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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 José María Albareda (excerpt)
José María Albareda Herrera (Caspe, 15 April 1902 - 26 February 1966, Madrid) was a Spanish soil scientist and science administrator. From its 1939 creation by Francoist Spain to his 1966 death, he was the secretary general and head of the Higher Council of Scientific Research (CSIC), the main Spanish scientific institution.
Biography of Eligio Esquivel Méndez (excerpt)
Eligio Esquivel Méndez (October 31, 1908 – December 17, 1964) was a Mexican engineer and politician who served as the Governor of Baja California from 1959 until his death in 1964. Born in Mérida, Yucatán, he graduated in civil engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1933.
Biography of Jean Filiol (excerpt)
Jean Paul Robert Filiol (12 May 1909 – died in 1975) was a French militant, who was active in La Cagoule before the Second World War. After the war, he fled to Spain, where he worked for the local office of L'Oréal.
Biography of Jo Spier (excerpt)
Joseph Eduard Adolf Spier (26 June 1900 – 21 May 1978) was a popular Dutch artist and illustrator. Born in Zutphen, he worked for De Telegraaf from 1924 to 1939, creating humorous illustrations about daily life. During World War II, he was arrested for satirical depictions of Hitler and interned at Westerbork, then Theresienstadt with his family.
Biography of Georg Streiter (journalist) (excerpt)
Georg Heinrich Karl Streiter (October 20, 1907 – August 9, 1976) was a German journalist and civil servant. He studied economics and psychology in Berlin and Danzig, later working as a secretary and press spokesperson in Danzig.He fled to Poland in 1935 and worked as a journalist until WWII.
Biography of Charles Kiffer (excerpt)
Charles Kiffer, born on June 8, 1902, in Paris and died on January 20, 1992, in the same city, was a French painter, illustrator, sculptor, engraver, and poster artist. He studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1918 and exhibited at various prestigious salons such as the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d'Automne.
Biography of Peter van de Kamp (excerpt)
Piet van de Kamp (December 26, 1901 – May 18, 1995), known as Peter van de Kamp in the United States, was a Dutch astronomer who lived in the United States most of his life. He was professor of astronomy at Swarthmore College and director of the college's Sproul Observatory from 1937 until 1972.
Biography of John Walker (curator) (excerpt)
John Walker III (December 24, 1906 – October 16, 1995) was an American art curator and the second director of the National Gallery of Art, serving from 1956 to 1969. A Harvard graduate in art history in 1930, he co-founded the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art with Philip Johnson and Lincoln Kirstein.
Biography of Josep Lluís Sert (excerpt)
Josep Lluís Sert (May 7, 1901 – March 15, 1983) was a Catalan architect and urban planner born in Barcelona, Spain. He studied at the Barcelona School of Architecture before moving to Paris in 1926 to work with Le Corbusier. Sert founded his own agency in 1929 and co-founded GATCPAC, introducing a rationalist aesthetic in Spain characterized by clean lines and abundant light.
Biography of Heinrich Eduard Jacob (excerpt)
Heinrich Eduard Jacob (7 October 1889 – 25 October 1967) was a German and American journalist and author.Born to a Jewish family in Berlin and raised partly in Vienna, Jacob worked for two decades as a journalist and biographer before the rise to power of the Nazi Party.
Biography of Robert van Gulik (excerpt)
Robert Hans van Gulik, born in Zutphen on August 9, 1910, and passed away in The Hague on September 24, 1967, was a Dutch orientalist, diplomat, guqin musician, and writer. He is best known for his Judge Dee mysteries, inspired by an 18th-century Chinese novel.
Biography of Pierre-Paul Grassé (excerpt)
Pierre-Paul Grassé (born November 27, 1895, in Périgueux, Dordogne, and died July 9, 1985, in Paris) was a French biologist, zoologist, and paleontologist, author of over 300 publications, including a significant treatise on zoology. A Doctor of Biological Sciences, he taught at the University of Montpellier, Clermont-Ferrand, and later at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he became the Chair of Evolution in 1941.
Biography of Johannes Georgi (excerpt)
Johannes Georgi, born on December 14, 1888, in Frankfurt am Main and died on May 24, 1972, in Hamburg, was a German explorer, meteorologist, and glaciologist. He conducted the first in-depth meteorological measurements of the Greenland ice sheet and was the first in Europe to observe the jet stream.
Biography of Hans Bassermann (excerpt)
Hans Bassermann, born on September 20, 1888, in Frankfurt and died on February 12, 1978, was a German violinist and music scholar. The son of music teacher Fritz Bassermann and pianist Florence Bassermann, he began violin lessons with his father before studying in Berlin.
Biography of Paul Alverdes (excerpt)
Paul Alverdes (6 May 1897, Strasbourg - 28 February 1979, Munich) was a German novelist and poet. The son of an officer and member of the German Youth Movement, he volunteered for duty in World War I and received a severe injury to the throat.
Biography of Lissy Arna (excerpt)
Lissy Arna (born Liesbeth Helene Erna Arndt on December 20, 1900, in Berlin, died January 22, 1964, in West Berlin) was a German actress. She appeared in over 60 films between 1915 and 1962, first in German silent films, and later in American films starting in 1930.
Biography of Erwin Piscator (excerpt)
Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator (17 December 1893 – 30 March 1966) was a German theatre director and producer. Along with Bertolt Brecht, he was the foremost exponent of epic theatre, a form that emphasizes the socio-political content of drama, rather than its emotional manipulation of the audience or the production's formal beauty.
Biography of Achille Campanile (excerpt)
Achille Campanile (28 September 1899 – 4 January 1977) was an Italian writer, playwright, journalist and television critic known for his surreal humour and word play. His father was one of the editors of the newspaper La Tribuna. Always a prolific contributor to newspapers and periodicals, Campanile wrote for the newspapers La Tribuna, L'Idea Nazionale and the satirical magazine Il Travaso delle idee.
Biography of Hans Schlossberger (excerpt)
Hans Otto Friedrich Schlossberger (born 22 September 1887 in Alpirsbach, died 27 January 1960 in Stuttgart) was a German physician, who was known for his research in immunology, medical microbiology, epidemiology and antimicrobial chemotherapy, especially on syphilis, typhus, gas gangrene, diphtheria, erysipeloid of Rosenbach, tuberculosis, malaria and leptospirosis.
Biography of Madge Bellamy (excerpt)
Madge Bellamy (born Margaret Derden Philpott; June 30, 1899 – January 24, 1990) was an American stage and film actress. She was a popular leading lady in the 1920s and early 1930s. Bellamy’s career declined in the sound era and ended following a romantic scandal in the 1940s.
Biography of Edmund Bacon (architect) (excerpt)
Edmund Norwood Bacon (May 2, 1910 – October 14, 2005) was an American urban planner, architect, educator, and author. During his tenure as the executive director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission from 1949 to 1970, his visions shaped today's Philadelphia, the city of his birth, to the extent that he is sometimes described as "The Father of Modern Philadelphia".
Biography of Yvonne Pagniez (excerpt)
Yvonne Pagniez, born on August 10, 1896, in Cauroir, was a French journalist, award-winning writer, and a member of the French Resistance during World War II.She studied Philosophy and served as a nurse during World War I. Her family experienced occupation and separation during the war; her father was arrested as a spy but escaped.
Biography of José María Lemus (excerpt)
Lieutenant Colonel José María Lemus López, born on 22 July 1911, was the president of El Salvador from 1956 to 1960.His time of birth comes from the biography "Lemus y la revolución salvadoreña" by Eleodoro Ventocilla, Ediciones Latinoamérica, 1956. Born in La Unión, El Salvador, he served as undersecretary of defense and later as a minister of the interior.
Biography of Óscar Castro Zúñiga (excerpt)
Óscar Castro Zúñiga (Rancagua, 25 March 1910 – Santiago, 1 November 1947) was a Chilean writer and poet. His literary work encompassed both the lyrical genre — with a transparent, human, and melancholic language, with perfect meter — and the narrative genre, much more realistic and close to criollismo.
Biography of Teodoro Picado Michalski (excerpt)
Teodoro Picado Michalski (10 January 1900 – 1 June 1960) was the president of Costa Rica for four years (1944 to 1948).
Biography of Maurice Ewing (excerpt)
William Maurice "Doc" Ewing (May 12, 1906 – May 4, 1974) was an American geophysicist and oceanographer. Ewing has been described as a pioneering geophysicist who worked on the research of seismic reflection and refraction in ocean basins, ocean bottom photography, submarine sound transmission (including the SOFAR channel), deep sea core samples of the ocean bottom, theory and observation of earthquake surface waves, fluidity of the Earth's core, generation and propagation of microseisms, submarine explosion seismology, marine gravity surveys, bathymetry and sedimentation, natural radioactivity of ocean waters and sediments, study of abyssal plains and submarine canyons.
Biography of Fritz Jacobsen (excerpt)
Fritz John Jacobsen (born 21 May 1896 in Berlin-Charlottenburg – died 3 August 1981 in Nuremberg) was a German World War I flying ace credited with eight confirmed aerial victories and two unconfirmed. Fascinated by aviation from 1909, he became a test pilot and instructor before joining the German air troops in 1915.
Biography of John Decker (artist) (excerpt)
John Decker, born Leopold von der Decken on November 8, 1895, in Berlin, Germany, was a prominent painter, set designer, and caricaturist in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s. Initially painting scenery in London theaters, his career was interrupted by World War I, leading to his internment as an enemy alien.
Biography of Carles Riba (excerpt)
Carles Riba i Bracons (23 September 1893 – 12 July 1959) was a Catalan poet, writer, and translator of Spanish nationality. Born in Barcelona, he studied Law and Philosophy at the University of Barcelona. In 1916, he married poet Clementina Arderiu and worked at the School of Librarianship.
Biography of Eugen Neutert (excerpt)
Eugen Eduard Neutert (March 18, 1905 – September 9, 1943) was a German communist resistance fighter against Nazism. Born in Berlin, he emigrated to Brazil in 1923, returning to Germany in 1926. A member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), he lost his job as an electrician in 1928 and became a masseur.
Biography of Silvestre Revueltas (excerpt)
Silvestre Revueltas Sánchez (December 31, 1899 – October 5, 1940) was a Mexican classical music composer, violinist, and conductor. Born in Durango, he studied in Mexico City, Texas, and Chicago. He became assistant conductor of Mexico's National Symphony Orchestra in 1929, promoted contemporary Mexican music, and composed film scores, including the famous "La noche de los mayas."
Biography of Archibald Roosevelt (excerpt)
Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt Sr.(April 9, 1894 – October 13, 1979) was a U.S.Army officer and commander of U.S.forces in World War I and II, and the fifth child of U.S.President Theodore Roosevelt. In both conflicts he was wounded.He earned the Silver Star with three oak leaf clusters, Purple Heart with oak leaf cluster, and the French Croix de Guerre.
Biography of Erich Weinert (excerpt)
Erich Bernhard Gustav Weinert (August 4, 1890 – April 20, 1953) was a German Communist writer and member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). Born in Magdeburg, he joined the military and served in World War I, later becoming a Communist in 1929.
Biography of Antoinette Sasse (excerpt)
Antoinette Sasse, born Antoinette Kohn on June 18, 1897, was a French artist known for her Fauvism style paintings and significant role in the French Resistance during World War II. Born into a wealthy Jewish family in Paris, she studied under notable artists including Henri Matisse.
Biography of Christian Bérard (excerpt)
Christian Bérard (August 20, 1902 – February 11, 1949), also known as Bebè, was a French artist, fashion illustrator, and designer. Bérard and his partner Boris Kochno, co-founder of the Ballets des Champs-Élysées, were one of the most prominent openly homosexual couples in French theater during the 1930s and 1940s.
Biography of Hans Jonas (excerpt)
Hans Jonas, born on May 10, 1903, in Mönchengladbach (German Empire) and died on February 5, 1993, in New Rochelle (New York State, United States), was a historian of Gnosticism and a German philosopher. He is best known for his ethics for the technological age, particularly beyond philosophical circles.
Biography of Roberta McCain (excerpt)
Roberta Wright McCain (February 7, 1912 – October 12, 2020) was an American socialite and oil heiress. She was the wife of Admiral John S. McCain Jr., with whom she had three children including U.S. Senator John S. McCain III and stage actor and journalist Joe McCain.
Biography of David Garnett (excerpt)
David Garnett (March 9, 1892 – February 17, 1981) was a British writer and publisher, a member of the Bloomsbury Group.He gained literary fame with Lady into Fox, winning the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1922 and the Hawthornden Prize in 1923.
Biography of Tarjei Vesaas (excerpt)
Tarjei Vesaas (20 August 1897 - 15 March 1970) was a renowned Norwegian poet and novelist, considered one of Norway’s most significant 20th-century writers. Born in Vinje, Telemark, to farmer Olav Vesaas and teacher Signe Øygarden, he experienced guilt over not taking over the family farm, a theme reflected in his works.
Biography of Ray Corrigan (excerpt)
Ray "Crash" Corrigan (born Raymond Benitz; February 14, 1902 – August 10, 1976) was an American actor most famous for appearing in many B-Western movies (among these the Three Mesquiteers and Range Busters film series). He also was a stuntman and frequently acted as silver screen gorillas using his own gorilla costumes.
Biography of Joseph Yablonski (excerpt)
Joseph Albert "Jock" Yablonski (March 3, 1910 – December 31, 1969) was an American labor leader in the United Mine Workers in the 1950s and 1960s known for seeking reform in the union and better working conditions for miners.In 1969 he challenged Tony Boyle for the presidency of the international union and was defeated.
Biography of Auguste Champetier de Ribes (excerpt)
Jean Jules Marie Auguste Champetier de Ribes, born on July 30, 1882, in Antony and died on March 6, 1947, in Paris, was a French statesman. He served as a minister under the Third Republic and president of the Council of the Republic under the Fourth Republic.
Biography of Francesco Baracca (excerpt)
Count Francesco Baracca (born May 9, 1888 – died June 19, 1918) was Italy's top fighter ace during World War I. He was credited with 34 aerial victories. The emblem he wore on his plane, a black horse rearing on its two hind legs, inspired Enzo Ferrari to use it on his race cars and later in his automotive company.
Biography of Stefan Lorant (excerpt)
Stefan Lorant (22 February 1901 - 14 November 1997) was a pioneering Hungarian-American filmmaker, photojournalist, and author.Born in Budapest, he moved to Germany and gained fame in filmmaking and photojournalism. He opposed Hitler and was imprisoned in 1933 but later moved to England and then the U.S.
Biography of Manuel A. Odría (excerpt)
Manuel Arturo Odría Amoretti (November 26, 1897 – February 18, 1974) was a Peruvian statesman and military officer.He seized power in a 1948 coup, establishing a dictatorial regime known as the Ochenio. Political Career His administration, marked by pragmatism and nationalism, benefited from a favorable economic climate during the Korean War, with rising exports and prices.
Biography of Leopold Mountbatten (excerpt)
Lord Leopold Arthur Louis Mountbatten (21 May 1889 – 23 April 1922) was a British Army officer and a descendant of the Hessian princely Battenberg family and the British royal family. A grandson of Queen Victoria, he was known as Prince Leopold of Battenberg from his birth until 1917, when the British royal family relinquished their German titles during World War I, and the Battenberg family changed their name to Mountbatten.
Biography of Marieluise Flesser (excerpt)
Marieluise Fleißer (November 22, 1901 – February 2, 1974) was a German writer and playwright associated with the aesthetic movement of New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit). Early Life Born in Ingolstadt, she studied literature, philosophy, and theater in Munich, where she befriended Lion Feuchtwanger and Bertolt Brecht.
Biography of William McCance (excerpt)
William McCance (6 August 1894 – 19 November 1970) was a Scottish artist, and was second Controller of the Gregynog Press in Powys, mid-Wales. William McCance was the seventh of eight children. After attending Hamilton Academy, McCance entered Glasgow School of Art, studying there 1911–15 and subsequently undertaking a teacher-training course at Glasgow's Kennedy Street school.
Biography of Aleksander Wozny (excerpt)
Aleksander Woźny (born June 25, 1910, in Uzarzewo, died August 21, 1983, in Poznań) was a Polish priest of the Archdiocese of Poznań, preacher, prisoner of the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps and the post-war Stalinist period, pastor of St. John Cantius parish in Poznań, national chaplain for women, and Venerable Servant of God of the Catholic Church.
Biography of Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (1895) (excerpt)
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (11 March 1895 – 16 November 1903) was the only daughter of Ernst Ludwig, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Named after her great-grandmother, she was nicknamed "Ella." Her life was tragically cut short at the age of eight, during a stay with her aunt, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna. |
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