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- Franz Hanfstaengl was born on 1 March 1804 in Baiernrain, Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire [now Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, Bavaria, Germany]. He was married to Franziska Wegmaier. He died on 18 April 1877 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
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Frédéric François Chopin was born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, on March 1, 1810, in Zelazowa Wola, Masovia region, Duchy of Warsaw, Poland. His father, named Mikolaj (Nicolas) Chopin, was a Frenchman who came to Poland from Lorraine, and eventually became professor at Warsaw Lyceum. His mother, named Tekla Justina Krzyzanovska, was a relative of Polish Countess Ludwika Skarbkowa, owner of the Zelazowa Wola estate.
From 1816-1822 Chopin studied piano under professional musician Wojcech Zywny. He wrote his first piano compositions at the age of 7. In 1820, then ten-year-old Chopin moved with his parents to Warsaw. There he gained a reputation as a "second Mozart" for his piano playing. From 1823-1826 Chopin studied at the Warsaw Lyceum. In 1824 he was influenced by the Jewish folklore and composed Mazurka in A minor, called "The Jewish" by Chopin himself. From 1826-1830 he studied at the Warsaw Conservatory under pianist Wilhelm Wurfel and composer Josef Elsner. In 1829 Chopin attended a performance of Niccolò Paganini in Warsaw. In the same year Chopin gave solo concerts in Vienna and premiered his Piano Concerto No.1 in F minor. In 1830 he premiered his Piano Concerto No.2 in E minor at the National Theatre in Warsaw. He visited Vienna again in November of same year and played his two piano concertos with great success. After Vienna he continued his concert tour to Munich and Stuttgart. There he learned of the invasion of the Russian Army in Poland, and composed the Etude in C minor, called Revolutionary. Chopin chose the status of a political exile and finally emigrated to Paris, France.
From 1830-1849 Chopin established himself as composer and piano player in Paris. There he changed his name into Frédéric François Chopin. In Paris he met Franz Liszt, who initiated a friendship, and they played together in several concerts, but later became rivals. Chopin formed personal friendship with composer and critic Hector Berlioz. His other personal friends were Felix Mendelssohn and Vincenzo Bellini. In 1835 he made a trip to Dresden and Karlsbad, where he visited with his relatives and accompanied them to Poland. He became seriously ill with bronchial asthma on his way back to Paris. In 1836 he proposed to a seventeen-year-old Polish girl, named Maria Wodzinska, and she accepted. Their engagement lasted for several months, but was called off in 1837 by her mother after a certain manipulative influence by George Sand.
In October of 1836, in Paris Chopin met George Sand at a party hosted by Marie d'Agoult, mistress of Franz Liszt. Initially Chopin commented on Sand: "What an antipathetic woman". In June of 1837 Sand wrote in a letter to her friend about her agenda to abandon another affair in order to start a relationship with Chopin. George Sand was strongly attracted to Chopin, she destroyed his engagement to Maria Wodzinska, and dominated his life for nine years. Chopin and Sand had a turbulent relationship. In 1839, during their first winter vacation together on Mallorca, Sand took along her children from her previous marriage. At Mallorca Chopin did not have a decent piano to practice, while he was composing his 'Raindrop' prelude. Sand witnessed the completion of Chopin's greatest masterpiece, the cycle of 24 Preludes. He had to struggle with a poor rental piano and became unhappy and fell ill, but received little help from local doctors. Later Chopin enjoyed a better environment at Sand's estate in Nohant. There his creativity flourished during the summers of 1839 until 1843. At that time Chopin composed many important works. However, Chopin and Sand were not a good match, and eventually their differences prevailed. Sand was a pipe smoker and a flamboyant party goer. Chopin suffered from bronchial asthma and tuberculosis and needed a quiet solitude for his music. In George Sand's violent quarrel with her daughter Solange, Chopin defended the daughter. Sand left Chopin.
In February of 1848 Chopin gave his last concerts in Paris. He went to England and Scotland in November of 1848, and fell ill there. He gave his last concerts in London while being severely ill. He returned to Paris, but was unable to teach or perform for several months during 1849. Shortly before he died, sensing the end was near, Chopin had requested that Requiem by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart be sung at his funeral service at the Church of the Madeleine. He also requested that his heart be removed and brought in an urn to Warsaw, Poland. Chopin died on October 17, 1849, but could not be buried for two weeks, because the church did not allow female singers for the Mozart's Requiem. At last, the church relented and the funeral was held on October 30, 1849. A crowd of four thousand attended the ceremony. Composer Berlioz, artist Delacroix, poet Adam Mickiewicz, singer Viardot, were present among many others from cultural circles - but notably absent was George Sand. Chopin's heart was dispatched in an urn to Warsaw, and his body was laid to rest in the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris, France.- Mokuami Kawatake was born on 1 March 1816 in Edo, Japan. He was a writer, known for Priest of Darkness (1936), The Magic Serpent (1966) and The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan (1970). He died on 22 January 1893 in Tokyo, Japan.
- Guido Gezelle was born on 1 March 1830 in Bruges, West Flanders, Belgium. He was a writer, known for Poëzie in 625 lijnen (1956) and Will Ferdy's one man show '60 (1960). He died on 27 November 1899 in Bruges, West Flanders, Belgium.
- William Dean Howells was born on 1 March 1837 in Martins Ferry, Ohio, USA. He was a writer, known for The United States Steel Hour (1953), Studio 57 (1954) and Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (1999). He was married to Elinore Gertrude Mead. He died on 11 May 1920 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Romualdo Marenco was born on 1 March 1841 in Novi Ligure, Piedmont, Italy. He was a writer, known for Excelsior (1913) and Excelsior (2002). He died on 9 October 1907 in Milan, Italy.- Comyns Carr was born on 1 March 1849 in Marylebone, Middlesex, England, UK. Comyns was a writer, known for Called Back (1914). Comyns was married to Alice Vansittart. Comyns died on 13 December 1916 in London, England, UK.
- Karl Baumgartner was born on 1 March 1850 in Vienna, Austria. He was an actor, known for Gespenster (1918), Der Meineidbauer (1915) and Die Tragödie eines verschollenen Fürstensohnes (1922). He died on 6 November 1925 in Vienna, Austria.
- Harry Nicholls was born on 1 March 1852 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Jane (1915). He died on 29 November 1926 in Acton Hill, Middlesex, England, UK.
- John MacSweeney was born on 1 March 1857 in Deptford, Lewisham, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Road to Glory (1926) and Wild Oats Lane (1926). He died on 14 October 1937 in Amityville, Long Island, New York, USA.
- Georg Simmel (1 March 1858 - 28 September 1918) was a German sociologist, philosopher, and critic.
Simmel was one of the first generation of German sociologists: his neo-Kantian approach laid the foundations for sociological antipositivism, asking 'What is society?' in a direct allusion to Kant's question 'What is nature?', presenting pioneering analyses of social individuality and fragmentation. For Simmel, culture referred to "the cultivation of individuals through the agency of external forms which have been objectified in the course of history". Simmel discussed social and cultural phenomena in terms of "forms" and "contents" with a transient relationship; form becoming content, and vice versa, dependent on the context. In this sense he was a forerunner to structuralist styles of reasoning in the social sciences. With his work on the metropolis, Simmel was a precursor of urban sociology, symbolic interactionism and social network analysis.
An acquaintance of Max Weber, Simmel wrote on the topic of personal character in a manner reminiscent of the sociological 'ideal type'. He broadly rejected academic standards, however, philosophically covering topics such as emotion and romantic love. Both Simmel and Weber's nonpositivist theory would inform the eclectic critical theory of the Frankfurt School.
Simmel's most famous works today are The Problems of the Philosophy of History (1892), The Philosophy of Money (1907), The Metropolis and Mental Life (1903), Soziologie (1908, inc. The Stranger, The Social Boundary, The Sociology of the Senses, The Sociology of Space, and On The Spatial Projections of Social Forms), and Fundamental Questions of Sociology (1917). He also wrote extensively on the philosophy of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, as well on art, most notably his book Rembrandt: An Essay in the Philosophy of Art (1916). - Sydney Deane was born on 1 March 1863 in Balmain, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was an actor, known for The Squaw Man (1914), The Last of the Mohicans (1920) and The Goose Girl (1915). He was married to Margaret Melrose O'Brien. He died on 20 March 1934 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA.
- John McCallum was born on 1 March 1863 in England, UK. He was an actor, known for A Tailor-Made Man (1922) and Rob 'Em Good (1923). He died on 19 February 1923 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- John Maher was born on 1 March 1865 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor, known for The Twins (1912) and Nicholas Nickleby (1912). He died on 14 October 1918 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, USA.
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Kazimierz Kaminski was born on 1 March 1865 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. He was an actor and director, known for Wykolejeni (1913), Pietro Caruso (1912) and Niebezpieczny kochanek (1912). He died on 9 September 1928 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Anne Sutherland was born on 1 March 1866 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. She was an actress, known for Kreutzer Sonata (1915), Motherhood (1917) and The Debt (1917). She was married to Richard Field Carroll and Charles Herbert Harding (comm. traveler). She died on 22 June 1942 in Brentwood, Long Island, New York, USA.
- Ernst Benzinger was born on 1 March 1867 in Hannover, Germany. He was an actor, known for Eugen Onegin (1919), Suchomlinow (1918) and Die Rose von Dschiandur (1918). He died on 29 January 1946 in Berlin, Wilmersdorf, Germany.
- Duchess Sophie von Hohenberg was born on 1 March 1868 in Stuttgart, Germany. She was married to Archduke Franz Ferdinand. She died on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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W.A. McIlwain was born on 1 March 1869 in Indiana, USA. He was an actor. He died in 1933 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Archibald Nettlefold was born on 1 March 1870 in Marylebone, London, England, UK. He was a producer, known for The Last Hour (1930), Human Desires (1924) and You'd Be Surprised! (1930). He died on 29 November 1944 in Pancras, London, England, UK.
- Pomeroy Cannon was born on 1 March 1870 in New Albany, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), Restitution (1918) and The Parson of Panamint (1916). He died on 16 September 1928 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Thomas Braidon was born on 1 March 1870 in England, UK. He was an actor, known for Good Gracious, Annabelle (1919), The Great Adventure (1921) and Scrambled Wives (1921). He died on 22 June 1950 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Gerda Christophersen was born on 1 March 1870. She was an actress and writer, known for Genboerne (1939), Ene i verden (1916) and Hvem er hun? (1916). She died on 13 March 1947.- Special Effects
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Walter Hoffman was born on 1 March 1871 in Michigan, USA. He died on 11 January 1957 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Antónia de Sousa was born on 1 March 1872 in Lisbon, Portugal. She is known for O Táxi 9297 (1927), Os Fidalgos da Casa Mourisca (1938) and Rita ou Rito?... (1927).
- Winifred Landis was born on 1 March 1872 in Ottawa, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for The Great Sensation (1925), Dante's Inferno (1924) and Geared to Go (1924). She died on 2 November 1956 in Claremont, California, USA.
- Inez Clough was born on 1 March 1873 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress, known for The Gunsaulus Mystery (1921), Ties of Blood (1921) and Secret Sorrow (1921). She was married to Henry Hogan. She died on 21 November 1933 in Elgin, Illinois, USA.
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Frantisek Hlavatý was born on 1 March 1873 in Horineves, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor and writer, known for Na vysoké stráni (1921), Neznámé matky (1921) and Román hloupého Honzy (1927). He died on 5 January 1952 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].- Wilson Benge was born on 1 March 1875 in Greenwich, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Raffles (1930), The Bat Whispers (1930) and Bulldog Drummond (1929). He was married to Sarah L. Benge. He died on 1 July 1955 in Hollywood, California, USA.
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Hugo Lundström was born on 1 March 1875 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He was an actor. He died on 1 May 1949 in Stureby, Sweden.- Axel Nilsson was born on 1 March 1876 in Karlskrona, Blekinge län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Sir Arne's Treasure (1919), The Downy Girl (1919) and Charlotte Löwensköld (1930). He died in December 1953 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.
- Louis Rigolly was born on 1 March 1876 in Chamesson, France. He died in 1958 in Saint-Valery-en-Caux, France.
- Disney Roebuck was born on 1 March 1876 in East Stonehouse, Devon, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Murder Party (1934) and The Woman Decides (1931). He died on 10 May 1947 in Hindhead, Surrey, England, UK.
- Henri de Baillet-Latour was born on 1 March 1876 in Brussels, Belgium. He died on 6 January 1942 in Brussels, Belgium.
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Joseph Clement was born on 1 March 1878 in France. He is known for Twilight (1919), The Fair Cheat (1923) and A Woman's Woman (1922).- Louis K. Anspacher was born on 1 March 1878 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was a writer, known for The Unchastened Woman (1918), The Embarrassment of Riches (1918) and A Woman of Impulse (1918). He was married to Florence Sutro and Kathryn Kidder. He died on 10 May 1947 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
- Joseph Singleton was born on 1 March 1879 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was an actor, known for The Squaw Man (1914), Treasure Island (1920) and The Toll Gate (1920). He was married to Iva Shepard. He died on 24 October 1946 in Alameda, California, USA.
- Etienne Rey was born on 1 March 1879 in Saint-Pardoux-la-Rivière, Dordogne, France. He was a writer, known for La belle aventure (1942), Das schöne Abenteuer (1932) and Itto (1934). He died on 16 February 1965 in Paris, France.
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Walter Courtney Rowden, sometimes known as William Courtney Rowden, was a British writer and director, known for Corinthian Jack (1921), Daniel Deronda (1921), Simple Simon (1922), and Vanity Fair (1922). His other credits include The Prisoner of Zenda (1915), At Trinity Church I Met My Doom (1922), and Hornet's Nest (1923).- Lytton Strachey was born on 1 March 1880 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Gloriana (1984), Gloriana (2013) and Gloriana (2000). He died on 21 January 1932 in Hungerford, Berkshire, England, UK.
- Florence Natol was born on 1 March 1880 in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She is known for Romantic Reggie (1915), The Destroyers (1916) and His Father's Son (1917).
- May Beamish was born on 1 March 1880 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for If Youth But Knew (1926). She died on 13 December 1946 in Chelsea, London, England, UK.
- Manfred Kyber was born on 1 March 1880 in Riga, Russian Empire [now Latvia]. He was a writer, known for Joseph Plaut erzählt (1961) and Echt antik... und anderes (1971). He was married to Elisabeth Boltho von Hohenbach. He died on 10 March 1933 in Löwenstein, Germany.
- Ida Moore was born on 1 March 1882 in Altoona, Kansas, USA. She was an actress, known for Johnny Belinda (1948), The Egg and I (1947) and The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950). She died on 26 September 1964 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Mrs. Tyrone Power was born on 1 March 1882 in Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for Where Are My Children? (1916), A Texas Steer (1915) and The Planter (1917). She was married to Tyrone Power Sr.. She died on 29 September 1959 in Canterbury, New Hampshire, USA.
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Marcel Vandal was born on 1 March 1882 in Paris, France. He was a producer and director, known for Fleur d'amour (1927), Graziella (1926) and A Man's Head (1933). He died in 1965 in France.- Hayden Talbot was born on 1 March 1882 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Hayden is known for The Married Virgin (1918), Alimony (1917) and It Is the Law (1924). Hayden was previously married to Esther Roof Pausner, Norma Mitchell and Alice Benedict White Bristow.
- Ludwig Lowry was born on 1 March 1882 in Austria. He was an actor, known for Tony America (1918), The Man from Headquarters (1928) and Her American Husband (1918). He died on 4 February 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Adrienne Morrison was born on 1 March 1883 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Damaged Goods (1914), The Valley of Decision (1916) and And the Law Says (1916). She was married to Eric Pinker and Richard Bennett. She died on 20 November 1940 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Dorville was born on 1 March 1883 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Don Quichotte (1933), Circulez! (1931) and Circonstances atténuantes (1939). He died on 10 August 1940 in Souillac, France.