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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 Lee Ya-Ching (excerpt)
Li Xiaqing pronounced Lee Ya Ching, also known by her stage name Li Dandan (李旦旦), was a Chinese film actress, pioneering aviator, and philanthropist. She was the first Chinese woman to be granted a civil aviation license in China, in 1936, and also co-founded its first civilian flying school. ![]()
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.
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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.
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Biography of Lina Radke (excerpt)
Karoline "Lina" Radke-Batschauer (18 October 1903 – 14 February 1983) was a German track and field athlete.She was the first Olympic champion in the 800 m for women. Together with her husband, Lina Radke was one of the pioneers of female athletics in the mid-1920s.
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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 Faustina Kowalska (excerpt)
Maria Faustyna Kowalska, OLM (born Helena Kowalska; 25 August 1905 – 5 October 1938), also known as Maria Faustyna Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament, was a Polish Catholic religious sister and mystic. Faustyna, popularly spelled "Faustina", had apparitions of Jesus Christ which inspired the Roman Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy and earned her the title of "Secretary of Divine Mercy". ![]()
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.
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Biography of Sergei Gerasimov (film director) (excerpt)
Sergei Appolinarievich Gerasimov (3 June (21 May julian calendar) 1906 – 26 November 1985) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter.The oldest film school in the world, the VGIK, bears his name. Gerasimov started his film industry career as an actor in 1924. ![]()
Biography of Suzanne Borel (excerpt)
Marie Nancy Suzanne "Suzy" Bidault (née Borel; 18 October 1904 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 1983) – 8 November 1995) was the first French woman to become a diplomat when she was employed as an attaché at the Quai d'Orsay on 1 July 1930 after passing the entrance examination to the French Foreign Ministry.
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Biography of Boris Livanov (excerpt)
Boris Nikolayevich Livanov (8 May (O.S. 25 April) 1904—22 September 1972) was a Soviet theater and film actor and a theatre director. People's Artist of the USSR (1948). He was a member of the Moscow Art Theatre from 1924 through 1972. Il is the father of actor Vasiliy Livanov. ![]()
Biography of Janis Dalins (excerpt)
Jānis Daliņš (5 November 1904 in Valmiera, Livonian Governorate – 11 June 1978 in Melbourne, Australia) was a Latvian athlete who competed in race walking. Jānis Daliņš was the first Latvian to win a medal at the Olympic Games, he won silver in the 50 km race walk at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
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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.
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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).
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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 Salomėja Nėris (excerpt)
Salomėja Nėris (real name Salomėja Bačinskaitė - Bučienė) (November 17, 1904 – July 7, 1945) was a Lithuanian poet. Salomėja Nėris was awarded the State Literature Prize in 1938. She was a member of the Catholic youth and student organization Ateitis. ![]()
Biography of Claire Luce (excerpt)
Claire Luce (October 15, 1903 – August 31, 1989) was an American stage and screen actress, dancer and singer.Among her few films were Up the River (1930), directed by John Ford and starring Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart in their feature film debuts (Luce played Bogart's love interest), and Under Secret Orders, the English-language version of G.
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Biography of Salvo Randone (excerpt)
Salvatore "Salvo" Randone (25 September 1906 – 6 March 1991) was an Italian theatrical, television and film actor. Born in Syracuse, Sicily, Randone debuted on stage in mid-1920s and, after some years in which he played roles of little weight, he became in the fifties one of the most critically appreciated actors in Italian theatre.
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Biography of Alfhild Hovdan (excerpt)
Alfhild Hovdan (née Olsen; 13 September 1904 – 20 February 1982) was a Norwegian journalist, and later tourist manager for the city of Oslo for more than forty years. She is known for initiating the tradition of the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree, a present from the city of Oslo to the people of London, in recognition of their assistance during World War II.
Biography of Joseph Epstein (activist) (excerpt)
Joseph Epstein (October 16, 1911 – April 11, 1944 in Fort Mont-Valérien, France), also known as Colonel Gilles and as Joseph Andrej, was a Polish-born Jewish communist activist and a French Resistance leader during World War II. He was executed by the Germans.
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Biography of Marina Raskova (excerpt)
Marina Mikhaylovna Raskova (née Malinina; 28 March 1912 – 4 January 1943) was the first woman in the USSR to achieve the diploma of professional air navigator.Raskova went from a young woman with aspirations of becoming an opera singer to a military instructor, the first female navigator in the Soviet Union.
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Biography of Louise Thaden (excerpt)
Iris Louise McPhetridge Thaden (November 12, 1905 – November 9, 1979) was an American aviation pioneer, holder of numerous aviation records, and the first woman to win the Bendix trophy, alongside Blanche Noyes. She was inducted into the Arkansas Aviation Historical Society's Hall of Fame in 1980. ![]()
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.
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Biography of Irma Bandiera (excerpt)
Irma Bandiera (8 April 1915– 14 August 1944) was a member of the seventh Gruppo di azione patriottica. In 1944 she was captured, blinded, and killed. Enrico Berlinguer, of the Italian Communist Party, held her in high esteem. A street in her native Bologna is named for her and the song Mimma e Balella relates to her.
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Biography of Henriette Bie Lorentzen (excerpt)
Henriette Bie Lorentzen (18 July 1911 – 23 August 2001), born Anna Henriette Wegner Haagaas, was a Norwegian journalist, humanist, peace activist, feminist, co-founder of the Nansen Academy, resistance member and concentration camp survivor during World War II, and publisher and editor-in-chief of the women's magazine Kvinnen og Tiden (1945–1955).
Biography of Ben Nye (excerpt)
Benjamin Emmet Nye, Sr.(January 12, 1907 – February 9, 1986) was an American makeup artist for the Hollywood film industry for over four decades, from the 1930s to the early 1980s.He worked on over five hundred 20th Century Fox films both in and out of Hollywood.
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Biography of Elly Beinhorn (excerpt)
Elly Beinhorn (30 May 1907 – 28 November 2007) was a German pilot.In the 1930s, she set many distance records. In her later years, Elly Beinhorn lived in Ottobrunn, Bavaria, near Munich.Her son, Dr.Bernd Rosemeyer, lives in the same area and has enjoyed a successful career as an orthopaedist.
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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.
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Biography of Mary Bell (aviator) (excerpt)
Mary Teston Luis Bell (3 December 1903 – 6 February 1979) was an Australian aviator and founding leader of the Women's Air Training Corps (WATC), a volunteer organisation that provided support to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) during World War II. ![]()
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.
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Biography of Igor Moiseyev (excerpt)
Igor Alexandrovich Moiseyev (21 January (O.S.8 January) 1906 – 2 November 2007) has been widely acclaimed as the greatest 20th-century choreographer of character dance, a dance style similar to folk dance but with more professionalism and theatrics. Born in Kiev, Russian Empire, he was the only child of a Russian lawyer and a French-Romanian seamstress.
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Biography of Rudolf Brazda (excerpt)
Rudolf Brazda (26 June 1913 – 3 August 2011) was the last known concentration camp survivor deported by Nazi Germany on charges of homosexuality.Brazda spent nearly three years at the Buchenwald concentration camp, where his prisoner uniform was branded with the distinctive pink triangle that the Nazis used to mark men interned as homosexuals.
Biography of Robert Hale Merriman (excerpt)
Robert Hale Merriman (November 17, 1908 – c. April 2, 1938) was an American doctoral student who fought with the Republican forces in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. He was killed while commanding the Abraham Lincoln Battalion of the International Brigades.
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Biography of Vonda Phelps (excerpt)
Avonda Maude Phelps (April 19, 1915 – September 2, 2004), credited as Vonda Phelps, was an American child stage actress, vaudeville performer and dancer in the 1920s. She appeared in four silent film productions in 1922 and 1923. Phelps was born on April 19, 1915 in Shreveport, Louisiana to Rinaldo Abel Phelps (1872–1951) and Lillian Maude Tiffin (1891–1983).
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Biography of Jadwiga Apostol (excerpt)
Jadwiga Apostoł-Staniszewska (22 December 1913 – 2 February 1990) was a Polish teacher in the interwar period, an underground activist during World War II, and a writer in postwar Poland. Under the German occupation of Podhale, Apostoł (nom-de-guerre Barbara Spytkowska) became the co-founder of the Polish resistance group called the Tatra Confederation (Polish: Konfederacja Tatrzańska), a.k.a.
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Biography of Dorothy Maynor (excerpt)
Dorothy Maynor (September 3, 1910 – February 19, 1996) was an American soprano, concert singer, and the founder of the Harlem School of the Arts.Maynor was born Dorothy Leigh Mainor in 1910 in the town of Norfolk, Virginia to the Reverend John J.
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Biography of Hilde Coppi (excerpt)
Betty Gertrud Käthe Hilda (30 May 1909 – 5 August 1943) was a German resistance member of the anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra by the Gestapo. Hilde Coppi and her husband were both arrested on 12 September 1942, along with Hans' parents and brother, and Hilde's mother.
Biography of Marie-Thérèse Walter (excerpt)
Marie-Thérèse Walter (13 July 1909 – 20 October 1977) was a French model and lover of Pablo Picasso from 1927 to about 1935 and the mother of their daughter Maya Widmaier-Picasso.Their relationship began when she was seventeen years old; he was 45 and married to his first wife, Olga Khokhlova.
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Biography of Pauline Gower (excerpt)
Pauline Mary de Peauly Gower Fahie (22 July 1910 – 2 March 1947) was a British pilot and writer who established the women's branch of the Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War. On the outbreak of the Second World War, Gower made use of her high-level connections to propose the establishment of a women's section in the new Air Transport Auxiliary —the ATA would be responsible for ferrying military aircraft from factory or repair facility to storage unit or operational unit—to the authorities.
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Biography of Leyla Mammadbeyova (excerpt)
Leyla Alasgar qizi Mammadbeyova, née Zeynalova (Azerbaijani: Leyla Ələsgər qızı Məmmədbəyova; 17 September 1909 – 1989), was the first Azerbaijani female aviator.She also was the first female pilot of Transcaucasia, of Southern Europe and of Middle East. Mammadbeyova was trained as a professional aviator at the Baku Airclub and performed her first flight in 1931.
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Biography of Laure Gatet (excerpt)
Laure Gatet (19 July 1913 - 25 February 1943) was a French pharmacist, biochemist, and a spy for the French Resistance during World War II. Gatet was born on 19 July 1913 in Boussac-Bourg, France.After attending several schools in the Southwest of France, including Périgueux and Bordeaux, Gatet finished her pharmacy studies before moving to biochemical research.
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Biography of Lilo Ramdohr (excerpt)
Lieselotte "Lilo" Fürst-Ramdohr (11 October 1913 – 13 May 2013) was a member of the Munich branch of the student resistance group White Rose (Weisse Rose) in Nazi Germany. She was born in Aschersleben.
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Biography of Madeleine Braun (excerpt)
Madeleine Braun née Weill (25 June 1907, Paris – 22 January 1980, Saint-Cloud) was a French publisher and politician. She was a Député of the Seine for the Communist Party and, in 1946, she became the first woman vice-president of the National Assembly.
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Biography of Dora Schaul (excerpt)
Dora Schaul (born Dora Davidsohn, 21 September 1913 – 8 August 1999) was a German woman noted particularly for her undercover work at official offices in German-occupied France during World War II.She passed on significant information to the French Resistance.Her experiences and those of numerous other German opponents of the National Socialist (Nazi) regime in Germany were described in her 1973 book Résistance – Erinnerungen deutscher Antifaschisten (Résistance — Memories of German Antifascists).
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Biography of Liesel Bach (excerpt)
Liesel Bach (14 June 1905 – 22 January 1992) was a German aerobatic pilot and flight instructor.She was the first woman to fly over Mount Everest. In December 1950, Bach was invited to India by the Indian government.She was initially based at Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport in Lucknow and in 1951 she competed in an international aerobatics competition at Kanpur, at which she won first place.
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Biography of Tilly Fleischer (excerpt)
Ottilie "Tilly" Fleischer (2 October 1911 – 14 July 2005) was a German athlete who competed in a variety of track and field athletic events.She competed for Germany in the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United States in three different events, taking the bronze medal in the javelin.
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Biography of Said Rustamov (excerpt)
Said Rustamov (Azerbaijani: Səid Rüstəmov), born Mir-Jabbar Ali oglu Seyid-Rustamzadeh (12 May 1907 in Erivan – 10 June 1983 in Baku), was an Azerbaijani composer and conductor. Rustamov published textbooks on note acquisition and the instruction of tar.His monographs include Azerbaijani Folk Dances, Azerbaijani Folk Songs and Azerbaijani Ashig Songs.
Biography of Maurice Nasil (excerpt)
Maurice Nasillski said Maurice Nasil, born July 8, 1913 in Algiers (birth time source: birth certificate online at cineartistes.com, Wikipedia has July 7 by mistake) and died January 6, 2003 in Paris 9th, is a French actor. He has played notably in The Cow and the Prisoner, The President and The Jungle Book (as a French voice). ![]()
Biography of Françoise Éléonore Dejean de Manville (excerpt)
Françoise Eléonore Dejean de Manville (3 March 1749 – 27 February 1827), Countess of Sabran and then Marquise of Boufflers, was a French socialite and letter writer whose life extended from the Ancien Régime through the French Revolution and First French Empire to the Bourbon Restoration.
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Biography of Wanda Jakubowska (excerpt)
Wanda Jakubowska (10 October (source: her Wikipedia page in Polish) 1907 – 25 February 1998) was a Polish film director.Although she directed as many as 15 films over 50 years, Jakubowska is best known for her work on the Holocaust.Her 1948 film The Last Stage was an early and influential depiction of concentration camps. ![]()
Biography of Missak Manouchian (excerpt)
Missak Manouchian (1 September 1906 – 21 February 1944) was a French-Armenian poet and communist activist.An Armenian genocide survivor, he moved to France from an orphanage in Lebanon in 1925.He was active in communist Armenian literary circles. During World War II, he became the military commissioner of FTP-MOI, a group consisting of European immigrants, including many Jews, in the Paris Region which carried out assassinations and bombings of Nazi targets. |
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