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birth charts 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 A. J. Cronin (excerpt)
Archibald Joseph Cronin (July 19, 1896–January 6, 1981) was a Scottish novelist, dramatist, and non-fiction writer who was one of the most renowned storytellers of the twentieth century.His best-known works are The Citadel and The Keys of the Kingdom, both of which were made into Oscar-nominated films.
Biography of Marcus Garvey (excerpt)
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL).
Biography of Langston Hughes (excerpt)
James Mercer Langston Hughes, (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist.He was one of the earliest innovators of the new literary art form jazz poetry.Hughes is best-known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance.
Biography of Emmanuel Roblès (excerpt)
Emmanuel Roblès (born May 4, 1914 in Oran, Algeria, died February 22, 1995 in Boulogne, Hauts-de-Seine) was an Algerian-French author. He was elected a member of the Académie Goncourt in 1973. Selected bibliography La Vallée du paradis (1940) Travail d'homme (1942) La Marie des quatres vents (1942), short story
Biography of Josef Albers (excerpt)
Josef Albers (March 19, 1888 – March 26, 1976) was a German artist, mathematician and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the 20th century.
Biography of Pamela Travers (excerpt)
Pamela Lyndon Travers OBE (9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996) was an Australian novelist and journalist, popularly remembered for her sequence of novels about Mary Poppins. She was born Helen Lyndon Goff in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, to bank manager Travers Robert Goff and Margaret Agnes (née Morehead).
Biography of Morarji Desai (excerpt)
Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (Hindi: मोरारजी देसाई) (February 29, 1896 – April 10, 1995) was an Indian independence activist and the Prime Minister of India from 1977-79. He was the first Indian Prime Minister who did not belong to the Indian National Congress.
Biography of Benjamin Péret (excerpt)
Benjamin Péret (4 July 1899 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 18 September 1959) was a French poet and Surrealist. Benjamin Péret was born in Rezé (Loire-Atlantique) on 4 July 1899.He enlisted in the army to avoid being jailed.He saw action in the Balkans, and served through the war.
Biography of Clyde Tombaugh (excerpt)
Clyde William Tombaugh (February 4, 1906 – January 17, 1997) was an American astronomer. Tombaugh is best known for discovering the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930, but also discovered many asteroids, and called for serious scientific research of unidentified flying objects. Biography Tombaugh was born in Streator, LaSalle County, Illinois. After his family moved to Burdett, Kansas, Tombaugh's plans for attending college were frustrated when a hailstorm ruined their crops.
Biography of Theda Bara (excerpt)
Theda Bara was the stage name of Theodosia Burr Goodman (July 29, 1885 – April 13, 1955), an American silent film actress.Movie executives made promotional claims that her stage name was chosen because it is an anagram for "Arab Death." In reality, "Theda" was a childhood nickname for Theodosia.
Biography of Ruth Gordon (excerpt)
Ruth Gordon Jones (October 30, 1896 – August 28, 1985), better known as Ruth Gordon, was an Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, and Emmy Award-winning American actress and writer.She was perhaps best known for her films roles such as the oversolicitous neighbor in Rosemary's Baby and the eccentric life-loving Maude in Harold and Maude.
Biography of Stewart Granger (excerpt)
Stewart Granger (May 6, 1913 – August 16, 1993), born James Lablache Stewart, was an English film actor, mainly associated with heroic and romantic leading roles. Tall, dark, dignified and handsome, Granger was a popular leading man in the 40s, 50s and 60s.
Biography of Emmanuel Bove (excerpt)
Emmanuel Bove (April 20, 1898 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, archives de Paris V4E 9713) - July 19, 1945) was a French writer of Jewish descent. Biography Emmanuel Bove was born Emmanuel Bobovnikoff on April 20, 1898 in Paris to a Russian father and a Luxembourgish mother.
Biography of Charles Laughton (excerpt)
Charles Laughton (1 July 1899–15 December 1962) was an English Academy Award-winning stage and film actor, screenwriter, producer and one-time director.He became an American citizen in 1950.While best known for his historical roles in films, he started his career as a remarkable stage actor.
Biography of Leonor Fini (excerpt)
Leonor Fini (30 August 1907 – 18 January 1996) was an Argentinian born Italian surrealist painter, designer, illustrator, and author, known for her depictions of powerful and erotic women. Career Fini had no formal artistic training, yet she was familiar with the traditional Renaissance and Mannerist styles encountered during her upbringing in Italy.
Biography of Peter Lorre (excerpt)
Peter Lorre (June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964), born László Löwenstein, was an Hungarian - born actor frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner in many American films. He made an international sensation in 1931 with his portrayal of a serial killer who preys on little girls in the German film M.
Biography of Jim Thorpe (excerpt)
Jacobus Franciscus "Jim" Thorpe (22 May 1887 – 28 March 1953) was an American athlete.Considered one of the most versatile athletes in modern sports, he won Olympic gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon, played American football collegiately and professionally, and also played professional baseball and basketball.
Biography of Guy des Cars (excerpt)
Guy des Cars (May 6, 1911 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - December 21, 1993, Paris) was a French writer. His son, Jean des Cars is a also a journalist and writer. Bibliography (extracts) - L'impure ( 1946 ) - La demoiselle d'opéra ( 1948 )
Biography of Michèle Alfa (excerpt)
Alfreda Bassignot, best known as Michèle Alfa (sometimes Michèle Alpha) born August 20, 1911 in Gujan-Mestras, died August 24, 1987 in Le Vésinet, was a French actress. Filmography (extracts) 1932 : La Poule de René Guissart 1932 : La Belle Aventure de Reinhold Schünzel et Roger Le Bon : Jeanne
Biography of Sonia Delaunay (excerpt)
Sonia Delaunay (née Terk) (1885 – 1979) was a Ukrainian-French artist, she married the artist Robert Delaunay, with whom she founded the movement Orphism, noted for its use of strong colors and geometric shapes.Her work extends to painting, textile design and stage set design.
Biography of Henry de Montherlant (excerpt)
Henry de Montherlant (April 20, 1895 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – September 21, 1972) was a French writer of essays and novels. His early successes were works such as the tetralogy Les jeunes filles (1936–1939) and Les célibataires (1934).
Biography of Francis Poulenc (excerpt)
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (7 January 1899 – 30 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include songs, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music. Among the best-known are the piano suite Trois mouvements perpétuels (1919), the ballet Les biches (1923), the Concert champêtre (1928) for harpsichord and orchestra, the Organ Concerto (1938), the opera Dialogues des Carmélites (1957), and the Gloria (1959) for soprano, choir, and orchestra.
Biography of Louis Jolliet (excerpt)
Louis Jolliet, also known Louis Joliet (September 21 (October 1, Gregorian calendar), 1645 – May 22, 1700, was a Canadian explorer born in Quebec. Jolliet is important for his discoveries in North America. Jolliet and missionary father Jacques Marquette were the first Europeans to map the Mississippi River.
Biography of Bangalor Venkata Raman (excerpt)
Dr.Bangalore Venkata Raman, born August 8, 1912 in Bangalore, was a most renowned astrologer, especially for his predictive skill.He was the author of numerous books of instruction and research papers in the field of Indian Vedic Astrology (Jyotish), and traveled all over the world giving lectures.
Biography of Pauline Réage (excerpt)
Anne Desclos (September 23, 1907 - April 27, 1998) was a French journalist and novelist who wrote under the pseudonyms Dominique Aury and Pauline Réage. Born in Rochefort-sur-Mer, Charente-Maritime, France to a bilingual family, Desclos began reading in French and English at an early age.
Biography of Jacqueline de Romilly (excerpt)
Jacqueline Worms de Romilly (March 26 1913 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – December 18 2010) was a French philologist, classical scholar and fiction writer.Of Jewish ancestry, she was the first woman nominated to the Collège de France, and in 1988, the second woman to enter the Académie Française.
Biography of Odysseas Elytis (excerpt)
Odysseas Elytis (Greek: Οδυσσέας Ελύτης) (November 2, 1911 – March 18, 1996) was a Greek poet, considered as one of the most important representatives of modernism in Greece.Although his original family name was Alepoudelis, he became famous with the pseudonym 'Elytis'.
Biography of Austin Osman Spare (excerpt)
Austin Osman Spare (December 30, 1886 - May 15, 1956) was an English artist who developed idiosyncratic magical techniques including automatic writing, automatic drawing and sigilization based on his theories of the relationship between the conscious and unconscious self. His artistic work is characterized by skilled draughtsmanship exhibiting a complete mastery of the use of the line, and often employs monstrous or fantastic magical and sexual imagery.
Biography of Charles Boyer (excerpt)
Charles Boyer (August 28, 1899 – August 26, 1978) was a four-time Academy Award-nominated French actor who starred in a number of classic Hollywood films, and made a long successful career. His most famous role was in the 1944 film Gaslight. After moving to the U.S., he became an American citizen.
Biography of Fulgencio Batista (excerpt)
General Fulgencio Batista (pronounced or ) y Zaldívar (January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer and politician. Batista was the de facto military leader of Cuba from 1933 to 1940, and thus the eminence grise of Cuban politics for that era, and the de jure President of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 after having won election.
Biography of Pat Nixon (excerpt)
Thelma Catherine "Pat" Nixon (née Ryan; March 16, 1912 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield, birth certificate) – June 22, 1993), also commonly known as Patricia Nixon, was an American educator and the wife of Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States.
Biography of Irène Némirovsky (excerpt)
Irène Némirovsky (born February 24, 1903, Kiev (OS February 11), died August 17, 1942) was a novelist who died at the age of 39 in Auschwitz, Poland.She was killed by the Nazis for being a Jew, despite her conversion to Roman Catholicism. Biography Irène Némirovsky was the daughter of a Jewish banker from Moscow, Léon Némirovsky.
Biography of Lanza del Vasto (excerpt)
Lanza del Vasto, (Giuseppe Giovanni Luigi Enrico Lanza di Trabia), (September 29, 1901 – January 5, 1981) was a philosopher, poet, artist, and nonviolent activist. He was born in San Vito dei Normanni, Italy and died in Murcia, Spain. A western disciple of Mohandas K.
Biography of Noël Roquevert (excerpt)
Noël Bénévent, best known as Noël Roquevert, born December 18, 1892 in Doué-la-Fontaine (Maine-et-Loire), died November 6, 1973 in Douarnenez (Finistère), was a French actor. Filmography (extracts) 1921 - 1939 1921 : Les Trois Mousquetaires, de Henri Diamant-Berger - Rôle : Une figuration à confirmer
Biography of Charles II of Spain (excerpt)
Charles II of Spain (Carlos Segundo) (November 6, 1661, Madrid, Spain - November 1, 1700, Madrid, Spain) was King of Spain, Naples, Sicily, nearly all of Italy (except Piedmont, the Papal States and Venice), and Spain's overseas Empire, stretching from Mexico to the Philippines.
Biography of Ansel Adams (excerpt)
Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West.His studio, which is owned by the Adams family, is the “Ansel Adams Gallery.” Life Childhood Adams was born in the Western Addition of San Francisco, California to distinctly upper-class parents Charles and Olive Adams.
Biography of Kim Philby (excerpt)
Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby or H.A.R.Philby (OBE: 1946-1965), (1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988) was a high-ranking member of British intelligence, a communist, and spy for the Soviet Union's NKVD and KGB. In 1963, Philby was revealed as a member of the spy ring now known as the Cambridge Five, along with Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross.
Biography of Julien Green (excerpt)
Julian Hartridge Green, or Julien Green (September 6, 1900 – August 13, 1998), was a French born American author of several novels including Léviathan and Each in His Own Darkness. He wrote primarily in French, but was not a French citizen.
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Alberta (/ælˈbɜːrtə/) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. English is the official language of the province. In 2016, 76.0% of Albertans were anglophone, 1.8% were francophone and 22.2% were allophone.
Biography of Renée Falconetti (excerpt)
Renée Jeanne Falconetti (July 21, 1892 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – December 12, 1946), sometimes credited as Maria Falconetti, Marie Falconetti, Renée Maria Falconetti, or, simply, Falconetti, was a French stage and film actress, notable for her role as Joan of Arc in Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 silent film, La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc.
Biography of Mario Altéry (excerpt)
Mario Altéry, born Philippe Altare September 12, 1900 in Nice and died in 1974 in Hyères, was a French singer (tenor), the father of singer Mathé Altéry.
Biography of Enid Blyton (excerpt)
Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was a British children's writer known as both Enid Blyton and Mary Pollock.She was one of the most successful children's storytellers of the twentieth century.Once described as a "one-woman fiction machine", she is noted for numerous series of books based on recurring characters and designed for different age groups.
Biography of Immanuel Velikovsky (excerpt)
Immanuel Velikovsky (June 10, 1895 (NS) – November 17, 1979) is best known as the author of a number of controversial books on prehistory, in particular, the US bestseller Worlds in Collision, published in 1950. Earlier, he played a role in the founding of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was a respected psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
Biography of Madeleine Renaud (excerpt)
Madeleine Renaud was a distinguished actress and a major figure in French theater in the 20th century.She was born on February 21, 1900 in Paris and died there on September 23, 1994. In 1940 Madeleine Renaud married the actor-director Jean-Louis Barrault (1910-1994).
Biography of René Fonck (excerpt)
René Paul Fonck (26 March 1894 – 18 June 1953) was a French aviator who ended the Great War as the top Allied fighter ace. His 75 (72 solo and three shared and a further 52 'probable' victories) victories also ranked him second only to Manfred von Richthofen, (80 planes confirmed shot down) as the top ace of the conflict.
Biography of Régine Pernoud (excerpt)
Régine Pernoud (17 June 1909 in Château-Chinon - 22 April 1998 in Paris) was a historian and medievalist. She received an award from the Académie française. She is known for writing extensively about Joan of Arc. She is the aunt of French TV host Georges Pernoud ("Thalassa").
Biography of Donald Winnicott (excerpt)
Donald Woods Winnicott (7 April 1896–28 January 1971) was an English paediatrician, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst. Early life and education Winnicott was born in Plymouth, Devon to Sir John Frederick Winnicott, a merchant who was knighted in 1924 after serving twice as mayor of Plymouth, and his wife, Elizabeth Martha (Woods) Winnicott.
Biography of Marcel Dassault (excerpt)
Marcel Dassault, born Marcel Bloch, (Paris, 22 January 1892 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 129) - Neuilly-sur-Seine, 17 April 1986) was a French aircraft industrialist. After graduating from the lycée Condorcet, Breguet School and Supaero, he invented a type of aircraft propeller used by the French army during World War I and founded the Société des Avions Marcel Bloch aircraft company.
Biography of Jacob Levy Moreno (excerpt)
Dr.Jacob Levy Moreno (born Bucharest, Romania, May 18, 1889; died New York, USA, May 14, 1974) was a leading psychiatrist, theorist and educator.During his lifetime Dr.Moreno was recognized at Harvard University as one of the greatest social scientists in the world.
Biography of Michael Collins (Irish leader) (excerpt)
Michael John ("Mick") Collins (Irish: Mícheál Seán Ó Coileáin; 16 October 1890 – 22 August 1922) was an Irish revolutionary leader, Minister for Finance and MP for Cork South in the First Dáil of 1919, Director of Intelligence for the IRA, and member of the Irish delegation during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations. |
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