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Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy was born on September 9, 1828, in his ancestral estate Yasnaya Polyana, South of Moscow, Russia. He was the fourth of five children in a wealthy family of Russian landed Gentry. His parents died when he was a child, and he was brought up by his elder brothers and relatives.
Leo Tolstoy studied languages and law at Kazan University for three years. He was dissatisfied with the school and left Kazan without a degree, returned to his estate and educated himself independently. In 1848 he moved to the capital, St. Petersburg, and there passed two tests for a law degree. He was abruptly called to return to his estate near Moscow, where he inherited 4000 acres of land and 350 serfs. There Tolstoy built a school for his serfs, and acted as a teacher. He briefly went to a Medical School in Moscow, but lost a fortune in gambling, and was pulled out by his brother. He took military training, became an Army officer, and moved to the Caucasus, where he lived a simple life for three years with Cossacs. There he wrote his first novel - "Childhood" (1852), it became a success. With writing "Boyhood" (1854) and "Youth" (1857) he concluded the autobiographical trilogy. In the Crimean War (1854-55) Tolstoy served as artillery commander in the Battle of Sevastopol, and was decorated for his courage. Between the battles he wrote three stories titled "Sevastopol Sketches", that won him wide attention, and a complement from the Czar Aleksandr II.
After the war, Tolstoy returned to St. Petersburg, where he enjoyed the friendship of Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai A. Nekrasov, Ivan Goncharov, and other writers. On his trips to Europe, he had discussions with Gertsen in London, and attended Darwin's lectures. In Brussels he had meetings with philosophers Prudhon and Lelewel. Tolstoy undertook a research of schools in Europe, and later he built and organized over 20 schools for poor people in Russia. At that time the secret police began surveillance, and searched his home. In 1862 he married Sofia Andreevna Bers, and fathered 13 children with his wife. Four of their babies died, and the couple raised the remaining nine children. His wife was also his literary secretary, and also contributed to his best works, "War and Peace" (1863-69) and "Anna Karenina" (1873-77). In his "Confession" (1879) Tolstoy revealed his own version of Christianity, blended with socialism, that won him many followers. Tolstoyan communities sprang up in America and Europe, and he assisted the Russian non-Orthodox Christians (Dukhobors) in migrating to USA and Canada. He split from aristocratic class and developed an ascetic lifestyle, becoming a vegetarian, and a farmer. He sponsored and organized free meals for the poor. He transfered his copyright on all of his writings after 1880 to public domain. In his later age Tolstoy was pursuing the path of a wandering ascetic. He corresponded with Mohandas K. Gandhi, who was directly influenced by Tolstoy's "The Kingdom of God is Within You" (1894), which was praised by many nonviolent movements.
In 1900 Tolstoy criticized the Tsar's government in a series of publications, calling for separation of Chuch and State. Tsar Nicholas II retaliated through the Church, by expulsion of Tolstoy from Orthodox Cristianity as a "heretic". He fell ill, and suffered from a severe depression; he was suicidal and even had to eliminate all hunting guns from his home, because of his suicidal mode. He was treated by the famous doctor Dahl, and was visited by composer Sergei Rachmaninoff and basso Feodor Chaliapin Sr., who performed for Tolstoy on many occasions. Later he went to convalesce in Yalta, in Crimea, where he spent time with Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky. Tolstoy was an obvious candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but was initially omitted by the Nobel Committee for his views. The omission caused a strong response from a group of Swedish writers and artists. They sent an address to Tolstoy, but the writer answered by declining any future prize nomination.
In 1902 Tolstoy wrote a letter to the Tsar, calling for social justice, to prevent a civil war, and in 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War, Tolstoy wrote a condemnation of war. The Tsar replied by increasing police surveillance on Tolstoy. In November of 1910 he left his estate, probably taking the path of a wandering ascetic, which he had been pursuing for decades. He left home without explanations and took a train, in which he caught pneumonia, and died at a remote station of Astapovo. He was laid to rest in his estate of Yasnaya Polyana, which was made a Tolstoy National Museum.
His youngest daughter, named Alexandra Tolstoy, was the director of the Tolstoy Museum, and was arrested by the Communists five times. She emigrated from Russia to the United States, where she founded the Tolstoy Foundation. She helped many prominent Russian intellectuals, such as Vladimir Nabokov and Sergei Rachmaninoff among many others.- Writer
O. Henry was an American writer whose short stories are known for wit, wordplay and clever twist endings. He wrote nearly 600 stories about life in America.
He was born William Sidney Porter on September 11, 1862, in Greensboro, North Carolina. His father, Algernon Sidney Porter, was a medical doctor. When William was three his mother died and he was raised by his grandmother and aunt. He left school at the age of 15 and then had a number of jobs, including bank clerk. In 1896 he was accused of embezzlement. He absconded from the law to New Orleans and later fled to Honduras. When he learned that his wife was dying, he returned to US and surrendered to police. Although there has been much debate over his actual guilt, he was convicted of embezzling funds from the bank that employed him, he was sentenced to 5 years in jail. In 1898 he was sent to the penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio.
While in prison he began writing short stories in order to support his young daughter Margaret. His first published story was "Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking" (1899). He used a pseudonym, Olivier Henry, only once and changed his pen name to O. Henry, not wanting his readers to know he was in jail. He published 12 stories while in prison. After serving 3 years of the five-year sentence, he was released for good behavior. He moved to New York City in 1902 and wrote a story a week for the New York World, and also for other publishers. His first collection of stories was "Cabbages and Kings" (1904). The next collection, "The Four Million" (1906), included his well-known stories "The Gift of the Magi", "The Skylight Room" and "The Green Door". One of his last stories, "The Ransom of Red Chief" (1910), is perhaps the best known of his works. Among its film adaptations are Ruthless People (1986) with Danny DeVito and Bette Midler, The Ransom of Red Chief (1998), The Ransom of Red Chief (1911) and Business People (1963) (aka "Business People") by director Leonid Gaidai, starring Georgiy Vitsin and Yuriy Nikulin
In his lifetime O. Henry was able to see the silent film adaptations of his stories; The Sacrifice (1909), Trying to Get Arrested (1909) and His Duty (1909). His success brought the attendant pressure, and he suffered from alcohol addiction. His second marriage lasted 2 years, and his wife left him in 1909. He died of cirrhosis of the liver, on June 5, 1910, in New York, New York.
O. Henry is credited for creation of The Cisco Kid, whose character alludes to Robin Hood and Don Quixote. The Arizona Kid (1930) and The Cisco Kid (1931) are among the best known adaptations of his works.- Writer
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Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri in 1835, grew up in Hannibal. He was a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River. Throughout his career, Twain served as a writer, lecturer, reporter, editor, printer, and prospector. Twain took his pen name from an alert cry used on his steamboat - "by the mark, twain".- Prince Albert Edward Wettin Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was born on November 9, 1841 to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Great Britain. He was the second child and first son which meant that he would become King after his mother died. As he grew up he was compared unfavorably to his father and then his very bright older sister, Vicky. His childhood was unsubstantial. He went to school and periodically went on vacation to Osborne House, or Balmoral. When he was about 20 years old he was sent to Scotland to undergo a sort of boot camp for the army. While he was there he had his first taste of sex when his friends put Nelly Clifton in his bed. He was very discreet about the affair but his father's friends found out about it and told him. Prince Albert, who was sick, made the journey to Oxford where Bertie, as he was called, was at University. Albert told his son that he should forget about it because the consequences for that type of lifestyle would be too great. Albert returned to London and shortly afterward died. Victoria blamed Bertie for the rest of her life. It was also around this time that Bertie got married. His choice of a wife was very important because she would someday be the Queen. He met Alexandra, a Danish Princess, on what was essentially a blind date. Queen Victoria knew that he would not accept anybody that the family would pick out for him so she had Alexandra meet him at a designated site in Germany. On March 10, 1863 they were married and eventually had six children together. Even though he was the Prince of Wales his mother did not involve him in matters of state. Because of this he had no demands on his time and did what he liked. What he liked was drinking, having sex, and having fun with his friends. During the almost 40 years between the time he married and the time he became King, Bertie allegedly fathered several children besides the ones with his wife. In January 1901 his mother died, making him King Edward VII. He only reigned for a short time before many years of drinking and overeating led him to die at the age of 68 in 1910.
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Julia Ward Howe was born on 27 May 1819 in New York City, New York, USA. She was a writer, known for The Manchurian Candidate (2004), Captive State (2019) and Kick-Ass (2010). She was married to Samuel Gridley Howe. She died on 17 October 1910 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA.- Cinematographer
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William Heise was an engineer who was integral in the development of the kinetoscope for Thomas A. Edison, working with inventor William K.L. Dickson in the development of the device. He later became a cameraman, director and producer responsible for the creation of hundreds of short films. In 1890, Heise was employed as a machinist at Edison's West Orange, New Jersey laboratory, fabricating the first prototype of a film perforator. Though not a true motion picture projector, Edison's kinetoscope ran a strip of perforated film encased in a cabinet over a light source, which was viewed by a single individual through a viewing screen by means of a shutter in a "peep show" configuration. (Though soon surpassed by new technology, the kinetoscope would be used for peep shows for decades afterwards, though in the end, strictly as a novelty.) Under the direction of Dickson, Heise operated the kinetograph camera for making kinetoscope films from the very beginning of the movie-making process in 1890 and appeared in the 1892 short A Hand Shake (1892), which some cineastes call the first "modern" American motion picture. He became a cameraman in the famous Black Maria studio located at Edison's campus. Dickson left Edison in 1895, and Heise stayed on, making kinetoscope films and later films for the vitascope, a 35-mm film projector developed by Thomas Armat and C. Francis Jenkins that Edison bought the rights to in 1896. Film exhibition in a theater was now a reality. Heise was the cameraman for one of the most famous shorts of the first decade of cinema, The Kiss (1896) featuring Broadway stars May Irwin and John C. Rice. By mid-1896, a portable camera was fabricated that permitted Heise and other Edison cameramen to leave the Black Maria and shoot "actualities" on location in New York City and such locations as Niagara Falls. Heise often worked with director James H. White, another cinema pioneer of both the kinetoscope and the vitascope. White went off on a filming trip to the Orient in 1897-98 with another cameraman; in his 10-month-long absence, Heise produced, directed and shot numerous films. He quit Edison in October 1898, and his film-making career was through, except for one short documentary he made in 1903, Cock Fight, No. 2 (1903). He eventually returned to Edison, but was no longer associated with film-making.- English nurse and hospital reformer. Florence Nightingale was named after the place of her birth in Italy. Educated at home by their wealthy, well-bred father, Nightingale and her older sister Parthenope studied history, philosophy, mathematics, and classics; they also wrote weekly compositions. Nursing was considered a profession for the lower-classes and that time, however Florence decided that was what she wanded to do. She trained as a nurse at Kaiserswerth (1851) and Paris and in 1853 became superintendent of a hospital for invalid women in London. In the Crimean War she volunteered for duty and took 38 nurses to Scutari in 1854. She organized the barracks hospital after the Battle of Inkerman (5 November) and by imposing strict discipline and standards of sanitation reduced the hospital mortality rate drastically. She returned to England in 1856 and a fund of L 50,000 was subscribed to enable her to form an institution for the training of nurses at St Thomas's and at King's College Hospital. She devoted many years to the question of army sanitary reform, to the improvement of nursing and to public health in India. Her main work, Notes on Nursing (1859), went through many editions.
- Creston Clarke was born on 20 August 1865 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for The Battle of Ballots (1915). He was married to Adelaide Prince. He died on 21 March 1910 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA.
- Henri Rousseau (Le Douanier) was born on May 21, 1844, in Laval, Northern France. His father was a plumber. Young Rousseau finished the Lycee in Laval and started as a lawyer's clerk. From 1863-1868 he served in the French Army. From 1869-1893 Russeau worked in a toll booth on the edge of Paris, as a municipal toll collector. For that job he was called "Le Douanier." He never really was a customs officer, but a second-class clerk; he was never promoted on his job and basically collected a fee from farmers coming to Paris markets.
Rousseau began painting in his forties. In 1884 he obtained a permit to sketch in the national museums and spent many hours sketching classical art masterpieces in the Louvre. His job as a toll collector gave him little income, but much time to paint. He also earned some cash as a street musician. Rousseau was self-taught, although he admitted he had received some advice from established Academic artists, including that of Jean-Leon Gerome. Rousseau was inspired by the jungle, but he never was there. His sources of imagination were illustrated books and visits to the Zoo and Botanical Gardens in Paris. He also used images from a drawing book of his daughter. He could paint bananas growing upside-down and in a few paintings he grouped animals from different continents, that in reality could never have been seen together. It was the genuine feeling and high decorative quality of his paintings that brought him attention from other artists. Pablo Picasso saw a painting by Rousseau being sold on the street as a canvas to be painted over. Picasso bought Rousseau's paintings in recognition of his genius.
His child-like art was created in the Post-Impressionist period and was categorized as Naive or Primitive. From 1886 Rousseau exhibited every year at the Salon des Independants along with the works of Georges Seurat, Armand Guillaumin, Odilon Redon, Paul Signac, Paul Gauguin, and other Post-Impressionists. His greatest wish was to master an academic style, and he genuinely believed that his pictures were real and convincing. Rousseau himself was such a sincere and genuine person, that he interpreted even sarcastic remarks literally and took them as praise. His positive disposition helped him endure great poverty. His working class background was seen as his big drawback by many contemporary critics. Finally the innocence and charm of his works won him the admiration of the leading artists. In 1905 he exhibited his large jungle composition 'The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope' along with Henri Matisse at the first showing of Les Fauves (The Wild Ones).
Rousseau had an influence on such artists as Pablo Picasso, Robert Delaunay, Wassily Kandinsky, Félix Vallotton, Paul Gauguin, and many others. In 1908 Pablo Picasso bought a few works from Rousseau and gave a banquet at his studio in Rousseau's honor. At the banquet Rousseu was praised by Guillaume Apollinaire, Robert Delaunay, Max Jacob and by other artists in a manner, which was half-serious, half-burlesque. Rousseau sincerely believed in the serious half, and later told Picasso: "There are only two real artists in the world, you in "Egyptian style" and I am in "Classical." That's how different and naive was the world of Rousseau, whose genuine views impressed Pablo Picasso as much as his works. During 1909 and 1910 many of Rousseau's paintings were acquired by the dealers Ambroise Vollard and Joseph Brummer. Rousseau's paintings were shown posthumously in 1911, in a retrospective exhibition at the Salon des Independants. Rousseau's works were chosen by Wassily Kandinsky for the first exhibitions of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) in 1911 and 1912 that toured Germany. The surrealist movement later considered Rousseau as one of their forerunners.
Henri Rousseau died on September 2, 1910, in Paris, and was laid to rest in the Cimetiere de Bagneux, in Paris, France.
Guillaume Apollinaire wrote the epitaph on Rousseau's tombstone:
We salute you Gentile Rousseau you can hear us
Delaunay his wife Monsier Queval and myself
Let our luggage pass duty free through the gates of heaven
We will bring you brushes paints and canvas
That you may spend your sacred leisure in the light of truth
Painting as you once did my portrait
Facing the stars - Henry Dunant (born Jean-Henri Dunant; 8 May 1828 - 30 October 1910), also known as Henri Dunant, was a Swiss humanitarian, businessman, and social activist. He was the visionary, promoter, and co-founder of the Red Cross. In 1901, he received the first Nobel Peace Prize together with Frédéric Passy. Dunant was the first Swiss Nobel laureate.
During a business trip in 1859, Dunant was witness to the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino in modern-day Italy. He recorded his memories and experiences in the book A Memory of Solferino which inspired the creation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 1863. The 1864 Geneva Convention was based on Dunant's idea for an independent organization to care for wounded soldiers. - Eliza Orzeszkowa was born on 6 June 1841 in Milkowszczyzna, Poland, Russian Empire [now Milkaushchina, Belarus]. She was a writer, known for Nad Niemnem (1939), Cham (1931) and Nad Niemnem (1987). She was married to Stanislaw Nahorski and Piotr Orzeszko. She died on 18 May 1910 in Grodno, Grodnenskaya guberniya, Russian Empire [now in Hrodzienskaja voblasc, Belarus].
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Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson was born on 8 December 1832 in Kvikne, Norway. He was a writer, known for Fairy of Solbakken (1919), En glad gutt (1932) and Synnöve Solbakken (1934). He was married to Karoline Reimers. He died on 26 April 1910 in Paris, France.- Jules Renard was born on 22 February 1864 in Châlons-du-Mainee, France. He was a writer, known for Poil de carotte (1925), Alta comedia (1965) and Poil de carotte (1973). He was married to Marie Morneau. He died on 22 May 1910 in Paris, France.
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Marius Petipa was born on 11 March 1818 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He was a writer and director, known for The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018), Shchelkunchik (2023) and The Bolshoi Ballet: Live from Moscow - The Nutcracker (2010). He was married to Love Savitskaya and Mariia Surovshchikova. He died on 14 July 1910 in Gurzuf, Crimea, Russian Empire [now Ukraine].- Laza Kostic was born on 31 January 1841 in Kovilj, Serbia. He was a writer, known for Pesnicke vedrine (1981) and Biseri od pesama (1980). He died on 26 November 1910 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria].
- 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.
- Kálmán Mikszáth was born on 16 January 1847 in Szklabonya, Hungary [now Sklabiná, Slovakia]. He was a writer, known for Kísértet Lublón (1976), A Noszty fiú esete Tóth Marival (1960) and And the Puszta Gleams (1933). He was married to Ilona Mauks. He died on 28 May 1910 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary].
- Wilhelm Raabe was born on 8 September 1831 in Eschershausen, Duchy of Brunswick [now Lower Saxony, Germany]. He was a writer, known for Die schwarze Galeere (1962), Die Gänse von Bützow (1985) and Die Gänse von Bützow (1960). He was married to Berta Emilie Wilhelmine Leiste. He died on 15 September 1910 in Brunswick, Duchy of Brunswick [now Lower Saxony], Germany.
- Gilbert Saroni was an actor, known for Old Maid's First Visit to a Theatre (1903), The Old Maid's Lament (1903) and The Old Maid in the Horsecar (1901). He died on 15 December 1910 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Mili Balakirew was born on 2 January 1837 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He died on 29 May 1910 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia].
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Herbert Ingraham was born on 7 July 1883 in Aurora, Illinois, USA. Herbert died on 24 August 1910 in Saranac Lake, New York, USA.- Otto Julius Bierbaum was born on 28 June 1865 in Grünberg, Silesia, Germany [now Zielona Góra, Lubuskie, Poland]. He was a writer, known for Prinz Kuckuck - Die Höllenfahrt eines Wollüstlings (1919) and Der lustige Ehemann (1903). He was married to Gemma Pruneti-Lotti and Gusti Rathgeber. He died on 1 February 1910 in Dresden, Germany.
- King Chulalongkorn was born on 20 September 1853 in Thailand. He died on 23 October 1910 in Thailand.
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Maria Konopnicka was born on 23 May 1842 in Suwalki, Poland, Russian Empire [now Suwalki, Podlaskie, Poland]. She was a writer, known for Television Theater (1953), Teatr Polskiego Radia (2004) and Panna z mokra glowa (1995). She was married to Jaroslaw Konopnicki. She died on 8 October 1910 in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Lviv, Ukraine].- Felix Nadar was born on 5 April 1820 in Paris, France. He died on 20 March 1910 in Paris, France.
- Henry Guy Carleton was born on 21 June 1856 in Fort Union, New Mexico, USA. He was a writer, known for A Gilded Fool (1915). He was married to Olive May (actress), Effie Shannon and Helen Sinclair Hubbard. He died on 10 December 1910 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA.
- The daughter of a Swedish-born Long Island innkeeper and storyteller who had panned for gold in California and gotten drunk with Mark Twain, Mary Louise Foster grew up listening to her father's stories, a number of which were turned into short stories and a number of well-received novels which were published under her nom de plume, Louise Forsslund, which was the original spelling of her father's surname before it was Anglicized to Foster. After her death, her novel "Old Lady No. 31" was made into a play by Rachel Crothers; it ran for 160 performances on Broadway in 1916-1917.
- Hector Monréal was born on 17 July 1839 in Carcassonne, Aude, France. Hector died on 20 May 1910 in Asnières-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
- Robert Semple was born on 3 August 1881 in Magherafelt, County Derry, Northern Ireland, UK. He was married to Aimee Semple McPherson. He died on 19 August 1910 in Hong Kong.
- Josef Kainz was born on 2 January 1858 in Wieselburg, Austria-Hungary [now Mosonmagyaróvár, Hungary]. He was married to Margarete Nansen and Sarah Hutzler. He died on 20 September 1910 in Vienna, Austria.
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Rajani Kanta Sen was born on 26 July 1865 in Pabna, Bengal Presidency, British India [now in Pabna, Bangladesh]. He is known for Mohunbaganer Meye (1976), Subhas Chandra (1966) and Harmonium (1976). He died on 13 September 1910 in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India.- Robert Marshall was born on 21 June 1863 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. He was a writer, known for The Second in Command (1915) and The Unforseen (1917). He died on 1 July 1910 in London, England, UK.
- Myra Kelly was born on 26 August 1875 in Dublin, Ireland. Myra was a writer, known for Little Miss Smiles (1922). Myra was married to Allan MacNaughton. Myra died on 30 March 1910 in Torquay, Devon, England, UK.
- Stanley Ketchel was born on 14 September 1886 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. He died on 15 October 1910 in Conway, Missouri, USA.
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Ricardo de la Vega was born on 7 February 1839 in Madrid, Spain. He was a writer, known for La verbena de la Paloma (1921), De cuarenta para arriba (1918) and La verbena de la Paloma (1963). He died on 22 June 1910.- David J. Brewer was born on 20 June 1837 in Smyrna, Asia Minor, Ottoman Empire [now Izmir, Turkey]. He was married to Louise R. Landon and Emma Minor Mott. He died on 28 March 1910 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- Giuseppe Cesare Abba was born on 6 October 1838 in Cairo Montenotte, Liguria, Kingdom of Sardinia. He was a writer, known for A Sicilian Heroine (1912). He died on 6 November 1910 in Brescia, Italy.
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Julian Edwards was born on 11 December 1855 in Manchester, England, UK. He was married to Philippine Siedle (diva). He died on 5 September 1910 in Yonkers, New York, USA.- Ivan Kozarac was born on 8 February 1885 in Vinkovci, Croatia, Austria-Hungary [now Croatia]. He was a writer, known for Evil Blood (1991) and Djuka Begovic (1980). He died on 16 November 1910 in Vinkovci, Croatia, Austria-Hungary [now Croatia].
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Born into a celebrated family of Spanish performers, Pauline Garcia Viardot was initially lost in the shadow of her beautiful and talented sister, Maria. But Maria's sudden death forced the 15-year-old Pauline into the limelight, with astonishing results. She was hailed as a opera singer par excellence, as well as a composer of no small talent. She studied alongside Franz Liszt and was taught Russian by the poet Ivan Turgenev -- Turgenev fell completely under her spell and remained devoted to her all his life. She married author and director Louis Viardot in 1840, and had four children (some or all of which may have been Turgenev's). Her career flourished in the 1840s, and in 1843 her good friend George Sand wrote her into her novel "Consuelo" as its heroine. In 1863 Pauline Viardot retired from the stage, and devoted herself to nursing both her husband and Turgenev, who both died in 1883. She died peacefully in 1910 and was buried at Cimetière de Montmartre.- Florencio Sánchez was born on 17 January 1875 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He was a writer, known for Pasión imposible (1943), Barranca abajo (1937) and La tigra (1954). He was married to Catalina Raventos. He died on 7 November 1910 in Milan, Italy.
- Ottilie A. Liljencrantz was born on 19 January 1876 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Ottilie A. was a writer, known for The Viking (1928). Ottilie A. died on 7 October 1910 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Charles Stewart Rolls died on 12 July 1910 in Southbourne, Bournemouth.
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Colonne was born on 23 July 1838 in Bordeaux, France. He is known for Terror's Advocate (2007). He was married to Eugenie Vergin and Irma Marié de l'Isle. He died on 28 March 1910 in Paris, France.- Paolo Mantegazza was born on 31 October 1831 in Monza, Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, Austrian Empire [now Monza, Lombardy, Italy]. Paolo was a writer, known for Un giorno a Madera (1924). Paolo died on 28 August 1910 in Lerici, Liguria, Italy.
- William Vaughn Moody, was an American College professor, poet, author and playwright. Orphaned at an early age, Moody had to work his way through prep school and later Harvard. By 1895 he had earned a master's degree in English from Harvard. He went on to be an instructor at Harvard and Radcliffe and later the University of Chicago, where he held the chair of Professor of English Literature. In 1903 Moody decided to leave the academic field to focus full time on writing.
Moody is probably best remembered as the author of "A History of English Literature", "The Great Divide", "The Faith Healer" and the lyrical drama "The Masque of Judgment".
On 5 July, 1909 Moody married Chicago high school English teacher Harriet Converse Tilden at Wesleyan Methodist Church in Québec, Canada. While most likely on their honeymoon, Moody became seriously ill on board a passenger ship in the South Atlantic. At first the illness mystified his doctors, but eventually they would discover he had an inoperative brain tumor. Moody passed away at Colorado Springs, Colorado on 17 October, 1910, barely a year after he first fell ill.
The 1948 book "A House in Chicago" by Olivia H. Dunbar, tells the story of Harriet Moody's romance and marriage with William Vaughn Moody and how in the years following his death their home became a mecca for many artists and intellectuals of that era. - Set Decorator
Hawes Craven was born on 3 July 1837 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. Hawes was a set decorator, known for King John (1899). Hawes was married to Mary Tees. Hawes died on 22 July 1910 in Brockley, Lewisham, London, England, UK.- George Newnes was born on 13 March 1851 in the UK. He died on 9 June 1910 in London, England, UK.
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Emanuel Tvede was born on 4 January 1868. He was an actor and director, known for Faldgruben (1909) and The Apache Girl's Revenge (1909). He died on 3 July 1910.- Hawley Harvey Crippen was born on 11 September 1862 in Coldwater, Michigan, USA. He died on 23 November 1910 in HMP Pentonville, London, England, UK.