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The son of writer-theater producer-director-actor Hal Reid, Wallace was on stage by the age of four in the act with his parents. He spent most of his early years, not on the stage, but in private schools where he excelled in music and athletics. In 1910, his father went to the Chicago studio of "Selig Polyscope Company" and Wallace decided that he wanted to be a cameraman. However, with his athletic good looks, he was often put in front of the camera instead of behind - a situation that he disliked. His first film before the camera was The Phoenix (1910), where he played the role of the young reporter. Wallace preferred to be a cameraman, a writer, a director - anything but an actor. He took his fathers play "The Confession" to Vitagraph where he wanted to write and direct the film. Wallace ended up also acting in it. Starting with bit parts in various films, Wallace was eventually cast as the leading man to Florence Turner in numerous films. Wallace next moved on to "Reliance" where he acted, but also wrote screenplays. His next big move was to Hollywood, where he was hired by Universal director Otis Turner, as assistant director, second cameraman, gopher and scenario writer. It was what he was looking for, but he ended up back in front of the camera. At 20, Reid was an unknown assistant director. In 1913, Wallace married Dorothy Davenport, one of the stars that he both directed and starred with. Although only 17, Dorothy had spent a number of years on the stage before heading to the silver screen. The roles that Wallace played were getting bigger and bigger, but after appearing in over 100 films, he took a salary cut and a small part to work with D.W. Griffith on his milestone film The Birth of a Nation (1915). It was after this film that Jesse L. Lasky signed Wallace to a contract with "Famous Players" and he became a big star, but his dreams of directing and writing ended. An alcoholic for years, this situation worsened. His first film for "Famous Players" was The Chorus Lady (1915). Wallace went on to star in a series of pictures in which he represented all that was best of the ideal American. He had parts in over 60 more pictures including Intolerance (1916) and The Squaw Man's Son (1917). But it was the daredevil auto movies that he was most popular at. Flashing cars, dangerous roads and sometimes a race with a speeding locomotive thrilled and scared the public. His auto pictures included The Roaring Road (1919), Excuse My Dust (1920) and Double Speed (1920). When the U.S. entered World War I, Wallace was 25, six foot one and a crack shot. Even though he wanted to enlist, pressure was exerted on him not to. He was the rock on which "Famous Players" was built and his loss would have materially effect the company. He had a newborn son and was the sole support for his wife, his son, his mother, her mother, his father and also had to consider his status as a matinée idol.
He did volunteer his time to selling Liberty bonds and often opened his house to veterans. His films were financial successes, but in his personal life, he spent money like water. Wallace was a star who was worked continuously by the studio but disaster struck on a film site in Oregon. While making the film The Valley of the Giants (1919), Wallace was involved in a train crash and his injuries prevented him from finishing the film. Unwilling to stop the film, the studio sent the company doctor up to Oregon with a supply of morphine so that he would continue working and not feel the pain of his injury. After the picture was finished, he was needed to begin another so the studio kept supplying Wallace with morphine and he became hooked. Coupled with the alcohol, Wallace never had a chance and by 1922, he started entering a succession of hospitals and sanitariums as his health faded. Making his last film for the studio, Thirty Days (1922), Wallace was barely able to stand, let alone act. He died at the sanitarium, in Dorothy's arms, on the 18th day of January 1923 at the age of only 31. Wallace was the third major Paramount personality to be involved in scandal in 1922.- Actress
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This celebrated star of the French stage had a sporadic love-hate affair with early cinema. After her film debut in Le duel d'Hamlet (1900) she declared she detested the medium; yet she consented to appear in another film, La Tosca (1909). Upon seeing the results, she reportedly recoiled in horror, demanding that the negative be destroyed. Her next film appearance, in the Film d'Art production of La dame aux camélias (1912), was a critical and popular success, helping give cinema artistic dignity. The following year she made Les amours de la reine Élisabeth (1912) in Britain. The receipts from this film's distribution in the US provided Adolph Zukor with the funds to found Paramount. Bernhardt, at 69, was offered a fortune to make films with other companies, but stayed with Film d'Art, appearing in Adrienne Lecouvreur (1913). She appeared in two more pictures after losing a leg in 1915, Jeanne Doré (1915) and Mothers of France (1917), both produced as WWI morale boosters. In 1923, when she was 79, her hotel room was turned into a studio so that she could appear in the film La voyante (1924). But her failing health halted production and she died before the film was completed. She was portrayed on the screen by Glenda Jackson in The Incredible Sarah (1976).- Stunning silent screen actress Martha Mansfield was a musical comedy star in New York City by the time she entered films in 1916 for Max Linder. Before long she advanced to second leads in features, including the role of Millicent Carew in the John Barrymore starrer Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), which to this day remains her best known. The promising beauty was signed by Fox Studios in 1923 and began work on a new picture The Warrens of Virginia (1924). Nearing the completion of the film, Martha had just finished a scene and was returning to her automobile when her dress caught fire from a carelessly strewn match. Engulfed in flames, co-star Wilfred Lytell managed to throw his coat around her and extinguish the fire, but it was too late. She died the next day of severe burns at age 24.
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Francisco "Pancho" Villa was born Doroteo Arango to rural peasant parents in San Juan del Rio, Mexico, on June 5, 1878. He later took several aliases, the most popular and well-known being "Pancho Villa". Raised in poverty in Durango, he turned to cattle rustling and robbery as a young man. The turning point in his life, however, was the day his sister was attacked and raped by Mexican army troops. Villa wanted revenge against the whole world and soon turned from being simply a bandit leader into a full-fledged revolutionary with the aim of overthrowing Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz. To that end Villa became an ally of another revolutionary, the urbane and educated Francisco I. Madero, and although the two were about as opposite from one another as it was possible to be, Villa soon became a diehard supporter of the diminutive Madero, whom he affectionately called "the little man". Madero appointed Villa a colonel in the revolutionary army. On May 11, 1911, Villa led a daring raid against the federal stronghold of Juarez, soundly defeating the government forces and securing Madero's position as the new president. After Diaz was driven from power and Madero installed as president, Villa went home. His stay there was not to be very long, however. Two years later Madero was overthrown and executed by renegade Gen. Victoriano Huerta. Enraged, Villa re-formed his army, now called the Army of the North, and became an important member of a coalition of anti-Huerta forces, among whom were such legendary Mexican figures as Emiliano Zapata and Venustiano Carranza.
Villa's mounted troops, called "Villistas", were highly mobile and seasoned by years of fighting against the Diaz regime. They inflicted a decisive defeat on Huerta's army in northern Mexico at the Battle of Zacatecas on June 23, 1913, then began a campaign to drive Huerta's forces south to their stronghold of Mexico City. By December, in conjunction with the armies of Carranza and Zapata, Villa captured Mexico City, forcing Huerta to flee and placing control of the government in the hands of the three rebel leaders. However, the following spring Villa was forced out of the triumvirate when he lost a power struggle with Carranza. In the ensuing conflict his troops were badly defeated by Carranza's army and Villa was forced to withdraw to his headquarters in Durango. There he resumed his life as a bandit, raiding isolated American border towns and mining camps as well as Mexican villages.
On March 9, 1916, troops under Villa's command raided the town of Columbus, New Mexico, looted it, burned down much of it and caused the deaths of more than a dozen residents, although about 30 of their own men were killed by American soldiers and civilians defending the town (supposedly Villa was angered by the U.S. authorities allowing elements of Carranza's army, which was pursuing him, to cross through American territory as a shortcut in an attempt to get ahead of Villa and ambush him, and the raid was in retaliation for that). The U.S. government sent an expeditionary force into Mexico under Gen. John J. Pershing to capture Villa. However, Villa's maneuverability and superior knowledge of the terrain enabled him to elude the pursuing American troops, and Pershing's forces withdrew from the area the following year.
In 1920 the Carranza government struck a deal with Villa in which he agreed to halt his raids in exchange for settling down on a ranch in Canutillo and being appointed a general in the Mexican army. However, on June 20, 1923, Villa was ambushed and murdered in Parral by followers of Álvaro Obregón, a former army general, who feared that Villa would oppose their leader's candidacy for president in the upcoming elections. Immediately following his death the name of Pancho Villa was eliminated from all history books, children's books and all monuments in Mexico. It wasn't until 1975 (more than a half-century after his death) that both the Mexican and American governments felt safe enough to exhume his body, and when they did, they discovered that someone had stolen his head. After a large parade was held in his honor in Mexico, Pancho Villa's body was sent to the cemetery where many Mexican revolutionary heroes were buried, and he was finally given the proper burial he deserved.- Joe Roberts was born on 2 February 1871 in Albany, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Our Hospitality (1923), The Primitive Lover (1922) and Three Ages (1923). He was married to Lillian Stuart Feld Roberts and Nina Mildred Straw Shannon. He died on 28 October 1923 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular sitting U.S. presidents. After his death, a number of scandals were exposed, including Teapot Dome, as well as an extramarital affair with Nan Britton, which diminished his reputation.
- Anna Townsend was born on 5 January 1845 in Utica, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Grandma's Boy (1922), Daddy (1923) and A Marked Man (1917). She died on 11 September 1923 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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After a distinguished career of more than 30 years on stage, Charles Kent entered the film industry in its earliest stages--his debut, as far as is known, was in 1908 in Macbeth (1908)). He was not only an actor but a director, and guided many upper-echelon films for Vitagraph, often starring in them. He was one of the first directors to use close-ups creatively, for which he was savaged by contemporary critics. He retired from directing in 1913, but continued acting until shortly before his death.- Actor
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Born in San Francisco's Castro District, Allen Holubar was the first of five children of Constantin Josef Holubar and Margaret Allen C. Holubar, who immigrated from Bohemia in 1875 and married Margaret, a Scots woman, in San Francisco (Allen was born at 44 Caselli Ave. in a house that still stands). Despite parental pressures to be a machinist, Allen worked his way up from sweeping floors to acting, starting at the Alcazar & Alhambra Theatres in San Francisco. He was evidently a prominent dramatic actor, known widely across the US from 1908-1912. However, in the words of a San Francisco newspaper at the time, "He forsook legitimate drama for the moving picture screen" in 1913. After starring in several landmark films, he began directing and was one of Carl Laemmle's first directors at Universal Pictures. Later, after having differences with Laemmle, he founded his own production company, Allen Holubar Pictures, in 1917.
As an up-and-coming producer, he was famous for being the first to coordinate a movie shoot (Hurricane's Gal (1922)) using radio. In the words of a local paper, "Mr. Holubar has successfully performed the unprecedented task of using the wireless waves to direct the movements of an airship, a destroyer and a schooner, maneuvering all of these within his camera's range as he supervised these activities from a hydroplane far above."
He died of postoperative complications from gallstone surgery at the height of his career in 1923. His wife, the former actress Dorothy Phillips, did not act again until the mid-'60s, when she played an old woman in Cat Ballou (1965), starring Lee Marvin and Jane Fonda.- Charles Hawtrey was born on 21 September 1858 in Eton, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for A Message from Mars (1913), The Private Secretary (1935) and Honeymoon for Three (1915). He was married to Katherine Elsie Emma Petre and Madeline 'Mae' Harriet. He died on 30 July 1923 in Marylebone, London, England, UK.
- Frank Goodenough Bayly was born in 1873 in England, UK. Frank Goodenough was a director, known for One Summer's Day (1917) and The Lifeguardsman (1916). Frank Goodenough was married to Katie Johnson. Frank Goodenough died on 28 November 1923 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, UK.
- Sukumar Ray was born on 30 October 1887 in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India. Sukumar died on 10 September 1923 in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India.
- Herbert Standing was born on 13 November 1846 in Peckham, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for An International Marriage (1916), David Garrick (1916) and Peer Gynt (1915). He was married to Janet Grace Dalghesh Riddell and Emily Clementina Brown. He died on 5 December 1923 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Siegmund Lubin was born on 20 April 1851 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was a producer and director, known for Uncle Tom's Cabin (1903), Passion Play (1900) and Thrilling Detective Story (1906). He was married to Annie Abrams. He died on 10 September 1923 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.- Sidney Mason was born on 26 September 1886 in Paterson, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Orphan Sally (1922), The Good-Bad Wife (1920) and The Seven Sisters (1915). He was married to Marie Mason (née Van). He died on 1 March 1923 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Gus Pixley was born in November 1879 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for An 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' Troupe (1913), The Girl from Porcupine (1921) and The Hungarian Nabob (1915). He was married to Mary Malatesta. He died on 2 June 1923 in Saranac Lake, New York, USA.
- F.A. Turner was born on 12 October 1858 in New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Restitution (1918), Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917) and A Man and His Mate (1915). He died on 13 February 1923.
- Raymond Radiguet was born on 18 June 1903 in Saint-Maur, Val-de-Marne, France. He was a writer, known for Devil in the Flesh (1947), Devil in the Flesh (1977) and Beyond Innocence (1986). He died on 9 December 1923 in Paris, France.
- Frank Hayes was born on 17 May 1871 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Vanity Fair (1923), A Hoosier Romance (1918) and After His Own Heart (1919). He was married to Lottie Harriet Ward Christensen Kemp (maiden name: Ward). He died on 28 December 1923 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Katherine Mansfield was born on 14 October 1888 in Wellington, New Zealand. She was a writer, known for Winners and Losers (1975), London Unplugged (2018) and Teatterituokio (1962). She was married to John Middleton Murry and George Bowden. She died on 9 January 1923 in Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, France.
- Marjorie Seaman was born on 21 June 1900 in Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for Free Air (1922). She was married to Ralph Graves. She died on 9 March 1923 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Writer
Czech author Jaroslav Hasek was born in 1883 in Prague, Bohemia (now Czech Republic), which at the time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father was an alcoholic schoolteacher who was constantly moving the family in search of better paying jobs, and died when Jaroslav was 13. The youngster apprenticed himself to a druggist at 15, but decided that wasn't for him and eventually attended business school. He briefly worked as a bank clerk before taking up a career as a freelance writer and journalist.
In 1907 he became involved in the anarchist movement, which brought him to the attention of the Austrian secret police, resulting in his being arrested and imprisoned several times for his political activities. That same year he met a young woman named Jarmila Mayerova, and the two decided to get married. However, her parents did not approve of him--especially his politics--and would not sanction their marriage. Hasek resolved to distance himself from his political activities and concentrate on his writing in order to win her parents' approval, but when he was arrested for vandalizing an Austrian flag, her parents moved her from Prague far out into the country, hoping that the distance would eventually break up the couple. It didn't work, though, and the two were married in 1910. Unfortunately, it didn't work out and she moved back with her parents in less than a year.
In 1914, on the outbreak of World War I, Hasek was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army and sent to the Russian front. He was captured by the Russians in 1915 and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp, where he contracted typhus, but he eventually recovered. At the camp he was recruited into an outfit called The Czech Legion, a unit put together by the Russians consisting of Czech POWs who agreed to fight the Austrians. At the end of the war he left the Czech Legion but joined the Red Army, mainly as a recruiter and propagandist. In 1920 he remarried, although he was still technically married to Jarmila.
In 1920 he returned to Prague, but his health had severely deteriorated and he was grossly overweight. He began working on a book of his that had originally been published in 1912, called "The Good Soldier Schweik and Other Strange Stories", about the adventures of a good-natured but not particularly bright soldier named Schweik who looked on his army time as basically a lark. He now began to rewrite and add new chapters to the book, giving it a somewhat darker tone due to his own wartime experiences, but his health kept getting worse and he wound up dictating the new chapters to an assistant because he could not actually perform the physical task of writing. He died of heart failure in the Czech village of Lipnice on Jan. 23, 1923. His final work, now called "The Good Soldier Schweik", has become a classic in European literature, and has been successfully adapted on stage and in film many times.- Elisabeth Christensen was born on 24 November 1855 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Häxan (1922), Møllerens Datter (1912) and Et pokkers Pigebarn (1912). She died on 29 July 1923 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Bernard J. Durning was born on 24 August 1892 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and actor, known for The Primal Law (1921), The Unwritten Code (1918) and The Eleventh Hour (1923). He was married to Shirley Mason. He died on 29 August 1923 in New York City, New York, USA.- Actor
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Edwin Stevens was born on 16 August 1860 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Boy Girl (1917), Love Insurance (1919) and The Little Minister (1921). He was married to Louise Weller. He died on 3 January 1923 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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Dante Testa was born on 24 August 1861 in Turin, Italy. He was an actor and director, known for The Dread of Doom (1913), Il segreto del vecchio Giosuè (1918) and Cabiria (1914). He died on 3 March 1923 in Turin, Italy.- After graduating from school, Gustave Eiffel first studied chemistry at the École des Arts et Manufactures in Paris. The internship period in an ironworks sparked Eiffel's interest in civil engineering. After his studies, he founded a company that specialized in iron structures. Eiffel made a name for himself as a designer and was able to realize numerous projects such as the construction of bridges and domes. For the Paris World Exhibition in 1889, he constructed the Eiffel Tower, which was then named after him and served as the entrance to the French pavilion, based on a design by M. Koechlin. The later symbol of the French capital made it world famous.
To build the tower, Eiffel was able to draw on his extensive experience in bridge construction. The Eiffel Tower was constructed as a steel frame structure with prefabricated elements; the construction time was 16 months. The construction method with its maximum wind permeability allowed a then sensational height of over 300 meters; This made the Eiffel Tower the world's tallest building. The structure was hailed as a groundbreaking advance in construction technology. Beginning in 1890, Eiffel conducted aerodynamic experiments on the tower's platform. Eiffel also constructed the iron skeleton for the Statue of Liberty in New York.
His other monumental buildings include the largest bridge in the world at the time, the Garhabit Viaduct, the dome of the observatory in Nice and the huge locks of the Panama Canal.
Gustave Eiffel died on December 28, 1923 in Paris. - Actor
Larry Lewis was born in 1881 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was an actor. He died on 26 November 1923 in Brixton, London, England, UK.- Minnie Devereaux was born in 1869 in Oklahoma. She was an actress, known for The Coward (1915), Mickey (1918) and Food for Scandal (1920). She died on 5 June 1923 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Leonhard Haskel was born on 7 April 1872 in Seelow, Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for Irrende Seelen (1921), Die weiße Maus (1919) and Fürst Sally (1918). He died on 30 December 1923 in Berlin, Germany.- Kate Douglas Wiggin was born on 28 September 1856 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was a writer, known for Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938), A Bit o' Heaven (1917) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1932). She was married to George Christopher Riggs and Samuel Bradley Wiggin (lawyer). She died on 24 August 1923 in Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK.
- Aleksandar Milojevic was born in 1860 in Belgrade, Serbia. He was an actor, known for Karadjordje (1911). He died on 24 March 1923 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia.
- L.M. Wells was born on 5 February 1862 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Graft (1915), Huckleberry Finn (1920) and The Voice on the Wire (1917). He was married to Bess Gilbert. He died on 1 January 1923.
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William C. Foster was born on 28 December 1880 in Bushnell, Illinois, USA. William C. was a cinematographer, known for The Man Hunter (1919), The Price of Silence (1917) and A Woman of Pleasure (1919). William C. died on 18 January 1923 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Guido Herzfeld was born on 14 August 1851 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Irrende Seelen (1921), Crown of Thorns (1923) and Theophrastus Paracelsus (1916). He died on 16 November 1923 in Berlin, Germany.
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Elwin Neame was one of the leading photographers of his generation. He ran Elwin Neame Ltd. in Wimbledon with his brother William.
He married the popular actress Ivy Close in 1910, who bore him two sons, Ronald Neame and Derek Neame.
Elwin directed four films (scripting two of them). His remarkable dynasty has endured into a fourth generation, through his grandson Christopher Neame and great-grandson Gareth Neame, who became successful producers.
Elwin and Ivy were considered a dashing couple and were extremely successful for several years. He died in 1923, aged 38, when his motorcycle collided with an illegally parked car. He suffered a broken neck.- Frederick Treves was a famous pioneer in abdominal surgery. Today he is mostly remembered as the physician to the Elephant Man. On May 4, 1901, Treves was knighted by King Edward VII on whom he had performed an appendicectomy.
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Beatrice DeMille was born on 30 January 1853 in Liverpool, England, UK. She was a writer and assistant director, known for The Heir to the Hoorah (1916), The Devil-Stone (1917) and Unconquered (1917). She was married to Henry C. DeMille. She died on 8 October 1923 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Heinrich Eisenbach was born on 18 August 1870 in Krakau, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Charley, der Wunderaffe (1915), Das Nachtlager von Mischli-Mischloch (1918) and Die drei Marien und der Herr von Marana (1923). He was married to Mitzi Telmont and Anna. He died on 14 April 1923 in Vienna, Austria.
- Irish comic actor Paddy McGuire born in 1884, became a star in American musical comedy theatre and burlesque from the mid 1900's. A Great comic character who was best remembered in many of Charlie Chaplin's short movies in 1915-16, such as 'The Champion' 'The Tramp' and 'Shanghaied' and many more, followed by a chance to star in his own comedies the 'Bungling Bill' series for the Vogue Film Company in 1916. from 1917 he was often supporting in many comedies for Ben Turpin, Chester Conklin and Ford Sterling est. His last appearance on screen was 'A Broadway Cowboy' a western/comedy directed by Joseph Franz and starring William Desmond for the Jesse D. Hampton studios in 1920. Sadly in 1923 age 38 he died in Norwalk, California
- Louis Hendricks was born in June 1860 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Conquest of Canaan (1921), Come on In (1918) and The Family Stain (1915). He was married to Geraldine De Rohan. He died on 18 December 1923.
- Dutch novelist Louis Couperus was born in The Hague in 1863. His father was an official in the Dutch government, and when Louis was ten years old his father was appointed to a position in Java, Indonesia (then a Dutch colony known as the Dutch East Indies), and the family moved there. They were there for five years when his father suddenly died, and the family returned to Holland. He graduated from the University of Holland at The Hague, and was hired there as a teacher.
He published his first novel, "Elina Veere", in 1889 and was critically acclaimed by the Dutch "realist" school of literature. The book's success enabled him to leave teaching and devote his full time to writing. He returned often to Java for inspiration and used the location as a background in much of his work. He married in 1891 and he and his wife moved to Italy from Holland after his mother died. In 1921 he returned to the Dutch East Indies as a correspondent for the "Haagsche Post" newspaper.
His work resulted in his becoming one of the most famous writers in Holland. One reviewer called him "unquestionably a major novelist of the world, hidden away in the Dutch language". He was awarded the Order of Orange Nassau in 1896 and the prestigious Order of the Netherlands Lion in 1923; as part of that award, he was given a house in the country. Ironically, shortly after he moved into that house he received either an insect bite or a scratch; he contracted blood poisoning, and died from it on July 16, 1923. - Takeo Arishima was born on 4 March 1878 in Suido-cho, Koishikawa, Tokyo, Japan. He was a writer, known for Aru onna (1954) and Death of Domomata (2008). He was married to Yasuko. He died on 8 June 1923 in Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan.
- Jean Signoret was born on 13 December 1886 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He was an actor, known for L'histoire de Marouf (1921), Suzanne (1916) and Le devoir d'abord (1917). He died on 9 October 1923 in Paris, France.
- American novelist Emerson Hough was born in Newton, IA, in 1857. After graduating from Newton High School in 1875 he attended the University of Iowa, attaining a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1880. He later studied law and was admitted to the Iowa bar in 1882, which was also the year in which he had his first work published--an article in "Forest and Stream" titled "Far From the Madding Crowd".
Moving to White Oaks, NM, he opened a law practice there and also wrote for the local newspaper, "The Golden Era". He returned to Newton 18 months later due to his mother's illness, where he wrote "The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado". Among the outlaws and lawmen covered in the book were Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. When Garrett killed Billy in New Mexico, Hough moved back there and struck up a friendship with Garrett.
Hough moved around the country working for various newspapers. In 1899 he was hired as western editor for "Forest and Stream" magazine. The publisher of that publication, George Bird Grinnell, was a noted conservationist--he founded the Audubon Society--and Hough was an enthusiastic adherent of that movement. "Forest and Stream" assigned him to survey Yellowstone Natonal Park in the winter of 1893, providing him with a guide and arranging for a military escort from Fort Yellowstone to accompany them. Hough's survey revealed that, among other things, the park's buffalo herd, which was thought to number close to 1000, was barely 100, mainly due to poaching. Hough's revelations resulted in many eastern newspapers taking up the anti-poaching cause, and in 1894, due largely to Hough's efforts, the US Congress passed a law making poaching in national parks a criminal offense, which up to that time it wasn't. Hough and others also lobbied for the creation of a national park system, and the National Park Service was eventually created in 1916.
Hough had his first novel, "The Mississippi Bubble", published in 1902, which became a best-seller. Many novels followed, all set in the west and fiercely protective of the land and its people, often railing against the moneyed interests that wished to exploit them. To that end he worked on the presidential campaign of Theodore Roosevelt in the 1916 elections. During World War I he served as a captain in the US Army's intelligence service.
He died in Evanston, IL, in 1923, shortly after seeing the premiere of The Covered Wagon (1923), an epic film based on his 1922 best-selling novel of the same name. - Edward See was born in 1855 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Sunshine Alley (1917), The Little Minister (1913) and The Dandy, or Mr. Dawson Turns the Tables (1912). He died on 17 February 1923 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Sayed Darwish was born on 17 March 1892 in Alexandria, Egypt. He was a composer, known for Bayn el kasrain (1964), Chafika el Keptia (1963) and Hiba Tawaji - Tolaet Ya Mahla Norha (2020). He died on 10 September 1923 in Alexandria, Egypt.- Joseph Herbert was born on 27 November 1863 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Divorce Game (1917), The Teeth of the Tiger (1919) and Stolen Hours (1918). He was married to Adele Ritchie, Nanette L., Mary Tines Maynard and Billie Norton (actress). He died on 18 February 1923 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Bonar Law was born on 16 September 1858 in Rexton, New Brunswick, Canada. He was married to Annie Pitcairn Robley. He died on 30 October 1923 in London, England, UK.
- Saba Raleigh was born on 8 August 1862 in Paddington, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Clemenceau Case (1915), The Life of Lord Byron (1922) and Nobody's Child (1919). She was married to Cecil Raleigh. She died on 22 August 1923 in Bloomsbury, London, England, UK.