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birth charts with Neptune in GeminiYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Neptune 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 Walter Gramatté (excerpt)
Walter Gramatté (Berlin, January 8, 1897 - Hamburg, February 9, 1929) was a German painter and printmaker of the second generation of Expressionism.In 1920, he married Sophie Eckhardt, known as Sonia, whom he painted numerous times.A renowned soloist, Sonia Gramatté stopped performing in public after her husband’s death and dedicated herself to composing.
Biography of Rodolfo Oroz (excerpt)
Rodolfo Oroz Scheibe (July 8, 1895 – April 13, 1997) was a Chilean writer, professor, and philologist of German descent. Graduating in pedagogy from the University of Leipzig in 1920, he returned to Chile to teach Latin, English, grammar, and linguistics. Between 1933 and 1944, he directed the Pedagogical Institute of Santiago and founded the Chilean Institute of Philology in 1944.
Biography of Willy Sachs (excerpt)
Wilhelm Josef Sachs known as Willy Sachs (23 July 1896 – 19 November 1958) was a German industrialist and Nazi party member.He served in the SS as an Obersturmbannführer and was appointed as a Wehrwirtschaftsführer, recognizing his company's importance to the war effort.
Biography of Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia (excerpt)
Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia, born on March 10, 1900 (Wikipedia incorrectly lists the date as March 8th), in San José, was a Costa Rican doctor and politician who served as President from 1940 to 1944. After studying in Europe, he returned to Costa Rica to pursue a career in medicine and politics.
Biography of Walter Fyrst (excerpt)
Walter Fyrst (né Fürst; 6 July 1901 – 23 February 1993) was a Norwegian filmmaker.He was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), the son of the physician Valentin Fürst and Margarethe Christiane Dedekam.His first film was Troll-elgen from 1927, based on two novels by Mikkjel Fønhus.
Biography of Kurt Schwabach (excerpt)
Kurt Schwabach, born on 26 February 1898 in Berlin and died on 26 October 1966 in Hamburg, was a German lyricist and composer. From a wealthy family, he served as a pilot in World War I. After the war, he began his career as a journalist and author for Berlin cabarets.
Biography of Ruth Etting (excerpt)
Ruth Etting (November 23, 1896 – September 24, 1978) was an American singer and actress from the 1920s and 1930s, known as "America's sweetheart of song." She recorded over 60 hits, including Shine On, Harvest Moon, Ten Cents a Dance, and Love Me or Leave Me.
Biography of Dawn Powell (excerpt)
Dawn Powell (November 28, 1896 – November 14, 1965) was an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and short story writer. Known for her acid-tongued prose, "her relative obscurity was likely due to a general distaste for her harsh satiric tone." Nonetheless, Stella Adler and author Clifford Odets appeared in one of her plays.
Biography of Eelco van Kleffens (excerpt)
Eelco Nicolaas van Kleffens (born 17 November 1894, died 17 June 1983) was a Dutch politician and diplomat. Descending from a Frisian family of civil servants, he studied law at Leiden University and started his career at the League of Nations and later at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Biography of Georges Charensol (excerpt)
Georges Charensol, born on December 26, 1899, in Privas (Ardèche) and died in Paris on May 15, 1995, was a French journalist, art, literary, and film critic, particularly known for his participation in the radio show Le Masque et la Plume, alongside Jean-Louis Bory, from 1964 to 1979.
Biography of Karl Daeves (excerpt)
Karl Heinz Daeves (born April 24, 1893, in Cologne – died May 2, 1963) was a German metallurgist. He studied metallurgy at TH Aachen and Breslau, earning his doctorate in 1920. After a brief period in industry, he became a specialist in 1921 for the Verein Deutscher Eisenhüttenleute in Düsseldorf, where he developed the "large-number research" concept for quality control and materials development.
Biography of Pierrette Madd (excerpt)
Pierrette Madd, stage name of Paulette Poggionovo, was a French actress from the silent film era, born in Charenton-le-Pont on August 9, 1893, and passed away in Cannes on August 22, 1967. An actress and operetta singer, Pierrette Madd—the younger sister of Jane Pierly—had a brief film career during the 1920s, exclusively under the direction of Henri Diamant-Berger.
Biography of Shirley Warde (excerpt)
Shirley Warde (January 23, 1901 - October 1991) was an American actress and playwright active in theater from the 1910s to the 1930s, then in film and radio. Born in New York City, she studied theater at the Ethical Culture School and began performing as a teenager.
Biography of Nando Bruno (excerpt)
Nando Bruno, born Fernando Bruno (Rome, October 6, 1895 – Rome, April 10, 1963), was an Italian actor. He began performing at a young age in Rome's avanspettacolo and variety shows. After a long theater career, he was cast by Mario Mattoli for the film L'ha fatto una signora (1938).
Biography of Jean Grenier (writer) (excerpt)
Jean Grenier (February 6, 1898 – March 5, 1971) was a French philosopher and writer.Born in Paris, he spent his childhood in Brittany, where he befriended Louis Guilloux and Max Jacob. A philosophy graduate in 1922, he taught at the Algiers high school, mentoring Albert Camus, who dedicated several works to him, inspired by Grenier’s Les Îles (1933).
Biography of Jeanne Mammen (excerpt)
Jeanne Mammen (21 November 1890 – 22 April 1976) was a German painter, illustrator, and printmaker. Her work is associated with the New Objectivity, Symbolism, and Cubism movements. She is best known for her depictions of queer women and Berlin city life during the Weimar period.
Biography of Jan Duiker (excerpt)
Jan Duiker (March 1, 1890 – February 23, 1935) was a leading Dutch architect of the Modern movement Het Nieuwe Bouwen.He partnered with Bernard Bijvoet from 1917 until 1935. Recommended by Hendrik Berlage for the Zonnestraal project, Duiker and Bijvoet left a major mark on Dutch modernist architecture.
Biography of Jacques-Paul Bonjean (excerpt)
Jacques-Paul Bonjean (born April 3, 1899, in Paris 15ᵉ, died November 18, 1990, in Paris 8ᵉ) was a French art dealer, antique dealer, and collector. In 1927, he co-founded La Maison des quatre chemins with Maurice Sachs, publishing luxury editions of works by Max Jacob and Jean Cocteau, and later opened galleries with Pierre Colle and Christian Dior.
Biography of Hartmut Kallmann (excerpt)
Hartmut Kallmann (born on February 5, 1896, in Berlin, and died on June 11, 1978) was a German physicist, known for his work on the scintillation counter for gamma ray detection. Kallmann was born into a Jewish family in Berlin and studied at the University of Göttingen, completing his dissertation under Max Planck in 1920.
Biography of Philipp Jarnach (excerpt)
Philipp Jarnach, born on July 26, 1892, in Noisy-le-Sec, France, and died on December 17, 1982, in Börnsen, was a German composer of modern music, pianist, teacher, and conductor. The son of a Spanish sculptor and a Flemish mother, he studied piano at the Conservatoire de Paris before becoming a student of Ferruccio Busoni in Zurich during World War I.
Biography of Hans Baron (excerpt)
Hans Baron (Berlin, June 22, 1900 – November 26, 1988) was a German-American historian of political thought and the literature of the Italian Renaissance. As Ernst Troeltsch’s last assistant in Berlin, he oversaw the publication of the fourth volume of the philosopher’s Gesammelte Werke after his death.
Biography of Corrado Alvaro (excerpt)
Corrado Alvaro (15 April 1895 – 11 June 1956) was an Italian journalist and writer of novels, short stories, screenplays and plays. He often used the verismo style to describe the hopeless poverty in his native Calabria. His first success was Gente in Aspromonte (Revolt in Aspromonte), which examined the exploitation of rural peasants by greedy landowners in Calabria, and is considered by many critics to be his masterpiece.
Biography of Joe E. Brown (actor) (excerpt)
Joseph Evans Brown, born on July 28, 1891, and died on July 6, 1973, was an American actor and comedian, known for his elastic-mouth smile, comedic timing, and friendly on-screen persona. He was one of the most popular American comedians of the 1930s and 1940s, enjoying a long career in both film and radio.
Biography of Robert Oboussier (excerpt)
Robert Oboussier (July 9, 1900 – June 9, 1957) was a Swiss composer and music critic. He began his musical studies in Heidelberg and Mannheim, then continued at the Zurich Conservatory under Volkmar Andreae and Carl Vogler. He later studied composition in Berlin with Philipp Jarnach and conducting with Siegfried Ochs and Rudolf Krasselt.
Biography of Elizabeth Pickett Chevalier (excerpt)
Elizabeth Pickett Chevalier (25 March 1896 - 3 January 1984), known earlier in her career as Elizabeth Pickett, was an American writer best known for her 1942 novel, the bestseller Drivin' Woman, which was promoted as a novel in the vein of Gone with the Wind.
Biography of Martín Ramírez (artist) (excerpt)
Martín Ramírez (* January 30, 1895 – † February 17, 1963) was a self-taught Mexican artist, now regarded as one of the 20th century's masters of outsider art. Biography Born in Tepatitlán, Mexico, he emigrated to the U.S.in 1925 to work on railroads, leaving his family behind.
Biography of Franciska Clausen (excerpt)
Franciska Clausen (7 January 1899 – 5 March 1986) was a Danish painter who was involved in the abstract art movement of the early twentieth century. Clausen studied at the Die Grossherzogliche sächsische Hochschule für bildende Kunst in Weimar, Germany (1916–17), at the Women's Academy in Munich (1918–19), at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, in Copenhagen, Denmark (1920–21), and under Hans Hofmann at the Hofmann Schule Fur Moderne Kunst in Munich (1921–22).
Biography of Paul Schürmann (excerpt)
Paul Schürmann (* 25 July 1895 in Gütersloh; † 2 July 1941 near Borissow) was a German military pathologist and tuberculosis researcher.He served as a commander at the Military Medical Academy. Son of a merchant, he joined World War I but was injured and deemed unfit for military service.
Biography of Hans Jendretzky (excerpt)
Gustav Ernst Hans Jendretzky (July 20, 1897 – July 2, 1992) was a German Communist politician.He was a prominent figure in the Socialist Unity Party (SED) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). He joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1919 and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1920.
Biography of Joaquín Zamacois (excerpt)
Joaquín Zamacois y Soler was a Chilean-Spanish composer, music educator, and author, born on December 15, 1894, in Santiago, Chile, and died on September 8, 1976, in Barcelona. Coming from a renowned family of Spanish artists, he was the son of composer Joaquín Zamacois y Zabala and the nephew of notable writers, singers, and painters.
Biography of Raymond Callemin (excerpt)
Raymond Callemin, born on March 26, 1890, in Brussels, and guillotined on April 21, 1913, in Paris, was a French anarchist and member of the Bonnot Gang, nicknamed "Raymond the Science" for his passion for reading. Coming from a modest family, he grew up with figures like Viktor Kibaltchich and Édouard Carouy.
Biography of Alfred Lichtenstein (writer) (excerpt)
Alfred Lichtenstein (August 23, 1889 – September 25, 1914) was a German Expressionist writer, born in Wilmersdorf, a district of Berlin. The eldest son of a textile industrialist, he studied law in Berlin and at Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg after completing his Abitur in 1909.
Biography of Henning Brütt (excerpt)
Henning Brütt (August 14, 1888 – January 24, 1979) was a German surgeon, urologist, and neurosurgeon. After studying medicine at several universities, he earned his doctorate in 1912. He became a surgeon under Hermann Kümmell and specialized in urology in 1919. In 1920, he qualified as a professor of surgery.
Biography of Paul Fritsch (excerpt)
Paul Fritsch (25 February 1901 – 22 September 1970) was a French featherweight professional boxer who competed in the early 1920s. In 1920 he became the first French boxer to win an Olympic title, defeating teammate Jean Gachet in the final, despite losing to Gachet at the national championships before the Olympics.
Biography of Emilio Amero (excerpt)
Emilio Amero (May 25, 1901, in Ixtlahuacán del Río, Jalisco – April 12, 1976, in Norman, Oklahoma) was a prominent Mexican artist, illustrator, muralist, and educator, central to the Mexican Modern art movement. Shaped by the Mexican Revolution, he expressed his artistic vision through painting, lithography, illustration, photography, and filmmaking.
Biography of Manfred George (excerpt)
Manfred George (October 22, 1893 – December 30, 1965), born Manfred Georg Cohn, later shortened to Manfred Georg, was a German journalist, author and translator. He left Germany after the Nazis came to power, living in several different European countries and eventually emigrating penniless to the United States in 1939.
Biography of Aleksander Zabczynski (excerpt)
Aleksander Bożydar Żabczyński (July 24, 1900 – May 31, 1958) was a Polish actor and singer. A key figure in Polish interwar cinema, he was renowned for playing romantic lead roles in numerous films. His career spanned theater, cabaret, and film, making him one of the most popular actors of his time.
Biography of Dorothy West (actress) (excerpt)
Dorothy West (August 29, 1891 – December 11, 1980) was an American stage and film actress, as well as a radio performer. Originally from Huntsville, Alabama, but born in Griffin, Georgia, she began her career in silent films in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1909 with D.W.
Biography of Walter Blume (aircraft designer) (excerpt)
Walter Blume (10 January 1896 – 27 May 1964) was an engineer and German fighter ace of World War I. During World War I, he flew with two fighter squadrons, Jagdstaffel 26 and Jagdstaffel 9 gaining 28 aerial victories and earning the Iron Cross, Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, and the Pour le Merite.
Biography of Pierre Auger (physicist) (excerpt)
Pierre-Victor Auger was a French physicist, born on May 14, 1899, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris and passed away on December 24, 1993, in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. He dedicated his work to atomic physics, nuclear physics, and cosmic rays.
Biography of Warren William (excerpt)
Warren William, born Warren William Krech on December 2, 1894, and died on September 24, 1948, was a Broadway and Hollywood actor, immensely popular during the early 1930s. Nicknamed the "King of Pre-Code," he was the first actor to portray defense attorney Perry Mason on the big screen.
Biography of Marcel-Louis Baugniet (excerpt)
Marcel-Louis Baugniet, born on March 18, 1896, in Liège and passed away on February 1, 1995, in Brussels, was a Belgian avant-garde artist. A painter, he also worked with collages, ceramics, illustration, tapestries, furniture design, and art criticism. He studied at the Brussels Academy alongside Paul Delvaux and René Magritte before training in Paris with Ossip Zadkine and Fernand Léger.
Biography of Miguel A. Catalán (excerpt)
Miguel Antonio Catalán y Sañudo (9 October 1894 – 11 November 1957) was a Spanish spectroscopist born in Zaragoza. He earned his chemistry degree there and completed his doctorate in Madrid in 1917 on spectrochemistry. His time of birth comes from the journal Cuadernos de Aragón, Issues 14-17 (1981).
Biography of Alfred de Waart (excerpt)
Alfred de Waart, born on October 12, 1888, in The Hague and passed away on April 6, 1981, in Voorburg, was a Dutch professor of physiology. He graduated in medicine from Leiden University under Willem Einthoven, working as his assistant before serving as a ship doctor and working in Constantinople.
Biography of Edith Klatt (excerpt)
Edith Klatt, born Edith Mischke on January 24, 1895 in Berlin and died on December 14, 1971 in Ribnitz-Damgarten, was a German physician and writer. Daughter of socialist journalist Karl Mischke, she spent her childhood in Japan and traveled through India and Siberia, sparking an early interest in ethnography.
Biography of Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle (excerpt)
Hugo Makibi Enomiya-Lassalle, born on 11 November 1898 in Gut Externbrock, Westphalia, was a German Jesuit priest and one of the foremost teachers to embrace both Roman Catholic Christianity and Zen Buddhism.He was ordained as a priest in 1927 and traveled to Japan in 1929, where he developed an interest in Buddhist practices.
Biography of Piet Meertens (excerpt)
Pieter Jacobus (Piet) Meertens (6 September 1899 – 28 October 1985) was a Dutch scholar specializing in literature, dialectology, and ethnology. He founded the institutes that later merged into the Meertens Instituut, part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), where he served as director until 1965.
Biography of Nico Rost (excerpt)
Nicolaas Rost, born on June 21, 1896, in Groningen and died on February 1, 1967, in Amsterdam, was a Dutch writer, translator, journalist, and resistance fighter. During the 1920s and 1930s, he lived in Germany, working as a translator and journalist. He traveled to the Soviet Union, joined the Communist Party, and was briefly imprisoned in Oranienburg in 1933 after Hitler's rise to power.
Biography of Isabelle Rivière (excerpt)
Isabelle Fournier, née Rivière (July 16, 1889 – June 18, 1971), was a French writer. The sister of Alain-Fournier, she was the daughter of schoolteachers Marie-Albanie Barthe and Augustin Fournier. She married Jacques Rivière, a writer and director of the Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF).
Biography of Werner Scholem (excerpt)
Werner Scholem (December 29, 1895 – July 17, 1940) was a German politician.A member of the Reichstag for the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1924 to 1928, he was arrested in 1933 due to his Jewish background and communist activities. |
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