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birth charts with Neptune in CancerYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Neptune in Cancer. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Manoel de Oliveira (excerpt)
Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira GCSE, GCIH (December 11, 1908 - April 2, 2015) was a Portuguese film director and screenwriter born in Cedofeita, Porto.He first began making films in 1927, when he and some friends attempted to make a film about World War I.
Biography of André Lallemand (excerpt)
André Lallemand (1904-1978) was a French astronomer and director of the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris.He made important contributions to the development of photomultipliers for astronomical use and the "electronic telescope" (or Lallemand camera).He was awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1962 for his work. ![]()
Biography of Konrad Lorenz (excerpt)
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (November 7, 1903 in Vienna – February 27, 1989 in Vienna) was an Austrian zoologist, animal psychologist, ornithologist and Nobel Prize winner.He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, developing an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth.
Biography of Guidette Carbonell (excerpt)
Guidette Carbonell, born January 23, 1910 in Meudon near Paris, is a French artist and one of France's leading ceramicists.Her colourful work was praised at the National Exhibition of Arts and Techniques in 1937.From the 1940s, she created dishes and large bas-relief medallions, bird-shaped lamps and more stylised sculptures.
Biography of John Hench (excerpt)
John Hench (June 29, 1908 – February 5, 2004) was an employee of The Walt Disney Company for more than sixty five years, an exceptionally long tenure which saw the rise of nearly every Disney animated feature and theme park. Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Hench attended numerous art and creative schools across the country, including the Art Students League of New York , the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, and the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles.
Biography of René Voillaume (excerpt)
René Voillaume, born on July 19, 1905 in Versailles (birth time source: Yoan Cocquebert, online archives), died in 2003, was a French Catholic priest, the founder of The Little Brothers of Jesus, a religious congregation of brothers within the Catholic Church; it is inspired by the life and writings of Blessed Charles de Foucauld.
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Biography of Count Basie (excerpt)
William "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer.Basie led his jazz orchestra almost continuously for nearly 50 years.Many notable musicians came to prominence under his direction, including tenor saxophonists Lester Young and Herschel Evans, trumpeters Buck Clayton and Harry "Sweets" Edison and singers Jimmy Rushing and Joe Williams. ![]()
Biography of Kay Francis (excerpt)
Kay Francis (January 13, 1905 –August 26, 1968) was an American stage and film actress.After a brief period on Broadway in the late 1920s, she moved to film and achieved her greatest success between 1930 and 1936, when she was the number one female star at the Warner Brothers studio, and the highest paid American film actress.
Biography of Olga Wormser (excerpt)
Olga Wormser or Olga Wormser-Migot, born Olga Jongelson July 6, 1912 in Nancy and died August 3, 2002, was a French historian and writer. Selected bibliography * Catherine de Russie,Club français du livre, 1956 * Frédéric II, id.,1958
Biography of John Morrison (scientist) (excerpt)
John Morrison, born May 22, 1906 in Biggar, Scotland, is a Scottish professor and author of Mechanics books. ![]()
Biography of Rosemary Decamp (excerpt)
Rosemary DeCamp (November 14, 1910-February 20, 2001) was an American television and movie actress. She made her film debut in Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941) and appeared in many Warner Brothers films, including Eyes in the Night (1942), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) playing Nellie Cohan opposite James Cagney, and Nora Prentiss (1947). ![]()
Biography of Heinrich Harrer (excerpt)
Heinrich Harrer (German pronunciation: ; July 6, 1912 – January 7, 2006) was an Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer, and author. He is best known for his books Seven Years in Tibet (1952) and The White Spider (1959). Athletics Heinrich Harrer was born in the Austrian city of Hüttenberg, Carinthia.
Biography of Jean Fournier (excerpt)
Jean Fournier, born July 3, 1911 in Paris 16e (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died July 9, 2003 in Caen (Calvados), was a French musician and violinist. ![]()
Biography of Ebenezer Sibly (excerpt)
Ebenezer Sibly (1751-1799) was an English physician, astrologer and prolific writer on the occult.He is celebrated for the natal horoscope he cast of the United States of America, published in 1787 and still cited. He joined the Freemasons in 1784.He published the New and Complete Illustration of the Occult Sciences in four volumes, from 1784. ![]()
Biography of Giulio Carlo Argan (excerpt)
Giulio Carlo Argan (May 17, 1909, Turin - November 11, 1992, Rome) was an Italian art historian, author, and politician. He was the first Communist mayor of Rome, between 1976 and 1979. Selected bibliography Studi e note, Roma 1955; Salvezza e caduta nell’arte moderna, Milano 1964;
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Biography of Sylvère Maes (excerpt)
Sylvère Maes (born 27 August 1909 in Zevekote (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate from Grazia Bordoni) – died 5 December 1966 in Ostend) was a Belgian cyclist, who is most famous for winning the Tour de France in 1936 and 1939. ![]()
Biography of Samuel Reshevsky (excerpt)
Samuel Herman (Sammy) Reshevsky (born Szmul Rzeszewski, November 26, 1912, Ozorków near Lodz, (then Russian Empire, today Poland) - died April 4, 1992, New York, USA) was a leading American chess Grandmaster.He won the U.S.Chess Championship six times outright, and lost a playoff for the title in 1973.
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Biography of Michel Pécheux (fencer) (excerpt)
Michel Pécheux (May 24, 1911 – August 29, 1985) was a French fencer. Pécheux competed in the Men's Team Épée event at the 1936 Summer Olympics, winning a bronze medal for France. He was a team gold medalist at London in 1948, once again in épée.
Biography of André Gravier (excerpt)
André Gravier, born May 18, 1911 in Eloyes, Vosges, died November 14, 2004 in Nancy, was a French military. Awards Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur Compagnon de la Libération - décret du 9 septembre 1942 Croix de Guerre 39-45 (6 citations) Médaille de la Résistance Presidential Unit Citation (USA) Chevalier de l'Ordre du Cèdre (Liban)
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Biography of Georges-André Chevallaz (excerpt)
Georges-André Chevallaz (February 7, 1915 - September 8, 2002) was a Swiss historian, politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1974-1983). Mayor of Lausanne since 1957, he was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on December 5, 1973 and handed over office on December 31, 1983. ![]()
Biography of Vivi-Anne Hultén (excerpt)
Vivi-Anne Hultén (25 August 1911 – 15 January 2003) was a Swedish figure skater who was a ten time national champion in ladies singles.She finished fifth at the 1932 Winter Olympics and then won the bronze medal at the 1936 Games. ![]()
Biography of Margaret Hamilton (actress) (excerpt)
Margaret Brainard Hamilton (December 9, 1902 – May 16, 1985) was an American film character actress best known for her portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's classic film The Wizard of Oz (1939). A former schoolteacher, she worked as a character actress in films for seven years before she was offered the role that defined her public image.
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Biography of Burl Ives (excerpt)
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American actor, writer and folk music singer.The prominent music critic John Rockwell has been quoted in the New York Times as saying that "Ives's voice.had the sheen and finesse of opera without its latter-day Puccinian vulgarities and without the pretensions of operatic ritual.
Biography of André Thirion (excerpt)
André Thirion, born April 18, 1907 in Baccarat, Meurthe-et-Moselle, died in 2001 in Levallois-Perret, was a French author and surrealist.
Biography of Jean-Denis Malclès (excerpt)
Jean-Denis Malclès, born May 15, 1912 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died May 30, 2002, was a French artist, painter, décorator and poster designer. ![]()
Biography of Lou Costello (excerpt)
Louis Francis "Lou" Costello (March 6, 1906 – March 3, 1959) was an American actor and comedian best known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Bud Abbott. Costello was famous for his bumbling, chubby, clean-cut image that has appealed to many Americans over the decades, and for his shouted line of "HEEEEYYY ABBOTT!!." ![]()
Biography of Max-Pol Fouchet (excerpt)
Max-Pol Fouchet, born May 1, 1913 in Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue and died August 22, 1980 in Vézelay, was a French writer, journalist and television personality. Bibliography (extract) Simples sans vertu, Charlot, coll. "Méditerranéennes", Alger, 1937. La France au cœur, Chroniques de la Résistance, 1940-1944, Charlot, Alger, 1944. ![]()
Biography of Benny Goodman (excerpt)
Benjamin David Goodman, (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz musician, clarinetist and bandleader, known as "King of Swing", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "The Professor", and "Swing's Senior Statesman". In the mid-1930s, Goodman led one of the most popular musical groups in America. ![]()
Biography of Raoul Wallenberg (excerpt)
Raoul Wallenberg (August 4, 1912 – July 17, 1947.) was a Swedish humanitarian sent to Budapest, Hungary under diplomatic cover to rescue Jews from the Holocaust.He was of the prominent Swedish Wallenberg family. Inspired by the film Pimpernel Smith (1941), he worked to save the lives of Hungarian Jews from being sent to death camps in the later stages of World War II by issuing them protective passports from the Swedish embassy. ![]()
Biography of Jean Sablon (excerpt)
Jean Sablon (Nogent-sur-Marne March 25, 1906 – February 24, 1994 at Cannes-La-Bocca was a popular French singer. Jean SablonThe son of a composer, with brothers and sisters who had successful careers of their own in musical entertainment, Jean Sablon studied piano at the Lyceé Charlemagne in Paris. ![]()
Biography of Yasujiro Ozu (excerpt)
Yasujirō Ozu (小津 安二郎, Ozu Yasujirō., 12 December 1903 - 12 December 1963) was an influential Japanese film director. Although marriage and family were among the most persistent themes in his body of work, Ozu remained single and childless all of his life. ![]()
Biography of Erich Honecker (excerpt)
Erich Honecker (August 25, 1912 – May 29, 1994) was a German Communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 1971 until 1989. After German re-unification, he first fled to the Soviet Union but was extradited by the new Russian government to Germany, where he was imprisoned and tried for high treason and crimes committed during the Cold War. ![]()
Biography of Elias Canetti (excerpt)
Elias Canetti (25 July 1905, Ruse, Bulgaria (birth time source: Alois Treindl, birth certificate)–14 August 1994, Zurich, Switzerland) was a Bulgarian-born novelist of Sephardi Jewish ancestry who wrote in German and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981. Life Elias Canetti was the eldest son in a Jewish merchant family in Rustchuk (present-day Rousse). ![]()
Biography of Salvatore Quasimodo (excerpt)
Salvatore Quasimodo, born August 20, 1901 in Modica, died June 14, 1968, was an Italian poet. Works (extract) Acque e terre, Edizioni di "Solaria", Firenze 1930 Oboe sommerso, Edizioni di "Circoli", Genova 1932 Erato e Apòllìon, pref. di S.Solmi, Scheiwiller, Milano 1938 ![]()
Biography of Lawrence Welk (excerpt)
Lawrence Welk (March 11, 1903 – May 17, 1992) was a musician, accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, hosting The Lawrence Welk Show from 1951 to 1982. His style came to be known to his large number of radio, television, and live-performance fans as "champagne music." He is a 1961 inductee of North Dakota's Roughrider Award. ![]()
Biography of Elsa Lanchester (excerpt)
Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (born October 28, 1902 - December 26, 1986) was an Oscar-nominated English character actress who became a naturalized American citizen in 1950 along with her husband, actor Charles Laughton. She is perhaps best remembered for her role as the title character in Bride of Frankenstein (1935). ![]()
Biography of Henri Grégoire (excerpt)
Henri Jean-Baptiste Grégoire (4 December 1750 – 28 May 1831), often referred to as the Abbé Grégoire, was a French Catholic priest, constitutional bishop of Blois and a revolutionary leader. He was an ardent slavery abolitionist and supporter of universal suffrage.
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Biography of Neville Lancelot Goddard (excerpt)
Neville Lancelot Goddard (February 19, 1905 – October 1, 1972), generally known as Neville, was a Barbadian author who wrote on the Bible, mysticism, and self-help. Early life Goddard was born in Barbados on February 19, 1905, to Joseph Nathaniel and Wilhelmina Goddard. ![]()
Biography of Luigi Boccherini (excerpt)
Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini (February 19, 1743 – May 28, 1805) was a classical era composer and cellist from Italy, whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers.Boccherini is mostly known for one particular minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op.
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Biography of Claude-Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (excerpt)
Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (October 9, 1581 - February 26, 1638) was a French mathematician born in Bourg-en-Bresse. Bachet was a pupil of the Jesuit mathematician Jacques de Billy at the Jesuit College in Rheims.They became close friends. Bachet wrote the Problèmes plaisants, of which the first edition was issued in 1612, a second and enlarged edition was brought out in 1624; this contains an interesting collection of arithmetical tricks and questions, many of which are quoted in W. ![]()
Biography of André Jacquemin (excerpt)
André Jacquemin, born September 3, 1904 in Epinal and died September 18, 1992 in Paris, was a French painter and engraver. ![]()
Biography of Gerard Croiset (excerpt)
Gerard Croiset (March 10, 1909, Laren – July 20, 1980, Utrecht) was a Dutch parapsychologist, psychometrist (a person who purports to be able to read information from a held object), and a psychic.Croiset said he began to become aware of his gifts while a youth working for a watch repairer. ![]()
Biography of John Wooden (excerpt)
John Wooden, known as "the Wizard of Westwood," was a renowned American basketball coach and player. He achieved unprecedented success at UCLA, winning ten NCAA national championships in 12 years, including a record-breaking seven straight titles. Wooden's teams set a record with 88 consecutive wins. ![]()
Biography of Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier (excerpt)
Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, (November 3, 1912 in Paris - December 11, 1996 in Paris), whose real name was Marie-Claude Vogel, was a member of the French Resistance. Photographer Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier's father, Lucien Vogel, an editor, created the magazine Vu in 1928; her mother, Cosette de Brunhoff, sister of the creator of Babar the Elephant, was a fashion photographer. ![]()
Biography of Jean-François de La Harpe (excerpt)
Jean-François de La Harpe (November 20, 1739 – February 11, 1803) was a French playwright, writer and critic. Life La Harpe was born in Paris of poor parents.His father, who signed himself Delharpe, was a descendant of a noble family originally of Vaud. ![]()
Biography of Sterling Hayden (excerpt)
Sterling Walter Hayden (born Sterling Relyea Walter; March 26, 1916 – May 23, 1986) was an American actor, author, sailor and decorated Marine Corps officer and an Office of Strategic Services' agent during World War II.A leading man for most of his career, he specialized in westerns and film noir throughout the 1950s, in films such as John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle (1950), Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar (1954), and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956).
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Biography of Gitta Mallasz (excerpt)
Gitta Mallasz (June 21, 1907 – May 25, 1992) was a Hungarian graphic designer and an artist.Today, she is best known for her transcription of a series of extraordinary spiritual instructions, of which she was one of the recipients in Hungary during World War II. ![]()
Biography of William Shockley (excerpt)
William Bradford Shockley (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was a British-born American physicist and inventor. Along with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, Shockley co-invented the transistor, for which all three were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.Shockley's attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950s and 1960s led to California's "Silicon Valley" becoming a hotbed of electronics innovation. ![]()
Biography of René de Castries (excerpt)
René de la Croix de Castries (6 August 1908, la Bastide-d'Engras, Gard (birth time source: Astrotheme, Didier Excoffon, birth certificate n° 3) - 17 July 1986) was a French historian. He was the sixteenth member elected to occupy seat 2 of the Académie française in 1972. ![]()
Biography of Johann Georg Elser (excerpt)
Johann Georg Elser (4 January 1903 - 9 April 1945) was a German opponent of Nazism.He is best remembered for his unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1939. Vocational career and social life special issue stamp from Deutsche Post, 100.birthday of Georg Elser (2003)Elser was born in Hermaringen, Württemberg. |
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