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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 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 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.
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 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 Diana Vreeland (excerpt)
Diana Vreeland (December 29, 1902, Paris (birth time source: his birth certificate. Wikipedia is wrong), – August 22, 1989, New York City) was a noted columnist and editor in the field of fashion. She worked for the fashion magazines Harper's Bazaar and Vogue and as a special consultant at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Biography of Charles VII of France (excerpt)
Charles VII (22 February 1403 – 22 July 1461), called the Victorious (le Victorieux) or the Well-Served (le Bien-Servi), was King of France from 1422 to his death, though he was initially opposed by Henry VI of England, whose servants ruled much of France from Paris.
Biography of Olga Baclanova (excerpt)
Olga Vladimirovna Baklanova (Russian: О́льга Влади́мировна Бакла́нова; 19 August 1896 (Russian Wikipedia) – 6 September 1974), known professionally as Olga Baclanova, was a Russian-born actress who found success in Hollywood film and stage roles, mainly as an exotic blonde temptress, who was given the title of the "Russian Tigress".
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 Félix Labisse (excerpt)
Félix Labisse (March 9, 1905 – January 27, 1982) was a French Surrealist painter, illustrator, and designer. He was born in Marchiennes. He divided his time between Paris and the Belgian coast from 1927. In Ostend he met James Ensor, who influenced his work.
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 Edith Stein (excerpt)
Edith Stein (October 12, 1891 (birth time source: birth certificate) – August 9, 1942) was a German philosopher, a Carmelite nun, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church, who died at Auschwitz. In 1922, she converted to Christianity, was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church and was received into the Discalced Carmelite Order in 1934.
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 Maurice Estève (excerpt)
Maurice Estève, born May 2, 1904 in Culan (Cher), died June 29, 2001 in Culan, is a French painter of School of Paris. Modern School of Paris The School of Paris describes, not an art movement or a learning institution, but instead is more indicative of the importance of Paris as a center of Western art in the early decades of the 20th century.
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 Jean Galtier-Boissière (excerpt)
Jean Galtier-Boissière (b. December 26, 1891-January 22, 1966) was a writer, polemist, and journalist from Paris, France. He founded Le Crapouillot and wrote for Le Canard enchaîné. Bibliography (extracts) Croquis De Tranchées. 1917 Loin De La Rifflette. Baudinière, 1921 La fleur au fusil.
Biography of Sun Ra (excerpt)
Sun Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, legal name Le Sony'r Ra; May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993) was a prolific jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his "cosmic philosophy," musical compositions and performances. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama.
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 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 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 Jascha Heifetz (excerpt)
Jascha Heifetz (IPA: ) was a Jewish violin virtuoso born in Lithuania (February 2 1901 – December 10, 1987) who was one of the most pre-eminent violinists of the 20th century. Early life Heifetz was born of Jewish descent in Vilnius, Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire.
Biography of Nedo Nadi (excerpt)
Nedo Nadi (June 9, 1893 – January 29, 1940) was an Italian fencer, widely regarded as the most versatile ever. He is the only fencer to win a gold medal in each of the three weapons at a single Olympic Games and won the most gold medals ever in fencing at a single Games - five.
Biography of Martin Niemöller (excerpt)
Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller (January 14, 1892 – March 6, 1984) was a prominent German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor. He is best known as the author of the poem First they came. Although he was a national conservative and initially a supporter of Adolf Hitler, he became one of the founders of the Confessing Church, which opposed the nazification of German Protestant churches.
Biography of Enlai Zhou (excerpt)
Zhou Enlai (5 March 1898 – 8 January 1976), Wade-Giles transliteration Chou En-lai, was the first Premier of the People's Republic of China. From October 1949 until his death in January 1976, Zhou was China's head of government. Zhou served under Chairman Mao Zedong and helped the Communist Party rise to power, later helping consolidate its control, form its foreign policy, and develop the Chinese economy.
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 Wolfgang Köhler (excerpt)
Wolfgang Köhler (January 21, 1887 – June 11, 1967) was a German psychologist who, with Max Wertheimer and Kurt Koffka, founded Gestalt theory. Early life Köhler was born in the port city of Reval (now Tallinn), the capital of and largest city in Estonia, which was at the time a German province.
Biography of Fritz Lang (excerpt)
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (December 5, 1890 (birth time source: Jacques de Lescaut) – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German-American film director, screenwriter and occasional film producer. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the BFI.
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 Brassaï (excerpt)
Brassaï (pseudonym of Gyula Halász) (9 September 1899 (birth time source: Romanian National Archive - Brasov, exatract at http://www.astrotheme.fr/images/Brassai_time_of_birth.jpg – 8 July 1984) was a Hungarian photographer, sculptor, author, and filmmaker who rose to international fame in France in the 20th century.
Biography of Rafael Trujillo (excerpt)
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina (October 24, 1891 – May 30, 1961) ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961. Officially, he was president only from 1930 to 1938 and again from 1942 to 1952, ruling for the rest of the time as an unelected military Dictator.
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 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.
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 Fritz Perls (excerpt)
Friedrich (Frederick) Salomon Perls (July 8 1893, Berlin – March 14, 1970, Chicago), better known as Fritz Perls, was a noted German-born psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He coined the term 'Gestalt Therapy' for the approach to therapy he developed with his wife Laura Perls from the 1940s, and he became associated with the Esalen Institute in California in 1964.
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 Mère Denis (excerpt)
Jeanne Marie Le Calvé better known as La Mère Denis, born November 9, 1893 (birth time source: Dr Roger Fix, birth certificate n° 65)), has done a lot of French spot advertising for Vedette washing machines. Her most famous words were "Ch'est ben vrai cha".
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 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 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 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.
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Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of July 31, 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg, and thus the largest which does not constitute its own state, as well as the 11th-largest city in the European Union.
Biography of Gérard Cordonnier (excerpt)
Gérard Cordonnier, born April 19, 1907 in Bailleul, was a French engineer, author and mathematician, Chief of the French Naval Construction Service. He had an interest in telepathy, clairvoyance, levitation and psychokinesis.
Biography of Thérèse Dorny (excerpt)
Thérèse, Jeanne Longo-Dorni , best known as Thérèse Dorny, born September 18, 1891 in Paris (birth time source: Yoan Cocquebert, online archives), died March 14, 1976 in Saint-Tropez (Var), was a French actress and comedian. Filmography 1930 : La Douceur d'aimer de René Hervil
Biography of André Fraye (excerpt)
André Fraye, born October 18, 1887 in Nantes, died in 1963, was a French painter.
Biography of Léon Gontran Damas (excerpt)
Léon-Gontran Damas (March 28, 1912-January 22, 1978) was a French poet and politician. He was one of the founders of the Négritude movement. Léon Damas was born in Cayenne, French Guiana to Ernest Damas, a mulatto of European and African descent and Bathilde Damas, a Métisse of native American and African ancestry.
Biography of Joseph R. McCarthy (excerpt)
Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period of extreme anti-communist suspicion inspired by the tensions of the Cold War.
Biography of Jeanne Guesné (excerpt)
Jeanne Guesné, born April 9, 1910 in Cusset (birth time source: Lescaut, Grazia Bordoni, birth certificate), is a French author, mystic and philosopher. Works (extracts) Le grand passage, Courrier du Livre, 1989 (ISBN 978-2290011058) Le 7e sens ou le corps spirituel, Éditions du relié, Poche, 1991 (ISBN 978-2226054326)
Biography of Lee Miller (excerpt)
Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller, Lady Penrose (23 April 1907 - 21 July 1977) was an American photographer. Born in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1907, she was a successful fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris where she became an established fashion and fine art photographer.
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 Jean Daniélou (excerpt)
Jean Cardinal Daniélou S.J. (14 May 1905–20 May 1974) was a theologian, a historian and a member of the Académie Française. Jean-Guenolé-Marie Daniélou was born at Neuilly-sur-Seine, son of Charles and Madeleine (née Clamorgan). His father was an anticlerical politician, several times minister, and his mother an educator and founder of institutions for women's education.
Biography of Maurice Blanchot (excerpt)
Maurice Blanchot (September 22, 1907 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – February 20, 2003) was a French writer, philosopher, and literary theorist. Works His influence on later post-structuralist theorists such as Jacques Derrida is difficult to overstate. Blanchot's work is not a coherent, all-encompassing 'theory', since it is a work founded on paradox and impossibility. |
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