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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 Karolina Lanckoronska (excerpt)
Countess Karolina Maria Adelajda Franciszka Ksawera Małgorzata Edina Lanckorońska (11 August 1898 — 25 August 2002) was a Polish noble, World War II resistance fighter, philanthropist, and historian. Lanckorońska bequeathed her family's enormous art collection to Poland only after her homeland became free from communism and Soviet domination during the Revolutions of 1989.
Biography of Adelqui Migliar (excerpt)
Adelqui Migliar (5 August 1891 – 6 August 1956), also known as Adelqui Millar, was a Chilean film actor, director, screenwriter and producer. He appeared in 31 silent films between 1916 and 1928. He also directed 24 films between 1922 and 1954.
Biography of Daniel Schorr (excerpt)
Daniel Louis Schorr (August 31, 1916 – July 23, 2010) was an American journalist who covered world news for more than 60 years. He was most recently a Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio (NPR). Schorr won three Emmy Awards for his television journalism.
Biography of Cristina Kahlo (excerpt)
Cristina Kahlo y Calderón (June 7, 1908 – February 8, 1964) was the younger sister of Frida Kahlo and shared a deep emotional bond with her. She posed for both Frida and Diego Rivera, with whom she had an affair after the birth of her second child.
Biography of Harold Abrahams (excerpt)
Harold Maurice Abrahams CBE (15 December 1899 – 14 January 1978) was an English track and field athlete who won the gold medal in the 100 metres at the 1924 Olympics, a victory famously depicted in the film Chariots of Fire.
Biography of María Enriqueta Camarillo (excerpt)
María Enriqueta Camarillo (also known as María Enriqueta Camarillo y Roa de Pereyra) (1872–1968) was a Mexican poet-novelist, short story writer and translator. She was widely recognized for her works, with schools and libraries named after her, as well as a bust by Spanish sculptor Mariano Benlliure erected in Hidalgo Park in Mexico City in her honor.
Biography of Alessandro Natta (excerpt)
Alessandro Natta (7 January 1918 – 23 May 2001) was an Italian politician and secretary of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) from 1984 to 1988. An illuminist, Jacobin, and communist, as he used to describe himself, Natta represented the political and cultural prototype of a PCI militant and party member for over fifty years of the Italian democratic-republican history.
Biography of Jane Herveu (excerpt)
Jeanne Aline Herveux, generally known as Jane Herveu, (1885–1955) was a pioneering French aviator who obtained her pilot's licence on 7 December 1910. Life Born on 10 December 1885 in Paris, she was first known as an automobile exhibition driver, performing at the Crystal Palace in London and taking part in car and motorcycle races at various locations in France.
Biography of Annie M.G. Schmidt (excerpt)
Anna Maria Geertruida "Annie" Schmidt (20 May 1911 – 21 May 1995) was a Dutch writer.She is called the mother of the Dutch theatrical song, and the queen of Dutch children's literature, praised for her "delicious Dutch idiom," and considered one of the greatest Dutch writers.
Biography of Christian Herter (excerpt)
Christian Archibald Herter (March 28, 1895 – December 30, 1966) was an American diplomat and Republican politician who was the 59th Governor of Massachusetts from 1953 to 1957 and United States Secretary of State from 1959 to 1961.He served as president of the board of trustees at the Dexter School from 1937 to 1939.
Biography of Rachel Baes (excerpt)
Rachel Baes (August 1, 1912 – June 8, 1983) was a Belgian surrealist painter and photographer.Born in Ixelles to painter Émile Baes, she started painting young, influenced by Flemish Expressionism. She exhibited in Paris in 1929.Baes' romantic involvement with Flemish nationalist Joris Van Severen deeply impacted her life, especially after his execution in 1940.
Biography of David Arellano (excerpt)
David Alfonso Arellano Moraga (born July 29, 1901, in Santiago, Chile, and died May 3, 1927, in Valladolid) was a Chilean footballer and one of the founders of Colo-Colo club in 1925.Wikipedia has 1902 in error. As a forward, he was capped 6 times for the Chilean national team between 1924 and 1926, scoring 8 goals.
Biography of Thorleif Heyerdahl (excerpt)
Thorleif Heyerdahl (born 16 April 1900 in Oslo, died 11 February 1981 in Lillehammer) was a Norwegian painter. Heyerdahl lived 20 years of his life on Tjøme, where many of his motifs are also from. He also took motifs from Svolvær and later from Gausdal, Gudbrandsdalen and the Lillehammer area, especially after he moved to Lillehammer in 1953.
Biography of Helga Stene (excerpt)
Helga Stene (8 October 1904 – 2 October 1983) was a Norwegian educator, feminist and resistance member.She was born in Notodden, and was a sister of Aasta Stene.She graduated from the University of Oslo in 1932.She lectured a few years at universities in Berlin and in Sweden.
Biography of Wanda Krahelska (excerpt)
Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz (15 December 1886 – 5 February 1968), code name “Alinka”” or “Alicja”, was a leading figure in Warsaw’s underground resistance movement throughout the years of German occupation during World War II in Poland, co-founder of Żegota. As the well-connected wife of a former ambassador to Washington, she used her contacts with both the military and political leadership of the Polish Underground to materially influence the underground's policy of aiding Poland's Jewish population during the war.
Biography of Charles Bardot (excerpt)
Charles Bardot was a French international football player, born on April 7, 1904, in Conakry, Guinea, and died in late April 1973 in Cannes. He played as a center forward. He earned six caps and scored three goals for the French national A team between 1925 and 1932.
Biography of Stefan Wolpe (excerpt)
Stefan Wolpe (25 August 1902, Berlin – 4 April 1972, New York City) was a German-Jewish-American composer. He was associated with interdisciplinary modernism, with affiliations ranging from the Bauhaus, Berlin agitprop theater and the kibbutz movement to the Eighth Street Artists' Club, Black Mountain College, and the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music.
Biography of Joachim Lemelsen (excerpt)
Joachim Lemelsen (26 September 1888 – 30 March 1954) was a German general during World War II who rose to army-level command.Wikipedia has 28 September in error. During Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, troops of the XLVII Motorized Corps under his command executed the criminal Commissar Order, prompting Lemelsen to complain: "Soon the Russians will get to hear about the countless corpses lying along the routes taken by our soldiers (..).
Biography of Ragnhild Butenschøn (excerpt)
Ragnhild Butenschøn (21 September 1912 – 3 September 1992) was a renowned Norwegian sculptor known for her church art. Born in Kristiania, she lost her mother at eleven and was raised by relatives.Trained by Vilmos Aba-Novák in Budapest and Wilhelm Rasmussen in Oslo, she married publisher Barthold A.
Biography of Arturo Uslar Pietri (excerpt)
Arturo Uslar Pietri (May 16, 1906 - February 26, 2001) was a prominent Venezuelan intellectual, historian, writer, TV producer, and politician. Born in Caracas to parents with diverse cultural backgrounds, Uslar Pietri played a significant role in Venezuelan politics and culture.
Biography of Óscar Murúa (excerpt)
José Óscar Francisco Murúa Robledo (January 25, 1898 – April 1, 1980) was a prominent Guatemalan artist born to Spanish immigrants. In 1903, his family moved from Guatemala to Madrid, Spain, where he later studied Commerce. Returning to Guatemala in 1915, he settled in Antigua Guatemala in 1946, focusing on rebuilding a property into a hotel.
Biography of Federico Borrell (excerpt)
Federico Borrell García (3 January 1912 – 5 September 1936) was a Spanish Republican and anarchist militiaman during the Spanish Civil War, believed to be the subject in Robert Capa's famous photo, The Falling Soldier. Born in Benilloba, he worked at a mill in Alcoi and founded a local branch of the anarchist FIJL.
Biography of Jacob Israël de Haan (excerpt)
Jacob Israël de Haan (31 December 1881 – 30 June 1924) was a Dutch Jewish writer, lawyer, and journalist who moved to Palestine in 1919, becoming more religious and the political spokesman for the Haredim in Jerusalem. He was assassinated in 1924 by the Zionist paramilitary group Haganah due to his anti-Zionist activities.
Biography of Edmond Marin la Meslée (excerpt)
Edmond Marin la Meslée, born on February 5, 1912 in Valenciennes and killed in combat on February 4, 1945 in Dessenheim (Haut-Rhin), is the most decorated French aviation ace of the French campaign with sixteen confirmed aerial victories (and four more probable) achieved between January and June 1940.
Biography of Suzan Rose Benedict (excerpt)
Suzan Rose Benedict (November 29, 1873 – April 8, 1942) was the first woman awarded a Ph.D.in Mathematics from the University of Michigan and had a long teaching career at Smith College. Career at Smith College Suzan returned to Smith as an associate professor after receiving her PhD.
Biography of Gaby Casadesus (excerpt)
Gaby Casadesus (August 9, 1901 – November 12, 1999) was a French classical pianist and teacher born in Marseille.She was married to the French pianist Robert Casadesus and their son Jean was also a notable pianist. Born Gabrielle l'Hôte, she studied at the Paris Conservatory with Louis Diémer and Marguerite Long and was awarded the first prize in piano at age 16.
Biography of Emilia Ortiz (excerpt)
Emilia Ortiz Pérez (Tepic, Nayarit, February 10, 1917 – Tepic, Nayarit, November 24, 2012) was a Nayarit Mexican painter, cartoonist, caricaturist, and poet, best known for her watercolors she made of the indigenous groups in her area, and the caricatures she created from an early age of political figures and those she knew.
Biography of Kornelis Heiko Miskotte (excerpt)
Kornelis Heiko Miskotte (23 September 1894 in Utrecht – 31 August 1976 in Voorst) was a Dutch Protestant theologian and a representative of dialectical theology.
Biography of Leonard Ornstein (excerpt)
Leonard Salomon Ornstein (12 November 1880 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands – 20 May 1941 in Utrecht, the Netherlands) was a Dutch physicist. Ornstein studied theoretical physics with Hendrik Antoon Lorentz at University of Leiden. He subsequently carried out Ph.D. research under the supervision of Lorentz, concerning an application of the statistical mechanics of Gibbs to molecular problems.
Biography of Monique de la Bruchollerie (excerpt)
Monique Yver de la Bruchollerie, born April 20, 1915 in Paris and died December 15, 1972, was a French pianist from a family of distinguished musicians. She entered the Paris Conservatoire at eleven and won first prize in piano in 1931 under Isidore Philipp.
Biography of Jane Jacobs (excerpt)
Jane Isabel Jacobs (née Butzner; May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was an American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who shaped urban studies, sociology, and economics. Her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) criticized "urban renewal" and "slum clearance" for disregarding city-dwellers' needs.
Biography of Andrée Brabant (excerpt)
Andrée Brabant, born in Reims on May 23, 1901, and died in Toulon on November 2, 1989, was a French actress. Marie Thérèse Andrée Brabant started her career as a dancer before becoming a film actress. From 1916, she was recruited by Abel Gance to act in "Le Droit à la vie." From that year until 1939, she appeared in at least 32 films and made her final film appearance in 1964 in "L’âge ingrat."
Biography of René Montis (excerpt)
René Montis, stage name of René Émile Louis Maunoury, was a French actor and producer, born on December 20, 1888 in Pantin and died on March 2, 1959 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. An actor until the early 1930s, René Montis later became a production director and producer.
Biography of Hermann Gmeiner (excerpt)
Hermann Gmeiner (23 June 1919 – 26 April 1986) was an Austrian philanthropist who founded SOS Children's Villages.Born in Alberschwende, Austria, he was deeply affected by the loss of his mother and his experiences as a soldier in WWII. In 1949, with just 600 Austrian schillings, he established the first SOS Children's Village in Imst, Tyrol.
Biography of Ludwig Renn (excerpt)
Ludwig Renn (born Arnold Friedrich Vieth von Golßenau; 22 April 1889 – 21 July 1979) was a German author.Born a Saxon nobleman, he later became a committed communist and lived in East Berlin. Importance Renn was one of the founders of proletarian‒revolutionary literature in Germany.
Biography of Felix Schlag (excerpt)
Felix Oscar Schlag (September 4, 1891 – March 9, 1974) was a German born American sculptor who was the designer of the United States five cent coin in use from 1938 to 2004. He was born to Karl and Teresa Schlag in Frankfurt, Germany where as a young man, he served in the German army of World War I.
Biography of Joe Savoldi (excerpt)
Joseph Anthony Savoldi Jr., (born Giuseppe Antonio Savoldi; March 5, 1908 – January 25, 1974) more commonly known by his nickname "Jumping Joe" Savoldi, was an Italian-American professional wrestler, football player, and Special Ops agent for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II.
Biography of Tucker McGuire (excerpt)
Anne Tucker McGuire (29 January 1913 in Winchester, Virginia, US – 3 August 1988 in London, England) was an American-born actress who appeared largely in British films and television. She married actor Tom Macaulay. She appeared in the 1949 West End musical Her Excellency.
Biography of André Nicolle (excerpt)
André Nicolle is a French actor born June 1, 1885 in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, city where he died on February 25, 1945 at his home in the 16th arrondissement.
Biography of Jan Romein (excerpt)
Jan Marius Nicolas Romein (30 October 1893 – 16 July 1962) was a Dutch historian, journalist, literary scholar and professor of history at the University of Amsterdam. A Marxist and a student of Huizinga, Romein is remembered for his popularizing books of Dutch national history, jointly authored with his wife Annie Romein-Verschoor.
Biography of Enrique Iturriaga (excerpt)
Enrique Iturriaga Romero (born April 3, 1918, in Lima, Peru – died November 23, 2019) was a Peruvian composer, professor, pianist, rector, teacher, and music critic. Iturriaga studied composition, music theory, and piano at the National Conservatory of Music (1945-1950).He then continued his studies in Paris under Arthur Honegger.
Biography of Zona Gale (excerpt)
Zona Gale (August 26, 1874 – December 27, 1938), also known as Zona Gale Breese, was an American writer and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921. Her works, inspired by her hometown, portrayed realistic characters and deep emotional undercurrents.
Biography of Gabriel Nigond (excerpt)
Gabriel Nigond, born on February 24, 1877, in Châteauroux and died on January 4, 1937, was a French writer, poet, and playwright. Son of an engineer, he published his first poetry collection at 17.He frequented literary circles in Paris and developed a strong friendship with Marcel Schwob.
Biography of Albert Kluyver (excerpt)
Albert Jan Kluyver (3 June 1888 – 14 May 1956) was a Dutch microbiologist and biochemist renowned for his pivotal work on biochemical unity. His 1926 paper, "Die Einheit in der Biochemie" ("Unity in Biochemistry"), co-authored with Hendrick Jean Louis Donker, established the concept that all organisms are biochemically similar, famously summarized by Kluyver's aphorism: "From elephant to butyric acid bacterium – it is all the same".
Biography of Amparo Alvajar (excerpt)
María del Amparo Alvajar López Jean, commonly known as Amparo Alvajar (August 11, 1916 - May 1998), was a multifaceted Spanish journalist, dramatist, and writer from Galicia, also notable for her work as a translator for international organizations. Born in A Coruña, she was deeply involved in the political and cultural movements of her time, working initially in the Second Republic's secret services.
Biography of Mary Macarthur (excerpt)
Mary Reid Anderson (née Macarthur; 13 August 1880 – 1 January 1921) was a Scottish suffragist (although at odds with the national groups who were willing to let a minority of women gain the franchise) and was a leading trades unionist.
Biography of Loe de Jong (excerpt)
Louis "Loe" de Jong (24 April 1914 – 15 March 2005) was a Dutch historian who specialized in the Netherlands during World War II and the Dutch resistance. He studied history and social geography at the University of Amsterdam and worked as a foreign correspondent.
Biography of Peggy Wood (excerpt)
Mary Margaret Wood (February 9, 1892 – March 18, 1978) was an American actress of stage, film, and television. She is best remembered for her performance as the title character in the CBS television series Mama (1949–1957), for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series; her starring role as Naomi, Ruth's mother-in-law, in The Story of Ruth (1960); and her final screen appearance as Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music (1965), for which she received an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award.
Biography of Emil Schaudt (excerpt)
Johann Emil Schaudt, (* August 14, 1871 in Stuttgart; † April 6, 1957 in Berlin) was a German architect, predominantly designing commercial and administrative buildings in Hamburg and Berlin./ Life Schaudt studied architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart and the Technical University of Vienna.
Biography of Wa Wa Chaw (excerpt)
Bonita Wa Wa Calachaw Nuñez (December 25, 1888 — May 12, 1972), also known as Wa Wa Chaw, Princess Wa Wa Chaw, and Wawa Calac Chaw or "Keep From the Water," was a Native American artist, activist, and writer. Her time of birth comes from her autobiography Spirit Woman: The Diaries and Paintings of Bonita Wa Wa Calachaw Nuñez by Bonita Wa Wa Calachaw Nuñez (Harper & Row, 1980). |
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