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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 Félix d'Hérelle (excerpt)
Félix d'Hérelle (25 April 1873 – 22 February 1949) was a French microbiologist and co-discoverer of bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria).He experimented with phage therapy and contributed significantly to applied microbiology. Self-taught, d'Hérelle discovered in 1917 that an "invisible antagonist" (bacteriophage) could kill bacteria, which he confirmed through dilution experiments.
Biography of André Daven (excerpt)
André Daven (13 March 1899 - 17 November 1981) was a French film producer, actor and director. In the mid-1920s he was the artistic director of the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris when Josephine Baker was hired to appear there. During the German occupation of France during the Second World War he went to the United States where he produced four films.
Biography of Bill Butland (excerpt)
Wilburn Rue Butland (March 22, 1918 – September 19, 1997) was an American professional baseball pitcher who appeared in 32 games in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox over four seasons between 1940 and 1947.Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, Butland batted right-handed and threw left-handed.
Biography of Henriette Hardenberg (excerpt)
Henriette Hardenberg (born Margarete Rosenberg, February 5, 1894 – October 26, 1993) was a German-Jewish poet who emigrated to Britain in the late 1930s. In the 1910s, she was part of the literary Expressionist circle around the magazine Die Aktion. Her poetry often examined the relationship between people and their bodies, especially the skin as an interface between self and world.
Biography of Oskar Maria Graf (excerpt)
Oskar Maria Graf (July 22, 1894 – June 28, 1967) was a German-American writer known for his autobiographical narratives about life in Bavaria. Born in Berg, Bavaria, Graf fled his family in 1911 to live in Munich’s bohemian circles.During World War I, he was discharged after refusing orders and being institutionalized.
Biography of José María Albareda (excerpt)
José María Albareda Herrera (Caspe, 15 April 1902 - 26 February 1966, Madrid) was a Spanish soil scientist and science administrator. From its 1939 creation by Francoist Spain to his 1966 death, he was the secretary general and head of the Higher Council of Scientific Research (CSIC), the main Spanish scientific institution.
Biography of Miles Franklin (excerpt)
Miles Franklin, born Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (14 October 1879 – 19 September 1954), was an Australian writer and feminist.She achieved early fame with her novel My Brilliant Career, published in 1901 by Blackwoods of Edinburgh. Although she continued writing throughout her life, her next major literary success, All That Swagger, was not published until 1936.
Biography of Olivier Alain (organist) (excerpt)
Olivier Georges Alain (August 3, 1918 – February 28, 1994) was a French organist, pianist, musicologist, and composer. Born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, he came from a family of musicians, the son of Albert Alain and brother of Jehan and Marie-Claire Alain. He studied at the Paris Conservatory, winning first prizes in composition (1951) and musical analysis (1950).
Biography of Siegfried Oberndorfer (excerpt)
Siegfried Oberndorfer, a Jewish-German physician and cancer researcher, was born on June 24, 1876, in Munich and passed away in 1944 in Istanbul.He studied medicine in Munich and Kiel, becoming a doctor in 1900. After working as a ship's doctor, where he halted a plague outbreak, he returned to Germany in 1902.
Biography of Juan Negrín (excerpt)
Juan Negrín López (3 February 1892 – 12 November 1956) was a Spanish physician and politician who served as prime minister of the Second Spanish Republic.He was a leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Spanish: Partido Socialista Obrero Español, PSOE) and of the left-leaning Popular Front government during the Spanish Civil War.
Biography of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (excerpt)
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (July 6, 1888 – February 24, 1973) was a historian and social philosopher whose work encompassed history, theology, sociology, and linguistics. Born in Berlin to a non-observant Jewish family, he converted to Christianity in his late teens, which deeply influenced his writings.
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 Oscar Andriani (excerpt)
Oscar Andriani (28 December 1905 – 17 July 1987) was an Italian actor and playwright.He appeared in more than fifty films from 1937 to 1969. Life and career Born in Brescia, Andriani made his stage debut at 17 years old in the theatrical company of Amedeo Chiantoni , and later worked with other important companies of the time, such the ones led by Emma Gramatica, Wanda Capodaglio and Annibale Ninchi.
Biography of Elisabeth Zernike (excerpt)
Elisabeth Zernike (July 8, 1891 – March 12, 1982) was a Dutch writer. She was the sister of Anne Zernike and Frits Zernike. Her father was a school principal and pedagogue, and her mother was a teacher. She attended the girls’ HBS (secondary school) in Amsterdam and later the School of Music for Sound Art before pursuing writing.
Biography of Fabián Dobles (excerpt)
Fabián Dobles Rodríguez (January 17, 1918 – March 22, 1997) was a Costa Rican writer and left-wing political activist.An author of novels, short stories, poems, and essays, he earned international recognition as an author dealing with the plight of the poor and with social protest.
Biography of Roger Babson (excerpt)
Roger Ward Babson (July 6, 1875 – March 5, 1967) was an American entrepreneur, economist, and business theorist in the first half of the 20th century. He is best remembered for founding Babson College. He also founded Webber College, now Webber International University, in Babson Park, Florida, and the defunct Utopia College, in Eureka, Kansas.
Biography of Robert Cornthwaite (actor) (excerpt)
Robert Rae Cornthwaite (April 28, 1917 – July 20, 2006) was an American character actor with a significant career in film and television. Born in Saint Helens, Oregon, he developed an interest in acting during his teens and pursued this passion throughout his life.
Biography of Paul Arnault (military) (excerpt)
Paul Arnault, born on August 21, 1911, in Cherbourg (Manche) and died on November 9, 1988, in Avignon (Vaucluse), was a French military officer. As an officer in the Foreign Legion, he was an early combatant in World War II, for which he was sentenced to death in absentia and was soon made a Companion of the Liberation.
Biography of Georges Bruhat (excerpt)
Georges Bruhat (21 December 1887 – 1 January 1945) was a French physicist known for his contributions to optics and for authoring a renowned four-volume physics textbook series. He studied at the École normale supérieure and the Sorbonne, completing a PhD in optics under Aimé Cotton.
Biography of Lutz Heck (excerpt)
Ludwig Georg Heinrich Heck, called Lutz Heck (23 April 1892 in Berlin, German Empire – 6 April 1983 in Wiesbaden, West Germany) was a German zoologist, animal researcher, animal book author and director of the Berlin Zoological Garden where he succeeded his father in 1932.
Biography of Xavier de Langlais (excerpt)
Xavier de Langlais (April 26, 1906 in Sarzeau – June 15, 1975) was a Breton painter, printmaker and writer.He usually signed his work with the name Langleiz, a Breton language version of his surname. A supporter of the Breton National Party, this Breton artist and activist edited and illustrated nationalist literature.
Biography of Vittorio Sardelli (excerpt)
Vittorio Sardelli (10 June 1918 – 7 October 2000) was an Italian footballer who played as a defender. On 26 November 1939, he represented the Italy national football team on the occasion of a friendly match against Germany in a 5–2 away loss.
Biography of Jayne Walton Rosen (excerpt)
Jayne Walton Rosen (born August 28, 1917 – died January 10, 2010) was an American entertainer, singer, and actress, known for being Lawrence Welk's Champagne Lady from 1940 to 1945. Born Jayne Flanagan in San Antonio, Texas, she was largely raised in Torreón, Coahuila, where her father worked for a silver mining company.
Biography of Leopold Mountbatten (excerpt)
Lord Leopold Arthur Louis Mountbatten (21 May 1889 – 23 April 1922) was a British Army officer and a descendant of the Hessian princely Battenberg family and the British royal family. A grandson of Queen Victoria, he was known as Prince Leopold of Battenberg from his birth until 1917, when the British royal family relinquished their German titles during World War I, and the Battenberg family changed their name to Mountbatten.
Biography of Carles Riba (excerpt)
Carles Riba i Bracons (23 September 1893 – 12 July 1959) was a Catalan poet, writer, and translator of Spanish nationality. Born in Barcelona, he studied Law and Philosophy at the University of Barcelona. In 1916, he married poet Clementina Arderiu and worked at the School of Librarianship.
Biography of Vincenzo Scarpetta (excerpt)
Vincenzo Scarpetta (born May 4, 1876, and passed away August 3, 1952) was an Italian actor, director, playwright, and composer. The son of Eduardo Scarpetta, he was the stepbrother of Eduardo, Peppino, Titina De Filippo, Eduardo Passarelli, and Pasquale De Filippo. After his father retired, he became the head of his theater company and was a pioneer of Neapolitan and Italian cinema.
Biography of Emilio Amero (excerpt)
Emilio Amero (May 25, 1901, in Ixtlahuacán del Río, Jalisco – April 12, 1976, in Norman, Oklahoma) was a prominent Mexican artist, illustrator, muralist, and educator, central to the Mexican Modern art movement. Shaped by the Mexican Revolution, he expressed his artistic vision through painting, lithography, illustration, photography, and filmmaking.
Biography of Xavier Nogués (painter) (excerpt)
Xavier Nogués i Casas (Barcelona, February 18, 1873 - Barcelona, January 28, 1941) was a Spanish painter, illustrator, ceramicist, and engraver. His work, influenced by the noucentisme movement, is known for its satirical humor, best expressed in his drawings and famous caricatures.
Biography of Maurice Ewing (excerpt)
William Maurice "Doc" Ewing (May 12, 1906 – May 4, 1974) was an American geophysicist and oceanographer. Ewing has been described as a pioneering geophysicist who worked on the research of seismic reflection and refraction in ocean basins, ocean bottom photography, submarine sound transmission (including the SOFAR channel), deep sea core samples of the ocean bottom, theory and observation of earthquake surface waves, fluidity of the Earth's core, generation and propagation of microseisms, submarine explosion seismology, marine gravity surveys, bathymetry and sedimentation, natural radioactivity of ocean waters and sediments, study of abyssal plains and submarine canyons.
Biography of Gus Bofa (excerpt)
Gus Bofa, born Charles Blanchot on May 23, 1883, in Brive-la-Gaillarde and died on September 1, 1968, was a French illustrator known for his work in satirical press and luxury illustrated books. The son of a military officer, he grew up in Bordeaux and Paris, where he met lifelong friends André Dunoyer de Segonzac and Maurice Constantin-Weyer.
Biography of Waclaw Iwaniuk (excerpt)
Wacław Iwaniuk (born 17 December 1912 in Chełm Lubelski - died 4 January 2001 in Toronto), educated in Warsaw and Cambridge, England, was a poet, literary critic and essayist for various Polish émigré newspapers in Canada and abroad. He served in the Polish Diplomatic Corps and as an officer in the Polish Armed Forces during World War II.
Biography of Manlio Bacigalupo (excerpt)
Manlio Bacigalupo (5 September 1907 – 1 December 1977) was an Italian association football goalkeeper and manager from Vado Ligure, Savona. Playing career Over the course of his career, Bacigalupo played for five Italian sides, spending the most of his time with Genoa and Venezia, also playing for Torino.
Biography of Tony Duquette (excerpt)
Anthony Duquette (June 11, 1914 – September 9, 1999) was an American artist specializing in stage and film design. Born in Los Angeles, he grew up between there and Michigan, and studied at Chouinard Art Institute and Yale School of Theatre.
Biography of Clarence Weff (excerpt)
Clarence Weff, the pen name of Alexandre Valletti, born in Rome on June 2, 1919 and died on August 30, 2000, was a French screenwriter and author known for his detective and spy novels. Before turning to writing, he held various jobs from fabric salesman to undertaker.
Biography of Paul Oskar Kristeller (excerpt)
Paul Oskar Kristeller (May 22, 1905, Berlin – June 7, 1999, New York, United States) was a scholar of Renaissance humanism, best known for his studies on Marsilio Ficino and his Iter Italicum, a catalog of uncatalogued manuscripts. Trained by thinkers such as Heidegger and Husserl, he earned his doctorate at Heidelberg in 1928.
Biography of Käte Stresemann (excerpt)
Käte Stresemann (née Kleefeld; July 15, 1883 – July 23, 1970) was the wife of German Chancellor, Foreign Minister, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Gustav Stresemann. Admired for her elegance and intelligence, she was a prominent social figure in the 1920s, hosting diplomatic gatherings at her Berlin salon.
Biography of Beatrice Hastings (excerpt)
Beatrice Hastings, born Emily Alice Haigh (January 25, 1879 – October 30, 1943), was an English writer, literary critic, poet, and theosophist.Her time of birth comes from her, in "Beatrice Hastings – A Literary Life" by Stephen Gray (Penguin Random House South Africa, 2012).
Biography of Marian Januszajtis-Zegota (excerpt)
Marian Józef Żegota-Januszajtis (3 April 1889, Częstochowa, Piotrków Governorate - 24 March 1973, Royal Tunbridge Wells) was a Polish military commander and politician. One of the founders of Polish paramilitary pro-independence organizations in Austrian partition, and last commander of the 1st Brigade of Polish Legions.
Biography of Joseph Reinhardt (excerpt)
Joseph Reinhardt, born on March 1, 1912, in Paris and died on February 24, 1982, in Bondy, was a French jazz guitarist known for his contributions to gypsy jazz. He was the younger brother of Django Reinhardt and played a key role in his brother’s early career, including introducing Django to the guitar after an injury.
Biography of Émile Allegret (excerpt)
Émile Allegret, born on April 24, 1907, in Dijon and passed away on November 22, 1990, in Vaux-sur-Mer, was a French military officer and resistance fighter, Companion of the Liberation. He enlisted in the Air Force in 1926, becoming a test pilot and engineer.
Biography of Frances Drake (excerpt)
Frances Drake, born Frances Morgan Dean on October 22, 1912, in New York City, was an American actress best known for playing Éponine in Les Misérables (1935).Raised in a wealthy family, she studied in Canada and later in England. After the 1929 crash, she began performing as a dancer and stage actress in London, which led to film roles.
Biography of Elsa Gindler (excerpt)
Elsa Gindler (19 June 1885 – 8 January 1961) was a somatic bodywork pioneer in Germany. Born in Berlin, teacher of gymnastik, student of Hedwig Kallmeyer (who, in turn, had been a student of Genevieve Stebbins). From her personal experience of recovering from tuberculosis (it is said by concentrating on breathing only with her healthy lung and resting the diseased lung), Gindler originated a school of movement education, in close collaboration with Heinrich Jacoby.
Biography of William McCance (excerpt)
William McCance (6 August 1894 – 19 November 1970) was a Scottish artist, and was second Controller of the Gregynog Press in Powys, mid-Wales. William McCance was the seventh of eight children. After attending Hamilton Academy, McCance entered Glasgow School of Art, studying there 1911–15 and subsequently undertaking a teacher-training course at Glasgow's Kennedy Street school.
Biography of Hugh Lofting (excerpt)
Hugh John Lofting (14 January 1886 – 26 September 1947) was an English American writer and civil engineer, best known for creating the beloved children's character Doctor Dolittle. The character, a physician who could talk to animals, originated from illustrated letters Lofting sent to his children during World War I while he served in the British Army.
Biography of Paul Iribe (excerpt)
Joseph-Paul Iribe, né le 8 juin 1883 à Angoulême et mort le 21 septembre 1935 à Roquebrune, est un dessinateur, illustrateur de mode, affichiste, patron de presse, réalisateur et décorateur français. Il est considéré comme l'un des précurseurs du mouvement Art déco.
Biography of Erich Weinert (excerpt)
Erich Bernhard Gustav Weinert (August 4, 1890 – April 20, 1953) was a German Communist writer and member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Born in Magdeburg, he joined the military and served in World War I, later becoming a Communist in 1929.
Biography of Licia Albanese (excerpt)
Licia Albanese (July 22, 1909 – August 15, 2014) was an Italian-born American operatic soprano. Noted especially for her portrayals of the lyric heroines of Verdi and Puccini, Albanese was a leading artist with the Metropolitan Opera from 1940 to 1966.
Biography of Shmuel Sambursky (excerpt)
Shmuel Sambursky, also known as Samuel Sambursky (30 October 1900 - 18 May 1990), was a German, Palestinian, and Israeli physicist, professor, and author.His time of birth comes from him, it was written in the diary of his father. Born in Königsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad in Russia), in 1900, he migrated to Palestine in 1924 after studying in Germany.
Biography of Michel Arnaud (French resistance fighter) (excerpt)
Michel Arnaud, born on November 27, 1915, in Bourg-en-Bresse (Ain) and passed away on August 1, 1990, in Fréjus, was a French resistance fighter and Companion of the Liberation.
Biography of Charles Kiffer (excerpt)
Charles Kiffer, born on June 8, 1902, in Paris and died on January 20, 1992, in the same city, was a French painter, illustrator, sculptor, engraver, and poster artist. He studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1918 and exhibited at various prestigious salons such as the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne. |
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