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Marin Marais was born on 31 May 1656 in Paris, France. Marin was a composer, known for Sången om den eldröda blomman (1919), Liquid Sky (1982) and Miffo (2003). Marin died on 15 August 1728 in Paris, France.- Ludwig Tieck was born on 31 May 1773 in Berlin, Prussia, Holy Roman Empire [now Germany]. He was a writer, known for Des Lebens Überfluss (1950), Leonor (1975) and Spannende Geschichten (1978). He died on 28 April 1853 in Berlin, Prussia [now Germany].
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Louise Farrenc was born on 31 May 1804 in Paris, France. Louise was a composer, known for Symfonia haraktiron (1999) and Bertrand Chamayou und das Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France spielen Beethovens Klavierkonzert Nr. 5 (2018). Louise died on 15 September 1875 in Paris, France.- Writer
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Walter Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse. His work was controversial in its time, particularly his 1855 poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sensuality. Whitman's own life came under scrutiny for his presumed homosexuality.- Music Department
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Jean-Baptiste Clément was born on 31 May 1836 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He is known for Porco Rosso (1992), Ne réveillez pas un flic qui dort (1988) and Bottle Shock (2008). He died on 23 February 1903 in Paris, France.- Ernest Daudet was born on 31 May 1837 in Nîmes, Gard, France. Ernest was a writer, known for La nuit du 11 septembre (1922) and Par la vérité (1917). Ernest died on 21 August 1921 in Petites Dalles, France.
- Zemaite was born on 31 May 1845 in Plunge, Russian Empire. She was a writer, known for Kunigo nauda velniai gaudo (2015) and Kunigo nauda velniai gaudo (1981). She died on 7 December 1921 in Marijampole, Lithuania.
- Ferruccio Benini was born on 31 May 1854 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He was an actor, known for Per la Patria! (1915). He died on 28 February 1916 in Rome, Italy.
- Pope Pius XI was born on 31 May 1857 in Desio, Lombardy-Venetia, Austrian Empire [now Monza and Brianza, Italy]. He died on 10 February 1939 in Vatican City.
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English artist. Sickert was born in Munich, the eldest son of the Danish painter Oswald Adalbert Sickert. The family moved to London in 1868. After a short period as an actor, Sickert studied art at the Slade School and then under James Whistler in Chelsea when, like Whistler, he took to etching. In 1883 he met Degas in Paris, who became the greatest influence on his style and attitude to art. Though often described as an Impressionist, he was only so to the same limited extent as Degas, constructing pictures from swift notes made on the spot, and never painting in the open air. His later work became broader in treatment and lighter in tone, a late innovation being the Echoes', in which he freely adapted the work of Victorian illustrators. He worked in Dieppe from 1885 to 1905, with occasional visits to Venice, and produced music-hall paintings and views of Venice and Dieppe in dark, rich tones. Although well known in Europe, he did not achieve recognition in the UK until the 1920s. His writings were collected in 1947 under the title A Free House. His works, broadly Impressionist in style, capture subtleties of tone and light, often with a melancholic atmosphere, their most familiar subjects being the rather shabby cityscapes and domestic and music-hall interiors of late Victorian and Edwardian London. Ennui (about 1913; Tate Gallery, London) is a typical interior painting. In his Camden Town' period (1905-14), he explored the back rooms and dingy streets of North London. His zest for urban life and his personality drew together a group of younger artists who formed the nucleus of the Camden Town Group, which played a leading role in bringing post-Impressionism into English art. Some of his paintings viz. 'The Ripper's bedroom' made some Ripperologists suspect him of being the elusive 'Jack the Ripper'. Most of this is based on pure speculation.- Rudolf Innemann was born on 31 May 1861 in Prague, Austrian Empire [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Cholera v Praze (1914). He was married to Ludmila Innemannová. He died on 12 November 1907 in Prague, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic].
- Hans Beck was born on 31 May 1861 in Haderslev, Denmark. He was married to Elisabeth Augusta Frederikke Soyer and Astrid Dorothea Regitze Petersen. He died on 9 June 1952 in Denmark.
- Frank Arlton was born on 31 May 1863 in Hove, East Sussex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Don Quixote (1923), The Last Hour (1930) and The Channings (1920). He died on 12 October 1948 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK.
- Emmett King was born on 31 May 1865 in Griffin, Georgia, USA. He was an actor, known for As No Man Has Loved (1925), Pampered Youth (1925) and The Fair Pretender (1918). He was married to Helen W.. He died on 21 April 1953 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Walter Smiley Weatherwax was born on May 31, 1867, in Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas, to William C. Weatherwax and his wife Elizabeth Mary Smiley. His siblings included: William E. Weatherwax (1858-1859); Grace Ball Weatherwax (1865-1938); and twin brothers Fred Van Allen Weatherwax (1870-1881) and Albert Weatherwax (1870-1870). Walter was just eight years old when financial and legal problems forced his parents to move to Denver, Arapahoe County, Colorado, on July 14, 1875. Parents William C. Weatherwax and Elizabeth Mary Smiley separated shortly thereafter, and were divorced in Denver, Arapahoe County, Colorado on March 27, 1878. By 1880, Walter was living with his father William C. Weatherwax in Durrango, Rio La Plata County, Colorado. His mother, Elizabeth Mary Smiley had died, and his younger sibling Fred Van Allen Weatherwax was in an orphanage in San Francisco, California. When his father died on January 21, 1884, in Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas, 16 year old Walter found work with the cattle drives in Texas. In 1895, Walter C. Weatherwax met Anna L. Wallis, while enroute to Deming, Luna County, New Mexico Territory. They were married on September 1, 1896, by the Rev. N. W. Haukenupet in Deming, Luna County, New Mexico Territory. While living in New Mexico, Walter filed for patents on several of his inventions. During the spring of 1913, Walter Smiley Weatherwax moved his wife Anna and their seven children [Judd Wallis Weatherwax; DoraNeil Weatherwax; Frank Thrall Weatherwax; William McAlister Weatherwax; Ruddel Bird Weatherwax; Jack Nathan Weatherwax; and Marguerite Peggy Weatherwax] to Los Angeles, California. The kids found work in silent pictures. In 1920, the family was living at 1439 Cahuenga Avenue in North Hollywood. Walter trained horses and dogs, and had a bear which he kept in a cage in the back yard. Walter died on January 19, 1943, at his home on St. Clair Avenue, in North Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, and is buried in Valhalla Cemetery.
- Sigrid Neiiendam was born on 31 May 1868 in Gjedved, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Fra den gamle Købmandsgaard (1951), Regnen holdt op (1942) and Ungdomssynd (1914). She died on 25 January 1955 in Denmark.
- Tadeusz Rittner was born on 31 May 1871 in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine]. Tadeusz was a writer, known for Za winy brata (1921), Television Theater (1953) and Odwiedziny o zmierzchu (1966). Tadeusz died on 19 June 1921 in Bad Gastein, Salzburg, Austria.
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W. Heath Robinson was born on 31 May 1872 in Islington, London, England, UK. W. Heath was a writer, known for Bill the Minder (1985) and The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm (2014). W. Heath was married to Josephine Latey. W. Heath died on 13 September 1944 in London, England, UK.- Cinematographer
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William Luff was born on 31 May 1872 in London, England, UK. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for The Glorious Adventure (1922), The Phantom Fiend (1932) and The Virgin Queen (1923). He died on 15 March 1960 in England, UK.- Hamilton Revelle was born on 31 May 1872 in Gibraltar, UK. He was an actor, known for Hamlet (1914), Thais (1917) and Kismet (1920). He died on 11 April 1958 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
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Wallace G. Coburn was born on 31 May 1872 in Choteau, Montana, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Bull's Eye (1917), The Sunset Princess (1918) and The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin (1918). He died on 15 March 1954 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Albert Johnson was born on 31 May 1872 in Oberlin, Ohio, USA. He was married to Bessie Morris Penniman. He died on 7 January 1948 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Franz Egenieff was born on 31 May 1874 in Niederwalluf, Walluf, Hesse, Germany. He was an actor, known for Die Buddenbrooks (1923), Das Skelett des Herrn Markutius (1920) and Die Rache einer Frau (1921). He died on 11 June 1949 in Gmund am Tegernsee, Bavaria, Germany.
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Italo Montemezzi was born on 31 May 1875 in Vigasio, Verona, Italy. Italo is known for NBC Television Opera Theatre (1949). Italo died on 15 May 1952 in Vigasio, Verona, Italy.- Olga Narbekova was born on 31 May 1876. She was an actress, known for Devi gory (1919), Women of Ryazan (1927) and Banda batki Knysha (1924). She died on 14 February 1933.
- Géo Flandre was born on 31 May 1876 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for La chanson du feu (1917), Le roman de la midinette (1915) and Le départ dans la nuit (1913). He died on 1 January 1949 in Paris, France.
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Charles E. Whittaker was born on 31 May 1877 in Dublin, Ireland. He was a writer and producer, known for The Way of Lost Souls (1929), Huntingtower (1927) and For the Soul of Rafael (1920). He died on 4 January 1953 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actress
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Pioneer silver screen star Kathlyn Williams is primarily known as the spry blonde of the very first Hollywood cliffhanger, The Adventures of Kathlyn (1913), in which her real first name was used in the title. This accomplishment has resulted in many reference works mistakenly referring to her as an adventurous Pearl White-type silent serial queen. While Kathlyn did, in fact, go on to perform in a few other adventure-type pictures, including westerns, she was actually quite gentile and dignified in nature and primarily graced heavier drama on the screen. Having once been dubbed the Sarah Bernhardt of the screen, she never did appear in another serial.
She was born in Butte, Montana, on May 31, 1879 (most sources incorrectly list 1888) of Norwegian and Welsh descent, Kathlyn was born to Joseph E. and Mary C. Williams. With early interest and experience as a vocal recitalist, she eventually attended the Sargent School of Acting and studied at Wesleyan University (1899). Following stage experience in local stock and touring companies (from 1902) she began to develop a solid name for herself in such plays as "When We Were Twenty One". Her early career was generously sponsored by Sen. W.A. Clarke after Kathlyn's family lost their fortunes. She eventually went to Hollywood while performing with the Belasco Stock Company and began making films as early as 1908 with D.W. Griffith at the Biograph Studio.
A popular star at the Selig Polyscope Company in 1910 (she was at first publicized as "The Selig Girl"), she appeared in assorted jungle adventures for the studio as well as a number of westerns opposite cowboy star Tom Mix. She made history, however, with the very first serial adventure, which contained a number of wild animals, and it saved the faltering studio from bankruptcy. She proceeded to remain a popular item after being handed the lead in the Selig epic The Spoilers (1914), playing her signature role of Cherry Marlotte.
Once the Selig Studio folded, Kathlyn signed with Paramount Pictures following her marriage to Paramount executive Charles F. Eyton in 1916 (a former actor, he later became the studio's General Manager), and while there appeared as the star of several early dramas for both Cecil B. DeMille and his brother William C. de Mille, including The Whispering Chorus (1918), We Can't Have Everything (1918), The Tree of Knowledge (1920) and Conrad in Quest of His Youth (1920). Her numerous co-stars included veteran matinée idols (Thomas Meighan, Theodore Roberts, Tyrone Power Sr.), young established stars (Wallace Reid) and western heroes (Roy Stewart.
Kathlyn's fair, spunky, coquettish looks grew suddenly grim and matronly by the early 1920s and she moved swiftly into stately dramatic efforts, backing up such celebrity femmes of the day as May McAvoy, Betty Compson, Anita Page, Greta Garbo and even Joan Crawford before the advent of sound. She retired from films in 1935 after only a handful of talkies and, though comebacks were bantered about from time to time in the gossip mill, nothing came of it. A tragic car accident in 1949 resulted in the loss of a leg, ending any chances whatsoever of revitalizing her career. She was confined to a wheelchair for the remainder of her life.
Married and divorced three times, her only child, Victor Hugo Kainer, from her first marriage to import/export businessman Otto Kainer, was born in 1905 but died a young teenager after developing influenza and succumbing to septic poisoning in 1922. After a brief marriage to actor Frank R. Allen, she married Eyton. That marriage ended in 1931.
Due to the loss of her leg, Kathlyn became a wheelchair-bound invalid in the last decade of her life. She succumbed to massive heart attack in her Hollywood apartment on September 23, 1960, at age 81. She was cremated and her ashes interred in the Deodora Hall, South Columbarium in the Chapel of the Pines Crematory in Los Angeles.- Actor
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F.W. Schröder-Schrom was born on 31 May 1879 in Frankfurt, Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for Peer Gynt (1934), Marschall Vorwärts (1932) and Fridericus Rex - 3. Teil: Sanssouci (1923). He was married to Leopoldine Sangora. He died on 10 May 1956 in Berlin, Germany.- James Alexander Chapman was born on 31 May 1879 in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Waltz Time (1933), Hobson's Choice (1931) and The Black Tulip (1937). He was married to Mollie Griffin and Sybil Viney. He died on 8 April 1969 in Durban, South Africa.
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Alda, born Fanny Jane Davis, came from a strong musical background. Her maternal grandparents, Fanny and Martin Simonsen, were important opera impresarios in Australasia during the 1870s and 1880s. Five of their children, including Fanny's mother, Leonore, were professional singers, and one, Frances Saville, achieved fame in Europe as a member of the Viennese Hofoper. Fanny's father, David Davis, a merchant, was a gifted amateur musician and some of her paternal relatives sang in J. C. Williamson's light opera companies.
Although Alda spent little time in the country of her birth, she consistently described herself as a New Zealander. After revisiting the country during an Australasian recital tour in 1927, her adherence to New Zealand became wholehearted. She maintained contact with several paternal relatives, and, despite a precautionary acquisition of American citizenship in 1939, she continued to emphasize her New Zealand origins.
For much of her career she was handicapped by her marriage, at New York, on April 3, 1910, to the Met's general manager, Giulio Gatti-Casazza. His need to avoid any hint of favoritism restricted her opportunities, while she felt a continual need to prove her artistic worth - as much to herself as the public. She divorced him in 1928; they had no children. On April 14, 1941, in Charleston, South Carolina, she married New York advertising executive Ray Vir Den. That union was also childless.
Alda spent an affluent retirement, entertaining lavishly at her Long Island home and indulging in her passion for travel. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Venice, Italy on September 18, 1952, aged 73.- Actor
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Mark Hambourg was born on 31 May 1879 in Boguchar, Russia. He was an actor, known for The Common Touch (1941), Wot! No Gangsters? (1947) and Animated Weekly, No. 164 (1915). He died on 26 August 1960 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.- Hans Bille was born on 31 May 1880 in Jeløy, Moss, Norway. He was an actor, known for Pan (1922), Gjest Baardsen (1939) and Gryr i Norden (1939). He was married to Julie Anna Bergh. He died on 30 May 1952.
- Fernando Fresno was born on 31 May 1881 in Madrid, Spain. He was an actor, known for Currito de la Cruz (1926), Canelita en rama (1943) and El niño de oro (1925). He died on 28 April 1949 in Madrid, Spain.
- Frederick Palmer was born on 31 May 1881 in Belmont, New York, USA. He is known for The New Commandment (1925), Follow the Tracks (1917) and The Love Slacker (1917).
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Harry Arras was born on 31 May 1881 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Anything Once (1925), Blind Circumstances (1922) and Mulhall's Great Catch (1926). He died on 28 January 1942 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Writer
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Barry Conners (1882-1933)--actor, playwright, attorney and screenwriter--was born and raised in Oil City, PA, the son of a country doctor. Although he later graduated from law school, he never established a practice. Instead, he joined the theater as an actor with an eye to learning stagecraft well enough to become a playwright. For a time he was a song-and-dance man in vaudeville and he toured the country as an actor in various repertory groups. Sometime early in the century, he joined the so-called White Rats Movement ("Star" spelled backwards). The organization, which Ethel Barrymore's father Maurice Barrymore helped to form, aimed to improve conditions for actors who had fallen into the grip of a few monopolistic theatrical producers (primarily Charles Frohman's theatrical syndicate) who were controlling the business. The organization, a predecessor of the Actors Guild, was destroyed around World War I and Conners was blacklisted from work as an actor in the theater. He took a job as a hunting and fishing guide in the Lake Tahoe, Nevada, area and began writing plays. Subsequently several of his plays were produced in New York City in the 1920s, beginning with the off-Broadway production of "Mad Honeymoon." Among his other successful plays was "Hell's Bells," which in 1925 provided the Broadway debut of actress Shirley Booth and actor Humphrey Bogart. His other Broadway plays included "Applesauce," and "Unexpected Husbands." Following the success of "The Patsy," which starred William Randolph Hearst's mistress, Marion Davies. Seeing his chance to capitalize on his voice, Conners left Broadway for Hollywood as talkies swept the film industry at the end of the decade. He worked as a screenwriter for Fox Films for several years.
Conners died in a fire in his Los Angeles apartment building on Jan. 5, 1933. He was just 50 years old.- Folke Pilo was born on 31 May 1883. He was an actor, known for Flickor på fabrik (1935) and En melodi om våren (1933). He died in 1949.
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Frank Mandel was born on 31 May 1884 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for No, No, Nanette (1940), New Moon (1940) and The Desert Song (1929). He was married to Isolde C. Illian and Alice Solis. He died on 20 April 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Edward A. Hill-Mitchelson was born on 31 May 1885 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Loves of a Dictator (1935). He died in 1951 in Chelsea, London, England, UK.
- Antoni Rózycki was born on 31 May 1885 in Augustów, Poland, Russian Empire [now Augustów, Podlaskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Mezczyzna (1918), Sto metrów milosci (1932) and Dzien wielkiej przygody (1935). He died on 5 February 1967 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Alter Kacyzne was born on 31 May 1885 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. Alter was a writer, known for On a heym (1939). Alter died on 7 July 1941 in Tarnopol, Tarnopolskie, Poland [now Ternopil, Ukraine].
- Elliott Seabrooke was born on 31 May 1886 in Upton Park, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Holiday's End (1937), The Village Squire (1935) and Life of St. Paul (1938). He died on 6 March 1950 in Nice, France.
- Cadle served as a Methodist minister at one time. In 1925, Cadle and cameraman Paul Hoefler went on expedition to the Kalahari to study customs of traditional people and get photos of what was considered the "lowest race of people on earth."
- Agnes Thorberg Wieth was born on 31 May 1886 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Café Paradis (1950), Billet mrk. (1946) and Take What You Want (1947). She was married to Carlo Wieth and Jacob Texiere. She died on 25 February 1981 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Jan Tomasik was born on 31 May 1887 in Warsaw, Poland. He was an actor, known for Dziesieciu z Pawiaka (1931), Granica (1938) and Za zaslona (1938). He died on 25 September 1939 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Saint-John Perse was born on 31 May 1887 in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, France. He was a writer, known for Etroits sont les vaisseaux (1962). He was married to Dorothy Milburn Russel. He died on 20 September 1975 in Giens Peninsula, Provence, France.
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Staunch, granite-jawed American leading man of silent and early talkie films, much associated with Westerns. A native of New York City, Holt often claimed to have been born in Winchester, Virginia, where he grew up. The son of an Episcopal minister, he attended Trinity School in Manhattan, then the Virginia Military Institute, from which he was expelled for bad behavior. Giving up his vague hopes of becoming a lawyer, he went on the road, engaging in numerous occupations. He mined gold in Alaska, worked as both a railroad and a civil engineer, delivered mail, rode herd on cattle, and played parts in traveling stage productions. While looking for work as a surveyor in San Francisco in 1914, he volunteered to ride a horse over a cliff in a stunt for a film crew shooting in San Rafael. In gratitude, the director gave him a part in the film. Holt followed the movie people to Hollywood and began getting bits and stunt jobs in the many Westerns and serials being made there. He impressed a number of co-workers at Universal Pictures, among them Francis Ford and his brother John Ford, and Grace Cunard. Holt soon became a frequent supporting player in their films, and then a star in serials.
A move to Paramount studios in 1917 cemented his leading man status, and he became one of the studio's great stars, particularly in a very successful series of Westerns based on the novels of Zane Grey. Talkies proved no problem for Holt, and his career thrived, although mostly in run-of-the-mill adventure films. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Holt entered the U.S. Army at the age of 54, serving at the request of General George C. Marshall as a horse buyer for the cavalry. Upon his return to pictures following the war, he alternated between character roles in major films such as John Ford's They Were Expendable (1945) and leading roles in minor Westerns. He made a cameo appearance in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) which starred his son Tim Holt. That same year father and son played father and son in a B-Western, The Arizona Ranger (1948). Less than three years later, on January 18, 1951, Holt died of a heart attack at the Los Angeles Veterans Hospital in Sawtelle, a couple of blocks west of the Los Angeles National Cemetery where he is now buried.- Al Weeks was born on 31 May 1888 in Rochester, New York, USA. Al was a writer, known for Uncle Joe (1941) and The First Chair (1938). Al was married to Vera G.. Al died on 25 August 1963 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
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Johannes Riemann was born on 31 May 1888 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for Ave Maria (1936), Ich heirate meine Frau (1934) and Liebe auf Befehl (1931). He died on 30 September 1959 in Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.