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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 Günter Raphael (excerpt)
Günter Raphael (30 April 1903 – 19 October 1960) was a German composer. Born in Berlin, Raphael was the grandson of composer Albert Becker. His first symphony was premiered by Wilhelm Furtwängler in 1926 in Leipzig with the Gewandhaus Orchestra. From 1926 to 1934 he taught in Leipzig, but illness and the rise of Fascism – he was declared a "half-Jew" – made this difficult for him.
Biography of Corrie ten Boom (excerpt)
Cornelia Arnolda Johanna "Corrie" ten Boom (15 April 1892 – 15 April 1983) was a Dutch watchmaker and later a Christian writer and public speaker, who worked with her father, Casper ten Boom, her sister Betsie ten Boom and other family members to help many Jewish people escape from the Nazis during the Holocaust in World War II by hiding them in her home.
Biography of Richard Gaines (excerpt)
Richard Houston Gaines (July 23, 1904 – July 20, 1975) was an American actor. He appeared in over 75 film and television productions between 1940 and 1962. Early years Gaines was born in Indian Territory and grew up in Texas, learning "to handle the ax, the plough, and the lariat".
Biography of Robert de Saint Jean (excerpt)
Robert de Saint Jean (12 June 1901 – 16 January 1987) was a French writer and journalist. He was the companion of the French-speaking American writer Julien Green. Like the latter, he kept a diary which he published and allows to understand the French cultural life over several decades.
Biography of Gertrud Luckner (excerpt)
Gertrud Luckner (born Jane Hartmann; 26 September 1900 – 31 August 1995) was a Christian social worker involved in the German resistance to Nazism. A member of the banned German Catholic Peace Movement, she organised food packages for Jews deported to Poland, and travelled Germany giving assistance to Jewish families.
Biography of Enzo Paci (excerpt)
Enzo Paci (born September 18, 1911, in Monterado and died July 21, 1976, in Milan) was an Italian philosopher, one of the representatives of Existentialism in Italy, before turning towards phenomenology. He studied philosophy at the University of Milan, where he was notably a student of Antonio Banfi, and then began teaching at the University of Pavia, before returning to the University of Milan where he spent the remainder of his career.
Biography of Elly Ney (excerpt)
Elly Ney (27 September 1882 – 31 March 1968) was a German romantic pianist who specialized in Beethoven, and was especially popular in Germany. Personal life Elly Ney was married twice; first, in 1911, to the Dutch conductor Willem van Hoogstraten. They had one daughter, Eleonore (1918–2007).
Biography of Lino Salini (excerpt)
Umberto Lino Salini (* December 27, 1889 in Frankfurt am Main; † December 20, 1944 in Würzburg) was a German painter and caricaturist. Salini is often compared to Heinrich Zille because he liked to choose motifs for his drawings from a specific milieu: the apple wine taverns of Sachsenhausen.
Biography of Tony Zale (excerpt)
Anthony Florian Zaleski (May 29, 1913 – March 20, 1997), known professionally as Tony Zale, was an American boxer. Zale was born and raised in Gary, Indiana, a steel town, which gave him his nickname, "Man of Steel", reinforced by his reputation of being able to take fearsome punishment and still rally to win.
Biography of Stefan Wolpe (excerpt)
Stefan Wolpe (25 August 1902, Berlin – 4 April 1972, New York City) was a German-Jewish-American composer. He was associated with interdisciplinary modernism, with affiliations ranging from the Bauhaus, Berlin agitprop theater and the kibbutz movement to the Eighth Street Artists' Club, Black Mountain College, and the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music.
Biography of Marjorie Grene (excerpt)
Marjorie Glicksman Grene (December 13, 1910 - March 16, 2009) was an American philosopher who focused on existentialism and the philosophy of science, particularly biology. She taught at the University of California at Davis from 1965 to 1978 and was an Honorary University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech from 1988 until her death.
Biography of Georgette Vallejo (excerpt)
Georgette Marie Philippart Travers (Paris, 7 January 1908 – Lima, 1984), French writer and poet. She was the wife of the Peruvian poet César Vallejo of international fame, considered by Mario Benedetti to be a "human paradigm", while the American poet-monk Thomas Merton points out that "the project for the translation of his poetry is of an urgent and enormous importance for the entire human race.
Biography of Leonarda Cianciulli (excerpt)
Leonarda Cianciulli (18 April 1893 – 15 October 1970), also known as the Soap-Maker of Correggio, was an Italian serial killer who murdered three women in Correggio between 1939 and 1940, transforming their bodies into soap and teacakes. Born in Montella, Avellino, she faced a troubled youth, including two suicide attempts.
Biography of Max Koegel (excerpt)
Otto Max Koegel (16 October 1895 – 27 June 1946) was a Nazi officer who served as a commander at Lichtenburg, Ravensbrück, Majdanek and Flossenbürg concentration camps. In 1946 he was arrested for his role in The Holocaust, but hanged himself in prison before he could stand trial.
Biography of Luis Zambrano (excerpt)
Luis Zambrano (Bailadores, State of Mérida, May 1, 1901 - Tovar, State of Mérida, August 15, 1990) was a popular self-taught inventor from the State of Mérida, Venezuela, a mechanical genius. He created dozens of inventions. In 1977 he lost his right hand following an accident with a saw.
Biography of Paulette Nardal (excerpt)
Paulette Nardal, born on October 12, 1896, in Le François, Martinique, and died on February 16, 1985, in Fort-de-France, was a French woman of letters and journalist. An activist for the black cause alongside her sister Jeanne, she was one of the inspirations behind the literary movement of Négritude and the first black woman to study at the Sorbonne.
Biography of Sara Berner (excerpt)
Sara Berner (born Lillian Ann Herdan; January 12, 1912 – December 19, 1969) was an American actress. Known for her expertise in dialect and characterization, she began her career as a performer in vaudeville before becoming a voice actress for radio and animated shorts.
Biography of Severo Ochoa (excerpt)
Severo Ochoa de Albornoz (24 September 1905 – 1 November 1993) was a Spanish physician and biochemist, and winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Arthur Kornberg for their discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)".
Biography of Andrée Lafayette (excerpt)
Andrée Rose Godard (19 May 1903 – 3 October 1989), known by her stage-name as Andrée Lafayette, also known by her self-invented title as Countess Andrée de la Bigne, was a French stage and film actress, and granddaughter of the infamous demi-mondaine (prostitute) Émilie Louise Delabigne who was known by her self-invented title as Countess Valtesse de La Bigne.
Biography of Marten Toonder (excerpt)
Marten Toonder (2 May 1912 – 27 July 2005) was a Dutch comic strip creator, born in Rotterdam. He was probably the most successful comic artist in the Netherlands and had a great influence on the Dutch language by introducing new words and expressions.
Biography of Pierre Prüm (excerpt)
Pierre Prüm (9 July 1886 – 1 February 1950) was a Luxembourgian politician and jurist. He was the 14th Prime Minister of Luxembourg, serving for a year, from 20 March 1925 until 16 July 1926. Later life In 1926, Prüm became a justice of the peace in Clervaux, where he served for ten years.
Biography of Riccardo Bacchelli (excerpt)
Riccardo Bacchelli (19 April 1891 – 8 October 1985) was an Italian writer. In 1927 he was one of the founders of the review La Ronda and Bagutta Prize for literature. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature eight times.
Biography of Andrea Palma (actress) (excerpt)
Guadalupe Bracho Pérez-Gavilán, professionally known as Andrea Palma, was a pioneering Mexican actress, born on April 16, 1903, and passing on October 6, 1987. She emerged as the first major female star of Mexican cinema after starring in "La Mujer del Puerto" (1934).
Biography of Giuseppe Saragat (excerpt)
Giuseppe Saragat (19 September 1898 – 11 June 1988) was an Italian politician who served as the president of Italy from 1964 to 1971. Political career Following the dissolution of the PSU in 1930, Saragat joined the Italian Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Italiano, PSI).
Biography of Otto Paetsch (excerpt)
Otto Paetsch (August 3, 1909 - March 16, 1945) was a German officer in the Waffen-SS during World War II. He fought on various fronts, including France, Russia, and the Battle of Arnhem. For his heroic actions, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and was posthumously promoted to SS-Standartenführer.
Biography of Elena Caffarena (excerpt)
Elena Caffarena Morice (March 22, 1903 - July 19, 2003) was a Chilean lawyer, jurist and politician. Contemporary historians and humanists consider her to be one of the most important 20th-century public figures in Chile. Biography Elena Caffarena was born in Iquique, Chile, to Ana Morice and Blas Caffarena, an Italian immigrant.
Biography of Regina Ullmann (excerpt)
Regina "Rega" Ullmann (14 December 1884 – 6 January 1961) was a Swiss poet and writer. Life Ullmann was the second daughter of a Jewish-Austrian embroidery businessman, Richard Ullmann, and his German wife Hedwig. She was born in the Swiss town of St.
Biography of Jakob van Hoddis (excerpt)
Jakob van Hoddis, born Hans Davidsohn, was a German expressionist poet, born on May 16, 1887, in Berlin, and perished in 1942 at Sobibor. A friend of Georg Heym, he was a forerunner of Dadaism. As a poet, Jew, and mentally ill person, he became a symbolic victim of the Nazis' extermination policy.
Biography of Jāzeps Grosvalds (excerpt)
Jazeps Grosvalds (Latvian: Jāzeps Grosvalds) (24 April 1891 – 1 February 1920) was a Latvian painter from Riga. He is now regarded as one of Latvia's finest painters, bringing new ideas in Latvian art at the time, and has several works on display in the Latvian National Museum of Art.
Biography of Luis Trenker (excerpt)
Luis Trenker (born October 4, 1892 in Saint-Ulrich in Gröden (Urtijëi), Tyrol, Austria-Hungary - died April 13, 1990 in Bolzano, Italy) is an Italian-Austrian mountaineer, actor, director, screenwriter, producer and editor, whose His career began in the last years of silent cinema and continued for more than half a century, until Heimat aus Gottes Hand, a film he made in 1979, at the age of 87.
Biography of Yi Bangja (excerpt)
Yi Bangja, Crown Princess of Korea (4 November 1901 – 30 April 1989) was the wife of Crown Prince Euimin, the last Crown Prince of the Korean Empire. Her birth time comes from the biography The World is One: Princess Yi Pangja's Autobiography by Pang-ja Yi (Taewon, 1973).
Biography of Silvan Tomkins (excerpt)
Silvan Solomon Tomkins (June 4, 1911 – June 10, 1991) was a psychologist and personality theorist who developed both affect theory and script theory. Following the publication of the third volume of his book Affect Imagery Consciousness in 1991, his body of work received renewed interest, leading to attempts by others to summarize and popularize his theories.
Biography of Carlo Dapporto (excerpt)
Carlo Dapporto (26 June 1911 – 1 October 1989) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 35 films between 1944 and 1987. He was born in Sanremo, Italy and died in Rome, Italy. His son Massimo Dapporto is also an actor.
Biography of Norman Foster (director) (excerpt)
Norman Foster, born Norman Foster Hoeffer on December 13, 1903, was an American director, screenwriter, and actor. Foster directed Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto films and worked with Orson Welles and Walt Disney. Starting as a leading man in early talkies, he transitioned to directing in the late 1930s while occasionally acting.
Biography of Julian Tuwim (excerpt)
Julian Tuwim (13 September 1894 – 27 December 1953), known also under the pseudonym "Oldlen" as a lyricist, was a Polish poet, born in Łódź, then part of the Russian Partition. He was educated in Łódź and in Warsaw where he studied law and philosophy at Warsaw University.
Biography of Ossi Oswalda (excerpt)
Ossi Oswalda, born Oswalda Amalie Anna Stäglich on February 2, 1898, and passed away on March 7, 1947, was a German actress famous for her roles in silent films, many directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Her characters were often eccentric, spoiled, and child-like, earning her the nickname 'The German Mary Pickford'.
Biography of Michele Saponaro (excerpt)
Michele Saponaro (San Cesario di Lecce, January 2, 1885 – Milan, October 28, 1959) was an Italian writer and biographer. After initially writing in a veristic style, with works like "Le novelle del verde" (Naples, Bideri, 1908, which was presented by Luigi Capuana), and the collection of autobiographical novellas "Rosolacci" (Ancona, Puccini, 1912), he ventured into novels with "La vigilia" (1914), "Peccato" (Milan, Treves, 1919), "Un uomo: l'adolescenza" (1924, 1925, 1983), "Io e mia moglie" (1928, 1929, 1930), "Il cerchio magico" (1939), and many others.
Biography of Cat Thompson (excerpt)
John Ashworth "Cat" Thompson (February 10, 1906 – October 7, 1990) was an American basketball player. He won the Utah state championship with Dixie High School team and finished second in the High School National Tournament in 1925. In college, he played for 3 seasons for Montana State, during which time his team had a record of 102-11.
Biography of Domenica Walter (excerpt)
Juliette Marie Léonie Lacaze, nicknamed Domenica, and became through her successive marriages Domenica Guillaume then Domenica Walter, born in Millau on May 19, 1898 and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine on June 29, 1977, is a French art collector. Juliette Lacaze, who grew up in a modest environment in Millau, worked as a cloakroom attendant in a Parisian nightclub called Le Viking.
Biography of Claude Cahun (excerpt)
Claude Cahun (born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob; 25 October 1894 – 8 December 1954) was a French surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer. Schwob adopted the pseudonym Claude Cahun in 1914. Cahun is best known as a writer and self-portraitist, who assumed a variety of performative personae.
Biography of Tino Scotti (excerpt)
Tino Scotti, born on September 16, 1905, in Milan and died on October 16, 1984, in Tarquinia, was an Italian actor. He appeared in over 65 films between 1940 and 1984. Tino Scotti began his career as a football player, notably with Inter Milan and other minor clubs, before becoming an actor in variety shows and revues.
Biography of Alice Milliat (excerpt)
Alice Milliat, born on May 5, 1884, in Nantes and died on May 19, 1957, in Paris, was a French swimmer, field hockey player, and rower. A co-founder and president of the Federation of French Female Sporting Societies, she is also recognized as one of the leading activists in the fight for the recognition of women's sports at an international level.
Biography of Nino Taranto (excerpt)
Nino Taranto (28 August 1907 – 23 February 1986) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1924 and 1971. Life and career Born in Naples, Taranto started his career as a child actor in 1918 starring in some local stage companies.
Biography of Estelle Taylor (excerpt)
Ida Estelle Taylor (May 20, 1894 – April 15, 1958) was an American actress, famous in the silent film era of the 1920s. Known for her beauty, Taylor debuted in 1919 and found success with "While New York Sleeps" (1920), playing three roles.
Biography of Renato Rascel (excerpt)
Renato Ranucci (28 April 1912 – 2 January 1991), known by the stage name Renato Rascel, was an Italian film actor and singer. He appeared in 50 films between 1942 and 1972. He represented Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 1960 with the song "Romantica", which tied for eighth place out of thirteen entries.
Biography of Wanda Osiris (excerpt)
Wanda Osiris (pronounced ; born Anna Menzio, italianized as Vanda Osiri during the Fascist era; 3 June 1905 – 11 November 1994) was an Italian revue soubrette, actress and singer. Life and career Born in Rome, Italy, the daughter of a groom, she studied violin at a young age.
Biography of Raffaele Bendandi (excerpt)
Raffaele Bendandi (1893–1979), an Italian clockmaker, was known for his earthquake predictions. Self-taught, he became interested in planetary motion and seismology after witnessing a solar eclipse in 1905. Bendandi theorized, without scientific backing, that earthquakes were caused by planetary alignments. He gained fame for his predictions, notably the one in 1924, which missed by two days.
Biography of Peggy Solomon (excerpt)
Margery Lee Golder Solomon, born Mastbaum on August 14, 1908, and died on March 4, 1995, was an American bridge player from Philadelphia. In 1942, as Peggy Golder, she became the 33rd Life Master of the ACBL, and the third woman to achieve this rank after Sally Young and Helen Sobel.
Biography of Leonard Schapiro (excerpt)
Leonard Bertram Naman Schapiro CBE (22 April 1908 in Glasgow – 2 November 1983 in London) was the leading British scholar of the origins and development of the Soviet political system. He taught for many years at the London School of Economics, where he was Professor of Political Science with Special Reference to Russian Studies.
Biography of Julien Gouet (excerpt)
Julien Gouet, born on October 21, 1910, in Fillé and died on December 15, 1988, was a French Catholic priest who served as Auxiliary Bishop of Paris from 1966 until his death on December 15, 1988. |
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