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- Giovanni Battista Viotti was born on 12 May 1755 in Fontanetto da Po, Savoia, Kingdom of Sardinia [now Piedmont, Italy]. Giovanni Battista died on 3 March 1824 in London, England, UK.
- James Sheridan Knowles was born on 12 May 1784 in County Cork, Ireland. James Sheridan was a writer, known for Virginius (1909) and Virginius (1912). James Sheridan was married to Emma M. M. Ephinstone. James Sheridan died on 30 November 1862 in Torquay, Devon, England, UK.
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Edward Lear was an English artist, poet, musician and humorist best known for writing the children's poem, "The Owl and the Pussycat." Lear published "A Book of Nonsense" in 1846, which greatly helped to popularize the limerick. As an artist, he produced scientific illustrations of birds and other wildlife. He also composed twelve musical settings of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poetry.- B.L. Farjeon was born on 12 May 1838 in London, England, UK. B.L. was a writer, known for A Just Deception (1917), Miriam Rozella (1924) and Das waren noch Zeiten (1959). B.L. was married to Margaret Jefferson. B.L. died on 23 July 1903 in London, England, UK.
- English nurse and hospital reformer. Florence Nightingale was named after the place of her birth in Italy. Educated at home by their wealthy, well-bred father, Nightingale and her older sister Parthenope studied history, philosophy, mathematics, and classics; they also wrote weekly compositions. Nursing was considered a profession for the lower-classes and that time, however Florence decided that was what she wanded to do. She trained as a nurse at Kaiserswerth (1851) and Paris and in 1853 became superintendent of a hospital for invalid women in London. In the Crimean War she volunteered for duty and took 38 nurses to Scutari in 1854. She organized the barracks hospital after the Battle of Inkerman (5 November) and by imposing strict discipline and standards of sanitation reduced the hospital mortality rate drastically. She returned to England in 1856 and a fund of L 50,000 was subscribed to enable her to form an institution for the training of nurses at St Thomas's and at King's College Hospital. She devoted many years to the question of army sanitary reform, to the improvement of nursing and to public health in India. Her main work, Notes on Nursing (1859), went through many editions.
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Jules Massenet was born on 12 May 1842 in Saint-Etienne, Loire, Rhône-Alpes, France. He is known for Marathon Man (1976), Tau (2018) and Transamerica (2005). He was married to Louise-Constance de Gressy. He died on 13 August 1912 in Paris, France.- Adrienne Augarde was born on 12 May 1882 in England, UK. She died on 17 March 1913 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Upendra Kishore Raychowdhuri was born on 12 May 1863 in Moshua, Bengal Presidency, British India. Upendra Kishore was a writer, known for Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1969), The World of Goopi and Bagha (2013) and Jola Aar Saat Bhoot (2005). Upendra Kishore died on 20 December 1915 in Giridih, Bihar and Orissa Province, British India.
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Eduardo Di Capua was born on 12 May 1865 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He is known for Fools Rush In (1997), The Hangover (2009) and Nine (2009). He died on 3 October 1917 in Naples, Campania, Italy.- Eddie Redway was born on 12 May 1870 in Reading, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for The Sunbeam (1916), The Winner (1914) and Pat Casey's Case (1914). He was married to Katherine Pearl Smith. He died on 9 April 1919 in Reading, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Ivan Caryll was born on 12 May 1861 in Liege, Belgium. Ivan was married to Geraldine Ulmar (actress) and Maud Hill (actress). Ivan died on 29 November 1921 in New York City, New York, USA.- Hermes da Fonseca was born on 12 May 1855 in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He died on 9 September 1923 in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Gabriel-Urbian Faure was born May 12, 1845, in Pamires, Mid-Pyrenees, France. He was the youngest of 6 children born to Toussaint and Marie Faure. From the age of 9 he studied piano and organ with Camille Saint-Saëns at the Ecole Niedermeyer. Saint-Saene encouraged young Faure to play piano music by Franz Liszt. In 1865 Faure was awarded first prize for composition, for his 'Cantique de Jean Racine', opus 11. In 1870 he served in the army during the Franco-Prussian war, and during the Paris Commune he was a music teacher in Switzerland, where his school Ecole Niedermeyer was relocated. Back in Paris he became organist at Saint-Sulpice.
Faure became a regular at the salon of Camille Saint-Saëns and the salon of Pauline Garcia-Viardot. There he met many prominent Parisian intellectuals: writers Gustave Flaubert and Ivan Turgenev, composers Hector Berlioz and Georges Bizet. With those contacts Faure initiated the formation of the 'Societe Nationale Musique' around the figure of Camille Saint-Saëns. Faure also took over the position of organist at the Eglise de la Madeleine in 1877, when Saint-Saens retired. At that time Faure became engaged to Marianne Viardot, the daughter of Pauline Viardot, but the engagement was broken off by Marianne.
Faure was sincerely in love, but heartbroken and so depressed, that he could not stay in the same salon. He canceled all social obligations and left Paris for a long journey. He went to Weimar, where he met Franz Liszt and expressed his gratitude by playing his own compositions to Liszt. Then Faure traveled to Cologne to listen to the operas of Richard Wagner, whom he admired. Faure's impressions from 'Der Ring des Nibelungen' were strong, but not enough to influence his own compositions.
Back in Paris he renewed his activity at 'Societe Nationale Musique'. He married Marie Frement in 1883, and the couple had two sons. He had to support his family. The lack of any musical success kept him working as the organist at the Eglise de la Madeleine, and also teaching piano and harmony, which took up all his time. His own compositions were sold to his publisher at 50 francs per piece with thw copyright. At that time Faure composed the exquisitely delicate 'Requiem' (1888), his most important choral work. He could not find a venue to perform his large-scale compositions. That made him even more depressed.
After ten years of hardship, Faure finally got promoted to the government position of the Inspector of Music Conservatoires in the French provinces. In 1896 he became chief organist at the Eglise de la Madeleine. He also replaced Jules Massenet as professor of composition at the Conservatoire de Paris. His students there included Maurice Ravel, Nadia Boulanger, George Enescu, and Charles Koechlin, who later orchestrated Faure's popular suite 'Pelleas et Melisande'. In 1890s Faure wrote piano duet 'Dolly Suite' and a vocal piece 'La bonne chanson' for Emma Bardac, the wife of Claude Debussy.
From 1905 to 1920 Faure was the powerful director of the Conservatoire de Paris. He made some reforms and dismissed unnecessary stuff for the purpose of rational spending of the funding from the government. His song opera 'Penelope' (1913) is noteworthy. His works of the late years were affected by his hearing loss, which inevitably caused his retirement. He was the music critic at Le Figaro from 1903-1921. Faure died from pneumonia on November 4, 1924, and was laid to rest in the Cemetiere de Passy in Paris.- Henry Cabot Lodge is an American Republican senator and historian from Massachusetts. A member of the prominent Lodge family, he received his PhD in history from Harvard University. As an undergraduate at Harvard, he joined Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. He is best known for his positions on foreign policy, especially his battle with President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 over the Treaty of Versailles. The failure of that treaty ensured that the United States never joined the League of Nations.
- J. Herbert Frank was born on 12 May 1885 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Scandal (1917), Destruction (1915) and Up and at 'Em (1922). He died on 7 March 1926 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Sophus Erhardt was born on 12 May 1865. He was an actor, known for Doctor Nicholson and the Blue Diamond (1913), Borgkælderens mysterium (1914) and The Firefly (1913). He died on 6 March 1927.
- Bertha Lewis was born on 12 May 1887 in Forest Gate, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Mikado (1926). She was married to Herbert Heyner (baritone). She died on 8 May 1931 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.
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Paul Dickey born in Chicago, Illinois in 1882. began as a stage performer and stage director from the late 1890s. He became a highly successful playwright and screenwriter with such plays as 'The Ghost Breaker', 'The Misleading Lady', The Broken Wing' and Scared Stiff'. handsome charismatic man, not known for movie acting appeared in one significant film role as Sir Guy of Gisbourne with Douglas Fairbanks in the title role of 'Robin Hood' directed by Allan Dwan for the United Artist Film Company in 1922. Paul died from heart disease in New York.- Ilse Korseck was born on 12 May 1911 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Der Schuß im Tonfilmatelier (1930), Madame hat Ausgang (1931) and Wie werde ich reich und glücklich? (1930). She died on 22 February 1933 in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany.
- Henry C. Rowland was born on 12 May 1874 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Conquering the Woman (1922), Bonnie Bonnie Lassie (1919) and The Sultana (1916). He died on 5 June 1933.
- August Neidhart was born on 12 May 1867 in Vienna, Austria. He was a writer, known for Schwarzwaldmädel (1933), The Black Forest Girl (1950) and Schwarzwaldmädel (1920). He died on 25 November 1934 in Berlin, Germany.
- Ernst A. Lehmann was born on 12 May 1886 in Ludwigshafen, Germany. He died on 7 May 1937 in Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA.
- George Corcoran was born on 12 May 1905 in Seattle, Washington, USA. He was an actor, known for May I Come In (1930) and Not Damaged (1930). He died on 27 March 1939 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Boris Thomashefsky was born on 12 May 1868 in Kiev, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]. He was an actor and writer, known for Bar-Mitzvah (1935), Hear Ye, Israel (1915) and The Jewish Crown (1915). He was married to Bessie Baumfeld-Kaufman (actress). He died on 9 July 1939 in New York City, New York, USA.- James P. Burtis was born on 12 May 1893 in Emporia, Kansas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Return of Jimmy Valentine (1936), Mister Dynamite (1935) and The Hurricane Express (1932). He died on 24 July 1939 in California, USA.
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Albert Engström was born on 12 May 1869 in Lönneberga, Småland, Sweden. He was a writer, known for Skärgårdskavaljerer (1925), Storm över skären (1938) and Robinson i Roslagen (1948). He died on 16 November 1940 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.- Howard Lang was born on 12 May 1874 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Call of the Prairie (1936), Bar 20 Rides Again (1935) and Here's Flash Casey (1938). He was married to Gwen Heller. He died on 26 January 1941 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Guernsey Morrow was born on 12 May 1906 in Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Duke Is Tops (1938), Am I Guilty? (1940) and Take My Life (1942). He died on 4 July 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Monte Brewer was born on 12 May 1932 in Lamar, Colorado, USA. He was an actor, known for Mr. Dynamite (1941). He died on 21 April 1942 in Hollywood, California, USA.
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Hyam Greenbaum was born on 12 May 1901 in England, UK. He was a composer, known for Fantastic Garden (1939), Women's Interests (1936) and Stolen Life (1939). He was married to Sidonie Goossens. He died on 13 May 1942 in England, UK.- Edna Hibbard was born on 12 May 1894 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She was an actress, known for The Weavers of Life (1917), The Apaches of Paris (1915) and The Fight (1915). She was married to Lester Bryant, John C. Seager Jr., Stuart Sage and Philip Hart Dunning (stage manager). She died on 26 December 1942 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Bratoljub Gligorijevic was born on 12 May 1901 in Kragujevac, Serbia. He was an actor, known for Nevinost bez zastite (1943). He died on 30 October 1943 in Kragujevac, Serbia, Yugoslavia.
- Alexander Nicholayevitch Romanoff (Achmed Abdullah) was the author of numerous adventure and mystery stories, usually set in strange and exotic locations.
His father, Grand Duke Nicholas Romanoff, was a cousin of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his mother, Princess Nourmahal Durani, was the daughter of the Amir of Afghanistan. Alexander, along with his brother Yar and sister Gothia, were born at the Romanoff Palace in Yalta, the future site of the historic Second World War conference among Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin. After pressure from the Afghan and Russian royal houses forced their parents to divorce, Alexander--along with his sister--went to live with their uncle in Afghanistan; Yar, the oldest, stayed with his father in Russia. Alexander was adopted by his uncle, who changed his name to Achmed Abdullah Nadir Khan el-Durani el Iddrissyeh and raised him in the Muslim faith. Yar became an officer in the Russian army and was killed in 1914 at the Battle of Tannenberg. Gothia was said to have married an Indian rajah. In 1936, after years of being torn between the Russian Orthodox Church he was baptized in and the Muslim faith he was raised in, Abdullah became a Roman Catholic.
He went to schools in Afghanistan, India, France and finally England, where he attended Eton and Oxford. Upon graduation he became a British citizen and joined the British army, where he served with merit in China, Tibet, Russia, Eastern Europe, France, India and Africa. Because of his ability to blend in with different cultures, he was often called upon by British Intelligence to work as a spy. Not long after Abdullah retired from the British army with the rank of captain, he joined the Turkish army and fought with distinction in the First Balkan War (1912-1913). By the time Abdullah decided to pursue a writing career his life experiences had gained him a plethora of material to draw upon for decades to come.
Abdullah began writing in earnest after coming to the US sometime after 1914. Soon stories like "The Blue Eyed Manchu", "The Red Stain", "The Soul Catcher" and "Bucking the Tiger" were appearing in newspapers and magazines across the country. By the early 1920s he was writing for both the stage and the screen. In 1928 he published a collection of ballads and poems from Central Asia entitled "Lute and Scimitar". His autobiography, "The Cat Had Nine Lives" (1933), reads like one of his romantic adventure stories. In 1937 he wrote with John Kenney, a cookbook entitled, "For Men Only". Abdullah's first Broadway play, "The Honourable Mr. Wong" (1932), was adapted from his story "The Hatchetman" and was written with the help of David Belasco around the time he became a permanent resident of the US. Though many of his stories and plays were very popular with the public, he will probably always be best remembered for the classic films The Thief of Bagdad (1924) and The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935).
Abdullah must have cut quite an imposing figure when seen out in public, with his military posture, impeccable suit, hat tilted just so, gray spats and monocled eye. In 1945 he passed away on his birthday at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York after an illness of several months. He was survived by his third wife, Rosemary Dutton, whom he married in 1940, a year after his second wife of 20 years, literary agent Jean Wick, had passed away. His first wife, Irene Augusta Bainbridge, was still married to him when he filled out his Word War One draft registration card in 1918. - Actor
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Romantic leading man and singing cowboy star whose career was far eclipsed by that of his brother Robert Livingston. He acted and sang on Broadway prior to entering films, then appeared in a number of non-Western films before signing with Monogram Pictures in 1937 as a singing cowboy. Unfortunately, despite his singing ability, the films were poorly received even for the genre, due primarily to shoddy production techniques. After a few musical Westerns, Randall continued playing leads in B-Westerns, but not as a singer. His career rapidly faltered, however, and he moved into supporting parts and villain roles. At the age of 39, he died of a heart attack while shooting a riding scene in The Royal Mounted Rides Again (1945).- Sofus Franck was born on 12 May 1873 in Fredensborg, Denmark. He was an actor, known for Det store ansvar (1944). He died on 23 July 1945.
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Jens Christian Gundersen was born on 12 May 1868 in Moss, Norway. He was a director and writer, known for Dæmonen (1911). He died on 2 September 1945.- Jack Jenney was born on 12 May 1910 in Mason City, Iowa, USA. He was an actor, known for Syncopation (1942). He was married to Kay Thompson and Bonnie Lake. He died on 16 December 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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John Arledge was born on 12 May 1907 in Crockett, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Grapes of Wrath (1940), County Fair (1937) and Two in Revolt (1936). He died on 15 May 1947 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Cinematographer
George H. Scheibe was born on 12 May 1880 in Plymouth, Wisconsin, USA. George H. was a cinematographer, known for Dangers of a Bride (1917). George H. died on 17 November 1948 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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Al Shean was born on 12 May 1868 in Dornum, Province of Hanover, Kingdom of Prussia [now Lower Saxony, Germany]. He was an actor and writer, known for The Blue Bird (1940), Ziegfeld Girl (1941) and Live, Love and Learn (1937). He was married to Johanna Davidson. He died on 12 August 1949 in New York City, New York, USA.- Writer
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Julius Schmitt was born on 12 May 1884 in Havlíckúv Brod, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was a writer and producer, known for První políbení (1935), Devcata, vdávejte se! (1921) and Batalión (1937). He died on 29 October 1949 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].- Actor
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Charles Dullin was born on 12 May 1885 in Yenne, Savoie, France. He was an actor and producer, known for Misdeal (1928), Miracle of the Wolves (1924) and L'homme qui vendit son âme au diable (1921). He was married to Marcelle Charles Dullin. He died on 11 December 1949 in Paris, France.- Dorothy Hammond was born on 12 May 1876 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Hoodman Blind (1913), Jubilee Window (1935) and Nothing Like Publicity (1936). She was married to Guy Standing. She died on 23 November 1950 in London, England, UK.
- Milton Herman was born on 12 May 1896 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Rocky King, Detective (1950), Big Brother (1923) and Hands of Mystery (1949). He died on 21 January 1951 in Astoria, New York, USA.
- Julia Dean was born on 12 May 1878 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. She was an actress, known for The Emperor Waltz (1948), The Curse of the Cat People (1944) and Magic Town (1947). She was married to Orme Caldara. She died on 17 October 1952 in Hollywood, California, USA.
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Bud Pollard was born on 12 May 1895 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He was a director and editor, known for Girls for Sale! (1927), The Horror (1932) and The Dead March (1937). He died on 16 December 1952 in Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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Lionel Belmore was born on 12 May 1867 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for Frankenstein (1931), Bardelys the Magnificent (1926) and The Vampire Bat (1933). He was married to Emmeline Florence Carder. He died on 30 January 1953 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Maidel Turner was born on 12 May 1888 in Sherman, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for State of the Union (1948), Mutiny Ahead (1935) and Here Comes the Groom (1951). She was married to Frederic Sumner. She died on 12 April 1953 in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, USA.
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Mozelle Britton was born on 12 May 1912 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. She was an actress, known for The Fighting Ranger (1934). She was married to Thomas W. Gosser and Alan Dinehart. She died on 18 May 1953 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Julius Rosenberg was born on 12 May 1918 in New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Ethel Rosenberg. He died on 19 June 1953 in Sing-Sing Prison, New York, USA.