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Francis Davis Millet (November 3, 1848 [1] – April 15, 1912) was an American academic classical painter, sculptor, and writer who died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912. Early life
Francis Davis (born August 30, 1946) is an American author and journalist. He is best known as the jazz critic for The Village Voice , and a contributing editor for The Atlantic Monthly . He has also worked in radio and film, and taught courses on Jazz and Blues at the University of Pennsylvania .
In the United States, members of the Delano family include U.S. presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant and Calvin Coolidge, astronaut Alan B. Shepard, and writer Laura Ingalls Wilder. Its progenitor is Philippe de Lannoy (1602–1681), a Pilgrim of Walloon descent, who arrived at Plymouth, Massachusetts , in the early 1620s.
Francis Pierpont Davis, who went by Pierpont Davis, was born in 1884 in Baltimore, Maryland to Frank Earlougher Davis, an architect, and Annie Legate Swindell. He was elder to three brothers, William, Walter, and Henry, and one sister, Dorothy. The family also had one servant. [1]
The Butt–Millet Memorial Fountain is a memorial fountain in President's Park in Washington, D.C., in the United States.Dedicated in October 1913, it commemorates the deaths of Archibald Butt (the military aide to President William Howard Taft) and Francis Davis Millet (a journalist and painter, and Butt's close friend and housemate).
John Davis (1936–1999): sculptor; John (Francis) Davis (born 1958): artist; Lawrence Daws (born 1927): painter and printmaker of watercolour, drawing, screenprints, etchings and monotypes; Janet Dawson (born 1935): painter; Phil Day (born 1973) Charles Hubert de Castella (1825–1907): Swiss-Australian writer, artist and winemaker
The 2024 Kennedy Center Honors marked a big family reunion for Francis Ford Coppola. The award-winning director, 85, was among this year’s honorees recognized for their lifetime artistic ...
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