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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 Yvonne Dornès (excerpt)
Yvonne Dornès (born April 19, 1910, in Paris – died September 10, 1994, in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French high-ranking cultural official and co-founder of the Cinémathèque française in 1936 with Henri Langlois. She also played a central role between the French Family Planning Movement and Freemasonry.
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.
Biography of Kurt Hirsch (excerpt)
Kurt August Hirsch (12 January 1906 – 4 November 1986) was a German mathematician who moved to England to escape the Nazi persecution of Jews.His research was in group theory.He also worked to reform mathematics education and became a county chess champion.
Biography of Betty Smith (novelist) (excerpt)
Betty Smith, born Elisabeth Wehner on December 15, 1896, in New York, and died on January 17, 1972, in Shelton, Connecticut, was an American writer best known for her novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943). Born to German immigrant parents, she grew up in poverty in Brooklyn, developing a love for literature through her local library.
Biography of Ernst Blass (excerpt)
Ernst Blass (October 17, 1890, Berlin – January 23, 1939, Berlin), also known by the pseudonyms Daniel Stabler and Erich Sternow, was a prominent Expressionist poet, critic, and writer. A close friend of Kurt Hiller, he joined Der Neue Club, alongside early Expressionist writers such as Georg Heym and Jakob van Hoddis.
Biography of Simone Louise des Forest (excerpt)
Simone Louise Pinet de Borde des Forest (March 7, 1910 – November 15, 2004) was a French racing driver, a pioneer in women's motorsports. She earned her driver’s license in 1929, a rarity for women at the time. By 1930, she began competing in car races and became a professional driver.
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.
Biography of Victor Bourgeois (excerpt)
Victor Bourgeois (born August 28, 1897, in Charleroi; died July 24, 1962, in Ixelles) was a Belgian architect and urban planner, a leading figure of the modernist movement. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, he co-edited the 7 Arts magazine (1922-1929) with his brother Pierre, focusing on the seven arts, including cinema, and co-founded the Club des Amis du Septième Art (CASA).
Biography of Ferdinand von Bredow (excerpt)
Ferdinand von Bredow (16 May 1884 – 30 June 1934) was a German Generalmajor, head of the Abwehr, and deputy defence minister in Kurt von Schleicher's cabinet. He was killed during the Night of the Long Knives, accused of plotting against Hitler.
Biography of Pierre Naville (excerpt)
Pierre Louis Pyrame Naville, born on February 1, 1904, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, and died on April 24, 1993, in the 6th arrondissement of the same city, was a French writer, politician, and sociologist. A surrealist from 1924 to 1926, a member of the French Communist Party until 1928, and later a Trotskyist before joining the PSU, he pursued a parallel career as a sociologist of labor alongside his political commitments.
Biography of Adalbert of Prussia (1884) (excerpt)
Prince Adalbert Ferdinand Berengar Viktor of Prussia (14 July 1884 – 22 September 1948) was the third son of Wilhelm II, German Emperor, by his first wife, Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein. Early life Prince Adalbert was born on 14 July 1884 as the third son of the then Prince Wilhelm of Prussia and his first wife, Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein.
Biography of Peggy Shannon (excerpt)
Peggy Shannon (born Winona Sammon; January 10, 1907 – May 11, 1941) was an American actress.She appeared on the stage and screen of the 1920s and 1930s. Shannon began her career as a Ziegfeld girl in 1923 before moving on to Broadway productions.
Biography of George Toley (excerpt)
George Andrew Toley, born on April 23, 1916, in Los Angeles and died on March 1, 2008, in Pasadena, was one of the most accomplished college tennis coaches in American history. He led the USC men's team from 1954 to 1980.
Biography of Pamela Wedekind (excerpt)
Pamela Wedekind (born December 12, 1906 in Berlin – died April 9, 1986 in Ambach) was a German actress and translator.She was the daughter of playwright Frank Wedekind and actress Tilly Newes. She began her theatrical career in the early 1920s alongside Erika and Klaus Mann and actor Gustaf Gründgens, performing in Anja and Esther and Revue zu viert.
Biography of Charles Despiau (excerpt)
Charles Alfred Marie Despiau, known as Charles Despiau, was a French sculptor born on November 4, 1874, in Mont-de-Marsan and died on October 28, 1946, in Paris. Primarily known as a portraitist with an archaic spirit and simplified features, he also received public commissions, such as the Apollo for the Palais de Tokyo in 1937.
Biography of Mary Eccles (excerpt)
Mary Eccles, Viscountess Eccles, born Mary Morley Crapo on July 8, 1912, and died August 26, 2003, was an American-British author and renowned literary collector.She was also known as Mary Hyde during her first marriage. She assembled one of the greatest private collections of 18th-century literature, focused on Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, which she donated to Harvard.
Biography of Antonio Giolitti (excerpt)
Antonio Giolitti (12 February 1915 - 8 February 2010) was an Italian politician, grandson of Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti. He joined the Communist Party in 1940, was arrested by the fascist regime and later acquitted. During the Resistance, he was seriously wounded and sent to France, returning to Italy only after the war.
Biography of Evelina Paoli (excerpt)
Evelina Paoli, born Lina Vianello (30 March 1878 – 28 December 1974), was an Italian actress. Born in Florence to a bourgeois family, she began her theatrical career at 18 with Achille Vitti's company and later joined Eleonora Duse's troupe, touring from 1900 to 1902.
Biography of Heinrich Jacoby (excerpt)
Heinrich Jacoby (3 April 1889 – 25 November 1964), originally a musician, was a German educator whose teaching was based on developing sensitivity and awareness.His collaboration with his colleague Elsa Gindler (1885–1961), whom he met in 1924 in Berlin, played a great role in his researches.
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).
Biography of Hans Grundig (excerpt)
Hans Grundig (February 19, 1901 – September 11, 1958) was a German painter and graphic artist associated with the New Objectivity movement. Born in Dresden, he trained as an interior decorator before studying at the Dresden School of Arts and Crafts (1920–1921) and the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (1922–1923).
Biography of Karel van den Oever (excerpt)
Modestus Carolus (Karel) van den Oever, born November 19, 1879, in Antwerp and passed away on October 6, 1926, in the same city, was a Flemish poet, essayist, and playwright. He came from a Frisian merchant family that settled in Antwerp in 1842.
Biography of José Manuel Fortuny (excerpt)
José Manuel Fortuny Arana (born March 22, 1916 – died March 18, 2005) was a key communist leader in Guatemala and a close adviser to President Jacobo Árbenz during his government from 1951 to 1954. Active in leftist politics since the 1940s, Fortuny founded the Guatemalan Communist Party and later led the Guatemalan Party of Labor (PGT) until the U.S.-backed coup of 1954.
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.
Biography of José Diez Canseco Pereyra (excerpt)
José Diez-Canseco Pereyra (born October 6, 1904 in Lima – died March 4, 1949) was a Peruvian writer and journalist, regarded as a pioneer of urban realism in Peruvian literature. He began publishing under a pseudonym as a teenager and gained recognition in local and national literary circles.
Biography of Charles de Noailles (excerpt)
Charles de Noailles (26 September 1891 – 28 April 1981), Viscount and French art patron, was a key figure of the interwar avant-garde. He married Marie-Laure Bischoffsheim in 1923 and commissioned architect Robert Mallet-Stevens to build the iconic Villa Noailles in Hyères.
Biography of David Bruce (actor) (excerpt)
Born on January 6, 1914, in Kankakee, Illinois, as Marden Andrew McBroom, David Bruce was an American film actor.He began on stage with Peninsula Players Theatre in 1939 and adopted his stage name upon arriving in Hollywood, thanks to agent Henry Willson.
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.
Biography of Gabriel Figueroa (excerpt)
Gabriel Figueroa Mateos (April 24, 1907 – April 27, 1997) was one of the most renowned cinematographers of Mexico’s Golden Age of cinema.He was known for his mastery of chiaroscuro, precise framing, and painterly aesthetics. Trained in painting and violin, he began as a photographer before entering film in 1933.
Biography of Frank Palumbo (excerpt)
Frank Palumbo (born May 22, 1911 – died February 12, 1983) was a Philadelphia entrepreneur, political insider, and philanthropist. He owned Palumbo’s entertainment complex, the Click Club, and Nostalgia’s Restaurant, shaping the city’s cultural and political landscape. Expanding his grandfather’s 1884 boarding house, he turned it into a popular entertainment hub that defined Philadelphia’s pop music scene in the 1940s and 1950s.
Biography of Jean Webster (author) (excerpt)
Jean Webster, born Alice Jane Chandler Webster on July 24, 1876, and died on June 11, 1916, was an American author best known for Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. Her books feature lively young female protagonists who grow intellectually, morally, and socially, while incorporating humor, witty dialogue, and subtle social critique.
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 Roger François (weightlifter) (excerpt)
Roger François, born on October 7, 1900, in Romans, Drôme, and died on February 15, 1949, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, was a French weightlifter. He became the world light-heavyweight champion at the 1922 World Championships in Tallinn. Placing sixth in the middleweight category at the 1924 Summer Olympics, he went on to become the Olympic champion in the same category at the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Biography of Lillian Smith (author) (excerpt)
Lillian Eugenia Smith, born December 12, 1897, and died September 28, 1966, was a writer and social critic from the Southern United States, known for her non-fiction and fiction works, including the best-selling novel Strange Fruit (1944). A White woman from the South, she embraced controversial positions advocating for racial and gender equality.
Biography of James Denis (aviator) (excerpt)
James Denis (February 1, 1906 – June 21, 2003) was a French military officer and Compagnon de la Libération.A skilled pilot, he joined the Free French Forces in 1940, flying to England with five companions. He fought in North Africa and the Middle East, serving with the Royal Air Force before forming the Escadrille française de chasse n°1.
Biography of Frank Graham (voice actor) (excerpt)
Frank Lee Graham (November 22, 1914 – September 2, 1950) was an American radio announcer and voice actor active during the 1940s. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he was the son of attorney Frank L. Graham and opera singer Ethel Briggs Graham, with whom he toured during his youth.
Biography of Wilhelm Röpke (excerpt)
Wilhelm Röpke (10 October 1899 – 12 February 1966) was a German economist and social critic, one of the spiritual fathers of the social market economy. A professor of economics, first in Jena, then in Graz, Marburg, Istanbul, and finally Geneva, Röpke theorised and collaborated to organise the post-World War II economic re-awakening of the war-wrecked German economy, deploying a program referred to as ordoliberalism, a more conservative variant of German liberalism.
Biography of Hermann Dietrich (excerpt)
Hermann Robert Dietrich (December 14, 1879 – March 6, 1954) was a German politician from the German Democratic Party (DDP) and served as a minister during the Weimar Republic. In 1930, he succeeded Paul Moldenhauer as Finance Minister during the Great Depression.
Biography of Eyre de Lanux (excerpt)
Eyre de Lanux, born Elizabeth Eyre on March 20, 1894 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and died September 8, 1996 in New York, was an American artist, writer, and designer. She became known in 1920s Paris for her lacquered Art Deco furniture and geometric rugs.
Biography of Norbert Casteret (excerpt)
Norbert Casteret (19 August 1897 – 20 July 1987) was a famous French caver, adventurer and writer, and is one of the most recognisable names in caving worldwide. Following Édouard-Alfred Martel (the "father of modern speleology", although Casteret sometimes also enjoys this title), Casteret, along with Robert de Joly, became a leading figure of French speleology between the world wars and into the middle of the 20th century.
Biography of Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (excerpt)
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (31 July 1884 – 2 February 1945) was a German conservative politician, monarchist, executive, economist, civil servant and opponent of the Nazi regime.He opposed anti-Jewish policies while he held office and was opposed to the Holocaust. Had the 20 July plot to overthrow Hitler's dictatorship in 1944 succeeded, Goerdeler would have served as the Chancellor of the new government.
Biography of Rüdiger von der Goltz (lawyer) (excerpt)
Gustav Adolf Karl Joachim Rüdiger Graf von der Goltz (10 July 1894 – 18 April 1976) was a German lawyer and Nazi Party member known for defending figures like Joseph Goebbels before their rise to power. Born into a noble family in Charlottenburg, he lost a leg in World War I and earned a Doctor of Law degree in 1919.
Biography of Richard G. Colbert (excerpt)
Richard Gary Colbert (February 12, 1915 – December 2, 1973) was a four-star U.S. Navy admiral renowned for fostering international naval cooperation during the Cold War. He served as President of the Naval War College from 1968 to 1971, and then as Commander in Chief of NATO's Southern European forces from 1972 until his death in 1973.
Biography of Adrien Turel (excerpt)
Adrien Turel (born June 5, 1890, in Saint Petersburg and died June 29, 1957, in Zurich) was a Swiss writer.His time of birth comes from him, in his autobiography "Bilanz eines erfolglosen Lebens: Autobiographie" by Adrien Turel (Moderne, 1989). He grew up in Switzerland and Germany, studying Germanic studies, Romance languages, and history before abandoning his studies to focus on psychoanalysis.
Biography of Catherine Troeh (excerpt)
Catherine Herrold Troeh, born on January 5, 1911, and died on June 28, 2007, was an American historian, artist, and activist. A Chinook elder and direct descendant of Chief Comcomly, she devoted her life to defending Native American rights and heritage.
Biography of Jocelyn Gill (excerpt)
Jocelyn Gill (October 29, 1916 – April 26, 1984) was an American astronomer who worked for NASA.She graduated from Wellesley College in 1938 and earned her PhD from Yale in 1959 after teaching at several colleges. She held academic roles at Smith College and Arizona State University, and worked as a research assistant at Yale.
Biography of Hanns Kräly (excerpt)
Hanns Kräly, credited as Hans Kraly in the United States, was a German actor and screenwriter. He is best known for his collaboration with director Ernst Lubitsch, with whom he worked on 30 films between 1915 and 1929. Their partnership ended in 1930 due to an affair between Kräly and Lubitsch’s then-wife, Helene Krauss.
Biography of Henry Winterfeld (excerpt)
Henry Winterfeld (April 9, 1901 – January 27, 1990), published under the pseudonym Manfred Michael, was a German writer and artist famous for his children’s and young adult novels. He emigrated to the United States in 1940, where he lived until his death.
Biography of Gaston Baty (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Gaston Baty was a theater practitioner, born in Pélussin (Loire) on May 26, 1885, and died in the same town on October 13, 1952. He was one of the founders of the theatrical "Cartel" in 1927, alongside Louis Jouvet, Charles Dullin, and Georges Pitoëff.
Biography of Marguerite Carré (soprano) (excerpt)
Marguerite Carré (born Marguerite Giraud, also known as Marguerite Giraud-Carré; Cabourg, August 16, 1880 - Paris 9th arrondissement, November 26, 1947) was a French soprano who, throughout her career, created numerous roles at the Opéra-Comique. She was the daughter of baritone and theater director Auguste Louis Giraud and the niece of Marguerite Vaillant-Couturier. |
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