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Horoscopes with Cupido in CancerYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Cupido in Cancer. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. in
Biography of Francis Ponge (excerpt)
Francis Jean Gaston Alfred Ponge (March 27, 1899 - August 6, 1988) was a French essayist and poet. In many ways, he combined the two--essay and poem--into a single artform. Life Francis Ponge was born in Montpellier, France, in 1899. He studied law at Paris and literature at Strasbourg.
Biography of Michael Collins (Irish leader) (excerpt)
Michael John ("Mick") Collins (Irish: Mícheál Seán Ó Coileáin; 16 October 1890 – 22 August 1922) was an Irish revolutionary leader, Minister for Finance and MP for Cork South in the First Dáil of 1919, Director of Intelligence for the IRA, and member of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations.
Biography of Roger Frison-Roche (excerpt)
Roger Frison-Roche (February 10, 1096 in Paris - December 17, 1999 in Chamonix) is a French writer and explorer. Bibliography (extracts) L'Appel du Hoggar (1937) Premier de cordée (1938) La Grande Crevasse (1948) La Piste oubliée (1950) La Montagne aux écritures (1952)
Biography of Giorgio Morandi (excerpt)
Giorgio Morandi (June 20, 1890 – June 18, 1964) was an Italian painter who specialized in still life. Giorgio Morandi was born in Bologna. In 1907 he went to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti. The works of his formative years show him experimenting with an idiom related to Cézanne and to Cubism, with a brief digression into a Futurist style in 1914.
Biography of Vercors (writer) (excerpt)
Jean Bruller (February 26, 1902 - June 10, 1991) was a French writer and illustrator who co-founded Les Éditions de Minuit with Pierre de Lescure. During the World War II occupation of northern France he joined the resistance and his texts were published under the pseudonym Vercors.
Biography of Bruno Hauptmann (excerpt)
Bruno Richard Hauptmann (November 26, 1899 – April 3, 1936) was a German carpenter and former criminal, sentenced to death and executed for the abduction and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month old son of famous pilots Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
Biography of Andrée Aga Khan (excerpt)
Andrée Carron, born August 15, 1898 in Chambéry, was the third wife of Sultan Mahommed Shah, Aga Khan III. He married, on 7 December 1929 (civil), in Aix-les-Bains, France, and 13 December 1929 (religious), in Bombay, India, Andrée Joséphine Carron (1898 - 1976).
Biography of Gayelord Hauser (excerpt)
Dr. Bengamin Gayelord Hauser (1895-1984), popularly known as Gayelord Hauser, was an American nutritionist, self-help author, and promoter of "the natural way of eating" during the mid-20th century. He promoted foods rich in Vitamin B and discouraged consumption of sugar and white flour.
Biography of Suzanne Lenglen (excerpt)
Suzanne Rachel Flore Lenglen (24 May 1899 – 4 July 1938) was a French tennis player who won 31 Grand Slam titles from 1914 through 1926. A flamboyant, trendsetting athlete, she was the first female tennis celebrity and one of the first international female sport stars, named La Divine (the divine one) by the French press.
Biography of Théodore Monod (excerpt)
Théodore André Monod (Rouen, April 9, 1902 (birth time source: his birth certificate) - Versailles, November 22, 2000) was a French naturalist, explorer, and humanist scholar. Exploration In the course of his career, Monod was made director of the Institut Français d’Afrique Noire, professor at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, member of the Académie des sciences d'outre-mer in 1949, member of the Académie de Marine in 1957, and member of the Académie des Sciences in 1963.
Biography of Joan Bennett (excerpt)
Joan Geraldine Bennett (February 27, 1910 – December 7, 1990) was an Emmy-nominated American film actress who also achieved success later in life as a television actress. Early life Bennett, the youngest of three daughters, was born in Palisades Park, New Jersey, the daughter of stage actors Richard Bennett and Adrienne Morrison, and the younger sister of actresses Constance and Barbara Bennett (the mother of Morton Downey, Jr.
Biography of Erich Hückel (excerpt)
Erich Armand Arthur Joseph Hückel (August 9, 1896 - February 16, 1980) was a German physicist and physical chemist. He is known for two major contributions: The Debye-Hückel theory of electrolytic solutions The Hückel method of approximate molecular orbital (MO) calculations on π electron systems.
Biography of Totò (excerpt)
Prince Antonio Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno De Curtis di Bisanzio Gagliardi, best known by his stage name Totò (Italian pronunciation: ; 15 February 1898 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth certificate)–15 April 1967) or as Antonio De Curtis, and nicknamed il principe della risata ("the prince of laughter"), was an Italian comedian, film and theatre actor, writer, singer and songwriter.
Biography of Mathilde Gabriel-Péri (excerpt)
Mathilde Rose Thérèse Gabriel-Péri (7 June 1902 – 16 December 1981) was a French politician. She was elected to the National Assembly in 1945 as one of the first group of French women in parliament. She served in the National Assembly until 1958.
Biography of Olivier Messiaen (excerpt)
Olivier Messiaen (December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. He entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 11, and numbered Paul Dukas, Maurice Emmanuel, Charles-Marie Widor and Marcel Dupré among his teachers. He was appointed organist at the church of La Trinité in Paris in 1931, a post he held until his death.
Biography of Alfred Rosenberg (excerpt)
Alfred Rosenberg (January 12, 1893 Reval (today Tallinn) – October 16, 1946) was an early and intellectually influential member of the Nazi party, who later held several important posts in the Nazi government. He is considered the main author of key Nazi ideological creeds, including its racial theory, persecution of the Jews, Lebensraum, abolition of the Treaty of Versailles, and opposition to "degenerate" modern art.
Biography of Aaron Copland (excerpt)
Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer of concert and film music, as well as an accomplished pianist. Instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, he was widely known as “the dean of American composers.
Biography of Dieudonné Costes (excerpt)
Dieudonné Costes (4 November 1892 - 18 May 1973) was a French aviator, known of long distance and record breaking flights, a fighter ace of World War I. Costes was born in Septfonds, Tarn-et-Garonne. He received a pilot diploma (brevet) on 26 September 1912.
Biography of Jean Hélion (excerpt)
Jean Hélion (April 21, 1904 – October 27, 1987) was a French painter whose abstract work of the 1930s established him as a leading modernist. His midcareer rejection of abstraction was followed by nearly five decades as a figurative painter. He was also the author of several books and an extensive body of critical writing.
Biography of Max Frisch (excerpt)
Max Rudolf Frisch (May 15, 1911 – April 4, 1991) was a Swiss architect, playwright and novelist, regarded as highly representative of German literature after World War II. In his creative works Frisch paid particular attention to issues relating to problems of human identity, individuality, responsibility, morality and political commitment.
Biography of Oswald Mosley (excerpt)
Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (16 November 1896 – 3 December 1980) was a British politician, known principally as the founder of the British Union of Fascists. Family and early life Mosley was the eldest of three sons of Sir Oswald Mosley, 5th Baronet, of Ancoats (1874–1928), and his wife, Katharine Maud Edwards-Heathcote (1874–1950), the second child of Captain Justinian Edwards-Heathcote, of Market Drayton, Shropshire.
Biography of Rosalind Russell (excerpt)
Rosalind Russell (June 4, 1907 – November 28, 1976) was an American award-winning film and stage actress, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as originating the role of Auntie Mame on Broadway and in film.
Biography of Jean Lurçat (excerpt)
Jean Lurçat (July 1, 1892 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - January 6, 1966) was a French painter and tapestry designer. He was known for his surrealist landscapes influenced from his travels in Spain and the Sahara. One of his lithographs is titled "Bacchus" and is currently on display in San Francisco.
Biography of Pierre Angénieux (excerpt)
Pierre Angénieux (Saint-Héand, 14 July 1907 in Saint-Héand (birth time source: Yoan Cocquebert, Saint-Héand archives on-line) - 26 June 1998) was a French engineer and optician, one of the inventors of the modern zoom lenses, and famous for introducing the Angénieux retrofocus.
Biography of Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (excerpt)
Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (November 22, 1902 – November 28, 1947), was a French general during World War II, he became Marshal of France posthumously, in 1952. He was born Philippe François Marie, Comte de Hauteclocque, but changed his legal name in 1945 to incorporate his French resistance alias Jacques-Philippe Leclerc.
Biography of Pierre Fresnay (excerpt)
Pierre Fresnay (April 4, 1897 - January 9, 1975) was a French stage and film actor. Born Pierre Jules Louis Laudenbach in Paris, France he was encouraged by his uncle, the actor Claude Garry, to pursue a career in theater and film.
Biography of Roger Désormière (excerpt)
Roger Désormière (September 13, 1898 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - October 25, 1963) was a French conductor. He is well known for having directed the earliest complete recording of Claude Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande. made in Paris during the Nazi occupation.
Biography of Alain Daniélou (excerpt)
Alain Daniélou (Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, October 4, 1907–Lonay Switzerland, January 27, 1994) was a French historian, intellectual, musicologist, Indologist, and a noted western convert to, and adept of Shaivite Hinduism. His mother, Madeleine Clamorgan, was from an old family of the Norman nobility; a fervent Catholic, she founded a religious order for women teachers in civilian costume under the patronage of St.
Biography of Léo Lagrange (excerpt)
Léo Lagrange (born Bourg (Gironde), on 28 November 1900 (birth time source: Yoan Cocquebert, his birth certificate, available on-line) - died Évergnicourt, on 9 June 1940) was a French Socialist Under-Secretary of State for Sports and for the Organisation of Leisures during the Popular Front (1936-1938).
Biography of Julius Evola (excerpt)
Barone Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola (Italian: ; May 19, 1898 – June 11, 1974) also known as Julius Evola, was an Italian philosopher and esotericist. Evola regarded his perspectives and spiritual values as aristocratic, masculine, traditionalist, heroic and defiantly reactionary. Evola believed that mankind is living in the Kali Yuga, a Dark Age of unleashed materialistic appetites, spiritual oblivion and organised deviancy.
Biography of Andres Segovia (excerpt)
Andrés Torres Segovia, 1st Marquess of Salobreña (17 March 1893–3 June 1987) was a Spanish classical guitarist born in Linares, Spain who is considered to be the father of the modern classical guitar movement by most modern music scholars. In recognition of his contributions to music and the arts, Segovia was ennobled on 24 June 1981 by King Juan Carlos I, who elevated Segovia into the first hereditary Marquess of Salobreña, formally styled as "El señor don Andrés Torres Segovia, marqués de Salobreña" (the Most Illustrious Lord The Marquess of Salobreña).
Biography of Jean Dasté (excerpt)
Jean Dasté (September 18, 1904 in Paris, France - October 15, 1994 in Saint-Étienne, Loire, France) was an actor and theatre director. Although Jean Dasté is best known for his career on stage as both an actor and director in a variety of works including those by Shakespeare and Molière, he made his first appearance on screen in a 1932 Jean Renoir film (Boudu sauvé des eaux), and 57 years later appeared in his final film at the age of 85.
Biography of Antoine Guérini (excerpt)
Antoine Guérini (1902 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate)-1967), was one of the most powerful gangsters of France in the 40s.
Biography of Cecil Beaton (excerpt)
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton (14 January 1904 – 18 January 1980) was an English fashion and portrait photographer and a stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. Born in Hampstead to a society family, Beaton was fascinated by the society magazines and the images within.
Biography of Maurice Genevoix (excerpt)
Maurice Genevoix was a French author, born on November 29, 1890 at Decize as Maurice-Charles-Louis-Genevoix (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 107). Genevoix spent his childhood in Châteauneuf-sur-Loire. After attending the local school, he studied at the lycée of Orléans and the Lycée Lakanal.
Biography of Roger Peyrefitte (excerpt)
Roger Peyrefitte (August 17, 1907 – November 5, 2000) was a French diplomat and writer. Born in Castres to a wealthy family, Peyrefitte went to Jesuit and Lazarist boarding schools and then studied language and literature in Toulouse. After graduating first of his year from Ecole des Sciences Politiques in 1930, he worked as an embassy secretary in Athens between 1933 and 1938.
Biography of André Martinet (excerpt)
André Martinet (Saint-Alban-des-Villards, 12 April 1908 - Châtenay-Malabry, 16 July 1999) was a French linguist, influential by his work on structural linguistics. His wife, Jeanne Martinet, is a recognized semiotician. Martinet agregated in English and received his doctorate after submitting, as is traditional in France, two theses: La Gémination consonantique d'origine expressive dans les langues germaniques and La Phonologie du mot en danois.
Biography of Raymond Bussières (excerpt)
Raymond Bussières (3 November 1907 – 29 April 1982), was a French film actor, screenwriter and producer. He appeared in over 160 films between 1933 and 1982. He was born in Ivry-la-Bataille, France and died in Paris, France. Selected filmography Le Roi et l'oiseau (1980)
Biography of Imre Nagy (excerpt)
Imre Nagy (June 7, 1896 – June 16, 1958) was a Hungarian politician, appointed Prime Minister of Hungary on two occasions. Nagy's second term ended when his non-Soviet-backed government was brought down by Soviet invasion in the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956, resulting in Nagy's execution on charges of treason two years later.
Biography of Henri Gouchon (excerpt)
Henri Joseph Gouchon, born March 1, 1898 in Roure, Italy (birth time source: Lescaut, Cahiers Astrologiques No.195, 1994, and Dreuille, Auréas) , died October 5, 1978, also known as "Sélénius" or "Régulus", was an astrologer and author. He was a specialist of primary directions and mundane astrology.
Biography of Georges Dumézil (excerpt)
Georges Dumézil (March 4, 1898 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – October 11, 1986) was a French comparative philologist best known for his analysis of sovereignty and power in Proto-Indo-European religion and society. He is considered one of the major contributors to mythography, in particular for his formulation of the trifunctional hypothesis of social class.
Biography of Juscelino Kubitschek (excerpt)
Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira (JK) (September 12, 1902 – August 22, 1976) was a prominent Brazilian politician who was President of Brazil from 1956 to 1961. He was born in Diamantina, Minas Gerais, and died in 1976. His term was marked by relative economic prosperity and political stability, being most known by the construction of a new capital, Brasília.
Biography of Marcel Déat (excerpt)
Marcel Déat (March 7, 1894, Guérigny—January 5, 1955, near Turin, Italy) was a French Socialist until 1933, when he initiated a spin-off from the SFIO along with other Neosocialists. He then founded the Collaborationist Rassemblement national populaire (RNP, National Popular Rally) during the Vichy regime.
Biography of Sylvester Matushka (excerpt)
Szilveszter Matuska (January 29, 1892 – disappeared c. 1945) was a Hungarian mass murderer and mechanical engineer who made two successful and at least two unsuccessful attempts to derail passenger trains in Hungary, Germany and Austria in 1930 and 1931. He was born in Csantavér (now Čantavir, Serbia).
Biography of Cesare Pavese (excerpt)
Cesare Pavese (September 9, 1908 – August 27, 1950) was an Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator; he is widely considered among the major authors of the 20th century in his home country. Early life and education Cesare Pavese was born in Santo Stefano Belbo, in the province of Cuneo.
Biography of Albert Dieudonné (excerpt)
Albert Dieudonné (26 November 1889 (birth time source: Michaël Mandl, birth certificate) - 19 March 1976) was a French actor, screenwriter, film director and novelist. Dieudonné was born in Paris, France and made his acting debut in silent film in 1908. In 1924, he directed the film drama, "Catherine" in which he also appeared as a major character.
Biography of Habib Bourguiba (excerpt)
Habib Bourguiba (August 3, 1903–April 6, 2000) was a Tunisian statesman and the Founder and First President of the Republic of Tunisia from July 25, 1957 to November 7, 1987. He is often compared to Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk because of the pro-Western reforms enacted during his presidency.
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Fairbanks, unlike other larger cities in Alaska, still has separate borough and city governments. The City of Fairbanks was incorporated on November 10, 1903. The city council held a special meeting at the Carlson Center on November 10, 2003 for the express purpose of denoting the centennial of incorporation.
Biography of Joseph Darnand (excerpt)
Joseph Darnand (March 19, 1897 – October 10, 1945) was a French pro-Nazi leader and commander of the Vichy French Milice. Joseph Darnand was born at Coligny, Ain, Rhône-Alpes in France. He fought in the First World War and received seven citations for bravery.
Biography of Louis I, Duke of Orléans (excerpt)
Louis of Valois (March 13, 1372 – November 23, 1407) was Duke of Orléans from 1392 to his death. He was also Count of Valois, Duke of Touraine (1386–1392), Count of Blois (1397–1407), Angoulême (1404–1407), Périgord, Dreux and Soissons. Louis was son of King Charles V of France and Joanna of Bourbon and younger brother of Charles VI. |
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