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birth charts with Apollon in LeoYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Apollon in Leo. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. in ![]()
Biography of Yvonne Jospa (excerpt)
Yvonne Jospa (née Have Groisman, February 3, 1910 in Poputi, Bessarabia (now Moldavia) – January 20, 2000 in Brussels) was a cofounder and leading organizer of the Comité de Défense des Juifs in September 1942 with her husband Hertz Jospa, which saved over 3,000 Jewish children from deportation and death.
Biography of Marthe Tesson (excerpt)
Marthe Marie Tesson, born January 22, 1892 in Le Havre and died December 23, 1971 in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, was a French metalworker and a member of the French Resistance. She was elected to the municipal council of Bobigny in 1925.
Biography of Joseph de Goislard de Monsabert (excerpt)
Joseph Jean de Goislard de Monsabert (Libourne 30 September 1887 – Dax, 13 June 1981), was a French general who served during the Second World War. Monument to the memory of General Joseph de Goislard de Monsabert dedicated on 8 July 1985, in the Place des Martyrs de la Résistance, Bordeaux, France
Biography of François de Menthon (excerpt)
Count François de Menthon (8 January 1900 – 2 June 1984) was a French politician and professor of law. Second World War He was mobilised at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, becoming a captain in the French Army.He was severely wounded and captured in June 1940.
Biography of André Billy (excerpt)
André Billy (13 December 1882 – 11 April 1971) was a French writer. He was born in Saint-Quentin, Aisne. After completing secondary studies at the Collège de la Providence in Amiens, he studied under the Jesuits at Saint-Dizier. He began writing in 1907, occasionally using the pseudonym Jean de l'Escritoire.
Biography of Zuleykha Seyidmammadova (excerpt)
Zuleykha Seyidmammadova (22 March 1919 – 1994) was one of the first Azerbaijan female pilots and the first Azerbaijani woman to fly in combat. Seyidmammadova was born in Baku on 22 March 1919.She gained her pilot's license in 1935 at a flying club in her hometown and later at the aviation academy in Zhukovsky near Moscow.
Biography of Käthe Krauss (excerpt)
Katharina "Käthe" Anna Krauß (sometimes spelled Krauss; 29 November 1906 – 9 January 1970) was a German track and field athlete, who won three gold medals at the 1934 Women's World Games in London and a bronze medal in the 100 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, where she was also on the German 4 × 100 m relay team.
Biography of Irina Sebrova (excerpt)
Irina Fyodorovna Sebrova (Russian: Ирина Фёдоровна Себрова; 25 December 1914 – 5 April 2000) was a flight commander in the all-female Night Witches during the Second World War. She was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 23 February 1945 for her first 825 bombing missions.
Biography of Jeanne Fontaine (excerpt)
Jeanne Antoinette Fontaine (born Lagrue on August 29, 1897 in Génelard and died on March 5, 1994 in Villepinte), was a French flight attendant, co-pilot and administrator.
Biography of Élisabeth Lion (excerpt)
Élisabeth Lion (1904 – 9 January 1998) was a French aviator who broke world altitude records and long-distance flying records.She was one of the five women who were selected to train as French military pilots after World War II. Lion was born in Balan, in Ardennes, France and grew up in Sedan.
Biography of Alexandre Ughetto (excerpt)
Alexandre Ughetto, born December 6, 1910 in Lauris in the Vaucluse, executed in Digne on January 24, 1930 at the age of 19, is a French murderer. He had been convicted of having, with the help of an accomplice named Mucha Stephan, known as Joseph Witkowski, aged sixteen, born in Poland on January 14, 1912, committed a quadruple murder on October 5, 1928 at the Courelys farm, located one thousand nine hundred meters from Valensole. »
Biography of Lewis Grassic Gibbon (excerpt)
Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (13 February 1901 – 7 February 1935), a Scottish writer. He was best known for his trilogy A Scots Quair, set in the north-east of Scotland in early years of the 20th century.
Biography of Maria Rentmeister (excerpt)
Maria Rentmeister (27 January 1905 – 10 May 1996) was a German political activist who became an anti-government resistance activist after 1933. She spent much of the time during the twelve Nazi years abroad or, later, in state detention. In 1945 she relocated to what now became the Soviet occupation zone (after October 1949 East Germany) where she became the first General Secretary of the politically important Democratic Women's League ("Demokratischer Frauenbund Deutschlands" / DFD).
Biography of Robert Fabre (excerpt)
Robert Fabre, born December 21, 1915 in Villefranche-de-Rouergue (Aveyron) and died December 23, 2006 in the same city, was a French pharmacist and politician. He was named the third man to have signed with François Mitterrand and Georges Marchais, as president of the Mouvement des radicals de gauche, the program of Union de la Gauche, on November 27, 1973.
Biography of Edmond Locard (excerpt)
Dr. Edmond Locard (13 December 1877 – 4 May 1966) was a French criminologist, the pioneer in forensic science who became known as the "Sherlock Holmes of France". He formulated the basic principle of forensic science: "Every contact leaves a trace". This became known as Locard's exchange principle.
Biography of Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack (excerpt)
Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack (11 July 1893, in Frankfurt-am-Main – 7 January 1965, in Allambie Heights, in Sydney) was a German-born Australian artist. His formative education was 1912–1914 at Debschitz art school in Munich.He studied at the Bauhaus from 1919–24 and remained working there until 1926 where, along with Kurt Schwerdtfeger, he further developed the Farblichtspiele ('coloured-light-plays'), which used a projection device to produced moving colours on a transparent screen accompanied by music composed by Hirschfeld Mack.
Biography of Werner R. Heymann (excerpt)
Werner Richard Heymann (14 February 1896 – 30 May 1961), also known as Werner R.Heymann was a German-Jewish composer active in Germany and in Hollywood. When the theater impresario Max Reinhardt opened the satirical cabaret Sound And Smoke he became, with Friedrich Hollaender, one of its two main pianists.
Biography of Paul Gilson (excerpt)
Paul Gilson, born January 31, 1904 in Paris and died May 26, 1963 in the same city, was a French writer and radio broadcaster. His work includes poems, stories, essays, plays, films, but he is best known for his many activities on the radio.
Biography of Joan Riudavets Moll (excerpt)
Joan Riudavets Moll (born December 15, 1889 in Es Migjorn Gran in the Balearic Islands and died March 5, 2004 in the island of Menorca in the Balearic archipelago following a cold, was the male dean of humanity since November 2003.
Biography of La Argentina (dancer) (excerpt)
Antonia Mercé y Luque (September 4, 1890 – July 18, 1936), stage name La Argentina, was an Argentine-born Spanish dancer known for her creation of the neoclassical style of Spanish dance as a theatrical art. She was one of the major influences on Japanese butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno.
Biography of Ruth Cidor-Citroën (excerpt)
Ruth Cidor-Citroën (born Franziska-Margarete Vallentin November 25, 1906 in Berlin; died February 26, 2002 in Jerusalem) was a German-Israeli artist.
Biography of Til Brugman (excerpt)
Mathilda (Til) Brugman (16 September 1888, Amsterdam – 24 July 1958, Gouda) was a Dutch author, poet and linguist. From 1926 to 1936, she lived in The Hague and later in Berlin with the German Dada artist Hannah Höch. In 1935, she published Scheingehacktes: Grotesken mit Zeichnungen von Hannah Höch.
Biography of Bill Bowerman (excerpt)
William Jay Bowerman (February 19, 1911 – December 24, 1999) was an American track and field coach and co-founder of Nike, Inc. Over his career, he trained 31 Olympic athletes, 51 All-Americans, 12 American record-holders, 22 NCAA champions and 16 sub-4 minute milers.
Biography of Jessie Redmon Fauset (excerpt)
Jessie Redmon Fauset (April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961) was an editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator. Her literary work helped sculpt African-American literature in the 1920s as she focused on portraying a true image of African-American life and history. Her black fictional characters were working professionals which was an inconceivable concept to American society during this time Her story lines related to themes of racial discrimination, "passing", and feminism.
Biography of Aldo Mieli (excerpt)
Aldo Mieli (4 December 1879 – 16 February 1950) was an influential historian of science, and a pioneer of gay rights. History of science Mieli is now considered one of the founders of the discipline of the history of science, as one of the first to consider it a discipline it its own right.
Biography of Jean de Bazelaire de Ruppierre (excerpt)
Jean Marie Joseph de Bazelaire de Ruppierre (October 18, 1916 - October 22, 1943) is a French officer of the colonial troops, captain, who served during the Second World War. He was Companion of the Liberation (1942) 1, and died for France (1943).
Biography of Daniel Carasso (excerpt)
Daniel Carasso (December 16, 1905 – May 17, 2009) was a French American member of the prominent Sephardic Jewish Carasso family and the son of Isaac Carasso, founder of the (now) multinational Danone. Carasso, son of Isaac Carasso, was born in Salonica, Ottoman Empire (modern Thessaloniki, Greece), where his family had lived for four hundred years following Spain's expulsion of its Jews.
Biography of Jean-Paul de Dadelsen (excerpt)
Jean-Paul de Dadelsen, (20 August 1913 in Strasbourg – 23 June 1957 in Zurich) was a French schoolmaster, officer, journalist, broadcaster and poet.He was an early supporter of a European Common Market and adviser to Jean Monnet. Publications Jonas, Gallimard, 1962. Goethe en Alsace with commentary by Denis de Rougemont, François Mauriac and Baptiste-Marrey.
Biography of Riet van Grunsven (excerpt)
Maria Catharina van Grunsven (1918–2004), also known as Riet van Grunsven or Riet van de Haterd-van Grunsven, was an armed member of the Dutch Resistance during World War II. One of 21 people who became “line crossers,” special agents who helped to maintain a secret connection between occupied and liberated Netherlands across the waterways of the Biesbosch and the Merwede, she operated as a courier for part of the larger Biesbosch resistance group, and the Albrecht intelligence group.
Biography of Valli Valli (excerpt)
Valli Valli, born Valli Knust (11 February 1882 – 4 November 1927), was a musical comedy actress and silent film performer born in Berlin, Germany.She was descended from an old English family and lived most of her life in England.Her brother was a captain in the Royal Fusiliers, who fought for the British in France in World War I.
Biography of Elly Ney (excerpt)
Elly Ney (27 September 1882 – 31 March 1968) was a German romantic pianist who specialized in Beethoven, and was especially popular in Germany. Personal life Elly Ney was married twice; first, in 1911, to the Dutch conductor Willem van Hoogstraten.They had one daughter, Eleonore (1918–2007).
Biography of Elizabeth of the Trinity (excerpt)
Elizabeth of the Trinity, OCD (French: Élisabeth de la Trinité), born Élisabeth Catez (18 July 1880 – 9 November 1906), was a French Discalced Carmelite, a mystic, and a spiritual writer. She was known for the depth of her spiritual growth as a Carmelite as well as bleak periods in which her religious calling was perceived to be unsure according to those around her; she however was acknowledged for her persistence in pursuing the will of God and in devoting herself to the charism of the Carmelites.
Biography of Pierre Le Flaouter (excerpt)
Pierre Le Flaouter, born March 17, 1884 in Lorient (Morbihan), died June 1, 1981 in Vertou (Loire-Atlantique), was a postman, worker, bookseller, showman, trade unionist, and French anarchist. He was one of the protagonists of the Philippe Daudet affair which, in 1923-1925, hit the headlines.
Biography of Mary Helen Young (excerpt)
Mary Helen Young (5 June 1883 – 14 March 1945) was a Scottish nurse and resistance fighter who helped British servicemen escape from Nazi-occupied France during World War II. She was imprisoned by the Gestapo and put to death at Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1945.
Biography of Anthony Caillot (excerpt)
Anthony Louis Léon Caillot, born March 14, 1908 in Valognes (Manche), died February 5, 1994 in Regnéville-sur-Mer (Manche), was a French Catholic bishop, titular bishop of Bononia and coadjutor of Évreux from 1962 to 1964 , then Bishop of Évreux from 1964 to 1972, and Bishop Emeritus of Évreux from 1972 to 1994.
Biography of Philippe Daudet (excerpt)
The Philippe Daudet Affair, named after Philippe Daudet (1909–1923), was a French legal filing and subsequent controversy following the suicide of Philippe Daudet at age 14.The initial investigation into Philippe's death concluded he had committed suicide via gunshot, following plans to carry out anarchist attacks against the French government and other high profile individuals.
Biography of Adrien Barrère (excerpt)
Adrien Barrère, artist name of Adrien Baneux, born November 13, 1874 in Paris and died in 1931 in Paris, is a French theater and cinema poster artist and cartoonist of the Belle Époque famous in the five years preceding the First War global.
Biography of Tadd Dameron (excerpt)
Tadley Ewing Peake Dameron (February 21, 1917 – March 8, 1965) was an American jazz composer, arranger, and pianist. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Dameron was the most influential arranger of the bebop era, but also wrote charts for swing and hard bop players.
Biography of Pierre Bertaux (excerpt)
Pierre Bertaux, born October 8, 1907 in Lyon (Rhône) and died August 14, 1986 in Saint-Cloud (Hauts-de-Seine), is a German scholar, French resistance fighter and politician. He is the author of a major thesis on Hölderlin in 1936. Member of several left-wing government cabinets, appointed Commissioner of the Republic for the Liberation of Toulouse, he was notably made Officer of the Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre, and Companion of the Liberation.
Biography of Mona Louise Parsons (excerpt)
Mona Louise Parsons (February 17, 1901 – November 28, 1976) was a Canadian actress, nurse, and member of an informal Dutch resistance network in the Netherlands from 1940 to 1941 during the Nazi occupation. She became the only Canadian female civilian to be imprisoned by the Nazis and one of the first and few women to be tried by a Nazi military tribunal in the Netherlands.
Biography of Ernest Bloch (excerpt)
Ernest Bloch (July 24, 1880 – July 15, 1959) was a Swiss-born American composer. Bloch was a preeminent artist in his day, and left a lasting legacy. He is recognized as one of the greatest Swiss composers in history. As well as producing musical scores, Bloch had an academic career that culminated in his recognition as Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley in 1952.
Biography of Curly Howard (excerpt)
Jerome Lester Horwitz (October 22, 1903 – January 18, 1952), better known by his stage name Curly Howard, was an American comedian and actor.He was a member of the comedy team The Three Stooges, which also featured his elder brothers Moe and Shemp Howard, as well as actor Larry Fine.
Biography of Camillo Berneri (excerpt)
Camillo Berneri (also known as Camillo da Lodi; May 20 (according to his Italian Wikipedia page), 1897, Lodi – May 5, 1937, Barcelona) was an Italian professor of philosophy, anarchist militant, propagandist and theorist. He was married to Giovanna Berneri, and was father of Marie-Louise Berneri and Giliana Berneri, all of whom were also anarchists.
Biography of Juliette Élise Bataille (excerpt)
Juliette Élise Bataille, born June 15, 1896 in Étaples in Pas-de-Calais, died June 16, 1972, was a French artist, embroiderer and designer.
Biography of Alma Rosé (excerpt)
Alma Maria Rosé (3 November 1906 – 4/5 April 1944) was an Austrian violinist of Jewish descent.Her uncle was the composer Gustav Mahler.She was deported by the Nazis to the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.There, for 10 months, she directed an orchestra of female prisoners who played for their captors to stay alive.
Biography of Monika Mann (excerpt)
Monika Mann (7 June 1910 – 17 March 1992) was a German author and feature writer.She was born in Munich, Germany, the fourth of six children of the Nobel Prize–winning author Thomas Mann and Katia, née Katharina Pringsheim. She trained as a pianist and her early attempts at a musical career seemed promising, but were not met with success and she instead pursued a career as a writer.
Biography of Richard Huelsenbeck (excerpt)
Carl Wilhelm Richard Hülsenbeck (23 April 1892 – 20 April 1974) was a German writer, poet, and psychoanalyst born in Frankenau, Hessen-Nassau. Huelsenbeck was a medical student on the eve of World War I.He was invalided out of the army and emigrated to Zürich, Switzerland in February 1916, where he fell in with the Cabaret Voltaire.
Biography of Sophia Antoniadis (excerpt)
Sophia Antoniadis (Greek: Σοφία Αντωνιάδη, 31 July 1895, Piraeus - 25 January 1972, Athens) was a Greek Byzantinist. She was the first female professor at the Leiden University, the first female Humanities professor in the Netherlands and during her career was one of the few Greek women to hold a position at a European university.
Biography of Colette Maze (excerpt)
Colette Maze, a French pianist, was born on June 16, 1914, in Paris.Born into a bourgeois family, she developed a passion for music early on and started playing the piano at the age of 5. Despite her parents' opposition, she joined the École Normale de Musique de Paris at 15, studying under masters like Alfred Cortot and Nadia Boulanger.
Biography of Élisabeth de Rothschild (excerpt)
Élisabeth, Baroness de Rothschild (née Pelletier de Chambure; a.k.a.Lili; 9 March 1902 – 23 March 1945) was a member by marriage of the wine-making branch of the Rothschild family. Biography Born in Paris as Élisabeth Pelletier de Chambure, into a wealthy Catholic family whose roots were in the Burgundy region. |
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