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- Ichiyo Higuchi was born on 25 March 1872. Ichiyo was a writer, known for Nigorie (1953) and Midare makura (1976). Ichiyo died on 23 November 1896.
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Aubrey Beardsley was born on 21 August 1872 in Brighton, England, UK. Aubrey is known for Between Earth and the End of Time (1995). Aubrey died on 16 March 1898 in Cosmopolitan Hotel, Menton, France.- Writer
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Paul Laurence Dunbar was born on 27 June 1872 in Dayton, Ohio, USA. Paul Laurence was a writer, known for The Sport of the Gods (1921), Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970) and The Scapegoat (1917). Paul Laurence was married to Alice Ruth Moore. Paul Laurence died on 9 February 1906 in Dayton, Ohio, USA.- John Wigforss was born on 4 October 1872 in Karlshamn, Blekinge län, Sweden. He was a writer, known for Sten Stensson kommer till stan (1945), Sten Stensson Stéen från Eslöv (1924) and Sten Stensson Stéen från Eslöv på nya äventyr (1932). He died on 7 September 1909 in Karlstad, Värmlands län, Sweden.
- Gus Ruhlin was born on 8 January 1872 in Canton, Ohio, USA. He died on 13 February 1912 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Mace Greenleaf began as a stage actor starring and supporting in many popular plays, perhaps his best known roles was as Herbert, the King's Forrester in 'The Prisoner of Zenda' in the 1890's and in 1898 played Mr. Hunston in Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'Trelawny of the Wells' at the Lyceum Theatre in New York, other Broadway performances was in 'The Pride of Jennico' with James K. Hackett at the Citerion Theatre in 1900 and played Myrtle May's lover in 'The Parish Priest'. Over the first decade of the new century played starring roles in stock companies all over America, he returned to Broadway in 1905 to play the Prince of Wales in the romantic musical 'Edmond Burke'. In 1911 he joined the film industry where he would star in at least 20 drama movies, making his debut in The Golden Rule (1911) co-starring James Kirkwood at the Reliance Film Co. He is perhaps best known as Dr. Earl Headley in Alice Guy Blache's Falling Leaves (1912) for the Solax Film Co in 1912. His last film before his sudden death from pneumonia age 38 was in The Girl in the Arm-Chair (1912) with Blanche Cornwall. In 1906 Mace married Lucy Banning in Santa Ana, California, Lucy came from a very wealthy family they owned Catalina Island, she left Mace in 1910 for the son of prominent judge, Mace divorced his beautiful wife on the ground of desertion, Lucy was known as something of a free spirit and often scandalized 'polite society' with the number of men in her life.
- Edward Adrian Wilson was born on 23 July 1872 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK. He died on 29 March 1912 in Antarctica.
- Emily Wilding Davison was born on 11 October 1872 in Blackheath, London, England, UK. She died on 8 June 1913 in Esher, Surrey, England, UK.
- David Daniel Cohen was born on 12 March 1872 in Selma, Alabama, USA. David Daniel was a writer, known for The Master Mind (1914) and The Master Mind (1920). David Daniel died on 13 November 1913 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
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Alexander Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist who invented the first colour keyboard and notation for lights and colors based on his scale of Synesthetic colors. His symphony 'Prometheus: The Poem of Fire' (1910) was the first composition in history which included notation for lights and colors. Scriabin's large-scale performances in Moscow and New York were the first live shows ever with lights and colors played on a colour keyboard and projected to the beat and harmony of his music, thus preceding modern day rock concerts.
He was born Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin on January 6, 1872, (old calendar date December 25, 1871, the Russian Orthodox Christmas), in Moscow, Russia. His father, named Nikolai Scriabin, was a wealthy aristocrat, a lawyer, and a ranking diplomat, who lived mostly in the Russian embassies abroad. His mother, named Lyubov Petrovna, was a professional pianist; she died when Scriabin was only one year old. Young Scriabin was brought up by his aunt, and played his first music on his late mother's piano.
His first piano teacher was Nikolai Zverev who was also teaching Sergei Rachmaninoff at the same time, and two composers developed a life-long friendship. From 1882-1889 he studied sciences and languages at the Moscow School of Cadets. From 1888-1892 Scriabin studied piano and composition under 'Sergei Taneyev' at Moscow Conservatory, graduating in 1892, as composer and pianist, then he became a professor at the same conservatory. In 1896 Scriabin married a famous Russian pianist, Vera Isakovich, who was the winner of the Gold Medal for performances of Scriabin's piano music. Before 1900 Scriabin joined the Moscow Philosophic Society and studied various schools of thought in his pursuit of inspirational ideas.
From 1904-1910 Scriabin was living and concertizing in Western Europe and in the United States. He was a remarkable pianist and successfully performed his original compositions before international audiences. At that time Scriabin became a curious student of contemporary philosophic trends and literature. His readings ranged from Oriental philosophies and Metaphysics, to Friedrich Nietzsche, whose 'ubermensch' theory Scriabin eventually outgrew, to Astrology and Medicine, and to Sir Isaac Newton's 'Optics'. He joined the circle of the Belgian Symbolist and Occultist Jean Delwille in Brussels. Scriabin also entered the circle of late Helene Blavatsky in London, studied her Theosophy, and even visited the room where she died. Scriabin's search for inspiration was not limited to Mysticism, Astrology and other Esoteric writings of the time. From 1907-1910 Scriabin lived in Paris with his second wife, Tatiana Schletser. There he was involved in the circle of Sergei Diaghilev and provided his compositions for concerts of Russian music. He also gave piano performances with the Russian Symphony Orchestra directed by M. I. Altshuller.
Scriabin was gifted with syn-aesthetic ability, though probably different from that of the physiological gift of Wassily Kandinsky, or a cognate cross-sensational gift of Vladimir Nabokov. Scriabin was the first composer in the world who wrote the musical notation for the light and color, thus making color intertwined with sound in a cross-senses harmony. In his symphonic poem 'Prometheus: the Poem of Fire' (1909) he wrote the line with notation for 'Luxe', a specially designed multicolor light projector with colored light-bulbs which was controlled by Scriabin himself playing on a colour keyboard. The multi-colored keyboard was first built in Russia by physicist Alexander Moser in 1910 for the performances of 'Prometheus'. It's performances in Moscow and in New York were the first ever orchestral concerts with color accompaniment being projected on a special screen. Scriabin also experimented with such styles as musical impressionism and expressionism. His harmonic and melodic inventiveness became manifested in his piano works and especially in his orchestral compositions. The 'Prometheus' chord' was the beginning in Scriabin's search for the new tonal/harmonic means of expression. His theory of the 'Synthesis of arts' made profound effect on innovations in film and theatre, most notably those of Vsevolod Meyerhold at the Moscow Art Theatre.
In 1915 Scriabin worked on developing of a new form of entertainment that would unite all Mankind through music, art, light, acting and interaction between performers and public. For this project Scriabin started a draft of a new cross-genre composition, which included music, literature, dance, architecture, natural landscape and light. He contemplated a seven-day long composition titled 'Misterium', of which he wrote down a few fragments on seventy pages shortly before his death. He described the composition in his draft as "a grandiose religious synthesis of all arts which would herald the birth of a New World." Scriabin planned his work to be performed at the foothills of the Himalayan mountains. Scriabin planned to include the Sunrises and the Sunsets into the measures of his unfinished music score. Part of that unfinished composition was performed under the title of 'Prefatory Action' by Vladimir Ashkenazy in Berlin with Aleksey Lyubimov at the piano. The idea of a seven-day music piece was later realized by Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Scriabin's admirer and friend poet Valery Briusov was a regular guest at Scriabin's home, where composer performed for friends and absorbed new ideas in cross-disciplinary discussions. Those discussions initially revolved around Symbolism in Art, and then eventually led to Scriabin's idea of "Future Art" or "Synthesis of Arts" alluding to a term "Gezamtkunstwerk" which was originally coined by Richard Wagner. Music and cultural heritage of other nations was among important sources of inspiration for Scriabin, who was also known as an acclaimed piano performer of music by Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt and Ludwig van Beethoven. Scriabin's original piano pieces show progressive development of his own tonal and harmonic thinking. His ten piano sonatas, 24 preludes, poems, études and other piano pieces are staples of many contemporary concert pianists' repertoire. The piano recordings of Scriabin's music by Vladimir Sofronitsky and Vladimir Horowitz are among the finest there are.
During the 1890s and 1900s Scriabin's evolution to multi-tonal complexities superseded calculated duodecafonic compositions of the Neo-Viennese school. From his early piano compositions to his grand-scale symphonies, Scriabin's music is peppered with harmonic innovations, unusual changes and surprise tonal discoveries. Scriabin's creative thinking invites a prepared listener to an intellectual journey beyond the calculated atonality of Arnold Schönberg or even the sophisticated cosmopolitanism of Igor Stravinsky. The ascensual trajectory of Scriabin's multi-tonality development is unparalleled in freedom of musical imagination. His rich and delicate Piano Concerto in F-Sharp Minor (1896) and the passionate 'Poem of Ecstasy' (1906) has been among the most recorded and frequently performed of his orchestral works.
Alexander Scriabin was at the peak of his creativity and worked on his innovative breakthrough project of 'Mysteria', when he died of septicaemia, a complication from an inflammation on his upper lip, aged 43, on April 27, 1915, in Moscow. He was laid to rest in the Church of St. Nikolai na Peskah, near his home in Moscow, Russia. Since 1922, the Scriabin's home in Moscow has been open to public as a National museum and a Cultural Heritage Memorial. Scriabin's Bechstein grand piano has been used for regular concert performances of his music.
Since the 1910 premiere of 'Prometheus', Scriabin's large-scale symphonies has been successfully performed with light and color accompaniment at concert venues all over the world. Among the milestone performances of Scriabin's 'Prometheus' with lights were the London premiere with conductor Henry Wood (UK, 1914), the Carnegie Hall premiere (USA, 1915), the Bolshoi Theatre show (Russia, 1918), the New Haven show (USA, 1971), and the Kasan Conservatory show (Tatarstan, 1996) where Scriabin's music was intertwined with colorful compositions of Wassily Kandinsky. Scriabin's ideas are now working in such projects as "Animusic" and other 3D visualization and MIDI-based music applications.- Music Department
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Julius Fucík was born on 18 July 1872 in Prague, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was a writer and composer, known for Big Fish (2003), Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005) and Downton Abbey (2019). He was married to Christina Hardegg. He died on 25 September 1916 in Berlin, Germany.- Mary Stewart was born on 28 June 1872 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for La Belle Russe (1914). She was married to Spencer Houghton Cone (theatrical agent). She died on 23 November 1916 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
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John McCrae was born on 30 November 1872 in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He was a writer, known for Memories (1929), Armistice (1929) and John McCrae's War: In Flanders Fields (1998). He died on 28 January 1918 in Wimereux, Pas-de-Calais, France.- Actor
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Benjamin Chapin was born on 9 August 1872 in Bristolville, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for The Son of Democracy (1918), Native State (1918) and A Call to Arms (1918). He died on 2 June 1918 in Liberty, New York, USA.- Alix of Hess-Darmstadt was born on June 8, 1872 in Darmstadt, Germany. Her parents were the Grand Duke and Duchess of Darmstadt; her mother was also the daughter of Queen Victoria. When Alix was still very young, her sister Mary and then her mother died of diphtheria. Also, her brother Frederick (1870-1873) died from a fall from a window in his mother's room, complicated by hemophilia. She spent much of her time in England, staying with her grandmother and various aunts, uncles and cousins. When she was older she continued in the role of Landsmutter (Mother of the land) for her father.
At the wedding of her sister Elizabeth (Ella) to their cousin Seril of Russia, Alix met for the first time (and fell in love with) the Tsarivitch Nicholas. Even thought she was in love with him she did not want to marry him because she did not want to give up her Protestantism to be Russian Orthodox. About 4 or 5 years after they first met Alix's brother Ernest got married to their first cousin nicknamed Ducky. Since both were cousins of Nicholas as well he went to the wedding to see Alex. During the time that he was there he continually asked her to be his wife, and thanks to their love as well as their cousin Kaiser William II Alex finally consented to marry Nicholas.
Alix spent the first part of her engagement with her grandmother Queen Victoria in England telling her everything that had transpired leading to the engagement. The rest of the engagement did not go so smoothly though. Several months after the engagement Nicholas's father became ill at one of his palaces in Russia. Alix hearing this got there as soon as she could, but shortly after she got there Nicholas became Tsar Nicholas II. After this tragedy Alix did not want to wait to become a member of the family. Shortly after the death of her future father-in-law Alix became a member of the Russian Orthodox Faith taking the name Alexandra Fyodorovna. She and Nicholas wanted to marry where they were, but family told them that they should get married after the funeral of his father in Moscow. Thus the people of Russia got their first glimpse of their future Empress through death.
They were married on November 26, 1894, shortly after the death of his father, and before 1901 had four daughters named Olga (1895-1918) Tatiana (1897-1918), Maria (1899-1918) and Anastasia (1901-1918). In 1904 Alix gave birth to a son Alexis (known as Alexei) and sadly he had hemophilia, which was passed on to her a sister and brother from their mother Princess Alice and grandmother Queen Victoria.
In 1917 Nicholas was forced to abdicate the throne of Russia. The people who would have accepted it if he had abdicated in favor of his son, did not understand why he abdicated in favor of his brother. He only did this because he knew that his son's chances of survival were not good.
He and his family were then imprisoned in Siberia, and later moved to Ekaterinburg, where on the night of July 17, 1918 the Russian royal family was massacred. In the 1990s the burial sites were investigated, although the bodies of the Tsarivitch Alexei and one of his sisters (it is unclear which one) were missing. Using DNA from HRH Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh (Alix was his great-aunt) proved that four of the bodies belonged to the Tsarina and three of her daughters. - Ivan Kharitonov was born on 14 June 1872 in Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russia. He was married to Yevgenia Andreyevna Tur. He died on 17 July 1918 in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
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Anna Held was born Helene Anna Held on March 8, 1872 (some sources say 1873) in Warsaw, Poland, the youngest of eleven children in a Jewish family. Her family moved to France, where her father died from alcoholism when she was twelve years old. She began her career singing in Europe. Her signature song was "Won't You Come And Play With Me." In 1894, she married Maximo Carrerra, a wealthy South American adventurer. Their daughter, Liane, was born the following year.
While performing in London in 1886 she met producer Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. He brought her to New York and the two began a passionate affair. Held quickly became one of Broadway's most popular stars. She starred in the hit shows A Parlor Match, Papa's Wife, and Miss Innocence. Audiences loved her voice and her risque performances. Her lavish stage shows were the inspiration for the Ziegfeld Follies. The press reported that she bathed in milk every day and had a rib removed to achieve her perfect hourglass figure (her waist was only eighteen inches).
Maximo Carrera, her estranged husband, died in 1908. Although she referred to Ziegfeld as her husband the two never legally married and he broke her heart with his infidelity. When she became pregnant he convinced her to have an abortion. The couple ended their relationship in 1909 after he fell in love with Lillian Lorraine. In 1916, Held made the feature length film Madame la Presidente (1916), playing Mademoiselle Gobette, for which she was paid $30,000. Later, she appeared in the Broadway musical Follow Me.
During WWI, she went to France to entertain the soldiers. She was diagnosed with cancer in early 1918. On August 12, 1918, aged 46, she died of multiple myeloma. She was buried at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York. Florenz Ziegfeld was criticized in the press for not attending her funeral.- Frederic Thompson was born on 31 October 1872 in Ironton, Ohio, USA. He was married to Selene Wheat Pilcher and Mabel Taliaferro. He died on 6 June 1919 in New York, New York, USA.
- Henry Stanford was born on 22 January 1872 in Ramleh, Egypt. He was an actor, known for Where Love Is (1917) and Uncle Tom's Cabin (1918). He was married to Laura Burt. He died on 18 February 1921 in Great Kills, Staten Island, New York, USA.
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A former railroad clerk, Tucker made a name for himself in 1913 with a film entitled Traffic in Souls (1913), a six-reel expose of white slavery. Tucker and Carl Laemmle financed the sum of $57,000 to make the film in New York, the film ultimately grossed $450,000. The success of the film enabled Laemmle, under pressure from Thomas Edison's Patent Trust, to follow the exodus to Hollywood and create his own studio, Universal City. Tucker was married to actress Elisabeth Risdon.- Rennold Wolf was born on 4 April 1872 in Ithaca, New York, USA. Rennold was a writer, known for Lost and Won (1917), The Pretenders (1916) and His Father's Son (1917). Rennold was married to Harriet Raymond (née Deuis) and Hope Booth (actress). Rennold died on 2 January 1922 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Born in Carlow, Ireland. Came to USA c. 1890. Worked as stage actor, engineer, antique dealer, gold miner. Entered silent film industry as actor in 1912; most noted film as actor was Captain Alvarez (1914) for Vitagraph. Directed first film for Balboa Films in 1914. Subsequently directed for American Film, Favorite Players, Pallas, Morosco, Fox, Famous Players-Lasky, Select, Realart and Paramount. Served in the British Army 1918-1919 then resumed his Hollywood career. Served as president of the Motion Picture Directors' Association for three terms. Stars he directed included Mary Pickford Dustin Farnum Wallace Reid and Mary Miles Minter . Directed Davy Crockett (1915) , Tom Sawyer (1917) , Anne of Green Gables (1919) and Huckleberry Finn (1920) among others. His unsolved murder in 1922 remains one of Hollywood's greatest mysteries.- Henry Bataille was born on 4 April 1872 in Nimes, France. He was a writer, known for The Private Life of Don Juan (1934), The Foolish Virgin (1938) and Druga mlodosc (1938). He died on 2 March 1922 in Rueil-Malmaison, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France.
- Sidney Ainsworth was born in Manchester, England, on December 21, 1873, according to contemporaneous sources. As an infant, he was brought to America, where his family settled in Madison, Wisconsin. As a boy, he sang in the choir at Grace Church in Madison. After graduating from Madison High School, he studied drama at the University of Notre Dame for several years. He then earned his undergraduate degree from the Chicago Musical College. Shortly after graduation, he was invited by Maud Adams to co-star in "The Little Minister." His stage career was briefly interrupted when he served in the Spanish American War, as a member of the First Wisconsin Infantry. Later, Ainsworth toured the United States and England, appearing in various productions. After appearing in a large number of short films, Ainsworth signed with the Goldwyn Company in 1919. In early 1922, he returned to Madison, suffering from an illness, and was under the care of a nurse. He died on May 21, 1922. Some newspapers attributed his death in part to yellow fever, which he had never overcome since contracting it during his military service.
- Robert Symes Entwistle, who was born in London on 1 January, 1872, worked on Broadway as a character comedy actor and as producer Charles Frohman's stage manager. He also appeared in the film The Beautiful Adventure (1917), that was based on a Frohman theatrical adaption of a popular French play by Robert de Flers and Gaston Arman de Caillavet. Not long after Charles Frohman was lost at sea during the sinking of the Lusitania, Entwistle retired from the stage and opened a small shop in New York on Madison Avenue and Fifty-Fourth Street that sold designer gift boxes to upscale clientele.
In 1904 Entwistle married Emily Stevenson in Birmingham, England. Their daughter, Lillian Millicent (Peg Entwistle), became known as one of the more tragic Hollywood figures, when, in 1931, she leaped to her death from atop one of the letters in the landmark Hollywoodland sign. Emily died in 1912 around the time Entwistle was brought to America by Charles Frohman. In 1914 he married, probably in New York, his sister-in-law, Lauretta Amanda Ross. Their union produced two sons, Milton and Robert, before her untimely death in 1921 at the age of 37 from spinal meningitis.
On the evening of 2 November, 1922, Entwistle was run down by a limousine at the intersection of Park Avenue and Seventy- Second Street, as he was walking home from his place of business. Witnesses to the accident told police that the limousine's chauffeur stopped, got out of the vehicle for a moment and looked down on Entwistle's broken body before speeding off. Neither the driver nor the limousine was ever found.
Robert Entwistle lingered for forty-eight days in a body caste with a broken spine before dying on 19 December at Prospects Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. He was survived by his three children, who were then raised by his brother, actor Harold Entwistle and his wife, former actress Jane Ross.
Robert Symes Entwistle was interned at the Oak Hill cemetery, Glendale, Ohio in a grave that he now shares with his daughter Millicent. - Sam Austin was born on 8 December 1872 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Silver Blaze (1923), Long Odds (1922) and The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's (1921). He died on 19 October 1923 in Lambeth, London, England, UK.
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Leonhard Haskel was born on 7 April 1872 in Seelow, Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for Irrende Seelen (1921), Die weiße Maus (1919) and Fürst Sally (1918). He died on 30 December 1923 in Berlin, Germany.- Cyril Harcourt was born on 30 December 1872 in Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK. He was a writer, known for A Lady's Name (1918), A Pair of Silk Stockings (1918) and They Just Had to Get Married (1932). He died on 4 March 1924 in Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
- Suzanne Sheldon was born on 24 January 1872 in Rutland, Vermont, USA. She was an actress, known for Kismet (1914). She was married to Henry Ainley. She died on 21 March 1924 in London, England, UK.
- Henning Berger was born on 22 April 1872 in Stockholm, Sweden. He was a writer, known for The Way of All Men (1930), The Sin Flood (1922) and Die Maske fällt (1931). He died on 30 March 1924 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- 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.
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Ulysses Davis was born on 5 November 1872 in South Amboy, New Jersey, USA. He was a director and writer, known for The White Scar (1915), Tainted Money (1915) and The Soul's Cycle (1916). He died on 1 October 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.- Writer
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Songwriter ("Darktown Poker Club"), author and agent who wrote special material for musical comedy and vaudeville, also scenarios for Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd, and a press agent for Lew Dockstader's Minstrels. A charter member of ASCAP (1914), Havez' other novelty and popular-song compositions included "Everybody Works but Father", "When You Ain't Got No Money then You Needn't Come Around", "I'm Looking For an Angel", "Do Not Forget the Good Old Days", "You're On the Right Road, Sister", and "He Cert'ny Was Good to Me".- Writer
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A. Baldwin Sloane was born on 28 August 1872 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was a writer, known for Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943), Trente-Six Chandelles (1954) and La légende (1996). He died on 21 February 1925 in Red Bank, New Jersey, USA.- Hugo Maximilian Bettauer was born in Baden near Vienna (Austria). He was an Austrian-American author and journalist. In 1899 he immigrated to New York and became an American citizen. He was a correspondent and an editor for various newspapers in the US. He was famous for writing "Fortsetzungsromane" (novels in magazines, to be continued). In 1910 he returned to his home country Austria. From 1914 to 1918 he was an editor for the "Neue Freie Presse" (The New Free Press). In 1924 he worked together with R. Olden as a publisher of the magazine "Er und Sie. Wochenschrift fuer Lebenskultur und Erotik" (A weekly magazine for life culture and erotic), which was discontinued after 5 issues. His famous novel was "Die freudlose Gasse" (The Street of Sorrow), 1924, which was made into a film in 1925 by the Austrian film director G.W. Pabst in Berlin. This made Greta Garbo famous in Germany. Bettauer was assassinated by a national socialist fanatic in Vienna in 1925.
- Charles Greene was born on 2 May 1872 in Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Bluebeard's 8th Wife (1923). He died on 7 July 1925 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Max Kronert was born on 4 July 1872 in Breslau, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Doll (1919), The Golem (1920) and The Oyster Princess (1919). He died on 22 July 1925.
- Ada Lewis was born on 17 March 1872 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Her Own People (1917). She was married to John W. Parr. She died on 24 September 1925 in Hollis, Long Island, New York, USA.
- John C. Greenway was born on 6 July 1872 in Huntsville, Alabama, USA. He died on 19 January 1926 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Konrad Tallroth was born on 12 November 1872 in Nurmo, Finland. He was an actor and director, known for Nuori luotsi (1913), Kun onni pettää (1913) and Eräs elämän murhenäytelmä (1916). He died on 27 January 1926 in Helsinki, Finland.- Amerigo Guasti was born on 3 March 1872 in Montespertoli, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor, known for Le nozze di Vittoria (1917). He died on 15 March 1926 in Busto Arsizio, Lombardy, Italy.
- Gordon Sackville was born on 8 December 1872 in Petersborough, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for The Chechako (1914), The Law That Divides (1918) and The Sea Wolf (1913). He died on 6 August 1926 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Hetty Chattell was born on 20 September 1872 in Bromley, Kent, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Tally Ho! (1901). She was married to Jack Denton. She died on 8 October 1926 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK.
- William K. Ziegfeld was born on 21 October 1872 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a producer, known for The Black Panther's Cub (1921). He was married to Carrie F. Lendley. He died on 6 June 1927 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
- Lyricist and songwriter, educated at Toule College Military School and Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He wrote special material for Lillian Russell, Marie Dressler, Charlie Chaplin, Lon Chaney, Pearl White and Mabel Normand. Joining ASCAP in 1921, his popular-song compositions include "Oh, Frenchy", "Dixie Ain't What Dixie Used to Be", "I Leave It All to You", "Out In the New Mown Hay", and "Short and Sweet".
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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.- Director
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Chester M. De Vonde was born on 7 October 1872 in New York, New York, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Voices (1920), The Good-Bad Wife (1920) and Even as Eve (1920). He died on 10 January 1928 in New York, New York, USA.- After school he began studying medicine, which he stopped after his father's death. He now turned to seafaring, which had fascinated him since his early youth. From 1897 to 1899, Amundsen took part as a helmsman in the South Polar expedition of the Belgian Adrien de Gerlache. This sparked his interest in polar research. As part of an exploratory trip to the northern magnetic pole, which Amundsen undertook from 1903 to 1906 on the ship "Gjöa", he was the first to sail through the Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific. After several winters, he managed to pass through the Bering Strait in 1906. In 1911, the explorer explored the South Pole, where he landed at the Ross Barrier and then, after a two-month sleigh ride across the ice, became the first person to reach the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
His competitor, the Englishman Robert Falcon Scott, did not arrive until several weeks later. While returning, Amundsen also discovered the Queen Maud Necklace. The success now gave him funds to carry out long-planned expeditions to the North Pole. From 1918 to 1920, Amundsen sailed through the Northeast Passage along the north coast of Siberia following Adolf Erik von Nordenskiöld. Although he missed the North Pole, he was able to bring a rich collection of scientific research results back to Norway. He then made several attempts to reach the North Pole by air. On May 12, 1926, Amundsen, together with the Italian Umberto Nobile and the American Lincoln Ellsworth, succeeded in flying over the North Pole for the first time.
In June 1928, Amundsen went missing during a rescue operation for an unfortunate U. Nobile expedition. The explorer and adventurer never returned from a flight to Spitsbergen. - Actor
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American stage actor and director who made numerous silent film appearances. Blinn was born and raised in San Francisco and attended nearby Stanford University. But his stage career had begun years before, when he made his acting debut at age six. Following his education, he resumed acting, eventually becoming a prominent figure on Broadway. He directed many of the plays he appeared in. In 1914, he made his first film and kept busy on screen and on stage for the remainder of his life. During the volatile strike of stage actors in 1919 that led to the formation of the actors' union, Actors Equity, Blinn was one of a minority of actors who sided with the opposition, the producers. He served as president of the Actors Fidelity League, which unsuccessfully fought the formation of the actors' union. During a vacation at Journey's End, his country home in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, Blinn was thrown from a horse. He appeared to be recuperating well, but the injury to his arm became infected and led to respiratory failure. He died on 24 June 1928 at 56.- László Bakó was born on 21 November 1872 in Sárközújlak, Hungary [now Livada, Romania]. He was an actor, known for Az ingovány (1918), A Kivándorló (1918) and Matyólakodalom (1921). He died on 5 August 1928 in Budapest, Hungary.