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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 Walter Ledgard (excerpt)
Walter Ledgard Jiménez (born October 25, 1915, in Lima – died May 10, 1999, in Lima) was a renowned Peruvian swimmer. Known as “El Brujo,” he was the second of six children of diplomat Carlos Ledgard Neuhaus and María Jiménez. Married, he had two children, Táter and María Luz.
Biography of Denis Johnston (Irish writer) (excerpt)
William Denis Johnston (18 June 1901 – 8 August 1984) was an Irish writer born in Dublin, known mainly as a playwright, but also for essays, memoirs, literary criticism and an eccentric book on cosmology. His time of birth comes from the book "Denis Johnston: A Life by Bernard Adams" (Dublin: Lilliput, 2002).
Biography of Ernst Bresslau (excerpt)
Ernst Ludwig Bresslau, born on 10 July 1877 in Berlin and died on 9 May 1935 in São Paulo, was a German zoologist. The son of historian Harry Bresslau, he grew up in Strasbourg from 1890, where he studied medicine and natural sciences at the university, earning his PhD in 1902.
Biography of Pedro Beltrán Espantoso (excerpt)
Pedro Gerardo María Beltrán Espantoso (17 February 1897 – 16 February 1979), was a Peruvian journalist, economist and politician. From 1959 to 1961, he was the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance under Manuel Prado Ugarteche. Beltrán was a longtime owner and publisher of La Prensa.
Biography of André Varennes (excerpt)
André Varennes, born on April 14, 1882, in Châtillon (Hauts-de-Seine), and died on February 29, 1972, in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine), was a French stage and film actor. He began his career in the theatre in the early 20th century and gradually established himself as a reliable performer in both classical and modern productions.
Biography of Maurice Asselin (excerpt)
Maurice Asselin, born 24 June 1882 in Orléans and died 27 September 1947 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French painter and printmaker affiliated with the School of Paris. He is best known for his still lifes, nudes, and especially for tender depictions of motherhood.
Biography of Günther Weisenborn (excerpt)
German writer and anti-Nazi resistance fighter, Günther Weisenborn (10 July 1902 – 26 March 1969) was known for his politically engaged literary work and opposition to the Nazi regime. He collaborated with Bertolt Brecht, Slatan Dudow, and Hanns Eisler on the play The Mother, adapted from Gorky.
Biography of Karl Beurlen (excerpt)
Karl Beurlen (April 17, 1901 – December 27, 1985) was a German paleontologist. Born in Aalen, he studied at the University of Tübingen and earned his PhD in 1923. A student and assistant of Edwin Hennig, he conducted extensive research on evolutionary processes and fossil morphology.
Biography of Hans Gustav Güterbock (excerpt)
Hans Gustav Güterbock (May 27, 1908 – March 29, 2000) was a German-American Hittitologist. Trained in Germany, his career there ended with the rise of the Nazis due to his Jewish heritage, forcing him to relocate to Turkey. Fluent in Turkish, he became a professor at Ankara University, received an honorary doctorate, and joined the Turkish Historical Society.
Biography of Gustav Fröhlich (excerpt)
Born on March 21, 1902, in Hanover, Gustav Friedrich Fröhlich was a German actor and film director. He began his stage career in small theaters before being noticed by Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater. His breakthrough came with his role as Freder Fredersen in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927), which established him as one of the major stars of Weimar cinema.
Biography of Lepke Buchalter (excerpt)
Louis "Lepke" Buchalter (February 6, 1897 – March 4, 1944) was a Jewish-American mobster affiliated with the Yiddish Connection and a close associate of the Luciano crime family. Born in New York to German-Jewish parents, he became infamous as the head of the murder-for-hire group Murder Incorporated.
Biography of Aníbal Milhais (excerpt)
Aníbal Augusto Milhais (July 9, 1895 – June 3, 1970), born and deceased in Valongo (Murça), is remembered as the most decorated Portuguese soldier of World War I. He became widely known by the nickname “Soldado Milhões” (Soldier Millions), a play on his name suggesting that he was “worth a million men” on the battlefield.
Biography of Andrée Viollis (excerpt)
Andrée Viollis, born Andrée Jacquet on 9 December 1870 in Les Mées and died on 10 August 1950 in Paris, was a French journalist and writer. She was also known as Andrée Téry and later Andrée d’Ardenne de Tizac, adopting the pen name Viollis after her second marriage.
Biography of Max Samter (excerpt)
Born on March 8, 1909, Max Samter was a German-American immunologist best known for identifying the triad of asthma, aspirin allergy, and nasal polyps, now called Samter’s triad or aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease. A third-generation physician, he received his medical training in Europe before fleeing Nazi Germany.
Biography of Merry Bromberger (excerpt)
Merry Marie Louis Bromberger, born in Strasbourg on July 10, 1906 and died in Boulogne-Billancourt on March 12, 1978, was a French writer and journalist, specializing in the politics of the Fourth Republic with his brother Serge Bromberger. Family Merry Bromberger is also the brother of film director Hervé Bromberger and the uncle of radio and television journalist Dominique Bromberger.
Biography of Marguerite Marsh (excerpt)
Marguerite Marsh, born April 18, 1888 in Lawrence, Kansas, was an American silent film actress.Early in her career, she was known as Margaret Loveridge and appeared in more than seventy films between 1911 and 1923. She was the eldest child of S.
Biography of Ugo Locatelli (excerpt)
Ugo Locatelli (born February 5, 1916 – died May 28, 1993) was an Italian international footballer who played as a midfielder or forward. Considered one of Italy’s greatest players, he won both a gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics and the 1938 FIFA World Cup, one of only four Italian players to achieve this feat.
Biography of Ernesto Galarza (excerpt)
Ernesto Galarza (August 15, 1905 – June 22, 1984) was a Mexican-American labor organizer, activist, professor, poet, writer and storyteller, and a key figure in the history of immigrant farmworker organization in California. Born in Jalcocotán, Nayarit, he immigrated to California as a child, adapted to public school, earned a scholarship to Occidental College, and completed a master’s degree in history at Stanford University in 1929.
Biography of Marion Shilling (excerpt)
Marion Helen Schilling, born on December 3, 1910, in Denver, Colorado, and died on November 6, 2004, was an American stage and film actress.She was among the most popular B-movie leading ladies of the 1930s. After moving to St.Louis as a child, she graduated from Central High School in 1928 and began her acting career on stage in plays such as Miss Lulu Betts and Mrs.
Biography of Nicolás Guillén (excerpt)
Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista, born July 10, 1902, in Camagüey and died July 16, 1989, in Havana, was a Cuban poet, journalist, and politician, widely regarded as Cuba’s national poet. His revolutionary ideals led to exile under Batista before returning in 1959.
Biography of Marjorie Weaver (excerpt)
Marjorie Weaver, born on March 2, 1913, in Crossville, Tennessee, and died on October 1, 1994, was an American film actress active from the 1930s through the early 1950s. The daughter of John Thomas Weaver and Ellen Martin, she studied at the University of Kentucky and Indiana University, where she won several beauty contests.
Biography of Charles de Beistegui (excerpt)
Born in Paris on January 31, 1895, Carlos de Beistegui e Yturbe — known as Charlie de Beistegui — was a French-born Mexican millionaire, art collector, and interior decorator famed for his eccentricity and lavish taste.Heir to a vast Basque-Mexican fortune, he was educated at Eton and raised between France, Spain, and England.
Biography of Pierre-Paul Schweitzer (excerpt)
Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, born on May 29, 1912, in Strasbourg and died on January 2, 1994, in Geneva, was a French civil servant who served as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1963 to 1973. A graduate of the École libre des sciences politiques in 1934, he became an inspector of finance in 1936.
Biography of René Maupré (excerpt)
Charles René de Chauffour, known as René Maupré, born July 9, 1888 in the 9th arrondissement of Paris and died April 6, 1976 in Nice, was a French actor and comedian. He is best known for Theodora (1921) and the two films of the same title, The Ragpicker of Paris (1913) and (1924).
Biography of Willem Keesom (excerpt)
Willem Hendrik Keesom (June 21, 1876 – March 3, 1956) was a Dutch physicist born on Texel.A student of Nobel Prize laureate Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, he devoted his work to the study of helium and molecular interactions. In 1921, he developed the first mathematical description of dipole–dipole interactions, later known as Keesom interactions.
Biography of Giuseppe Migneco (excerpt)
Giuseppe Migneco (born February 9, 1903 (Wikipedia has 1908 in error), in Messina, and died February 28, 1997, in Milan) was a prominent Italian painter of the 20th century.After completing classical studies in his hometown, he moved to Milan in 1931 to study medicine, while beginning his artistic career.
Biography of Clorinda Málaga de Prado (excerpt)
Clorinda Málaga de Prado (born Clorinda Mercedes Málaga Bravo; July 3, 1905 – September 17, 1993) was the First Lady of Peru from 1958 to 1962 during her marriage to President Manuel Prado Ugarteche. She was born in Lima to Fermín Málaga Santolalla, a mining executive and state official, and Clorinda Bravo Bresani.
Biography of Bernard Fitzalan-Howard (excerpt)
Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk (May 30, 1908 – January 31, 1975), was a British peer and politician. The only surviving son of Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk, he inherited his father’s title at the age of nine and later his mother Gwendoline Herries’s Scottish peerage in 1945.
Biography of Gerardo Matos Rodríguez (excerpt)
Gerardo Hernán Matos Rodríguez, born March 18, 1897 in Montevideo and died April 25, 1948, nicknamed “Becho,” was a Uruguayan musician, composer, and journalist.The son of the owner of Montevideo’s Moulin Rouge cabaret, he studied architecture but never completed the degree.
Biography of Max Meid (excerpt)
Max Meid (July 18, 1910, Berlin – July 16, 2009, Frankfurt am Main) was a German architect. Together with his partner Helmut Romeick, he was one of the leading representatives of postwar modern architecture in Frankfurt, playing a key role in the city’s reconstruction and urban identity.
Biography of Roman Maciejewski (excerpt)
Roman Maciejewski (February 28, 1910, Berlin – April 30, 1998, Gothenburg) was a Polish composer. The son of violinist and music teacher Bronisława Maciejewska, he received early musical training and studied in Berlin, Poznań, and Warsaw, before continuing his education in Paris with Nadia Boulanger.
Biography of Herbert Adamski (excerpt)
Herbert Adamski (30 April 1910 – 11 August 1941) was a German rower from Berlin who competed at the highest level during the 1930s.He represented Germany at the 1936 Summer Olympics. At those Games, he won the gold medal in the coxed pair as a member of the German crew.
Biography of John Collier (fiction writer) (excerpt)
John Henry Noyes Collier (born 3 May 1901 in London, died 6 April 1980) was a British writer and screenwriter, best known for his short stories, many published in The New Yorker from the 1930s to the 1950s.His acclaimed collection Fancies and Goodnights won the International Fantasy Award and remains in print.
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Sipido (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Victor Sipido (December 28, 1884 (Wikipedia has December 20 in error) – August 20, 1959) was a Belgian anarchist best known for attempting to assassinate the Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII, at Brussels’ Gare du Nord. On April 4, 1900, at only fifteen years old, he fired twice at the royal train but missed his target.
Biography of Eugen Bjørnstad (excerpt)
Eugen Bjørnstad, born December 12, 1909, in Oslo and died August 13, 1992, in the United States, was a Norwegian racing driver known for his skill in ice racing and hill climbs. He began competing in 1931 with Fiat, Amilcar, and Bugatti before achieving success with Alfa Romeo.
Biography of José Storie (excerpt)
José Storie (born 2 April 1899 in Bruges – died 29 July 1961) was a Belgian painter best known for his portraits. Educated in Bruges, Brussels, and Paris, he received a thorough artistic training, though it was disrupted by World War I.
Biography of Gabriel de Frazzanò (excerpt)
Frei Gabriel de Frazzanò, born Antonino Machi on February 25, 1907, in Frazzanò, Sicily, and died on April 17, 1973, in Frutal, Brazil, was an Italian Capuchin friar who became known in Minas Gerais for his missionary work and social projects.
Biography of Hanan Rubin (excerpt)
Hanan Rubin (August 10, 1908 – October 24, 1962) was a German-born Israeli politician and a member of the Knesset from 1949 until his death in 1962.Born as Hans Rubin in Berlin, he studied law at the Humboldt University and the University of Freiburg, earning his doctorate in 1932.
Biography of Witold Conti (excerpt)
Witold Conti (1908–1944) was a Polish film actor who appeared in nine films between 1930 and 1937, often portraying charming romantic leads. The son of Stanisława and Maksymilian Kozikowski, he studied law in Poznań while taking singing lessons, later moving to Paris to study violin and voice at the conservatory.
Biography of Günther Stapenhorst (excerpt)
Günther Gustav von Stapenhorst (June 25, 1883 – February 2, 1976) was a German naval officer turned film producer. After serving in the Imperial Navy and working in export, he entered the film industry in 1924 and joined UFA in 1928, overseeing productions like Emil and the Detectives.
Biography of Paul Alduy (excerpt)
Paul Alduy, born October 4, 1914, in Lima, Peru, and died January 23, 2006, in Perpignan, was a French senior civil servant and politician.A law graduate from the universities of Montpellier and Paris and of the École Libre des Sciences Politiques, he began his diplomatic career in Ankara in 1942 before joining Free France.
Biography of Sophie Charlotte Ducker (excerpt)
Sophie Charlotte Ducker (9 April 1909 – 20 May 2004) was a German-born Australian botanist, internationally recognized for her work in marine botany. Born in Berlin as Sophie Charlotte von Klemperer, she was educated in Europe before being forced into exile due to her Jewish background and anti-Nazi stance.
Biography of José Antonio de Lavalle y García (excerpt)
José Antonio de Lavalle y García, born in Lima on November 4, 1888, and died on May 17, 1957, was a Peruvian agronomist and horse breeder.He is widely remembered as the inspiration behind Chabuca Granda’s song José Antonio. Born into an aristocratic family with deep noble roots, he studied at Colegio Sagrados Corazones Recoleta before graduating as an agronomist from the National School of Agriculture in 1909.
Biography of Camilo Díaz Baliño (excerpt)
Camilo Buenaventura Díaz Baliño (1889–1936) was a Spanish writer, politician, Galician intellectual, and graphic artist.He was a member of the Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country of Santiago, the Irmandades da Fala, the Seminar of Galician Studies, and the Galicianist Party.
Biography of Joseph Wittig (excerpt)
Joseph Wittig, born January 22, 1879, in Neusorge and died August 22, 1949, was a German Catholic theologian and writer. After earning his doctorate in 1903, he was ordained a priest and later became professor of church history and patrology at the University of Breslau, where he also served as dean.
Biography of Jan Kalf (excerpt)
Jan Kalf (born May 10, 1873, in Amsterdam – died March 6, 1954, in The Hague) was a Dutch art historian and director of the Rijksbureau voor de Monumentenzorg (National Office for Monument Preservation) from 1918 to 1939. The son of editor Martinus Kalf, he studied Dutch literature and art history in Amsterdam and contributed many articles, including theatre reviews, to De Kroniek.
Biography of Gerald Finzi (excerpt)
Gerald Raphael Finzi, born July 14, 1901 in London and died September 27, 1956 in Oxford, was an English composer whose music is deeply infused with poetic sensibility. Best known for his choral works, he also wrote orchestral and concert pieces, including Dies natalis and concertos for cello and clarinet.
Biography of Karl-Hermann Geib (excerpt)
Karl-Hermann Geib (March 12, 1908 – July 21, 1949) was a German physical chemist best known for developing the dual-temperature exchange sulfide process, also known as the Girdler sulfide process, in 1943.This innovation became the most cost-effective method for producing heavy water, crucial for nuclear research, and was independently mirrored by Jerome S.
Biography of Eugène Dieudonné (excerpt)
Eugène Dieudonné (May 1, 1884 – August 21, 1944) was a French anarchist wrongly accused of belonging to the Bonnot Gang and of taking part in the 1912 rue Ordener bank robbery.Sentenced to life at hard labor, he was deported to the penal colony in French Guiana, from which he escaped after twelve years.
Biography of Gianfranco Giachetti (excerpt)
Gianfranco Giachetti, born in Florence on September 17, 1888, and deceased in Rome on November 29, 1936, was an Italian stage and film actor. Raised artistically in Venice, he began his career in amateur companies before joining Ferruccio Benini’s troupe in 1914 and later Giovan Battista Bosio’s company after World War I, where he excelled in Goldoni’s plays. |
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