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- Gertrude Norman was born on 19 May 1848 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Greene Murder Case (1929), Molly Make-Believe (1916) and The Pretty Sister of Jose (1915). She died on 20 July 1943 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Clementine Plessner was born on 7 December 1855 in Vienna, Austrian Empire [now Austria]. She was an actress, known for Taras Bulba (1924), Kaliber fünf Komma zwei (1920) and Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (1918). She died on 27 February 1943 in Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia [now Terezín, Czech Republic].
- Actress
May Evelynne was born on 6 April 1856 in California, USA. She was an actress, known for S.O.S. (1917). She was married to ? Tinker. She died on 3 April 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Nikola Tesla (28 June 1856 - 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
Born and raised in the Austrian Empire, Tesla studied engineering and physics in the 1870s without receiving a degree, gaining practical experience in the early 1880s working in telephony and at Continental Edison in the new electric power industry. In 1884 he emigrated to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen. He worked for a short time at the Edison Machine Works in New York City before he struck out on his own. With the help of partners to finance and market his ideas, Tesla set up laboratories and companies in New York to develop a range of electrical and mechanical devices. His alternating current (AC) induction motor and related poly-phase AC patents, licensed by Westinghouse Electric in 1888, earned him a considerable amount of money and became the cornerstone of the poly-phase system which that company eventually marketed.
Attempting to develop inventions he could patent and market, Tesla conducted a range of experiments with mechanical oscillators/generators, electrical discharge tubes, and early X-ray imaging. He also built a wireless-controlled boat, one of the first-ever exhibited. Tesla became well known as an inventor and demonstrated his achievements to celebrities and wealthy patrons at his lab, and was noted for his showmanship at public lectures. Throughout the 1890s, Tesla pursued his ideas for wireless lighting and worldwide wireless electric power distribution in his high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments in New York and Colorado Springs. In 1893, he made pronouncements on the possibility of wireless communication with his devices. Tesla tried to put these ideas to practical use in his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project, an intercontinental wireless communication and power transmitter, but ran out of funding before he could complete it.
After Wardenclyffe, Tesla experimented with a series of inventions in the 1910s and 1920s with varying degrees of success. Having spent most of his money, Tesla lived in a series of New York hotels, leaving behind unpaid bills. He died in New York City in January 1943. Tesla's work fell into relative obscurity following his death, until 1960, when the General Conference on Weights and Measures named the SI unit of magnetic flux density the Tesla in his honor. There has been a resurgence in popular interest in Tesla since the 1990s. - Leopold Gadiel was born on 8 January 1857 in Brzeg, Poland. He was an actor, known for Suchomlinow (1918), Master of the World (1914) and Die das Glück narrt (1913). He died on 13 November 1943 in Hamburg, Germany.
- Willie Warde was born on 17 June 1857 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Tons of Money (1926) and Tons of Money (1930). He died on 18 August 1943 in Holborn, London, England, UK.
- Henrik Pontoppidan was born on 24 July 1857 in Fredericia, Denmark. He was a writer, known for Thora van Deken (1920), A Fortunate Man (2018) and A Fortunate Man (2018). He was married to Antoinette Kofoed and Mette Marie Hansen. He died on 21 August 1943 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Olive West was born on 18 August 1857 in San Francisco, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Madame Butterfly (1915), Lonely Heart (1921) and A Flock of Skeletons (1916). She died on 29 May 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Director
- Writer
André Antoine was born on 31 January 1858 in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France. He was a director and writer, known for La terre (1921), Mademoiselle de La Seiglière (1921) and The Swallow and the Titmouse (1924). He died on 19 October 1943 in Le Pouliguen, Loire-Atlantique, France.- Robert Dunbar was born on 1 July 1858 in Beaver, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for The Third Degree (1913), Alias Jimmy Valentine (1920) and The Best of Luck (1920). He died on 16 January 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Charles Schwanenflügel was born on 15 November 1858. He was an actor, known for Under Møllevingen (1913), Guld der hævner (1914) and Livets Ubønhørlighed (1914). He died on 20 August 1943.
- Writer
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Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko was co-founder with Konstantin Stanislavski of the Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT) in 1898. He also was co-founder of the Acting School at the Moscow Art Theatre and was a director, an acting pedagogue, and playwright.
He was born Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko on December 23, 1858, in Ozurgety, near Tbilisi, Georgia, Russian Empire (now Ozurgety, Georgia). His father, Ivan Dachenko, was a military officer in the Russian Army. Young Nemirovich-Danchenko was fond of literature and theatre. He studied at Tbilisi Gymnasium, and played with amateur school productions of classic plays. From 1876- 1879 he studied at the department of Physics and Mathematics of Moscow State University. In 1881 Nemirovich-Danchenko published his first story, then wrote several plays and had his plays staged by theatre companies in Moscow and in St, Petersburg. He emerged as a notable playwright, novelist and theatre producer, and was awarded the Griboedov Prize for his popular plays. During the 1890s he taught acting class at the Moscow Philharmonia, where his student were such talented actors as Vsevolod Meyerhold and Olga Knipper-Chekhova.
Nemirovich-Danchenko is best known as the co-founder of the Moscow Art Theatre. An independent theatre company was the only way to obtain some freedom of speech amidst the tough censorship in Russia under the rule of the Tsar Nicholas II. In 1897 he joined Konstantin Stanislavski to start what would become the most successful independent private theatre company in Moscow, Russia. In 1898 Moscow Art Theatre began the first season with the staging of "Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich" by Aleksei Tolstoy. At the same time Nemirovich-Danchenko secured the rights to the production of "The Seagull" (1898), and other plays written by Anton Chekhov. In "The Seagull" Nina was played by Olga Knipper-Chekhova and Treplev by Vsevolod Meyerhold. "The Seagull", "Uncle Vanya", "The Three Sisters", and "The Cherry Orchard", all by Anton Chekhov, were the most acclaimed plays, produced by Nemirovich-Danchenko. His other productions at the Moscow Art Theatre included "The Lower Depths" by writer Maxim Gorky, and "Life of a Man" by Leonid Andreyev among other Russian plays.
After the Russian revolution of 1917, the Soviet Communists established a bloody dictatorial regime, so many leading actors and directors emigrated from the troubled Soviet Russia. However, Nemirovich-Danchenko continued his work at the Moscow Art Theatre. In 1922-24 the troupe made a series of successful guest performances in Europe and in the United States. During the 1920s-1930s Mikhail A. Bulgakov was the staff playwright at the Moscow Art Theatre. The legendary play "Days of the Turbins" by Mikhail A. Bulgakov was performed over 200 times. At least 15 performances of the play were attended by Joseph Stalin, who later used in his speeches some of the well-written lines from the characters in the play of Mikhail A. Bulgakov.
Nemirovich-Danchenko was the proponent of the Stanislavski's System of acting, also known as "Method" (or Acting Method). His hectic personal relations with the highly emotional Konstantin Stanislavski were described by Mikhail A. Bulgakov in his novel "Teatralny Roman" (The Theatrical Novel). In the 1920s Nemirovich-Danchenko with Konstantin Stanislavski also co-founded the Moscow Musical Theatre for the ballet, opera, and musical productions.
Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko played a historic influential role in the 20th century Russian theatre as well as in world theatre. His personal friendship with Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper-Chekhova was part of the success. He managed to survive through the rough times in the Russian history under the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin. Stalin was a regular visitor of the Moscow Art Theatre because of his obsession with the plays by Mikhail A. Bulgakov. Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko was under surveillance by the Soviet secret service, predecessor of the KGB, however he survived and preserved the tradition of the Moscow Art Theatre. He died of a heart attack on April 25, 1943, in Moscow, and was laid to rest at the Novodevichy Convent Cemetery in Moscow.- A triple threat actor-writer-singer, Henry E. Dixey became a major Broadway star in the play (written by longtime friend and associate, Edward E. Rice), "Adonis" in which portrayed a marble statue that comes to life. With his ripped physique, the production became a sensation and ran for a then-record 603 performances at the Bijou Theatre. Dixey would go on to star in the road production for years in addition to starring or producing 33 individual Broadway productions. He would only appear in a very small number of films that were shot in New York and retire at age 67 in mid-1926. Shortly after his 84th birthday he was killed by a city bus in Atlantic City.
- Alexandre Millerand was born on 10 February 1859 in Paris, France. He died on 7 April 1943 in Versailles, France.
- Charles Vane was born on 2 January 1860 in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Comin' Thro' the Rye (1916), Whosoever Shall Offend (1919) and The Secret Seven (1914). He died on 14 April 1943 in Polzeath, Cornwall, England, UK.
- F.E. Spooner was born on 16 April 1860 in Centerville, Iowa, USA. He was an actor, known for Graft (1915), As the Sun Went Down (1919) and The Tenement House Evil (1915). He died on 14 January 1943 in Monterey Park, California, USA.
- Daisy England was born on 23 June 1860 in Pancras, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Head of the Family (1922) and A Football Favourite (1922). She died on 6 March 1943 in Fulham, London, England, UK.
- Albin Roosval was born on 4 August 1860 in Kalmar, Kalmar län, Sweden. He was a producer, known for Balett ur op. Mignon/Jössehäradspolska (1907), Den glada änkan (1907) and Stockholms brandkår (1907). He died on 13 November 1943 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.
- Actor
R.W. Steele was born on 27 September 1860 in Gravesend, Kent, England, UK. He was an actor. He died on 5 April 1943 in Camberwell, London, England, UK.- Writer
- Actor
F.X. Svoboda was born on 25 October 1860 in Mnísek pod Brdy, Bohemia, Austrian Empire [now Czech Republic]. He was a writer and actor, known for Cekanky (1940), Poslední muz (1934) and Roztomilý clovek (1941). He died on 25 May 1943 in Prague, Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia [now Czech Republic].- Lillian Langdon was born on 25 November 1860 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for Intolerance (1916), Daddy-Long-Legs (1919) and The Millionaire Pirate (1919). She was married to Mr. Bolles. She died on 8 February 1943 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
- Aleksandr Vishnevsky was born on 20 January 1861 in Taganrog, Russia. He was an actor, known for Pobeda zhenshchiny (1927), Holiday of St. Jorgen (1930) and Kaliostro (1918). He died on 27 February 1943 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
- Helen Taft was born on 2 June 1861 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. She was married to William Howard Taft. She died on 22 May 1943 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- Roberto Bracco was born on 10 November 1861 in Naples, Italy. He was a writer, known for L'altra razza (1920), L'avvenire in agguato (1916) and Maternità (1917). He died on 20 April 1943 in Sorrento, Italy.
- Austin Freeman was born on 11 April 1862 in London, England, UK. Austin was a writer, known for The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971), Thorndyke (1964) and Detective (1964). Austin was married to Annie Elizabeth Edwards. Austin died on 28 September 1943 in Gravesend, Kent, England, UK.
- Wallace Erskine was born on 8 August 1862 in Cheshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Ragged Edge (1923), Perjury (1921) and Was It Her Duty? (1915). He was married to Margery Bonney Erskine. He died on 6 January 1943 in Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA.
- Adelaide Grace was born on 26 December 1862 in Blythswood, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. She was an actress, known for Once Upon a Time (1918), The Duchess of Seven Dials (1920) and The Lackey and the Lady (1919). She died on 27 December 1943 in Orpington, Kent, England, UK.
- Writer
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Adolf Paul was born on 6 January 1863 in Bromma, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He was a writer and actor, known for The Palace of Pleasure (1926), One Mad Kiss (1930) and El precio de un beso (1930). He was married to Natalie Brehmer. He died on 5 October 1943 in Berlin, Germany.- Hein Harms was born on 11 February 1863 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. He was an actor, known for Merijntje Gijzen's Jeugd (1936), Klokslag twaalf (1936) and De man zonder hart (1937). He was married to Marie Haspels. He died on 24 June 1943 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
- Producer
- Director
- Cinematographer
Ole Olsen was born on 5 May 1863 in Tangemose, Starreklinte, Denmark. He was a producer and director, known for A Trip to Mars (1918), The End of the World (1916) and A Victim of the Mormons (1911). He was married to Anna Hendriksen. He died on 4 October 1943 in Hellerup, Denmark.- Actor
- Director
- Soundtrack
Gustav von Seyffertitz was born on 4 August 1863 in Haimhausen, Dachau, Bavaria [now Bavaria, Germany]. He was an actor and director, known for Sherlock Holmes (1922), Son of Frankenstein (1939) and The Wizard (1927). He was married to Katharina Hoffmann, Eugenie von Mink, Toni Creutzburg, Nelly Thorne and Frieda. He died on 25 December 1943 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Director
- Writer
- Cinematographer
Joseph Perry was born on 5 August 1863 in Birmingham, England, UK. He was a director and writer, known for Heroes of the Cross (1909), The Scottish Covenanters (1909) and Passion Films (1899). He died on 29 April 1943 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.- English dramatist and story writer, usually of tales involving the sea and village life and often dealing with supernatural or horror elements. He was a clerk until finding success as a full-time author with his first collected stories, published as "Many Cargoes" in 1896. He is best known for "The Monkey's Paw", a 1902 tale about a talisman which grants its owner three wishes, though inevitably those come with a heavy price.
- Henry Vibart was born on 25 December 1863 in Musselburgh, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for The Four Feathers (1921), The Little Minister (1915) and John Forrest Finds Himself (1920). He died on 30 August 1943 in Richmond, Surrey, England, UK.
- Clarence Arper was born on 27 March 1864 in Gilroy, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Jinx (1919), The Woman Who Dared (1916) and The Unwritten Law (1916). He died on 13 July 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Tully Marshall intended to pursue a legal career, until he tried a dramatic course at Santa Clara University. He started stage work in San Francisco in 1883 and moved to New York in 1887, where he played in various roles on Broadway and on the road. After a few small parts in films he was given the role of the High Priest of Babylon in the D.W. Griffith classic, Intolerance (1916). One of his finest roles in silents was that of an old frontiersman in another classic, The Covered Wagon (1923).
When sound arrived Marshall was very much in demand and worked for nearly every major studio. His last film was Behind Prison Walls (1943). He died on March 10, 1943, after a 60-year career in entertainment. - Clarence Blakiston born in Biggleswick in 1864, highly well-known classical, melodrama and comedy theatre star from the 1880's. later appeared as a aristocratic gentleman in few silent film roles first in a short drama from the 'Tense Moment from Great Plays' film series starring Sybil Thorndike for the Master (BEF) Film Company in 1922, later worked for the British Gaumont Film Company and then the B&C Film Company. minor roles in few talkies in the mid 1930's. Dead in 1943 age 79.
- George Washington Carver was born on 12 July 1864 in Diamond Grove, Missouri, USA. He died on 5 January 1943 in Tuskegee, Alabama, USA.
- Writer
- Actress
- Producer
Elinor Glyn was born on 17 October 1864 in Jersey, Channel Islands. She was a writer and actress, known for It (1927), Knowing Men (1930) and The Price of Things (1930). She was married to Clayton Glyn. She died on 23 September 1943 in London, England, UK.- Camille Claudel was born on 8 December 1864 in Fère-en-Tardenois, Aisne, France. She was a writer, known for Camille Claudel 1915 (2013). She died on 19 October 1943 in Montdevergues, Vaucluse, France.
- Julius Horst was born on 12 December 1864 in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austrian Empire [now Austria]. He was a writer, known for Der letzte Wiener Fiaker (1937), Springtime in Vienna (1936) and A World Without Men (1914). He died on 12 May 1943 in Vienna, Austria.
- Frank Campeau was born on 14 December 1864 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for 3 Bad Men (1926), Battling Bunyan (1924) and The Life of the Party (1920). He was married to Sarah Estelle Lewis and Lillian Stratton Corbin. He died on 5 November 1943 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Winnaretta Singer was born on 8 January 1865 in Yonkers, New York, USA. She was married to Louis de Scey-Montbéliard. She died on 26 November 1943 in London, England, UK.
- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Edward McWade was born on 14 January 1865 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), The Monster (1925) and Two Seconds (1932). He was married to Margaret McWade. He died on 17 May 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Rudolph Lothar was born on 23 February 1865 in Budapest, Hungary. He was a writer, known for That Night in Rio (1941), The Face Behind the Scar (1937) and The Boudoir Diplomat (1930). He died on 2 October 1943 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Netta Syrett was born on 17 March 1865 in Ramsgate, Kent, England, UK. She was a writer, known for A Woman Rebels (1936). She died on 17 December 1943.
- Actress
Irena Horwath was born on 29 April 1865 in Bródno, Poland, Russian Empire [now Bródno, Targówek, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Wife (1915) and Niebezpieczny kochanek (1912). She died on 3 October 1943 in Lwów, Lwowskie, Poland [now Lviv, Ukraine].- Actor
- Writer
Wincenty Rapacki was born on 6 June 1865 in Krakau, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland]. He was an actor and writer, known for Ja tu rzadze (1939), Television Theater (1953) and Papa sie zeni (1936). He died on 16 January 1943 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Valdemar Bentzen was born on 8 July 1865 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Synd (1928) and Ebberöds bank (1926). He died on 22 March 1943.
- In 1897, Rome, NY native John H. Ayers was a public school teacher when he answered then New York City Commissioners of Police, Theodore Roosevelt's call for recruits with more brains than brawn. He began as a beat patrolman on New York's Lower Eastside and in 1902 was promoted to Roundsman (sergeant). Five years later he made Detective First-Grade and later that same year, through a realignment of police ranks, was raised to Lieutenant. In 1918 he was made Captain of the NYPD's new Missing Persons Bureau, a post he would hold for some fifteen years. During his tenure over 350,000 cases would be investigated of which only 2% remained unsolved. Ayers once admitted that he often let people feign amnesia if it helped ease their returning home. Ayers also held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army Reserve Corps. Anna, Ayers's first wife, died in 1937. She was the daughter of Irish immigrants and the mother of their only child. John H. Ayers died suddenly on 27 March, 1943, while at Brunswick, Georgia, He was seventy-five years old and was survived by his second wife Catherine and his son James.