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Bram Stoker was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1847, and gained fame for his novel "Dracula" about an aristocratic vampire in Transylvania. The sequel, "Dracula's Guest," was not published for 17 years after the publication of "Dracula," two years after Stoker's death. Stoker also wrote "The Mystery of the Sea" and "Famous Imposters." He was the stage manager for actor Sir Henry Irving and wrote "Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving," after Irving's death.- Rosalie Ida Straus was born on 6 February 1849 in Worms, Grand Duchy of Hesse [now Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany]. She was married to Isidor Straus. She died on 15 April 1912 in North Atlantic Ocean.
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He started to study at the Uppsala University but dropped out to pursue an economically unstable career as a journalist. In 1872 he published the first of his many masterpieces, 'Mäster Olof'. In 1874 he got a position at the Royal Library in Stockholm, which enabled him to marry 'Siri von Essen'. He published his novel 'Röda rummet' in 1879, a novel critical towards the press, the church, the publishers, the parliament and the state departments. With it he started the realism of the 1880s in Swedish literature. By the middle of the 1880s he had enemies everywhere and moved to Switzerland. With his novels 'Giftas' his hostility towards women increased, partly as a result of marital problems. His spoof of the holy communion lead to charges of blasphemy. At the end of the 1880s he wrote several novels about life in the archipelago, for example the successful novel 'Hemsöborna'. At the beginning of the 1890s he was briefly married to the Austrian 'Frida Uhl'. After the divorce he moved to Paris and studied ocultism and alchemy. He suffered from a psychological crisis. In 1901 he married actress Harriet Bosse for whom he wrote the play that he himself considered his best, 'Ett drömspel'. Today he is today considered one of Sweden's most important writers.- Clara Barton was born on 25 December 1821 in North Oxford, Massachusetts, USA. Clara died on 12 April 1912 in Glen Echo, Maryland, USA.
- Isidor Straus was born on 6 February 1845 in Otterberg, Palatinate, Kingdom of Bavaria [now Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany]. He was married to Rosalie Ida Straus. He died on 15 April 1912 in North Atlantic Ocean.
- Born in a tiny village Haimanalele, next to Ploesti town in Romanian province of Muntenia (Valahia), in a family of actors (both parents and his two uncles - his father's brothers - were actors). He had no formal education, works at some newspapers, then as a clerk. At age of 20 start writing and publishing some short comedy stories and fantasies. In a short period between 1878 and 1884 he wrote his most important plays : A Stormy Night, Mr. Leonida, Carnival Stories, A Lost Letter. In 1988 become the director of the National Theater, and later, after receiving a nice fortune from a rich relative, he moves with all his family to Berlin, Germany, where he died on 10 June 1912.
- Mace Greenleaf began as a stage actor starring and supporting in many popular plays, perhaps his best known roles was as Herbert, the King's Forrester in 'The Prisoner of Zenda' in the 1890's and in 1898 played Mr. Hunston in Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'Trelawny of the Wells' at the Lyceum Theatre in New York, other Broadway performances was in 'The Pride of Jennico' with James K. Hackett at the Citerion Theatre in 1900 and played Myrtle May's lover in 'The Parish Priest'. Over the first decade of the new century played starring roles in stock companies all over America, he returned to Broadway in 1905 to play the Prince of Wales in the romantic musical 'Edmond Burke'. In 1911 he joined the film industry where he would star in at least 20 drama movies, making his debut in The Golden Rule (1911) co-starring James Kirkwood at the Reliance Film Co. He is perhaps best known as Dr. Earl Headley in Alice Guy Blache's Falling Leaves (1912) for the Solax Film Co in 1912. His last film before his sudden death from pneumonia age 38 was in The Girl in the Arm-Chair (1912) with Blanche Cornwall. In 1906 Mace married Lucy Banning in Santa Ana, California, Lucy came from a very wealthy family they owned Catalina Island, she left Mace in 1910 for the son of prominent judge, Mace divorced his beautiful wife on the ground of desertion, Lucy was known as something of a free spirit and often scandalized 'polite society' with the number of men in her life.
- Karl May was born on 25 February 1842 in Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Kingdom of Saxony [now Saxony, Germany]. He was a writer, known for Auf den Trümmern des Paradieses (1920), Caravan of Death (1920) and Durch die Wüste (1936). He was married to Klara Plöhn and Emma Pollmer. He died on 30 March 1912 in Radebeul, Kingdom of Saxony [now Saxony], Germany.
- Writer/journalist Jacques Futrelle was born in Pike County, GA, in 1875. After graduating from high school, he held a variety of jobs--including theater manager--but finally secured a position in the editorial department of the Boston "American" newspaper. While there he wrote a series of short stories, which were eventually published. He began a series of detective novels, "The Thinking Machine", featuring Prof. Augustus Van Deusen, a professor at an American university who used his intellect to solve crimes. Van Densen first appeared in the closing chapters of an adventure serial Futrelle wrote, "The Case of the Golden Plate", in 1906. The series was featured in several magazine articles, and the stories were later published in two volumes of collections.
Futurelle was one of the passengers on the SS Titanic, which sank on April 15, 1912. He did not survive. - John Jacob Astor was born on 13 July 1864 in Rhinebeck, New York, USA. He was married to Madeleine Talmadge Force and Ava Willing. He died on 15 April 1912 in North Atlantic Ocean.
- E.J. Smith was born on 27 January 1850 in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK. He was married to Sarah Eleanor Smith. He died on 15 April 1912 in North Atlantic Ocean.
- Wilbur Wright was born on 16 April 1867 in Indiana, USA. He died on 30 May 1912 in Dayton, Ohio, USA.
- Franz Reichelt was born on 16 October 1878 in Stetí, Czech Republic. He died on 4 February 1912 in Paris, France.
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Harriet Quimby was born in Arcadia, Michigan. She was an actress, model, magazine writer, screenwriter, and the first woman to ever cross the English Channel in 1912. She also was the first woman who gained a pilot license issued by "Aero Club of America" in 1911. Harriet Quimby had a great impact on the roles of women in aviation even she got the age of 37.
In the early 1900s, her family moved to San Francisco, California. Harriet Quimby became journalist with the San Francisco Bulletin in 1900, as well as doing freelance articles for the popular "Leslies Weekly" magazine. In 1903 then she migrated to New York for work with "Leslies Weekly" magazine as "Theatre Critic" This news magazine published her 250 articles over a period of nine years. In 1910, she became interested in Aviation and participated in the "Belmont Park" (An International Aviation Tournament on Long Island, New York), where she met John Moisant, who was not only a well known aviator but owned a flying school.
Through John, she took her pilot test in 1st August, 1911 and became the first woman of United States to get certificate of pilot. At the same year she wrote five screenplays for the Biograph Company. All of her screenplays directed by her friend from San Francisco theatre days, D.W. Griffith.
On July, 1912 Harriet Quimby was flying her new two seats Bleriot monoplane in "Third Annual Boston Aviation" accompanied by William Willard (Organizer of event). Suddenly plane was pitched forward. Willard was ejected first, then Harriet, both falling to their deaths. She was buried in the "Woodlawn Cemetery' in The Bronx, New York.
In later years Harriet Quimby was recognized for her achievements on a U. S. postage stamp, as well as a biographical book by historian and author Giacinta Bradley Koontz, and recently a film about Harriet's life is in development by the 'American Mutoscope and Biograph Co.' starring DonnaMarie Recco ('Analyze This (1999)', 'Analyze That (2002)', 'Auto Focus (2002)', and produced by Thomas R. Bond II. (Biograph) the same film company Quimby worked for over 100 years ago.- Boleslaw Prus (real name Aleksander Glowacki), 1847-1912, writer and journalist; played critical role in modernizing the Polish novel; co-creator of Polish Realism; humoresques, novellas, short stories: Klopoty babuni (Grandmother's Troubles, 1874), Powracajaca fala (The Returning Wave, 1880), Antek (1881), Kamizelka (The Vest, 1882), novelistic sketches incl. Anielka (1880), the touching tale of a child and poor people wronged by fate or social conditions; novels with a permanent place in Polish literature: Placowka (The Outpost, 1886), the first naturalistic novel, a depiction of agrarian colonization; Lalka (The Doll, 1890), epic panorama of Warsaw life 1878-79; socially engaged Emancypantki (The Emancipationists, 1894); historical-political portrayal of ancient Egypt in Faraon (Pharoah, 1897); wealth of journalism in the Warsaw press: Kroniki (Weekly Chronicles, 1953-70).
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Jules Massenet was born on 12 May 1842 in Saint-Etienne, Loire, Rhône-Alpes, France. He was a composer, known for Marathon Man (1976), Tau (2018) and Transamerica (2005). He was married to Louise-Constance de Gressy. He died on 13 August 1912 in Paris, France.- Harry Cashman born in America in 1870, became well-known in the theatre from the 1890's. tall, stocky wavy haired performer who starred and supported in many comedy and drama films for the Chicago based Essanay Film Company in 1911-12, often played Father's or Chief of Police often teamed with Francis X. Bushman until his death in 1912 from pneumonia.
- English explorer who commanded two Antarctic expeditions, 1901-04 and 1910-12. Born to John and Hannah Scott. Born into a naval family he became a cadet at the age of 13 and entered the navy in 1882. He married famous English sculptor, Kathleen Bruce in 1908. His son Peter was born in 1909. In 1910 he set for antarctica on the ship Terra Nova. With Scott on the final expedition were Edward Wilson (1872-1912), Laurence Oates, H R Bowers, and E Evans. The Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge was founded in 1920 out of funds donated by the public following Scott's death, as a memorial to him and his companions. It houses a small museum and library, and carries out research into all aspects of the Antarctic and Arctic regions. On 18 January 1912 he reached the South Pole, shortly after the Norwegian Roald Amundsen, but on the return journey he and his companions died in a blizzard only a few miles from their base camp. His journal was recovered and published in 1913.
- Robert Barr was born on 16 September 1849 in Scotland, UK. Robert was a writer, known for The King's Move in the City (1914) and The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971). Robert died on 21 October 1912 in England, UK.
- Augusta Tyler was married to Frederick Goodwin. She died on 15 April 1912 in North Atlantic Ocean.
- George Ober was born in 1849. He was an actor, known for As You Like It (1912), Romance of a Rickshaw (1912) and The Blind Musician (1912). He was married to Adelaide Ober. He died on 17 November 1912 in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, USA.
- Jessie Goodwin was born on 16 March 1900 in Edmonton, England, UK. She died on 15 April 1912 in North Atlantic Ocean.
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George Grossmith was born on 9 December 1847 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Time Machine (2002), Six (1964) and Wilson (1944). He died on 1 March 1912 in Folkestone, Kent, England, UK.- Anton von Perfall was born on 11 December 1853 in Landsberg am Lech, Kingdom of Bavaria [now Bavaria, Germany]. He was a writer, known for Die Finsternis und ihr Eigentum (1915) and Die Hexe von Norderoog (1919). He was married to Magda Irschick. He died on 3 November 1912 in Schliersee, Bavaria, Germany.
- Vedah Bertram born Adele Buck in Massachusetts into a prominent Boston family, her father Jerome Buck, a wealthy newspaper publisher. Film cowboy star G.M. Anderson saw her photograph in a Boston society column, he decided to contact her and asked her to be his co-star in his Broncho Billy western series, despite opposition by her family she did so, adopting the name Vedah Bertram in order to spare her family's feelings, she became an immediate success in the films as Broncho Billy's girl friend, making her debut in 'The Ranch Girl's Mistake' in 1912, she became hughly popular with cinema audience, starring in around 24 short westerns until her last movie 'Broncho Billy Outwitted', sadly in August 1912, she was admitted into an Oakland hospital with stomach pains and died of acute appendicitis, she was only 20 years old. One of the first film actresses to be mourned by the public, her death proved doubly shocking to her parents who reputedly had remained unaware of her film career.