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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 Luigi Cacciatore (excerpt)
Luigi Cacciatore (1900–1951) was an Italian socialist politician who served as the minister of posts and communications in 1947.He was a member and one of the leaders of the Italian Socialist Party. Cacciatore was born in Mercato San Severino, near Salerno, on 26 July 1900.
Biography of Jan Olieslagers (excerpt)
Born on May 14, 1883, in Antwerp, Jan Olieslagers came from humble beginnings. After losing his father at age 11, he worked in shipyards and bicycle workshops, where he developed a passion for speed and mechanics. He became a cyclist and then, in 1902, world motorcycle speed champion.
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.
Biography of Tess Slesinger (excerpt)
Theresa "Tess" Slesinger (July 16, 1905 – February 21, 1945) was an American writer and screenwriter, active in New York’s intellectual scene. Born in New York to a Jewish family of Hungarian descent, she was educated at Ethical Culture Fieldston School, Swarthmore College, and Columbia Journalism School.
Biography of Pita Amor (excerpt)
Guadalupe Teresa Amor Schmidtlein, known as Pita Amor, was born in Mexico City on May 30, 1918, and died there on May 8, 2000. A powerful Mexican poet, her work delves into themes like solitude, emptiness, and God, always written in the first person.
Biography of Marco Antonio Campos (excerpt)
Marco Antonio Campos (9 July 1919 – 19 February 1996) was a Mexican comedian, actor, and singer best known as Viruta in the double act Viruta y Capulina with Gaspar Henaine. His best known role is as the straight man in the comic duo Viruta y Capulina along with Gaspar Henaine.
Biography of Francisco Eppens (excerpt)
Francisco Eppens Helguera, born on February 1, 1913, in San Luis Potosí, and died on September 6, 1990, in Mexico City, was a Mexican artist known for his paintings, sculptures, and murals that showcased Mexican identity. He gained international fame for his modern designs of Mexican postage stamps (1935-1953) and for redesigning Mexico’s national emblem in 1968, which is still used today on official documents, coins, and the national flag.
Biography of Lorenzo Domínguez (excerpt)
Lorenzo Domínguez (born May 15, 1901, in Santiago, Chile – died March 21, 1963, in Mendoza, Argentina) was a Chilean sculptor known for his unique artistic synthesis of pre-Columbian aesthetics, Rapa Nui art, and European sculpture. After studying in Madrid during the 1920s, he taught in Santiago before settling in Argentina, where he lived and worked in Mendoza and Tucumán.
Biography of Arne Thomas Olsen (excerpt)
Arne Thomas Olsen (3 December 1909 – 26 June 2000) was a Norwegian actor, stage producer, and theatre director.A central figure at Studioteatret, he helped launch the group in 1945 after secretly studying Stanislavski’s work during the Nazi occupation. Originally trained in mathematics, Olsen worked in insurance for fourteen years before committing fully to theatre.
Biography of Pierre Bourgeois (poet) (excerpt)
Pierre Bourgeois (born December 4, 1898, in Charleroi; died May 25, 1976) was a Belgian poet and filmmaker. The younger brother of architect Victor Bourgeois, he co-edited the 7 Arts magazine from 1922 to 1929.This publication, dedicated to geometric abstraction, aimed to synthesize various arts, including painting, sculpture, literature, and cinema.
Biography of Jean Rouverol (excerpt)
Jean Rouverol (July 8, 1916 – March 24, 2017) was an American actress, screenwriter, and author who was blacklisted by Hollywood in the 1950s. Born in St.Louis, Missouri, she was the daughter of playwright Aurania Rouverol, creator of the Andy Hardy character.
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.
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.
Biography of Nell O'Day (excerpt)
Nell O’Day, born September 22, 1909, in Prairie Hill, Texas, and died January 5, 1989, in Los Angeles, California, was an accomplished American actress and equestrian known for her work in 1930s and 1940s B-movies. She began as a vaudeville dancer and moved on to Broadway, with credits including Fine and Dandy (1930).
Biography of Nelly Bodenheim (excerpt)
Nelly Bodenheim (born 27 May 1874 – died 7 January 1951) was a Dutch illustrator best known for her black-and-white silhouettes and color lithographs. She trained at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and studied under Jan Veth, who supported her artistic growth. She illustrated over twenty children’s books with traditional songs, fairy tales, and rhymes.
Biography of Ulrich Rauscher (excerpt)
Ulrich Karl Paul Rauscher (June 26, 1884 – December 18, 1930) was a German journalist, writer, and diplomat. After studying law, he became a correspondent for Frankfurter Zeitung in Strasbourg and Berlin, and collaborated with Die Schaubühne.He was among the first to recognize cinema's potential as a propaganda tool.
Biography of Martin Luserke (excerpt)
Martin Otto Rudolf Luserke, born May 3, 1880 in Berlin and died June 1, 1968 in Meldorf, Holstein, was a German reform educator, bard, storyteller, writer, and theatre practitioner. A leading figure in German progressive education, he is seen as a forerunner of today’s experiential learning.
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 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 Eduard Meyer (lawyer) (excerpt)
Eduard Meyer (October 8, 1895 – December 15, 1931) was a German lawyer. He became known for his central role in a scandal involving Nazi politician Ernst Röhm in 1931-1932. His birth certificate is available on his German Wikipedia page. Born in Frankfurt am Main, Meyer served in World War I before studying law and working as a lawyer in Regensburg, where he befriended Röhm.
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.
Biography of Zdzislaw Krasnodebski (pilot) (excerpt)
Zdzisław Krasnodębski, known as Król, born July 10, 1904, in Wola Osowińska and died July 3, 1980, in Toronto, was a Polish pilot, founder and commander of No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron, and leader of the 1st Fighter Group. He began his military career at 16 during the Polish-Soviet War, later becoming a fighter officer in Warsaw’s 111th Squadron.
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 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 Paul Nicolas (football) (excerpt)
Paul Nicolas (November 4, 1899 – March 3, 1959) was a French footballer and coach, regarded as one of the finest centre-forwards of the interwar period. Orphaned at a young age, he showed remarkable talent as early as 1916, leading to his recruitment by Gallia Club Paris and his first call-up to the French national team in 1917.
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 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 Raoul Auger (excerpt)
Raoul Auger, born in Paris on May 24, 1904, and deceased on February 9, 1991, was a French illustrator and artist.He also worked under the pseudonym J.-P.Ariel, notably for youth books published by Hachette. Initially trained as a technical draftsman, he shifted toward graphic design and advertising.
Biography of Rudolf Peierls (excerpt)
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls (June 5, 1907 – September 19, 1995) was a German-born British physicist who played a key role in Britain’s Tube Alloys nuclear program and the Manhattan Project. He studied physics at various universities, including under Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli.
Biography of Gisèle Freund (excerpt)
Gisèle Freund (born Gisela Freund; 19 December 1908 – 31 March 2000) was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist, famous for her documentary photography and portraits of writers and artists.Her best-known book, Photographie et société (1974), is a expanded edition of her seminal 1936 dissertation.
Biography of Siegfried Jacobsohn (excerpt)
Siegfried Jacobsohn (born January 28, 1881, in Berlin – December 3, 1926, in Berlin) was a German journalist and theater critic. His magazine Die Weltbühne was regarded as a pacifist forum for the left. Many prominent contributors wrote for it, including Kurt Tucholsky, Kurt Hiller, Alfons Goldschmidt, Hans Reimann, Otto Lehmann-Rußbüldt, Heinrich Ströbel, Adolf Behne, Walter Mehring, Richard Lewinsohn, Friedrich Sieburg, and Carl von Ossietzky.
Biography of Peggy Ahern (excerpt)
Peggy Ahern (March 9, 1917 – October 24, 2012) was an American actress best known for appearing in eight Our Gang films between 1924 and 1927. Born in Douglas, Arizona, she moved to Culver City in 1921 and made her film debut at age six in The Call of the Wild (1923), followed by roles in several 1920s productions.
Biography of Dan Wickenden (excerpt)
Leonard Daniel Wickenden, an American author and editor, was born on March 24, 1913, in Tyrone, Pennsylvania, to English parents, and grew up in Long Island. He graduated from Amherst College in 1935 and began publishing stories in Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.
Biography of Henri Alméras (excerpt)
Henri Alméras (6 June 1893 – 1965) was a French perfumer, author, and painter.Born in Brittany into a military family, he excelled in chemistry and served in World War I, where he met couturier Jean Patou. After a brief stint at Dunlop, he trained in Grasse under Antoine Chiris alongside Ernest Beaux.
Biography of Binnie Barnes (excerpt)
Gertrude Maud Barnes, born March 25, 1903, in London, and died July 27, 1998, known professionally as Binnie Barnes, was an English actress whose film career spanned from 1923 to 1973. She became a leading lady in productions such as The Private Life of Henry VIII, The Last of the Mohicans, and In Old California.
Biography of Gaston Roussel (industrialist) (excerpt)
Gaston Roussel (Auxonne, December 1, 1877 – Boulogne-sur-Seine, January 8, 1947) was a French veterinarian, physician, and industrialist, founder of France's leading pharmaceutical company. Graduating as a veterinarian in 1903, he became a doctor of medicine in 1909 with research on rabbit syphilis.
Biography of Gab Sorère (excerpt)
Gabrielle Bloch (29 November 1877 – 14 July 1961), known as Gab Sorère, was a French art promoter, filmmaker, stage designer, and choreographer of the Belle Époque. In partnership with Loïe Fuller, she pioneered the transformation of stage performance into abstract displays of moving light.
Biography of Adriano Gozzini (excerpt)
Adriano Gozzini, born on April 13, 1917, in Florence and deceased on September 24, 1994, in Pisa, was an Italian physicist renowned for his work in experimental physics. He graduated in 1940 from the University of Pisa, training at the Scuola Normale Superiore under Luigi Puccianti, and later established Pisa’s first microwave spectroscopy laboratory.
Biography of Régina Badet (excerpt)
Anne Régina Badet was born on October 9, 1876, in Bordeaux and died on October 26, 1949, in Bordeaux.She was a French comedic actress and dancer, renowned for her performances at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. She began as a principal dancer at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux in 1890 before joining the Opéra-Comique in 1904.
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.
Biography of Preston Foster (excerpt)
Preston Foster, born August 24, 1900, and died July 14, 1970, was an American actor whose career spanned stage, film, radio, and television.He was also a vocalist and performed in nightclubs and on the radio. Born in New Jersey, he worked as a clerk before transitioning to vaudeville and Broadway.
Biography of Fernand Mailly (excerpt)
Fernand Mailly, born Fernand Jean Paul Anne-dit-Mousset on February 26, 1873, in Le Havre, was a French actor and stage director. He died in Paris on August 20, 1942. He began his career in theater before transitioning to silent cinema, debuting in 1914 with La Dénonciatrice.
Biography of Bernard Boutet de Monvel (excerpt)
Bernard Boutet de Monvel (born August 9, 1881 – died October 28, 1949) was a French painter, sculptor, engraver, fashion illustrator, and interior decorator. Initially recognized for his etchings, he later gained renown for his geometric paintings of the 1900s and his Moroccan-inspired works during World War I.
Biography of Josefina Niggli (excerpt)
Josefina Niggli (13 July 1910 – 17 December 1983), born Josephine Niggli, was a Mexican-born Anglo-American novelist and playwright.She was the first—and for a time the only—Mexican American writing in English on Mexican themes, before the Chicano movement. Her work dealt progressively with gender, race, and cultural identity.
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 Dorothy West (novelist) (excerpt)
Dorothy West (June 2, 1907 – August 16, 1998) was an American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and magazine editor associated with the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement in the 1920s and 1930s that celebrated black art, literature, and music. She was one of the few Black women writers to be published in major literary magazines in the 1930s and 1940s.
Biography of Friedrich Sämisch (excerpt)
Friedrich (Fritz) Sämisch (Berlin, September 20, 1896 – Berlin, August 16, 1975) was a German chess grandmaster.He won the first Austrian Championship in Vienna in 1921, though this edition was unofficial.He also finished 3rd in the 1925 Baden-Baden tournament, behind Alexander Alekhine and Akiba Rubinstein.
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 Stan Jones (songwriter) (excerpt)
Stanley Davis Jones, born on June 5, 1914, in Douglas, Arizona, and died on December 13, 1963, in Los Angeles, was an American songwriter best known for the Western classic Ghost Riders in the Sky, written in 1948 while working as a park ranger in Death Valley.
Biography of Eugenie Anderson (excerpt)
Eugenie Anderson, born May 26, 1909, in Adair, Iowa, and died March 31, 1997, was the first American woman appointed chief of mission at the ambassador level. Trained as a musician, she graduated from Carleton College and married John P.Anderson in 1929, with whom she had two children. |
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