Advertisements
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Planet in House
Planet in Sign
|
birth charts with Hades in PiscesYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Hades in Pisces. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Olga Bergholz (excerpt)
Olga Fyodorovna Bergholz (May 16 (O.S.May 3) 1910 – November 13, 1975) was a Soviet poet, writer, playwright and journalist.She is most famous for her work on the Leningrad radio during the city's blockade, when she became the symbol of city's strength and determination.
![]()
Biography of Al Purdy (excerpt)
Alfred Wellington Purdy, OC OOnt (December 30, 1918 – April 21, 2000) was a 20th-century Canadian free verse poet.Purdy's writing career spanned fifty-six years.His works include thirty-nine books of poetry; a novel; two volumes of memoirs and four books of correspondence, in addition to his posthumous works.
Biography of Yvon Belaval (excerpt)
Yvon Belaval, born in Sète on February 24, 1908 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died on November 19, 1988, is a French philosopher and philologist, specialist in Leibniz and the eighteenth century.Playing an important institutional role, he was at the origin of the renewal of the collective studies on the unpublished leibniziens. ![]()
Biography of Mariana Dragescu (excerpt)
Marie Ana Aurelia (Mariana) Drăgescu (7 September 1912 – 24 March 2013) was a Romanian military aviator during World War II. She was the last surviving member of the White Squadron, a team of female aviators who flew medical aircraft during World War II. ![]()
Biography of Wanda Gertz (excerpt)
Major Wanda Gertz (13 April 1896 – 10 November 1958) was a Polish woman of noble birth, who began her military career in the Polish Legion during World War I, dressed as a man, under the pseudonym of "Kazimierz 'Kazik' Żuchowicz".
![]()
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 Witold Gombrowicz (excerpt)
Witold Marian Gombrowicz (August 4, 1904 – July 24, 1969) was a Polish writer and playwright.His works are characterised by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and absurd, anti-nationalist flavor.In 1937 he published his first novel, Ferdydurke, which presented many of his usual themes: problems of immaturity and youth, creation of identity in interactions with others, and an ironic, critical examination of class roles in Polish society and culture.
![]()
Biography of Tikhon Khrennikov (excerpt)
Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov (10 June (O.S. 28 May) 1913 – 14 August 2007) was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist, and leader of the Union of Soviet Composers, who was also known for his political activities. He wrote three symphonies, four piano concertos, two violin concertos, two cello concertos, operas, operettas, ballets, chamber music, incidental music and film music.
![]()
Biography of Jacqueline de Chambrun (excerpt)
Jacqueline de Chambrun (1920-2013) was a French physician and activist. She was a member of the French Resistance during World War II. She campaigned for abortion rights as well as human rights for the homeless and undocumented immigrants in France. De Chambrun was a paediatrician.
![]()
Biography of Gidsken Jakobsen (excerpt)
Gidsken Nilsine Jakobsen (1 August 1908 – 13 June 1990) was a Norwegian aviation pioneer. At the age of 20, Jakobsen became only the second Norwegian woman to be awarded a pilot's license (after Dagny Berger in 1927), having achieved the highest position of the ten students attending the course.
![]()
Biography of Maksym Rylsky (excerpt)
Maksym Tadeyovych Rylsky (Ukrainian: Максим Тадейович Рильський; Russian: Максим Фадеевич Рыльский; 19 March (O.S.7 March) 1895 in Kiev – 24 July 1964 id.) was a Ukrainian poet, journalist, translator, academician, Doctor of Philological Sciences. The 1920s were marked by the poet's creative flourishing: his collections "Through storm and snow" (1925), "The 13th spring" (1926), "Where roads meet", "Hum and rumbling" (both 1929). ![]()
Biography of Milena Jesenská (excerpt)
Milena Jesenská (10 August 1896 – 17 May 1944) was a Czech journalist, writer, editor and translator. Milena Jesenská, coming from a Bohemian aristocratic family, lost her mother at the age of thirteen and had a distant relationship with her father, a renowned surgeon. ![]()
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 Alexander Fadeyev (writer) (excerpt)
Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Фаде́ев; 24 December (O.S.11 December) 1901 – 13 May 1956) was a Soviet writer, one of the co-founders of the Union of Soviet Writers and its chairman from 1946 to 1954. In 1945, he wrote the novel, The Young Guard (based upon real events of World War II) about the underground Komsomol organization named Young Guard, which fought against the Nazis in the occupied city Krasnodon (in the Ukrainian SSR).
![]()
Biography of Andrée De Jongh (excerpt)
Andrée Eugénie Adrienne De Jongh (30 November 1916 – 13 October 2007), called Dédée and Postman, was a member of the Belgian Resistance during the Second World War.She organised and led the Comet Line (Le Réseau Comète) to assist Allied soldiers and airmen to escape from Nazi-occupied Belgium. ![]()
Biography of Marianne Joachim (excerpt)
Marianne Joachim (born Marianna/Marianne Prager: 5 November 1921 - 4 March 1943) was a Jewish German resistance activist during the Nazi years. She was executed at Plötzensee on 4 March 1943 following an arson attack the previous summer on the party propaganda department's (ironically named) "Soviet Paradise" exhibition in Berlin's "Lustgarten" pleasure park.
![]()
Biography of Nikolai Kryuchkov (excerpt)
Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov (Russian: Николай Афанасьевич Крючков; 6 January 1911 – 13 April 1994) was a Soviet and Russian film actor. He appeared in 94 films between 1932 and 1993. Awards Two Orders of Lenin (1940, 1980) Stalin Prize the first degree (1941) People's Artist of the RSFSR (1950)
![]()
Biography of Antonio Buero Vallejo (excerpt)
Antonio Buero Vallejo (September 29, 1916, Guadalajara - April 29, 2000, Madrid) was a Spanish playwright associated with the Generation of '36 movement and considered the most important Spanish dramatist of the Spanish Civil War. During the civil war, he served as a medical aid in the Republican army.
![]()
Biography of Takashi Shimura (excerpt)
Takashi Shimura (Shimura Takashi, March 12, 1905 – February 11, 1982) was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 200 films between 1934 and 1981. He is particularly noted for his appearances in 21 of Akira Kurosawa's 30 films (more than any other actor), including as a lead actor in Drunken Angel (1948), Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (1954).
![]()
Biography of Abidin Dino (excerpt)
Abidin Dino (23 March 1913 – 7 December 1993) was a Turkish artist and a well-known painter. Within a short time, the home of Guzin and Abidin Dino in Paris became the haunt of many famous artists and writers. The couple first moved into the studio on the top floor of Max Ernst's apartment on the quay of Saint-Michel, and later to a small flat in L'Eure.
![]()
Biography of Nikolay Semyonov (excerpt)
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov (or Semënov), ForMemRS 15 April (O.S.3 April) 1896 – 25 September 1986) was a Russian/Soviet physicist and chemist.Semyonov was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the mechanism of chemical transformation. In 1925, Semyonov, together with Yakov Frenkel, studied kinetics of condensation and adsorption of vapors.
![]()
Biography of Maxim Vallentin (excerpt)
Maxim Gerhard Vallentin (born October 9, 1904 in Berlin; † September 2, 1987 there) was a German actor, theater director, SED-ZK member and long-time director of the Berlin Maxim Gorki Theater.
![]()
Biography of August Jakobson (excerpt)
August Jakobson (2 September 1904 – 23 May 1963) was an Estonian writer and politician.He was the only Estonian playwright among his contemporaries whose plays were untouched by Soviet censorship and reached other Soviet states.He has been described as the leading Stalinist in Soviet Estonian drama.
![]()
Biography of Elena Gogoleva (excerpt)
Elena Gogoleva or Yelena Gogoleva (7 April 1900 (O.S.25 March 1900) Moscow– 15 November 1993) was a Soviet film and stage actress, actress of the Maly Theatre in Moscow from 1918 to 1993.She was a People's Artist of the USSR (1949), Hero of Socialist Labour (1974), and the winner of three Stalin Prizes (1947, 1948, 1949). ![]()
Biography of Richard Conte (excerpt)
Nicholas Peter Conte (March 24, 1910 – April 15, 1975), known professionally as Richard Conte, was an American actor.He appeared in more than 100 films from the 1940s through 1970s, including I'll Cry Tomorrow, Ocean's 11, and The Godfather. Family Conte was married to actress Ruth Storey, with whom he adopted a son, film editor Mark Conte.
![]()
Biography of James Bond (ornithologist) (excerpt)
James Bond (January 4, 1900 – February 14, 1989) was an American ornithologist and expert on the birds of the Caribbean, having written the definitive book on the subject: Birds of the West Indies, first published in 1936.He served as a curator of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
![]()
Biography of Willi Bredel (excerpt)
Willi Bredel (2 May 1901 – 27 October 1964) was a German writer and president of the DDR Academy of Arts, Berlin. Born in Hamburg, he was a pioneer of socialist realist literature. His propaganda material, along with those of Walter Ulbricht and Erich Weinert was used in an attempt to lure the 6th Army into surrendering at the Battle of Stalingrad.
Biography of Galina Ustvolskaya (excerpt)
Galina Ivanovna Ustvolskaya, 17 June 1919 – 22 December 2006), was a Russian composer of classical music. Ustvolskaya was a pupil of Shostakovich from 1939 to 1941 and from 1947 to 1948, but her works from the 1950s onwards retain little influence of his style.
![]()
Biography of Hubert Faure (excerpt)
Hubert Faure (28 May 1914 – 17 April 2021) was a French soldier during World War II. He was a member of the Kieffer commandos.
![]()
Biography of Mildred Bruce (excerpt)
Mildred Mary Petre (10 November 1895 – 21 May 1990) was a British record-breaking racing motorist, speedboat racer and aviator in the 1920s and 1930s, and later, successful businesswoman. Commonly referred to as Mrs Victor Bruce, she was also known in contemporary references as Mary Petre Bruce, Mildred Bruce, Mildred Mary Bruce and Mary Victor Bruce.
![]()
Biography of Dmitry Likhachov (excerpt)
Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachov (Russian: Дми́трий Серге́евич Лихачёв, also Dmitri Likhachev or Likhachyov; 28 November (O.S. 15 November) 1906 – 30 September 1999) was a Russian medievalist, linguist, and concentration camp survivor. During his lifetime, Likhachov was considered the world's foremost scholar of the Old East Slavic language and its literature.
Biography of Mary Heath (excerpt)
Mary, Lady Heath (17 November 1896 – 9 May 1939) was an Irish aviator and began life as Sophie Catherine Theresa Mary Peirce-Evans in Knockaderry, County Limerick, near the town of Newcastle West. She was one of the best known women in the world for a five-year period from the mid-1920s.
![]()
Biography of Martial Valin (excerpt)
Martial Henri Valin (14 May 1898 in Limoges – 19 September 1980 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French Air Force general.He initially served as a cavalryman in the First World War.After nine years cavalry service in the chasseurs d'Afrique, dragoons, spahis, and hussars, he eventually volunteered for the French Army's aviation branch, the aéronautique militaire, in 1926.
Biography of Marina Semyonova (excerpt)
Marina Timofeyevna Semyonova (Russian: Марина Тимофеевна Семёнова, 12 June (O.S.30 May) 1908 – 9 June 2010) was the first Soviet-trained prima ballerina.She was born in Saint-Petersburg.She was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1975. The Soviet choreographer Maya Plisetskaya wrote of her that "what she demonstrated in her time was unusual, brand new, breathtaking. ![]()
Biography of Jean Toomer (excerpt)
Jean Toomer (born Nathan Pinchback Toomer, December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and modernism.His reputation stems from his novel Cane (1923), which Toomer wrote during and after a stint as a school principal at a black school in rural Sparta, Georgia.
![]()
Biography of Suzanne Hiltermann-Souloumiac (excerpt)
Suzanne Hiltermann-Souloumiac, née Hiltermann, alias Touty, (17 January 1919 – 2 October 2001) was a member of the Dutch-Paris network during the French Resistance.Captured by the Nazi she was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp. After the liberation Suzanne Hiltermann moved to China in the 1960s.
Biography of Grete Hermann (excerpt)
Grete (Henry-)Hermann (March 2, 1901 – April 15, 1984) was a German mathematician and philosopher noted for her work in mathematics, physics, philosophy and education. She is noted for her early philosophical work on the foundations of quantum mechanics, and is now known most of all for an early, but long-ignored critique of a no-hidden-variable theorem by John von Neumann.
![]()
Biography of Unity Mitford (excerpt)
Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford (8 August 1914 – 28 May 1948) was a British socialite closely associated with Adolf Hitler. A staunch supporter of Nazism, fascism, and antisemitism, she was part of Hitler's inner circle. After World War II broke out, Mitford attempted suicide in Munich, sustaining severe brain damage.
![]()
Biography of Ruby Dandridge (excerpt)
Ruby Jean Dandridge (née Butler; March 3, 1900 – October 17, 1987) was an American actress from the early 1900s through to the late 1950s.Dandridge is best known for her radio work in her early days of acting.Dandridge is best known for her role on the radio show Amos 'n Andy, in which she played Sadie Blake and Harriet Crawford, and on radio's Judy Canova Show, in which she played Geranium.
![]()
Biography of Marie-Louise Charpentier (excerpt)
Marie-Louise Charpentier, also known as Lily Charpentier (26 November 1905 - 24 June 1998), was a nurse, social worker, and active member of the French Resistance in Brittany during World War II. Her most well known accomplishment was hiding a Jewish woman and her two grandchildren from German forces and arranging their safe passage to relatives in the south of France.
![]()
Biography of Vasili Kuznetsov (politician) (excerpt)
Vasili Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (13 February (O.S. 31 January) 1901 – 5 June 1990) was a Russian Soviet politician who acted as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union from 1982 to 1983, for a second time in 1984, and for a third time in 1985.
![]()
Biography of Eduard Toldrà (excerpt)
Eduard Toldrà Soler (Vilanova i la Geltrú 7 April 1895 – Barcelona, 31 May 1962) was a Spanish Catalan conductor and composer. Toldrà played an important role in the Culture of Barcelona. In 1944 he founded the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra at the Palau de la Música Catalana, where his deputy in 1957 was his friend Ricardo Lamote de Grignon.
Biography of Douglas Wilmer (excerpt)
Douglas Wilmer (8 January 1920 – 31 March 2016) was an English actor, best known for playing Sherlock Holmes in the 1965 TV series Sherlock Holmes. He is mainly associated with the role of Sherlock Holmes, which he first played in the BBC's 1964 production of "The Speckled Band".
![]()
Biography of Ruth Elder (excerpt)
Ruth Elder (September 8, 1902 – October 9, 1977) was an aviation pioneer and actress.She carried private pilot certificate P675, and was known as the "Miss America of Aviation." She was a charter member of the Ninety-Nines. In 1927 she took off from New York in the airplane American Girl, George Haldeman as her pilot, in an attempt to become the first woman transatlantic airplane rider.
![]()
Biography of Juhan Smuul (excerpt)
Juhan Smuul (18 February 1922 – 13 April 1971) was an Estonian writer. Until 1954 he used the given name Johannes Schmuul. Smuul was born in Koguva village on the island of Muhu to Jüri and Ruudu Schmuul. He had three older sisters: Salme, Linda, and Liisa and one younger sister, Aliide, as well as six half-siblings from his father's first marriage.
![]()
Biography of Bruno Rossi (excerpt)
Bruno Benedetto Rossi (13 April 1905 – 21 November 1993) was an Italian experimental physicist. He made major contributions to particle physics and the study of cosmic rays. A 1927 graduate of the University of Bologna, he became interested in cosmic rays. To study them, he invented an improved electronic coincidence circuit, and travelled to Eritrea to conduct experiments that showed that cosmic ray intensity from the West was significantly larger than that from the East. ![]()
Biography of Marcel Griaule (excerpt)
Marcel Griaule (16 May 1898 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 23 February 1956) was a French author and anthropologist known for his studies of the Dogon people of West Africa, and for pioneering ethnographic field studies in France.
![]()
Biography of Lisa Ullmann (excerpt)
Lisa Ullmann (17 June 1907, in Berlin – 25 January 1985, in Chertsey) was a German-British dance and movement teacher, predominantly remembered for her work in association with dance pioneer Rudolf Laban. Ullmann taught in Nuremberg and at the Essen Folkwang School, where she worked for Kurt Jooss.
![]()
Biography of Yakov Frenkel (excerpt)
Yakov Il'ich Frenkel (Russian: Яков Ильич Френкель) (10 February 1894 – 23 January 1952) was a Soviet physicist renowned for his works in the field of condensed matter physics.He is also known as Jacov Frenkel, and he frequently put down his name as J. ![]()
Biography of Jean Batten (excerpt)
Jean Gardner Batten CBE OSC (15 September 1909 – 22 November 1982) was a New Zealand aviator. Born in Rotorua, she became the best-known New Zealander of the 1930s, internationally, by making a number of record-breaking solo flights across the world. She made the first-ever solo flight from England to New Zealand in 1936. |
House in Sign
Advanced Search
Other Search Tools
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
To add this celebrity to your favourites, please create an account.
To get your compatibility ratings with this celebrity, please create an account.