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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 Betty Smith (novelist) (excerpt)
Betty Smith, born Elisabeth Wehner on December 15, 1896, in New York, and died on January 17, 1972, in Shelton, Connecticut, was an American writer best known for her novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943). Born to German immigrant parents, she grew up in poverty in Brooklyn, developing a love for literature through her local library.
Biography of Paul Oskar Kristeller (excerpt)
Paul Oskar Kristeller (May 22, 1905, Berlin – June 7, 1999, New York, United States) was a scholar of Renaissance humanism, best known for his studies on Marsilio Ficino and his Iter Italicum, a catalog of uncatalogued manuscripts. Trained by thinkers such as Heidegger and Husserl, he earned his doctorate at Heidelberg in 1928.
Biography of Eelco van Kleffens (excerpt)
Eelco Nicolaas van Kleffens (born 17 November 1894, died 17 June 1983) was a Dutch politician and diplomat. Descending from a Frisian family of civil servants, he studied law at Leiden University and started his career at the League of Nations and later at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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 Joe Vosmik (excerpt)
Joseph Franklin Vosmik, born April 4, 1910, was an outfielder for various Major League Baseball teams, including the Cleveland Indians and Brooklyn Dodgers, playing primarily in the 1930s and 1940s. He was a key player in the Dodgers' 1941 National League Pennant win.
Biography of Jacques Allard (military) (excerpt)
Jacques Allard, born on November 16, 1903 in Grainville-Ymauville, was a French officer who participated in the wars in Indochina and Algeria. After graduating from Saint-Cyr, he pursued a career in the Army of Africa. He served as a second lieutenant during the Rif War and was promoted to colonel in 1946.
Biography of Rose Grane (excerpt)
Rose Cremer, known as Rose Grane, was a French theater and silent film actress. She was born on January 14, 1889, in Liancourt, Oise, and passed away on July 2, 1931, at the age of 42 in Tlemcen, Algeria. The daughter of Louis Victor Crémer, a shoemaker, and Marie-Louise Cosmann, a housewife, Rose Crémer was born on Roger-Duplessis Street in Liancourt on January 14, 1889.
Biography of Oskar Maria Graf (excerpt)
Oskar Maria Graf (July 22, 1894 – June 28, 1967) was a German-American writer known for his autobiographical narratives about life in Bavaria. Born in Berg, Bavaria, Graf fled his family in 1911 to live in Munich’s bohemian circles.During World War I, he was discharged after refusing orders and being institutionalized.
Biography of Käte Stresemann (excerpt)
Käte Stresemann (née Kleefeld; July 15, 1883 – July 23, 1970) was the wife of German Chancellor, Foreign Minister, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Gustav Stresemann. Admired for her elegance and intelligence, she was a prominent social figure in the 1920s, hosting diplomatic gatherings at her Berlin salon.
Biography of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (excerpt)
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (July 6, 1888 – February 24, 1973) was a historian and social philosopher whose work encompassed history, theology, sociology, and linguistics. Born in Berlin to a non-observant Jewish family, he converted to Christianity in his late teens, which deeply influenced his writings.
Biography of Alfred de Waart (excerpt)
Alfred de Waart, born on October 12, 1888, in The Hague and passed away on April 6, 1981, in Voorburg, was a Dutch professor of physiology. He graduated in medicine from Leiden University under Willem Einthoven, working as his assistant before serving as a ship doctor and working in Constantinople.
Biography of Henriette Hardenberg (excerpt)
Henriette Hardenberg (born Margarete Rosenberg, February 5, 1894 – October 26, 1993) was a German-Jewish poet who emigrated to Britain in the late 1930s. In the 1910s, she was part of the literary Expressionist circle around the magazine Die Aktion. Her poetry often examined the relationship between people and their bodies, especially the skin as an interface between self and world.
Biography of Dick Foran (excerpt)
John Nicholas "Dick" Foran (June 18, 1910 – August 10, 1979) was an American actor and singer, known for his performances in Western musicals and for playing supporting roles in dramatic pictures. He appeared in dozens of movies of every type during his lengthy career, often with top stars leading the cast.
Biography of Isaac José Pardo (excerpt)
Isaac José Pardo Soublette (Caracas, 14 October 1905 - 3 March 2000), was a Venezuelan intellectual of German-Jewish extraction known for his essays: Esta tierra de gracia (1955) and Fuegos bajo el agua. La invención de la utopía (1983). Also, was part of the Generation of 1928, movement against the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez; founder of the party Unión Republicana Democrática (URD) in 1945, director of El Nacional, redactor of the humorist paper El Morrocoy Azul, and principal authority of the Supreme Electoral Council of Venezuela in 1963.
Biography of Llibertat Ródenas Rodriguez (excerpt)
Llibertat Ródenas Rodriguez (Chera, 23 September 1892 – Mexico, 19 January 1970) was a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist and feminist activist.Born in Chera, she moved to Barcelona in 1918 and joined the CNT, gaining recognition for her public speaking skills. Imprisoned in 1920 for her activism, she later campaigned for the FAI starting in 1931.
Biography of Maurice Fernez (excerpt)
Maurice Fernez, born on August 30, 1885, and died on January 31, 1952, in Alfortville, was a French inventor and a pioneer in underwater breathing and gas masks. His innovative inventions helped transform scuba diving, evolving it from the "heavy-foot" diving suit to the self-contained diving suit during the first half of the 20th century.
Biography of Georg Heym (excerpt)
Georg Theodor Franz Artur Heym (30 October 1887 – 16 January 1912) was a German writer, best known for his poetry, representative of early Expressionism. Born in Hirschberg, Silesia, he often clashed with social conventions, leaving his Wilhelmian middle-class parents baffled.In 1900, the family moved to Berlin, where Heym attended various schools unsuccessfully before enrolling at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Neuruppin.
Biography of Henry Pachter (excerpt)
Henry Pachter (1907–1980) was a Marxist intellectual and libertarian socialist activist. Renowned as an essayist on historical and political topics, he authored several books on diverse subjects. An exile from Nazi Germany, he taught at the New School for Social Research and City College in New York until his death.
Biography of Lluís Nicolau d'Olwer (excerpt)
Lluís Nicolau d'Olwer, born in Barcelona on January 20, 1888, and died in Mexico City on December 24, 1961, was a historian, journalist, and Catalanist Spanish politician. Initially a councilor for the municipality of his hometown, he later became a deputy in the Spanish Congress and served as Minister of Economy during the Second Republic (1933).
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 Marcello Marchesi (excerpt)
Marcello Marchesi, born on April 4, 1912, in Milan and died on July 19, 1978, in Cabras, was an Italian screenwriter and director. Marchesi wrote or contributed to the writing of 64 film scripts between 1939 and 1977. He also directed seven films between 1951 and 1952.
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.
Biography of Franco Becci (excerpt)
Franco Becci (Rome, December 1, 1888 – Rome, November 5, 1951) was an Italian actor.He began his theater career in 1909 and quickly rose to prominence in Flavio Andò's company. In 1912, he joined companies performing the works of Sem Benelli, working with Gualtiero Tumiati and Arnaldo Ninchi until 1932.
Biography of Boleslaw Barlog (excerpt)
Boleslaw Stanislaus Barlog (28 March 1906 – 17 March 1999) was a German stage, film, and opera director primarily known for his work in reviving the theatrical life of Berlin after World War II. From 1951 until 1972 he served as the Intendant of the Staatliche Schauspielbühnen Berlin, the municipal theatre company of West Berlin that at its height employed over 80 actors and operated three theatrical venues—Schiller Theater, Schiller Theater Werkstatt, and Schlosspark Theater.
Biography of Paul Arnault (military) (excerpt)
Paul Arnault, born on August 21, 1911, in Cherbourg (Manche) and died on November 9, 1988, in Avignon (Vaucluse), was a French military officer. As an officer in the Foreign Legion, he was an early combatant in World War II, for which he was sentenced to death in absentia and was soon made a Companion of the Liberation.
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.
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 Elsa Gindler (excerpt)
Elsa Gindler (19 June 1885 – 8 January 1961) was a somatic bodywork pioneer in Germany. Born in Berlin, teacher of gymnastik, student of Hedwig Kallmeyer (who, in turn, had been a student of Genevieve Stebbins). From her personal experience of recovering from tuberculosis (it is said by concentrating on breathing only with her healthy lung and resting the diseased lung), Gindler originated a school of movement education, in close collaboration with Heinrich Jacoby.
Biography of Youki (model) (excerpt)
Youki, born Lucie Badoud (July 31, 1903 – October 13, 1966), was a Montparnasse model during the 1930s.Her nickname, meaning "snow" in Japanese, was given to her by her first husband, painter Tsugouharu Foujita. Daughter of Joséphine Bousez, from Wallonia, and Swiss-born Célestin Badoud, Lucie was raised in Paris by her maternal grandmother after the family farm was sold.
Biography of Martín Ramírez (artist) (excerpt)
Martín Ramírez (* January 30, 1895 – † February 17, 1963) was a self-taught Mexican artist, now regarded as one of the 20th century's masters of outsider art. Biography Born in Tepatitlán, Mexico, he emigrated to the U.S.in 1925 to work on railroads, leaving his family behind.
Biography of Nunzio Filogamo (excerpt)
Nunzio Filogamo (20 September 1902 – 24 January 2002) was an Italian television and radio presenter, actor and singer. Life and career Born in Palermo, Filogamo moved to Turin at a young age, then he studied law at the Sorbonne University and at the Turin University, where he graduated.
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 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.
Biography of Siegfried Sassoon (excerpt)
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry described the horrors of the trenches and satirized the jingoistic patriotism that he believed fueled the war.
Biography of Varlin (painter) (excerpt)
Willy Leopold Guggenheim, known as Varlin (born March 16, 1900, and died October 30, 1977), was a Swiss painter.His figurative work emphasized the fragility of everyday life. Born in Zurich, he lost his father and elder sister at the age of twelve, shaping his artistic vision.
Biography of Émile Allegret (excerpt)
Émile Allegret, born on April 24, 1907, in Dijon and passed away on November 22, 1990, in Vaux-sur-Mer, was a French military officer and resistance fighter, Companion of the Liberation. He enlisted in the Air Force in 1926, becoming a test pilot and engineer.
Biography of Manuel Cabré (excerpt)
Manuel Cabré, born on January 25, 1890, in Barcelona and passed away on February 26, 1984, in Caracas, was a renowned Venezuelan painter, especially celebrated for his landscapes. The son of sculptor Ángel Cabré i Magriñá, he grew up in Venezuela and joined the Caracas Academy of Fine Arts at 14, where his father taught.
Biography of Leopoldo Méndez (excerpt)
Leopoldo Méndez (June 30, 1902 – February 8, 1969) was one of Mexico's most important graphic artists and one of that country's most important artists from the 20th century. Méndez's work mostly focused on engraving for illustrations and other print work generally connected to his political and social activism.
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 Ernst Sorge (excerpt)
Ernst Sorge (* February 25, 1899, in Vieselbach; † April 28, 1946, in Arnstadt, Thuringia) was a German glaciologist, polar explorer, and geoscientist.He made significant contributions to glaciology with his glacier observations at the Eismitte station in Greenland. Sorge grew up in Berlin and studied geography and sciences before becoming a teacher.
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.
Biography of Jean de Beaumont (excerpt)
Count Jean Bonnin de la Bonninière de Beaumont (13 January 1904 – 12 June 2002) was a French aristocrat, businessman, politician, journalist, and sport shooter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. Born in Paris, he hailed from a notable aristocratic family and studied at prestigious French institutions.
Biography of Elías Nandino (excerpt)
Elías Nandino (April 19, 1900 – October 3, 1993) was a Mexican poet. Born in Cocula, Jalisco, he was raised Catholic. He studied medicine at UNAM, becoming a surgeon in 1930. Alongside his medical career, he wrote poetry, influenced by Manuel M. Flores and Los Contemporáneos.
Biography of Georges Bruhat (excerpt)
Georges Bruhat (21 December 1887 – 1 January 1945) was a French physicist known for his contributions to optics and for authoring a renowned four-volume physics textbook series. He studied at the École normale supérieure and the Sorbonne, completing a PhD in optics under Aimé Cotton.
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 Hugh Lofting (excerpt)
Hugh John Lofting (14 January 1886 – 26 September 1947) was an English American writer and civil engineer, best known for creating the beloved children's character Doctor Dolittle. The character, a physician who could talk to animals, originated from illustrated letters Lofting sent to his children during World War I while he served in the British Army.
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.
Biography of Marian Januszajtis-Zegota (excerpt)
Marian Józef Żegota-Januszajtis (3 April 1889, Częstochowa, Piotrków Governorate - 24 March 1973, Royal Tunbridge Wells) was a Polish military commander and politician. One of the founders of Polish paramilitary pro-independence organizations in Austrian partition, and last commander of the 1st Brigade of Polish Legions.
Biography of Paul Schürmann (excerpt)
Paul Schürmann (* 25 July 1895 in Gütersloh; † 2 July 1941 near Borissow) was a German military pathologist and tuberculosis researcher.He served as a commander at the Military Medical Academy. Son of a merchant, he joined World War I but was injured and deemed unfit for military service.
Biography of Emilio Amero (excerpt)
Emilio Amero (May 25, 1901, in Ixtlahuacán del Río, Jalisco – April 12, 1976, in Norman, Oklahoma) was a prominent Mexican artist, illustrator, muralist, and educator, central to the Mexican Modern art movement. Shaped by the Mexican Revolution, he expressed his artistic vision through painting, lithography, illustration, photography, and filmmaking. |
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