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John Milton was an English poet and intellectual who served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious and political instability, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667). Written in blank verse, Paradise Lost is widely considered to be one of the greatest works of literature ever written.- Music Department
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Emil Waldteufel was born on 9 December 1837 in Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France. He is known for Enthiran (2010), Mute (2018) and Victor Frankenstein (2015). He was married to Célestine Dufau. He died on 12 February 1915 in Paris, France.- Music Department
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Carl David af Wirsén was born on 9 December 1842 in Vallentuna, Stockholms län, Sweden. Carl David af is known for The Hunters (1996), Miraklet i Viskan (2015) and Suddenly (2006). Carl David af died on 12 June 1912 in Stockholm, Sweden.- Additional Crew
Pyotr Kropotkin was born on 9 December 1842 in Moscow, Russia. He is known for Unrest (2022). He died on 8 February 1921 in Dmitrov, Russia.- Joseph B. Coghlan was born on 9 December 1844 in Frankfort, Kentucky, USA. He died on 5 December 1908 in New Rochelle, New York, USA.
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George Grossmith was born on 9 December 1847 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Time Machine (2002), Six (1964) and Wilson (1944). He died on 1 March 1912 in Folkestone, Kent, England, UK.- Joel Chandler Harris was born on 9 December 1848 in Eatonton, Georgia, USA. Joel Chandler was a writer, known for Song of the South (1946), Splash Mountain (1989) and Brer Rabbit and the Wonderful Tar Baby (1991). Joel Chandler was married to Esther LaRose. Joel Chandler died on 3 July 1908 in West End, Georgia, USA.
- Jan Zelenka was born on 9 December 1856 in Pecínov, Austrian Empire [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Mnichovo srdce (1921), Probuzené svedomí (1919) and Sivooký démon (1919). He died on 1 December 1931 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
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Edgar Smith was born on 9 December 1857 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Old Dutch (1915), Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943) and Song of the Roses (1929). He was married to Nanette B. Nixon, Estelle Bensel and Marietta Lydia Oliver. He died on 8 March 1938 in Bayside, New York, USA.- Director
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Alfred Halm was born on 9 December 1861 in Vienna, Austrian Empire [now Austria]. He was a director and writer, known for Rose Bernd (1919), Prinzesschen (1920) and Das Frühlingslied (1918). He died on 5 February 1951 in Berlin, Germany.- Alfred Brydone was born on 9 December 1863 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Richard III (1911) and The Lyons Mail (1916). He was married to Ella Mary Tarrant. He died on 26 November 1920 in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, England, UK.
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Composer ("Sweet and Low"), and educator, a graduate of Rollins College (honorary music degree) and the Curtis Institute, and a music student of Chadwick and Rheinberger. He taught harmony and counterpoint in Boston. Joining ASCAP in 1924, his other song compositions included "Thy Voice is Heard", "Dearest", "Sheep and Lambs", and "Banjo Song".- Soundtrack
H.H. Morant was born on 9 December 1864 in Bridgwater, Somerset, England, UK. He died on 27 February 1902 in Pietersburg, Transvaal Colony.- American novelist/poet Meredith Nicholson was born John Ramsay Allardyce Nicholson on June 28, 1894, in Crawfordsvlle, Indiana. After graduating from high school he took a variety of jobs, including court reporter, At 16 he had his first poems published in a few weekly journals, and not long afterwards became a published author when he received $5 for a short story he submitted to the "Chicgo Tribune" newspaper.
While working in Colorado as treasurer for a mining company, Nicholson wrote an historical study, "The Hoosiers" (1900). In 1905 he wrote what is probably his best-known novel, "The House of a Thousand Candles", which was later made into several films. He was a prolific author, but none of his novels was as successful as "The House of a Thousand Candles". - Gregorios Xenopoulos was a novelist, journalist and playwright from Zakynthos. He was lead editor in the magazine The Education of Children during the period from 1896 to 1948, during which time he was also the magazine's main author. His was the trademark signature "Sas aspazomai, Faidon" ("Yours sincerely, Phaedon)", which he used in letters ostensibly addressed to the magazine. He was also the founder and editor of the Nea Estia magazine, which is still published. He became a member of the Academy of Athens in 1931, and founded the Society of Greek Writers together with Kostis Palamas, Angelos Sikelianos and Nikos Kazantzakis.
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Leon Xanrof was born on 9 December 1867 in Paris, France. He was a writer, known for The Love Parade (1929), Blanc comme neige (1931) and Love in the Time of Cholera (2007). He died on 17 May 1953 in Paris, France.- Haber came from a Jewish family. His father ran a trading business for fabrics, paints, varnishes and drugs. Severe complications occurred during his birth; the mother died three weeks later. After completing a commercial apprenticeship, he studied chemistry in Berlin and Heidelberg from 1886. In Berlin he received his doctorate in organic chemistry in 1891 with a thesis on some derivatives of piperonal. Meanwhile, Haber converted to the Protestant Christian faith in 1893. In 1894, Haber received an assistant position in physical chemistry at the Karlsruhe University of Technology and completed his habilitation there in 1896.
In 1898, Haber received an appointment as a professor at the University of Karlsruhe. From 1904 he worked on the catalytic formation of ammonia. In 1908, the chemist found a method to obtain ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen under high temperature and pressure. On October 12, 1908, his research was patented. He was a professor at the University of Berlin from 1906 and an honorary professor of physical chemistry from 1912. In 1911 he was appointed head of the Institute for Physical Chemistry of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, the predecessor of today's Max Planck Society. He released his "process for the synthetic production of ammonia from the elements" to BASF for commercial use.
At the same time he worked here as a scientist. Haber worked primarily in the fields of electrochemistry and investigated the thermodynamics of gas reactions. He also made a contribution to organic chemistry through work on nitro compounds. In addition to studies of physical chemistry, nitrogen reactions became his preferred area of research. He tried to synthesize ammonia, which is an indispensable basis for the production of explosives and fertilizer. This enabled Carl Bosch to develop the so-called Haber-Bosch process in industrial production in 1913.
After the outbreak of the First World War, Haber offered the institute's services to the Prussian army administration in 1914. The institute was subsequently involved in the development of gas weapons, which were used on a mass scale for the first time during this war, for example in the chlorine gas attack near Ypres on April 22, 1915. The chemist received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for the synthesis of ammonia. In March 1919, the German Society for Pest Control (Degesch) was founded, initially headed by him and, from 1920, Walter Heerdt. Since the founding of I.G. Farben joined their supervisory board in 1925. Haber was able to maintain his leadership position through the institute even after the end of the war in the Weimar Republic.
It was only after Adolf Hitler came to power in January 1933 that the chemist of Jewish descent was forced out of his position and scientific work in Germany. He emigrated in 1933, first to Great Britain and then to Switzerland.
Fritz Haber died on January 29, 1934 in Basel. - Actress
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Edith Craig born in Hertfordshire in 1869 from a famous theatre family, daughter of the legendary stage star Ellen Terry and architect-designer Edward William Godwin. Edith became a well-known stage director, producer, costume designer and actress making her stage debut at the Royal Court Theatre in 1878, sophisticated upper-class lady in a handful of film roles first appearing as the 'Dresser' in 'Her Greatest Performance' starring her mother Ellen Terry and Dennis Neilson-Terry and directed by Fred Paul for the Ideal Film Company in 1916, followed by a few other film roles at Master (Butcher) Film Company and the British Gaumont Film Co until 1923. later she was seen in a few talkies until 'Smashing the Rackets' in 1938. she was also a early pioneer of the women's suffrage movement in England and a classical pianist, she died in Kent in 1947 aged 78.- Bert Sprotte was born on 9 December 1870 in Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927), It Could Happen to You (1937) and Snowdrift (1923). He was married to Alma Ruzena. He died on 30 December 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- George Washington Ogden was born on 9 December 1871 in Johnson County, Kansas, USA. He was a writer, known for The Bond Boy (1922), The Duke of Chimney Butte (1921) and The Trail Rider (1925). He died on 31 March 1966 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
- Nessie Blackford was born on 9 December 1872 in Strand, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Narrow Valley (1921), The Homemaker (1919) and The Knave of Hearts (1919). She was married to Edward John Eedle. She died in 1964 in Bristol, England, UK.
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Messmore Kendall was born on 9 December 1872 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. Messmore was a producer, known for Pardon My French (1921), The Song of the Soul (1920) and Cardigan (1922). Messmore was married to Sepha Treble, Elizabeth Thomason and Katherine Grace Flynn. Messmore died on 1 May 1959 in Palm Beach, Florida, USA.- Barry Furness was born on 9 December 1874 in Camberwell, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Call of the Road (1920). He died on 24 December 1921 in Exeter, Devon, England, UK.
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Carlo Zangarini was born on 9 December 1874 in Bologna, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for The Immigrant (2013), The Man Without a Face (1993) and L'abbraccio della vergine di ferro (1919). He died on 19 July 1943 in Bologna, Italy.- Actor
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Lyster Chambers was born on 9 December 1875 in Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for Fine Feathers (1915), Bride 13 (1920) and Gretna Green (1915). He was married to Helen Ashmun. He died on 27 January 1947 in Manhattan, New York, USA.- Jeanne Tramcourt was born on 9 December 1875. She was an actress, known for Leaves From Satan's Book (1920). She died on 2 January 1952.
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Berton Churchill was born on 9 December 1876 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Stagecoach (1939), Sweethearts (1938) and Steamboat Round the Bend (1935). He was married to Harriet Elizabeth Gardner. He died on 10 October 1940 in New York City, New York, USA.- Lili Marberg was born on 9 December 1876 in Grimma, Saxony, Germany. She was an actress, known for Das Kriegspatenkind (1915), Silhouetten (1936) and Az összeesküvök (1919). She was married to Karl Hans Jaray. She died on 8 April 1962 in Vienna, Austria.
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Marius Holdt was born on 9 December 1877 in Kolding, Denmark. He was a cinematographer and producer, known for Storbyens symfoni (1935), Gräfin Vera (1920) and Der Kampf um die Ehe - 1. Teil: Wenn in der Ehe die Liebe stirbt (1919). He died on 27 September 1974.- Cinematographer
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A.C. Abadie was born on 9 December 1878 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Birth (1917), Orphans in the Surf (1903) and Annual Baby Parade, 1904, Asbury Park, N.J. (1904). He was married to Natalie Evaline Harris. He died on 1 January 1950 in San Francisco, California, USA.- Robert Conville was born on 9 December 1878 in Belgrade, Maine, USA. He was an actor, known for Out of the Clouds (1921), Out of the Drifts (1916) and Mice and Men (1916). He died on 28 February 1950 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Mariette Sully was born on 9 December 1878 in Brussels, Belgium. She is known for La chanson du souvenir (1937), L'enfant de l'amour (1930) and La poupée (1900).
- Wellington A. Playter was born on 9 December 1879 in Rawcliffe, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for Back to God's Country (1919), The Wicked Darling (1919) and The County Chairman (1914). He died on 15 July 1937 in Oakland, California, USA.
- James Beardsley Hendryx was born on 9 December, 1880, at Sauk Centre, Minnesota, the son of Charles F. Hendryx (1847-1935) and Fanny Galt Taylor (1848-1930). His father, who owned and published the Sauk Centre Herald, was thought to be the last surviving member of the first graduating class at Cornell University. His mother was a grand-daughter of US President William Henry Harrison and a first cousin to President Benjamin Harrison.
As a boy Hendryx liked to hunt and fish, often with his good friend Claude Lewis (1878-1957). Claude, who later became a well-known surgeon, had a younger brother everybody called Red. Red would sometimes make a nuisance of himself by wanting to tag along with the two older boys. Red Sinclair, better known to us as Sinclair Lewis, went on to become Sauk Centre's most famous son. When once asked by Claude what was the difference between his writing and Sinclair's, Hendryx replied "The difference is that Red gets a dollar a word, and I get a penny a word."
Hendryx left the University of Minnesota after a year's attendance. Of his college experience Hendryx wrote "Attended public school for a vast number of years during which I learned to fish, hunt and trap, then entered the University of Minnesota where I absorbed so much of the curriculum that even yet fragments of it work to the surface and have to be carefully removed."
Before turning to writing fiction, Hendryx had worked as a newspaper reporter, hardware salesman, life insurance agent, purchasing agent for a leather tannery, helped run levels for a survey crew and bookkeeper for a sheep-shearing plant. His longest continuous job was at the tannery in Kentucky. "I stayed there 53 weeks," Hendryx once wrote, "and to this day that remains my record for holding a steady job." His career as a newspaper reporter on the Cincinnati American was cut short after he clandestinely inserted the headline "Jenkins Jerked to Jesus at Joilet" on a column he wrote about a hanging he was sent to witness. The editor (his father) thought it inappropriate and felt it better if he left.
Hendryx had also worked as a cowboy on cattle ranches in Montana and later Saskatchewan. While in Montana Hendryx became acquainted with the outlaw Kid Curry and his brother Lonny. Later he could not bring himself to join a posse intent on capturing the brothers. Around 1898 Hendryx and a friend trekked their way north to seek their fortunes in the Yukon Gold Rush. Soon he was back working as a cowboy on ranches in the western United States.
On 27 October, 1915, not long after his first novel, "The Promise", was published, Hendryx married Hermione Flagler (1888-1967) in Cincinnati, Ohio. A native of Boston, Massachusetts, she was the daughter of Edgar Henry Flagler and Jessie Hill. Over the next six years Hendryx and his wife would have three children, Hermione F. (1918), James Jr. (1919) and Betty H. (1921).
James B. Hendryx wrote around seventy novel and hundreds of short stories. His favorite settings were the Canadian and Alaskan wilderness. He repeatedly returned to plot lines concerning the Klondike Gold Rush. Best known of which are, the Black John Smith of Halfaday Creek series, published in 6 novels and 13 anthologies and his 8 Connie Morgan novels. By the 1920s Hendryx's writings were earning him around $45,000 annually, a fair sum for the day. In 3 May, 1956 Hendryx received national attention when he was chosen to appear on This Is Your Life (1952) with Ralph Edwards.
James Beardsley Hendryx died on 1 March, 1963, after an eight month stay at Munson Hospital in Traverse City, Michigan. He was survived by his wife and children. He had remained an avid fisherman and hunter for most of his life. For a number of years he operated a ranch in the Badlands of Wyoming and maintained a cabin near Thessalon, Ontario. It was said of Hendryx that he was as tough as his characters, yet with a great sense of humor, gentle manner and that he really experienced the things he wrote about. - Mikhail Mordkin was born on 9 December 1880 in Moscow, Russia. He was an actor, known for Aziade (1918). He was married to Bronislava Pajitzkaya. He died on 15 July 1944 in Millbrook, New Jersey, USA.
- Werner von der Schulenburg was born on 9 December 1881 in Pinneberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He was a writer, known for ...und die Liebe lacht dazu (1957). He died on 29 March 1958 in Magliaso, Switzerland.
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Elmer Booth was born on 9 December 1882 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for His Auto's Maiden Trip (1912), Why He Gave Up (1911) and Abe Gets Even with Father (1911). He was married to Irene Outtrim. He died on 16 June 1915 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Composer
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Joaquín Turina was born on 9 December 1882 in Seville, Spain. He was a composer, known for Duplicity (2009), Zorro: The Gay Blade (1981) and Fuego en la sangre (1953). He was married to Obdulia Garzón. He died on 14 January 1949 in Madrid, Spain.- Producer
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Franz Vogel was born on 9 December 1883 in Berlin, Germany. He was a producer and production manager, known for Das Recht auf Dasein (1913), Hochzeit mit Erika (1950) and Die beiden Schwestern (1943). He died on 4 October 1956 in Berlin, Germany.- Annibale Betrone was born on 9 December 1883 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He was an actor, known for We the Living (1942), Capitan Tempesta (1942) and Addio Kira! (1942). He was married to Elvira Betrone. He died on 11 December 1950 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Kornél Ocskay was born on 9 December 1885 in Szeged, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Növérek (1912) and A Föld (1953). He died on 12 August 1963 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Yuriy Slyozkin was born on 9 December 1885. Yuriy was a writer, known for Gilan qizi (1928) and Vesenniy potok (1941). Yuriy died on 26 December 1947.
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Grete Wiesenthal was born on 9 December 1885 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. She was an actress, known for The Girl from Abroad; or, The Great Underworld (1913), Kadra Sâfa (1914) and Der Traum des Künstlers (1919). She died on 22 June 1970 in Vienna, Austria.- Actor
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David Mir was born on 9 December 1886 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was an actor and costume designer, known for The Cavalier (1928), La Bohème (1926) and The Only Thing (1925). He died on 23 January 1962 in Stuart, Florida, USA.- Raymond Bloomer was born on 9 December 1886 in Rochester, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Broadway Rose (1922), Out of a Clear Sky (1918) and The Town That Forgot God (1922). He died in February 1982 in Glen Falls, New York, USA.
- Although Tim Moore will forever be known as "The Kingfish" in the pioneering series The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951), he was actually far better known for his career on the stage and as a comedian in vaudeville than he was for his film and television work. In fact, he had only made (as far as is known) three films before "Amos 'n' Andy", and he had to be coaxed out of retirement to play in that show.
Moore was born into a family of 15 children in Illinois. He left school at age 11 to join a traveling vaudeville act called "Cora Miskel and Her Gold Dust Twins", which was such a hit in the U.S. that it toured Europe. He had a long and successful career in vaudeville and another successful run on Broadway in "Blackbirds". He also did much work on radio. The "Amos 'n' Andy" TV series was a major hit and made Moore--or, rather, "The Kingfish"--a household word. After the show's run he retired again, except for an occasional appearance on TV talk shows to reminisce about the series. He died of tuberculosis in 1958. - Art Director
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Lawrence Hitt was born on 9 December 1887 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was an art director and production designer, known for The Legion of the Condemned (1928), A Sainted Devil (1924) and The Spaniard (1925). He died on 22 February 1979 in Brevard, Florida, USA.- Anton Soini was born on 9 December 1888 in Iisalmi, Finland. He was an actor, known for Saariston tyttö (1953), Tulipunainen kyyhkynen (1961) and Inspector Palmu's Error (1960). He was married to Alma Rinne and Hanna Mähönen. He died on 29 April 1961 in Helsinki, Finland.
- Elias Lazaroff was born on 9 December 1888. He was an actor, known for Loser's End (1935). He died on 25 December 1976 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Mark Hamilton was born on December 9, 1889 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA as Mark Lafayette Hamilton. He was a character actor known for Barbara Frietchie (1924), Riders of the Purple Sage (1925), The Rainbow Trail (1925), Sparrows (1926), and City Girl (1930). He died on April 12, 1963 in Walla Walla, Washington at the Veteran's Administration Hospital and was buried with military honors in Tacoma, Washington.