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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 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 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 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 Heinrich Eduard Jacob (excerpt)
Heinrich Eduard Jacob (7 October 1889 – 25 October 1967) was a German and American journalist and author.Born to a Jewish family in Berlin and raised partly in Vienna, Jacob worked for two decades as a journalist and biographer before the rise to power of the Nazi Party.
Biography of Jean de Beaumont (excerpt)
Count Jean Bonnin de la Bonninière de Beaumont (13 January 1904 – 12 June 2002) was a French aristocrat, businessman, politician, journalist, and sport shooter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. Born in Paris, he hailed from a notable aristocratic family and studied at prestigious French institutions.
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 Francisco Luis Urquizo (excerpt)
Francisco Luis Urquizo Benavides, born June 27, 1891, in San Pedro de las Colonias and died April 6, 1969, in Mexico City, was a Mexican general, writer, and historian. A key figure in the Mexican Revolution, he later served as Secretary of National Defense from 1945 to 1946.
Biography of Doris Hill (excerpt)
Doris Hill, born Roberta M. Hill on March 21, 1905, in Roswell, New Mexico, died on March 3, 1976. She was an American actress active in the 1920s and 1930s. Discovered dancing in Los Angeles, she began her film career in 1926 and successfully transitioned to sound films.
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 Hanna Nagel (excerpt)
Hanna Nagel (born Johanna Nagel on June 10, 1907, in Heidelberg, where she died on March 15, 1975) was a German engraver and illustrator known for her activism against patriarchy and discrimination. The eldest of three children, she grew up in Heidelberg, attended a girls’ school, trained as a bookbinder, and later joined the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe.
Biography of Elisabeth Zernike (excerpt)
Elisabeth Zernike (July 8, 1891 – March 12, 1982) was a Dutch writer. She was the sister of Anne Zernike and Frits Zernike. Her father was a school principal and pedagogue, and her mother was a teacher. She attended the girls’ HBS (secondary school) in Amsterdam and later the School of Music for Sound Art before pursuing writing.
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 Øygarden, he experienced guilt over not taking over the family farm, a theme reflected in his works.
Biography of Marieluise Flesser (excerpt)
Marieluise Fleißer (November 22, 1901 – February 2, 1974) was a German writer and playwright associated with the aesthetic movement of New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit). Early Life Born in Ingolstadt, she studied literature, philosophy, and theater in Munich, where she befriended Lion Feuchtwanger and Bertolt Brecht.
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 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 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.
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 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 Amado Alonso (excerpt)
Amado Alonso García (13 September 1896 – 26 May 1952) was a Spanish philologist, linguist, and literary critic, later naturalized as an Argentine citizen. He was a key figure in the development of stylistics and a student of Ramón Menéndez Pidal at Madrid’s Center for Historical Studies.
Biography of Teresa Andrés Zamora (excerpt)
Teresa Andrés Zamora (February 27, 1907 – July 5, 1946) was a pioneering Spanish librarian and academic. Born in Villalba de los Alcores, she studied Philosophy and Letters in Valladolid, and later pursued a doctorate in Madrid. A committed feminist, republican, and trade unionist, Andrés led the Sección de Bibliotecas de Cultura Popular and was deeply involved in education and cultural preservation.
Biography of Pietro Bucalossi (excerpt)
Pietro Bucalossi (August 9, 1905 – March 15, 1992) was an Italian physician and politician known for his cancer research and fiscal conservatism as Mayor of Milan in the 1960s. Born in San Miniato, he graduated in medicine from the University of Pisa and became a prominent oncologist in Milan.
Biography of Pierre-Paul Grassé (excerpt)
Pierre-Paul Grassé (born November 27, 1895, in Périgueux, Dordogne, and died July 9, 1985, in Paris) was a French biologist, zoologist, and paleontologist, author of over 300 publications, including a significant treatise on zoology. A Doctor of Biological Sciences, he taught at the University of Montpellier, Clermont-Ferrand, and later at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he became the Chair of Evolution in 1941.
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 Dorothy Gulliver (excerpt)
Dorothy Kathleen Gulliver (September 6, 1908 - May 23, 1997) was an American silent film actress, one of the few to make a successful transition to sound films. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and raised as a Mormon, she aspired to act from a young age.
Biography of Ernst Toller (excerpt)
Ernst Toller (1 December 1893 – 22 May 1939) was a German author, playwright, left-wing politician and revolutionary, known for his Expressionist plays. He served in 1919 for six days as President of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, after which he became the head of its army.
Biography of Henry Pachter (excerpt)
Henry Pachter (1907–1980) was a Marxist intellectual and libertarian socialist activist. Renowned as an essayist on historical and political topics, he authored several books on diverse subjects. An exile from Nazi Germany, he taught at the New School for Social Research and City College in New York until his death.
Biography of Philipp Jarnach (excerpt)
Philipp Jarnach, born on July 26, 1892, in Noisy-le-Sec, France, and died on December 17, 1982, in Börnsen, was a German composer of modern music, pianist, teacher, and conductor. The son of a Spanish sculptor and a Flemish mother, he studied piano at the Conservatoire de Paris before becoming a student of Ferruccio Busoni in Zurich during World War I.
Biography of José María Albareda (excerpt)
José María Albareda Herrera (Caspe, 15 April 1902 - 26 February 1966, Madrid) was a Spanish soil scientist and science administrator. From its 1939 creation by Francoist Spain to his 1966 death, he was the secretary general and head of the Higher Council of Scientific Research (CSIC), the main Spanish scientific institution.
Biography of Manlio Bacigalupo (excerpt)
Manlio Bacigalupo (5 September 1907 – 1 December 1977) was an Italian association football goalkeeper and manager from Vado Ligure, Savona. Playing career Over the course of his career, Bacigalupo played for five Italian sides, spending the most of his time with Genoa and Venezia, also playing for Torino.
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 David van Dantzig (excerpt)
David van Dantzig (September 23, 1900 – July 22, 1959) was a Dutch mathematician renowned for constructing the solenoid in topology. He was a member of the Significs Group. Born into a Jewish family in Amsterdam, he earned his PhD in 1931 at the University of Groningen under Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, focusing on topological algebra.
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 Polly Ann Young (excerpt)
Polly Ann Young, born October 25, 1908, in Denver and died January 21, 1997, in Los Angeles, was an American actress.She was the sister of fellow actresses Loretta Young and Sally Blane. From 1917 to 1941, she appeared in over 40 films, many in minor or uncredited roles.
Biography of Giambattista Dal Piaz (excerpt)
Giambattista Dal Piaz (Feltre, September 3, 1904 – Padua, October 28, 1995) was an Italian geologist. He graduated in natural sciences from the University of Padua in 1927 and taught geology at the University of Turin and later in Padua, where he also taught paleontology and petrography.
Biography of Lutz Heck (excerpt)
Ludwig Georg Heinrich Heck, called Lutz Heck (23 April 1892 in Berlin, German Empire – 6 April 1983 in Wiesbaden, West Germany) was a German zoologist, animal researcher, animal book author and director of the Berlin Zoological Garden where he succeeded his father in 1932.
Biography of Jean Rudolf von Salis (excerpt)
Jean Rudolf von Salis (12 December 1901 – 14 July 1996) was a Swiss historian. He gained prominence with his weekly "Weltchronik" (English: world chronicle) radio broadcasts from 1940 until 1947. As von Salis never wrote English publications and his works were rarely translated, he is little known outside of the European historical sciences.
Biography of Erich Brauer (excerpt)
Erich Brauer (28 June 1895, in Berlin – 9 May 1942, in Petah Tikvah) was a German Jewish illustrator, ethnographer, and ethnologist.As an artist he chose to be known as Erich Chiram Brauer.He often signed his art work "Chiram".
Biography of José Iturbi (excerpt)
José Iturbi Báguena (Valencia, 28 November 1895 – Los Angeles, 28 June 1980) was a Spanish conductor, pianist, harpsichordist, and actor, appearing in several MGM musical films, including Thousands Cheer (1943) and Anchors Aweigh (1945). His approximate time of birth comes from the online biography at joseiturbi.com, which states that he was born in the evening.
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 Georg Aumann (excerpt)
Georg Aumann (11 November 1906 in Munich, Germany – 4 August 1980), was a German mathematician.He was known for his work in general topology and regulated functions. During World War II, he worked as part of a group of five mathematicians, recruited by Wilhelm Fenner, and which included Ernst Witt, Alexander Aigner, Oswald Teichmueller and Johann Friedrich Schultze, and led by Wolfgang Franz, to form the backbone of the new mathematical research department in the late 1930s, which would eventually be called: Section IVc of Cipher Department of the High Command of the Wehrmacht (abbr.
Biography of Walter Czollek (excerpt)
Walter Czollek (8 April 1907 – 23 April 1972) was the head of the East German publishing house Verlag Volk und Welt from 1954 to 1972. Born in Charlottenburg, Berlin, into a Jewish family, he trained in textile production and studied applied economics.
Biography of Xavier de Langlais (excerpt)
Xavier de Langlais (April 26, 1906 in Sarzeau – June 15, 1975) was a Breton painter, printmaker and writer.He usually signed his work with the name Langleiz, a Breton language version of his surname. A supporter of the Breton National Party, this Breton artist and activist edited and illustrated nationalist literature.
Biography of Hildebrand Gurlitt (excerpt)
Hildebrand Gurlitt (15 September 1895 – 9 November 1956) was a German art historian and art gallery director who dealt in Nazi-looted art as one of Hitler's and Goering's four authorized dealers for "degenerate art". A Nazi-associated art dealer and war profiteer, during the Nazi era Gurlitt traded in "degenerate art", purchasing paintings in Nazi-occupied France, many of them stolen, for Hitler's planned Führermuseum (which was never built) and for himself.
Biography of Emilio Amero (excerpt)
Emilio Amero (May 25, 1901, in Ixtlahuacán del Río, Jalisco – April 12, 1976, in Norman, Oklahoma) was a prominent Mexican artist, illustrator, muralist, and educator, central to the Mexican Modern art movement. Shaped by the Mexican Revolution, he expressed his artistic vision through painting, lithography, illustration, photography, and filmmaking.
Biography of Xavier Villaurrutia (excerpt)
Xavier Villaurrutia y González (27 March 1903 – 25 December 1950) was a Mexican poet, playwright, translator, and literary critic whose most famous works are the short theatrical dramas called Autos profanos, compiled in the work Poesía y teatro completos, published in 1953.
Biography of John Pozzobon (excerpt)
Jean Pozzobon (in Portuguese: João Luiz Pozzobon), born in Cachoeira do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) on December 12, 1904, and died on June 27, 1985, in Santa Maria (Brazil), was a permanent Catholic deacon and the initiator of the Schoenstatt Pilgrim Mother Campaign, now present in over 100 countries worldwide.
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 Ricardo Flórez (painter) (excerpt)
Ricardo Flórez Gutiérrez de Quintanilla, born on May 7, 1893, in Lima, Peru, and died on October 20, 1983, in Tomayquichua, was a distinguished Peruvian painter. After studying at the National School of Fine Arts in Lima under Teófilo Castillo and Daniel Hernández, he began his career as a professor there.
Biography of André Daven (excerpt)
André Daven (13 March 1899 - 17 November 1981) was a French film producer, actor and director. In the mid-1920s he was the artistic director of the Theatre des Champs-Elysees in Paris when Josephine Baker was hired to appear there. During the German occupation of France during the Second World War he went to the United States where he produced four films.
Biography of Oscar Andriani (excerpt)
Oscar Andriani (28 December 1905 – 17 July 1987) was an Italian actor and playwright.He appeared in more than fifty films from 1937 to 1969. Life and career Born in Brescia, Andriani made his stage debut at 17 years old in the theatrical company of Amedeo Chiantoni , and later worked with other important companies of the time, such the ones led by Emma Gramatica, Wanda Capodaglio and Annibale Ninchi. |
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