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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 John Walker (curator) (excerpt)
John Walker III (December 24, 1906 – October 16, 1995) was an American art curator and the second director of the National Gallery of Art, serving from 1956 to 1969. A Harvard graduate in art history in 1930, he co-founded the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art with Philip Johnson and Lincoln Kirstein.
Biography of Georg Streiter (journalist) (excerpt)
Georg Heinrich Karl Streiter (October 20, 1907 – August 9, 1976) was a German journalist and civil servant. He studied economics and psychology in Berlin and Danzig, later working as a secretary and press spokesperson in Danzig.He fled to Poland in 1935 and worked as a journalist until WWII.
Biography of Llibertat Ródenas Rodriguez (excerpt)
Llibertat Ródenas Rodriguez (Chera, 23 September 1892 – Mexico, 19 January 1970) was a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist and feminist activist.Born in Chera, she moved to Barcelona in 1918 and joined the CNT, gaining recognition for her public speaking skills. Imprisoned in 1920 for her activism, she later campaigned for the FAI starting in 1931.
Biography of Donald Stewart (actor) (excerpt)
Donald Stewart (May 14, 1910 – March 1, 1966) was an American actor and singer, who settled and worked in the United Kingdom. After training at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and several appearances in Broadway musicals (including Life Begins at 8:40), Stewart moved to Britain.
Biography of Bettiola Heloise Fortson (excerpt)
Bettiola Heloise Fortson (December 29, 1890 – April 13, 1917) was an African-American poet, essayist, activist, and suffragist. Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, she moved to Chicago at age 12. Fortson co-founded the University Society of Chicago, promoting artistic and intellectual development among African Americans.
Biography of Hans Jonas (excerpt)
Hans Jonas, born on May 10, 1903, in Mönchengladbach (German Empire) and died on February 5, 1993, in New Rochelle (New York State, United States), was a historian of Gnosticism and a German philosopher. He is best known for his ethics for the technological age, particularly beyond philosophical circles.
Biography of Fritz Jacobsen (excerpt)
Fritz John Jacobsen (born 21 May 1896 in Berlin-Charlottenburg – died 3 August 1981 in Nuremberg) was a German World War I flying ace credited with eight confirmed aerial victories and two unconfirmed. Fascinated by aviation from 1909, he became a test pilot and instructor before joining the German air troops in 1915.
Biography of Achille Campanile (excerpt)
Achille Campanile (28 September 1899 – 4 January 1977) was an Italian writer, playwright, journalist and television critic known for his surreal humour and word play. His father was one of the editors of the newspaper La Tribuna. Always a prolific contributor to newspapers and periodicals, Campanile wrote for the newspapers La Tribuna, L'Idea Nazionale and the satirical magazine Il Travaso delle idee.
Biography of Josep Lluís Sert (excerpt)
Josep Lluís Sert (May 7, 1901 – March 15, 1983) was a Catalan architect and urban planner born in Barcelona, Spain. He studied at the Barcelona School of Architecture before moving to Paris in 1926 to work with Le Corbusier. Sert founded his own agency in 1929 and co-founded GATCPAC, introducing a rationalist aesthetic in Spain characterized by clean lines and abundant light.
Biography of Liliana Lubinska (excerpt)
Liliana Lubińska (October 14, 1904 - November 19, 1990) was a Polish neuroscientist known for her research on the peripheral nervous system and her discovery of bidirectional axoplasmic transport. Born in Łódź in 1904, she married neuroscientist Jerzy Konorski. She began her studies at the University of Warsaw, then continued at the Sorbonne, earning her doctorate in 1932 for work on reflexes.
Biography of Archibald Roosevelt (excerpt)
Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt Sr.(April 9, 1894 – October 13, 1979) was a U.S.Army officer and commander of U.S.forces in World War I and II, and the fifth child of U.S.President Theodore Roosevelt. In both conflicts he was wounded.He earned the Silver Star with three oak leaf clusters, Purple Heart with oak leaf cluster, and the French Croix de Guerre.
Biography of Ray Corrigan (excerpt)
Ray "Crash" Corrigan (born Raymond Benitz; February 14, 1902 – August 10, 1976) was an American actor most famous for appearing in many B-Western movies (among these the Three Mesquiteers and Range Busters film series). He also was a stuntman and frequently acted as silver screen gorillas using his own gorilla costumes.
Biography of Charles Kiffer (excerpt)
Charles Kiffer, born on June 8, 1902, in Paris and died on January 20, 1992, in the same city, was a French painter, illustrator, sculptor, engraver, and poster artist. He studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1918 and exhibited at various prestigious salons such as the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne.
Biography of Paul Alverdes (excerpt)
Paul Alverdes (6 May 1897, Strasbourg - 28 February 1979, Munich) was a German novelist and poet. The son of an officer and member of the German Youth Movement, he volunteered for duty in World War I and received a severe injury to the throat.
Biography of Vicente Escudero (excerpt)
Vicente Escudero (27 October 1888, Valladolid, Spain – 4 December 1980, Barcelona) was a Spanish flamenco dancer who engaged with the avant-garde, bringing modernist aesthetics to flamenco dance. His time of birth comes from the biography "Antología del baile flamenco" by Manuel Ríos Vargas (Signatura Ediciones, 2002).
Biography of Hans Bassermann (excerpt)
Hans Bassermann, born on September 20, 1888, in Frankfurt and died on February 12, 1978, was a German violinist and music scholar. The son of music teacher Fritz Bassermann and pianist Florence Bassermann, he began violin lessons with his father before studying in Berlin.
Biography of Edmund Bacon (architect) (excerpt)
Edmund Norwood Bacon (May 2, 1910 – October 14, 2005) was an American urban planner, architect, educator, and author. During his tenure as the executive director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission from 1949 to 1970, his visions shaped today's Philadelphia, the city of his birth, to the extent that he is sometimes described as "The Father of Modern Philadelphia".
Biography of Ah Jook Ku (excerpt)
Ah Jook Ku, born April 24, 1910, in Kailua, Hawaii, and died August 6, 2007, was a trailblazing American journalist. She was the first Asian American reporter for the Associated Press and the first Asian American woman at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, where she began as a high school correspondent.
Biography of Antoinette Sasse (excerpt)
Antoinette Sasse, born Antoinette Kohn on June 18, 1897, was a French artist known for her Fauvism style paintings and significant role in the French Resistance during World War II. Born into a wealthy Jewish family in Paris, she studied under notable artists including Henri Matisse.
Biography of Silvestre Revueltas (excerpt)
Silvestre Revueltas Sánchez (December 31, 1899 – October 5, 1940) was a Mexican classical music composer, violinist, and conductor. Born in Durango, he studied in Mexico City, Texas, and Chicago. He became assistant conductor of Mexico's National Symphony Orchestra in 1929, promoted contemporary Mexican music, and composed film scores, including the famous "La noche de los mayas."
Biography of Erich Kettelhut (excerpt)
Erich Kettelhut (born November 1, 1893, in Berlin; died March 13, 1979, in Hamburg) was a German set designer and scenographer. He trained as a theater painter at the Städtische Oper in Berlin and also worked in cities such as Aachen. He entered the film industry in 1919, working on productions by Joe May.
Biography of Mary Kid (excerpt)
Mary Kid (born Marie Anna Albertine Keul; 3 February 1901 – 29 October 1988) was a German actress. She appeared in more than forty films during the Weimar Republic, but her career came to an end in the early sound era.
Biography of Christian Bérard (excerpt)
Christian Bérard (August 20, 1902 – February 11, 1949), also known as Bebč, was a French artist, fashion illustrator, and designer. Bérard and his partner Boris Kochno, co-founder of the Ballets des Champs-Élysées, were one of the most prominent openly homosexual couples in French theater during the 1930s and 1940s.
Biography of Yvonne Pagniez (excerpt)
Yvonne Pagniez, born on August 10, 1896, in Cauroir, was a French journalist, award-winning writer, and a member of the French Resistance during World War II.She studied Philosophy and served as a nurse during World War I. Her family experienced occupation and separation during the war; her father was arrested as a spy but escaped.
Biography of Jean Nocher (excerpt)
Jean Nocher, real name Gaston Charon1, born September 27, 1908 in Poitiers and died June 24, 1967 in Bougival, is a French journalist and polemicist. Gaston Charon, who later became Jean Nocher, began his career as a teacher before turning to journalism in 1933.
Biography of William McCance (excerpt)
William McCance (6 August 1894 – 19 November 1970) was a Scottish artist, and was second Controller of the Gregynog Press in Powys, mid-Wales. William McCance was the seventh of eight children. After attending Hamilton Academy, McCance entered Glasgow School of Art, studying there 1911–15 and subsequently undertaking a teacher-training course at Glasgow's Kennedy Street school.
Biography of Stefan Lorant (excerpt)
Stefan Lorant (22 February 1901 - 14 November 1997) was a pioneering Hungarian-American filmmaker, photojournalist, and author.Born in Budapest, he moved to Germany and gained fame in filmmaking and photojournalism. He opposed Hitler and was imprisoned in 1933 but later moved to England and then the U.S.
Biography of Tarjei Vesaas (excerpt)
Tarjei Vesaas (20 August 1897 - 15 March 1970) was a renowned Norwegian poet and novelist, considered one of Norway’s most significant 20th-century writers. Born in Vinje, Telemark, to farmer Olav Vesaas and teacher Signe Řygarden, he experienced guilt over not taking over the family farm, a theme reflected in his works.
Biography of Maurice Ewing (excerpt)
William Maurice "Doc" Ewing (May 12, 1906 – May 4, 1974) was an American geophysicist and oceanographer. Ewing has been described as a pioneering geophysicist who worked on the research of seismic reflection and refraction in ocean basins, ocean bottom photography, submarine sound transmission (including the SOFAR channel), deep sea core samples of the ocean bottom, theory and observation of earthquake surface waves, fluidity of the Earth's core, generation and propagation of microseisms, submarine explosion seismology, marine gravity surveys, bathymetry and sedimentation, natural radioactivity of ocean waters and sediments, study of abyssal plains and submarine canyons.
Biography of Charles Brunier (excerpt)
Charles Armand Brunier, born on May 31, 1901, in Paris, and passed away on January 26, 2007, in Cormeilles-en-Parisis, was a French adventurer and soldier. He fought in World War I in Syria, earning the Croix de Guerre.In 1923, he was sentenced to life in prison for murder and sent to the French Guiana penal colony, where he escaped several times.
Biography of Carles Riba (excerpt)
Carles Riba i Bracons (23 September 1893 – 12 July 1959) was a Catalan poet, writer, and translator of Spanish nationality. Born in Barcelona, he studied Law and Philosophy at the University of Barcelona. In 1916, he married poet Clementina Arderiu and worked at the School of Librarianship.
Biography of John Decker (artist) (excerpt)
John Decker, born Leopold von der Decken on November 8, 1895, in Berlin, Germany, was a prominent painter, set designer, and caricaturist in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s. Initially painting scenery in London theaters, his career was interrupted by World War I, leading to his internment as an enemy alien.
Biography of Aleksander Wozny (excerpt)
Aleksander Woźny (born June 25, 1910, in Uzarzewo, died August 21, 1983, in Poznań) was a Polish priest of the Archdiocese of Poznań, preacher, prisoner of the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps and the post-war Stalinist period, pastor of St. John Cantius parish in Poznań, national chaplain for women, and Venerable Servant of God of the Catholic Church.
Biography of David Garnett (excerpt)
David Garnett (March 9, 1892 – February 17, 1981) was a British writer and publisher, a member of the Bloomsbury Group.He gained literary fame with Lady into Fox, winning the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1922 and the Hawthornden Prize in 1923.
Biography of Christine Teusch (excerpt)
Christine Teusch (11 October 1888, Cologne, Rhine Province – 24 October 1968) was a German politician of the Zentrumspartei ("Centre Party") and the Christian Democratic Union. From 1947 to 1954 Teusch was Minister of Education of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, having been the first female minister in German history.
Biography of Giulio Battiferri (excerpt)
Giulio Battiferri (15 July 1893 – 22 January 1973) was an Italian actor.He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1939 to 1972.He was married to the actress Pina Piovani. Life and career Born in Rome, Battiferri started his career on stage in 1913, working alongside his wife Pina Piovani in the Romanesco dialect stage company Compagnia Romanesca directed by Gastone Monaldi.
Biography of Joseph Yablonski (excerpt)
Joseph Albert "Jock" Yablonski (March 3, 1910 – December 31, 1969) was an American labor leader in the United Mine Workers in the 1950s and 1960s known for seeking reform in the union and better working conditions for miners.In 1969 he challenged Tony Boyle for the presidency of the international union and was defeated.
Biography of Eugen Neutert (excerpt)
Eugen Eduard Neutert (March 18, 1905 – September 9, 1943) was a German communist resistance fighter against Nazism. Born in Berlin, he emigrated to Brazil in 1923, returning to Germany in 1926. A member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), he lost his job as an electrician in 1928 and became a masseur.
Biography of Francis Salet (excerpt)
Francis Salet, born in the 6th arrondissement of Paris on February 12, 1909, and passed away in the 7th arrondissement of Paris on September 5, 2002, was a historian and museum curator, as well as a member of the Institut de France.
Biography of Erich Weinert (excerpt)
Erich Bernhard Gustav Weinert (August 4, 1890 – April 20, 1953) was a German Communist writer and member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Born in Magdeburg, he joined the military and served in World War I, later becoming a Communist in 1929.
Biography of Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1895) (excerpt)
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (11 March 1895 – 16 November 1903) was the only daughter of Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Named after her great-grandmother, she was nicknamed "Ella." Her life was tragically cut short at the age of eight, during a stay with her aunt, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.
Biography of Jean Cugnot (excerpt)
Jean Cugnot (Jean Pierre Gaston Cugnot), born on August 3, 1899, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris and died on June 25, 1933 (age 33), in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, was a French cyclist of the 1920s, specializing in track racing.
Biography of Paul Cambo (excerpt)
Paul Cambo (de son vrai nom Paul-Marius-Raymond Mignonat), born on July 2, 1908, in Bort-les-Orgues (Corrčze) and died on February 19, 1978, in Maisons-Laffitte (Yvelines), was a French actor and comedian.
Biography of Virginia d'Albert-Lake (excerpt)
Virginia d'Albert-Lake (4 June 1910 – 20 September 1997) was a member of the French Resistance during World War II. She worked with the Comet Escape Line. She and her husband Philippe helped 67 British and American airmen evade German capture. She was arrested on June 12, 1944 and imprisoned by the Germans in Ravensbrück concentration camp and other camps for the remainder of the war.
Biography of Delmer Daves (excerpt)
Delmer Lawrence Daves (July 24, 1904 – August 17, 1977) was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer, best known for his Westerns such as "Broken Arrow" (1950), "The Last Wagon" (1956), "3:10 to Yuma" (1957), and "The Hanging Tree" (1959).
Biography of Antonio Monteiro (mathematician) (excerpt)
António Aniceto Monteiro (1907–1980) was a mathematician born in Portuguese Angola who later emigrated to Brazil in 1945 and finally to Argentina in 1950.Monteiro is best known for establishing a school of algebraic logic at Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina.
Biography of Manuel Álvarez Bravo (excerpt)
Manuel Álvarez Bravo (February 3, 1902 – October 19, 2002) was a Mexican artistic photographer and one of the most important figures in 20th century Latin American photography.He was born and raised in Mexico City. While he took art classes at the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes, his photography is self-taught.
Biography of Johanna Hofer (excerpt)
Johanna Hofer (born Johanna Therese Stern; 30 July 1896 – 30 June 1988) was a German film actress.She appeared in 34 films between 1926 and 1982. Hofer was born in Berlin.She was the daughter of engineer and later director of AEG Georg Stern and his wife Lisbeth (née Schmidt), who was the younger sister of artist Käthe Kollwitz.
Biography of Carlo Ninchi (excerpt)
Carlo Ninchi (Bologna, May 31, 1896 – Milan, April 27, 1974) was a prominent Italian actor. The youngest of five children of Arnaldo Ninchi and Lidia Bedetti, he began his career in his brother Annibale’s troupe, debuting as Pilade in L'Oreste by Alfieri.
Biography of Theos Casimir Bernard (excerpt)
Theos Casimir Hamati Bernard (10 December 1908 – October 1947) was an American explorer and author known for his work on yoga and religious studies (particularly in Tibetan Buddhism). He was the nephew of Pierre Arnold Bernard, "Oom the Omnipotent", and like him became a yoga celebrity. |
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