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Félix Lope de Vega was born on 25 November 1562 in Madrid, Spain. He was a writer, known for Ballet Tales (1955), Uchitel tantsev (1952) and La moza de cántaro (1954). He was married to Juana de Guardo and Isabel de Urbina. He died on 27 August 1635 in Madrid, Spain.- Music Department
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Jakob Boëthius was born on 25 November 1647. Jakob is known for Bock i örtagård (1958). Jakob died on 23 February 1718.- Music Department
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Franz Xaver Gruber was an Austrian primary school teacher, church organist and composer in the village of Arnsdorf, who is best known for composing the music to "Stille Nacht" ("Silent Night"). Gruber was born on 25 November 1787 in the village of Hochburg-Ach, Upper Austria, the son of linen weavers, Josef and Maria Gruber. His given name was recorded in the baptismal record as "Conrad Xavier," but this was later changed to "Franz Xaver". The Hochburger schoolteacher Andreas Peterlechner gave him music lessons.- Andrew Carnegie is a Scottish-American industrialist, and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history. He became a leading philanthropist in the United States and in the British Empire. During the last 18 years of his life, he gave away $350 million (conservatively $66 billion in 2024 dollars, based on percentage of GDP) to charities, foundations, and universities - almost 90 percent of his fortune. His 1889 article proclaiming "The Gospel of Wealth" called on the rich to use their wealth to improve society, and stimulated a wave of philanthropy.
Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, and immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1848 at age 12. Carnegie started work as a telegrapher, and by the 1860s had investments in railroads, railroad sleeping cars, bridges, and oil derricks. He accumulated further wealth as a bond salesman, raising money for American enterprise in Europe. He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which he sold to J.P. Morgan in 1901 for $303,450,000. It became the U.S. Steel Corporation. After selling Carnegie Steel, he surpassed John D. Rockefeller as the richest American for the next several years.
Carnegie devoted the remainder of his life to large-scale philanthropy, with special emphasis on local libraries, world peace, education, and scientific research. With the fortune he made from business, he built Carnegie Hall in New York, NY, and the Peace Palace and founded the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Carnegie Institution for Science, Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, Carnegie Hero Fund, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, among others. - Cosima Wagner was born on 25 November 1837 in Bellagio, Lombardy, Austrian Empire [now Como, Italy]. She was married to Richard Wagner and Hans von Bülow. She died on 1 April 1930 in Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany.
- When Carl Benz was two years old, his father died. After finishing school with a high school diploma, he attended the scientifically oriented Lyceum in Karlsruhe from 1853 onwards. From 1860 to 1864 he studied mechanical engineering. Benz began his professional life in 1864 as a locksmith. After a few months he left Karlsruhe and got a job as a designer in vehicle construction in Mannheim. Here he and a partner founded an iron foundry for industrial components in 1871. After a short time, the collaboration broke down and Benz was able to maintain the business with the financial help of his fiancée Berta Ringer, who more than trusted his abilities. In 1872 he married Berta, who gave him two sons. Benz's vision was to design a vehicle that could drive under its own power and without rails.
After many years of development work, in 1877 he succeeded in building a 0.9 hp gas engine in the 2-stroke system. This unit was used because the four-stroke engine that already existed was protected by the patent of Nikolaus August Otto. After the engine had achieved the desired level of reliability after further perfection, Benz founded a stock corporation in 1880 in which he held a five percent stake. With the capital at his disposal, nothing stood in the way of further development work, which Benz now undertook with the construction of a 4-horsepower gas engine. After differences arose with shareholders over the design, Benz left the company in 1883 to found "Benz & Cie. Rheinische Gasmotorenfabrik" in Mannheim with new shareholders. Here he further developed the now patent-free Otto engine. The focus of the work was on solving the problem that the previous engines were too heavy for a car.
In 1885, Benz succeeded in installing a horizontal single-cylinder four-stroke gasoline engine with electric ignition, water cooling and surface carburetor in a three-wheeled wooden car. This solution was implemented because it allowed for better steering. It was the first motor vehicle in which the engine and chassis formed a single unit. Benz created the first automobile in 1885. This Benz vehicle already had a differential gear on the drive axle and solid rubber tires for even power transmission. In the same year, Wilhelm Maybach installed a 0.5 hp unit in a so-called Reitwagen in Gottlieb Daimler's workshop in Stuttgart, which can now be viewed as the world's first motorcycle. On January 29, 1886, Benz made industrial history when he applied for a patent for the first "automobile" at the Reich Patent Office under number 37435. However, he still received scorn and ridicule from the public for his work: "A carriage without horses".
In 1888, Benz presented his motor car for two hours a day at the Munich "Power and Work Machinery Exhibition", where the development was applauded by the press. The trade fair committee awarded his patent the gold medal for the most outstanding innovation. This did not change the cautious public opinion. After Benz had visited the Paris World Exhibition of 1889 in search of recognition, he returned and continued working on the design of a four-wheeled motor car. At the beginning of 1893 the steering system was perfected for installation and a patent was applied for in the same year. When the first orders followed, Benz, who built the first two-cylinder engines in 1896, was making a profit with his company. When production needed to be further increased, he founded Benz & Cie in 1899 as a capital measure. Aktiengesellschaft, with a third of the shares remaining with Benz.
As early as 1900, Benz was able to offer over 600 different model designs from standard to sports cars for sale. In 1903, at the age of 60, Benz retired from the company, although he remained a voting shareholder. In 1926 Benz & Cie. merged. with Daimler-Motoren Aktiengesellschaft from Gottlieb Daimler to Daimler-Benz AG.
Carl Friedrich Benz died on April 4, 1929 in Ladenburg near Mannheim. - Novelist committed to social reform who introduced Naturalism and Realism to Portugal. He is often considered to be the greatest Portuguese novelist, certainly the leading 19th-century Portuguese novelist whose fame was international. The son of a prominent magistrate, Eça de Queiroz spent his early years with relatives and was sent to boarding school at the age of five. After receiving his degree in law in 1866 from the University of Coimbra, where he read widely French, he settled in Lisbon. There his father, who had since married Eça de Queiroz' mother, made up for past neglect by helping the young man make a start in the legal profession. Eça de Queiroz' real interest lay in literature, however, and soon his short stories - ironic, fantastic, macabre, and often gratuitously shocking - and essays on a wide variety of subjects began to appear in the "Gazeta de Portugal". By 1871 he had become closely associated with a group of rebellious Portuguese intellectuals committed to social and artistic reform and known as the Generation of '70. Eça de Queiroz gave one of a series of lectures sponsored by the group in which he denounced contemporary Portuguese literature as unoriginal and hypocritical. He served as consul, first in Havana (1872-74), then in England, UK - in Newcastle upon Tyne (1874-79) and in Bristol (1879-88). During this time he wrote the novels for which he is best remembered, attempting to bring about social reform in Portugal through literature by exposing what he held to be the evils and the absurdities of the traditional order. His first novel, "O crime do Padre Amaro" (1875; "The Sin of Father Amaro", 1962), describes the destructive effects of celibacy on a priest of weak character and the dangers of fanaticism in a provincial Portuguese town. A biting satire on the romantic ideal of passion and its tragic consequences appears in his next novel, "O Primo Basílio" (1878; "Cousin Bazilio", 1953). Caustic satire characterizes the novel that is generally considered Eça de Queiroz' masterpiece, "Os Maias (1888; "The Maias", 1965), a detailed depiction of upper middle-class and aristocratic Portuguese society. His last novels are sentimental, unlike his earlier work. "A Cidade e as Serras" (1901; "The City and the Mountains", 1955) extols the beauty of the Portuguese countryside and the joys of rural life. Eça de Queiroz was appointed consul in Paris in 1888, where he served until his death. Of his posthumously published works, "Contos" (1902) is a collection of short stories, and "Últimas Páginas" (1912) includes saints' legends. Translations of his works persisted into the second half of the 20th century.
- People's recollections of Carrie Nation range from a female evangelical prophetess, to raving lunatic. Carry Amelia Moore was born into a family that operated a sharecropping plantation, that was in central Kentucky, on November 25, 1846. As a young woman she was unusually tall and not very pretty. She married a young man who, she discovered, was a free mason, a smoker, and an alcoholic. He left her at the age of twenty-one, and from then on she vowed to fight the demon liquor that had taken her man from her. She re-married, with several other women in her community, helped to form the Wormen's Christian Temperance Union, which is still in existence today. Yet Nation now took her crusade a step further, beginning a campaign of "hatchetation". Over the course of ten years, she led groups of women into saloons, wielding an ax, and smashed each place to bits. She made headlines all over the country, and was even the subject of at least four short films, where she was often portrayed in a comic light, by a male actor in women's clothes. Her fame soon got the better of her and she soon drifted into obscurity. She died in a mental health facility on Friday, June 9th, 1911, never living to see the result of her cause: the 18th Ammendment. Several years after the enactment of Prohibition, it was reported that an illegal liquor still has been discovered, on the grounds of Carry Nation's birthplace.
- George W. Anson was born on 25 November 1847 in Montrose, Angus, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for The Builder of Bridges (1915), Desire (1920) and The President's Special (1914). He died on 2 August 1920 in London, England, UK.
- Sergey Taneyev was born on 25 November 1856 in Vladimir, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a composer, known for Rasskazy o Lenine (1958) and Medeya (1967). He died on 19 June 1915 in Dyutkovo, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire [now Zvenigorod, Moscow Oblast, Russia].
- László Molnár was born on 25 November 1857 in Kiskunfélegyháza, Hungary. He was an actor, known for A Nagymama (1916). He died on 5 February 1925 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Alfred Capus was born on 25 November 1857 in Aix-en-Provence, France. Alfred was a writer, known for Les maris de Léontine (1947), L'aventurier (1924) and La châtelaine (1914). Alfred died on 1 November 1922 in Neuilly, France.
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Louis Calvert his the son of actor Charles Calvert and actress better known as Mrs. Charles Calvert. Handsome English gentleman who was one of the greatest Shakespearian performer of the Victorian era, later became a star of Broadway theatre between 1909-23. He appeared in only two movies, the first 'King John' a very short drama made by the pioneering film maker William Dickson and starred Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree for the British Mutoscope & Biograph Film Company in 1899, and in 1913 he played the role of Simon Ingot in 'David Garrick' directed by Hay Plumb, starring Charles Wyndham and Mary Moore for the Hepworth Film Company. Father of actress Patricia Calvert.- Lillian Langdon was born on 25 November 1860 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for Intolerance (1916), Daddy-Long-Legs (1919) and The Millionaire Pirate (1919). She was married to Mr. Bolles. She died on 8 February 1943 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
- Getting her show business start in vaudeville, Phyllis Allen's large physique and excellent timing made her a natural for film comedies, and she appeared in many of Mack Sennett's slapstick films. She also appeared in several of Charles Chaplin's movies, and was often paired with equally hefty comedian Mack Swain.
- Ethelbert Nevin was born on 25 November 1862 in Edgeworth, Pennsylvania, USA. He died on 17 February 1901 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
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Al J. Jennings was born on 25 November 1863 in Virginia, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Lady of the Dugout (1918), Beating Back (1914) and The Tryout (1919). He died on 26 December 1961 in Tarzana, California, USA.- Writer
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Ferdinando Russo was born on 25 November 1866 in Naples, Campania, Italy. Ferdinando was a writer, known for Il buon ladrone (1917). Ferdinando died on 30 January 1927 in Naples, Campania, Italy.- Hans Wiers-Jenssen was born on 25 November 1866 in Bergen, Norway. He was a writer, known for Children of the Stage; or, When Love Speaks (1913), Et Syndens Barn (1913) and Jan Herwitz (1976). He died on 28 August 1925 in Oslo, Norway.
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Heinrich Peer was born on 25 November 1867 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor and director, known for Anna Karenina (1920), Die Tochter Napoleons (1922) and Die sieben Todsünden (1920). He died on 13 May 1927 in Vienna, Austria.- Ernest Louis was born on 25 November 1868 in Darmstadt, Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine, German Confederation [now Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany]. He was married to Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich and Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna of Russia. He died on 9 October 1937 in Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany.
- Ben B. Lindsey was born on 25 November 1869 in Jackson, Tennessee, USA. Ben B. was a writer, known for Companionate Marriage (1928) and One Mile from Heaven (1937). Ben B. died on 26 March 1943 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
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Ben Lindsey was born on 25 November 1869 in Jackson, Tennessee, USA. He is known for The Soul of Youth (1920), Saved by the Juvenile Court (1913) and Judge Ben Lindsey in the Juvenile Court (1921). He died on 26 March 1943.- As the daughter of popular Danish People's Theatre actress Julie Møller, Petrine Sonne debuted in 1892 as Madam Stabel in Henrik Hertz' Audiensen, when she jumped in as a duplicate during her mother's illness. From 1900, she was employed at various Copenhagen theatres until in 1927, she returned to Folketeatret, where she acted until her death. Her last role here was as the cook in K. Simonov's Heaven is Blue and the Grass Green, performed in the 1945-46 season. Her specialty was comic minor characters and character roles. Sonne was loved by the audience for her whimsical playing, and thus, like her mother, she became an important member of the People's Theatre. At the Folketeatret, it was told that Sonne always preferred small roles, because they were easy to learn and as an added benefit of such minor roles, she was able to go home again with the tram from Nørrevold to her home in Pile Allé before the transfer ticket expired. Sonne appeared in popular Danish silent films and in 1925, she starred in the great Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer's film, You Must Honor Your Wife. She wove hermelin as a pastime. Sonne appeared in about forty Danish films in the first half of the twentieth century and received the Danish Royal Medal of Honour in gold in 1942.
- Solanus Casey was born on 25 November 1870 in Prescott, Wisconsin, USA. He died on 31 July 1957 in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
- Winthrop Ames was born on 25 November 1870 in North Easton, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer, known for Snow White (1916) and Oliver Twist (1916). He was married to Lucy Fuller Cabot. He died on 3 November 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- Irma Gramatica was born on 25 November 1870 in Fiume, Austria-Hungary [now Rijeka, Croatia]. She was an actress, known for Il fu Mattia Pascal (1937), Porto (1934) and Sissignora (1942). She was married to Armando Cottin. She died on 14 October 1962 in Tavarnuzze, Tuscany, Italy.
- Kate McComb was born on 25 November 1871 in Sacramento, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Crime with Father (1951), Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950) and Campbell Summer Soundstage (1952). She was married to John Rector McComb. She died on 15 April 1959 in New York, New York, USA.
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Robert de Flers was born on 25 November 1872 in Pont-l'Évêque, Calvados, France. He was a writer, known for The King on Main Street (1925), Tavasz a télben (1918) and Ciboulette (1933). He was married to Genevieve Sardou. He died on 30 July 1927 in Vittel, Vosges, France.- Maria Thompson Davies was born on 25 November 1872 in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, USA. Maria Thompson was a writer, known for Out of a Clear Sky (1918), Little Miss Hoover (1918) and The Daredevil (1918). Maria Thompson died on 3 September 1924 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Joe Gans was born on 25 November 1874 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor, known for The Joe Gans-Battling Nelson Fight (1906), Gans-Nelson Fight (1908) and Gans-Herman Fight (1907). He died on 10 August 1910 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
- Tiny Jones was born on 25 November 1875 in Cardiff, Wales, UK. She was an actress, known for Manhattan Moon (1935), Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) and The Man from Blankley's (1930). She died on 21 March 1952 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Emilia D'Oliveira was born on 25 November 1875. She was an actress, known for Pão Nosso (1940), Lucros... Ilícitos (1923) and Amor de Perdição (1943). She died on 20 July 1968 in Lisbon, Portugal.
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Einar Fröberg was born on 25 November 1875 in Svärta socken, Södermanlands län, Sweden. He was an actor and writer, known for Familjens traditioner (1920), Grevarna på Svansta (1924) and Lunda-indianer (1920). He was married to Anna-Lisa Fröberg. He died on 2 October 1934 in Täby, Stockholms län, Sweden.- Pierre de Caters was born on 25 November 1875 in Berchem, Antwerp, Belgium. He was married to Charlotte Emilie Axeline Catherine de Bosschaert. He died on 21 March 1944 in Paris, France.
- Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna of Russia was born on 25 November 1876 in Attard, Crown Colony of Malta [now Attard, Republic of Malta]. She was married to Kirill Vladimirovich Romanov and Ernest Louis. She died on 2 March 1936 in Amorbach, Bavaria, Nazi Germany [now Amorbach, Bavaria, Germany].
- Cassie Livesey was born on 25 November 1876 in Llantrisant, Wales, UK. She was an actress, known for Variety (1935). She was married to Sam Livesey. She died on 22 December 1962 in Ramsgate, Kent, England, UK.
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John Larkin was born on 25 November 1877 in Wilmington, North Carolina, USA. He was an actor, known for The Wet Parade (1932), Sporting Blood (1931) and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936). He died on 18 March 1936 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- British playwright / director Harley Granville-Barker was born in London, England, in 1877. His schooling ended at age 13, when at the urging of his mother he entered a dramatic school / stock company at Margate. A year later he was performing on the London stage. He was writing plays at a very young age, and in 1899 had his first play produced on the London stage, "The Weather Hen". He soon joined the Stage Society as an actor and producer. In 1901 his play "The Marrying of Ann Leete" was produced on stage, to wide acclaim. In 1905 he became co-manager of The Court Theatre, He began to stage plays by authors who had a difficult time finding theaters that would showcase their works, such as Henrik Ibsen and George Bernard Shaw, and in fact Barker himself performed the lead in many of the Shaw plays they staged.
In 1907 he married Lillah McCarthy, an actress who had appeared in many of his productions, but they divorced in 1918. He then married Helen Mancheseter Gates, an American poet and novelist who later changed her professional name to Helen Granville-Barker. He decided to leave acting in 1910, but stayed in the theatrical business as a producer until 1934.
Barker is best known as a producer and director of plays by 'William Shakespare (I)', and in fact is considered by many Shakespeare devotees as the most important director of Shakespeare's plays in British theatrical history. He also translated the works of many foreign playwrights--many of them Spanish--into English, and wrote several scholarly books on drama and the theater.
He died in Paris, France, in August of 1946. - Cinematographer
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Abe Scholtz was born on 25 November 1877. He was a cinematographer, known for The Live Wire (1935), Police Call (1933) and The Gaucho (1927). He died on 4 September 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Bertold Reissig was born on 25 November 1877 in Hamburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Der Terministenklub (1919), Der schwarze Husar (1932) and Madame Bovary (1937). He died on 28 April 1960.
- William Sorelle was born on 25 November 1877 in Canada. He was an actor, known for The Prince and the Pauper (1915), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913) and Faust (1909). He died on 30 May 1944 in Tuolumne County, California, USA.
- Richard Assmann was born on 25 November 1877 in Schwerin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Schneider Wibbel (1954). He died on 4 December 1955 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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F.W. Baker was born on 25 November 1877 in Hollesley, Suffolk, England, UK. He is known for Mary Girl (1917), Goodbye (1918) and The Woman Who Was Nothing (1917).- Georg Kaiser was born on 25 November 1878 in Magdeburg, Germany. He was a writer and actor, known for Hunderttausend Dollars (1919), From Morning to Midnight (1920) and The Ghost Comes Home (1940). He was married to Margarethe Habenicht. He died on 4 June 1945 in Ascona, Switzerland.
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S.L. Cronin was born on 25 November 1879 in Hartford City, Indiana, USA. S.L. died on 16 November 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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Henry Francis Maltby was a South African-born playwright, theatre actor and director. A former bank clerk, he performed on stage from as early as 1899, later treading the boards of London's West End after military service in World War I. In addition to writing or adapting works for musical theatre, he also authored some 50 plays (primarily light comedies and satires), some of which were later filmed: Profit and the Loss (1917), The Rotters (1921), Just My Luck (1933), among others). Maltby wrote a number of film scripts by the early 20's, but did not act on screen until about 1934, by which time he became a prolific purveyor of comedic impersonations of pompous or apoplectic barristers, judges or military figures. His round-faced, chinless, beady-eyed countenance adapted itself with equal ease to doleful, mean or comedic personae. For that reason, he was consistently employed in diverse films ranging from Alfred Hitchcock thrillers to Will Hay farces. Maltby continued to write film scripts and radio plays well into the 1940's. His autobiography, "Ring Up the Curtain", appeared in 1950.- Leonard Woolf was born on 25 November 1880 in Kensington, London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Baddegama (1980), Unsolved Mysteries (1987) and New Release (1965). He was married to Virginia Woolf. He died on 14 August 1969 in Rodmell, Sussex, England, UK.
- Perceval Clarke was born on 25 November 1881 in Brentford, Middlesex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Nance (1920). He was married to Jean Cadell. He died on 6 June 1938 in Rochdale, Lancashire, England, UK.
- Pope John XXIII was born on 25 November 1881 in Sotto il Monte, Bergamo, Italy. He was a writer, known for A Man Named John (1965), Tu es Pierre (1959) and Pro Mundi Vita (1961). He died on 3 June 1963 in Vatican City.