1897 births
Prince Gabriel of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
1897 births | 1975 deaths | house of bourbon-two sicilies | princes of bourbon-two sicilies Prince Gabriele Maria Giuseppe Carlo Ignazio Antonio Alfonso Pietro Giovanni Gerardo di Majella et Omni Sancti of Bourbon-Two Sicilies) (born 11 January 1897 in Cannes, France; died 22 October 1975 in Itu, Brazil) was a Prince of the Two Sicilies and twelfth child and youngest son of Prince Alfonso of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Count of Caserta and his wife Princess Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.
Marriage and issue
Gabriel married firstly to Princess Malgorzata Izabella Czartoryska, daughter of Prince Adam Ludwik Czartoryski and his wife Countess Maria Ludwika Krasińska, on 25 August 1927 in Paris. The couple had one child before Malgorzata died in Cannes on 8 March 1929:Mick Ryan (golfer)
1897 births | 1965 deaths | australian golfers | australian rules footballers | sydney swans playersMichael J. 'Mick' Ryan (July 18, 1897 - 1965) was an Australian golfer who won the Australian Open as an amateur in 1932. He also played Australian rules football for South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Ryan made just one senior appearance for South Melbourne, in the 1918 VFL season, when they defeated Richmond in a game at Lake Oval. South Melbourne went on to win the premiership that year.
Thomas Williams (Australian politician)
1897 births | 1992 deaths | australian labor party politicians | members of the australian house of representatives | members of the australian house of representatives for robertsonThomas Francis Williams (7 April 1897 – 1992) was an Australian politician.
Born in Young, New South Wales, he was educated at Catholic schools and then the University of Sydney. He became a barrister in 1923. In 1943 he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor member for Robertson, defeating sitting UAP member Eric Spooner. He held the seat until 1949, when he was defeated by Liberal candidate Roger Dean. Williams returned to law and died in 1992.
John Hunter (bishop)
1897 births | 1965 deaths | alumni of keble college, oxford | bishops of kimberley and kuruman John Hunter (1897-1965)was the 3rd Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman from 1943The Times, Tuesday, Oct 12, 1943; pg. 6; Issue 49674; col B Ecclesiastical News New Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman appointed until 1951. He was educated at Keble College, Oxford “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 071363457X and ordained in 1922. His first post was as a Curate in Harrow but his next post was in South Africa (where he was to spend the rest of his career). After a further Curacy at St Paul’s Rondebosch Church Web Site he rose rapidly in the Church hierarchy becoming successively Rector of O'okiep , Stellenbosch and finally the Cathedral parish at Bloemfontein before his elevation to the Episcopate. In retirement he was awarded the Coronation Medal and died at George, Western Cape just after Christmas in 1965.
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Frederick Jagel
1897 births | 1982 deaths | american opera singers | american tenorsFrederick Jagel (June 10, 1897, Brooklyn, NY - July 5, 1982, San Francisco, CA) was an American tenor, primarily active at the Metropolitan Opera in the 1930s and 1940s.
Career
Katherine R. Whitmore
1897 births | 1982 deaths | literary critics of spanish | literature educators | people from kansas | smith college | spanish teachers | university of kansas alumniKatherine R. Whitmore (nee Katherine Prue Reding) (Kansas, 1897-1982) was a Spanish literature professor at Smith College. She majored in Spanish language and literature at the University of Kansas, and received her doctorate from Berkeley. She taught at a college in Richmond and, from 1930 on, at Smith College. She married Brewer Whitmore, another professor at Smith, in 1939.
Whitmore spent the summer of 1932 and the 1934-1935 acedemic year in Madrid, where she met poet Pedro Salinas, who fell in love with her. The relationship was the inspiration of Salinas' La voz a ti debida (1932), Razón de amor (1936), and Largo lamento (1939). Salinas' love letters to Whitmore from 1932 to 1947, kept at Houghton Library in Harvard University, were published in 2002 as Cartas a Katherine. Whitmore was specialized in Generation of '27 literature, which means she had to teach the poetry written for her to her students.
Ruth Ann Musick
1897 births | 1974 deaths | american writers | folklorists | people from missouriRuth Ann Musick (September 17, 1897 (some sources give 1899)-1974) was an American author and folklorist. Born in Kirksville, Missouri, to Levi Prince Musick and Zada or Sadie Goeghegan Sadie Glaglacan, she was the sister of artist Archie Musick.
She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Education from Kirksville State Teacher's College in 1919 (now Truman State University) and then continued her education at the State University of Iowa. She graduated with a Master of Science in mathematics in 1928 and a Doctor of Philosophy in English in 1943. Her dissertation was a never-published novel, “Hell’s Holler,” > dealing with the primitive conditions of her native Chariton River Valley and its tensions with the School of Osteopathy (“rub doctors”) in nearby Kirksville, Missouri. The novel reflects in some measure her brief and unhappy marriage to an alcoholic artist, a match of which her family disapproved (her mother refused to attend the wedding) and which ended in divorce in the late 1940s.
James Fife Jr.
1897 births | 1975 deaths | united states naval academy graduates | united states navy admirals Admiral James Fife, Jr. (January 22, 1897 - November 1, 1975) was a United States Navy admiral who was promoted to four star rank after retirement as a "tombstone admiral".
Fife graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1918 and served in both World War I and World War II in submarines and surface combatants. He served on the battleship USS Idaho (BB-24) and the destroyers USS Leary (DD-158) and USS Hatfield (DD-231) from 1923 until May 1935.
Parker McKenzie
1897 births | 1999 deaths | freemasonry | linguists | native american peopleParker Paul McKenzie (15 November 1897 near Rainy Mountain - 5 March 1999 Mountain View) was an American linguist and, at the time of his death, the oldest living Kiowa Indian.
He was born in teepee, and baptised in the Washita River.
Rasmus Andreas Torset
1897 births | 1965 deaths | liberal party of norway politicians | norwegian politiciansRasmus Andreas Torset (25 May 1897 - 9 December 1965) was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.
He served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Møre og Romsdal during the term 1958–1961.
