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birth charts 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 Igor Tamm (excerpt)
Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm (8 July 1895 – 12 April 1971) was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Ilya Mikhailovich Frank, for their 1934 discovery of Cherenkov radiation. In 1951, together with Andrei Sakharov, Tamm proposed a tokamak system for the realization of CTF on the basis of toroidal magnetic thermonuclear reactor and soon after the first such devices were built by the INF.
Biography of Gret Palucca (excerpt)
Gret Palucca, born Margarethe Paluka (8 January 1902 – 22 March 1993), was a German dancer and dance teacher, notable for her dance school, the Palucca School of Dance, founded in Dresden in 1925. Palucca was born in Munich.Shortly after birth, her family moved to San Francisco, returning with her mother to Dresden in 1909.
Biography of Jutta Graae (excerpt)
Jutta Regitse Pilegaard Graae (28 April 1906 – 25 March 1997) was a Danish bank employee who became a member of the Danish resistance during the German occupation of Denmark in World War II. After first working as a contact for the resistance worker Ebbe Munck in Stockholm, she became so deeply involved in illegal activities that she had to move to Stockholm herself in September 1943.
Biography of Marie-Thérčse Walter (excerpt)
Marie-Thérčse Walter (13 July 1909 – 20 October 1977) was a French model and lover of Pablo Picasso from 1927 to about 1935 and the mother of their daughter Maya Widmaier-Picasso.Their relationship began when she was seventeen years old; he was 45 and married to his first wife, Olga Khokhlova.
Biography of Mikhail Koltsov (excerpt)
Mikhail Efimovich Koltsov (June 12 (O.S.May 31) 1898 – February 2, 1940), born Moisey Haimovich Fridlyand (Russian: Моисей Хаимович Фридлянд), was a Soviet Journalist, Bolshevik Revolutionary and a NKVD Agent. On 19 December 1937, Mikhail Koltsov published an article criticizing some aspects of the purges.
Biography of Soong Mei-ling (excerpt)
Soong Mei-ling (also spelled Soong May-ling; March 5, 1898 – October 23, 2003), also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Chinese: 蔣介石夫人) or Madame Chiang (Chinese: 蔣夫人), was a Chinese political figure who was First Lady of the Republic of China, the wife of President Chiang Kai-shek of the Republic of China.
Biography of Jean Hyppolite (excerpt)
Jean Hyppolite (January 8, 1907 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – October 26, 1968) was a French philosopher known for championing the work of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and other German philosophers, and educating some of France's most prominent post-war thinkers.
Biography of Martha Gellhorn (excerpt)
Martha Ellis Gellhorn (8 November 1908 – 15 February 1998) was an American novelist, travel writer, and journalist who is considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century. Gellhorn reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career.
Biography of Rostislav Plyatt (excerpt)
Rostislav Yanovich Plyatt (Russian: Ростислав Янович Плятт; 13 December (O.S. 30 November) 1908 — 30 June 1989) was a Soviet theatre, film and radio actor. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1961 and awarded the USSR State Prize in 1982.
Biography of Olga Zhizneva (excerpt)
Olga Andryevna Zhiznyeva (sometimes Olga Zhizneva) (Russian: Ольга Андреевна Жизнева; April 17, 1899 (Gregorian calendar) – November 10, 1972) was a famous Soviet actress. Selected filmography Property of the Republic (1971) as Princess Tikhvinskaya Late Flowers as Princess Priklonskaya (1969) We'll Live Till Monday as Melnikov's Mother (1968)
Biography of Théo Kerg (excerpt)
Théo Kerg (2 June 1909 – 4 March 1993) was a Luxembourgian painter and sculptor who specialized in modern art. Kerg was born to a schoolmaster and his wife in Niederkorn, in south-western Luxembourg, Théo Kerg attended school in Esch-sur-Alzette.He moved to Paris, France, in 1929 to study at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, the Sorbonne and the Institut d'art et d'archéologie.
Biography of Pilar Primo de Rivera (excerpt)
María del Pilar Primo de Rivera y Sáenz de Heredia, 1st Countess of the Castle of La Mota (November 4, 1907 – March 17, 1991) was the sister of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, a political movement of Spain, and the daughter of Spanish dictator General Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella.
Biography of Judith Auer (excerpt)
Judith Auer, née Vallentin (19 September 1905 – 27 October 1944) was a resistance fighter against the Nazi régime in Germany. After Hitler seized power in Germany in 1933 and the KPD was banned by the new régime, Auer eventually found herself working for AEG at the Kabelwerk Oberspree ("cable works"), first as a shorthand typist, and later as a buying agent.
Biography of Louis Scutenaire (excerpt)
Louis Scutenaire (29 June 1905 – 15 August 1987) was a poet, anarchist, surrealist and civil servant.Born Jean Émile Louis Scutenaire in Ollignies, Belgium; died in Brussels. Louis Scutenaire is chiefly remembered as a central figure in the Belgian Surrealist movement, along with René Magritte, Paul Nougé, Marcel Lecomte and his own wife Irčne Hamoir.
Biography of Margaret Masterman (excerpt)
Margaret Masterman (4 May 1910 – 1 April 1986) was a British linguist and philosopher, most known for her pioneering work in the field of computational linguistics and especially machine translation.She founded the Cambridge Language Research Unit. Margaret Masterman was born in London on 4 May 1910 to Charles F.
Biography of Ilya Kopalin (excerpt)
Ilya Petrovich Kopalin (1900-1976) was a Russian film director remembered for his documentaries.His most famous footage is that of Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt at the Yalta Conference and that of Yuri Gargarin's space flight. He was born the son of a peasant on 2 August 1900 in the village of Pavlovskaya, Zvenigorod on the outskirts of Moscow.
Biography of Karol Swierczewski (excerpt)
Karol Wacław Świerczewski (10 February 1897 – 28 March 1947) was Pole serving as the Red Army general.He was a Bolshevik party member and Soviet officer in the wars fought abroad by the Soviet Union including the one against Polish as well as Ukrainian Republics and in Republican Spain.
Biography of Boris Lyatoshinsky (excerpt)
Boris Mykolayovych Lyatoshinsky or Lyatoshynsky (Ukrainian: Бори́с Миколáйович Лятоши́нський, Borys Mykolayovych Lyatoshyns′kyi; January 3, 1895 – April 15, 1968) was a Ukrainian composer, conductor, and teacher. A leading member of the new generation of twentieth-century Ukrainian composers, he was awarded a number of accolades, including the honorary title of People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR and two Stalin State Prizes.
Biography of Anton Ackermann (excerpt)
Anton Ackermann (real name: Eugen Hanisch, 25 November 1905 Thalheim, Saxony – 4 May 1973 East Berlin) was an East German politician.In 1953, he briefly served as Minister of Foreign Affairs. From 1949 to 1953, he was the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Biography of Yelena Kuzmina (actress) (excerpt)
Yelena Aleksandrovna Kuzmina 17 February 1909 (Gregorian calendar) – 15 October 1979) was a Soviet actress.She appeared in 20 films between 1929 and 1978.She was the recipient of three Stalin Prizes (1946, 1948, 1951) and was named a People's Artist of Russia in 1950.
Biography of Frieda Belinfante (excerpt)
Frieda Belinfante (May 10, 1904 in Amsterdam – April 26, 1995 in Santa Fe, New Mexico) was a Dutch cellist, conductor, a prominent lesbian and a member of the Dutch resistance during World War II.After the war, Belinfante immigrated to the United States and continued her career in music.
Biography of Bruno Freindlich (excerpt)
Bruno Arturovich Freindlich (sometimes Freundlich) (Russian: Бруно Артурович Фрейндлих; 10 October 1909 – 9 July 2002) was a Soviet/Russian actor of German ancestry who became People's Artist of the USSR in 1974. His daughter Alisa Freindlich is also a notable actress.
Biography of Giuseppe Di Vittorio (excerpt)
Giuseppe Di Vittorio, also known under the pseudonym Nicoletti (August 11, 1892 – November 3, 1957), was an Italian syndicalist and communist politician. He was one of the most influential trade union leaders of the labour movement after World War I.
Biography of James O. McKinsey (excerpt)
James Oscar McKinsey (June 4, 1889 – November 30, 1937) was an American accountant, management consultant, professor of accounting at the University of Chicago, and founder of McKinsey & Company. Youth, education and early career McKinsey was born in 1889 in Gamma, Missouri, son of James Madison McKinsey and Mary Elizabeth (Logan) McKinsey.
Biography of La Nińa de los Peines (excerpt)
Pastora Pavón Cruz, known as La Nińa de los Peines (Seville, Spain, 10 February 1890 - 26 November 1969), is considered the most important woman flamenco singer of the 20th century.She was a sister of singers Arturo Pavón and Tomás Pavón, also an important flamenco singer, and aunt to Arturo Pavón, the first flamenco pianist.
Biography of Maurice Holtzer (excerpt)
Maurice Holtzer is a French boxer born in Troyes on January 21, 1906 (source for his time and date of birth: Didier Geslain, birth certificate No. 67) and died in January 1960. He was particularly champion of France and Europe in the featherweight category in 1936.
Biography of Léa Roback (excerpt)
Léa Roback (3 November 1903 – 28 August 2000) was a Canadian trade union organizer, social activist, pacifist, and feminist. She campaigned against exclusion, violence, racism and injustice. A polyglot and a suffragist, she was a pioneer of feminism in Quebec. A Syndicalist, Communist and a Marxist, she opened the first Marxist book store in Montreal.
Biography of Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (excerpt)
Erik Maria Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (born July 31, 1909 in Tobelbad, Styria, Austria-Hungary (birth time source: a YouTube video.There is no original source.3:52 GMT corresponds to 3:52 AM legal time) ; died May 26, 1999, in Lans, Tyrol), was an Austrian political scientist and journalist.
Biography of Ilya Ehrenburg (excerpt)
Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg (26 January (O.S.14 January) 1891 – 31 August 1967) was a Soviet writer, Bolshevik revolutionary, journalist and historian. Ehrenburg is among the most prolific and notable authors of the Soviet Union; he published around one hundred titles.He became known first and foremost as a novelist and a journalist – in particular, as a reporter in three wars (First World War, Spanish Civil War and the Second World War).
Biography of Mark Reizen (excerpt)
Mark Osipovich Reizen, also Reisen or Reyzen (3 July (O.S. 21 June) 1895 – November 25, 1992), PAU, was a leading Soviet opera singer with a beautiful and expansive bass voice. Reizen was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1941, 1949 and 1951.
Biography of Moe Howard (excerpt)
Moses Harry Horwitz (June 19, 1897 – May 4, 1975), better known by his stage name Moe Howard, was an American comedian and actor. He is best known as the leader and straight man of the Three Stooges, the farce comedy team who starred in motion pictures and television for four decades.
Biography of Gerda Taro (excerpt)
Gerta Pohorylle (1 August 1910 – 26 July 1937), known professionally as Gerda Taro, was a German war photographer active during the Spanish Civil War. She is regarded as the first woman photojournalist to have died while covering the frontline in a war.
Biography of Lise de Baissac (excerpt)
Lise Marie Jeanette de Baissac MBE (11 May 1905 – 29 March 2004), code names Odile and Marguerite, was born in Mauritius of French descent and British nationality.She was an agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) organization in France during World War II.
Biography of Erwin Geschonneck (excerpt)
Erwin Geschonneck (27 December 1906 – 12 March 2008) was a German actor.His biggest success occurred in the German Democratic Republic, where he was considered one of the most famous actors of the time. Immediately following the war, Geschonneck acted in theaters in Hamburg, Germany, and made his film debut in 1947 in In jenen Tagen.
Biography of Gladys McConnell (excerpt)
Gladys McConnell (October 22, 1905 – March 4, 1979) was an American film actress and aviator. Her film career was brief, about four years from the late silent to early sound era (1926 – 1930).She sometimes used the professional name Gladys Morrow.
Biography of Dmitry Maksutov (excerpt)
Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov (23 April (O.S.11 April) 1896 – 12 August 1964) was a Russian / Soviet optical engineer and amateur astronomer.He is best known as the inventor of the Maksutov telescope. Maksutov's most well known contribution in the field of optics was made in 1941, when he invented the Maksutov telescope.
Biography of Grove (cartoonist) (excerpt)
William Nolgrove, known as William Napoléon Grove or simply Grove, born July 5, 1901 in Paris 6e (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) , died in 1975 in Cannes, is a French cartoonist, known for his long collaboration with Le Canard enchaîné.
Biography of Felix de Weldon (excerpt)
Felix Weihs de Weldon (April 12, 1907 – June 3, 2003) was an Austrian-born American sculptor. His most famous pieces include the United States Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima Memorial, 1954) in Arlington County, Virginia and the Malaysian National Monument (1966) in Kuala Lumpur.
Biography of Marga von Etzdorf (excerpt)
Margarete (Marga) von Etzdorf (1 August 1907 - 28 May 1933 (suicide, age 25) was a German aircraft pilot, notable for being the first woman hired to fly for an airline, and the first woman to fly solo across Siberia, from Germany to Tokyo, Japan.
Biography of Leslie Kish (excerpt)
Leslie Kish (born László Kiss, July 27, 1910 – October 7, 2000) was a Hungarian-American statistician and survey methodologist. In 1997, the American Statistical Association gave Kish their Wilks Memorial Award.The award citation read: "For being a truly outstanding statistician, who has had a profound influence on sample survey practice throughout the world.
Biography of Grigor Kozintsev (excerpt)
Grigori Mikhaylovich Kozintsev (22 March (O.S.9 March) 1905 – 11 May 1973) was a Soviet theatre and film director.He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1964.In 1965 he was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival.
Biography of Boris Iofane (excerpt)
Boris Mihailovich Iofan (April 28th 1891–March 11th 1976) was a Jewish Soviet architect, known for his Stalinist architecture buildings like 1931 House on the Embankment and the 1931-1933 winning draft of the Palace of Soviets. In 1931, Iofan completed the elite block-wide House on the Embankment (official name Дом Правительства, Government Building).
Biography of Norman Hartnell (excerpt)
Sir Norman Bishop Hartnell, KCVO (12 June 1901 – 8 June 1979) was a leading British fashion designer, best known for his work for the ladies of the Royal Family. Hartnell gained the Royal Warrant as Dressmaker to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in 1940; and Royal Warrant as Dressmaker to Queen Elizabeth II in 1957.
Biography of László Rajk (excerpt)
László Rajk (8 March 1909 in Székelyudvarhely, – 15 October 1949 in Budapest) was a Hungarian Communist politician, who served as Minister of Interior and Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was an important organizer of the Hungarian Communists' power (for example, organizing the State Protection Authority (ÁVH)), but he eventually fell victim to Mátyás Rákosi's show trials.
Biography of Nelson Algren (excerpt)
Nelson Algren (born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham; March 28, 1909 – May 9, 1981) was an American writer. His 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm won the National Book Award and was adapted as the 1955 film of the same name.
Biography of Marius Casadesus (excerpt)
Marius Casadesus (October 24, 1892 – October 13, 1981) was a French violinist and composer.He was the brother of Henri Casadesus, uncle of the famed pianist Robert Casadesus, and grand-uncle to Jean Casadesus. Marius Casadesus achieved perhaps his greatest fame (or notoriety) through his association with the Adélaďde Concerto attributed to Mozart.
Biography of Henry Barraud (excerpt)
Henry Barraud (sometimes Henri) (23 April 1900 – 28 December 1997) was a French composer. He was born in Bordeaux.He was a student of Louis Aubert at the Conservatoire de Paris, but in 1927 failed to graduate, apparently because of his refusal to follow orthodox methods.
Biography of Hannah Höch (excerpt)
Hannah Höch (1 November 1889 – 31 May 1978) was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage. Photomontage, or fotomontage, is a type of collage in which the pasted items are actual photographs, or photographic reproductions pulled from the press and other widely produced media.
Biography of Grigori Sokolnikov (excerpt)
Grigori Yakovlevich Sokolnikov (born Hirsch Brilliant or Girsh Yankelevich Brilliant; 1888–1939) was a Russian old Bolshevik revolutionary, economist, and Soviet politician. Sokolnikov was arrested on 26 July 1936.He was sufficiently broken under interrogation, either through torture or more probably through threats to harm his young wife and daughter, that he not only incriminated himself, but was made to confront Bukharin, in Lazar Kaganovich's office, and accuse him of being part of a conspiracy to restore capitalism in the USSR.
Biography of Rose Valland (excerpt)
Rose Antonia Maria Valland (1 November 1898 – 18 September 1980) was a French art historian, member of the French Resistance, captain in the French military, and one of the most decorated women in French history. She secretly recorded details of the Nazi plundering of National French and private Jewish-owned art from France; and, working with the French Resistance, she saved thousands of works of art. |
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