All Entries Tagged With: "arrested"
Bob Martinez
Date of Birth: 25 December 1934 Mini Biography: Robert “Bob’ Martinez was born in Tampa, Florida, the grandson of Spanish immigrants, he obtained his undergraduate degree in Social Science at the University of Tampa in 1957, then earned a Masters degree, in “labor and industrial relations” from the University of Illinois in 1964. Returning to [...]
Mary Marquet
Date of Birth: 14 April 1895 Birth Name: Micheline Marie Marguerite Delphine Marquet Mini Biography: Mary Marquet studied acting at the Conservatoire and was encouraged by Sarah Bernhardt to become an actress. She made her stage debut in “La cathédrale” by the dramatist Eugène Morand. Her real triumph soon followed with “L’aiglon” by Edmond Rostand. [...]
Perets Markish
Date of Birth: 7 December 1895 Mini Biography: Perets Davidovich Markish was born on December 7, 1895, in Polonnoe shtetl, Volynsk province, Ukraine, Russian Empire. His father, named David Markish, was a melamed. His mother, named Khaya, was a daughter of a local tailor Shimshon-Behr. Young Perets Markish studied at cheder from the early age [...]
Nelson Mandela
Date of Birth: 18 July 1918 Birth Name: Rolihlahla Mandela Nickname: Madiba Height: 6′ (1.83 m) Mini Biography: Nelson Mandela is known as the leader of the African National Congress (ANC) and for his lifelong struggle against apartheid (enforced racial separation), which was instituted in South Africa in 1948. The ANC was soon declared a [...]
Milcho Manchevski
Date of Birth: 18 October 1959 Mini Biography: Milcho Manchevski was born in 1959 in Skopje, Macedonia, in what was at that time Yugoslavia. In 1979 he attended a lecture by Richard Blumenberg, a Southern Illinois University professor in cinema and photography who helped him get a scholarship and enroll in the univeristy. There, he [...]
Louis Malle
Date of Birth: 30 October 1932 Height: 5′ 6¼” (1.68 m) Mini Biography: Louis Malle, the descendant of a French nobleman who made a fortune in beet sugar during the Napoleonic Wars, created films that explored life and its meaning. Malle’s family discouraged his early interest in film but, in 1950, allowed him to enter [...]
Archbishop Makarios
Date of Birth: 1913 Birth Name: Mikhalis Khristadolou Mouskos Mini Biography: Archbishop Makarios is possibly one of the most famous Cypriots. Born in 1913, he became a Greek Orthodox cleric. In 1950, he was voted as Archbishop of Cyprus. During this part of the century, he became involved in the Cypriot movement for “enosis” (i.e., [...]
Owney Madden
Date of Birth: 18 December 1891 Birth Name: Owen Victor Madden Nickname: The Killer The Duke Mini Biography: Gangster Owney Madden was born to an Irish family in Leeds, England, in 1892 (his parents were dockworkers there), and they emigrated to the US in 1903. Growing up in the tough New York ghetto called Hell’s [...]