All Entries Tagged With: "Benito Mussolini"
Hubert Julian
Date of Birth: 5 January 1897 Birth Name: Hubert Fauntleroy Julian Nickname: The Black Eagle Mini Biography: Hubert Julian was born into a wealthy family — his father was a plantation owner — in Trinidad, West Indies, in 1897. His parents packed him off to boarding school in England, but at the outbreak of World [...]
Adolf Hitler
Date of Birth: 20 April 1889 Nickname: Wolf Height: 5′ 9″ (1.75 m) Mini Biography: Born fourth of six children to Austrian customs officer Alois Hitler, who had been married twice before, and the former Klara Polzl, Adolf Hitler grew up in a small Austrian town in the late 19th century. He was a slow [...]
William Randolph Hearst
Date of Birth: 29 April 1863 Nickname: W.R. The Chief Height: 6′ 3″ (1.91 m) Mini Biography: William Randolph Hearst was the greatest newspaper baron in the history of the United States and is the person whom Citizen Kane (1941), widely regarded as the greatest film ever made, is primarily based on. While there are [...]
Hermann Göring
Date of Birth: 12 January 1893 Birth Name: Hermann Wilhelm Göring Nickname: Der Dicke (The fat one) Height: 5′ 10″ (1.78 m) Mini Biography: Hermann Göring was born on January 12, 1893, in Rosenheim, Bavaria, the son of a prominent judge. He entered the German Royal Military Academy at Gross Lichterfeide outside Berlin in his [...]
Giancarlo Giannini
Date of Birth: 1 August 1942 Height: 5′ 8½” (1.74 m) Mini Biography: Giancarlo Giannini is an Oscar-nominated Italian actor, director and multilingual dubber who made an international reputation for his leading roles in Italian films as well as for his mastery of a variety of languages and dialects.He was born August 1, 1942, in [...]
Vito Genovese
Date of Birth: 27 November 1897 Mini Biography: The man once described as the most powerful organized crime gangster in American history was born in Italy in 1897. His first arrest came at the age of 20 in New York City for weapons possession. The coming of Prohibition was a stroke of luck for Genovese, [...]
Igor Cassini
Date of Birth: 15 September 1915 Mini Biography: Igor Cassini was born Igor Aleksandrovich Loiewski on September 15, 1915, in Russia. Igor Cassini and his elder brother, Oleg Cassini, were the sons of Russian diplomat Alexander Loiewski and his wife, Countess Marguerite Cassini, a Russian-Italian aristocrat. His maternal grandfather, Arthur Paul Nicholas, Marquis de Capuzzuchi [...]
Francois Duvalier
Date of Birth: 14 April 1907 Nickname: Papa Doc Mini Biography: Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to an immigrant family from Martinique, Francois Duvalier had always wanted to be a doctor, and after graduation he earned a medical degree and served as a doctor in many rural areas of Haiti, where he gained a reputation for [...]