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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 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 Mary Roberts Rinehart (excerpt)
Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 – September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie. Rinehart published her first mystery novel, The Circular Staircase, in 1908, which introduced the "had I but known" narrative style. Rinehart is also considered the earliest known source of the phrase "the butler did it", in her novel The Door (1930), although the exact phrase does not appear in her work and the plot device had been used prior to that time.
Biography of Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1895) (excerpt)
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (11 March 1895 – 16 November 1903) was the only daughter of Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Named after her great-grandmother, she was nicknamed "Ella." Her life was tragically cut short at the age of eight, during a stay with her aunt, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.
Biography of Salvador Seguí (excerpt)
Salvador Seguí Rubinat (born in Lleida on September 23, 1887, and assassinated in Barcelona on March 10, 1923), known as "El Noi del Sucre" ("The Sugar Kid"), was a leading anarcho-syndicalist figure in the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo in Catalonia during the early 20th century.
Biography of Ruth Etting (excerpt)
Ruth Etting (November 23, 1896 – September 24, 1978) was an American singer and actress from the 1920s and 1930s, known as "America's sweetheart of song." She recorded over 60 hits, including Shine On, Harvest Moon, Ten Cents a Dance, and Love Me or Leave Me.
Biography of Carl Thorp (excerpt)
Carl Thorp (14 November 1912 – 18 December 1989) was an American artist who became known for Impressionist landscapes of California, sometimes referred to as California Scene Painting, as well as New York City, Boston and New Orleans Cityscapes. He was born in Lubbock, Texas on November 14, 1912.
Biography of Ricciotto Canudo (excerpt)
Ricciotto Canudo (2 January 1877, Gioia del Colle – 10 November 1923, Paris) was an early Italian film theoretician who lived primarily in France.In 1913 he published a bimonthly avant-garde magazine entitled Montjoie!, promoting Cubism in particular.Involved in numerous movements yet confined to none, Canudo exuded seemingly boundless energy.
Biography of Giambattista Dal Piaz (excerpt)
Giambattista Dal Piaz (Feltre, September 3, 1904 – Padua, October 28, 1995) was an Italian geologist. He graduated in natural sciences from the University of Padua in 1927 and taught geology at the University of Turin and later in Padua, where he also taught paleontology and petrography.
Biography of Émile Decré (excerpt)
Émile Decré (28 July 1897 – 17 February 1973) was a French businessman and heir to the Decré department stores, founded by his grandfather Jules-César Decré.During World War I, he helped manage the family business alongside his brother. In 1930, he oversaw the renovation of the stores with architect Henri Sauvage and founded the Nantes chapter of the Christian Employers’ Confederation.
Biography of Ernst Toller (excerpt)
Ernst Toller (1 December 1893 – 22 May 1939) was a German author, playwright, left-wing politician and revolutionary, known for his Expressionist plays. He served in 1919 for six days as President of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, after which he became the head of its army.
Biography of Robert Jacquinot de Besange (excerpt)
Robert Jacquinot de Besange, whose Chinese name is 饶家驹 Rao Jia-ju, was born on March 15, 1878, in Saintes, Charente-Maritime (France), and passed away on September 10, 1946, in Berlin (Germany) at the age of 68. He was a French Jesuit priest, a missionary in China, and a professor of science at the Aurore University in Shanghai.
Biography of Jacques Andrieux (aviator) (excerpt)
Jacques Andrieux (Lorient, August 15, 1917 - Saint-Georges-de-Didonne, January 21, 2005) was a French military officer and Companion of the Liberation. A pilot who refused to accept defeat in 1940, he fled to England and fought throughout the war in the Royal Air Force, achieving several aerial combat victories.
Biography of Stefan Lorant (excerpt)
Stefan Lorant (22 February 1901 - 14 November 1997) was a pioneering Hungarian-American filmmaker, photojournalist, and author.Born in Budapest, he moved to Germany and gained fame in filmmaking and photojournalism. He opposed Hitler and was imprisoned in 1933 but later moved to England and then the U.S.
Biography of Giovanni Minzoni (excerpt)
Giovanni Minzoni (1 July 1885 – 23 August 1923) was an Italian Catholic priest and anti-fascist, murdered by fascists in 1923. Ordained in 1909, he served as a military chaplain during World War I and was awarded the Silver Medal of Military Valor.
Biography of Amado Alonso (excerpt)
Amado Alonso García (13 September 1896 – 26 May 1952) was a Spanish philologist, linguist, and literary critic, later naturalized as an Argentine citizen. He was a key figure in the development of stylistics and a student of Ramón Menéndez Pidal at Madrid’s Center for Historical Studies.
Biography of Salvador Novo (excerpt)
Salvador Novo López (July 30, 1904 – January 13, 1974) was a Mexican writer, poet, playwright, translator, and the official chronicler of Mexico City. A member of Los Contemporáneos and the Mexican Academy of Language, he significantly influenced Mexican politics, culture, and society.
Biography of Hans Baron (excerpt)
Hans Baron (Berlin, June 22, 1900 – November 26, 1988) was a German-American historian of political thought and the literature of the Italian Renaissance. As Ernst Troeltsch’s last assistant in Berlin, he oversaw the publication of the fourth volume of the philosopher’s Gesammelte Werke after his death.
Biography of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (excerpt)
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (25 June 1884 – 11 January 1979) was a German-born art collector, and one of the most notable French art dealers of the 20th century. He became prominent as an art gallery owner in Paris beginning in 1907 and was among the first champions of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and the Cubist movement in art.
Biography of Konrad Wolff (excerpt)
Konrad Wolff (11 March 1907 – 23 October 1989) was a German pianist and musicologist. Born in Berlin, he studied at the University of Heidelberg and Berlin, earning a Doctor of Law degree.He was close friends with Stephan Kuttner and Hsu Dau-lin.
Biography of Mary Kid (excerpt)
Mary Kid (born Marie Anna Albertine Keul; 3 February 1901 – 29 October 1988) was a German actress. She appeared in more than forty films during the Weimar Republic, but her career came to an end in the early sound era.
Biography of Antoinette Sasse (excerpt)
Antoinette Sasse, born Antoinette Kohn on June 18, 1897, was a French artist known for her Fauvism style paintings and significant role in the French Resistance during World War II. Born into a wealthy Jewish family in Paris, she studied under notable artists including Henri Matisse.
Biography of Erwin Piscator (excerpt)
Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator (17 December 1893 – 30 March 1966) was a German theatre director and producer. Along with Bertolt Brecht, he was the foremost exponent of epic theatre, a form that emphasizes the socio-political content of drama, rather than its emotional manipulation of the audience or the production's formal beauty.
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 Sigrun Svenningsen (excerpt)
Sigrun Svenningsen (June 23, 1902 – February 24, 1971) was a Norwegian actress. Svenningsen was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), the daughter of the traveling salesman Sigurd Svenningsen (1875–1901) and Karen Beate Hoff (1869–.).She had a successful stage career, including as the lead actress at the Chat Noir cabaret in the 1920s.
Biography of Irène Bordoni (excerpt)
Irène Charlotte Bordoni, born on January 16, 1889 in Paris and died on March 19, 1953 in New York, was a French actress and singer. She began her career at the Variétés Theater in Paris, before emigrating to the United States in 1907.
Biography of Gabriel de Gravone (excerpt)
Gabriel de Gravone, born Antoine Paul André Faggianelli on November 21, 1887, in Ajaccio, and died on December 5, 1972, in Marseille, was a French theater and film actor, as well as a director. Son of a postal worker, he began acting as a child and later studied dramatic arts at the Conservatoire de Paris, including under Sarah Bernhardt.
Biography of Laureto Tieri (excerpt)
Laureto Tieri (born February 24, 1879, in Bolognano, and died 1952 in Florence) was an Italian physicist. He graduated in physics from the University of Rome in 1903, where he worked as an assistant to Pietro Blaserna and was a lecturer in experimental physics.
Biography of Francisco Luis Urquizo (excerpt)
Francisco Luis Urquizo Benavides, born June 27, 1891, in San Pedro de las Colonias and died April 6, 1969, in Mexico City, was a Mexican general, writer, and historian. A key figure in the Mexican Revolution, he later served as Secretary of National Defense from 1945 to 1946.
Biography of Erich Brauer (excerpt)
Erich Brauer (28 June 1895, in Berlin – 9 May 1942, in Petah Tikvah) was a German Jewish illustrator, ethnographer, and ethnologist.As an artist he chose to be known as Erich Chiram Brauer.He often signed his art work "Chiram".
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 Bernhard Weiss (police executive) (excerpt)
Bernhard Weiss (30 July 1880 – 29 July 1951) was a German lawyer and Vice President of the Berlin police during the Weimar Republic. Known for defending parliamentary democracy against extremists, Weiss was born in Berlin into a prominent Jewish family. He served as Deputy Chief of the Berlin Criminal Police and later became Vice President of the entire Berlin police force.
Biography of Jean de Beaumont (excerpt)
Count Jean Bonnin de la Bonninière de Beaumont (13 January 1904 – 12 June 2002) was a French aristocrat, businessman, politician, journalist, and sport shooter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. Born in Paris, he hailed from a notable aristocratic family and studied at prestigious French institutions.
Biography of Georg Streiter (journalist) (excerpt)
Georg Heinrich Karl Streiter (October 20, 1907 – August 9, 1976) was a German journalist and civil servant. He studied economics and psychology in Berlin and Danzig, later working as a secretary and press spokesperson in Danzig.He fled to Poland in 1935 and worked as a journalist until WWII.
Biography of Jan Duiker (excerpt)
Jan Duiker (March 1, 1890 – February 23, 1935) was a leading Dutch architect of the Modern movement Het Nieuwe Bouwen.He partnered with Bernard Bijvoet from 1917 until 1935. Recommended by Hendrik Berlage for the Zonnestraal project, Duiker and Bijvoet left a major mark on Dutch modernist architecture.
Biography of David Alfaro Siqueiros (excerpt)
David Alfaro Siqueiros, born José de Jesús Alfaro Siqueiros on December 29, 1896, and died January 6, 1974, was a major Mexican muralist, known for his innovative large-scale public artworks. He stood alongside Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco as one of the most iconic figures of the Mexican muralism movement.
Biography of Auguste Champetier de Ribes (excerpt)
Jean Jules Marie Auguste Champetier de Ribes, born on July 30, 1882, in Antony and died on March 6, 1947, in Paris, was a French statesman. He served as a minister under the Third Republic and president of the Council of the Republic under the Fourth Republic.
Biography of Gerald Archie Mangun (excerpt)
Gerald Archie Mangun (March 11, 1919 – June 17, 2010), known as G. A. Mangun, was a prominent Pentecostal minister who built one of the largest churches in the United Pentecostal Church International denomination in Alexandria, Louisiana. Born in La Paz, Indiana, Mangun was ordained in 1942 after attending Apostolic Bible Institute.
Biography of Bruno Balz (excerpt)
Bruno Balz (6 October 1902 in Berlin – 14 March 1988 in Bad Wiessee) was a German songwriter and schlager lyricist. From writing for the first German sound film until his retirement in the 1960s, Balz penned the lyrics to over a thousand popular hits, many in collaboration with composer Michael Jary.
Biography of Giuseppe Gola (botanist) (excerpt)
Giuseppe Gola (Novara, February 26, 1877 – Padua, July 25, 1956) was an Italian botanist. After earning a medical degree from the University of Turin in 1900, he developed a passion for botany and obtained a degree in natural sciences in 1902.
Biography of Georges Barbier (illustrator) (excerpt)
Georges Barbier, born in Nantes on October 16, 1882, and died in Paris on March 16, 1932, was a French painter, fashion illustrator, and designer.He also worked under the pseudonym Edward W.Larry. After studying at the Académie Julian in Paris, he began exhibiting in 1910 under this pseudonym.
Biography of Józef Retinger (excerpt)
Józef Hieronim Retinger (April 17, 1888 – June 12, 1960) was a Polish politician, scholar, and international political activist. A brilliant student in Paris and London, he befriended Joseph Conrad.During World War I, he actively supported Polish independence in Austria-Hungary and Russia.
Biography of Joseph Yablonski (excerpt)
Joseph Albert "Jock" Yablonski (March 3, 1910 – December 31, 1969) was an American labor leader in the United Mine Workers in the 1950s and 1960s known for seeking reform in the union and better working conditions for miners.In 1969 he challenged Tony Boyle for the presidency of the international union and was defeated.
Biography of Cor van der Lugt Melsert (excerpt)
Cornelis Dirk van der Lugt Melsert (Rotterdam, July 4, 1882 – The Hague, August 16, 1969) was a Dutch actor and director. He debuted at age 9 with the Nederlandsche Tooneelvereeniging and graduated from the Amsterdam School of Theatre in 1902. He directed the Vereenigd Rotterdamsch-Hofstad Tooneel from 1923 to 1938, then became head of NV Het Nederlandsch Tooneel in Amsterdam.
Biography of Rose Grane (excerpt)
Rose Cremer, known as Rose Grane, was a French theater and silent film actress. She was born on January 14, 1889, in Liancourt, Oise, and passed away on July 2, 1931, at the age of 42 in Tlemcen, Algeria. The daughter of Louis Victor Crémer, a shoemaker, and Marie-Louise Cosmann, a housewife, Rose Crémer was born on Roger-Duplessis Street in Liancourt on January 14, 1889.
Biography of Otto Leiber (excerpt)
Otto Leiber, born on May 11, 1878, in Strasbourg and died on January 27, 1958, in St. Georgen im Schwarzwald, was a German painter, draftsman, engraver, and sculptor. He created landscapes and portraits, both engraved and painted, and sculpted several busts of notable figures, including a 1929 bust of Albert Schweitzer, which helped establish his artistic reputation.
Biography of José Iturbi (excerpt)
José Iturbi Báguena (Valencia, 28 November 1895 – Los Angeles, 28 June 1980) was a Spanish conductor, pianist, harpsichordist, and actor, appearing in several MGM musical films, including Thousands Cheer (1943) and Anchors Aweigh (1945). His approximate time of birth comes from the online biography at joseiturbi.com, which states that he was born in the evening.
Biography of Benigno Zaccagnini (excerpt)
Benigno Zaccagnini (April 17, 1912 – November 5, 1989) was an Italian politician and physician. Graduating in pediatrics in 1937, he joined the Italian Resistance during World War II, contributing to the liberation of Romagna. A co-founder of Christian Democracy (DC), he was elected to the Constituent Assembly in 1946, then to the Chamber of Deputies in 1948, serving until 1979, before becoming a senator.
Biography of Hildebrand Gurlitt (excerpt)
Hildebrand Gurlitt (15 September 1895 – 9 November 1956) was a German art historian and art gallery director who dealt in Nazi-looted art as one of Hitler's and Goering's four authorized dealers for "degenerate art". A Nazi-associated art dealer and war profiteer, during the Nazi era Gurlitt traded in "degenerate art", purchasing paintings in Nazi-occupied France, many of them stolen, for Hitler's planned Führermuseum (which was never built) and for himself.
Biography of Scott Armstrong (basketball) (excerpt)
Scott Thomas Armstrong Jr. (October 21, 1913 (Wikipedia has 12 October in error) – August 20, 1997) was an American professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball League for the Fort Wayne General Electrics, Oshkosh All-Stars, and Indianapolis Kautskys.
Biography of James Tiptree Jr. (excerpt)
Alice Bradley Sheldon (August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987), better known as James Tiptree Jr., was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. From 1967 until her death, she published under this male pseudonym, whose true identity was only revealed in 1977. |
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