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Horoscopes with Cupido in GeminiYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Cupido in Gemini. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Emily Post (excerpt)
Emily Post (October 27, 1873 - September 25, 1960) was a United States author who promoted what she considered "proper etiquette". She wrote books surrounding the topic of etiquette. Background Post was born as Emily Price in Baltimore, Maryland, and was born into privilege as the only daughter of famous architect Bruce Price and his wife Josephine Lee Price.
Biography of Frédéric Mariotti (excerpt)
Frédéric Mariotti, born on April 1, 1884 in Marseille, died on February 22, 1971 in Paris, was a French actor. Filmography (extract) 1917 : La Bonne Hôtesse de Georges Monca 1919 : Barrabas de Louis Feuillade - Film tourné en 12 épisodes - ![]()
Biography of Ettore Bugatti (excerpt)
Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti (September 15, 1881, Milan, died on August 21, 1947) was an Italian automobile designer and manufacturer. He came from a notably artistic family with its roots in Milan. He was the elder son of Teresa Lorioli and her husband Carlo Bugatti (1856–1940), an important Art Nouveau furniture and jewelry designer.
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Biography of Gaston Couté (excerpt)
Gaston Couté, born September 23, 1880 in Beaugency, Loiret (birth time source: birth certificate n° 70), died June 28, 1911 in Paris, was a French poet and singer. Bibliography Works * La chanson d'un gâs qu'a mal tourné, œuvres complètes en cinq volumes, Éd. ![]()
Biography of Augustus John (excerpt)
Augustus Edwin John OM, RA, (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a short time around 1910, he was an important exponent of Post-Impressionism in the United Kingdom. "Augustus was celebrated first for his brilliant figure drawings, and then for a new technique of oil sketching. ![]()
Biography of Jean Giraudoux (excerpt)
Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (October 29, 1882 – January 31, 1944) was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. Born in Bellac, Haute-Vienne, Giraudoux's father, Léger Giraudoux, worked for the Ministry of Transportation. ![]()
Biography of Marcel Labey (excerpt)
Marcel Labey (6 August 1875, Vésinet - 25 November 1968, Nancy) was a French conductor and composer. Life He was born to a family of magistrates and studied law in Paris (gaining his doctorate in 1898) before turning to music. He learned piano under Elie-Myrima Delaborde and Louis Breitner, and harmony under René Lenormand. ![]()
Biography of Edouard Daladier (excerpt)
Édouard Daladier (18 June 1884 - 10 October 1970) was a French Radical-Socialist politician, and Prime Minister of France at the start of the Second World War. Career Daladier was born in Carpentras, Vaucluse (later, he would become known to many as "the bull of Vaucluse" because of his thick neck and large shoulders and determined look, although cynics also quipped that his horns were like those of a snail).
Biography of Constant Rémy (excerpt)
Constant Rémy, born May 20, 1882 in Paris and died August 16, 1958 in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, was a French actor and comedian. Filmography (extract) * 1909 : Benvenuto Cellini de Camille de Morlhon * 1909 : Le Bon Voisin ![]()
Biography of Célestin Bouglé (excerpt)
Célestin Bouglé (June 1, 1870 – 1940) was a French philosopher known for his role as one of Émile Durkheim's collaborators and a member of the Annee Sociologique. Life Bouglé was born in Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor. He entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1890 and aggregated in philosophy in 1893. ![]()
Biography of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (excerpt)
Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (December 22, 1876 – December 2, 1944) was an Italian ideologue, poet, editor, and founder of the Futurist movement. Childhood and adolescence Emilio Angelo Carlo Marinetti (some documents give his name as "Filippo Achille Emilio") spent the first years of his life in Alexandria, Egypt, where his father (Enrico M. ![]()
Biography of Léon Brunschvicg (excerpt)
Léon Brunschvicg (November 10, 1869 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - January 18, 1944) was a French Idealist philosopher. He co-founded the Revue de métaphysique et de morale with Xavier Leon and Élie Halévy in 1893. Life From 1895-1900 he taught at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen. ![]()
Biography of Christian Wirth (excerpt)
Christian Wirth (24 November 1885 - 26 May 1944) was a senior SS officer during the program to exterminate the Jewish people of occupied Poland during the Second World War, known as Operation Reinhard. He was a top aide of Odilo Globocnik, the overall director of Operation Reinhard, and his responsibility was scaling up the T-4 Euthanasia Program, in which disabled people had been murdered by gassing or lethal injection, by developing extermination camps for mass murder.
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Biography of Edmond Jaloux (excerpt)
Edmond Jaloux (born in Marseille on June 19, 1878; died in Lutry on August 22, 1949) was a French novelist, essayist, and critic. His works tended to be set in Paris or his native Provence. He was interested in German Romanticism and English writers. ![]()
Biography of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (excerpt)
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (June 7, 1868–December 10, 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, and watercolourist. He was a designer in the Arts and Crafts movement and also the main exponent of Art Nouveau in the United Kingdom. He had a considerable influence on European design.
Biography of Mary Reid (excerpt)
Mary Reid aka Mary MacArthur (August 13, 1880-1921) was a Scottish suffragette and trades unionist. She was born in Glasgow and became politicised when she joined the shop assistant's union whilst working in her father draper's shop. In 1903 she became the general secretary of the Women's Trade Union League and in 1906 formed the National Federation of Women Workers and assisted in the creation of the National Anti-Sweating League. ![]()
Biography of Syngman Rhee (excerpt)
Syngman Rhee or Yi Seungman (March 26, 1875 – July 19, 1965; Korean pronunciation: ) was the first president of South Korea. His presidency, from August 1948 to April 1960, remains controversial, affected by Cold War tensions on the Korean peninsula and elsewhere. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Marie Charles Abrial (excerpt)
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial (17 December 1879, Réalmont (birth time source: Didier Geslain)- 19 December 1962, Dourgne) was a French Admiral and Minister of Marine of France. He fought in both World Wars, and was known mostly for his activity at Dunkirk in 1940. ![]()
Biography of Jacques Bainville (excerpt)
Jacques Bainville (February 9, 1879 in Vincennes-February 9, 1936 in Paris) was a French historian and journalist. A staunch monarchist, he was a leading figure in Action Française. A follower of Charles Maurras, Bainville was a founder of Action Française and soon became an important figure in the Institute d'Action Française, a college of sorts ran by the organisation (it had no permanent buildings but ran lectures and study groups where possible). ![]()
Biography of Jean Wahl (excerpt)
Jean André Wahl (May 25, 1888 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - June 19, 1974) was a French philosopher. Early career He was professor at the Sorbonne from 1936 to 1967, broken by World War II. He was in the U. ![]()
Biography of Polaire (actress) (excerpt)
Mlle Polaire was the stage name used by French singer and actress Emélie (not Emilie) Marie Bouchaud (May 14, 1874 – October 14, 1939). Born at Agha, Algiers, Algeria, she began her show-business career as a café singer, at age 15. At 17, she joined her older brother in Paris, France. ![]()
Biography of Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (excerpt)
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (Alice Mary Victoria Augusta Pauline; née Princess Alice of Albany; 25 February 1883 – 3 January 1981) was a member of the British Royal Family, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She has the distinction of remaining the longest lived Princess of the Blood Royal of the British Royal Family and last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria and the longest living member of the royal family to be a Princess of the blood. ![]()
Biography of Edith Sitwell (excerpt)
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic. Background Edith Sitwell was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, the only daughter of the aristocratic and eccentric Sir George Sitwell, 4th Baronet, of Renishaw Hall; he was an expert on genealogy and landscaping.
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Biography of Alf Landon (excerpt)
Alfred "Alf" Mossman Landon (September 9, 1887 – October 12, 1987) was an American Republican politician, who served as Governor of Kansas from 1933–1937. He was best known for being the Republican Party's (GOP) nominee for President of the United States, defeated in a landslide by Franklin D. ![]()
Biography of Vincenzo Peruggia (excerpt)
Vincenzo Peruggia (October 8, 1881, Maccagno, Italy - 1925, Haute-Savoie, France) is the man who once stole the Mona Lisa. Theft In 1911 Vincenzo Peruggia perpetrated what has been described as the greatest art theft of the 20th century. The former Louvre worker walked into the museum one day and, noticing the room containing the Mona Lisa had no guards or visitors, took the painting off its pegs, removed it from the frame, and walked out of the Louvre with it under his arm. ![]()
Biography of Paul Langevin (excerpt)
Paul Langevin (January 23, 1872 – December 19, 1946) was a prominent French physicist who developed Langevin dynamics and the Langevin equation. He was one of the founders of the Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes, an antifascist organization created in the wake of the February 6, 1934 far right riots. ![]()
Biography of Fritz Schäffer (excerpt)
Fritz Schäffer (12 May 1888, München – 29 March 1967, Berchtesgaden) was a German politician for the Bavarian People's Party (BVP) and the Christian Social Union (CSU). In 1945 he became the first Bavarian Minister-President after World War II. From 1949 to 1957 he was German Minister of Finance and from 1957 to 1961 Minister of Justice.
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Biography of Ludwig Müller (theologian) (excerpt)
Ludwig Müller (June 23, 1883 in Gütersloh, Westphalia (birth time source: Steinbrecher) - July 31, 1945 in Berlin) was a German who headed the German Christians (German: Deutsche Christen) and was imposed by the Nazi government as Landesbischof (bishop) of the Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union (6 July 1933) and Reich's Bishop (28 June 1933) of the German Evangelical Church (German: Deutsche Evangelische Kirche). ![]()
Biography of Marjorie Merriweather Post (excerpt)
Marjorie Merriweather Post a.k.a. Marjorie Merriweather Post Close Hutton Davies May (March 15, 1887 – September 12, 1973) was a leading American socialite and the founder of General Foods, Inc. She was 27 when her father died, and she became the owner of the rapidly growing Postum Cereal Company later becoming the wealthiest woman in America when her fortune reached approximately USD$250 million, more than 1 billion of today's dollars. ![]()
Biography of Howard Jones (excerpt)
Howard Harding Jones (August 23, 1885 – July 27, 1941) was an American college football coach at Syracuse (1908), Yale (1909, 1913), Ohio State (1910), Iowa (1916–23), Duke (1924), and Southern California (1925–40). Background Born in Excello, Ohio (now a part of Middletown), Jones played three seasons for Yale from 1905–1907.
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Biography of André Demaison (excerpt)
André Demaison, born January 17, 1883 ni Bordeaux, died in 1956 in Maule, was a French writer. Awards: Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française, in 1929 Selected publications: * 1924 : Diato, roman de l'homme noir qui eut trois femmes et en mourut ![]()
Biography of Stanley Baldwin (excerpt)
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC (3 August 1867 – 14 December 1947) was a British statesman and three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Early life He was born at Lower Park House, Lower Park, Bewdley in Worcestershire, England to Alfred Baldwin and Louisa Baldwin (née MacDonald) and through his mother was a first cousin of the writer and poet Rudyard Kipling.
Biography of André Francois-Poncet (excerpt)
André François-Poncet (13 June 1887, Provins, Seine-et-Marne – 8 January 1978) was a French politician and diplomat whose post as ambassador to Germany allowed him to witness first-hand the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, and the Nazi regime's preparations for war. ![]()
Biography of Lucie Delarue-Mardrus (excerpt)
Lucie Delarue-Mardrus (November 3, 1874 - April 26, 1945) was a French journalist, poet, and novelist. She was a prolific writer who produced more than 70 books. In France, she is best known for her poem beginning with the line "L'odeur de mon pays était dans une pomme" ("In the smell of an apple I held my native land. ![]()
Biography of Gabriela Mistral (excerpt)
Gabriela Mistral (April 7, 1889 — January 10, 1957) was the pseudonym of Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1945.
Biography of Elizabeth Aldrich (excerpt)
Elizabeth Aldrich, born on May 17, 1875 in Des Moines, Iowa, died in 1948, was an American astrologer and author.
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Biography of Ramón Gómez de la Serna (excerpt)
Ramón Gómez de la Serna Puig (July 3, 1888, Madrid - January 13, 1963, Buenos Aires) was a Spanish writer, dramatist and avant-garde agitator. He strongly influenced surrealist film maker Luis Buñuel. Ramón Gómez de la Serna was especially known for "Greguerías" - a short form of poetry that roughly corresponds to the one-liner in comedy.
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Biography of Gustav Stresemann (excerpt)
Gustav Stresemann (May 10, 1878 – October 3, 1929) was a German liberal politician and statesman who served as Chancellor and Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic. He was co-laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926. Stresemann's politics defy easy categorization. ![]()
Biography of Rémy Roure (excerpt)
Rémy Roure, born on October 1885 in Arcens (birth time source: Lescaut), died on November 8, 1966 in Paris, was a French journalist, author, and a member of the French Resistance. Bibliography (extract) L'Alsace minée ou De l'autonomisme alsacien, Paris, 1929 ![]()
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Brazzaville is the capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo (Congo Republic). Constituting the financial and administrative centre of the country, it is located on the north side of the Congo River, opposite Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo). ![]()
Biography of Ottorino Respighi (excerpt)
Ottorino Respighi (July 9, 1879 - April 18, 1936) was an Italian composer, musicologist and conductor. He is best known for his orchestral Roman trilogy: Fontane di Roma - "Fountains of Rome"; Pini di Roma - "Pines of Rome"; and Feste Romane - "Roman Festivals". ![]()
Biography of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (excerpt)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (August 15, 1875–September 1, 1912) was a black, English composer who achieved such success he was called "The Black Mahler." History Coleridge-Taylor was born in Holborn, London, to a Sierra Leonean (Krio) father, Daniel Peter Hughes Taylor, and an English mother, Alice Hare Martin. ![]()
Biography of Harvey Firestone (excerpt)
Harvey Samuel Firestone (December 20, 1868 – February 7, 1938) was the founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, one of the first global makers of automobile tires and an important contributor to North American economic growth during the 20th century.
Biography of Isabelle Pagan (excerpt)
Isabelle Pagan, born December 12, 1867 in Dairsie, Scotland, died in 1960, was a Scottish astrologer, theosophist, lecturer and writer. ![]()
Biography of Henri Queuille (excerpt)
Henri Queuille (French pronunciation: ; 31 March 1884 in Neuvic, Corrèze - 15 June 1970) was a French Radical politician prominent in the Third and Fourth Republics. After World War II, he served three times as Prime Minister. He was the son of a noblewoman, twice a descendant of King Jean de Brienne of Jerusalem. ![]()
Biography of René Dumesnil (excerpt)
René, Alphonse, Adolphe Dumesnil, born on June 19, 1879 in Rouen (birth time source: Lescaut), died on December 24, 1967 in Paris, was a French physician, critic, author, and musicologist. Publications (extracts) Le Rythme musical — 1921 ; 2e éd. ![]()
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Leeds is the largest city in the county of West Yorkshire, England. It has an economy with large tourism, financial and commercial sectors. The river Aire flows through the city. Leeds was a small manorial borough in the 13th century, becoming a major centre for the production and trading of wool in the 17th and 18th centuries, then a major mill town during the Industrial Revolution; wool was still the dominant industry, but flax, engineering, iron foundries, printing, and other industries were also important. ![]()
Biography of Hugh Dowding (excerpt)
Air Chief Marshal Hugh Caswell Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding , (24 April 1882 - 15 February 1970) was a British officer in the Royal Air Force. He was the commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain. Early life ![]()
Biography of Victor Grignard (excerpt)
François Auguste Victor Grignard (May 6, 1871 in Cherbourg (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - December 13, 1935 in Lyon) was a Nobel Prize-winning French chemist. Grignard was the son of a sail maker. After studying mathematics at Lyon he transferred to chemistry, becoming a professor at the University of Nancy in 1910. ![]()
Biography of Max Reger (excerpt)
Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (March 19, 1873 – May 11, 1916) was a German composer, organist, pianist and teacher. Life Born in Brand, Bavaria, Reger studied music in Munich and Wiesbaden with Hugo Riemann. From September 1901 he settled in Munich, where he obtained concert offers and where his rapid rise to fame began. |
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