Fay Templeton (1865 - 1939)

Actress. Born in Little Rock Arkansas to actors John Templeton and Alice Vane who were principals in the touring John Templeton Opera Company. She was carried on stage as an infant and won her first speaking role at five. By the age of twenty, she was touring with her own light opera company. She made […]

Fay Tincher (1884 - 1983)

Actress. A lively dark-haired comedienne of the silent film era, she was sometimes referred to as “the female Charlie Chaplin.” She appeared in over 160 films from 1913 until 1930, mostly shorts. Born in Topeka, Kansas to an affluent family, she began her career on stage in Chicago, Illinois and toured on the vaudeville circuit. […]

Fay Webb (1907 - 1936)

Stage and silent screen actress. She was married during the 1930s to actor/singer Rudy Vallee. (bio by: A.J. Marik)  Family links:  Parents:  Clarence E. Webb (1885 – 1973)  Myrtle Belle Miller Webb (1883 – 1936)

Fay Wray (1907 - 2004)

Wray was born on a ranch near Cardston in the province of Alberta, Canada, to two Mormons, Elvina Marguerite Jones, who was from Salt Lake City, and Joseph Heber Wray, who was from Kingston upon Hull, England. She was one of six children. Her family returned to the United States a few years after she […]

Faye Emerson (1917 - 1983)

Faye Emerson was born to Lawrence and Emma (née Smythe) Emerson in the tiny community of Elizabeth, Louisiana. She moved with her mother to San Diego before the war, where she took up acting and by 1940 was a Hollywood starlet. Faye Emerson appeared in a number of crime dramas, co-starring with Zachary Scott in three: […]

Faye Margaret Emerson (1917 - 1983)

Actress, Television Personality. She was born in Elizabeth, Louisiana. She began her career in the 40s on cinema in films such as “Nine Lives Are Not Enough” (1941), “Murder in the Big House” (1942), “The Desert Song” (1943), “Destination Tokyo” (1943), “Between Two Worlds” (1944), “The Mask of Dimitrios” (1944), “Hotel Berlin” (1945) and “Nobody […]

Fayez Banihammad (1977 - 2001)

Fayez Banihammad told his parents, while spending time in ‘Asir, that he hoped to find work with the International Islamic Relief Organization. He only contacted his parents once after that. He is believed to have visited the Philippines for three days from October 17–20, 2000. Fayez Banihammad used the controversial program Visa Express to gain entry […]

Fedelma Cullen (1948 - 2003)

Actress. She played in the films, “The Abduction” (2002), “Her Own Rules” (1998), and in an episode of the television series, “Ballykissangel” in 2001. She was also a well-known actress at the Abbey Theater in Dublin, Ireland, from 1967 to 2003. She appeared in many stage productions including, James McKenna’s “At Bantry” in 1967, Tarry […]

Fedelma Cullen (1948 - 2003)

Actress. She played in the films, “The Abduction” (2002), “Her Own Rules” (1998), and in an episode of the television series, “Ballykissangel” in 2001. She was also a well-known actress at the Abbey Theater in Dublin, Ireland, from 1967 to 2003. She appeared in many stage productions including, James McKenna’s “At Bantry” in 1967, Tarry […]

Federico Augustino Giorgi (1878 - 1963)

Artist. Renowned Italian sculptor who designed and sculpted the ornate Valhalla Memorial Rotunda, now known as the Portal of the Folded Wings, a shrine to aviation and a burial place for aviation pioneers. (bio by: A.J. Marik)

Federico Beltrán-Masses (1970 - 1949)

Spanish painter. He was born in 1885 in Guaira de la Melena, Cuba, where his father was a Spanish military envoy to Cuba.  After the war between the United States and Cuba ended in 1899, the family returned to Spain.  Beltran-Masses studied with the painter Sorolla at l’École des Beaux-Arts de Barcelone. In 1905 he […]

Federico Jorge Klemm (1942 - 2002)

Artist. A polemic personality, well known for his flamboyant style, in 1995 established the Klemm Foundation. (bio by: 380W)

Fedora Barbieri (1920 - 2003)

Opera Singer, Actress. Born in Trieste, Italy, she was an mezzo-soprano with one of the longest careers in opera history. She made her official debut in Florence in 1940 and quickly established her reputation performing in opera houses in Europe, South America, America and Asia, until 1999. Considered a formidable actress as well as a […]

Fedora Barbieri (1920 - 2003)

Opera Singer, Actress. Born in Trieste, Italy, she was an mezzo-soprano with one of the longest careers in opera history. She made her official debut in Florence in 1940 and quickly established her reputation performing in opera houses in Europe, South America, America and Asia, until 1999. Considered a formidable actress as well as a […]

Felice Bryant (1925 - 2003)

Felice Bryant Country Musician/Songwriter. Born on August 7, 1925, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Felice began writing songs as a child. In 1945 at the age of 20 she met her husband Boudleaux Bryant when they formed a songwriting team that would go on to become one of the great songwriting teams of country music. They began […]

Felix Adler (1851 - 1933)

Felix Adler was born in Alzey, Grand Duchy of Hesse, Germany, the son of a rabbi, Samuel Adler, a leading figure in European Reform Judaism. The family immigrated to the United States from Germany when Felix was six years old so that his father could accept the appointment as head rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in […]

Felix Aylmer (1889 - 1979)

Actor. English stage actor who also appeared in the cinema and on television. Born in Corsham, Wiltshire, He was educated at King James’s Grammar School, Almondbury near Huddersfield, where he was a boarder from 1897 to 1900, Magdalen College School, and Exeter College, Oxford, where he was a member of Oxford University Dramatic Society. He […]

Félix Bayón (1970 - 2006)

Author, Journalist. He was born in Cádiz, Andalucia, Spain. He developed a prolific career as journalist for the newspaper “El País” from his foundation. Also, he worked for “Le Monde” and “Diario de Málaga.”  As a writer, he is best remembered for his book “Adosados,” whic he adapted to the cinema. His script won awards […]

Felix Bressart (1895 - 1949)

Actor. Born in East Prussia, Germany, he made his stage debut in 1914 and his screen debut in “Love in Kuhstall” (1928). Being forced out of Germany in 1936, he starred in his first American film, “Swanee River” (1939) and went on to a successful Hollywood film career. He appeared in 67, which included “Ziegfeld […]

Félix Coluccio (1911 - 2005)

Historian. One of the most recognized Folklore experts in Argentina, he wrote many books,  including  “Fiestas de América,” “Folklore para la Escuela,” “Paisaje y Pintura,” “Folklore del Noroeste,” and “Diccionario Folklórico Argentino.” (bio by: 380W)

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809 - 1847)

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 1809 – 4 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. A grandson of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn was born into a prominent Jewish family. Although initially he was raised […]

Felix Octavius Carr Darley (1821 - 1888)

Artist. Born in Philadelphia, he began drawing in his youth. He moved to New York in 1848 and in 1850 he was invited to illustrate Washington Irving’s works ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ and ‘Rip Van Winkle’. He continued to illustrate works by Washington Irving but added James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Longfellow, James Whitcomb […]

Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente (1928 - 1980)

Naturalist. He founded the Spanish Society of Ornitology. He directed television series’ about the nature and the animal life as “Vida Salvaje,” “Planeta Azul” and “El Hombre y la Tierra”. He also wrote “Fauna Ibérica: los Animales Cazadores” and “El Lobo”. He died in an airplane crash in Shaktoolik (Alaska). (bio by: José L Bernabé […]

Felix Weihs De Weldon (1907 - 2003)

Artist. He was the sculptor of over 1,200 monuments, the most famous piece being the United States Marine Corps monument that depicts the six Flag Raisers on Iwo Jima at Arlington National Cemetery.

Feodora Gleichen (1861 - 1922)

Artist. Lady Feodora Gleichen was a sculptor and first member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. Also a relative of Queen Victoria. (bio by: Kieran Smith)

Ferdinand Anton Ernst “Ferry” Porsche (1909 - 1998)

Designer and Engineer. The Chief Executive Officer of Porsche cars until the family left management in 1972. He designed and created the Type 356, the company’s first production automobile, a sports car that was groundbreaking both in style and innovation. He led the Porsche company for over 30 years, along with garnering many racing championships […]

Ferdinand Demara (1921 - 1982)

Demara, known locally as ‘Fred’, was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1921, at 40 Texas Avenue in the lower southwest Tower Hill Neighborhood. His father, Ferdinand Waldo Demara, Sr. was born in Rhode Island and worked in Lawrence’s old Theatre District as a motion picture operator. In those days, his father did financially well and […]

Ferdinand II of Aragon (1452 - 1516)

Ferdinand was born in Sada Palace, Sos del Rey Católico, Kingdom of Aragon, as the son of John II of Aragon (whose family was a cadet branch of the House of Trastámara) by his second wife, Juana Enríquez. He married Infanta Isabella, the half-sister and heiress of Henry IV of Castile, on 19 October 1469 […]

Ferdinand Porsche (1875 - 1951)

Ferdinand Porsche was born to German-speaking parents in Maffersdorf (Czech: Vratislavice nad Nisou), northern Bohemia, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at that time, and today part of the Czech Republic. Porsche was his parents’ third child. His father, Anton Porsche, was a master panel-beater. He showed a strong aptitude for mechanical work at a very […]

Ferenc Berko (1916 - 2000)

Photographer. Born in Hungary, he was orphaned as a child and raised by friends of the family in Germany, where he was exposed to the artists of the Bauhaus movement. When the Nazis came to power  he fled to England in 1933, where he studied with the photographer Otto Emil Hoppe. In 1938 he moved […]