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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
3: ==Ada==
4: === Adac - Adal ===
5: *[[Adachi Hatazo]], (1890-1947), Lieutenant general and ...
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...beth II in an official portrait as [[Queen of Canada]] (on the occasion of her [[Golden Jubilee of Eli...
7: ...s]], [[Barbados]], [[Belize]], [[Canada]], [[Grenada]], [[Jamaica]], [[New Zealand]], [[Papua New Guin...
15: ... of York (n饠[[Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]]), the daughter of [[Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of...
17: As a granddaughter of the British sovereign in the male line, ...
20: ...[[Entente Cordiale]] and numerous visits to [[Canada]]. She was instructed in religion by the [[Archbi... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
1: ...tor, Viscountess Astor''' ([[May 19]], [[1879]] – [[May 2]], [[1964]]) was a socialite politicia...
4: ...]] was the wife and model of the artist [[Charles Dana Gibson]], creator of the [[Gibson Girl]]. One o...
8: ...Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] candidate in the required by-election. Elected on [[Novem...
10: ...Winston Churchill]] as his replacement. Her son [[David Astor]], who became editor/owner of ''The Obse...
12: ...i Marlene'' that they called "The Ballad Of The D-Day Dodgers". - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...a Eleanor Roosevelt''' ([[October 11]] [[1884]] – [[November 7]] [[1962]]) was an [[United State...
9: ...oman, in an autocratic house. On [[St. Patrick's Day]], [[1905]] she married [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]...
11: ...szen van Rosenvelt]] who emigrated to [[New Amsterdam]] ([[Manhattan]]) from [[Holland]] in the 1640s....
13: ...es, Eleanor found herself at odds with his eldest daughter, [[Alice Roosevelt Longworth]] who was enra...
15: ...ved in the White House with the first family in [[1940]]. - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...garet Chase Smith''' ([[December 14]], [[1897]] – [[May 29]], [[1995]]) was a [[United States Re...
5: ... to the House of Representatives on [[June 3]], [[1940]] to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her ...
9: She received the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] from President [[George Herbert Wal... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...n''' ([[June 27]], [[1869]] – [[May 14]], [[1940]]) was a [[Lithuania]]n-born [[anarchism|anarchis...
21: ...chist sympathizer, had shot the President several days before. The authorities' attempt to associate h...
29: ...ecting the hearing, called her ''"one of the most dangerous anarchists in America."''
41: ...oldman died of a stroke in [[Toronto]] on May 14, 1940. The U.S. [[Immigration and Naturalization Servic...
59: * <blockquote>"If I can't dance, it's not my revolution" - widely attributed, ... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...t Higgins Sanger''' ([[September 14]], [[1879]] – [[September 6]], [[1966]]) was an [[United Sta...
5: ...ollowed in subsequent years by a second son and a daughter who died in childhood.
7: ...on'', to poor women, Sanger repeatedly risked scandal and imprisonment by acting in defiance of the [[...
13: ...d Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in her honor in 1940). That year, she also formed the National Committ...
24: ...h venereal diseases (which she contrasted with mandatory registration of those with infectious disease... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
11: ...n 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 196... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: '''Virginia Woolf''' ([[January 25]], [[1882]] – [[March 28]], [[1941]]) was a [[United Kingdom...
9: ...one of the foremost [[Modernists]], though she disdained some artists in this category, such as [[Jame...
11: ...chievements and creativity are influential even today.
13: ...e Lighthouse" is a story on the Ramsay family holiday and the family members' interlocking tensions re...
17: ...s an authoritative examination of Woolf's life, updating the earlier biography by Woolf's own nephew, ... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...sephine McDonald''', was an [[African American]] dancer, actress and singer, sometimes known as "The ...
5: .... Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]], [[Missouri]], the daughter of Eddie Carson and Carrie McDonald, she en...
7: ...tarred at the [[Folies Berg貥]], setting the standard for her future acts. Already a star, she perfor...
17: ...ces helped to integrate shows in [[Las Vegas, Nevada|Las Vegas]]. Nevertheless, her career was on a do...
21: ...ly binding), French sugar magnate Jean Lion (1937-1940, divorced), French orchestra leader Jo Bouillon (... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: ... Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940]]
2: '''Ella Fitzgerald''' ([[April 25]], [[1917]] – [[June 15]], [[1996]]), also known as '''[[Jaz...
14: ...ther with the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie Holiday]] ([[1957]]).
47: *1958 ''[[Ella in Rome: The Birthday Concert]]''
90: *1970 ''[[Ella in Budapest, Hungary]]'' - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
1: ...:Billie_Holiday.jpg|right|thumb|<small>Billie Holiday photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1949</smal...
3: ...]], [[1959]]), also called '''[[Jazz royalty|Lady Day]]''' is generally considered one of the greatest...
7: ...r [[Fletcher Henderson]], was fifteen. Billie Holiday's parents married when she was three, but they s...
9: ... to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
14: Settling in [[Harlem]], Holiday began singing informally in numerous clubs. Arou... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ... Operations Executive]] was founded in [[July]] [[1940]].) Her resourcefulness and success have been cr...
7: ...'s oldest noble families, and Stefania Goldfeder, daughter of a wealthy assimilated Jewish banker. Kr...
9: ...She left for [[Hungary]], where in [[February]] [[1940]] she persuaded a skeptical prewar Polish [[Olymp...
13: ...an Witkowski]], who would be killed in [[1942]] — it is unclear by whom or for what reason. Sev...
15: ...ngary]], to charm transit visas through French-mandated [[Syria]] from the pro-[[Vichy]] [[France|Fren... - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
3: ...[[Croix de Guerre|CdG]] ([[June 26]], [[1921]] – [[February 5]]?, [[1945]]) was a [[World War I...
5: Violette Szabo was the daughter of a [[France|French]] mother and an [[Engl...
7: In [[1940]], Violette married Etienne Szabo, a French offic...
9: ...German communication lines in preparation for [[D-Day]]. However, she was eventually betrayed and arre... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: ...de]] [[filmmaker]] and [[film]] theorist of the [[1940]]s and [[1950]]s.
6: In the early 1940s, Deren used some of the inheritance from her fat...
8: ...5). In 1946 she was awarded a [[Guggenheim]] Foundation Fellowship for "Creative Work in the Field of...
10: During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Deren became heavily involved i...
14: ...t [[James Merrill]] (1926-1995) and his partner [[David Jackson]] (''?''-2001) during [[seance|s顮ces... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
2: ... Love Lucy]]. A 'B-grade' [[movie star]] of the [[1940s]], she became one of the best and most popular s...
5: ... shy girl was outshined by another pupil: [[Bette Davis]]. Lucille later went home in a few weeks when...
7: ...to [[MGM]] (after little success at RKO) in the [[1940s]], but never achieved great success in films. Sh...
9: In [[1940]], Ball met Cuban bandleader [[Desi Arnaz]] while...
20: ...des in [[radio]], and in fact other TV sitcoms predated her show), and was among the first stars to fi... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...emocrat from Alabama [[1931]]-[[1946]]), and granddaughter of Senator [[John H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[...
14: Nevertheless, [[David O. Selznick]] called her the "first choice amo...
24: ...-a-day consumption of [[bourbon whiskey|Old Grand Dad]] -- continued unabated. And behavior that was e...
61: *[[A Royal Scandal]] (1945)
64: *[[Die! Die! My Darling!]] (1965) - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
1: '''Ingrid Bergman''' ([[August 29]], [[1915]] – [[August 29]], [[1982]]) was an [[Academy Awar...
3: ... a dozen films in Sweden, Bergman was signed by [[David O. Selznick]] to star in the remake of [[Inter...
7: ...rgman was branded as "Hollywood's apostle of degradation." One of Rossellini's and Bergman's children...
9: ...6 movie)|Anastasia]]'', Bergman made her post-scandal return to Hollywood and won Best Actress for a s...
13: She died of [[cancer]] on her birthday in [[1982]] in [[London]], [[England]]. She was ... - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
1: ...' the actress; there is also singer named [[Betty Davis]].''
2: [[Image:bettedavis.jpg|thumb|right|208x240|]]
3: ...[October 6]], [[1989]]), better known as '''Bette Davis''', was an [[Academy Award]] winning [[United ...
5: ...ed by their mother, who aspired to be an actress. Davis was denied admission to [[Eva LeGallienne]]'s ...
7: ...''. The Motion Picture Academy failed to nominate Davis for this ''tour de force'', and such was the o... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...d her 13th nomination for ''[[Adaptation (movie)|Adaptation]]''. Hepburn won an [[Emmy Award]] in [[1...
5: ...father was a staunch proponent of publicizing the dangers of [[venereal disease]] in a time when such ...
7: ...ater be recognized for her athletic physicality — she fearlessly performed her own pratfalls in ...
12: ...n and Smith's marriage was rocky from the start — she insisted he change his name to S. Ogden Lu...
21: ...zon]] princess in [[The Warrior's Husband]] (an update of ''[[Lysistrata]]''), which debuted to excell...
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