Helmut Newton (1920 - 2004)

Newton was born in Berlin, the son of Klara “Claire” (née Marquis) and Max Neustädter, a button factory owner. His family was Jewish. Newton attended the Heinrich-von-Treitschke-Realgymnasium and the American School in Berlin. Interested in photography from the age of 12 when he purchased his first camera, he worked for the German photographer Yva (de) […]

Helmut Zacharias (1920 - 2002)

Helmut Zacharias was born in Berlin. His father Karl was a violinist and conductor, and his mother was a singer. He started having lessons from his father at the age of 2 and a half and at 6 he played at the Faun club, a cabaret venue on the Friedrichstraße in Berlin. At the age […]

Heloise Bowles Cruse (1919 - 1977)

Journalist. She was well-known for her column “Hints From Heloise” from 1962 to 1977. She helped people with everyday problems to the right out bizarre. At the time the column ran, it was in over 600 newspapers worldwide.  Family links:  Parents:  Charles Louis Bowles (1899 – 1971)  Amelia Harrison Bowles (1901 – 1973)  Spouse:  Marshal […]

Heman Allen (1779 - 1852)

Heman Allen was born in Poultney, Vermont to Heber Allen and Sarah Owen. He attended the common schools. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1795, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1801. He began the practice of law in Colchester, Vermont. He was town clerk of Colchester from 1807 until 1817. He served […]

Hendrik Conscience (1812 - 1883)

Flemish writer.

Hendrik Petrus Berlage (1856 - 1934)

Architect. Born in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Some of his most famous works include the Amsterdam Commodities Exchange, the plan for extension of Amsterdam, the ‘plan Zuid’ or ‘plan Berlage’, the Berlage brug (bridge) in Amsterdam and the St. Hubertusslot part of the Kröller-Müller Museum. He is considered to be the “Father of Modern architecture” in the […]

Henny Backus (1911 - 2004)

Henrietta Kaye was born in Brooklyn March 21, 1911. She studied sculpture at Cooper Union, but she preferred working in the theatre and appeared in Broadway musicals during the 1930s. Working as Henriette Kaye, she was a member of the Federal Theatre Project. Described by The New York Times as “a leggy redhead with a […]

Henny Porten (1890 - 1960)

Actress. She had one of the longest careers of any German actress. As popular in the 1910s as Mary Pickford was in the U.S. Her best known film outside Germany is “Backstairs” (1921). Her first big hit, written by her sister, was “Das Liebesglucke der Blinden” (The Happy Love of a Blind Girl). Porten was […]

Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)

Youngman was born to a Jewish family in London, England. His family moved to Brooklyn, New York, when he was a child. He grew up in New York City, and began as a comedian after he had worked for years at a print shop, where he wrote “comedy cards” containing one-line gags. The comedy cards […]

Henri Alekan (1909 - 2001)

Henri Alekan (10 February 1909, Paris – 15 June 2001, Auxerre, Bourgogne) was a French cinematographer. Alekan was born in Montmartre in 1909. At the age of sixteen he and his brother became travelling puppeteers. A little later he started work as third assistant cameraman at the Billancourt Studios. He then spent a short time […]

Henri Barbusse (1873 - 1935)

Author. His novel of the First World War (‘Le Feu’ – ‘Under Fire’) won the Prix Goncourt and has remained a classic. (bio by: David Conway)

Henri Bendel (1868 - 1936)

Businessman. He was America’s foremost clothes designer during his time.  Family links:  Parents:  William Louis Bendel (1837 – 1874)  Mary Plonsky Bendel Falk (1839 – 1915)  Spouses:  Blanche Lehman Bendel (1862 – 1895)*  Abraham Beekman Bastedo (1877 – 1953)*  Siblings:  Samuel Bendel (1864 – 1935)*  Isaac Bendel (1867 – 1952)*  Henri Bendel (1868 – 1936) […]

Henri Bernardin de Saint Pierre (1737 - 1814)

Author. His most famous work is “Paul et Virginie”.

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908 - 2004)

Acclaimed French Photographer. He was the founder with Robert Capa and David Seymour of Magnum Agency and he is considered one of the most importants photographers in the world. His photos reflected the History of 20th Century. He was captured by the nazis in II World War, but he escaped and he was witness of […]

Henri Charrière (1906 - 1973)

Writer and Folk Figure. He was born in Ardèche (France) and died in Madrid (Spain). He is best known as the author of Papillon, that details his numerous escapes from his imprisonment in 1932 to his escape to Venezuela. His nickname is Papillon (Butterfly in french language), from a butterfly tattoo in his chest). He […]

Henri De Braekeleer (1840 - 1888)

Artist.

Henri Decoin (1890 - 1969)

Henri Decoin (18 March 1890 – 4 July 1969) was a French film director and screenwriter, who directed more than 50 films between 1933 and 1964. He was also a swimmer who won the national title in 1911 and held the national record in the 500 m freestyle. He competed in the 400 m freestyle […]

Henri Deyglun (1903 - 1971)

French-Canadian actor. He appeared in the films, “L’Esprit du mal” (1954), “Coeur de maman” (1953) and “La Corde au cou” (1965).

Henri Dutilleux (1916 - 2013)

Henri Dutilleux was born on 22 January 1916 in Angers, Maine-et-Loire. He was the great-grandson of the painter Constant Dutilleux and of the composer Julien Koszul. He was also a cousin of the mathematician Jean-Louis Koszul. As a young man he studied harmony, counterpoint and piano with Victor Gallois at the Douai Conservatory before leaving […]

Henri Fantin-Latour (1836 - 1904)

Painter. Born at Grenoble on the 14th of January 1836. He studied first with his father, a pastel painter, and then at the drawing school of [Horace] Lecoq de Boisbaudran, and later under Couture. He was the friend of Ingres, Delacroix, Corot, Courbet and others. He exhibited in the Salon of 1861, and many of […]

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891 - 1915)

French Sculptor and Draughtsman. He became a sculptor in Paris without any training. In 1911, he moved to London with his partner, Sophie Brzeska, and there, he associated with figures such as Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound. He became a founder member of the London Group and the following year signed the Vorticist Manifesto. Later, […]

Henri Laurens (1885 - 1954)

Sculptor.  Family links:  Spouse:  Marthe Laurens (1886 – 1957)* *Calculated relationship

Henri Louis Bergson (1859 - 1941)

Philosopher. Nobel prize in Literature, 1927.

Henri Nannen (1913 - 1996)

Publisher. Born in Emden, Germany, during World War II, he was a propaganda writer then became one of the most prominent journalists and magazine publishers in Germany. In the 1930s, he started working as a journalist for the propaganda unit in Italy and then was a speaker of the Olympic Oath for the 1936 games […]

Henri Nestlé-Ehmant (1814 - 1890)

Business Magnate. Founder of Nestlé S.A., the world’s biggest food and beverage company, as well as one of the main creators of milk chocolate. He had sold his company by the end of 1874 and moved with his wife into Villa Nestlé, where they helped people with small loans and publicly contributed towards improving the […]

Henri Torres (1891 - 1966)

Great french lawyer.

Henri Verneuil (1920 - 2002)

Henri Verneuil was born Ashot Malakian (Armenian: Աշոտ Մալաքեան) to Armenian parents in Rodosto, East Thrace, Turkey. In 1924, when Ashot was a little child his family fled to Marseille in France, to escape persecution after the Armenian Genocide. He later recounted his childhood experience in the novel Mayrig, which he dedicated to his mother […]

Henrietta Barnett (1851 - 1936)

Social reformer and author.  Along with her husband, Samuel Augustus Barnett, they founded the at Toynbee Hall in 1884, as well as the Henrietta Barnett School in the Hampstead Garden Suburb.  She was awarded the CBE in 1917 and made a  Dame Commander of the OBE in 1924.  She and her husband were buried in […]

Henrietta Crosman (1861 - 1944)

Actress. Born n Wheeling, West Virginia, she began her career as a stage performer at the Windsor Theatre, New York, in 1883. She went on to be one of Broadway’s top leading ladies, when she signed with Universal Studios and her big screen debut in the silent film “The Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch” (1914), followed by […]

Henrietta Howland “Hetty” Robinson Green (1834 - 1916)

Businesswoman. She inherited $10 million dollars, which she parlayed into a vastly greater sum through shrewd stock investments. She was the richest woman in the world during the early 20th Century. An incredibly miserly woman (her nickname was the “Witch of Wall Street”), her eccentricies became legendary in her time.  Family links:  Parents:  Edward Mott […]