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- Jane Austen was born on December 16th, 1775, to the local rector, Rev.
George Austen (1731-1805), and Cassandra Leigh (1739-1827). She was the
seventh of eight children. She had one older sister, Cassandra. In 1783
she went to Southampton to be taught by a relative, Mrs. Cawley, but
was brought home due to a local outbreak of disease. Two years later
she attended the Abbey Boarding School in Reading, reportedly wanting
to follow her sister Cassandra, until 1786.
Jane was mostly educated at home, where she learned how to play the
piano, draw and write creatively. She read frequently and later came to
enjoy social events such as parties, dances and balls. She disliked the
busy life of towns and preferred the country life, where she took to
taking long walks.
In 1801 Jane, her parents and sister moved to Bath, a year after her
father's retirement, and the family frequented the coast. While on one
of those coastal holidays she met a young man, but the resulting
romantic involvement ended tragically when he died. It is believed by
many astute Austen fans that her novel, "Persuasion", was inspired by
this incident.
Following her father's passing in January of 1805--which left his widow
and daughters with financial problems--the family moved several times
until finally settling into a small house, in Chawton, Hampshire, owned
by her brother Edward, which is reminiscent of "Sense and Sensibility".
It was in this house that she wrote most of her works.
In March of 1817 her health began to decline and she was forced to
abandon her work on "Sanditon", which she never completed. It turned
out that she had Addisons disease. In April she wrote out her will and
then on May 24th moved with Cassandra to Winchester, to be near her
physician. It was in Winchester she died, in the arms of her sister, on
Friday, 18 July 1817, at the age of only 41. She was buried the 24th of
July at Winchester Cathedral. Jane never married.
During her formative years, Jane wrote plays and poems. At 14 she wrote
her first novel, "Love and Freindship [sic]" and other juvenilia. Her
first (unsuccessful) submission to a publisher, however, was in 1797
titled "First Impressions" (later "Pride and Prejudice"). In 1803
"Susan" (later "Northanger Abbey") was actually sold to a publisher for
a mere £10 but was not published until 14 years later, posthumously.
Her first accepted work was in 1811 titled "Sense and Sensibility",
which was published anonymously as were all books published during her
lifetime. She revised "First Impressions" and published it entitled
"Pride and Prejudice" in 1813. "Mansfield Park" was published in 1814,
followed by "Emma" in 1816, the same year she completed "Persuasion"
and began "Sanditon", which was ultimately left unfinished. Both
"Persuasion" and "Northanger Abbey" were published in 1818, after her
death. - François-Adrien Boieldieu was born on 16 December 1775 in Rouen, Normandy, Kingdom of France [now Seine-Maritime, France]. He died on 8 October 1834 in Varennes-Jarcy, Essonne, France.
- Jules de Goncourt was born on 16 December 1830 in Paris, France. He was a writer, known for Époque et apparences ou Le temps des Goncourt (1967) and Germinie (1997). He died on 20 June 1870 in Paris, France.
- Gertrude Smith was born on 16 December 1842 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for Rainbow Island (1917) and Pinched (1917). She died on 8 May 1923 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor
- Director
George Osborne was born on 16 December 1848 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He was an actor and director, known for The Social Ghost (1914), The Vigil (1914) and Love's Sacrifice (1914). He was married to Helen Mason and Emma Louisa O'Brien. He died on 11 August 1916 in San Francisco, California, USA.- George Berrell (16 December 1849 - 20 April 1933) was an American actor
of both the 19th and early 20th Century stage and of the silent era. He
appeared in numerous stage plays as well as 55 films over the course of
a career that ran from 1850 to 1927.
He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and died in Los Angeles,
California.
Little can be found about George Berrell beyond brief descriptions of
his film career, however, he was an important though not famous actor,
stage manager and director of the 19th Century American theater, and
central to the growth of the theater in St. Louis. Born to a theatrical
family, he first appeared as an infant on stage at the Walnut Street
Theater in Philadelphia in 1850 . As a child he earned his keep and
helped support his widowed mother, an actress, by carrying costume
baskets for actors in any company of which she might be a member. John
Wilkes Booth was one of those, and Berrell speaks affectionately of him
in his unpublished autobiography, "Theatrical and Other
Reminiscsences." In his late teens and early twenties he roamed the
country, often afoot, with the goal of "growing up with the country,"
as he put it in the autobiography. Shortly after leaving Dr. Barton's
Military Academy outside of Philadelphia, he was walking south along
the Missouri River when a rider approached him from behind.
Dismounting, he introduced himself as Turner Tinnell and as they
traveled on by walk and tie, Turner offered Berrell a job teaching
school on Keg Island, a Missouri River mud flat island. Berrell
accepted and taught there for a year, his students being the children
of Confederate fugitives, many former members of Quantrill's Raiders
and cohorts of Frank and Jesse James. Illness forced him to leave and
he returned to Philadelphia where his mother nursed him back to health.
Later he explored the frontier, living for a while in Laramie, Wyoming,
where he describes his involvement in the arrest of a corrupt city
policeman name Louis Roudepouch.
For a number of years he alternated between traveling the country and
working odd jobs, in lumber camps, on the railroad, in drug stores and
post offices, doing whatever work he could find. In his late twenties
or early thirties he returned to the theater and stayed there until
around 1915 when he retired and started working in silent pictures, a
job he did not consider on a par with acting in the theater. In 1917 he
appeared in John Ford's first full-length film, "Straight Shooting."
The novel, "Shadows and Acts," by Wilson Roberts based in part on
Berrell's unpublished autobiography, details his adventurous life and
explores the conflicts engendered by his tempestuous relationship with
Booth and his life-long friendship with the actress, Catherine Terrell,
as well as his pursuit by Miranda Ives, the daughter of a serpent
handling preacher he first encountered while teaching on Keg Island.
The novel is due to be published in 2011. - Charles Beetham was born on 16 December 1855 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Man from Snowy River (1920), A Daughter of Australia (1922) and Tall Timber (1926). He died on 28 July 1937 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- Agnes Baden-Powell was born on 16 December 1858. She died on 2 June 1945.
- Eugène-Louis Doyen was born on 16 December 1859 in Reims, France. He died on 21 November 1916 in Paris, France.
- John Fox Jr. was born on 16 December 1862 in Stony Point, Kentucky, USA. John was a writer, known for The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936), The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1928) and Heart o' the Hills (1919). John was married to Fritzi Scheff. John died on 8 July 1919 in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, USA.
- Albert E. Raynor was born on 16 December 1862 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Princes in the Tower (1928), King of the Castle (1925) and The Squire of Long Hadley (1925). He died on 2 September 1945 in Bridport, Dorset, England, UK.
- Vane Featherston was born on 16 December 1864 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Brass Bottle (1914). She died on 6 November 1948 in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, UK.
- Olavo Bilac was born on 16 December 1865 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was a writer, known for Bandeirantes (1940) and Entre Versos (2022). He died on 28 December 1918 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Franz Rosen was born on 16 December 1869 in Berlin, Germany. She was a writer, known for Eines großen Mannes Liebe (1921). She was married to Konrad von Sydow. She died on 20 February 1945 in Stolzenfelde, West Pommerania, Germany.
- A native of central new Jersey, just northwest of the capital city of Trenton, Peter H. Updike went west, first to Illinois, and then to Harvard, Nebraska and later Omaha, Nebraska, where he was involved in the operation of banks and other lending institutions in Nebraska and in Oklahoma for several years. In 1907, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he and a group of investors bought the Exchange National Bank of Long Beach. He served as its President for six years before retiring to Long Beach, where he dabbled in local politics.
- Samuel Adams was born on 16 December 1870 in Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Pick a Star (1937), Amateur Crook (1937) and The Luckiest Girl in the World (1936). He died on 24 March 1958 in Sun Valley, California, USA.
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Ernest Shipman was born on 16 December 1871 in Shipman's Mills [now Almonte], Ontario, Canada. He was a producer, known for The Grub Stake (1923), Cameron of the Royal Mounted (1921) and The Rapids (1922). He was married to Nell Shipman, Roselle Knott and Sarah MacIntosh. He died on 7 August 1931 in New York City, New York, USA.- Franz Glawatsch was born on 16 December 1871 in Graz, Austria. He was an actor and director, known for Der fidele Bauer - 2. Terzett: Bauernmarsch (1908), Der fidele Bauer - Ich hab mein Zipfelhaubn (1908) and Wien, du Stadt der Lieder (1923). He died on 22 June 1928 in Vienna, Austria.
- Cinematographer
- Director
Hugh McClung was born on 16 December 1874 in Brenham, Texas, USA. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Fickle Women (1920), Smiling All the Way (1920) and Just Like a Woman (1923). He died on 5 January 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Suzanne Desprès was born on 16 December 1875 in Verdun, Meuse, France. She was an actress, known for Maria Chapdelaine (1934), Louise (1939) and Les soeurs ennemies (1915). She was married to Lugné-Poe. She died on 1 July 1951 in Paris, France.
- Harry Dunkinson was born on 16 December 1876 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for On Trial (1917), Skinner's Dress Suit (1917) and The Daredevil (1920). He was married to Hazel Reid. He died on 14 March 1936 in California, USA.
- Actor
- Writer
Ernest Butterworth was born on 16 December 1876 in Lancashire, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Mr. Fix-It (1918), The Love Special (1921) and Arizona (1918). He died on 22 April 1950 in Rural Pearblossom, California, USA.- Dina Galli was born on 16 December 1877 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. She was an actress, known for Felicita Colombo (1937), Frenzy (1939) and La zia smemorata (1940). She died on 4 March 1951 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
William Duncan was born on 16 December 1879 in Dundee, Tayside, Scotland, UK. He was an actor and director, known for The Steel Trail (1923), A Matrimonial Deluge (1913) and The Gunfighter's Son (1913). He was married to Edith Johnson. He died on 8 February 1961 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Hans Watzlik was born on 16 December 1879 in Dolní Dvoriste, Austria-Hungary. Hans was a writer, known for Durch die Wälder durch die Auen (1956). Hans died on 24 November 1948 in Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany.
- Lisa Weise was born on 16 December 1880 in Weimar, Germany. She was an actress, known for Klein Doortje (1917), Durchlaucht Hypochonder (1918) and Fräulein Wildfang (1916). She died on 6 December 1951 in Weimar, Germany.
- Author and playwright Anna Alice Chapin was born on December 16, 1880,
at Newport, New York, to Dr. Frederick Windle Chapin and Anna Jenkins
Hoppin. She would go on to be a popular writer of novels, short stories
and fairy tales. Chapin collaborated with
Glen MacDonough on the libretto "Babes
in Toyland" (1904) and was the author of at least two books on music,
"Wonder Tales from Wagner" (1898) and "Masters of Music: Their Lives
and Works" (1901). She also wrote several plays with her husband,
British-born actor/playwright,
Robert Peyton Carter.
Anna Alice Chapin died on February 26, 1920 at her residence in New
York City. She was preceded in death by her husband in 1918.
Chicago Tribune February 27, 1920, Los Angeles Times, July 8, 1918,
Miles Hewitt family Genealogy, The Critic, An Illustrated Monthly
Review of Literature, Art and Life, July-December 1904, - Warburton Gamble was born on 16 December 1882 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for A Study in Scarlet (1933), Scotland Yard Commands (1936) and Fine Feathers (1921). He was married to Gillian Amy Scaife. He died on 27 August 1945 in London, England, UK.
- Jack Hobbs was born on 16 December 1882 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK. He died on 21 December 1963 in Hove, East Sussex, England, UK.
- Composer
- Music Department
- Writer
His work as folk song collector began in 1905. In 1907 he was appointed
lecturer at the Academy of Music where he taught music history and
composing. His own works were first published in 1910. In 1919 he
participated in the work of the musical directorium, for which later a
disciplinary procedure was initiated against him, his appointment was
declared null and void and he could no longer teach. His isolation came
to an end with the international success of Psalmus Hungaricus in 1923
and his musical comedy entitled Hary János became a success the world
over in 1926. His musical piece Szekelyfonó was presented in 1932.
Further works of Kodaly include: Marosszeki tancok (1927-1930)
(Marosszek Dances), Nyari este (1927) (Summer Evening), Galantai táncok
(1933) (Galanta Dances), Budavari Te Deum (Buda Te Deum)- to the 250th
anniversary of the liberation of Buda (1936), Folszallott a pava (1939)
(The Peacock Is Flying) and Concerto (1940). His activity of music
history was also of importance, his monograph entitled Hungarian Folk
Music was published in 1937. During the Second World War he protected
the persecuted but later had to go into hiding himself. He created
Missa brevis in 1945. He was involved in the democratic rebirth and
became the chairman of the board of directors of the Academy of Music.
Between 1946 and 1949 he was the president of the Hungarian Academy of
Sciences. Of his work, Czinka Panna was first shown in 1948, Kallai
kettos was presented in 1951. Between 1951 and 1967 the first volume of
the Treasury of Hungarian Folk Music was published and his views and
ideas were manifest in musical education, as well. His work earned him
the Kossuth Prize in 1948 and in 1952. He made an important
contribution to the study of folklore, music history, music aesthetics,
music criticism, as well as to that of literary history, linguistics
and the cultivation of the language. He spent his entire life fighting
for the musical education of the youth, including the teaching of
singing in schools, and the basic function of musical reading and
writing as part of the curriculum and the cultivation of choir music
based on Hungarian elements. The Kodaly method is today well-known and
practised in musical education throughout the world.- Helena Sulimowa was born on 16 December 1882 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Tajemnica medalionu (1922), Pan Tadeusz (1928) and Carska faworyta (1918). She died in August 1944 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Kendrew Milson was born on 16 December 1882 in Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Warden (1951), BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950) and The Director (1949). He died in 1955 in Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Although all too frequently neglected by fans of silent comedy, Max Linder
is in many ways as important a figure as Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton or Harold Lloyd, not least because he predated (and influenced) them all by several
years and was largely responsible for the creation of the classic
style of silent slapstick comedy.
Linder started out as an actor in the
French theatre, but after making his screen debut in 1905 he quickly
became an enormously famous and successful film comedian on both sides
of the Atlantic, thanks to his character "Max," a top-hatted dandy. By
1912 he was the highest-paid film star in the world, with an
unprecedented salary of one million francs. He began to direct films in
1911 and showed equal facility behind the camera, but his career
suffered an almost terminal blow when he was drafted into the French army to fight in
World War I. He was gassed, and the illness that resulted would blight
his career. Although offered a contract in America, recurring
ill health meant that his US films had little of the sparkle of his
early French work, and a brief attempt to revive his career by making
films for the recently-formed United Artists (one of whose founders, of
course, was Chaplin) in the early 1920s came to little, although these
later films are now regarded as classics. He returned to France and
killed himself in a suicide pact with his wife in 1925.- Károly Kós was born on 16 December 1883 in Temesvár, Austria-Hungary. He was a writer, known for Budai Nagy Antal (1971), Ezerkilencszáztizenkilenc (2020) and Hajlékot embernek (1972). He died on 24 August 1977 in Cluj, Romania.
- Van Hauwaert was born on 16 December 1883 in Moorslede, Flanders, Belgium. He was an actor, known for La ronde infernale (1913). He died on 15 February 1974 in Zellik, Flanders, Belgium.
- Kazimierz Lewicki was born on 16 December 1883 in Stanislawów, Stanislawowskie, Poland [now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Dezerter (1958) and Christiania - du har mit hjerte (1991). He died on 5 July 1962 in Katowice, Slaskie, Poland.
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
J.M. Kerrigan was born on 16 December 1884 in Dublin, Ireland. He was an actor and director, known for Gone with the Wind (1939), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) and The Wolf Man (1941). He died on 29 April 1964 in Hollywood, California, USA.- S.J. Warmington was born on 16 December 1884 in Hoxton, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Sabotage (1936), Murder! (1930) and Wisp o' the Woods (1919). He was married to Olga Slade. He died on 11 May 1941 in Kensington, London, England, UK.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Andor Sárossy was born on 16 December 1885 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. He was an actor, known for Leányvásár (1941), Egy csók és más semmi (1941) and A kék bálvány (1931). He died on 30 November 1967.- Actress
- Director
Stacia Napierkowska was born on 16 December 1886 in Paris, France. She was an actress and director, known for Missing Husbands (1921), Les vampires (1915) and The Marriage of Psyche and Cupid (1913). She died on 11 May 1945 in Paris, France.- Ingeborg Pehrson was born on 16 December 1886 in Denmark. She was an actress, known for Lille Dorrit (1924), Week-end (1935) and Man elsker kun en gang (1945). She died on 11 April 1950 in Denmark.
- Erzsi Paulay was born on 16 December 1886 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. She was an actress, known for Elnémult harangok (1916), A halhatatlan asszony (1917) and Elnémult harangok (1922). She was married to Vittorio Cerutti. She died on 26 June 1959 in Valenza, Piedmont, Italy.
- Violet Hopson born Elma Kate Victoria Karkeek in Port August, Australia
in 1891, her earliest performances were with the Pollard Opera Company
in Australia and New Zealand from 1898 to 1900. Arrived in the US in
the early 1900's with her older sister Zoe and became popular in drama
theatre, a few years later Violet worked in the British theatre's
appearing in drama and comedy. Although Australian by birth she would
become a star of English films and would in fact epitomize the
typically demure English heroine, her first movie was with the Cricks
and Martin Film Company in 'Mr. Tubby's Triumph' a comedy directed by
David Aylott and co-starring Johnny Butt in 1910. Became highly
well-known as Hepworth's 'Dear Delightful Villianess' a brunette beauty
in melodramas and comedies as 'The Vicar of Wakefield' in 1913,
'Barnaby Rudge' in 1915 and 'A Daughter of Eve' in 1919. Her career
suffered slightly following the end of her marriage to actor Alec
Worcester also known by his stage name Alexander Worster whom she
married in Luton in 1909 the divorce in 1919 was on the ground's of his
adultery and desertion, they had two children Nicholas born in 1910 and
Jessica born in 1913. She became the first actress in England to be
head her own production film company with producer/director Walter West
after her divorce and in the early 1920's she occasionally played
cockney waif in such films as 'Vi of Smith's Alley' (1921) and also
excelled in portraying high class ladies as in 'Beautiful Kitty' (1923)
and 'The Great Turf Mystery' (1924). With the rise of the talkies her
career came to an end only appearing in minor roles until her last 'One
Precious Year' in 1933. She died on the 21th July 1973 in Princess
Louise Hospital, Kensington, London, the records naming her as Elma
Kate Worster, she was cremated in Kensal Green Crematorium - A.R. Haysel was born on 16 December 1887 in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. He was an actor, known for Mills of the Gods (1934), Name the Woman (1934) and A Man's Game (1934). He died on 28 July 1954 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- With M. T. Jones, formed the Beach-Jones Stock Company, a well-known repertoire troupe based in Wisconsin.
Guy served in World War I.
With wife, Eloda Sitzer Beach, adopted a daughter (Eloda, or 'Little Eloda') in 1924.
Guy and Eloda Beach made their home in La Crosse, Wisconsin. They were active in La Crosse's social scene, forming a baseball team and hosting parties on the rooftop garden at their beautiful Spanish Revival home at 205 Losey Boulevard. - Margery Caldicott was born on 16 December 1887 in Claines, Worcestershire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950), ITV Television Playhouse (1955) and Rupert of Hentzau (1957). She died on 25 May 1974 in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England, UK.
- Hermann Kner was born on 16 December 1888 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. He was an actor, known for Viktoria und ihr Husar (1954), Geständnis unter vier Augen (1954) and Die verkaufte Braut (1932). He died on 28 December 1957 in Hamburg, West Germany.
- Owen Martin was born on 16 December 1888 in County Monaghan, Ireland, UK. He was an actor, known for The Pajama Game (1957), The Parson and the Bully (1911) and A Mail Bride (1932). He died on 4 May 1960 in Saranac Lake, New York, USA.
- Writer
- Director
Shannon Fife was born on 16 December 1888 in Texas, USA. He was a writer and director, known for Jinx (1919), Maternity (1917) and Susie Snowflake (1916). He died on 7 May 1972 in Dallas, Texas, USA.- King Alexander of Yugoslavia was born on 16 December 1888 in Cetinje, Montenegro. He was married to Marija Karadjordjevic. He died on 9 October 1934 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.