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Louis Aragon was born on October 3, 1897, in Paris, France. He graduated from Lycée Carnot, then studied medicine in Sorbonne and befriended a fellow medical student André Breton. In 1917 he was drafted in the First World War and served in a military hospital. There he met Guillaume Apollinaire and they became close friends. Together with Breton, Paul Éluard and Philippe Soupault Aragon continued development of ideas of Surrealism which were formulated by Guillaume Apollinaire. His evolution from Dada to Surrealism finalized with the publication of 'Manifeste du Surréalisme' in 1924. At that time he published 'Le Libertinage', a collection of short stories and episodes pieced together in a Surrealist collage.
In 1927, after a two-year affair with flamboyant publisher Nancy Cunard, heiress to the Cunard shipping money, Aragon wrote what was later described by Albert Camus as "the best and most beautiful of erotic texts", and later refused to publish it under his name. Aragon was then at the peak of his radical opposition to old rules and joined the French Communist party. At the same time he met Elsa Triolet, sister of Russian actress Lilya Brik. In 1930 they traveled to the Soviet Union on the invitation from Maxim Gorky. There they took part in the 1st conference of Soviet writers. Under the influence of his wife and her friend Vladimir Mayakovsky, Aragon published "The Red Front", calling for a revolution in France, for which he received a five-year suspended sentence. At that time Aragon together with 'Andre Malraux' founded the International Association of Writers for the Defence of Culture. Aragon denounced the bourgeois culture and was a critical opponent of André Gide. During the Second World War Aragon wrote anti-fascist poetry under various pen-names for 'Les Editions de Minuit' and 'Lettres Francaise', and was active in the French Resistance.
In 1955 Aragon published an essay on the Soviet literature in which he focused on non-Russian writers from ethnic republics of the USSR. In 1962 Aragon and André Maurois published their "Parallelled History" of the Soviet Union and the United States. His mild attitude to Socialist realism became more critical when Nikita Khrushchev was dismissed by Leonid Brezhnev. In 1971 he published a comprehensive biography of Henri Matisse. At that time, after the death of his wife, Aragon revealed his bisexuality and appeared at gay parades. He died on December 24, 1982, in Paris, France.- Actor
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Maurice Biraud was born on 3 March 1922 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Les aventures de Salavin (1964), Les douze légionnaires (1976) and Le complot (1973). He was married to Françoise Soulié. He died on 24 December 1982 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France.- Bert Brownbill was born on 27 May 1900 in West Derby, Liverpool, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Keep It Clean (1956), Market in Honey Lane (1967) and Detective (1964). He died on 24 December 1982 in Gorleston-on-Sea, Norfolk, England, UK.
- Julia Janssen was born on 19 December 1900 in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She was an actress, known for Die Frau von gestern und morgen (1928), An Orphan Boy of Vienna (1936) and Wilhelm Tell (1956). She died on 24 December 1982 in Herdecke, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- Almery Steves was born on 28 October 1904 in Jaboatão dos Guararapes, Pernambuco, Brazil. She was an actress, known for Retribuição (1924), Aitaré da Praia (1925) and Dança, Amor e Ventura (1927). She died on 24 December 1982 in Olinda, Pernambuco, Brazil.
- Kazimierz Sulkowski was born on 11 June 1918 in Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was an actor, known for Sprawa pilota Maresza (1956), The Scar (1976) and Zelazna reka (1989). He died on 24 December 1982 in Plock, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Sidney Friedlander was born on 30 March 1927 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor. He died on 24 December 1982 in California, USA.