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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. ![]() ![]()
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Biography of Anzia Yezierska (excerpt)
Anzia Yezierska (October 29, 1880 – November 20, 1970) was an American novelist, known for her stories about Jewish immigrants in New York. Born in Poland, then part of the Russian Empire, she emigrated to the U.S. in 1893 and grew up in Manhattan's Lower East Side.
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Biography of Dorothy Mackaill (excerpt)
Dorothy Mackaill (March 4, 1903 – August 12, 1990) was a British-American actress, best known for her roles during the silent and pre-Code film eras. Born in Kingston upon Hull, she was raised by her father after her parents separated. She trained in London and Paris, then moved to New York at 17 to dance in the Ziegfeld Follies.
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Biography of Franz Bachér (excerpt)
Franz Hermann Theodor Nils Bachér was a German chemist and university professor, born on May 21, 1894, in Kassel and died on October 15, 1987, in Salzburg. Son of chemist Franz Bachér and grandson of Theodor Storm, he studied chemistry at Marburg, Kiel, and Rostock starting in 1912.
Biography of Anneliese Maier (excerpt)
Born on November 17, 1905, in Tübingen, Germany, Anneliese Maier was a German historian of science renowned for her research on medieval natural philosophy. The daughter of philosopher Heinrich Maier, she studied natural sciences and philosophy in Berlin and Zurich from 1923 to 1926.
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Biography of Felice Casorati (excerpt)
Felice Casorati (4 December 1883 – 1 March 1963) was an Italian painter, sculptor, and printmaker known for his figure compositions, portraits, and still lifes with unusual perspective effects. Born in Novara, he abandoned piano studies after an illness and turned to art.
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Biography of Doris Hill (excerpt)
Doris Hill, born Roberta M. Hill on March 21, 1905, in Roswell, New Mexico, died on March 3, 1976. She was an American actress active in the 1920s and 1930s. Discovered dancing in Los Angeles, she began her film career in 1926 and successfully transitioned to sound films.
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Biography of Dorothy Yost (excerpt)
Dorothy Yost (April 25, 1899 – June 10, 1967) was a prominent screenwriter of both silent and sound films, contributing to over 90 productions.Born in St.Louis, Missouri, she passed away in Monrovia, California. Before turning to screenwriting, she performed in theater plays.
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Biography of Steffen Ahrends (excerpt)
Steffen Ahrends (16 August 1907 – 31 October 1992) was a German-born architect, son of architect Bruno Ahrends.His son, Peter Ahrends, born in 1933 in Berlin, is also an architect based in Dublin, Ireland. After graduating from Landheim Schondorf in 1924, Ahrends studied at the Technical Hochschule in Berlin and later at the Bauhaus in Weimar (1925–1929) under Otto Bartning and Ernst Neufert.
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Biography of Francisco Lagos Cházaro (excerpt)
Francisco Jerónimo de Jesús Lagos Cházaro Mortero (Tlacotalpan, Veracruz, September 30, 1878 – November 13, 1932, in Mexico City) was the acting President of Mexico, appointed by the Convention of Aguascalientes, from June 10 to October 10, 1915. Lagos Cházaro studied law in Veracruz, Puebla, and Mexico City.
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Biography of A.M. de Jong (excerpt)
Adrianus Michiel de Jong (Nieuw-Vossemeer, March 29, 1888 – Blaricum, October 18, 1943) was a Dutch writer, also using pseudonyms like Frank van Waes. Born in a farming family, he grew up in Nieuw-Vossemeer and Rotterdam. His youth inspired the series Merijntje Gijzens jeugd en jonge jaren.
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Biography of Gottfried of Austria (excerpt)
Archduke Gottfried of Austria (‹See Tfd›German: Gottfried Maria Joseph Peter Ferdinand Hubert Anton Rupert Leopold Heinrich Ignaz Alfons, Erzherzog von Österreich, Prinz von Toskana; 14 March 1902 – 21 January 1984), also styled as Gottfried Erzherzog von Österreich, was a member of the Tuscan line of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, an Archduke of Austria, and Prince of Hungary and Bohemia.
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Biography of Jean Clarieux (excerpt)
Jean Clarieux (April 3, 1911 – February 11, 1970) was a French film and television actor. Generally a supporting actor appearing in smaller parts, he played a more substantial role in René Clément's 1946 resistance film The Battle of the Rails.
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Biography of Charles Brink (excerpt)
Charles Oscar Brink FBA (born Karl Oskar Levy; 13 March 1907 – 2 March 1994) was a German-Jewish classicist and Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge University. After an education and an early career as a lexicographer in Weimar Germany, Brink emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1938.
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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 Ramiro Fabiani (excerpt)
Ramiro Fabiani (Barbarano Vicentino, May 15, 1879 – Rome, April 28, 1954) was an Italian geologist and paleontologist, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Born into a modest family after the early death of his father, he studied at the Pigafetta High School in Vicenza and later at the University of Padua, earning degrees in mathematics (1901) and natural sciences (1903).
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Biography of Armando Falconi (excerpt)
Armando Falconi (born July 6, 1871 in Rome – died September 10, 1954 in Milan) was an Italian actor who appeared in over forty films. Born into a family of Neapolitan stage actors, he began acting professionally in the late 1890s after working in other fields.
Biography of Rico Bulthuis (excerpt)
Rico Bulthuis (August 27, 1911 – October 4, 2009) was a Dutch writer of psychological thrillers and detective novels, as well as an illustrator, puppeteer, photographer, civil servant, and art critic. The son of writer H.J.Bulthuis, he started as an advertising specialist and portrait photographer before becoming an art critic for the Haagsche Courant after World War II.
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Biography of Ewald Mataré (excerpt)
Ewald Wilhelm Hubert Mataré, born on February 25, 1887, in Burtscheid, Aachen, and passed away on March 28, 1965, in Büderich, was a German painter and sculptor, known for his stylized figures of men and animals. Mataré studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin starting in 1907.
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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.
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Biography of Werner Scholem (excerpt)
Werner Scholem (December 29, 1895 – July 17, 1940) was a German politician.A member of the Reichstag for the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1924 to 1928, he was arrested in 1933 due to his Jewish background and communist activities.
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Biography of Werner Kolhörster (excerpt)
Werner Heinrich Gustav Kolhörster (December 28, 1887 – August 5, 1946) was a German physicist and a pioneer in cosmic ray research. Born in Schwiebus (now Świebodzin, Poland), he studied physics at the University of Halle under Friedrich Ernst Dorn. In 1913-1914, replicating Victor Hess' experiments, he ascended to 9 km by balloon, confirming that cosmic ray ionization increases with altitude, proving that these ionizing rays originate from space.
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Biography of Isabelle Rivière (excerpt)
Isabelle Fournier, née Rivière (July 16, 1889 – June 18, 1971), was a French writer. The sister of Alain-Fournier, she was the daughter of schoolteachers Marie-Albanie Barthe and Augustin Fournier. She married Jacques Rivière, a writer and director of the Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF).
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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.
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Biography of Georg Alfred Stockburger (excerpt)
Georg Alfred Stockburger (born May 12, 1907, in Kusterdingen, Landkreis Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg; died April 5, 1986, in Tübingen) was a German painter, draftsman, and graphic artist. As a young man, Stockburger was encouraged by his teachers to pursue his talent for drawing and trained at the Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts.
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Biography of Edmundo O'Gorman (excerpt)
Edmundo O'Gorman (born November 24, 1906, in Mexico City, died September 28, 1995, in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, historian, and philosopher. He is regarded as one of the foremost historical revisionists challenging established narratives about the Spanish colonial period in Latin America.
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Biography of Hélène de Beauvoir (excerpt)
Henriette-Hélène de Beauvoir (born June 9, 1910 (Wikipedia has June 6 in error), died July 1, 2001) was a French painter and the younger sister of philosopher Simone de Beauvoir. Her work was exhibited across Europe, Japan, and the United States, and she married Lionel de Roulet.
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Biography of Soup Campbell (baseball) (excerpt)
Clarence "Soup" Campbell (March 7, 1915 – February 16, 2000) was an American professional baseball player, serving as a backup outfielder for the Cleveland Indians from 1940 to 1941.A left-handed batter and right-handed thrower, he stood 6 ft 1 in and weighed 188 lbs.
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Biography of Henry Malherbe (excerpt)
Henri Émile Hermand Malherbe, known as Henry Malherbe or Henry Croisilles, was a French writer, born on February 4, 1886, in Bucharest and died on March 17, 1958, in Paris. A journalist for Le Temps and co-director of La Revue des vivants, he won the Prix Goncourt in 1917 for La flamme au poing, a poetic account of World War I.
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Biography of Robert Bienaimé (excerpt)
Robert Bienaimé (15 March 1876 – 12 October 1960) was a French perfumer, notable for his work at Houbigant. Bienaimé was born in the 8th arrondissement of Paris and became a perfumer early in life.About 1910, he joined Houbigant, then under the control of Paul Parquet, remaining there until 1935, and created several well-known fragrances for the company.
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Biography of Alberto Buccicardi (excerpt)
Alberto Buccicardi, born on May 11, 1914, and died on December 8, 1970, was a Chilean football player, coach, and later sports journalist. He coached Universidad Católica multiple times, leading the club to its first national title in 1949 and to a tournament win in Catalonia the following year.
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Biography of Rina Morelli (excerpt)
Rina Morelli (December 6, 1908 – July 17, 1976) was an Italian actress known for her work in theater, cinema, dubbing, and television. She came from a prestigious family of actors. She began acting at 16 and later became a leading voice in Italian dubbing, lending her voice to Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, and Judy Holliday.
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Biography of Wilibald Gurlitt (excerpt)
Wilibald Gurlitt (March 1, 1889, Dresden – December 15, 1963, Freiburg) was a German musicologist. The son of art historian Cornelius Gurlitt, he studied at Heidelberg and Leipzig, focusing on philosophy and musicology, particularly 16th- and 17th-century music. Trained in violin and organ, he also studied composition with Karl Straube, organist in Leipzig.
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Biography of Gordon Oliver (actor) (excerpt)
Gordon Oliver (April 27, 1910 – January 26, 1995) was an American actor and film producer.He appeared in more than 40 films and television shows between 1933 and 1972. Oliver began working in films in 1936, eventually working for Warner Bros., Columbia and RKO.
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Biography of André Helbronner (excerpt)
André Samson Seby Helbronner, born on December 23, 1878, in Paris and died on March 14, 1944, at the Buchenwald concentration camp, was a French physicist, chemist, and inventor. He studied at the Lycée Condorcet and the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris, earning his PhD in 1904 under Gabriel Lippmann, Nobel Prize winner in 1908.
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Biography of Jessie Tarbox Beals (excerpt)
Jessie Tarbox Beals (December 23, 1870 – May 30, 1942) was the first published female photojournalist in the U.S. and the first woman to do night photography. She became known for her news photography, notably of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, and for portraits of bohemian Greenwich Village.
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Biography of Pierre Daura (excerpt)
Pierre Daura (born Pedro Francisco Daura y García, February 21, 1896, Ciudadela, Minorca – 1976, Rockbridge Baths, Virginia) was a Spanish painter. Born to a family of musicians and textile merchants, he lost his mother at the age of seven. He studied at La Llotja, Barcelona’s School of Fine Arts, under José Ruiz Blanco, Picasso’s father.
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Biography of Miguel Covarrubias (excerpt)
José Miguel Covarrubias Duclaud (Mexico City, November 22, 1904 – February 3, 1957), also known as El Chamaco, was a Mexican artist and researcher. His time of birth comes from the biography "Covarrubias" by Adriana Williams and Doris Ober (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994).
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Biography of Berta Bobath (excerpt)
Berta Bobath, MBE (5 December 1907 – 20 January 1991), was a German physiotherapist who created the Bobath concept in 1948, a rehabilitation method widely used for neurologically impaired patients. Born in Berlin as Berta Ottilie Busse, she initially worked with gymnasts.
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Biography of Jorge Basadre (excerpt)
Jorge Alfredo Basadre Grohmann (born February 12, 1903 – died June 29, 1980) was a leading Peruvian historian, best known for his extensive work on the history of Peru’s Republic. He served twice as Minister of Education and directed the National Library of Peru.
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Biography of Keith Holyoake (excerpt)
Sir Keith Jacka Holyoake (born February 11, 1904 – died December 8, 1983) was a New Zealand politician.He served as the 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand, briefly in 1957 and then from 1960 to 1972, and as the 13th Governor-General from 1977 to 1980.
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Biography of Tamie Tsuchiyama (excerpt)
Tamie Tsuchiyama (May 8, 1915 – May 12, 1984) was the only Japanese-American to work full time for the Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement Study during World War II. While interned at the Poston War Relocation Center, she produced detailed sociological journals and ethnographic reports.
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Biography of Ernst Torgler (excerpt)
Ernst Torgler (April 25, 1893 – January 19, 1963) was a German politician who successively joined the SPD, USPD, KPD, and later returned to the SPD. After training as a salesman, Torgler served in World War I.He joined the SPD in 1911, switched to the USPD in 1918, and to the KPD in 1920.
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Biography of Felix Jentzsch (excerpt)
Felix Hermann Ferdinand Jentzsch (*September 14, 1882, Königsberg – †November 10, 1946, Berlin) was a German physicist specializing in applied optics, known for his contributions to microscopy innovations. He studied at TH Berlin-Charlottenburg and the University of Berlin, earning his doctorate in 1908 on electron emission from heated metal oxides.
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Biography of Suzanne Aron Benoit-Lévy (excerpt)
Suzanne Aron, born Benoit-Lévy on January 25, 1896, in Paris, and passed away on October 28, 1988, in Paris, was a French Jewish educator and co-founder of École Yabné in 1948 alongside Chief Rabbi Henri Schilli. During World War II, she was hidden by Jeanne Brousse, recognized as Righteous Among the Nations, who also protected Rabbi Schilli's daughters.
Biography of Leopold Abraham Ries (excerpt)
Leopold Abraham Ries (born 15 April 1893 in Groningen, died 10 July 1962 in New York) was a Dutch senior civil servant, appointed Treasurer-General in 1935. A talented jurist from a wealthy Jewish family, he was close to Eelco van Kleffens and an early quiet supporter of gay rights in the Netherlands.
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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.
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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.
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Biography of Otto Ruff (excerpt)
Otto Ruff was born on 30 December 1871 in Schwäbisch Hall, Württemberg. Initially a pharmacist under Carl Magnus von Hell, he later joined Hermann Emil Fischer in Berlin, gaining early fame in 1898 for the Ruff degradation, which converts d-Glucose into d-Arabinose. ![]()
Biography of Jeanne Bates (excerpt)
Jeanne Bates (May 21, 1918 – November 28, 2007) was an American radio, film, and television actress. She began her career in radio serials before signing a contract with Columbia Pictures in 1942. Her filmography includes roles in both minor parts and significant appearances in horror and noir films such as The Return of the Vampire (1943) and Shadows in the Night (1946).
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Biography of Juan O'Gorman (excerpt)
Juan O'Gorman O'Gorman (born July 6, 1905, in Coyoacán and died January 17, 1982, in Mexico City) was a Mexican architect and painter. Born into a family of Irish descent, he was the brother of historian Edmundo O'Gorman.He studied architecture at the Academy of San Carlos and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). |
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