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- Pierre Corneille was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine.
As a young man, he earned the valuable patrionate of Cardinal Richelieu, who was trying to promote classical tragedy along formal lines, but later quarrelled with him, especially over his best-known play, Le Cid, about a medieval Spanish warrior, which was denounced by the newly formed Académie française for breaching the unities. He continued to write well-received tragedies for nearly forty years. - Writer
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Born to noble parents (his father Sergei was a retired major, and his mother, Nadezhda, was the granddaughter of an ennobled Ethiopian general) on the 26th of May, 1799 in Moscow, Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin became involved with a liberal underground revolutionary group that saw him exiled to the Caucasus.
He spent most of his time there writing poetry and novels. In 1826 Pushkin was pardoned by the Tsar and allowed to return home after six years of exile. He married Natalia Goncharova, whose coquettish behavior led to her husband challenging an admirer of hers to a duel in January 1837. Though both were wounded, only Pushkin died two days later from his injuries.- Timothy Shay Arthur was born on 6 June 1809 in Newburgh, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Ten Nights in a Bar-Room (1931), Ten Nights in a Bar Room (1921) and Ten Nights in a Barroom (1913). He was married to Eliza Alden. He died on 6 March 1885 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Steele MacKaye was born on 6 June 1842 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Hazel Kirke (1916), Hazel Kirke (1912) and The Miller's Daughter (1905). He was married to Mary Ellen Keith Medbury and Jeannie Spring. He died on 25 February 1894 in Timpas, Colorado, USA.
- 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].
- English explorer who commanded two Antarctic expeditions, 1901-04 and 1910-12. Born to John and Hannah Scott. Born into a naval family he became a cadet at the age of 13 and entered the navy in 1882. He married famous English sculptor, Kathleen Bruce in 1908. His son Peter was born in 1909. In 1910 he set for antarctica on the ship Terra Nova. With Scott on the final expedition were Edward Wilson (1872-1912), Laurence Oates, H R Bowers, and E Evans. The Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge was founded in 1920 out of funds donated by the public following Scott's death, as a memorial to him and his companions. It houses a small museum and library, and carries out research into all aspects of the Antarctic and Arctic regions. On 18 January 1912 he reached the South Pole, shortly after the Norwegian Roald Amundsen, but on the return journey he and his companions died in a blizzard only a few miles from their base camp. His journal was recovered and published in 1913.
- 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. - Árpád Heltai was born on 6 June 1893 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was an actor, known for Az ösember (1918). He died on 11 May 1919.
- Gabrielle Réjane was born on 6 June 1856 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Madame Sans-Gêne (1911), Madame Sans-Gêne (1900) and Miarka, the Child of the Bear (1920). She was married to Paul Porel. She died on 14 June 1920 in Paris, France.
- Camera and Electrical Department
Nelson Evans was born on 6 June 1889 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. Nelson is known for Bits of Life (1921). Nelson died on 17 October 1922 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- George Hernandez was born on 6 June 1863 in Placerville, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Just Out of College (1920), The White Medicine Man (1911) and Monte Cristo (1912). He was married to Anna Dodge. He died on 31 December 1922 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Rudolf Tesnohlídek was born on 6 June 1882 in Cáslav / Tschaslau, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was a writer, known for Innocence (2004), The Cunning Little Vixen (1995) and Janácek: The Cunning Little Vixen (2012). He died on 12 January 1928 in Brno, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].- Gustav Ranft was born on 6 June 1856 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Ingmarssönerna (1919), Värmlänningarna (1921) and Klostret i Sendomir (1920). He died on 18 October 1929 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.
- Cinematographer
George Eastman was born on 6 June 1900 in Jacksonville, Illinois, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for The Sin Sister (1929) and Cameo Kirby (1930). He died on 2 January 1930 in Santa Monica, California, USA.- Sigfried Wagner was born on 6 June 1869 in Tribschen, Lucerne, Switzerland. He was a composer, known for Brennender Sand (1960). He was married to Winifred Wagner. He died on 4 August 1930 in Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany.
- Music Department
Siegfried Wagner was born on 6 June 1869 in Tribschen, Lucerne, Switzerland. He is known for Brennender Sand (1960). He was married to Winifred Wagner. He died on 4 August 1930 in Bayreuth, Germany.- Les Bates was born on 6 June 1877 in Waukegan, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Vanity Fair (1923), Big Stakes (1922) and While London Sleeps (1926). He died on 8 August 1930 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Actor
- Director
Louis Chrispijn Jr. was born on 6 June 1876 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. He was an actor and director, known for 999 + 1 (1909), Ontrouw (1911) and Heilig recht (1914). He was married to Gusta Chrispijn-Mulder. He died on 14 August 1931 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.- Paul Keller was a German writer and journalist and a popular author of the early 20th century. His most popular novels represented his homeland of Silesia, sentimental novels about rural life ("Heimatroman" genre). His novels include "Waldwinter" (1902); "Das Letzte Märchen" (1905); and "Der Sohn Der Hagar" (1907), which was later adapted into the film "Sohn Ohne Heimat" in 1955. Keller's later works were not as critically well-received as his early ones, being called repetitive and unoriginal, but he remained popular among the public. In 1931 his novels had a circulation of 5 million copies and were translated into 17 languages.
- Jim Blackwell was born on 6 June 1876 in Richmond, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Love's Wilderness (1924), Desperate Youth (1921) and The Only Son (1914). He died on 27 September 1932.
- Emilie Sedlácková was born on 6 June 1868 in Staré Benátky, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Ze sveta lesních samot (1933), Zapadlí vlastenci (1932) and Sestra Angelika (1933). She died on 10 February 1933 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Ignacio Sánchez Mejías was born on 6 June 1891 in Seville, Andalucía, Spain. He died on 13 August 1934 in Madrid, Spain.
- Actress
Hedwig Wiese was born on 6 June 1845 in Germany. She was an actress, known for Maria (1919), Herberts Sünde (1916) and Der verkaufte Schlaf (1916). She died on 14 March 1936 in Berlin, Germany.- Bleuette Bernon was born on 6 June 1878 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for The Kingdom of the Fairies (1903), Bluebeard (1901) and Cinderella (1899). She died on 15 June 1937 in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Val-de-Marne, France.
- Actress
Jane Weir was born in Davenport, Iowa, to a socially prominent family. Around 1926, she moved to California with her mother. Paramount Studios had high hopes for Jane, and they signed her to a five-year contract in 1937. Her obituary stated that she had dreams of being a screenwriter and that Hollywood studios had accepted several of her scripts. Jane died of an apparent blood clot that developed while she was recovering from an appendectomy. She is buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery.- Vladimir Zazubrin was born on 6 June 1895 in Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]. Vladimir was a writer, known for Izbushka na Bajkale (1926), Krasnyi gas (1924) and The Chekist (1992). Vladimir died on 28 September 1937 in Moscow, Soviet Union [now Russia].
- Reine Davies was born on 6 June 1886 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Sunday (1915) and The Sin Woman (1917). She was married to George W. Lederer and George Regas. She died on 2 April 1938 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Jonna Neiiendam was born on 6 June 1872 in Denmark. She was an actress, known for Had og Kærlighed (1917), Slægten (1912) and 5 raske piger (1933). She died on 7 December 1938 in Denmark.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Leo Dryden was born on 6 June 1863 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Lady of the Lake (1928). He was married to Marie Tyler (actress). He died on 21 April 1939 in London, England, UK.- Italo Balbo was born on 6 June 1896 in Ferrara, Italy. He was married to Emanuela Florio. He died on 28 June 1940 in Tobruk, Libya.
- Actor
Louis LaVoie was born on 6 June 1880 in Aberdeen, Mississippi, USA. He was an actor. He died on 2 July 1940 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Edna Pendleton was born on 6 June 1887 in Montana, USA. She was an actress, known for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916), The Curious Conduct of Judge Legarde (1915) and The Girl I Left Behind Me (1915). She was married to Johnny Powers. She died on 21 August 1940 in Seattle, Washington, USA.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Teddy Joyce was born on 6 June 1904 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Radio Parade of 1935 (1934), Crooner (1932) and Business Is a Pleasure (1934). He was married to Chili Bouchier. He died on 10 February 1941 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.- Syd Jackson was born on 6 June 1889 in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. He was married to Ruby Madeline Paton. He died on 28 February 1941 in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
- Actor
Willy Chanson, born as Willem Munnik in 1883, is a Dutch actor, revue artist and script-writer. Together with colleague Johan Silliakus he performed as the comical revue duo Mie & Ko. They were quite popular and successful with their so-called 'Jordaan'-act, singing and performing in a way as locals from the Amsterdam city part 'De Jordaan' did and lived. Willy played the part of Mie, a common local woman and, hilariously, he was also dressed likewise. In 1924 Willy wrote a famous Dutch song, called 'De Dievenwagen', which was recorded by several Dutch singers and considered as a classic today. The duo performed in two silent movies: 'Mie En Ko Uit Den Jordaan Te Amsterdam, Met De Gevonden Damschat' (1917) and 'Aankomst Van Mie En Ko Te Hilversum' (1920). Willy Chanson played a small part in one of the first Dutch 'talkies', the 1937 film 'Pygmalion'. He died after a long illness in 1942, aged 59.- Will James was born on 6 June 1892 in Saint-Nazaire-D'Acton, Quebec, Canada. He was a writer, known for Sand (1949), Lone Cowboy (1933) and Smoky (1946). He was married to Alice Conradt. He died on 3 September 1942 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- 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.- Actor
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Tyler Brooke was born on 6 June 1886 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Poor Little Rich Girl (1936), Madam Satan (1930) and Playboy of Paris (1930). He was married to Myrtle Laurine Neil, Laruna Wolcott and Elizabeth Bauland. He died on 2 March 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Music Department
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Song lyricist ("When You're Smiling", "Everywhere You Go") and a charter ASCAP member (1914), educated in public schools and a songwriter since World War I when he wrote songs for the 81st Wildcats. Thereafter he was a monologist in vaudeville and a professional manager for music publishers. Besides his film-music work he wrote songs and musical material for London revues. His chief musical collaborators included Nat Ayer, Louis Alter, Gus Edwards, George Meyer, Al Piantadosi, Mark Fisher, and Larry Shay, and his other popular-song compositions include "That's How I Need You", "Billy", "When I Get You Alone Tonight", "When You Play in the Game of Love", "Baby Shoes", "Liberty Bell It's Time to Ring Again", "Gee, But I Hate to Go Home Again", "I'm Knee Deep in Daisies", "They're Wearing 'Em Higher in Hawaii" and "Breeze".- Helmuth Stieff was born on 6 June 1901 in Deutsch Eylau, Germany [now Ilawa, Poland]. He died on 8 August 1944 in Berlin-Plötzensee, Germany.
- Neville Heath was born on 6 June 1917 in Ilford, Essex, England, UK. He died on 16 October 1946 in Pentonville Prison, London, England, UK.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Composer, conductor and saxophonist James Melvin "Jimmie" Lunceford studied at the City College of New York and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at Fisk University. He taught in New York City high schools and joined the Fletcher Henderson and Wilbut Sweatman orchestras as a saxophonist and flutist, then formed his own orchestra in 1929 which toured the US and Europe and made many recordings. Joining ASCAP in 1942, his popular-song compositions include "Rhythm in My Nursery Rhymes", "Dream of You", "Uptown Blues", and his theme "Rhythm Is Our Business".- Alfred Schlesinger was born on 6 June 1872 in Prague, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republik]. He was an actor, known for Horské volání S.O.S. (1929), Válecné tajnosti prazské (1926) and Krásná vyzvedacka (1928). He died on 17 September 1947 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Rod Bacon was born on 6 June 1914 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was an actor, known for The Masked Marvel (1943), Public Enemies (1941) and The Gay Vagabond (1941). He was married to Annette Louise Devorak. He died on 28 February 1948 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
- Lt. Hankin was born on 6 June 1881 in Jackson, Tennessee, USA. He was an actor, known for Injustice (1919). He was married to Ivor S. Davis. He died on 14 August 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Curtis Karpe was born on 6 June 1885 in Posen, Prussia, Germany [now Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Public Wedding (1937), Love and the Law (1919) and Trapped Underground (1938). He died on 4 April 1950.
- Actor
- Production Manager
- Producer
Max Wogritsch was born on 6 June 1880 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany. He was an actor and production manager, known for Looping the Loop (1928), Unter falscher Flagge (1932) and The Chronicles of the Gray House (1925). He died on 23 March 1951 in Sendenhorst, West Germany.- Actress
- Soundtrack
In a world weary of war and dispirited by the ravages of the Great Depression, Hollywood at the turn of the 1940s concocted a wildly popular, effective lot of escapist fare (though often cheaply made) to regale the sick at heart worldwide. Universal Pictures, more often than not, led in producing such films. We know about the monster movies: wolf men, invisible men -- and invisible women too, for that matter. We know about Sherlock Holmes chasing not killer hounds in 1890 but chasing killer Nazis a half- century later. Such were among typical Universal "B" productions. Enter Maria de Santo Silas -- Maria Montez. This daughter of a Spanish diplomat traveled extensively after being educated in the Canary Islands and attempted, albeit unsuccessfully, to establish herself as a stage actress in Europe. In 1940 she found herself in New York City, a model. Her screen career began in 1941, with Universal casting her in bit parts. On account of her strikingly exotic looks and her exotic accent, the studio soon paired her with other "exotics" (Sabu and Turhan Bey), and usually with a more "home-style" hero (Jon Hall), in a series of low-budget adventures, filmed in Technicolor and situated in fantasy lands, with Montez herself often situated in revealing dress. With Montez threatened by all manner of nastiness -- from evil caliphs to man-eating sharks to her own cobra-worshipping twin sister (!) -- her pictures soon became immensely popular, even though she could not really act, could not dance and could not sing. Audiences flocked to see her films, just to witness the trials and endurance of an alluring beauty in distress (as well, perhaps, as to glimpse some scantily clad, beauteous flesh). The Depression having long since passed, the end of World War II meant also the end of flying carpets and sand dunes and deadly reptiles as potential subjects for attracting moviegoers. That bit of history, plus a bit of girth added to Montez's frame, led her and her husband, the actor Jean-Pierre Aumont, to abandon Hollywood for Europe, where she would appear in a handful of French and Italian adventure films. On 7 September 1951 Maria Montez was discovered drowned in her bath, possibly having first suffered a heart attack.- Paul Baratoff was born on 6 June 1873 in Riga, Latvia. He was an actor, known for Führe uns nicht in Versuchung (1922), The Men in Her Life (1941) and Der Unbekannte aus Rußland (1922). He died on 23 October 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Jim Rigsby was born on 6 June 1923 in Spadra, Arkansas, United States. He died on 31 August 1952 in Dayton, Ohio, United States.