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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 Reinhold Schneider (excerpt)
Reinhold Schneider (Baden-Baden, May 13, 1903 – Freiburg im Breisgau, April 6, 1958) was a German poet who also wrote novels. Initially his works were less religious, but later his poetry had a Christian and specifically Catholic influence. His first works included ones about Luís de Camões and Portugal.
Biography of René Bougnol (excerpt)
René Bougnol, born on January 7, 1911, in Montpellier and who died in the same city on June 20, 1956, was a French fencer and double Olympic champion. His weapons were the épée and the foil. The Palais des Sports in Montpellier bore his name until November 2021.
Biography of Florence R. Sabin (excerpt)
Florence Rena Sabin (November 9, 1871 – October 3, 1953) was an American medical scientist. She was a pioneer for women in science; she was the first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and the first woman to head a department at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
Biography of Alan Baxter (actor) (excerpt)
Alan Edwin Baxter (November 19, 1908 – May 7, 1976) was an American film and television actor. Born in East Cleveland, Ohio, he graduated from Williams College, where he was a Phi Sigma Kappa member and classmate of Elia Kazan. He further studied at Yale University’s 47 Drama Workshop.
Biography of Virginia d'Albert-Lake (excerpt)
Virginia d'Albert-Lake (4 June 1910 – 20 September 1997) was a member of the French Resistance during World War II. She worked with the Comet Escape Line. She and her husband Philippe helped 67 British and American airmen evade German capture. She was arrested on June 12, 1944 and imprisoned by the Germans in Ravensbrück concentration camp and other camps for the remainder of the war.
Biography of Paul Alverdes (excerpt)
Paul Alverdes (6 May 1897, Strasbourg - 28 February 1979, Munich) was a German novelist and poet. The son of an officer and member of the German Youth Movement, he volunteered for duty in World War I and received a severe injury to the throat.
Biography of Aaslaug Aasland (excerpt)
Aaslaug Aasland (11 August 1890 – 30 August 1962) was a Norwegian politician from the Labour Party.She served as Minister of Social Affairs from 1948 to 1953. Graduating in law in 1922, she held several public service positions, including prison and labor inspector.
Biography of Charles J. Solomon (excerpt)
Charles Julius Solomon (February 12, 1906 – May 1, 1975) was an American bridge player, administrator, writer, and sponsor. He was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2000. Originally a lawyer in Philadelphia, he left law to focus on bridge. In 1948, he married Margery "Peggy" Golder, daughter of philanthropist Jules Mastbaum, after teaching her the game.
Biography of Albert Hahn (excerpt)
Albert Pieter Hahn (17 March 1877 – 3 August 1918) was a Dutch political cartoonist, caricaturist, poster artist and book cover designer; well known for his socialist and antimilitaristic viewpoints. Some of his drawings, especially those of the railroad strikes of 1903, have been regularly used in history textbooks.
Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (excerpt)
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) was an American writer who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling, about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie of the same name.
Biography of Alves de Sousa (excerpt)
Antonio Alves de Sousa, better known as Alves de Sousa, (Vilar de Andorinho, Vila Nova de Gaia, January 9, 1884 – Vilar de Andorinho, Vila Nova de Gaia, March 5, 1922) was a Portuguese naturalist sculptor from the so-called Escola do Porto (with some arguing that within it, the Escola Gaiense should be distinguished), a movement that can be placed between the late 19th century and the early 20th century.
Biography of Bernard Anquetil (excerpt)
Quartermaster Bernard Anquetil, born on December 20, 1916, in Bernières-d'Ailly and executed on October 24, 1941, at Fort Mont-Valérien, was a French resistance fighter and Companion of the Liberation. In 1940, after the crew of the Ouessant submarine was dispersed, Anquetil became a radio repairman in Angers.
Biography of Helen McFarland (excerpt)
Helen McFarland, born on February 13, 1888, in Pasco, Washington, and passed away in 1983, was an American astrologer and teacher based in Portland, Oregon. She became a member of the American Federation of Astrologers (AFA) in February 1962. The source for her birth time is the book Astrological Pioneers of America by James H.
Biography of Joseph J. Katz (excerpt)
Joseph J. Katz (April 19, 1912, Detroit – January 28, 2008, Chicago) was a chemist at Argonne National Laboratory. His groundbreaking research on photosynthesis earned him membership in the US National Academy of Sciences. He was the son of Jewish immigrants from Czarist Russia, neither of whom had formal schooling.
Biography of Stephen Jurika (excerpt)
Stephen Jurika Jr.(9 December 1910 – 15 July 1993) was a United States Navy officer and aviator during World War II, best known for his role as an intelligence officer in the Doolittle Raid. He was awarded the Navy Cross for his actions as navigator of the aircraft carrier USS Franklin after it was severely damaged and set ablaze by a lone Japanese dive bomber on 19 March 1945.
Biography of Lucien Rozenberg (excerpt)
Lucien Rozenberg (11 January 1874 (Wikipedia has June by mistake)– 1 November 1947) was a French actor, theatre director, playwright and film director. He was principally known as a stage performer, but during the First World War he starred in a series of short comedy films, and in the 1930s returned to the screen in films by, among others, Abel Gance.
Biography of K. T. Stevens (excerpt)
K.T.Stevens, born Gloria Wood on July 20, 1919, was an American film and television actress and the daughter of film producer and director Sam Wood. She began acting as a child in her father's silent film "Peck's Bad Boy" (1921).To establish her own identity, she changed her name to K.T.
Biography of Francesco Baracca (excerpt)
Count Francesco Baracca (born May 9, 1888 – died June 19, 1918) was Italy's top fighter ace during World War I. He was credited with 34 aerial victories. The emblem he wore on his plane, a black horse rearing on its two hind legs, inspired Enzo Ferrari to use it on his race cars and later in his automotive company.
Biography of Stefan Pogonowski (excerpt)
Stefan Pogonowski (12 February 1895 – 15 August 1920) was a Polish professional soldier and military officer. He served in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I and then the newly recreated Polish Army during the Polish-Bolshevist War of 1920.
Biography of Michael Bohnen (excerpt)
Franz Michael Bohnen (born May 2, 1887, in Cologne, and died April 26, 1965, at the age of 77 in Berlin) was a German opera singer (bass-baritone) and actor. Michael Bohnen deepened his music and singing skills at the Cologne Conservatory (Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln) and at a private opera singing school.
Biography of Wieland Wagner (excerpt)
Wieland Wagner (5 January 1917 – 17 October 1966) was a German opera director, and grandson of Richard Wagner. As co-director of the Bayreuth Festival when it re-opened after World War II, he was noted for innovative new stagings of the operas, departing from the naturalistic scenery and lighting of the originals.
Biography of Irina Baronova (excerpt)
Irina Mikhailovna Baronova FRAD (Russian: Ирина Михайловна Баронова; 13 March 1919 – 28 June 2008) was a Russian ballerina and actress who was one of the Baby Ballerinas of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, discovered by George Balanchine in Paris in the 1930s.
Biography of Arvid Fladmoe (excerpt)
Arvid Fladmoe, born on May 8, 1915, in Oslo, Norway, was a distinguished composer and conductor, especially noted for his contributions to opera and operetta. He studied under Carl Flesch at the Royal Academy of Music in London and with Max Rostal in Oslo.
Biography of Heinrich Klose (médecin) (excerpt)
Heinrich Klose, born to a railway official, studied medicine at the University of Göttingen from 1898 and later at the University of Strasbourg, graduating in 1903. He trained in surgery under Ludwig Rehn and Victor Schmieden in Frankfurt.During WWI, he served as a medical officer and later became a professor in Danzig, specializing in urology.
Biography of Francisco Vales Villamarín (excerpt)
Francisco Vales Villamarín (Betanzos, La Coruña, 7 May 1891 - id., 25 August 1982) was a Spanish historian and professor, serving as the perpetual secretary of the Real Academia Gallega and the official chronicler of Betanzos. He studied in Santiago de Compostela and became a teacher in La Coruña until his retirement in 1961.
Biography of Richard Haydn (excerpt)
Richard Haydn (born George Richard Haydon, 10 March 1905 – 25 April 1985) was a British-American comedy actor. Some of his better known performances include his roles as Professor Oddley in Ball of Fire (1941), Roger in No Time for Love (1943), Thomas Rogers in And Then There Were None (1945), Emperor Franz Joseph in The Emperor Waltz (1948), the Caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland (1951), Baron Popoff in The Merry Widow (1952), William Brown in Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), and Max Detweiler in The Sound of Music (1965).
Biography of Manuel A. Odría (excerpt)
Manuel Arturo Odría Amoretti (November 26, 1897 – February 18, 1974) was a Peruvian statesman and military officer.He seized power in a 1948 coup, establishing a dictatorial regime known as the Ochenio. Political Career His administration, marked by pragmatism and nationalism, benefited from a favorable economic climate during the Korean War, with rising exports and prices.
Biography of Liliana Lubinska (excerpt)
Liliana Lubińska (October 14, 1904 - November 19, 1990) was a Polish neuroscientist known for her research on the peripheral nervous system and her discovery of bidirectional axoplasmic transport. Born in Łódź in 1904, she married neuroscientist Jerzy Konorski. She began her studies at the University of Warsaw, then continued at the Sorbonne, earning her doctorate in 1932 for work on reflexes.
Biography of Robert Smyth McColl (excerpt)
Robert Smyth McColl (13 April 1876 – 25 November 1959) was a Scottish footballer who played as a centre forward. Playing career McColl started his career with junior club Benmore in 1892 and moved to Queen's Park in 1894.He represented the Scottish League in 1901.
Biography of Luciano Kulczewski (excerpt)
Luciano Kulczewski García, born on January 12, 1896, in Temuco, Chile, and died on September 19, 1972, in Santiago, was a prominent 20th-century Chilean architect. Of Polish descent, he came from a family with a rich history; his grandfather Antoni was decorated for bravery during the 1831 November Uprising against Russia.
Biography of Gabriellino D'Annunzio (excerpt)
Gabriele Maria "Gabriellino" D'Annunzio (10 April 1886 – 8 December 1945) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. He was the son of the Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio. He adapted the 1921 film The Ship from a novel by his father.
Biography of Jaap Bakema (excerpt)
Jacob Berend "Jaap" Bakema (8 March 1914 – 20 February 1981) was a Dutch modernist architect, notable for design of public housing and involvement in the reconstruction of Rotterdam after the Second World War. Born in Groningen, Bakema studied at the Groningen Higher Technical College (1931–1936) and the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam, where he studied among others with Mart Stam.
Biography of Harry Northrup (actor) (excerpt)
Henri Stabo Wallace Northrup (born July 31, 1875, in Paris and died July 2, 1936, in Los Angeles, California) was a French-born American actor, known as Harry Northrup (or Harry S.Northrup). After emigrating to the United States, he began his film career in 1911, appearing in six short films, including Vanity Fair by Charles Kent (with Helen Gardner and William V.
Biography of Fritz Jacobsen (excerpt)
Fritz John Jacobsen (born 21 May 1896 in Berlin-Charlottenburg – died 3 August 1981 in Nuremberg) was a German World War I flying ace credited with eight confirmed aerial victories and two unconfirmed. Fascinated by aviation from 1909, he became a test pilot and instructor before joining the German air troops in 1915.
Biography of Aldo Perroncito (excerpt)
Aldo Perroncito (18 May 1882, Turin – 1929) was an Italian pathologist. He was the son of parasitologist Edoardo Perroncito (1847–1936). He is known for research involving regeneration of peripheral nerves, kinetic behavior of the Golgi apparatus during mitosis, and studies of pellagra.
Biography of John Walker (curator) (excerpt)
John Walker III (December 24, 1906 – October 16, 1995) was an American art curator and the second director of the National Gallery of Art, serving from 1956 to 1969. A Harvard graduate in art history in 1930, he co-founded the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art with Philip Johnson and Lincoln Kirstein.
Biography of Silvestre Revueltas (excerpt)
Silvestre Revueltas Sánchez (December 31, 1899 – October 5, 1940) was a Mexican classical music composer, violinist, and conductor. Born in Durango, he studied in Mexico City, Texas, and Chicago. He became assistant conductor of Mexico's National Symphony Orchestra in 1929, promoted contemporary Mexican music, and composed film scores, including the famous "La noche de los mayas."
Biography of Lilla Brignone (excerpt)
Lilla Brignone (23 August 1913 – 24 March 1984) was an Italian film and theater actress. She appeared in 40 films between 1930 and 1982. Her father was film director and actor Guido Brignone and her aunt was actress Mercedes Brignone. Her mother was actress Lola Visconti (pseudonym of Dolores Visconti).
Biography of Horace Savelli (excerpt)
Horace Savelli, born on November 27, 1906, in Luçon, Vendée, and died on June 2, 1998, in Paris, was an officer of the Free French Forces during World War II. A Companion of the Liberation, he distinguished himself during the Tunisian campaign and the Normandy campaign.
Biography of Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (excerpt)
Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna of Russia (born Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh; 25 November 1876 – 2 March 1936) was the daughter of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia. A granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Emperor Alexander II, she was born a British princess and spent her early years in England and Malta.
Biography of Friedrich Middelhauve (excerpt)
Friedrich Middelhauve (17 November 1896 – 14 July 1966) was a German publisher and a politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP). From 1947 until 1956 he served as FDP state chairman for North Rhine-Westphalia and, between 1952 and 1956, he was the party's deputy federal chairman.
Biography of Jean Filiol (excerpt)
Jean Paul Robert Filiol (12 May 1909 – died in 1975) was a French militant, who was active in La Cagoule before the Second World War. After the war, he fled to Spain, where he worked for the local office of L'Oréal.
Biography of João Havelange (excerpt)
Jean-Marie Faustin Godefroid "João" de Havelange (Brazilian Portuguese: , French: ; 8 May 1916 – 16 August 2016) was a Brazilian lawyer, businessman, and athlete who served as the seventh president of FIFA from 1974 to 1998. His tenure as president is the second longest in FIFA's history, behind only that of Jules Rimet.
Biography of Marcel Boulenger (excerpt)
Marcel Jacques Amand Romain Boulenger, born on September 9, 1873, in Paris 8th arrondissement and died on May 21, 1932, in Chantilly, was a French novelist, journalist, and fencer. He notably wrote several pastiches and "literary fakes," autobiographies attributed to imaginary characters, the most famous being Souvenirs du marquis de Floranges (1811-1834), preceded by a detailed biography of this fictional character, a hoax that deceived several scholars (reminiscent of Pierre Louÿs' feat with his Chansons de Bilitis).
Biography of Tina Di Lorenzo (excerpt)
Tina Di Lorenzo (born December 4, 1872 in Turin – died March 25, 1930 in Milan) was an Italian stage and silent film actress. The daughter of a Sicilian marquis and an actress, she was raised in Noto and began acting as a teenager, sometimes alongside her mother.
Biography of Jo Bouillon (excerpt)
Jo Bouillon (May 3, 1908 – July 9, 1984) was a French composer, conductor, and violinist, best known as the fourth husband of Joséphine Baker. Born to a musicologist in Montpellier, he led Jo Bouillon et son orchestre from 1936 to 1947 before accompanying artists like Mistinguett, Maurice Chevalier, and Joséphine Baker.
Biography of Antoine Avinin (excerpt)
Antoine Avinin, born on January 26, 1902, in Lyon and died on October 29, 1962, in Massiac (Cantal), was a French industrialist, resistance fighter, and politician.After his military service, he managed a small clothing factory in Villeurbanne. He was active in the Jeune République movement and was mobilized in 1939 as a lieutenant in the Army of the Alps.
Biography of Joe Vosmik (excerpt)
Joseph Franklin Vosmik, born April 4, 1910, was an outfielder for various Major League Baseball teams, including the Cleveland Indians and Brooklyn Dodgers, playing primarily in the 1930s and 1940s. He was a key player in the Dodgers' 1941 National League Pennant win.
Biography of Alexander Mountbatten (excerpt)
Alexander Albert Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke (born Prince Alexander Albert of Battenberg; 23 November 1886 – 23 February 1960) was a British Royal Navy officer, a member of the Hessian princely Battenberg family and the last surviving grandson of Queen Victoria.
Biography of Christine Teusch (excerpt)
Christine Teusch (11 October 1888, Cologne, Rhine Province – 24 October 1968) was a German politician of the Zentrumspartei ("Centre Party") and the Christian Democratic Union. From 1947 to 1954 Teusch was Minister of Education of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, having been the first female minister in German history. |
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