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Horoscopes with Pluto in GeminiYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Pluto 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 Xul Solar (excerpt)
Xul Solar was the adopted name of Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari (December 14, 1887 – April 9, 1963), Argentine painter, sculptor, writer, and inventor of imaginary languages. Quotes "I am a world champion of a game that nobody yet knows called panchess (Panajedrez).
Biography of Bohuslav Martinu (excerpt)
Bohuslav Martinů (Czech: ( listen); December 8, 1890 – August 28, 1959) was a prolific Czech composer of modern classical music. Martinů wrote 6 symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works.
Biography of Roberto Gerhard (excerpt)
Robert Gerhard i Ottenwaelder (Catalan pronunciation: ; 25 September 1896 – 5 January 1970) was a Catalan composer and musical scholar and writer, generally known outside Catalonia as Roberto Gerhard. Life Roberto Gerhard was born in Valls, near Tarragona, Spain, the son of a German-Swiss father and an Alsatian mother.
Biography of Robert Benchley (excerpt)
Robert Charles Benchley (September 15, 1889 – November 21, 1945) was an American humorist best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and film actor. From his beginnings at the Harvard Lampoon while attending Harvard University, through his many years writing essays and articles for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker and his acclaimed short films, Benchley's style of humor brought him respect and success during his life, from New York City and his peers at the Algonquin Round Table to contemporaries in the burgeoning film industry.
Biography of Antoun Saadeh (excerpt)
Antoun Saadeh (Arabic: أنطون سعادة; 1 March 1904 – 8 July 1949) was a Lebanese philosopher, writer and politician who founded the Syrian Social Nationalist Party. Saadeh had an holistic notion of science, as "knowledge is that it revolves around interaction of the self with the surrounding physical conditions" and was against epistemological reductionism, considering that "the self plays an active role in creating the conditions that transform things into objects of knowledge.
Biography of Luís Carlos Prestes (excerpt)
Luís Carlos Prestes (January 3, 1898 – March 7, 1990) was a tenente, later communist militant and Brazilian politician. He was one of the organizers of the 1920s tenente revolts and the Communist opposition to the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas in Brazil.
Biography of Miguel Hernández (excerpt)
Miguel Hernández Gilabert (30 October 1910 – 28 March 1942) was a 20th-century Spanish language poet and playwright associated with the Generation of '27 movement and the Generation of '36 movement. Born and raised in a family of low resources, he was an autodidact in what refers to literature, and struggled against a unfavourable environment to build up his intellectual education, such as a father who beat him because of spending time with books instead of working, and who took him out of school as soon as he finished his primary education.
Biography of Madeleine Astor (excerpt)
Madeleine Talmage Force Fiermonte (June 19, 1893 – March 27, 1940) was an American socialite and a survivor of the RMS Titanic. She was also the second wife and widow of businessman John Jacob Astor IV. Madeleine Astor, then five months pregnant, boarded the Titanic as a first-class passenger in Cherbourg, France, with her husband; her husband's valet, Victor Robbins; her maid, Rosalie Bidois; and her nurse, Caroline Endres.
Biography of Manuel Bandeira (excerpt)
Manuel Carneiro de Sousa Bandeira Filho (Recife, Pernambuco, April 19, 1886 – Rio de Janeiro, October 13, 1968) was a poet, literary critic, and translator. He is one of Brazil's most admired and inspiring poets until today. In fact, the "rhythm bandeiriano" deserves in-depth studies of essayists.
Biography of Henriette Puig-Roget (excerpt)
Henriette Puig-Roget, born Henriette Roget on January 9, 1910 in Bastia (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on November 24, 1992 in Paris, was a French organist, pianist, and pedagogue.
Biography of John Fante (excerpt)
John Fante (April 8, 1909 – May 8, 1983) was an American novelist, short story writer and screenwriter. He is best known for his semi-autobiographical novel Ask the Dust (1939) about the life of a struggling writer, Arturo Bandini, in Depression-era Los Angeles.
Biography of Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (excerpt)
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (Romanian pronunciation: (About this sound listen); born Corneliu Zelinski; September 13, 1899 – November 30, 1938), commonly known as Corneliu Codreanu, was a Romanian politician who was the founder and charismatic leader of the Iron Guard (also known as the Legionnaire movement), an ultranationalistic and antisemitic organization active throughout most of the interwar period.
Biography of Robert Denoël (excerpt)
Robert Denoël, born on November 9, 1902 in Uccle (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), murdered on December 2, 1945 in Paris, was a French editor born in Belgium. He was the founder, with the American Bernard Steele (1902-1979), of Éditions Denoël, a French publishing house founded in 1930.
Biography of Nikolai Yezhov (excerpt)
Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov, (May 1, 1895 – February 4, 1940) was a Soviet secret police official under Joseph Stalin who was head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938, during the most active period of the Great Purge. Having presided over mass arrests and executions during the Great Purge, Yezhov eventually fell from Stalin's favour and power.
Biography of Jean Rodhain (excerpt)
Jean Charles François Rodhain, born on January 31, 1900 in Remiremont (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on Feburary 1, 1977 in Lourdes, was a French Catholic priest. Selected works Toi aussi fais de męme – La charité pour aujourd’hui.
Biography of Giuseppe Tucci (excerpt)
Giuseppe Tucci (Italian pronunciation: ; 5 June 1894 – 5 April 1984) was an Italian scholar of oriental cultures, specialising in Tibet and history of Buddhism. During its zenith, Tucci was a supporter of Italian Fascism, and he used idealized portrayals of Asian traditions to support Italian ideological campaigns.
Biography of Pierre Chevallier (politician) (excerpt)
Pierre Chevallier, born on January 30, 1909 in Orléans (birth time source: Didier Geslain and Guy Artique, birth certificate), died on August 12, 1951 in Orléans, was a French physician and politician. He was killed by his wife (shooting, Mab 7.
Biography of Roger Sessions (excerpt)
Roger Huntington Sessions (December 28, 1896 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, BC) – March 16, 1985) was an American composer, critic, and teacher of music. Life Sessions was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a family that could trace its roots back to the American revolution.
Biography of Federico Mompou (excerpt)
Frederic Mompou i Dencausse (Catalan pronunciation: ; alternatively Federico Mompou; 16 April 1893 – 30 June 1987) was a Catalan composer and pianist. He is remembered for his solo piano music and, to a degree, his songs. Life Early years Mompou was born in Barcelona to the lawyer Frederic Mompou and his wife Josefina Dencausse, who was of French origin.
Biography of Harry Hopkins (excerpt)
Harry Lloyd Hopkins (August 17, 1890 – January 29, 1946) was one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's closest advisers. He was one of the architects of the New Deal, especially the relief programs of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which he directed and built into the largest employer in the country.
Biography of Genrikh Yagoda (excerpt)
Genrikh Grigoryevich Yagoda (7 November 1891 – 15 March 1938), born Yenokh Gershevich Iyeguda was a secret police official who served as director of the NKVD, the Soviet Union's security and intelligence agency, from 1934 to 1936. Appointed by Joseph Stalin, Yagoda supervised the arrest, show trial, and execution of the Old Bolsheviks Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev, climactic events of the Great Purge.
Biography of Jean Martinon (excerpt)
Jean Francisque-Étienne Martinon (usually known simply as Jean Martinon (French pronunciation: ); 10 January 1910 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, civil registrar) – 1 March 1976) was a French conductor and composer. Biography Martinon was born in Lyon, where he began his education, going on to the Conservatoire de Paris to study under Albert Roussel for composition, under Charles Munch and Roger Désormičre for conducting, under Vincent d'Indy for harmony, and under Jules Boucherit for violin.
Biography of Gustave Gilbert (excerpt)
Gustave Mark Gilbert (September 30, 1911 – February 6, 1977) was an American psychologist best known for his writings containing observations of high-ranking Nazi leaders during the Nuremberg Trials. His Psychology of Dictatorship was an attempt to profile Adolf Hitler using as reference the testimonials of Hitler’s closest generals and commanders.
Biography of Robert Siodmak (excerpt)
Robert Siodmak (8 August 1900 – 10 March 1973) was a German-born American film director. He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for a series of stylish, unpretentious Hollywood films noirs he made in the 1940s. Early life Siodmak (pronounced SEE-ODD-MACK) was born in Dresden, Germany, the son of Rosa Philippine (née Blum) and Ignatz Siodmak.
Biography of Michael Chekhov (excerpt)
Mikhail Aleksandrovich "Michael" Chekhov (Russian: Михаил Александрович Чехов, 29 August 1891 – 30 September 1955) was a Russian-American actor, director, author, and theatre practitioner. His acting technique has been used by actors such as Jack Nicholson, Clint Eastwood, Marilyn Monroe, and Yul Brynner.
Biography of Bruce Bennett (excerpt)
Bruce Bennett (May 19, 1906 – February 24, 2007) was an American actor and Olympic silver medalist in the shot put. Born as Harold Herman Brix, he went by the name Herman Brix in the 1930s. Early life and Olympics Harold Herman Brix was the fourth child in a family of five of an immigrant couple from Germany.
Biography of Alexandre Chevalier (excerpt)
Alexandre Chevalier, born on April 18, 1910 (birth time source: Didier Geslain), is a French physician and resistant. He was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France in 1965 and 1966. The Grand Orient de France (GODF) is the largest of several Masonic organizations in France and the oldest in Continental Europe.
Biography of Cecília Meireles (excerpt)
Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles (7 November 1901 – 9 November 1964) was a Brazilian writer and educator, known principally as a poet. She is a canonical name of Brazilian Modernism, one of the great female poets in the Portuguese language, and is widely considered the best female poet from Brazil, though she combatted the word poetess because of gender discrimination.
Biography of Paul Robeson (excerpt)
Paul Leroy Robeson (/ˈroʊbsən/ ROHB-sən; April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American bass baritone concert artist and stage and film actor who became famous both for his cultural accomplishments and for his political activism. Educated at Rutgers College and Columbia University, he was also a star athlete in his youth.
Biography of Robert Ryan (actor) (excerpt)
Robert Bushnell Ryan (November 11, 1909 – July 11, 1973 (cancer, age 63)) was an American actor who most often portrayed hardened cops and ruthless villains. Ryan was born in Chicago, Illinois, the first child of Mable Arbutus (Bushnell), a secretary, and Timothy Aloysius Ryan, who was from a wealthy family that owned a real estate firm.
Biography of René Julliard (excerpt)
René Henri Julliard, born on November 22, 1900 in Geneva, Switzerland (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died in July 1, 1962 in Paris, was a French editor, the founder of Éditions Julliard in 1942, a French publishing house. Julliard was known as a discoverer and publisher of talents, in particular Françoise Sagan and Jean d'Ormesson.
Biography of Émile Veinante (excerpt)
Émile Veinante (12 June 1907 in Le Sablon, Metz (birth time and city source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 18 November 1983 in Dury, Somme) was a French footballer and coach. Between February 1929 and January 1940 Veinante played 24 international matches for the French national team, scoring 14 goals.
Biography of La Bolduc (excerpt)
Mary Rose-Anna Bolduc, née Travers, (June 4, 1894 – February 20, 1941) was a musician and singer of French Canadian music. She was known as Madame Bolduc or La Bolduc. During the peak of her popularity in the 1930s, she was known as the Queen of Canadian Folk Singers.
Biography of Lloyd Bacon (excerpt)
Lloyd Francis Bacon (December 4, 1889 – November 15, 1955) was an American screen, stage and vaudeville actor and film director. As a director he made films in virtually all genres, westerns, musicals, comedies, gangster films, crime dramas, and was one of the directors at Warner Bros.
Biography of Peter Wessel Zapffe (excerpt)
Peter Wessel Zapffe (December 18, 1899 – October 12, 1990) was a Norwegian metaphysician, author, lawyer and mountaineer. He is often noted for his philosophically pessimistic and fatalistic view of human existence—his system of philosophy in line with the work of the earlier philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, by whom he was inspired—as well as his firm advocacy of antinatalism.
Biography of Nâzim Hikmet (excerpt)
Nâzım Hikmet Ran (15 January 190 (the date is conflicting, it is different depending on the pages in different languages of Wikipedia)) – 3 June 1963), commonly known as Nâzım Hikmet), was a Turkish poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, director and memoirist.
Biography of Jean Boyer (footballer) (excerpt)
Jean Boyer, born on February 13, 1901 in Vitry-sur-Seine (birth time source: Steinbrecher, Gauquelin, birth certificatel). Wikipedia gives another birth data.
Biography of Jacques Mitterrand (1908-1991) (excerpt)
Jacques Mitterrand (10 June 1908, Bourges (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 374) - 5 June 1991) was the Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France and a founder of the small left wing party Union progressiste. He was a member of the Council of the French Union between 1947 and 1958.
Biography of Leo Fender (excerpt)
Clarence Leonidas "Leo" Fender (August 10, 1909 – March 21, 1991) was an American inventor who founded Fender Electric Instrument Manufacturing Company, or "Fender" for short. In January 1965, he sold the company to CBS and later founded two other musical instrument companies, Music Man and G&L Musical Instruments
Biography of André Gillois (excerpt)
Maurice Diamant-Berger (8 February 1902 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 18 June 2004), known as André Gillois, was a French writer, radio pioneer and - during the Second World War - general Charles de Gaulle's spokesman in London.
Biography of Edwin L. Marin (excerpt)
Edwin L. Marin (February 21, 1899 – May 2, 1951) was an American film director who directed 58 films between 1932 and 1951, working with Randolph Scott, Anna May Wong, John Wayne, Peter Lorre, George Raft, Bela Lugosi, Judy Garland, Eddie Cantor, and Hoagy Carmichael, among many others.
Biography of Ernest Holmes (excerpt)
Ernest Shurtleff Holmes (January 21, 1887 – April 7, 1960) was an American New Thought writer, teacher, and leader. He was the founder of a Spiritual movement known as Religious Science, part of the greater New Thought movement, whose spiritual philosophy is known as "The Science of Mind.
Biography of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade (excerpt)
Marie-Madeleine Fourcade (November 8, 1909, Marseille (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - July 20, 1989, Paris) was the leader of the French Resistance network "Alliance", under the code name "Hérisson" ("Hedgehog") after the arrest of its former leader, Georges Loustaunau-Lacau, during the occupation of France in the Second World War.
Biography of Ward Bond (excerpt)
Wardell Edwin Bond, known as Ward Bond (April 9, 1903 – November 5, 1960), was an American film character actor whose rugged appearance and easygoing charm were featured in more than 200 films and the NBC television series Wagon Train from 1957 to 1960.
Biography of Imi Lichtenfeld (excerpt)
Emrich "Imi" Lichtenfeld (May 26, 1910 – January 9, 1998) was a Hungarian-born Israeli martial artist who founded the Krav Maga self-defense system. He was also known as Imi Sde-Or, the Hebrew calque of his surname. Early life Lichtenfeld was born on May 26, 1910, to a Hungarian Jewish family in Budapest in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Biography of Walther Bierkamp (excerpt)
Walther Bierkamp also spelled, Walter Bierkamp (17 December 1901 in Hamburg – 15 May 1945 in Scharbeutz) was a German jurist of the Third Reich who was born in Hamburg. He served as Chief of the Sicherheitspolizei or SiPo (Security Police) and Sicherheitsdienst or SD (Security Service) in Düsseldorf.
Biography of Agostino Steffani (excerpt)
Agostino Steffani (25 July 1654 – 12 February 1728) was an Italian ecclesiastic, diplomat and composer. Biography Steffani was born at Castelfranco Veneto. At a very early age he was admitted as a chorister at San Marco, Venice. In 1667 the beauty of his voice attracted the attention of Count Georg Ignaz von Tattenbach, by whom he was taken to Munich, where his education was completed at the expense of Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria, who appointed him Churfürstlicher Kammer- und Hofmusikus and granted him a liberal salary.
Biography of János Kádár (excerpt)
János Kádár (/ˈkɑːdɑːr/; Hungarian: ; 26 May 1912 – 6 July 1989) was a Hungarian communist leader and the General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, presiding over the country from 1956 until his retirement in 1988. His 32-year term as General Secretary covered most of the period the People's Republic of Hungary existed.
Biography of Galina Ulanova (excerpt)
Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova (Russian: Гали́на Серге́евна Ула́нова, 8 January 1910 (O.S. 26 December 1909) – 21 March 1998) was a Russian ballet dancer. She is frequently cited as being one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century. Ulanova was a great actress as well as a dancer, and when she was finally allowed to tour abroad at the age of 46, enraptured British papers wrote that "Galina Ulanova in London knew the greatest triumph of any individual dancer since Anna Pavlova".
Biography of Morey Amsterdam (excerpt)
Morey Amsterdam (born Moritz Amsterdam, December 14, 1908 – October 27, 1996) was an American television actor and comedian, best known for the role of Buddy Sorrell on CBS's The Dick Van Dyke Show from 1961 to 1966. Further reading Keep Laughing. Citadel Press, 1959. |
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