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- Jan Kalinciak was born on 10 August 1822 in Horné Záturcie, Austrian Empire [now Slovakia]. Jan was a writer, known for Zemianska cest (1958). Jan died on 16 June 1871 in Turócszentmárton, Austria-Hungary [now Martin, Slovakia].
- Gonçalves Dias was born on 10 August 1823 in Caxias, Maranhão, Brazil. He was a writer, known for Crime Delicado (2005). He was married to Olímpia Carolina da Costa. He died on 13 November 1864 in Guimarães, Maranhão, Brazil.
- W. Chrystie Miller was born on 10 August 1843 in Dayton, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Ramona (1910), Faithful (1910) and The Last Deal (1910). He was married to Jennie Towell. He died on 23 September 1922 in Staten Island, New York, USA.
- Willy was born on 10 August 1859 in Châtillon-Coligny, Loiret, France. He was a writer, known for Claudine en ménage (1917), Claudine s'en va (1917) and Claudine à Paris (1917). He was married to Colette. He died on 12 January 1931 in Paris, France.
- Edmund Gasinski was born on 10 August 1860 in Kielce, Poland, Russian Empire [now Kielce, Swietokrzyskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Tamten (1921), Cud nad Wisla (1921) and Chcemy meza (1916). He died on 20 April 1924 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Booth Conway was born on 10 August 1863 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Westward Ho! (1919), The Valley of Fear (1916) and The Tavern Knight (1920). He died in 1939 in Wandsworth, London, England, UK.
- Charles Herzinger was born on 10 August 1864 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Bat (1926), Rich Girl, Poor Girl (1921) and Honor Bound (1920). He died on 18 February 1953 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Albert Bras was born on 10 August 1865 in Geneva, Switzerland. He was an actor, known for Ladies' Paradise (1930), Vampyr (1932) and Chicot the Jester (1913). He died on 29 September 1942 in London, England, UK.
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Aleksandr Glazunov was born on 10 August 1865 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a composer, known for Otnovo v zhivota (1947), The Company (2003) and Bolshoi Ballet: Raymonda (2019). He was married to Olga Nikolayevna Gavrilova. He died on 21 March 1936 in Boulogne, France.- Mrs. Macklyn Arbuckle was born on 10 August 1866 in Sheldon, Vermont, USA. She was an actress, known for Janice Meredith (1924) and Squire Phin (1922). She was married to Macklyn Arbuckle. She died in 1933 in Waddington, New York, USA.
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Paul Marinier was born on 10 August 1866 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France. Paul died on 5 September 1953 in Lyons-la-Forêt, Eure, France.- Edward Peple was born on 10 August 1867 in Richmond, Virginia, USA. He was a writer, known for Beloved Bachelor (1931), Richard the Brazen (1917) and The Spitfire (1914). He died on 28 July 1924 in New York, New York, USA.
- Charles Thurston was born on 10 August 1868 in Oconto, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor, known for Doubling for Romeo (1921), Is That Nice? (1926) and Rolling Home (1926). He was married to Pauline ?. He died on 4 March 1940 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Carl Deurell was born on 10 August 1868 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Bröderna Östermans huskors (1932), Järnets män (1935) and Her Little Majesty (1939). He died on 9 December 1962 in Bromma, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.
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Theodore Marston was born on 10 August 1868 in Minnesota, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Robin Hood (1913), The Secret Kingdom (1917) and Jane Eyre (1910). He died on 2 October 1920 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Gilson Willets was born on 10 August 1869 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for The Tiger's Trail (1919), The Millionaire Baby (1915) and The Mystery of the Double Cross (1917). He was married to Daisy May Vanderveer. He died on 26 May 1922 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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British-born playwright J. Hartley Manners, of Irish extraction, spent
many years in the United States. In his twenties, in Australia, he
began a relatively successful acting career and made his debut in
London's West End in 1898. Joining the company of famed actor-manager
Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, he toured the provinces as an actor. For
famed actress Lily Langtry, with whom he
was acting, he wrote the play "The Crossways" in 1902, which he
produced and co-starred in. At the end of that year Manners, Langtry
and the play traveled to America, where it had a brief Broadway run.
Manners acted for only another two years, but devoted himself from 1902
to playwrighting, managing to write or collaborate on more than 30
plays in the next twenty-six years. In 1909 his play "The Great John
Ganton" introduced one of the century's great theatrical stars,
Laurette Taylor, to Broadway. Manners
married Taylor and wrote and produced ten plays for her over the next
decade. One of these, "Peg o' My Heart," was a huge success, spawning
eight road companies during its Broadway run, playing more than 11,000
collective performances in its first nine years. It was filmed several
times. An unproduced play was the posthumous source of the musical "The
Gay Divorce," a Broadway hit for
Fred Astaire and
Cole Porter (later filmed as
The Gay Divorcee (1934)).
Manners had surgery to treat esophageal cancer in November, 1928, and
died three weeks later.- Hubert Wales was born on 10 August 1870 in Brigg, North Lincolnshire, England, UK. Hubert was a writer, known for The Yoke (1915) and Cynthia in the Wilderness (1916). Hubert died on 5 July 1943 in Hindhead, Surrey, England, UK.
- Aino Sibelius was born on 10 August 1871 in Helsinki, Finland. She was married to Jean Sibelius. She died on 8 June 1969 in Järvenpää, Finland.
- C.D. Peacock was born on 10 August 1871 in Illinois, USA. C.D. died on 22 January 1917 in Illinois, USA.
- Jane Kerr was born on 10 August 1871 in Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for Les Misérables (1935) and The Silver Lining (1932). She died on 19 November 1954 in Compton, California, USA.
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Lauritz Olsen was born on 10 August 1872 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an actor and director, known for The Lady with the Camellias (1907), Tøffelhelten (1914) and Stemmeretskvinder (1913). He died on 9 May 1955 in Copenhagen, Denmark.- Helen Walton was born on 10 August 1872 in Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for Wolfheart's Revenge (1925) and Snowed Under (1923). She died on 11 April 1965 in California, USA.
- Helen Yoder was born on 10 August 1872 in Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for A Midnight Romance (1919), Home (1919) and Western Firebrands (1921). She died on 11 April 1965 in California, USA.
- Vilhelm Berndtson was born on 10 August 1873 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Erotikon (1920), Hemsöborna (1919) and Boman på utställningen (1923). He died on 13 August 1931 in Göteborg, Sweden.
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Herbert Hoover was born on August 10, 1874 in West Branch, Iowa. His
family were devout Quakers. At age eight, Hoover was orphaned and was
sent to live with relatives. They showed him little affection, but
taught him the importance of hard work and industry. In 1891, Hoover
entered Stanford University's School of Engineering, graduating in
1895. Four years later, he married his wife, Lou Henry and they had two
sons, Herbert Jr. and Allan. From an early age, Hoover showed a
prodigious talent for engineering and was hired by the engineering firm
Bewick and Moering, working in Australia and then in China. He was in
China when the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 broke out and he coordinated the
barricades of Americans trapped in China. At age forty, his engineering
career was so successful that he was a millionaire. 1914 saw the
outbreak of World War I in Europe. That was when he left his
engineering career and entered public service. He organized a relief
effort to feed starving Belgians, known as the Commission for the
Relief of Belgium. When the U.S. entered the war in 1917, President
Woodrow Wilson asked Hoover to organize the Food Administration, which
encouraged Americans to cut down on food consumption to help the war
effort. After the end of World War I in 1918, Hoover organized a
massive relief effort to feed starving peoples in Europe, whose
countries had been devastated by the war. From 1921 to 1929, Herbert
Hoover served as Secretary of Commerce, under Presidents Harding and
Coolidge, expanding the department and making it more active in working
with business and labor. In 1928, he was the Republican candidate for
President and easily defeated his opponent, the Democratic Candidate,
Alfred E. Smith. Herbert Hoover was sworn in as President on March 4,
1929. Seven months after he entered office, the Stock Market crashed,
ending the "Roaring Twenties" and the economic boom of that decade and
ushered in the Great Depression. At first, Hoover was proactive in
handling this economic crisis, having meetings with business leaders on
how to weather the economic downturn, cutting taxes and increasing
money for corporations and state governments. But none of this was
effective in the teeth of the worst economic crisis in American
history. He tried to calm the situation with statements like
"Prosperity is just around the corner," but they were not effective.
His dour demeanor and seemingly callous attitudes towards the millions
of unemployed were what people saw in him, particularly when he refused
to provide direct relief to the unemployed. Things came to a head in
the summer of 1932 when the Bonus Expeditionary Force (BEF), an army of
World War I veterans, marched to Washington demanding immediate payment
of a bonus promised to them in 1945. But the veterans wanted their
money now. They camped out along the Anacostia River and lobbied for
their bonus. The House of Representatives approved immediate payment,
but the Senate voted no. Hoover obtained $100,000 from Congress to buy
the veterans train tickets home. Many veterans accepted the offer, but
many stayed in Washington. At that point, the US army led by Gen.
Douglas McArthur forcibly evicted the veterans from Washington, setting
their camps on fire and forcing them out at gunpoint. In so doing,
McArthur disobeyed Presidential orders, but Hoover took full
responsibility for the eviction of the Bonus Marchers. In the 1932
election, Herbert Hoover was defeated in a landslide by Democrat
Franklin D. Roosevelt. After he left office in 1933, Hoover returned to
California and was an unstinting critic of FDR. After the death of his
wife in 1944, Hoover moved to New York City where he lived his last
twenty years at the Waldorf Towers, remaining active in Republican
Party politics. In 1946, President Harry Truman asked him to undertake
yet another relief effort for the people of Europe; he and Truman
became surprisingly good friends. In 1953, Hoover chaired a commission
to increase efficiency in the Executive Branch of the Federal
Government. He died on October 20, 1964 at age ninety.- Director
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Ernest C. Warde was born on 10 August 1874 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was a director and actor, known for King Lear (1916), The Coast of Opportunity (1920) and The Unfortunate Marriage (1917). He died on 9 September 1923 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Tod Sloan was born on 10 August 1874 in Bunker Hill, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Hot Heels (1927), The Midnight Patrol (1932) and When Romance Rides (1922). He was married to Betty Saxon Maloney and Julia Sanderson. He died on 21 December 1933 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Ladislav Desenský was born on 10 August 1874 in Prague, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Batalion (1927), Fidlovacka (1930) and Bludné duse (1927). He died on 10 April 1941 in Prerov, Protektorát Cechy a Morava [now Czech Republic].
- Frank Tennant was born on 10 August 1876 in Upper Broughton, Nottinghamshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Little Minister (1915), What's Bred... Comes Out in the Flesh (1916) and Royal Love (1915). He died on 13 January 1971 in Horsmonden, Kent, England, UK.
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Harald Bergstedt was born on 10 August 1877 in Køge, Denmark. He was a writer, known for Holiday of St. Jorgen (1930), Intet (2022) and Klassen (2016). He died on 21 July 1965.- Frank Marshall was born on 10 August 1877 in New York City, New York, USA. He died on 9 November 1944 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA.
- Sem Benelli was born on 10 August 1877 in Prato, Tuscany, Italy. He was a writer, known for Le figlie del mare (1918), La cena delle beffe (1942) and The Gorgona (1915). He died on 18 December 1949 in Zoagli, Liguria, Italy.
- German novelist Alfred Doblin was born in Stettin, Germany, in 1888.
When he was ten years old his family moved to Berlin, and Alfred later
attended Berlin and Freiburg universities, where he studied medicine.
He received his MD degree in 1905 and was hired by a newspaper in
Regensburg as a correspondent. By this time he had already written two
novels (only one of which was published, and that one not until 1919).
His first published works were short stories published in a local
magazine in 1904.
He returned to Berlin in 1911 and set up a medical practice
specializing in nervous disorders in the Alexanderplatz district. He
continued writing, however, and in 1915 published to critical acclaim
the novel "Die Drei Sprunge des Wang-lun". World War I interrupted his
writing and medical careers, and he joined the German army as a
physician. He remained in the army for three years, and took part in
the horrendous battle of Verdun, in which it is estimated that more
than one million men died. After the war he continued writing and
several of his novels were published, including "Wallenstein" (1920),
an epic novel about the Thirty Years War. He didn't confine himself
just to historical novels, however. He turned out several plays and a
science-fiction fantasy, "Berge, Meere und Giganten" (1924), about life
in the period from the years 2700-3000 in which machines have taken
over the most of the functions performed by man, wreaking havoc with
humanity.
In 1926 he was elected to the Prussian Academy. In 1927 he turned out
an epic poem, "Manas", and then two years later he published what many
consider his masterwork, "Alexanderplatz", a novel about life in the
working-class Berlin district where he spent many years. He wrote more
books and plays that were successful, but the rise of Naziism and
Adolf Hitler troubled him, and he left
Germany. He moved around Europe until the German takeover of Holland,
where he was living at the time, resulted in his moving to the US,
where he settled down in Hollywood.
He moved back to Germany after the war, and died in Emmendingen in 1957
at age 78 of Parkinson's Disease. - Edmond Roze was born on 10 August 1878 in Reims, Marne, France. He was an actor, known for Le fils improvisé (1932), 600 000 francs par mois (1933) and Un coup de rouge (1937). He died on 23 July 1943 in Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Malopolskie, Poland.
- Sallie Fisher was born on 10 August 1880 in Wyoming, USA. She was an actress, known for The Little Shepherd of Bargain Row (1916) and Animated Weekly, No. 34 (1912). She was married to Arthur Houghton. She died on 8 June 1950 in Twentynine Palms, California, USA.
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Lucien Tainguy was born on 10 August 1881 in Paris, France. Lucien was a cinematographer, known for God's Country and the Law (1921), Checkers (1913) and Courage for Two (1919). Lucien died in February 1971 in Baychester, The Bronx, New York, USA.- Otto Berman was born on 10 August 1881 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He died on 24 October 1935 in Newark, New Jersey, USA.
- Leo Krzycki was born on 10 August 1881 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He died on 22 January 1966 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
- W. Bynner was born on 10 August 1881 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for Poetry fugacious (2019) and Peace (1976). He died on 1 June 1968 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
- Gyözö Kabók was born on 10 August 1881 in Szeged, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was an actor, known for Göre Gábor bíró úr pesti kalandozásai (1914), Göre Gábor bíró úr kalandozásai Budapesten (1914) and A vén bakancsos és fia, a huszár (1918). He died on 14 June 1949 in Budapest, Hungary.
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George E. Middleton was born on 10 August 1882 in San Francisco, California, USA. George E. was a director and producer, known for Just Squaw (1919), Nix on Dames (1929) and The Woman Who Dared (1916). George E. was married to Beatriz Michelena. George E. died on 25 August 1969 in San Rafael, California, USA.- Charles Fang was born on 10 August 1882 in San Francisco, USA. He is known for Sunken Silver (1925), Boomerang Bill (1922) and The Great Secret (1917).
- Madeleine Roch was born on 10 August 1883 in Les Mureaux, Yvelines, France. She was an actress, known for Cleopatra (1910), Anne Boleyn (1912) and Femme fatale (1912). She died on 9 December 1930.
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Former stage actor and playwright - he wrote over 150 plays and vaudeville sketches - Hugh Herbert went, in the early 1930s to Hollywood, as a comedian. In the 1930s he worked mostly for Warner Bros., impersonating often eccentric millionaires, tycoons and dimwitted professors. In a few movies he collaborated on the screenplays, e.g. on "Gold Diggers of 1935" and "Hit Parade of 1941".- Panait Istrate was born in the Danube port Braila in Romania, on 11
August 1884 to Joita Istrate, an unmarried house cleaner. It seams that
a Greek smuggler named Valsamis, partner to Joita's father, was his
father. At age of 12 leaves home, drifts and works in Braila port,
living with his grandmother in Lacul Sarat (Salt Lake). In March 1916
leaves Romania and starts a long trip through Mediterranean area,
living in Suisse, Greece, France, Italy, and passing through Egypt,
Lebanon, Syria. On 4 January 1921 tried suicide; by chance his
situation coming to attention of French writer Romaine Rolland, they
start a long relationship and a productive letter exchange. He start
publishing some short stories and novels, written in French, which were
appreciated by the critics, which start calling him "Gorky of Balkan".
Coming from a working class background, he was very supportive of new
social system experience in Russia, (probable influenced by his
communist friend Romaine Rolland), but later, after the real situation
of repressions in Russia became generally known, he start being very
critical of Stalin and communism. His life is described in one of his
novels by the Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis. Died in 1935. - Robert G. Fowler was born on 10 August 1884 in California, USA. He was a director, known for Panama and the Canal from an Aeroplane (1914) and Robert G. Fowler, Trans-Continental Aviator (1912). He was married to Lenore M. Fowler. He died on 15 June 1966 in San Jose, California, USA.
- Margaret Brewster was born on 10 August 1885. She was an actress, known for Second Chance (1953), The Telephone Book (1971) and Savages (1972). She died in February 1974.
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Robert Atkins was born on 10 August 1886 in Dulwich, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Black Magic (1949), Peg of Old Drury (1935) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (1946). He was married to Ethel Gladys Davey and Mary Sumner (actress, 1888-1956). He died on 9 February 1972 in London, England, UK.- Hugo Eckener was born on 10 August 1886 in Flensburg, Germany. He was married to Johanna. He died on 14 August 1954 in Friedrichshafen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.