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* Florence Wald ( 1917 – 2008 ), " mother of the American hospice movement "
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Many artists were drawn to Taos due to the presence of Mabel Dodge Luhan, a wealthy heiress from Buffalo, New York who had run a prominent art salon in Florence, Italy, and Manhattan, New York, before settling in Taos in 1917.
Howerd was born the son of a soldier, Francis Alfred William ( 1887 – 1935 ) and Edith Florence Howard ( née Morrison, 1888 – 1962 ) at the City Hospital in York, England, in 1917 ( not 1922 as he later claimed ).
After his retirement he moved to Florence in Italy, transferring to Zürich at the outbreak of the First World War, where he died in 1917.
Florence La Badie ( April 27, 1888 – October 13, 1917 ), born Florence Russ, was an American actress in the early days of the silent film era.
While there is much evidence of her having been raised in Montreal, in an alleged sworn deposition on October 8, 1917, a New York woman named Marie C. Russ did claim to be Florence's biological mother and referred to a Russ family burial plot in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery, with lot number 17187 being reserved for Florence Russ, aka Florence La Badie.
Klein was born in Calgary to Phillip Andrew Klein ( born September 29, 1917 ) and Florence Harper ( 1924 – 2004 ).
Florence Edy in 1909Brownlee and his wife had two sons: John Edy Brownlee was born December 1915, and Alan Marshall Brownlee was born September 1917.
Notable Vassar alumni include first black graduate Anita Florence Hemmings ( 1897 ), poet Edna St. Vincent Millay ( 1917 ), computer pioneer Grace Hopper ( 1928 ), poet Elizabeth Bishop ( 1934 ), physician Beatrix Hamburg ( 1944 ), politician and activist Frances Farenthold, psychiatrist Bernadine P. Healy ( 1965 ), actress Meryl Streep ( 1971 ), CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Chip Reid ( 1977 ), television personality Andrew Zimmern ( 1984 ), actress Lisa Kudrow ( 1985 ), actress Hope Davis ( 1986 ), musician Mark Ronson, journalist Evan Wright ( 1988 ), writer-director Noah Baumbach ( 1991 ), Flickr founder Caterina Fake ( 1991 ), What Not to Wear host Stacy London ( 1991 ), Survivor: Africa winner Ethan Zohn ( 1996 ), actress Lecy Goranson.
* Archduchess Maria Luisa Annunziata Anna Giovanna Giuseppa Antonietta Filomena Appolonia Tomassa ( Maria Louisa Annunziata Anna Johanna Josepha Antoniette Philomena Appolonia Thomasa ) ( Florence, 31 October 1845-Hanau, 27 August 1917 ), married in Schloss Brandeis, Bohemia, on 31 May 1865 Karl Fürst zu Isenburg und Büdingen ( Birstein, 29 July 1838-Schlackenwerth, 4 April 1899 ).
Florence Jessie MacWilliams ( 4 January 1917 – 27 May 1990 ) was an English mathematician who contributed to the field of coding theory.
* The pro-war 1917 pamphlet Pro Patria ( 1917 ) by Philadelphia poet Florence Earle Coates ( 1850 – 1927 )
When his mother died in 1915 and his father in 1917, he was deeply affected and retired to his home in Florence, where he died in 1924.
" The Man Without a Country " has been adapted for film several times, starting in 1917 with The Man Without a Country starring Florence La Badie, a 1918 film My Own United States, one in 1925, and another Man Without a Country starring John Litel and Gloria Holden and released by Warner Brothers in 1937.
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* 1478 – The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de ' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence.
Maillol served as a juror with Florence Meyer Blumenthal in awarding the Prix Blumenthal ( 1919 – 1954 ) a grant awarded to painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians.
Bartolomeo Ammannati ( 18 June 1511 – 13 April 1592 ) was an Italian architect and sculptor, born at Settignano, near Florence.
Saint Benedict of Nursia ( c. 480 – 543 ), detail from a fresco by Fra Angelico, Saint Mark's Basilica | San Marco, Florence ( c. 1400 – 1455 ).
# Joseph Bonaparte ( Corte 1768 – Florence 1844 ), King of Naples and Spain, married Julie Clary, sister of Napoleon's childhood sweetheart, Désirée, who was to become the wife of General Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, the later Charles XIV of Sweden.
Returning to Italy, the most celebrated doors are those of the Battistero di San Giovanni ( Florence ), which together with the door frames are all in bronze, the borders of the latter being perhaps the most remarkable: the modeling of the figures, birds and foliage of the south doorway, by Andrea Pisano ( 1330 ), and of the east doorway by Ghiberti ( 1425 – 1452 ), are of great beauty ; in the north door ( 1402 – 1424 ) Ghiberti adopted the same scheme of design for the paneling and figure subjects in them as Andrea Pisano, but in the east door the rectangular panels are all filled, with bas-reliefs, in which Scripture subjects are illustrated with innumerable figures, these being probably the gates of Paradise of which Michelangelo speaks.
Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea, in Wales, on 27 October 1914, to David John Thomas ( 1876 – 1952 ), a teacher, and Florence Hannah ( née Williams ) ( 1882 – 1958 ), a seamstress.
Council of Basel, Ferrara and Florence ( 1431 – 1445 ) addressed church reform and reunion with the Eastern Churches, but split into two parties.
1520 – 1591 ), father of Galileo and the inventor of monody, made use of the method in successfully solving musical problems, firstly, of tuning such as the relationship of pitch to string tension and mass in stringed instruments, and to volume of air in wind instruments ; and secondly to composition, by his various suggestions to composers in his Dialogo della musica antica e moderna ( Florence, 1581 ).
* 1497 – The bonfire of the vanities occurs in which supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn thousands of objects like cosmetics, art, and books in Florence, Italy.
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