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Henry Brandt (20 August 1828 – 31 March 1898) was an English first-class cricketer and clergyman. The son of Robert Brandt, he was born at Salford in August 1828. [1] He was educated at Rugby School, before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge. While studying at Trinity, he took part in The Boat Race of 1852, in addition to gaining a rowing ...
Hank Brandt (born Henry William Haar Jr.; June 4, 1934 – December 4, 2004) was an American film and television actor. [1] [2] He was known for playing Leonard Waggedorn in the American sitcom television series Julia from 1968 to 1971. [3] Brandt was born in East Orange, New Jersey. He began his career in 1961, appearing in an episode of the ...
Died. April 26, 2008. (2008-04-26) (aged 94) Santa Barbara, California, United States. Occupation (s) Composer, orchestrator, instrumentalist. Henry Dreyfuss Brant (September 15, 1913 – April 26, 2008) was a Canadian-born American composer. An expert orchestrator with a flair for experimentation, many of Brant's works featured spatialization ...
American history. Henry William Brands Jr. (born August 7, 1953) is an American historian. He holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his PhD in history in 1985. He has authored more than thirty books on U.S. history.
Character actor. Henry Brandon was a versatile character player, often called upon to portray various ethnic types. He played the character of Renouf, a deserter from the French Foreign Legion, in the 1939 remake of Beau Geste. In 1943, he played Major Ruck, a British secret agent in the guise of an SS officer in Edge of Darkness.
Hennig Brand. Hennig Brand ( German pronunciation: [ˈhɛnɪç bʁant]; c. 1630 – c. 1692 or c. 1710) was a German alchemist who lived and worked in Hamburg. In 1669, Brand accidentally discovered the chemical element phosphorus while searching for the "philosopher's stone", a substance which was believed to transmute base metals into gold .
Thayendanegea or Joseph Brant (March 1743 – November 24, 1807) was a Mohawk military and political leader, based in present-day New York and, later, Brantford, in what is today Ontario, who was closely associated with Great Britain during and after the American Revolution. Perhaps the best known Native American of his generation, he met many ...
Peter Mark Brant Jr. was born December 30, 1993, and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. [1] He is the son of art collector Peter M. Brant and model Stephanie Seymour. [2] His paternal grandparents were Bulgarian Jewish immigrants. [3] [4] In 2011, Brant publicly came out as gay. [2] [5] [6]