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Gustave Albin Whitehead, born Gustav Albin Weisskopf ( 1 January 1874 – 10 October 1927 ) was an aviation pioneer who emigrated from Germany to the U. S., where he designed and built early flying machines and engines meant to power them from about 1897 to 1915.
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* Number 21 is the name of the plane alleged flown by Gustave Whitehead two years before the Wright brothers ' flight
Randolph expanded the article into a book, " Lost Flights of Gustave Whitehead ," published in 1937.
O ' Dwyer later contributed to a second book by Stella Randolph, The Story of Gustave Whitehead, Before the Wrights Flew, published in 1966.
::" I ... recall seeing an airplane flight made by the late Gustave Whitehead approximately thirty-five years ago.
According to William O ' Dwyer, the Bridgeport Daily Standard newspaper reported that photos showing Gustave Whitehead in successful powered flight did exist and were exhibited in the window of Lyon and Grumman Hardware store on Main Street, Bridgeport, Connecticut in October 1903.
* 17 January – Gustave Whitehead claims a circling 11 km ( 7 mi ) flight over water in a 40 hp-29. 9-kW-engine-powered flying machine with wheels and an amphibious boat-shaped hull, reportedly rebuilt from the Whitehead Aeroplane No. 21 of 1901.
* 14 August – In Fairfield, Connecticut, Gustave Whitehead reportedly flies his engine-powered Whitehead No. 21 folding-wing, rudderless, flying machine 800 meters ( 2, 625 feet ) at an altitude of 15 meters ( 49 feet ), according to an article in the Bridgeport Herald.
Many German-Americans translated their names or altered them to resemble English names ( a trend which had begun in the 19th century, e. g. Gustave Whitehead ).
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Gustave Eiffel was born in Dijon, in the Côte-d ' Or department of France, the first child of Alexandre and Catherine Eiffel.
Gustave de Molinari ( 3 March 1819 – 28 January 1912 ) was an economist born in Belgium associated with French laissez-faire liberal economists such as Frédéric Bastiat and Hippolyte Castille.
Victor Hugo, Gustave Courbet, and Auguste and Louis Lumière are among the famous people born in Doubs.
Other key theorists include Gustave Le Bon ( 1841 – 1931 ) who believed that crowds possessed a ' racial unconscious ' with primitive, aggressive, and antisocial instincts, and William McDougall ( psychologist ), who believed in a ' group mind ,' which had a distinct existence born from the interaction of individuals.
Pierre Monteux was born in Paris, the third son and the fifth of six children of Gustave Élie Monteux, a shoe salesman, and his wife, Clémence Rebecca née Brisac.
Gustave Caillebotte was born on 19 August 1848 to an upper-class Parisian family living in the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis.
His mother, Aida Danet, was the daughter of French physician Gustave Danet, and was born in Brittany.
He had come from an artistic family ; before Albert was born, his father, Christian Herter, and his father's half-brother Gustave formed Herter Brothers, a prominent New York interior design and furnishings firm.
Lafosse says he was born on 21 April 1958 in the Ville de Bruxelles district, and that his parents were Baron Gustave Joseph Fernand Clément Lafosse and Princess Renée Julienne Stewart.
In 2002, Brussels authorities stated that this certificate is a forgery, and that they have a birth certificate showing that Lafosse was born in Brussels on 21 April 1958, in the Watermael-Boitsfort district to Gustave Joseph Clément Fernand Lafosse, a shopkeeper, and Renée Julienne Dée, a business employee.
Meyner was born on July 3, 1908 in Easton, Pennsylvania to Gustave Herman Meyner, Sr. ( 1878 – 1950 ) and Maria Sophia Bäumle ( 1881 – 1968 ).
Jean Dasté, born Jean Georges Gustave Dasté, ( 18 September 1904 in Paris, France-15 October 1994 in Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, Loire, France ) was an actor and theatre director.
Gustave Charpentier (; born in Dieuze, Moselle on 25 June 1860, died Paris, 18 February 1956 ) was a French composer, best known for his opera Louise.
Paul Gustave Simonon ( born 15 December 1955 ) is an English musician and artist best known as the bass guitarist for punk rock band The Clash.
James Gustave ( Gus ) Speth ( born March 4, 1942 ) is an American environmental lawyer and advocate.
Charles Frohman was born in Sandusky, Ohio, the youngest of three Frohman brothers, including Daniel and Gustave.
Boulenger was born in Brussels, Belgium, the only son of Gustave Boulenger, a Belgian public notary, and Juliette Piérart de Valenciennes.
Gustave Verbeek ( born Gustave Verbeck ) ( 1867, Nagasaki, Japan-1937, New York City, New York ) was an illustrator and cartoonist, best known for his newspaper cartoons in the early 1900s featuring an inventive use of word play and visual storytelling tricks.
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