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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 Robert Hayden (poet) (excerpt)
Robert Hayden (August 4, 1913 – February 25, 1980) was an American poet, essayist, and educator.He was the first African-American to serve as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, now known as U.S.Poet Laureate. Born in Detroit to separated parents, he was raised by neighbors.
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 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 Clotilde-Camille Deflandre (excerpt)
Clotilde-Camille Deflandre (born November 21, 1871, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, and died on June 7, 1946, in Paris) was a French physician and scientist, primarily known for her discovery, alongside her mentor Paul Carnot, of hemopoietin (erythropoietin). She also initiated research that led to the development of organ transplantation.
Biography of Anton Philips (excerpt)
Anton Frederik Philips, born on March 14, 1874, in Zaltbommel and died on October 7, 1951, in Eindhoven, was a Dutch industrialist and co-founder of Philips Electronics in 1912 with his elder brother Gerard. Born into a Dutch-Jewish family, he joined the family business in 1912 and served as CEO from 1922 to 1939.
Biography of Maurice Girodias (excerpt)
Maurice Girodias (born Maurice Kahane, April 12, 1919, Paris – July 3, 1990, Paris) was a French publisher and writer, founder of Éditions du Chęne in 1940 and The Olympia Press in 1953. The son of Jack Kahane, founder of Obelisk Press, Maurice adopted his mother’s surname to escape Vichy laws.
Biography of Jean Gilbert (composer) (excerpt)
Jean Gilbert, born Max Winterfeld (February 11, 1879 – December 20, 1942), was a German composer and conductor. Born into a musical family in Hamburg, he studied with Philipp Scharwenka in Berlin and debuted as a piano virtuoso at 15. At 18, he became a conductor in Bremerhaven and composed his first operetta, Das Jungfernstift, adopting the pseudonym Jean Gilbert.
Biography of Caio Prado Júnior (excerpt)
Caio da Silva Prado Júnior (February 11, 1907 – November 23, 1990) was a Brazilian historian, geographer, writer, philosopher, and politician.He pioneered a Marxist-inspired historiographic tradition in Brazil to reinterpret its colonial society. He graduated in law from Faculdade do Largo de Săo Francisco in 1928, later becoming a professor of political economy.
Biography of Fernande Barrey (excerpt)
Fernande Barrey (January 9, 1893, in Paris 10e – July 14, 1960, in Paris) was a French artist's model and painter. She left Picardy around 1908 for Paris, where she initially survived as a child prostitute. She later became a model for artists such as Amedeo Modigliani and Chaďm Soutine, who encouraged her to study painting and art history at the École des Beaux-Arts.
Biography of Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (excerpt)
Ernst II (born 31 August 1871 in Altenburg – died 22 March 1955 in Trockenborn-Wolfersdorf) was the last reigning Duke of Saxe-Altenburg and a German general active during World War I. As the only son of Prince Moritz, he inherited the duchy in 1908 after the death of his uncle, Ernst I.
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 Jennie Smillie Robertson (excerpt)
Jennie Smillie Robertson (February 10, 1878 – February 26, 1981), known throughout her career as Jennie Smillie, was the first Canadian female surgeon and also performed the country's first major gynecological surgery. Born to farmers, she worked as a teacher to afford tuition for medical school before enrolling at the Ontario Medical College for Women which merged into the University of Toronto medical school during her time there.
Biography of Peretz Naftali (excerpt)
Peretz Naftali (March 19, 1888 – April 30, 1961) was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician who held several ministerial positions in the 1950s. Born Fritz Naftali in Berlin, he joined the German Social Democratic Party in 1911 and served in the German Army during World War I.
Biography of Lola Álvarez Bravo (excerpt)
Lola Álvarez Bravo (April 1, 1903 – July 31, 1993) was Mexico’s first female photographer and a key figure in the post-revolutionary cultural renaissance. In 1964, she received the Premio José Clemente Orozco for her contributions to photography and cultural preservation.
Biography of Siegfried Sassoon (excerpt)
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry described the horrors of the trenches and satirized the jingoistic patriotism that he believed fueled the war.
Biography of Lem Billings (excerpt)
Kirk LeMoyne “Lem” Billings, born April 15, 1916, and died May 28, 1981, was an American businessman best known for his lifelong, close friendship with John F. Kennedy. A prep school roommate of JFK, he served as an usher at his wedding and was a key supporter of his 1960 presidential campaign.
Biography of Joan Cornudella (excerpt)
Joan Cornudella i Barberŕ (born November 3, 1904, in les Borges Blanques, Garrigues - died March 26, 1985, in Barcelona) was a Catalan nationalist politician, secretary general of Estat Catalŕ, and co-founder of the Front Nacional de Catalunya. After the democratic transition, he joined the Pacte Democrŕtic per Catalunya before concluding his political career with the PSC, where he served as a deputy in the Parliament of Catalonia for two terms.
Biography of Irmgard Enderle (excerpt)
Irmgard Enderle (born Irmgard Rasch: April 28, 1895 – September 20, 1985) was a German politician, trade unionist, and journalist.She was active in the Communist Party and later joined the Socialist Workers' Party (SAPD). After the Nazis came to power, Enderle fled Germany, eventually settling in Sweden, where she continued her political activities.
Biography of Alfons Sack (excerpt)
Alfons Gustav Sack (August 7, 1887 – March 31, 1945) was a German lawyer known for defending far-right figures during the Weimar Republic and Nazi officials later on. In the 1920s, Sack defended nationalist activists accused of political violence, including in the trial of Walther Rathenau's assassins.
Biography of Miguel A. Catalán (excerpt)
Miguel Antonio Catalán y Sańudo (9 October 1894 – 11 November 1957) was a Spanish spectroscopist born in Zaragoza. He earned his chemistry degree there and completed his doctorate in Madrid in 1917 on spectrochemistry. His time of birth comes from the journal Cuadernos de Aragón, Issues 14-17 (1981).
Biography of Frank Bykowski (excerpt)
Frank Peter Bykowski (March 24, 1915 – April 1, 1985) was an American football guard who played one season with the Pittsburgh Steelers in the NFL, after being drafted in the 6th round of the 1940 NFL draft. He also played for the Milwaukee Chiefs in the third American Football League.
Biography of Hartmut Kallmann (excerpt)
Hartmut Kallmann (born on February 5, 1896, in Berlin, and died on June 11, 1978) was a German physicist, known for his work on the scintillation counter for gamma ray detection. Kallmann was born into a Jewish family in Berlin and studied at the University of Göttingen, completing his dissertation under Max Planck in 1920.
Biography of Käthe Latzke (excerpt)
Käthe Latzke (8 May 1899 - 31 March 1945) was a German political activist (KPD) who resisted Nazism and spent most of her final twelve years in state detention.Her health having been broken, she died in Ravensbrück concentration camp. Käthe Latzke came from a working-class family and started her political activism by joining socialist youth organizations in 1918.
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 Bill Carey (songwriter) (excerpt)
William D. Carey (May 21, 1916 – January 27, 2004) was an American songwriter, actor, and author. Born on May 20, 1916, in Hollister, California, he appeared in films such as Roberta, Old Man Rhythm, Freshman Love, and A Yank at Oxford.
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 Jeanne Mammen (excerpt)
Jeanne Mammen (21 November 1890 – 22 April 1976) was a German painter, illustrator, and printmaker. Her work is associated with the New Objectivity, Symbolism, and Cubism movements. She is best known for her depictions of queer women and Berlin city life during the Weimar period.
Biography of Mauricio Magdaleno (excerpt)
Mauricio Magdaleno Cardona (13 May 1906 – 30 June 1986) was a prominent Mexican screenwriter during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, and occasionally worked as a director. He was nominated for six Ariel Awards and won the award in 1949 for his screenplay Río Escondido.
Biography of Lion Feuchtwanger (excerpt)
Lion Feuchtwanger (7 July 1884 – 21 December 1958) was a German Jewish novelist and playwright.A prominent figure in the literary world of Weimar Germany, he influenced contemporaries including playwright Bertolt Brecht. Feuchtwanger's Judaism and fierce criticism of the Nazi Party, years before it assumed power, ensured that he would be a target of government-sponsored persecution after Adolf Hitler's appointment as chancellor of Germany in January 1933.
Biography of Walter Fyrst (excerpt)
Walter Fyrst (né Fürst; 6 July 1901 – 23 February 1993) was a Norwegian filmmaker.He was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), the son of the physician Valentin Fürst and Margarethe Christiane Dedekam.His first film was Troll-elgen from 1927, based on two novels by Mikkjel Fřnhus.
Biography of Walter Gramatté (excerpt)
Walter Gramatté (Berlin, January 8, 1897 - Hamburg, February 9, 1929) was a German painter and printmaker of the second generation of Expressionism.In 1920, he married Sophie Eckhardt, known as Sonia, whom he painted numerous times.A renowned soloist, Sonia Gramatté stopped performing in public after her husband’s death and dedicated herself to composing.
Biography of Karl Daeves (excerpt)
Karl Heinz Daeves (born April 24, 1893, in Cologne – died May 2, 1963) was a German metallurgist. He studied metallurgy at TH Aachen and Breslau, earning his doctorate in 1920. After a brief period in industry, he became a specialist in 1921 for the Verein Deutscher Eisenhüttenleute in Düsseldorf, where he developed the "large-number research" concept for quality control and materials development.
Biography of Eleanor Keaton (excerpt)
Eleanor Ruth Keaton (née Norris; July 29, 1918 – October 19, 1998) was an American dancer and variety performer. She became an MGM contract dancer in her teens. At age 21, she married silent film legend Buster Keaton, becoming his third wife. She played a key role in reviving his personal life and career.
Biography of Alfred Lichtenstein (writer) (excerpt)
Alfred Lichtenstein (August 23, 1889 – September 25, 1914) was a German Expressionist writer, born in Wilmersdorf, a district of Berlin. The eldest son of a textile industrialist, he studied law in Berlin and at Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg after completing his Abitur in 1909.
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 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 Virgilio Polara (excerpt)
Virgilio Polara (born in Modica on July 7, 1887, died in Messina on August 25, 1974) was an Italian physicist. A student at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa from 1904, he graduated in physics in 1908 under the mentorship of Angelo Battelli, whom he assisted until 1911.
Biography of Agenore Incrocci (excerpt)
Agenore Incrocci (4 July 1919 – 15 November 2005), known as Age, was an Italian screenwriter and a pioneer of commedia all'italiana, as part of the duo Age & Scarpelli with Furio Scarpelli. Biography Born in Brescia into an actor’s family, including his sister Zoe, he grew up moving across Italy.
Biography of Martin Dibelius (excerpt)
Martin Dibelius (Dresden, September 14, 1883 – Heidelberg, November 11, 1947) was a German Protestant theologian and biblical scholar, professor of New Testament at Heidelberg University. The son of pastor Franz Wilhelm Dibelius and cousin of Otto Dibelius, he studied theology and philosophy at renowned universities before becoming a professor in Heidelberg in 1915.
Biography of Mariano Ruiz-Funes (excerpt)
Mariano Ruiz-Funes García, born on February 24, 1889, in Murcia and died in 1953 in Mexico City, was a Spanish criminologist and politician. After studying law at the Central University of Madrid, he became a professor at the University of Murcia, specializing in criminal law, and received the Lombroso Prize in 1927 for Endocrinología y criminalidad.
Biography of Dawn Powell (excerpt)
Dawn Powell (November 28, 1896 – November 14, 1965) was an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and short story writer. Known for her acid-tongued prose, "her relative obscurity was likely due to a general distaste for her harsh satiric tone." Nonetheless, Stella Adler and author Clifford Odets appeared in one of her plays.
Biography of Warren William (excerpt)
Warren William, born Warren William Krech on December 2, 1894, and died on September 24, 1948, was a Broadway and Hollywood actor, immensely popular during the early 1930s. Nicknamed the "King of Pre-Code," he was the first actor to portray defense attorney Perry Mason on the big screen.
Biography of Joe E. Brown (actor) (excerpt)
Joseph Evans Brown, born on July 28, 1891, and died on July 6, 1973, was an American actor and comedian, known for his elastic-mouth smile, comedic timing, and friendly on-screen persona. He was one of the most popular American comedians of the 1930s and 1940s, enjoying a long career in both film and radio.
Biography of U.G. Krishnamurti (excerpt)
Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti (9 July 1918 – 22 March 2007) was a radical Indian philosopher who challenged the notion of spiritual enlightenment. In his youth, he explored religion but later claimed to have undergone a biological upheaval at age 49, an event he called “the calamity.”
Biography of Minoru Yasui (excerpt)
Minoru Yasui (安井稔, Yasui Minoru, October 19, 1916 – November 12, 1986) was an American lawyer from Oregon.Born in Hood River, Oregon, he earned both an undergraduate degree and his law degree at the University of Oregon.He was one of the few Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor who fought laws that directly targeted Japanese Americans or Japanese immigrants.
Biography of Julius Guttmann (excerpt)
Julius Guttmann (April 15, 1880 – May 19, 1950) was a German-born rabbi, Jewish theologian, and philosopher of religion. The son of Jakob Guttmann, Chief Rabbi of Hildesheim, Julius moved with his family to Breslau in 1880.He studied at the Breslau Rabbinical Seminary and the University of Breslau.
Biography of Ernst Balcke (excerpt)
Ernst Balcke (*April 9, 1887, Berlin – †January 16, 1912, Gatow) was a German author, best known for his friendship with poet Georg Heym, with whom he tragically died while skating on the Havel. The eldest son of a banker, Balcke grew up in Berlin-Schöneberg near the Heym family.
Biography of Hugo Erfurth (excerpt)
Hugo Erfurth (14 October 1874 – 14 February 1948) was a German photographer famous for his portraits of cultural figures of the early 20th century. Born in Halle (Saale), he grew up in Schönau and later studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (1892–1896).
Biography of Rodolfo Oroz (excerpt)
Rodolfo Oroz Scheibe (July 8, 1895 – April 13, 1997) was a Chilean writer, professor, and philologist of German descent. Graduating in pedagogy from the University of Leipzig in 1920, he returned to Chile to teach Latin, English, grammar, and linguistics. Between 1933 and 1944, he directed the Pedagogical Institute of Santiago and founded the Chilean Institute of Philology in 1944.
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. |
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