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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. ![]() ![]()
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Biography of Margaret Chung (excerpt)
Margaret Jessie Chung, born on October 2, 1889, and died on January 5, 1959, was the first Chinese-American female physician.After a freelance career, she enrolled at the University of Southern California and graduated from the medical school in 1916, completing her internship and thesis in Illinois.
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Biography of Elisabeth Zernike (excerpt)
Elisabeth Zernike (July 8, 1891 – March 12, 1982) was a Dutch writer. She was the sister of Anne Zernike and Frits Zernike. Her father was a school principal and pedagogue, and her mother was a teacher. She attended the girls’ HBS (secondary school) in Amsterdam and later the School of Music for Sound Art before pursuing writing.
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Biography of Lea Grundig (excerpt)
Lea Grundig (Dresden, 23 March 1906 – 10 October 1977, at sea) was a German painter and graphic artist. Born into a Jewish family in Dresden, she studied at the Decorative Arts Academy and later at the Fine Arts Academy, where Otto Dix influenced her work.
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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.
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Biography of David van Dantzig (excerpt)
David van Dantzig (September 23, 1900 – July 22, 1959) was a Dutch mathematician renowned for constructing the solenoid in topology. He was a member of the Significs Group. Born into a Jewish family in Amsterdam, he earned his PhD in 1931 at the University of Groningen under Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, focusing on topological algebra.
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Biography of Robert Hervé (officer) (excerpt)
Robert Hervé, born on September 10, 1910, in Marseille and died on August 5, 1999, in Papeete, was a French officer in World War II and Companion of the Liberation. After moving to French Polynesia in 1934, he joined the Autonomous Colonial Infantry Company of Tahiti in 1939.
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Biography of Allan Jones (actor) (excerpt)
Allan Jones (October 14, 1907 – June 27, 1992) was an American tenor and actor. Jones is best remembered today as the male romantic lead actor in the first two films the Marx Brothers starred in for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, A Night at the Opera (1935) and A Day at the Races (1937), as well as the film musicals Show Boat (1936) and The Firefly (1937), where he introduced "The Donkey Serenade", which became his signature song.
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Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (excerpt)
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) was an American writer who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling, about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie of the same name.
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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 Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia (excerpt)
Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia, born on March 10, 1900 (Wikipedia incorrectly lists the date as March 8th), in San José, was a Costa Rican doctor and politician who served as President from 1940 to 1944. After studying in Europe, he returned to Costa Rica to pursue a career in medicine and politics.
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Biography of Jan Campert (excerpt)
Jan Remco Theodoor Campert (Spijkenisse, 15 August 1902 – 12 January 1943) was a Dutch journalist, theater critic and writer who lived in Amsterdam. During the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II Campert was arrested for aiding Jews. He was held in the Neuengamme concentration camp, where he died.
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Biography of Rudolf Kempe (excerpt)
Rudolf Kempe (14 June 1910 – 12 May 1976) was a German conductor born in Dresden. He studied at the Dresden State Opera School and played oboe in orchestras before becoming a conductor. During World War II, he led the Chemnitz opera house.
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Biography of Drucilla Strain (excerpt)
Drucilla Anna Strain (24 February 1913 – 19 January 1994) was an American musical theater actress and Ziegfeld Girl. The daughter of Robert Strain and Anna Fallon, she debuted on Broadway in 1929 in Follow Thru. She later appeared in several iconic musicals, including Cole Porter's Anything Goes (1934) and On Your Toes (1936).
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Biography of Zita of Bourbon-Parma (excerpt)
Zita of Bourbon, Princess of Parma, and later, through her marriage, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, was born on May 9, 1892, in Lucca, Italy, and died on March 14, 1989, in Zizers, Switzerland.The wife of Emperor Charles I, she was the last Empress of Austria, Queen of Hungary, and Queen of Bohemia.
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Biography of Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (excerpt)
Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Beatrice Leopoldine Victoria; 20 April 1884 – 13 July 1966) was a member of the British royal family, a male-line granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She later married into the Spanish royal family, and was the wife of Prince Alfonso de Orleans y Borbón, Infante of Spain, a first cousin of Alfonso XIII of Spain.
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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.
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Biography of Karolina of Legnica-Brieg (excerpt)
Karolina of Legnica-Brieg-Wohlau (German: Charlotte von Liegnitz-Brieg-Wohlau, Polish: Karolina Piastówna; 2 December 1652 in Brzeg – 24 December 1707 in Wrocław), was a Silesian noble, duchess of Legnica, Brzeg and Wołów and the last member of the Silesian Piasts dynasty. Her time of birth comes from the biography "L'Allemagne dynastique: Oldenbourg, Familles alliées H-L" (A.
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Biography of Siegfried Handloser (excerpt)
Siegfried Adolf Handloser was a German physician and general. He was born on March 25, 1885, in Constance. His father’s name was Konstantin, and his mother’s name was Anna Maria. In 1903, he began studying medicine, earning his doctorate in 1911.
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Biography of Peter Schaap (SD member) (excerpt)
Pieter (Peter) Schaap (Zandvoort, June 18, 1902 – Groningen, June 29, 1949) was a Dutch collaborator of the SD, one of the German police organizations under the authority of Heinrich Himmler and the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin. He was a fanatical persecutor of Jews and shot numerous people dead.
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Biography of Georg Aumann (excerpt)
Georg Aumann (11 November 1906 in Munich, Germany – 4 August 1980), was a German mathematician.He was known for his work in general topology and regulated functions. During World War II, he worked as part of a group of five mathematicians, recruited by Wilhelm Fenner, and which included Ernst Witt, Alexander Aigner, Oswald Teichmueller and Johann Friedrich Schultze, and led by Wolfgang Franz, to form the backbone of the new mathematical research department in the late 1930s, which would eventually be called: Section IVc of Cipher Department of the High Command of the Wehrmacht (abbr.
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Biography of Maria Mandl (excerpt)
Maria Mandl (10 January 1912 – 24 January 1948) was an Austrian SS-Helferin ("SS helper") and war criminal known for her role in the Holocaust as a high-ranking official at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. She is linked to the deaths of over 500,000 prisoners.
Biography of Wilhelm Wigand (excerpt)
Wilhelm Wigand (born July 2, 1895, in Barth; died April 22, 1945, in Großkrausnik) was a German politician (NSDAP). After obtaining his Abitur, he participated in World War I, where he was wounded and decorated.From 1918 to 1920, he was a French prisoner of war.
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Biography of Friedrich Weinreb (excerpt)
Friedrich Weinreb (18 November 1910 – 19 October 1988) was a Dutch economist and author.His time of birth comes from him. Weinreb grew up in Scheveningen, Netherlands, where his family settled in 1916.During World War II, he became infamous for selling a fictitious escape route for Jews.
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Biography of Giambattista Dal Piaz (excerpt)
Giambattista Dal Piaz (Feltre, September 3, 1904 – Padua, October 28, 1995) was an Italian geologist. He graduated in natural sciences from the University of Padua in 1927 and taught geology at the University of Turin and later in Padua, where he also taught paleontology and petrography.
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Biography of Katta Sterna (excerpt)
Katta Sterna (born Katharina Ida Stern, December 19, 1897 – July 29, 1984) was a German actress and dancer. The daughter of engineer Georg Stern and Bertha Schmidt, she was the niece of Käthe Kollwitz and sister to actresses Johanna Hofer, Maria Matray, and Regula Keller.
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Biography of Antoine Avinin (excerpt)
Antoine Avinin, born on January 26, 1902, in Lyon and died on October 29, 1962, in Massiac (Cantal), was a French industrialist, resistance fighter, and politician.After his military service, he managed a small clothing factory in Villeurbanne. He was active in the Jeune République movement and was mobilized in 1939 as a lieutenant in the Army of the Alps. ![]()
Biography of Harry Clarke (artist) (excerpt)
Henry Patrick (Harry) Clarke (17 March 1889 – 6 January 1931) was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator, and a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement. His work was influenced by Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and French Symbolism.
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Biography of Alv Torbjørnsen (excerpt)
Alv Johan Torbjørnsen (born April 24, 1908, in Christiania, died January 8, 1943, in Sachsenhausen) was a Norwegian dockworker and resistance fighter. Torbjørnsen joined the NKP (Norwegian Communist Party) and was a student at the so-called Lenin School in Moscow from 1928 to 1930.
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Biography of Carlo Ninchi (excerpt)
Carlo Ninchi (Bologna, May 31, 1896 – Milan, April 27, 1974) was a prominent Italian actor. The youngest of five children of Arnaldo Ninchi and Lidia Bedetti, he began his career in his brother Annibale’s troupe, debuting as Pilade in L'Oreste by Alfieri.
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Biography of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (excerpt)
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (25 June 1884 – 11 January 1979) was a German-born art collector, and one of the most notable French art dealers of the 20th century. He became prominent as an art gallery owner in Paris beginning in 1907 and was among the first champions of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and the Cubist movement in art.
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Biography of Dörte Helm (excerpt)
Dorothea "Dörte" Helm (3 December 1898 – 24 February 1941) was a German Bauhaus artist, painter, and graphic designer. Life and Career Born to philologist Rudolf Helm and Alice Caroline Bauer, of Jewish descent, Helm studied in Berlin-Steglitz and later in Rostock.From 1915 to 1918, she attended the Kunsthochschule Kassel before joining the Academy of Fine Arts in Weimar in 1918.
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Biography of Ernst Toller (excerpt)
Ernst Toller (1 December 1893 – 22 May 1939) was a German author, playwright, left-wing politician and revolutionary, known for his Expressionist plays. He served in 1919 for six days as President of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, after which he became the head of its army.
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Biography of Chrix Dahl (excerpt)
Chrix Dahl (January 5, 1906 – June 16, 1994) was a Norwegian painter and illustrator. Born in Kristiania (now Oslo), he was the eldest son of a naval officer and Elise Augusta Steen. He studied at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry and the National Academy of Fine Arts from 1924 to 1932.
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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.
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Biography of Émile Poillot (excerpt)
Émile André Poillot, born on March 10, 1886, in Dijon and passed away on June 22, 1948, was a French pianist, organist, and pedagogue. He was trained by his father and later at the Dijon Conservatory before joining the Paris Conservatory in 1903.
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Biography of Frans Masereel (excerpt)
Frans Masereel, born on July 30, 1889, in Blankenberge (province of West Flanders, Belgium) and died on January 3, 1972, in Avignon (France), was a Belgian engraver, painter, and illustrator. He primarily worked in Switzerland, Germany, and France. An engaged artist, humanist, libertarian, and pacifist antimilitarist, deeply affected by the bloody turmoil of World War I, his works uncompromisingly denounce the horrors of war, oppression, and social injustice.
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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.
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Biography of Erich Kettelhut (excerpt)
Erich Kettelhut (born November 1, 1893, in Berlin; died March 13, 1979, in Hamburg) was a German set designer and scenographer. He trained as a theater painter at the Städtische Oper in Berlin and also worked in cities such as Aachen. He entered the film industry in 1919, working on productions by Joe May.
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Biography of Jacques de Bernonville (excerpt)
Count Jacques Charles Noel Dugé de Bernonville (December 20, 1897 – April 26, 1972) was a French collaborationist and senior officer in the Vichy regime's Milice. He tracked down and executed Resistance fighters and participated in deporting French Jews to Drancy and extermination camps.
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Biography of Octave Mannoni (excerpt)
Dominique-Octave Mannoni (August 29, 1899 – July 30, 1989) was a French ethnologist, philosopher, and psychoanalyst born in Lamotte-Beuvron to a Corsican family. His studies, interrupted by World War I, culminated in a 1923 philosophy degree on Plotinus. Teaching in France and abroad, he lived in Madagascar (1931–1945), where he explored botany, wrote poetry, and supported Madagascar’s independence, leading to his dismissal in 1947.
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Biography of Bruno Balz (excerpt)
Bruno Balz (6 October 1902 in Berlin – 14 March 1988 in Bad Wiessee) was a German songwriter and schlager lyricist. From writing for the first German sound film until his retirement in the 1960s, Balz penned the lyrics to over a thousand popular hits, many in collaboration with composer Michael Jary.
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Biography of Hildebrand Gurlitt (excerpt)
Hildebrand Gurlitt (15 September 1895 – 9 November 1956) was a German art historian and art gallery director who dealt in Nazi-looted art as one of Hitler's and Goering's four authorized dealers for "degenerate art". A Nazi-associated art dealer and war profiteer, during the Nazi era Gurlitt traded in "degenerate art", purchasing paintings in Nazi-occupied France, many of them stolen, for Hitler's planned Führermuseum (which was never built) and for himself.
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Biography of Lutz Heck (excerpt)
Ludwig Georg Heinrich Heck, called Lutz Heck (23 April 1892 in Berlin, German Empire – 6 April 1983 in Wiesbaden, West Germany) was a German zoologist, animal researcher, animal book author and director of the Berlin Zoological Garden where he succeeded his father in 1932.
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Biography of Quirino Cristiani (excerpt)
Quirino Cristiani (Santa Giuletta, July 2, 1896 – Bernal, August 2, 1984) was an Argentine animator and filmmaker of Italian origin, creator of El Apóstol and Sin dejar rastros, the first two animated feature films in history, as well as Peludópolis, the first animated feature with sound.
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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.
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Biography of Robert Foulk (excerpt)
Robert C.Foulk (born May 5, 1908, and died February 25, 1989) was an American television and film actor, best known for portraying Sheriff H.Miller in CBS’s Lassie from 1958 to 1962. Foulk studied at the University of Pennsylvania to become an architectural draftsman before shifting to acting.
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Biography of Manuel Álvarez Bravo (excerpt)
Manuel Álvarez Bravo (February 3, 1902 – October 19, 2002) was a Mexican artistic photographer and one of the most important figures in 20th century Latin American photography.He was born and raised in Mexico City. While he took art classes at the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes, his photography is self-taught.
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Biography of Helga Uys (excerpt)
Helga Uys (July 2, 1908 - May 26, 1969) was a German-born South African concert pianist and piano teacher of Jewish descent. She was married to Hannes Uys, with whom she had two children: Tessa Uys, a concert pianist, and Pieter-Dirk Uys, a satirist and writer.
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Biography of Paul Iribe (excerpt)
Joseph-Paul Iribe, né le 8 juin 1883 à Angoulême et mort le 21 septembre 1935 à Roquebrune, est un dessinateur, illustrateur de mode, affichiste, patron de presse, réalisateur et décorateur français. Il est considéré comme l'un des précurseurs du mouvement Art déco.
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Biography of John Betjeman (excerpt)
Sir John Betjeman, CBE (28 August 1906 – 19 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster.He was Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death. He was a founding member of The Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture, helping to save St Pancras railway station from demolition. |
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