a country and sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island nation, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border with another sovereign state, sharing it with the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea. Great Britain is linked to continental Europe by the Channel Tunnel.
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United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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Villa Mondragone
Villa Mondragone is a patrician villa originally in the territory of the Italian commune of Frascati (Latium, central Italy), now in the territory of Monte Porzio Catone (Alban Hills). It lies on a hill 416m above sea-level, in an area called, from its many castles and villas, Castelli Romani about 20 km southeast of Rome, near the ancient town of Tusculum.
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Villisca, Iowa
Villisca is a city in Montgomery County, Iowa, United States. The population was 1,344 at the 2000 census.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. (), formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790. Article One of the United States Constitution provides for a federal district, distinct from the states, to serve as the permanent national capital. The City of Washington was originally a separate municipality within the federal territory until an act of Congress in 1871 established a single, unified municipal government for the whole District. It is for this reason that the city, while legally named the District of Columbia, is known as Washington, D.C. The city shares its name with the U.S. state of Washington, which is located on the country's Pacific coast.
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Titanic - 1912 Original Video Footage
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- Duration: 4:31
- Published: 27 Jan 2008
- Uploaded: 23 Dec 2011
- Author: mongoslade454
Original Footage of titanic of 1912 before its departure to its final journey . This is a Detailed Video showing many parts of titanic adn also the passengers who died th... More»at tragic day
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The Year Was 1912
What life was like 98 years ago. Songs heard: Bethena, Turn off your light Mr Moon man, Everybody's Doing It, The Art Of Rag, Castle House Rag, Meet Me Tonight In Dreamland.
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Titanic 1912 Newsreel (original)
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- Duration: 10:11
- Published: 15 Oct 2009
- Uploaded: 23 Dec 2011
- Author: RaiseTheTitanic1980
Here is one of the original theatre newsreels that was shown to the eager public following the Titanic disaster. Although this footage is labelled up and presented to show the Titanic, the footage vessel shown is Titanic's older sister Olympic and filmed in New York during the summer of 1911. Captain Edward John Smith is seen wearing the White Star Lines summer uniform. We see views of life onboard the vessel prior to and departing from the New York return voyage. Captain Smith is seen on the bridge and Starboard bridge wings, watching the activity on the dockside and forward well-deck below him. We see passengers walking the A-Deck promanade and aft decks of Boat Deck, A Deck and B Deck. We also see views across the Poop Deck that show some of the ships telegraphs and phones on the stern docking bridge. We also get a chance to view the Boat Deck with lifeboats in position, looking from aft towards the bow. The footage then cuts to scenes of the rescue ship Carpathia, onboard the liner as crew of the small Cunarder play around for the camera man. Her Captain, Auther Rostron is seen along with young members of the crew passing information to dockside press. In all, this is a sad but historic reminder of not only the early reactions to the Titanic disaster, but also a reminder to the early days of cinamaphotography.
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"Titanic News Reel 1912"
THIS IS NOT REAL FOOTAGE FROM 1912. Crew members of James Cameron's Titanic (1997) made this fun little silent back in 1995-96 amidst production of the blockbuster hit. Can be accessed on the Titanic Special Edition DVD. lizosban.tumblr.com Just a real big fan of TItanic.
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The New York Hat (1912)
From 1912, here is a favorite film of mine starring Mary Pickford and Lionel Barrymore - "The New York Hat". It was filmed in Ft. Lee, New Jersey! It is a short film produced by Biograph in 1912. Based on a scenario by Anita Loos, it was directed by DW Griffith and stars Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore and Lillian Gish. It is considered one of the most notable of the Biograph shorts and is perhaps the best known example of Pickford's early work. The story is simple: Mollie (Mary Pickford) leads a cheerless, impoverished life, largely because of her stern, miserly father. Her mother is mortally ill, but before dying, she gives the minister(Lionel Barrymore) some money with which to buy her daughter the "finery" her father has always forbid her. Mollie is delighted when the minister presents her with a fashionable New York hat she has been longing for, but village gossips misinterpet the minister's intentions and spread malicious rumors. Mollie becomes a social pariah, and her father tears up the beloved hat in a rage. All ends well however, after the minister produces a letter from Mollie's mother about the money she left the minister to spend on Mollie. I have always enjoyed this film because of the great cast. Mary Pickford is young & beautiful in it. A young dashing Lionel Barrymore is the minister. Its rare we've seen him at this age long before arthritis set in and was in a wheel chair for the rest of his life. Both of the Gish sisters are seen as well. Finally, even <b>...</b>
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DW GRIFFITH HOUSE OF DARKNESS 1912
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- Duration: 17:07
- Published: 02 Nov 2007
- Uploaded: 16 Dec 2011
- Author: GriffithMovies
The House of Darkness 1912 Cast: Charles Hill Mailes, Kate Bruce, Claire McDowell ,Alfred Paget, Lionel Barrymore ,Lillian Gish ,Dorothy Bernard, Bobby Harron, Billy Bitzer - Cinematographer Summary: The opening title card to this story reads " How the mind of an unfortunate was brought to reason by music", as Griffith fades up on to the outdoor activity of inmates at a asylum and the world of the unfortunate. Its when the asylum nurse (Lillian Gish) is playing the piano one day that a crazed patient for a short time carms down. Its when he's left alone and not hearing music he breaks away, steals a hospital guards(Alfred Pagent) gun and runs away. The lunatic finds his way to the doctors home (Lionel Barrymore) and sneaks into the house to surprise the wife (Claire McDowell). The danger and excitment build as the guards search the country side for the crazed man, while he's terrizing the wife, claiming to kill her when the clock strikes 12. Its when the wife starts playing the piano that the man gives himself up. www.YouTube.com www.YouTube.com www.YouTube.com www.YouTube.com www.YOUTUBE.com www.tvdays.com (400 DVD TITLES) DW GRIFFITH at BIOGRAPH by IRA H. GALLEN DAVID WARK GRIFFITH, was already thirty-three years old when he began with the Biograph Company. He was born in Crestwood, Kentucky, on January 22, 1815, the son of Jacob Wark Griffith, a former colonel in the Army of the Confederacy. The Civil War was a decade past when he was born; yet his family, his home and <b>...</b>
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Sarah Bernhardt - Queen Elizabeth (1912)
This is a brief clip from the silent Sarah Bernhardt film "Queen Elizabeth" (1912). In this sequence, Robert Devereux, the 2nd Earl of Essex is executed. Queen Elizabeth (Bernhardt) visits his corpse, and mourns for him. There's a subplot involving a missing ring, which (in the context of the story) demonstrates Essex's fidelity to Elizabeth. "Queen Elizabeth" was by far Bernhardt's most successful film. Audio recordings of Sarah's voice can be found at the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project website: cylinders.library.ucsb.edu
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912) Clip
Dr. Jekyll transforms to Mr. Hyde, and back again...from Thanhouser Company's 1912 production of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 classic novel "The Strage Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."
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DW GRIFFITH MUSKETEERS OF PIG ALLEY 1912 LILLIAN GISH SIELNT FILMS on DVDS at TVDAYS.com
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- Duration: 17:00
- Published: 02 Nov 2007
- Uploaded: 18 Dec 2011
- Author: GriffithMovies
Ira H. Gallen Video Resources 220 West 71st Street NYC 10023 (212) 724 - 7055 www.TVDAYS.com http www.TVDAYS.com As the unofficial Baby-Boomer( IRA GALLEN )Guru of my Television Coll... Ira H. Gallen Video Resources 220 West 71st Street NYC 10023 (212) 724 - 7055 http www.TVDAYS.com As the unofficial Baby-Boomer( IRA GALLEN )Guru of my Television Collecting Generation I knew it was the right time to create a Video Network for Baby-Boomers Only. http www.YouTube.com www.YouTube.com What makes my content unique is that I have spent over 30 collecting and restoring from 16mm & 35mm Film Prints and Kinescopes some of the rarest and in many cases one of a kind FILMS, CARTOONS, NEWS REELS FILM SHORTS, FEATURES, INDUSTRIALS, TV SHOWS and especially COMMERCIALS from the birth of Film and early television. www.TVDAYS.com - 400 DVD's for Sale from my personal collection. Now my Video & Film Collection is decomposing and what you're seeing is my work digitizing my Video Elements and funding it by selling Stock Footage and now my line of over 400 DVD's http Rare TV SHOWS, FILMS, CARTOONS, NEWSREELS, FILM SHORT SUBJECTS, SILENT & SOUND FILMS, HOME MOVIES, SOUNDIES, INDUSTRIALS & especially COMMERCIALS from the 1950's/60's. ALSO GOOGLE VIDEO DOWNLOADS www.YouTube.com Links to over 3500 hours of Video's housed on both Google & YouTube www.YouTube.com Over 7,5000 Commercials to watch -- Sports-Toys-Cars-Soft Drinks-Beer-Cigarettes-Milk-Cosmetics-Ho usehold Products-Drugs-Cereal- Gasoline <b>...</b>
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Don Hall road tests 1000cc 1912 Wilkinson
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- Duration: 3:38
- Published: 13 Mar 2008
- Uploaded: 18 Oct 2011
- Author: Trapper100
Don Hall road test a 1000cc 1912 water cooled Wilkinson Motorcycle
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1912 Harley Davidson
Wonderfully restored 1912 Harley Davidson Motorcycle being started and run. Video taken at the 2009 Canandaigua Pagent of Steam
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![Winsor McCay - How a Mosquito Operates [1912]](http://web.archive.org./web/20120115103726im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/yvzAJouHh7k/0.jpg "Winsor McCay - How a Mosquito Operates [1912]")
Winsor McCay - How a Mosquito Operates [1912]
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- Duration: 5:39
- Published: 22 Feb 2007
- Uploaded: 21 Dec 2011
- Author: andrecoelhosa
Winsor McCay - How a Mosquito Operates [1912]
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An Otter Study (1912)
Watching this recently unearthed treasure is all the more amazing when you realise the footage itself was shot as long ago as 1912. The surviving version of the film you see here was re-edited in the 1920s and titled The Otter, with a final hunting scene removed. Intertitles tell us all about the habits of this fascinating creature, alongside the first known shots of an otter swimming underwater. We even get to see the cameramen setting up their special tank in the river for filming these scenes. Just think otter fans -- this furry fellow is almost a century old! (Simon McCallum) You can watch almost 1000 other complete films and TV programmes from the BFI National Archive free of charge at the new BFI Mediatheque - www.bfi.org.uk
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Chess Tactics: Edward Lasker - G. Thomas (London, 1912)
Interesting chess game presented by Serguei Vorojtsov. Subscribe to my channel & newsletter at www.vorojtsov.net High resolution videos are available here stores.lulu.com --- Edward Lasker (Kempen, December 3, 1885 -- New York, March 25, 1981) was a leading American chess and Go player. He was awarded the title of International Master of chess by FIDE. Lasker was an engineer by profession, and an author. Edward Lasker published several books on American checkers, chess, and Go. He won five US Open Chess Championships (1916, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1921). His best result was his narrow 8.5--9.5 loss in a match with Frank Marshall for the US Championship in 1923. For that, Lasker was invited to participate in the legendary New York chess tournament in 1924, facing world-class masters like Alekhine, Capablanca, Rubinstein, Emanuel Lasker (a distant cousin), and Réti. --- His most famous game is probably the queen sacrifice and king hunt against Sir George Thomas. Thomas said, "That was very nice", and Lasker was touched by his sportsmanship when it was translated into German (he had yet to learn English). But in his account, he gave a position missing the white pawn on d4, so Lasker contrasted Thomas's reaction with a typical reaction that other opponents would have given, "You were lucky ..." --- He was friends with former World chess champion Emanuel Lasker. Some controversy exists as to whether they were related. Edward Lasker wrote in his memoirs of the New York 1924 <b>...</b>
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THE EVERYCEIVER - Denon AVR-1912
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- Duration: 3:42
- Published: 15 Jun 2011
- Uploaded: 14 Dec 2011
- Author: DenonEurope
The EVERYCEIVER brings to life all music content, no matter where it is stored. Once connected to the home network, it receives everything, from music stored on a Network Attached Storage (NAS) to over 14000 Internet radio stations. Most remarkably, it even has AirPlay on board to playback music directly from iTunes music libraries stored on a MAC, a PC or on Apple's iDevices. Everything in renowned Denon quality. Young the Giant write the sort of soaring, melodic rock 'n' roll that is bound for greatness. Possessing a well-honed song craft that usually belongs to far more seasoned musicians, the band's members only range in age from 20 to 22. Comprised of Sameer Gadhia, Jacob Tilley (guitar), Eric Cannata (guitar/vocals), Payam Doostzadeh (bass) and Francois Comtois (drums/vocals), Young the Giant present a diverse set of musical ideas, one that's as varied as their ethnic backgrounds—Indian, Persian, British and French-Canadian among them. Their song "My Body" featured in Denon's Everyceiver video comes with jolting percussions and an anthemic chorus that immediately stays in the head. It is the band's passion for music with different influences, and Denon's mission for best sound no matter the source that makes this combination very special.
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Ticket to Ride Europe 1912 Expansion - with Tom Vasel
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- Duration: 9:33
- Published: 18 Oct 2009
- Uploaded: 20 Nov 2011
- Author: thedicetower
Tom Vasel reviews the 1912 expansion for Ticket to Ride: Europe from Days of Wonder To buy the game, go to tinyurl.com For more info and videos, check out www.thedicetower.com
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1912 US Election Campaign Speech Audio - Woodrow Wilson 1 of 6
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- Duration: 2:43
- Published: 19 Jan 2009
- Uploaded: 12 Dec 2011
- Author: ForgottenHistoryUSA
Scholars routinely observe that the advent of radio reshaped political speech. But for more than a decade before the first commercial radio broadcast station was inaugurated in Pittsburgh in 1920, citizens had been listening to candidate speeches. This feat was made possible by the phonograph. I will be uploading the contents of this 100 year old collection of campaign speech audio from 1908 and 1912 in its entirety. "In Their Own Voices: The US Presidential Elections of 1908 and 1912" Disc 1 - 1908 US Presidential Election 01 - 10 : William Jennings Bryan (Democratic Candidate) 11 - 24 : William Howard Taft (Republican Candidate) Disc 2 - 1912 US Presidential Election 01 - 06 : Woodrow Wilson (Democratic Candidate) 07 - 15 : Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive Candidate) 16 - 22 : William Howard Taft (Republican Candidate)
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Chess Tactics: S. Levitsky - Frank Marshall (Breslau, 1912)
Frank James Marshall (August 10, 1877 -- November 9, 1944), was the US Chess Champion from 1909-1936, and was one of the world's strongest chess players in the early part of the 20th century. --- Stepan (Stefan) Levitsky (Levitski, Lewitzki) (25 April 1876, Serpukhov -- 21 March 1924, Glubokaya) was a Russian chess master. In 1899 he took 3rd in Moscow (All Russian Masters' Tournament, 1st RUS-ch, Mikhail Chigorin won). In 1903 he took 8th in Kiev (3rd RUS-ch, Chigorin won). In 1905/06 he tied for 8-11th in Sankt Petersburg (4th RUS-ch, Gersz Salwe won). In 1907 he took 2nd, behind Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, in St Petersburg. He lost a match to Simon Alapin (0 : 5) at St Petersburg 1907. Stepan Levitsky won at Sankt Petersburg 1911 (All-Russian Amateur Tournament). In July--August 1912, he tied for 13-14th in Breslau (18th DBS--Congress, Rubinstein and Oldrich Duras won). In August--September 1912, he took 3rd in Vilna (8th RUS-ch, Akiba Rubinstein won). In 1913 he lost a match to Alexander Alekhine (3 : 7) in Sankt Petersburg. In 1913/14, he took 13th in St Petersburg (9th RUS-ch, Alekhine and Aron Nimzowitsch won). He introduced the Queen's Bishop Attack, known as the Levitsky Attack (1.d4 d5 2.Bg5) in the Queen's Pawn Game (D 00). --- If you like this video please subscribe to this channel and vorojtsov newletter at www.vorojtsov.net Thank you! ---
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Emo disects Radical Religions in just over 1 minute.
Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912.
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Rudyard Kipling - Ulster 1912
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- Duration: 2:15
- Published: 13 Oct 2008
- Uploaded: 11 Dec 2011
- Author: worcesterjonny
A poem by Rudyard Kipling about the events in Ireland during 1912. Kipling was showing his support for the Ulster Unionist cause during the Home Rule crisis.
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1912 Blackburn Type D Electric Radio Control Model Airplane
www.indoorflyingmodel.com The 1912 Blackburn Type D monoplane is an early British pioneer of flight. The Blackburn makes for an easy to build and great flying electric radio control model airplane. Build log and CAD construction plans are available at www.IndoorFlyingModel.com. The Blackburn is made of normal building materials of balsa and plywood. Order a set of plans - FREE SHIPPING - and build one today.
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Sophia's Picasso Story
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- Duration: 1:17
- Published: 10 Apr 2007
- Uploaded: 22 Dec 2011
- Author: FunksUTube
Sophia tells a story about her affair with Pablo Picasso. She's hilarious!
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photo: AP / Schalk van Zuydam, Pool
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African leaders hailed South Africa's ruling ANC in centenary celebrations for the continent's oldest liberation movement which inspired regional struggles for freedom. African drums and the ritual...
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BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa — Tens of thousands of chanting and dancing revelers waved the green and gold colors of the African National Congress as Africa's oldest liberation movement celebrated...
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Remembering Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955)
13 Jan 2012
CounterPunch
Saadat Hasan Manto’s centenary is being observed quietly by friends and admirers in Lahore. No official recognition or mention. He’s almost become a non-person. Manto died in Lahore in 1955. He was forty-three years old. The life of one of our greatest short-story writers had been prematurely...
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Bloomberg
It began on Jan. 11, 1912. The Polish women at the Everett Cotton Mills, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, opened their pay envelopes and found they had been shortchanged by 32 cents. Since New Year's Day, when the company posted notice of a new state law that reduced the workweek by two hours, everyone...
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Fresno Bee
Another New Year, another opportunity to test out the 100-year rule, a chance to look at the pop lists of 1912 to see if we can find some undiscovered gems to excavate and polish up....
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January 2nd, 1912
02 Jan 2012
Irish Times
FROM THE ARCHIVES:�Tenants of Lord Oranmore and Browne (Geoffrey Henry Browne) in Co Mayo met on New Year's Eve a century ago to increase pressure on him to sell his land to the Congested District Board for division among them. - JOE JOYCE� LORD ORANMORE has arranged for six weeks to lodge his maps,...
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Jan. 1, 1912: Telegram delivered to pulpit
31 Dec 2011
Star Tribune
Here’s one more reason to turn off your cellphone in church – especially if you’re the one giving the sermon. From the Minneapolis Tribune: Rev....
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They knew how to party in 1912
29 Dec 2011
Chicago Sun-Times
Updated: December 29, 2011 5:10PM New Year’s Eve is a strange holiday. It isn’t religious, like Christmas or Passover, nor patriotic, like the 4th of July or Veteran’s Day, nor for the family, like Mother’s Day or Thanksgiving. It’s part mortality festival, like Halloween, but for adults, part...
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Could we have a replay of 1912?
23 Dec 2011
The Examiner
With all the political upheaval going on in the country, could we have an election such as the four way race of 1912? Granted the dynamics this time are different but the discontent is there. Recently, there has been the Occupy movement and the move to establish a third party with some serious...
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Belfast Telegraph
The Troubles and the Titanic: that's what we're known for across the world and that's what the people who come here want to find out about. Both exert a global fascination, but present a considerable practical and ethical headache for anyone trying to market this place. The Troubles pose a...
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Year 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar.
January 1 – The Republic of China is established.
January 4 – The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Commonwealth by Royal Charter.
January 5 – Prague Party Conference: Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Party break away from the rest of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.
January 6 – New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
January 8 – The African National Congress is founded.
January 12 – Thirty thousand workers walk out of textile mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, beginning the so-called Bread and Roses strike, the most dramatic and successful strike in American labor history.
January 17 – British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott and a team of 4 become the second expeditionary group to reach the South Pole.
January 23 – The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
January 27 – The city of Chandler, Quebec is founded.
February 14 - Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state.
March 1 – Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
March 5 – Italian forces are the first to use airships for a military purpose by using them for reconnaissance west of Tripoli behind Turkish lines.
March 7
* Roald Amundsen announces his success in reaching the South Pole.
* French aviator Henri Seimet makes the first non-stop flight from Paris to London in three hours.
March 12 – The Girl Scouts of the USA are founded.
March 16 – Lawrence Oates, dying member of Scott's South Pole expedition, leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time."
March 27 – Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo gives 3,000 cherry blossom trees to be planted in Washington, D.C., to symbolize the friendship between the two countries.
March 30 – France establishes a protectorate over Morocco.
April 10 – The British ocean liner RMS Titanic leaves Southampton, England on her maiden voyage for New York City.
April 11 – RMS Titanic arrives at Queenstown, Ireland (today known as Cobh) picking up her final complement of passengers before steaming westward for New York.
April 14 – RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the northern Atlantic Ocean at 11:40 pm.
April 15 – RMS Titanic sinks at 2:20 a.m., taking with her the lives of more than 1,500 people.
April 16
* Harriet Quimby becomes first woman to fly across the English Channel.
* The Royal Ontario Museum is established in Toronto, Ontario.
April 17 – A solar eclipse is seen across Europe.
April 18 – The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia arrives in New York with Titanic's 705 survivors.
April 19 – The United States Senate initiates an official inquiry into the Titanic disaster, hastily issuing subpoenas for White Star personnel before they can return to the United Kingdom.
April 20
* Tiger Stadium opens in Detroit.
* Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, opens.
April 30 – The cable ship CS Mackay-Bennett arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, carrying the bodies of 306 victims of the Titanic disaster recovered from the North Atlantic.
May 2 – The British Board of Trade inquiry into the Titanic disaster begins, presided over by Lord Mersey.
May 4
* The New York Times reports a find of gigantic humans made while excavating a mound at Lake Delevan, Wisconsin. According to the news account, 18 skeletons are found in one large mound at a Lake Lawn farm.
* Suffragettes and their supporters parade in New York City. (New York Times, 5 May 1912, p. 1 says more than ten thousand women and a thousand men participated.)
May 5
* ΦΒ Phi Beta Fraternity: National Professional Association for the Creative and Performing Arts was founded in 1912 at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois.
* The 1912 Summer Olympics open in Stockholm, Sweden.
May 12 – Grand opening of the Beverly Hills Hotel, in Beverly Hills, California.
May 13 – In the United Kingdom, the Royal Flying Corps (forerunner of the Royal Air Force) is established.
May 18 – The Detroit Tigers go on strike to protest the suspension of Ty Cobb. A replacement team recruited from the coaching staff and local colleges is fielded to avoid a forfeiture to the Philadelphia A's in a lopsided loss.
May 23 – HAPAG's SS Imperator is launched in Hamburg and is the world's largest ship.
May 25 – After more than a month and thousands of hours of testimony, the American inquiry into the Titanic disaster concludes, placing the bulk of the blame upon the White Star Line, J. Bruce Ismay, and Captain Edward Smith.
May 30 – Joe Dawson wins the second Indianapolis 500-Mile Race after Ralph DePalma's Mercedes breaks down within sight of the finish.
June 4 – A fire in Istanbul destroys 1,120 buildings.
June 5 – U.S. Marines land in Cuba.
June 6 – June 8 – Mount Novarupta erupts in Alaska.
June 8 – Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
June 10 – Villisca Axe Murders are committed in Villisca, Iowa.
June 18 – The Republican National Convention nominates incumbent President William Howard Taft in Chicago, defeating a challenge by former President Theodore Roosevelt, whose delegates bolt the convention.
June 25 – The Democratic National Convention nominates New Jersey Gov. Thomas Woodrow Wilson in Baltimore.
June 30 – The deadliest tornado in Canadian history happens in Regina, Saskatchewan being called the Regina Cyclone.
July 3 – The British inquiry into the Titanic disaster concludes.
July 12 – United States release of Sarah Bernhardt's film Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth is influential on the development of the movie feature.
July 19 – A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg explodes over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona causing thousands of pieces of debris to rain down on the town.
July 30 – Emperor Meiji of Japan dies. He is succeeded by his son Yoshihito who becomes Emperor Taishō. In Japanese History, the event marks the end of the Meiji era and the beginning of the Taishō era.
August 1 – The Jungfraubahn rack railway is inaugurated in Switzerland.
August 5 – Dissident U.S. Republicans form the Progressive or Bull Moose Party, and nominate former President Theodore Roosevelt as their presidential candidate.
August 12 – Sultan Abd Al-Hafid of Morocco abdicates.
August 25 – The Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is founded.
September 25 – The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City, New York.
September 28 – The Ulster Covenant is signed by half a million Ulstermen and women in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
October 8 – The First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against Turkey.
October 14 – While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, former President Theodore Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper John Schrank. With a fresh flesh wound and the bullet still in him, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech. After finishing his speech, he went to the hospital, where it was deduced that if he had not had his speech in his breast pocket when he was shot, he most likely would have died.
October 16
* Bulgarian pilots Radul Minkov and Prodan Toprakchiev perform the first bombing with an airplane in history, at the railway station of Karaagac near Edirne against Turkey.
* The Boston Red Sox, assisted by a famous error, defeat the New York Giants in extra innings to win the 1912 World Series, in what is considered one of the greatest games of baseball ever played.
October 18 – Italy and the Ottoman Empire signed a treaty in Ouchy near Lausanne ending the Italo-Turkish War.
November 1 İzmir's first sport club Karşıyaka Muaresei Bedeniye Kulübü (currently Karşıyaka Spor Kulübü) is founded.
November 5 – U.S. presidential election, 1912: Democratic challenger Woodrow Wilson wins a landslide victory over Republican incumbent William Howard Taft. Taft's base is undercut by Progressive Party candidate (and former Republican) Theodore Roosevelt, who finishes second, ahead of Taft.
November 28 – Albania declares independence from the Ottoman Empire.
December 20 – Piltdown Man is presented in Britain.
December 30 – The First Balkan War ends temporarily: Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with Turkey, ending the two-month long war.
MDMA (Ecstasy) is first synthesized in Germany.
Sea Scouting begins under the aegis of the Boy Scouts of America.
Casimir Funk identifies vitamins.
The American Little Theatre Movement begins with the founding of the Toy Theatre in Boston and the Little Theatre of Chicago.
The Memphis Blues is published.
Alfred Wegener proposes the theory of continental drift.
British treasure hunters try to drain Lake Guatavita to find gold; they find nothing.
German trade unions have 3 million members.
The Scoville Unit (used to measure the heat of peppers) is devised and tested by Wilbur Scoville.
U.S. Marines intervene in Nicaragua to bolster the conservative government.
Wilfrid Voynich discovers the eponymous manuscript in the Villa Mondragone.
The 1912 Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
January 1 – Kim Philby, British spy (d. 1988)
January 2 – Hans Leussink, German politician (d. 2008)
January 3 – Armand Lohikoski, Finnish director (d. 2005)
January 6
* Jacques Ellul, French philosopher (d. 1994)
* Danny Thomas, American singer, actor, producer and comedian (Make Room for Daddy) (d. 1991)
January 7
* Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d. 1988)
* Ivan Yakubovsky, Marshal of Soviet Union (d. 1976)
January 8
* José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (d. 1992)
* Lawrence E. Walsh, American jurist
January 19 – Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
January 21 – Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2000)
January 27
* Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher (d. 2009)
* Francis Rogallo, American aeronautical engineer (d. 2009)
January 28 – Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 1956)
January 30
* Werner Hartmann, German physicist (d. 1988)
* Barbara Tuchman, American historian (d. 1989)
* Francis Schaeffer, American Evangelical theologian, philosopher, and Presbyterian pastor (d. 1984)
February 2 – Millvina Dean, youngest passenger and survivor of the RMS Titanic disaster (d. 2009)
February 3 – Mary Carlisle, American actress and singer
February 4
* Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (d. 1993)
* Byron Nelson, American golfer (d. 2006)
February 6 – Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's mistress (d. 1945)
February 7 – Roberta McCain, mother of John McCain.
February 11 – Roy Fuller, English poet and novelist (d. 1991)
February 20 – Pierre Boulle, French author (d. 1994)
February 27 – Lawrence Durrell, British writer (d. 1990)
March 1 – Boris Chertok, Polish-born Russian rocket designer
March 4
* Afro Basaldella, Italian painter (d. 1976)
* Judith Furse, British character actress (d. 1974)
* Carl Marzani, American documentarian (d. 1994)
March 5 – David Astor, British newspaper publisher (d. 2001)
March 8 – Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (d. 2003)
March 12 – Irving Layton, Canadian poet (d. 2006)
March 14
* Les Brown, American band leader (d. 2001)
* W. Willard Wirtz, American administrator (d. 2010)
March 15 – Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (d. 1982)
March 16 – Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (d. 1993)
March 17 – Bayard Rustin, American civil rights activist (d. 1987)
March 18
* Lucien Laurin, Canadian horse trainer (d. 2000)
* Art Gilmore, American radio and television announcer (d. 2010)
March 22 – Karl Malden, American actor (The Streets of San Francisco) (d. 2009)
March 23 – Wernher von Braun, German-born American physicist and engineer (d. 1977)
March 24 – Dorothy Height, American activist (d. 2010)
March 25 – Jean Vilar, French stage actor (d. 1971)
March 27 – James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005)
March 31 – William Lederer, American writer (d. 2009)
April 2 – Herbert Mills, "Mills Brothers" tenor (d. 1989)
April 7 – Jack Lawrence, American composer (d. 2009)
April 8
* Alois Brunner, Austrian captain
* Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (d. 1969)
April 11 – Gusti Wolf, Austrian actress (d. 2007)
April 12 – Walt Gorney, American actor (d. 2004)
April 15 – Kim Il Sung, President of North Korea (d. 1994)
April 16
* Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (d. 1997)
* David Langton, British actor, (d. 1994)
April 17 – Marta Eggerth, Hungarian-born actress and singer, naturalized citizen of the United States
April 19 – Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
April 22 – Kathleen Ferrier, British contralto (d. 1953)
April 26 – A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-born writer (d. 2000)
April 27 – Zohra Segal, Indian stage and film actress
April 28
* Odette Sansom, French World War II heroine (d. 1995)
* Kaneto Shindō, Japanese film director
May 3 – Virgil Fox, American organist (d. 1980)
May 9 – Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican actor (d. 1963)
May 11 – Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (d. 2001)
May 12 – Archibald Cox, American Watergate special prosecutor (d. 2004)
May 14 – Ben Hogan, American golfer (d. 1997)
May 16 – Studs Terkel, American writer and broadcaster (d. 2008)
May 17 – Ace Parker, American baseball and football player
May 18
* Perry Como, American singer (d. 2001)
* Walter Sisulu, South African anti-apartheid activist (d. 2003)
May 21
* Monty Stratton, American baseball player (d. 1982)
* Akiva Vroman, Dutch-born Israeli geologist and Israel Prize recipient (d. 1989)
May 22 – Herbert C. Brown, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
May 23
* Betty Astell, British actress (d. 2005)
* Jean Françaix, French composer (d. 1997)
* John Payne, American actor (d. 1989)
May 25 – Princess Dukhye of Korea (d. 1989)
May 27
* Cedric Phatudi, Chief Minister of Lebowa bantustan (d. 1987)
* Sam Snead, American golfer (d. 2002)
* John Cheever, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1982)
May 28
* Patrick White, Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
* Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician (d. 1992)
May 29 – Pamela Hansford Johnson, English poet, novelist, playwright, literary and social critic (d. 1981)
May 30
* Julius Axelrod, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2004)
* Joseph Stein, American librettist (d. 2010)
May 31 – Alfred Deller, English countertenor (d. 1979)
June 4 – Robert Jacobsen, Danish artist (d. 1993)
June 5 – Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (d. 2003)
June 6 – Maria Montez, Dominican actress (d. 1951)
June 8
* Harry Holtzman, American artist (d. 1987)
* J. Walter Kennedy, former NBA commissioner (d. 1977)
June 9 – Philip Simmons, American ornamental ironworker (d. 2009)
June 16 – Enoch Powell, British politician (d. 1998)
June 21 – Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer, fighter pilot, and intelligence and counter-intelligence officer (d. 2000)
June 23 – Alan Turing, British mathematician (d. 1954)
June 24 – Brian Johnston, British cricket commentator (d. 1994)
June 25 – William T. Cahill, American politician (d. 1996)
June 26 – Jay Silverheels, American actor (The Lone Ranger) (d. 1980)
June 27 – Chen Kenmin, Japanese chef (d. 1990)
June 30 – Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (d. 2003)
July 1
* David R. Brower, American environmentalist (d. 2000)
* Sally Kirkland, American fashion editor (d. 1989)
July 4 – Said Akl, Lebanese poet and ideologue
July 6 – Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer and explorer (d. 2006)
July 11 – William F. Walsh, American politician (d. 2011)
July 14 – Woody Guthrie, American folk musician (This Land Is Your Land) (d. 1967)
July 17 – Art Linkletter, American television host (House Party) (d. 2010)
July 18 – Max Rousié, French rugby footballer (d. 1959)
July 28 – George Cisar, American actor (d. 1979)
July 31
* Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
* Irv Kupcinet, American newspaper columnist (d. 2003)
August 1 – Frank K. Edmondson, American astronomer (d. 2008)
August 2 – Palle Huld, Danish actor (d. 2010)
August 3 – Fritz Hellwig, German politician (CDU) and former European Commissioner for Science & Research
August 9 – Anne Brown, American soprano (d. 2009)
August 10 – Jorge Amado de Faria, Brazilian author (d. 2001)
August 11
* Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2004)
* Norman Levinson, American mathematician (d. 1975)
August 13 – Salvador Luria, Italian-born biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1991)
August 15
* Julia Child, American TV chef (d. 2004)
* Ustad Amir Khan, Indian classical vocal singer (d. 1974)
August 16
* Ted Drake, English footballer (d. 1995)
* Wendy Hiller, English actress (d. 2003)
August 23 – Gene Kelly, American actor (d. 1996)
August 24 – Essie Summers, New Zealand writer (d. 1998)
August 25
* Erich Honecker, East German leader (d. 1994)
* George Cisar, American baseball player (d. 2010)
August 27 – Gloria Guinness, Mexican-born English fashion icon (d. 1980)
August 30
* Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
* Nancy Wake, New Zealand World War II heroine
August 31 – Katsumi Tezuka, Japanese actor
September 5
* John Cage, American composer (d. 1992)
* Frank Thomas, American animator (d. 2004)
September 10 – Mary Walter, Filipino actress (d. 1993)
September 11 – David Packard, American electrical engineer (d. 1996)
September 13 – Reta Shaw, American actress (d. 1982)
September 19 – Kurt Sanderling, German conductor
September 21
* Chuck Jones, American animator (Warner Brothers) (d. 2002)
* György Sándor, Hungarian pianist (d. 2005)
September 22
* Herbert Mataré, German physicist and European co-inventor of the transistor
* Martha Scott, American actress (d. 2003)
September 24 – Don Porter, American actor (d. 1997)
September 27 – Tauno Marttinen, Finnish composer (d. 2008)
September 29 – Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director (d. 2007)
October 1 – Kathleen Ollerenshaw, British mathematician
October 5
* Karl Hass, German Nazi war criminal (d. 2004)
* Kristina Söderbaum, German actress (d. 2001)
October 6 – Perkins Bass, American politician
October 9 – Seymour Green, English actor (d. 1998)
October 16 – Clifford Hansen, American politician (d. 2009)
October 17 – Pope John Paul I (d. 1978)
October 21 – Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor (d. 1997)
October 22 – Johan Hendrik Weidner, Belgian World War II resistance fighter (d. 1994)
October 25 – Minnie Pearl, American humorist (d. 1996)
October 27 – Conlon Nancarrow, American composer (d. 1997)
October 31 – Ollie Johnston, American animator (d. 2008)
November 1 – Gunther Plaut, German-born Canadian rabbi and writer
November 3 – Alfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay (d. 2006)
November 4 – Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer (d. 1978)
November 6 – Toke Townley, English actor (d. 1984)
November 8 – June Havoc, Canadian actress (d. 2010)
November 10
* Birdie Tebbetts, baseball player and manager (d. 1999)
* Jean-Hilaire Aubame, Gabonese politician (d. 1989)
November 11 – Larry LaPrise, American songwriter (d. 1996)
November 13 – Claude Pompidou, wife of French President Georges Pompidou (d. 2007)
November 14
* Barbara Hutton, American socialite (d. 1979)
* T. Y. Lin, Chinese-born civil engineer (d. 2003)
November 16 – George O. Petrie, American actor (d. 1997)
November 19 – George Emil Palade, Romanian microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2008)
November 20 – Otto von Habsburg, Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary (d. 2011)
November 21
* Eleanor Powell, American actress and dancer (d. 1982)
* Abd-al-Aziz ibn Abd-Allah ibn Baaz, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia from 1993 – 1999 (d. 1999)
November 24 – Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (d. 1993)
November 30 – Gordon Parks, African-American photographer and artist (d. 2006)
December 10 – Philip Hart, Democratic United States Senator from Michigan from 1959 – 1976 (d. 1976)
December 11 – Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (d. 2007)
December 12 – Henry Armstrong, American boxer (d. 1988)
December 17 – Edward Short, British politician
December 22 – Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady of the United States (d. 2007)
December 25 – Natalino Otto, Italian singer (d. 1969)
December 27 – Conroy Maddox, British painter (d. 2005)
January 28
* Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist (b. 1819)
* Eloy Alfaro Delgado Gabriel, former President of Ecuador (b. 1842)
February 4 – Franz Reichelt, Austrian Tailor/Inventor (b. 1800s)
February 10 – Joseph Lister, English surgeon (b. 1827)
February 16
* Nikolai of Japan, Eastern Orthodox monk and saint (b. 1836)
* Lawrence Oates, English Army officer (b. 1880)
February 21 – Osborne Reynolds, Irish physicist (b. 1842)
February 25 – Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1852)
March 1 – George Grossmith, English actor and comic writer (b. 1847)
March 29 – Members of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole:
* Henry Robertson Bowers (b. 1883)
* Edgar Evans, Welsh naval officer (b. 1876)
* Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer (b. 1868)
* Edward Adrian Wilson, English physician and naturalist (b. 1872)
March 30 – Karl May, German author (b. 1842)
April 12 – Clara Barton, American nurse (b. 1821)
April 15 – 11 out of 1,500 victims of the RMS Titanic sinking:
* Thomas Andrews, Jr., Irish shipbuilder (b. 1873)
* John Jacob Astor IV, American businessman (b. 1864)
* Archibald Butt, American presidential aide (b. 1865)
* Thomas R.D. Byles, English-born Catholic priest (b. 1870)
* Benjamin Guggenheim, American businessman (b. 1865)
* Edward J. Smith, English ship's captain (b. 1850)
* William Thomas Stead, English journalist (b. 1849)
* Isidor Straus, German-born owner of Macy's (b. 1845)
* Ida Straus, wife of Isidor Straus (1 of only 5 Titanic First-class female fatalities) (b. 1849)
* Jack Phillips, senior wireless officer of the Titanic (b. 1887)
* Wallace Hartley, violinist and band leader of the Titanic (b. 1878)
April 20 – Bram Stoker, Irish writer (Dracula) (b. 1847)
May 14
* August Strindberg, Swedish playwright and painter (b. 1849)
* Frederick VIII, King of Denmark (b. 1843)
May 25 – Austin Lane Crothers, American politician (b. 1860)
May 30 – Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer (b. 1867)
June 1 – Philip Parmalee, American aviator (b. 1887)
June 10 – Anton Aškerc, Slovene poet (b. 1856)
June 12 – Frédéric Passy, French economist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1822)
June 24 – Sir George Stuart White, British field marshal (b. 1835)
June 25 – Hubert Latham, French aviator, (b. 1883)
July 1 – Harriet Quimby, American Aviator (b. 1875)
July 2 – Tom Richardson, English cricketer (b. 1870)
July 17 – Henri Poincaré, French mathematician (b. 1854)
July 30 – Meiji Emperor of Japan (b. 1852)
August 7 – François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (b. 1841)
August 8 – Ross Winn, American anarchist writer and publisher (b. 1871)
August 13 – Jules Massenet, French composer (b. 1842)
August 20
* Walter Goodman, British painter, illustrator and author (b. 1838)
* William Booth, English founder of the Salvation Army (b. 1829)
October 6 – Auguste Marie François Beernaert, Belgian statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1829)
October 24 – Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (b. 1842)
October 30 – James S. Sherman, 27th Vice President of the United States (b. 1855)
November 10 – Louis Cyr, Canadian strongman (b. 1863)
November 28 – Walter Benona Sharp, American oil pioneer (b. 1870)
December 12 – Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria, Prince Regent of Bavaria (b. 1821)
December 18 – William McKendree Carleton, American poet (b. 1845)
December 23 – Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (b. 1850)
Physics – Nils Gustaf Dalén
Chemistry – Victor Grignard, Paul Sabatier
Medicine – Alexis Carrel
Literature – Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann
Peace – Elihu Root
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| name | Sarah Bernhardt |
|---|---|
| birth name | Rosine Bernardt |
| birth date | ca. October 22, 1844 |
| birth place | Paris, France |
| death date | March 26, 1923 |
| death place | Paris, France |
| years active | 1862–1922 |
| spouse | }} |
Sarah Bernhardt (; c. 22/23 October 1844 — 26 March 1923) was a French stage and early film actress, and has been referred to as "the most famous actress the world has ever known". Bernhardt made her fame on the stages of France in the 1870s, and was soon in demand in Europe and the Americas. She developed a reputation as a serious dramatic actress, earning the nickname "The Divine Sarah".
Early life
Bernhardt was born in Paris as Rosine Bernardt, the daughter of Julie Bernardt (1821, Amsterdam – 1876, Paris) and an unknown father. Julie was one of six children of a widely traveling Jewish spectacle merchant, "vision specialist" and petty criminal, Moritz Baruch Bernardt, and Sara Hirsch (later known as Janetta Hartog; c. 1797–1829). Julie's father remarried Sara Kinsbergen (1809–1878) two weeks after his first wife's death, and abandoned his family in 1835. Julie left for Paris, where she made a living as a courtesan and was known by the name "Youle". Sara would add the letter "H" to both her first and last names. Sarah's birth records were lost in a fire in 1871, but in order to prove French citizenship, necessary for Légion d'honneur eligibility, she created false birth records, on which she was the daughter of "Judith van Hard" and "Edouard Bernardt" from Le Havre, in later stories either a law student, accountant, naval cadet or naval officer.
Much of the uncertainty about Bernhardt's life arises because of her tendency to exaggerate and distort. Alexandre Dumas, fils described her as a notorious liar.
Stage career
Bernhardt's stage career started in 1862 while she was a student at the Comédie-Française, France's most prestigious theater. She decided to leave France, and soon ended up in Belgium, where she became the mistress of Henri, Prince de Ligne, and gave birth to their son, Maurice, in 1864. After Maurice's birth, the Prince proposed marriage, but his family forbade it and convinced Bernhardt to refuse and end their relationship.However, she was not entirely successful at the conservatory and left to become a courtesan by 1865. During this time that she acquired her famous coffin, in which she often slept in lieu of a bed – claiming that doing so helped her understand her many tragic roles. She made her fame on the stages of Europe in the 1870s, and was soon in demand all over Europe and in New York. She developed a reputation as a serious dramatic actress, earning the title "The Divine Sarah"; arguably, she was the most famous actress of the 19th century. In 1872 she left the Odéon and returned to Comédie-Française. One of her remarkable successes there was in the title role of Voltaire's Zaïre (1874). She even traveled to Cuba and performed in the Sauto Theater, in Matanzas, in 1887. She coached many young women in the art of acting, including actress and courtesan Liane de Pougy.
Personal life
Bernhardt had an affair with a Belgian nobleman, Charles-Joseph Eugène Henri Georges Lamoral de Ligne (1837–1914), son of Eugène, 8th Prince of Ligne, with whom she had her only child, Maurice Bernhardt, in 1864. He married a Polish princess, Maria Jablonowska (see Jablonowski).Sarah's close friends would include several artists, most notably Gustave Doré and Georges Clairin, and actors Mounet-Sully and Lou Tellegen, as well as the famous French author Victor Hugo. Alphonse Mucha based several of his iconic Art Nouveau works on her. Her friendship with Louise Abbéma (1853–1927), a French impressionist painter, some nine years her junior, was so close and passionate that the two women were rumored to be lovers. In 1990, a painting by Abbéma, depicting the two on a boat ride on the lake in the bois de Boulogne, was donated to the Comédie-Française. The accompanying letter stated that the painting was "Peint par Louise Abbéma, le jour anniversaire de leur liaison amoureuse."
Bernhardt also expressed strong interest in inventor Nikola Tesla, only to be disregarded as a distraction to his work.
She later married Greek-born actor Aristides Damala (known in France by the stage name Jacques Damala) in London in 1882, but the marriage, which legally endured until Damala's death in 1889 at age 34, quickly collapsed, largely due to Damala's dependence on morphine. During the later years of this marriage, Bernhardt was said to have been involved in an affair with the Prince of Wales, who later became Edward VII.
Bernhardt once stated, "Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist." However, she had been baptised a Roman Catholic, and accepted the last rites shortly before her death.
Silent film career
Bernhardt was one of the pioneer silent movie actresses, debuting as Hamlet in the two minute long film Le Duel d'Hamlet in 1900 (Technically, this was not a silent film, as it had an accompanying Edison cylinder with sound effects). She went on to star in eight motion pictures and two biographical films in all. The latter included Sarah Bernhardt à Belle-Isle (1912), a film about her daily life at home.
Later career
In 1905, while performing in Victorien Sardou's La Tosca in Rio de Janeiro, Bernhardt injured her right knee when jumping off the parapet in the final scene. The leg never healed properly. By 1915, gangrene had set in and her entire right leg was amputated; she was required to use a wheelchair for several months. Bernhardt reportedly refused a $10,000 offer by a showman to display her amputated leg as a medical curiosity (while P.T. Barnum is usually cited as the one to have made the offer, he had been dead since 1891). She continued her career often without using a wooden prosthetic limb; she had tried to use one but didn't like it. She carried out a successful tour of America in 1915, and on returning to France she played in her own productions almost continuously until her death. Her later successes included Daniel (1920), La Gloire (1921), and Régine Armand (1922). According to Arthur Croxton, the manager of London's Coliseum, the amputation was not apparent during her performances, which were done with the use of an artificial limb. Her physical condition may have limited her mobility on the stage, but the charm of her voice, which had altered little with age, ensured her triumphs.Sarah Bernhardt died from uremia following kidney failure in 1923; she is believed to have been 78 years old. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1751 Vine Street.
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Sarah Bernardt lent her name to a famous meringue-like chocolate cake.A popular scented pink double flowering cultivar of the peony is also named after her.
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| name | Lillian Gish |
|---|---|
| birth name | Lillian Diana Gish |
| birth date | October 14, 1893 |
| birth place | Springfield, Ohio, U.S. |
| death date | February 27, 1993 |
| death place | New York, New York, U.S. |
| occupation | Actress |
| years active | 1912–1987 |
| website | http://www.lilliangish.com/index.php}} |
Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993) was an American stage, screen and television actress whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987.
She was a prominent film star of the 1910s and 1920s, particularly associated with the films of director D.W. Griffith, including her leading role in Griffith's seminal Birth of a Nation (1915). Her sound-era film appearances were sporadic, but included memorable roles in the controversial western Duel in the Sun (1946) and the offbeat thriller Night of the Hunter (1955). She did considerable television work from the early 1950s into the 1980s, and closed her career playing, for the first time, opposite Bette Davis in the 1987 film The Whales of August.
The American Film Institute (AFI) named Gish 17th among the greatest female stars of all time. She was awarded an Honorary Academy Award in 1971, and in 1984 she received an AFI Life Achievement Award.
Early life
Lillian Diana Gish was born in Springfield, Ohio. She was the daughter of Mary Robinson McConnell (an Episcopalian) and James Leigh Gish (who was of German Lutheran descent). Gish's father left the family before she was old enough to remember him; her mother then took up acting to support the family. She had a younger sister, Dorothy. When Lillian and Dorothy were old enough, they joined the theatre, often traveling separately in different productions. They also took modeling jobs.The first several generations of Gishes were Dunkard ministers. Her great-great-great grandfather came to America on the ship Pennsylvania Merchant in 1733 and received a land grant from William Penn. Her great-great grandfather was in the American Revolutionary War and is buried in a cemetery in Pennsylvania for such soldiers, a bit of an oddity because Dunkards are supposed to be more pacifist than Amish or Quakers. Letters between her and a Pennsylvania college professor indicate that her knowledge of her family background was limited.
In 1912, their friend Mary Pickford introduced the sisters to D. W. Griffith, and helped get them contracts with Biograph Studios. Lillian Gish would soon become one of America's best-loved actresses. Although she was already nineteen, she gave her age as 16 to the studio.
Career
The sisters debuted in Griffith's short film An Unseen Enemy (1912). Lillian went on to star in many of Griffith's most acclaimed films, including The Birth of a Nation (1915), Intolerance (1916), Broken Blossoms (1919), Way Down East (1920) and Orphans of the Storm (1921). One of the enduring images of Gish's silent film years is the climax of the melodramatic Way Down East, in which Gish's character floats unconscious on an ice floe towards a raging waterfall, her long hair trailing in the water.Having appeared in over 25 short films and features in her first two years as a movie actress, Lillian became a major star, becoming known as "The First Lady of the Silent Screen" and appearing in lavish productions, frequently of literary works such as The Scarlet Letter. MGM released her from her contract in 1928 after the failure of The Wind (1928), now recognized by many as among her finest performances and one of the most distinguished works of the late silent period.
She directed one film, Remodeling Her Husband (1920), when D. W. Griffith took his unit on location—he told Gish that he thought the crew would work harder for a girl. Gish never directed again, telling reporters at the time that directing was a man's job.
With her debut in talkies only moderately successful, she acted on the stage for the most part in the 1930s and early 1940s, appearing in roles as varied as Ophelia in Guthrie McClintic's landmark 1936 production of Hamlet (with John Gielgud and Judith Anderson) and Marguerite in a limited run of La Dame aux Camélias. Of the former, she said, with pride, "I played a lewd Ophelia!".
Returning to movies, Gish was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1946 for Duel in the Sun. The scenes of her character's illness and death late in that film seemed intended to evoke the memory of some of her silent film performances. She appeared in films from time to time for the rest of her life, notably in Night of the Hunter (1955) as a rural guardian angel protecting her charges from a murderous preacher played by Robert Mitchum. She was considered for various roles in Gone with the Wind ranging from Ellen O'Hara, Scarlett's mother, which went to Barbara O'Neil, to prostitute Belle Watling, which went to Ona Munson.
Gish made numerous television appearances from the early 1950s into the late 1980s. Her most acclaimed television work was starring in the original production of The Trip to Bountiful in 1953. She appeared as Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna in the short-lived 1965 Broadway musical Anya. In addition to her later acting appearances, Gish became one of the leading advocates on the lost art of the silent film, often giving speeches and touring to screenings of classic works. In 1975, she hosted The Silent Years, a PBS film program of silent films.
Gish received a Special Academy Award in 1971 "For superlative artistry and for distinguished contribution to the progress of motion pictures." In 1979, she was awarded the Women in film Crystal Award in Los Angeles In 1984, she received an American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award, becoming only the second female recipient (preceded by Bette Davis in 1977), and the only recipient who was a major figure in the silent era. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1720 Vine Street.
Her last film role was in The Whales of August in 1987 at the age of 93, with Vincent Price, Bette Davis and Ann Sothern, in which she and Davis starred as elderly sisters in Maine. Her final professional appearance was a cameo on the 1988 studio recording of Jerome Kern's Show Boat, starring Frederica von Stade and Jerry Hadley, in which she affectingly spoke the few lines of The Old Lady on the Levee in the final scene. The last words of her long career were, "Good night, dear."
Some in the entertainment industry were angry that Gish did not receive an Oscar nomination for her role in The Whales of August. Gish herself was more complacent, remarking that it saved her the trouble of "losing to Cher" (who did, in fact, win for her performance in Moonstruck).
Personal life
Gish never married or had children. The association between Gish and D. W. Griffith was so close that some suspected a romantic connection, an issue never acknowledged by Gish, although several of their associates were certain they were at least briefly involved. For the remainder of her life, she always referred to him as "Mr. Griffith."She was involved with producer Charles Duell and drama critic and editor George Jean Nathan. In the 1920s, Gish's association with Duell was something of a tabloid scandal because he had sued her and made the details of their relationship public.
During the period of political turmoil in the United States that lasted from the outbreak of World War II in Europe until the attack on Pearl Harbor, she maintained an outspoken non-interventionist stance. She was an active member of the America First Committee, an anti-intervention organization founded by retired General Robert E. Wood with aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh as its leading spokesman. She said she was blacklisted by the film and theater industries until she signed a contract in which she promised to cease her anti-interventionist activities and never disclose the fact that she had agreed to do so.
She maintained a very close relationship with her sister Dorothy, as well as with Mary Pickford, for her entire life. Another of her closest friends was actress Helen Hayes; Gish was the godmother of Hayes' son James MacArthur.
Death
She died in her sleep of natural causes on February 27, 1993, aged 99 and is interred beside her sister Dorothy at Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church in New York City. Her estate, which she left to Hayes (who died a month later) was valued at several million dollars, and went to provide prizes for artistic excellence.
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Documentaries about Gish
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| played for | Johnstown JetsRochester AmericansToledo Mercurys |
|---|---|
| position | Right Wing |
| shoots | Right |
| height ft | 5 |
| height in | 10 |
| weight lb | 175 |
| birth date | April 02, 1930 |
| birth place | Toronto, ON |
| career start | 1950 |
| career end | 1962 }} |
Don Hall signed with the Johnstown Jets, a Montreal Canadiens farm team in 1951. Upon signing, Hall agreed to sign a "C-form", which allowed for the Canadiens to own Hall's rights as a professional hockey player. During Hall's rookie season, he played against future hockey Hall of Fame forward Maurice Richard in an exhibition game on November 20, 1951 in front of 1,638 fans at the Cambria County War Memorial Arena. Although Hall did not score that night, Richard would go on to score six goals against Ivan Walmsley, who was considered to be the Jets' standout goaltender at the time.
Hall would go on to have an 11 year career with the Jets. His 248 career goals with the Jets is the second-highest total in team history. His career total ties him with Reg Kent, who started his career with the Jets in 1965. Dick Roberge, who currently holds the minor league goal scoring record with 756 career goals, scored 753 goals as a member of the Johnstown Jets from 1954 until 1972.
After retiring in 1962, Hall would go on to coach an EHL All-Star team that would tour the former Soviet Union. In Hall's words, their team would get "creamed" and didn't win a game until they reached the former Czechoslovakia. "They sent their best teams," Hall remarked, "and they didn't lay down for anybody."
Although Hall retired in 1962 after 11 seasons with the Johnstown Jets, Hall's number 9 was retired by the Johnstown Chiefs during the 1990-91 season. A banner commemorating this retirement currently hangs in the Cambria Country War Memorial Arena.
Hall currently resides in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
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Winsor McCay (September 26, 1869(?) – July 26, 1934) was an American cartoonist and animator.
Tales of the Jungle Imps by Felix Fiddle (1903)
Little Sammy Sneeze (1904 to 1906)
Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (1904–13)
The Story of Hungry Henrietta (1905)
A Pilgrim's Progress (1905 to 1910)
Little Nemo in Slumberland (1905 to 1914)
Poor Jake (1909 to 1911)
Little Nemo (1911) also titled Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics
How a Mosquito Operates (1912) also titled The Story Of A Mosquito
Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918)
Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: Bug Vaudeville (1921)
Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: The Pet (1921)
Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: The Flying House (1921)
The Centaurs (1921)
Gertie on Tour (1921)
Flip's Circus (1921)
The Barnyard Performance (1922-27?) also called Performing Animals and The Midsummer's Nightmare
Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend Dover, ISBN 0-486-21347-1
Little Nemo in the Palace of Ice and Further Adventures Dover, ISBN 0-486-23234-4
The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland, Vol. I: 1905-1907 Fantagraphics ISBN 0-930193-63-6
The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland, Vol. II: 1907-1908 Fantagraphics ISBN 0-930193-64-4
The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland, Vol. III: 1908-1910 Fantagraphics ISBN 1-56097-025-1
The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland, Vol. IV: 1910-1911 Fantagraphics ISBN 1-56097-045-6
The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland, Vol. V: In the Land of Wonderful Dreams, Part 1: 1911-12 Fantagraphics ISBN 0-924359-35-8
The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland, Vol. VI: In the Land of Wonderful Dreams, Part 2: 1913-14 Fantagraphics ISBN 1-56097-130-4
Little Nemo 1905-1914 Taschen, ISBN 3-8228-6300-9
The Best of Little Nemo in Slumberland Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, ISBN 1-55670-647-2
Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays Sunday Press ISBN 0-9768885-0-5
Little Nemo in Slumberland: Many More Splendid Sundays Sunday Press ISBN 0-9768885-5-6
Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol. 1 Checker, ISBN 0-9741664-0-5 (“Tales of the Rarebit Fiend” and “Little Sammy Sneeze”)
Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol. 2 Checker, ISBN 0-9741664-7-2 (More “Tales of the Rarebit Fiend” and “Little Sammy Sneeze,” “Centaurs,” “Hungry Henrietta,” and editorial illustrations.)
Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol. 3 Checker, ISBN 0-9741664-9-9 (More “Tales of the Rarebit Fiend” (1907), “Little Sammy Sneeze,” “A Pilgrim’s Progress,” (1907) and editorial illustrations from New York period.)
Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol. 4 Checker, ISBN 0-9753808-1-8 (more Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (early 1908), A Pilgrim’s Progress (early 1908), various Little Sammy Sneezes, and New York American editorial cartoons.)
Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol. 5 Checker, ISBN 0-9753808-2-6 (Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (late 1908), A Pilgrim’s Progress (late 1908), Phoolish Phillip (all), Hungry Henrietta (all), and New York American editorial cartoons.)
Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol. 6 Checker, ISBN 1-933160-05-5 (“Mr Goodenough”, Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (late 1908), A Pilgrim’s Progress (late 1908), and New York American editorial cartoons.)
Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol. 7 Checker, ISBN 1-933160-05-5 (illustrations from New York editorial period, and collection of comic strips.)
Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol. 8 Checker, ISBN 1-933160-06-3
Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol. 9 Checker, ISBN 978-1-933160-07-8
Daydreams and Nightmares Fantagraphics, ISBN 1-56097-569-5
Little Sammy Sneeze Sunday Press ISBN 0-97688-854-8
Spring Lake District Library "The Talented Winsor McCay"
The Fales Library of NYU's guide to the David C. Bohnett Collection of Winsor McCay Drawings
Meeting McCay
on Internet Movie Database
Little Nemo in Slumberland Anniversary Special
Winsor McCay's The Centaurs.
Comic Strip Library has a complete collection of out-of-copyright Little Nemo pages
A prolific artist, McCay's pioneering early animated films far outshone the work of his contemporaries, and set a standard followed by Walt Disney and others in later decades. His two best-known creations are the newspaper comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland, which ran from 1905–1914 and 1924–1927, and the animated cartoon Gertie the Dinosaur, which he created in 1914.
His comic strip work has influenced generations of artists, including creators such as William Joyce, André LeBlanc, Moebius, Maurice Sendak, Chris Ware and Bill Watterson.
Early life
McCay was the son of Robert McKay (later changed to McCay) and Janet Murray McKay; Robert at various times worked as a teamster, a grocer, and a real estate agent. Winsor's exact place and year of birth are uncertain — he claimed to have been born in Spring Lake, Michigan in 1871, but his gravestone says 1869, and census reports state that he was born in Canada in 1867. He was originally named Zenas Winsor McKay, in honor of his father's employer, Zenas G. Winsor. He later dropped the name Zenas.In 1886, McCay's parents sent him to Cleary's Business College in Ypsilanti, Michigan to learn to be a businessman. While in Ypsilanti, he also received his only formal art training, from John Goodison of Michigan State Normal College (now known as Eastern Michigan University). Goodison taught him the strict application of the fundamentals of perspective, which he put to significant use later in his career. Goodison, formerly a glass stainer, also influenced McCay's bold use of color.
Career
In 1889, McCay moved to Chicago, intending to study at the Art Institute of Chicago, but due to lack of money had to find employment instead. He worked for the National Printing and Engraving Company, producing woodcuts for circus and theatrical posters. Two years later, he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio and went to work as an artist for Kohl and Middleton's Vine Street Dime Museum. While in Cincinnati he married Maude Leonore Dufour. McCay began doing vaudeville chalk talks in 1906. In his The Seven Ages of Man vaudeville act, he drew two faces and progressively aged them.McCay's first major comic strip series was Tales of the Jungle Imps by Felix Fiddle. Forty-three installments were published from January to November 1903, in the Cincinnati Enquirer. The strip was based on poems by George Randolph Chester, then a reporter and editor at the Enquirer. The stories concerned jungle creatures and the ways that they adapted to a hostile world, with individual titles such as How the Elephant Got His Trunk and How the Ostrich Got So Tall.
His strips Little Nemo and Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend were both set in the dreams of their characters and featured fantasy art that attempted to capture the look and feel of dreams. McCay's cartoons were never overwhelmingly popular, but always had a strong following because of his expressive graphic style. Newspaper pages were physically much larger in that time and McCay usually had a half a page to work with. For fantasy art in comics, his only rival was Lyonel Feininger, who went on to have a career in the fine arts after his comics days were over.
McCay also created a number of animated short films, in which every single frame of each cartoon (with each film requiring thousands of frames) was hand-drawn by McCay and occasionally his assistants. McCay went on vaudeville tours with his films. He presented lectures and did drawings; then he interacted with his animated films, performing such tricks as holding his hand out to "pet" his animated creations. The star of McCay's groundbreaking animated film Gertie the Dinosaur is classified by film and animation historians as the first cartoon character created especially for film to display a unique, realistic personality. In the film, Gertie causes trouble and cries when she is scolded, and finally she gives McCay himself a ride on her back as he steps into the movie picture.
In addition to a series of cartoons based on his popular "rarebit" gags, McCay also created The Sinking of the Lusitania, a depiction of the attack on the maritime ship. The cartoon contained a message that was meant to inspire America into joining World War I.
Death and legacy
McCay died in 1934 and was buried at the Cemetery of the Evergreens in Brooklyn.Woody Gelman discovered many of the original Little Nemo strips at a cartoon studio where Bob McCay, Winsor's son, had worked in 1966. Many of the original drawings that Gelman recovered were displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art under the direction of curator A. Hyatt Mayor. In 1973, Gelman would publish a collection of Little Nemo strips in Italy.
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