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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. in
Biography of Mathilde Franck (excerpt)
Rosalind Mathilde Franck (6 September 1885 – 29 November 1956) was one of the earliest French women aviators, having learnt to fly in the summer of 1910. Her last flight was on 1 August 1910 in a Maurice Farman biplane when she took off from Boldon Flatts, Cleadon Village in the northeast of England.
Biography of Mary Helen Young (excerpt)
Mary Helen Young (5 June 1883 – 14 March 1945) was a Scottish nurse and resistance fighter who helped British servicemen escape from Nazi-occupied France during World War II. She was imprisoned by the Gestapo and put to death at Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1945.
Biography of Émile Demangel (excerpt)
Émile Joseph Demangel (20 June 1882 – 11 October 1968) was a French amateur track cyclist who competed in several sprint events at the 1906 Intercalated Games and 1908 Summer Olympics. In 1906 he finished fourth in the 5,000 m and 333⅓ m time trial events.
Biography of Julia Morgan (excerpt)
Julia Morgan (January 20, 1872 – February 2, 1957) was an American architect and engineer. She designed more than 700 buildings in California during a long and prolific career. She is best known for her work on Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California.
Biography of Thérèse Matter (excerpt)
Thérèse Matter, born December 22, 1887 in Rouen and died May 29, 1975 in Lille, graduated from the Protestant Health Center in Bordeaux (hospital-school), co-founder and director of the Ambroise-Paré nursing school in Lille . She is recognized as Righteous Among the Nations for helping the Jews during World War II.
Biography of Yvonne Pouzin (excerpt)
Yvonne Pouzin (28 April 1884 – 15 April 1947) was a female doctor and French phthisiatrist. She is known for having been the first female praticien hospitalier in France. In 1923 she married the writer Joseph Malègue whose career she actively supported.
Biography of Jules Durand (excerpt)
Jules Durand, born September 6, 1880 in Le Havre and died February 20, 1926 in the asylum of Sotteville-lès-Rouen, was a French libertarian trade unionist who was the victim in 1910 of a serious miscarriage of justice, sometimes called the "Dreyfus affair of working class" or the "Dreyfus affair of the poor".
Biography of Antonie Pfülf (excerpt)
Antonie "Toni" Pfülf (14 December 1877 – 8 June 1933) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). An advocate of equal rights for women, she was a member of the Reichstag from 1920 to 1933 and one of the most prominent women in her party.
Biography of Israël Querido (excerpt)
Israël Querido (1 October 1872, Amsterdam – 5 August 1932, Amsterdam) was a Dutch naturalist novelist. His novels are sympathetic to workers and the Socialist movement.
Biography of Eva Gouel (excerpt)
Eva Gouel, also known as Marcelle Humbert, born February 27, 1885 in the 12th arrondissement of Paris and died of cancer on December 14, 1915 in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, was Pablo Picasso's second companion during his cubist period, from 1912 to 1915.
Biography of Edmond Locard (excerpt)
Dr. Edmond Locard (13 December 1877 – 4 May 1966) was a French criminologist, the pioneer in forensic science who became known as the "Sherlock Holmes of France". He formulated the basic principle of forensic science: "Every contact leaves a trace".
Biography of André Mornet (excerpt)
Constant Victor André Mornet, born January 5, 1870 in La Châtre and died July 22, 1955 in Nohant-Vic, is a French magistrate. Both collaborator and resistance from 1943, he was the prosecutor for the trials of Pierre Laval and Philippe Pétain at the time of his release, which led to their death sentences, that of Pétain being commuted to life imprisonment because of his age.
Biography of René Schickele (excerpt)
René Schickele (4 August 1883 – 31 January 1940) was a German-French writer, essayist and translator. Schickele was born in Obernai, Alsace, the son of a German vineyard owner and police officer and a French mother. He studied literature, history, science and philosophy in Strasbourg, Munich, Paris and Berlin.
Biography of Jean Bouyssonie (excerpt)
Canon Jean Bouyssonie, born August 31, 1877 in Brive-la-Gaillarde in the department of Corrèze in France and died August 13, 1965 in the same city, is a French Catholic priest, canon and prehistorian who became interested in the remains. of the departments of Lot and Corrèze.
Biography of André Heuzé (excerpt)
André Heuzé, or sometimes André Heuse, (5 December 1880, in Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines –16 August 1942 in Paris) was a French movie director, screenwriter and playwright. Selected filmography Actor 1923 : La Rue du pavé d'amour by André Hugon 1928 : Little Devil May Care as André Bucaille
Biography of Caroly (excerpt)
The magician Jean Augustin Charles Joseph Faugeras alias Caroly was born on June 15, 1868 in Rochechouart (France) and died on December 2, 1955 in Paris 20th. In 1902, he carried out a new revolution in the rather closed field of prestidigitation: he published the first copy of the monthly newspaper L'Illusionniste.
Biography of Thérèse Peltier (excerpt)
Thérèse Peltier (26 September 1873 – 18 February 1926), born Thérèse Juliette Cochet, was a French sculptor and early aviation pioneer. Popularly believed to have been the first ever female passenger in an airplane, she may also have been the first woman to pilot an aircraft.
Biography of Else Ury (excerpt)
Else Ury (1 November 1877 – 13 January 1943) was a German-Jewish novelist and children's book author. Her best-known character is the blonde doctor's daughter Annemarie Braun, whose life from childhood to old age is told in the ten volumes of the highly successful Nesthäkchen series.
Biography of Ivan Shmelyov (excerpt)
Ivan Sergeyevich Shmelyov (Russian: Иван Сергеевич Шмелёв, also spelled Shmelev, Chmeliov, and Chmelov) (3 October (O.S. 21 September) 1873 – 24 June 1950) was a Russian émigré writer best known for his full-blooded idyllic recreations of the pre-revolutionary past spent in the merchant district of Moscow.
Biography of Émilie Tillion (excerpt)
Émilie Tillion (née Cussac; 20 February 1876 – 2 March 1945) was a French writer and art critic. Tillion is known for her work on the popular "Les Guides Bleus" and as a member of French Resistance during the Second World War.
Biography of Ethel Ayres Purdie (excerpt)
Ethel Ayres Purdie (née Ayres) (2 October 1874 – 26 March 1923) was a chartered accountant and suffragist. She specialised in counselling women and women's suffragist organisations. She was active in the Women's Tax Resistance League which argued that no vote meant no tax.
Biography of Louise Thuliez (excerpt)
Louise Thuliez (12 December 1881 – 10 October 1966) was a French schoolteacher, resistance fighter during World War I and World War II and author. Life and career Thuliez was born in Preux-au-Bois, northern France, on 12 December, 1881. When World War I broke out, Thuliez was working as a teacher in Saint-Waast-la Vallée.
Biography of Gervèse (excerpt)
Charles Millot alias Henri Gervèse (September 21, 1880 Vesoul - May 24, 1959 Buenos Aires) was a French naval officer, painter and illustrator. He provides drawings to various newspapers such as Le Rire, Fantasio and La Vie parisienne. He is known for his series of Navy postcards and cartoons inspired by the other famous Navy cartoonist Sahib.
Biography of Jane Herveu (excerpt)
Jeanne Aline Herveux, generally known as Jane Herveu, (1885–1955) was a pioneering French aviator who obtained her pilot's licence on 7 December 1910. Life Born on 10 December 1885 in Paris, she was first known as an automobile exhibition driver, performing at the Crystal Palace in London and taking part in car and motorcycle races at various locations in France.
Biography of Pierre Piobb (excerpt)
Pierre François Xavier Vincenti, known as Pierre Piobb, was a French writer and occultist from the 20th century, specializing in esoteric and occult sciences. Born in 1874, he lost his mother at his birth and his father, a senior doctor, a few years later, making him an orphan at a very young age.
Biography of Marie Ventura (excerpt)
Marie Ventura (born Aristida Maria Ventura 14 July 1888 - 3 December 1954) was a Romanian-French actress and theatre director. From 1919 to 1941 she worked at the Comédie-Française. In 1938, she directed Iphigénie by Racine, becoming the first women to direct a play at the Comédie-Française.
Biography of Sophia Hayden (excerpt)
Sophia Hayden (October 17, 1868 – February 3, 1953) was an American architect and first female graduate of the four-year program in architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Career World's Columbian Exposition She is best known for designing The Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, when she was just 21.
Biography of Elizabeth of the Trinity (excerpt)
Elizabeth of the Trinity, OCD (French: Élisabeth de la Trinité), born Élisabeth Catez (18 July 1880 – 9 November 1906), was a French Discalced Carmelite, a mystic, and a spiritual writer. She was known for the depth of her spiritual growth as a Carmelite as well as bleak periods in which her religious calling was perceived to be unsure according to those around her; she however was acknowledged for her persistence in pursuing the will of God and in devoting herself to the charism of the Carmelites.
Biography of Henrietta Swan Leavitt (excerpt)
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (July 4, 1868 – December 12, 1921) was an American astronomer. A graduate of Radcliffe College, she worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a human computer, tasked with measuring photographic plates to catalog the positions and brightness of stars.
Biography of Alice Duer Miller (excerpt)
Alice Duer Miller (July 28, 1874 – August 22, 1942) was an American writer whose poetry actively influenced political opinion. Her feminist verses influenced political opinion during the American suffrage movement, and her verse novel The White Cliffs influenced political thought during the U.
Biography of Janis Jaunsudrabins (excerpt)
Jānis Jaunsudrabiņš (August 25, 1877 in Nereta – August 25, 1962 in Körbecke) was a Latvian writer and painter and one of the most popular authors of the first Republic of Latvia between the two world wars. Between 1886–1892 he attended school in Nereta.
Biography of Marthe Niel (excerpt)
Marthe Niel (29 December 1878 – 18 November 1928) was a French aviator, becoming the second woman in the world to earn an aeroplane pilot's licence on 19 September 1910. Early life Niel was born Marie-Ange Denieul in Le Cannée, a hamlet in the commune of Paimpont, Ille-et-Vilaine.
Biography of Antonia Maymón (excerpt)
Antonia Rufina Maymón Giménez (18 July 1881 – 20 December 1959) was a Spanish rationalist pedagogue, militant naturist, anarchist, and feminist who published books on various topics. Antonia Rufina Maymón Giménez was born to a family from Aragon. She studied to be a teacher in the 'Escuela Normal Femenina' of Zaragoza, a city where she also married professor Lorenzo Lagoon, an anarchist.
Biography of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (excerpt)
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (born Meta Vaux Warrick; June 9, 1877 – March 18, 1968) was an African-American artist who celebrated Afrocentric themes. At the fore of the Harlem Renaissance, Warrick was known for being a poet, painter, theater designer, and sculptor of the black American experience.
Biography of Jeanne-Marie Petitjean de La Rosière (excerpt)
Delly is the joint pen name of a brother and a sister, Jeanne-Marie Petitjean de La Rosière, born in Avignon on September 13, 1875, and Frédéric Petitjean de La Rosière, born in Vannes on September 6, 1876, authors of popular romance novels.
Biography of Jan Verkade (excerpt)
Johannes Sixtus Gerhardus (Jan) Verkade (18 September 1868 - 19 July 1946), afterwards Willibrord Verkade O.S.B., was a Dutch Post-Impressionist and Christian Symbolist painter. A disciple of Paul Gauguin and friend of Paul Sérusier, he belonged to the circle of artists known as 'Les Nabis.
Biography of Karlis Skalbe (excerpt)
Kārlis Skalbe (November 7 (O.S. October 26) 1879 — 1945 April 14) was a Latvian writer, poet, and activist. He is best known for his 72 fairy tales which are really written for adults. He has been called the 'King of Fairytales', and his words, Tēvzemei un Brīvībai (For Fatherland and Freedom), are inscribed on the Monument of Freedom in Riga.
Biography of Princess Hélène of Orléans (excerpt)
Princess Hélène of Orléans (French: Princesse Hélène Louise Henriette d'Orléans; 13 June 1871 – 21 January 1951) was a member of the deposed Orléans royal family of France and, by marriage to the head of a cadet branch of the Italian royal family, the Duchess of Aosta.
Biography of Mary Hunter Austin (excerpt)
Mary Hunter Austin (September 9, 1868 – August 13, 1934) was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Rain (1903) describes the fauna, flora, and people – as well as evoking the mysticism and spirituality – of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California.
Biography of Léon Bourjade (excerpt)
Jean-Pierre Léon Bourjade (Montauban, May 25, 1889 – Papua New Guinea, October 22, 1924) was a French aviation ace and missionary. Tributes A few years after his death, the famous aviator Jean Mermoz, during one of his crossings of the South Atlantic by plane, had a serious oil leak which assured him of perdition at sea; although an atheist, he addressed a “prayer” to his pilot colleague Léon Bourjade and landed in extremis on a beach in Senegal, the propeller “flagged”.
Biography of Temple Bailey (excerpt)
Irene Temple Bailey (February 24, 1869 – July 6, 1953) was a popular American novelist and short story writer. Beginning around 1902, Temple Bailey was contributing stories to national magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Cavalier Magazine, Cosmopolitan, The American Magazine, McClure's, Woman's Home Companion, Good Housekeeping, McCall's and others.
Biography of Louis Bernicot (excerpt)
Louis Bernicot, born December 13, 1883 in the port of Aber Wrac'h (municipality of Landéda, North Finistère), died November 29, 1952 in Saint-Nexans (Dordogne), is a French navigator known for his world tour solo from August 1936 to May 1938, i.
Biography of E. Armand (excerpt)
Émile Armand (March 23 (March 26 for Wikipedia), 1872 – February 19, 1963), pseudonym of Ernest-Lucien Juin Armand, was an influential French individualist anarchist at the beginning of the 20th century and also a dedicated free love/polyamory, intentional community, and pacifist/antimilitarist writer, propagandist and activist.
Biography of Édmée Chandon (excerpt)
Édmée Marie Juliette Chandon (21 November 1885 – 8 March 1944) was an astronomer known for being the first professional female astronomer in France. She worked at the Paris Observatory from 1908 until her retirement in 1941. Biography The eldest of five children, Chandon was born to Marie Duhan and merchant François Chandon on 21 November 1885 in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.
Biography of Frédéric Petitjean de La Rosière (excerpt)
Delly is the joint pen name of a brother and a sister, Jeanne-Marie Petitjean de La Rosière, born in Avignon on September 13, 1875, and Frédéric Petitjean de La Rosière, born in Vannes on September 6, 1876, authors of popular romance novels.
Biography of Joseph Paul-Boncour (excerpt)
Augustin Alfred Joseph Paul-Boncour (4 August 1873 – 28 March 1972) was a French politician and diplomat of the Third Republic. He was a member of the Republican-Socialist Party (PRS) and served as Prime Minister of France from December 1932 to January 1933.
Biography of Enid Yandell (excerpt)
Enid Yandell (October 6, 1869 – June 12, 1934) was an American sculptor from Louisville, Kentucky, who studied with Auguste Rodin in Paris, Philip Martiny in New York City, and Frederick William MacMonnies. Yandell specialized in portrait busts and monuments. She created numerous portraits, garden pieces and small works as well as public monuments.
Biography of Sylvie (actress) (excerpt)
Louise Pauline Mainguené, known as Sylvie (3 January 1883 – 5 January 1970), was a French actress. The daughter of a sailor and a teacher, Sylvie entered an acting conservatory where she won a class comedy award unanimously. She started her professional career in 1903 and she earned her first success with The Old Heidelberg.
Biography of Edward Steichen (excerpt)
Edward Jean Steichen (March 27, 1879 – March 25, 1973) was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, and curator, renowned as one of the most prolific and influential figures in the history of photography. Steichen was credited with transforming photography into an art form.
Biography of Anne W. Armstrong (excerpt)
Anne Wetzell Armstrong (September 20, 1872 – March 17, 1958) was an American novelist and businesswoman, active primarily in the first half of the 20th century. She is best known for her novel, This Day and Time, an account of life in a rural Appalachian community. |
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