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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 Mary Eccles (excerpt)
Mary Eccles, Viscountess Eccles, born Mary Morley Crapo on July 8, 1912, and died August 26, 2003, was an American-British author and renowned literary collector.She was also known as Mary Hyde during her first marriage. She assembled one of the greatest private collections of 18th-century literature, focused on Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, which she donated to Harvard.
Biography of Frances Drake (excerpt)
Frances Drake, born Frances Morgan Dean on October 22, 1912, in New York City, was an American actress best known for playing Éponine in Les Misérables (1935).Raised in a wealthy family, she studied in Canada and later in England. After the 1929 crash, she began performing as a dancer and stage actress in London, which led to film roles.
Biography of Ernst Blass (excerpt)
Ernst Blass (October 17, 1890, Berlin – January 23, 1939, Berlin), also known by the pseudonyms Daniel Stabler and Erich Sternow, was a prominent Expressionist poet, critic, and writer. A close friend of Kurt Hiller, he joined Der Neue Club, alongside early Expressionist writers such as Georg Heym and Jakob van Hoddis.
Biography of Werner Kolhörster (excerpt)
Werner Heinrich Gustav Kolhörster (December 28, 1887 – August 5, 1946) was a German physicist and a pioneer in cosmic ray research. Born in Schwiebus (now Świebodzin, Poland), he studied physics at the University of Halle under Friedrich Ernst Dorn. In 1913-1914, replicating Victor Hess' experiments, he ascended to 9 km by balloon, confirming that cosmic ray ionization increases with altitude, proving that these ionizing rays originate from space.
Biography of A.M. de Jong (excerpt)
Adrianus Michiel de Jong (Nieuw-Vossemeer, March 29, 1888 – Blaricum, October 18, 1943) was a Dutch writer, also using pseudonyms like Frank van Waes. Born in a farming family, he grew up in Nieuw-Vossemeer and Rotterdam. His youth inspired the series Merijntje Gijzens jeugd en jonge jaren.
Biography of Wilhelm Röpke (excerpt)
Wilhelm Röpke (10 October 1899 – 12 February 1966) was a German economist and social critic, one of the spiritual fathers of the social market economy. A professor of economics, first in Jena, then in Graz, Marburg, Istanbul, and finally Geneva, Röpke theorised and collaborated to organise the post-World War II economic re-awakening of the war-wrecked German economy, deploying a program referred to as ordoliberalism, a more conservative variant of German liberalism.
Biography of Kurt Hirsch (excerpt)
Kurt August Hirsch (12 January 1906 – 4 November 1986) was a German mathematician who moved to England to escape the Nazi persecution of Jews.His research was in group theory.He also worked to reform mathematics education and became a county chess champion.
Biography of Charles de Noailles (excerpt)
Charles de Noailles (26 September 1891 – 28 April 1981), Viscount and French art patron, was a key figure of the interwar avant-garde. He married Marie-Laure Bischoffsheim in 1923 and commissioned architect Robert Mallet-Stevens to build the iconic Villa Noailles in Hyčres.
Biography of James Denis (aviator) (excerpt)
James Denis (February 1, 1906 – June 21, 2003) was a French military officer and Compagnon de la Libération.A skilled pilot, he joined the Free French Forces in 1940, flying to England with five companions. He fought in North Africa and the Middle East, serving with the Royal Air Force before forming the Escadrille française de chasse n°1.
Biography of Heinrich Jacoby (excerpt)
Heinrich Jacoby (3 April 1889 – 25 November 1964), originally a musician, was a German educator whose teaching was based on developing sensitivity and awareness.His collaboration with his colleague Elsa Gindler (1885–1961), whom he met in 1924 in Berlin, played a great role in his researches.
Biography of Henry Malherbe (excerpt)
Henri Émile Hermand Malherbe, known as Henry Malherbe or Henry Croisilles, was a French writer, born on February 4, 1886, in Bucharest and died on March 17, 1958, in Paris. A journalist for Le Temps and co-director of La Revue des vivants, he won the Prix Goncourt in 1917 for La flamme au poing, a poetic account of World War I.
Biography of Rudolf Peierls (excerpt)
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls (June 5, 1907 – September 19, 1995) was a German-born British physicist who played a key role in Britain’s Tube Alloys nuclear program and the Manhattan Project. He studied physics at various universities, including under Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli.
Biography of Gabriel Figueroa (excerpt)
Gabriel Figueroa Mateos (April 24, 1907 – April 27, 1997) was one of the most renowned cinematographers of Mexico’s Golden Age of cinema.He was known for his mastery of chiaroscuro, precise framing, and painterly aesthetics. Trained in painting and violin, he began as a photographer before entering film in 1933.
Biography of Pamela Wedekind (excerpt)
Pamela Wedekind (born December 12, 1906 in Berlin – died April 9, 1986 in Ambach) was a German actress and translator.She was the daughter of playwright Frank Wedekind and actress Tilly Newes. She began her theatrical career in the early 1920s alongside Erika and Klaus Mann and actor Gustaf Gründgens, performing in Anja and Esther and Revue zu viert.
Biography of Luis Felipe Alarco (excerpt)
Luis Felipe Cipriano Alarco Larrabure, born in Lima on February 6, 1913, and who died there on October 15, 2005, was a Peruvian philosopher and university professor.He belonged to the philosophical renewal movement in Peru initiated by Alejandro Deustua. He studied at the National University of San Marcos and later at several universities in Germany, where he became a disciple of philosopher Nicolai Hartmann.
Biography of Frank Palumbo (excerpt)
Frank Palumbo (born May 22, 1911 – died February 12, 1983) was a Philadelphia entrepreneur, political insider, and philanthropist. He owned Palumbo’s entertainment complex, the Click Club, and Nostalgia’s Restaurant, shaping the city’s cultural and political landscape. Expanding his grandfather’s 1884 boarding house, he turned it into a popular entertainment hub that defined Philadelphia’s pop music scene in the 1940s and 1950s.
Biography of Adalbert of Prussia (1884) (excerpt)
Prince Adalbert Ferdinand Berengar Viktor of Prussia (14 July 1884 – 22 September 1948) was the third son of Wilhelm II, German Emperor, by his first wife, Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein. Early life Prince Adalbert was born on 14 July 1884 as the third son of the then Prince Wilhelm of Prussia and his first wife, Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein.
Biography of Pierre Daura (excerpt)
Pierre Daura (born Pedro Francisco Daura y García, February 21, 1896, Ciudadela, Minorca – 1976, Rockbridge Baths, Virginia) was a Spanish painter. Born to a family of musicians and textile merchants, he lost his mother at the age of seven. He studied at La Llotja, Barcelona’s School of Fine Arts, under José Ruiz Blanco, Picasso’s father.
Biography of Juan O'Gorman (excerpt)
Juan O'Gorman O'Gorman (born July 6, 1905, in Coyoacán and died January 17, 1982, in Mexico City) was a Mexican architect and painter. Born into a family of Irish descent, he was the brother of historian Edmundo O'Gorman.He studied architecture at the Academy of San Carlos and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Biography of Hans Grundig (excerpt)
Hans Grundig (February 19, 1901 – September 11, 1958) was a German painter and graphic artist associated with the New Objectivity movement. Born in Dresden, he trained as an interior decorator before studying at the Dresden School of Arts and Crafts (1920–1921) and the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (1922–1923).
Biography of David Bruce (actor) (excerpt)
Born on January 6, 1914, in Kankakee, Illinois, as Marden Andrew McBroom, David Bruce was an American film actor.He began on stage with Peninsula Players Theatre in 1939 and adopted his stage name upon arriving in Hollywood, thanks to agent Henry Willson.
Biography of Philippe Olive (actor) (excerpt)
Philippe Olive, born Philippe Jean-Pierre Olive on January 10, 1908 in Pantin, France, was a French actor who died on June 28, 1981 in Paris’s 13th arrondissement. Active in 1950s French cinema, he often played supporting roles. Notably, he portrayed the coroner in Minuit, quai de Bercy (1953) and Porthos in The Vicomte of Bragelone (1954).
Biography of Eyre de Lanux (excerpt)
Eyre de Lanux, born Elizabeth Eyre on March 20, 1894 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and died September 8, 1996 in New York, was an American artist, writer, and designer. She became known in 1920s Paris for her lacquered Art Deco furniture and geometric rugs.
Biography of Émile Decré (excerpt)
Émile Decré (28 July 1897 – 17 February 1973) was a French businessman and heir to the Decré department stores, founded by his grandfather Jules-César Decré.During World War I, he helped manage the family business alongside his brother. In 1930, he oversaw the renovation of the stores with architect Henri Sauvage and founded the Nantes chapter of the Christian Employers’ Confederation.
Biography of Ewald Mataré (excerpt)
Ewald Wilhelm Hubert Mataré, born on February 25, 1887, in Burtscheid, Aachen, and passed away on March 28, 1965, in Büderich, was a German painter and sculptor, known for his stylized figures of men and animals. Mataré studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin starting in 1907.
Biography of Roger François (weightlifter) (excerpt)
Roger François, born on October 7, 1900, in Romans, Drôme, and died on February 15, 1949, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, was a French weightlifter. He became the world light-heavyweight champion at the 1922 World Championships in Tallinn. Placing sixth in the middleweight category at the 1924 Summer Olympics, he went on to become the Olympic champion in the same category at the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Biography of Adrien Turel (excerpt)
Adrien Turel (born June 5, 1890, in Saint Petersburg and died June 29, 1957, in Zurich) was a Swiss writer.His time of birth comes from him, in his autobiography "Bilanz eines erfolglosen Lebens: Autobiographie" by Adrien Turel (Moderne, 1989). He grew up in Switzerland and Germany, studying Germanic studies, Romance languages, and history before abandoning his studies to focus on psychoanalysis.
Biography of Gaston Baty (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Gaston Baty was a theater practitioner, born in Pélussin (Loire) on May 26, 1885, and died in the same town on October 13, 1952. He was one of the founders of the theatrical "Cartel" in 1927, alongside Louis Jouvet, Charles Dullin, and Georges Pitoëff.
Biography of Lillian Smith (author) (excerpt)
Lillian Eugenia Smith, born December 12, 1897, and died September 28, 1966, was a writer and social critic from the Southern United States, known for her non-fiction and fiction works, including the best-selling novel Strange Fruit (1944). A White woman from the South, she embraced controversial positions advocating for racial and gender equality.
Biography of Norbert Casteret (excerpt)
Norbert Casteret (19 August 1897 – 20 July 1987) was a famous French caver, adventurer and writer, and is one of the most recognisable names in caving worldwide. Following Édouard-Alfred Martel (the "father of modern speleology", although Casteret sometimes also enjoys this title), Casteret, along with Robert de Joly, became a leading figure of French speleology between the world wars and into the middle of the 20th century.
Biography of Henry Winterfeld (excerpt)
Henry Winterfeld (April 9, 1901 – January 27, 1990), published under the pseudonym Manfred Michael, was a German writer and artist famous for his children’s and young adult novels. He emigrated to the United States in 1940, where he lived until his death.
Biography of Catherine Troeh (excerpt)
Catherine Herrold Troeh, born on January 5, 1911, and died on June 28, 2007, was an American historian, artist, and activist. A Chinook elder and direct descendant of Chief Comcomly, she devoted her life to defending Native American rights and heritage.
Biography of Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (excerpt)
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (31 July 1884 – 2 February 1945) was a German conservative politician, monarchist, executive, economist, civil servant and opponent of the Nazi regime.He opposed anti-Jewish policies while he held office and was opposed to the Holocaust. Had the 20 July plot to overthrow Hitler's dictatorship in 1944 succeeded, Goerdeler would have served as the Chancellor of the new government.
Biography of James Lewin (excerpt)
James Lewin (October 28, 1887 – December 31, 1937) was a German-Jewish psychiatrist and physician. Born in Berlin, he studied medicine and philosophy at the University of Berlin, earning his PhD in 1912. He specialized in psychiatry, working in Kiel and Leipzig.
Biography of Hanns Kräly (excerpt)
Hanns Kräly, credited as Hans Kraly in the United States, was a German actor and screenwriter. He is best known for his collaboration with director Ernst Lubitsch, with whom he worked on 30 films between 1915 and 1929. Their partnership ended in 1930 due to an affair between Kräly and Lubitsch’s then-wife, Helene Krauss.
Biography of Carlos Sáenz Herrera (excerpt)
Carlos Sáenz Herrera (Brussels, Belgium, 1 September 1910 – Saint José, 7 November 1980) was a Vice President of Costa Rica.He also served as a pioneer pediatrician in Costa Rica. His parents were José Carlos Sáenz Esquivel and Úrsula Celina Herrera and Paut.
Biography of Luigi Cacciatore (excerpt)
Luigi Cacciatore (1900–1951) was an Italian socialist politician who served as the minister of posts and communications in 1947.He was a member and one of the leaders of the Italian Socialist Party. Cacciatore was born in Mercato San Severino, near Salerno, on 26 July 1900.
Biography of Rüdiger von der Goltz (lawyer) (excerpt)
Gustav Adolf Karl Joachim Rüdiger Graf von der Goltz (10 July 1894 – 18 April 1976) was a German lawyer and Nazi Party member known for defending figures like Joseph Goebbels before their rise to power. Born into a noble family in Charlottenburg, he lost a leg in World War I and earned a Doctor of Law degree in 1919.
Biography of Francisco Eppens (excerpt)
Francisco Eppens Helguera, born on February 1, 1913, in San Luis Potosí, and died on September 6, 1990, in Mexico City, was a Mexican artist known for his paintings, sculptures, and murals that showcased Mexican identity. He gained international fame for his modern designs of Mexican postage stamps (1935-1953) and for redesigning Mexico’s national emblem in 1968, which is still used today on official documents, coins, and the national flag.
Biography of Christian Caillard (excerpt)
Hugues Christian Caillard (July 26, 1899 – September 18, 1985) was a French painter known for his poetic style and lifelong attachment to his studio in Paris’s 9th arrondissement. A grandson of Catulle Mendčs and Augusta Holmčs, he turned from science to art after World War I.
Biography of Belford Hendricks (excerpt)
Belford Cabell "Sinky" Hendricks (June 11, 1909 (Wikipedia has May in error) – September 24, 1977) was an American composer, pianist, arranger, conductor, and producer, who also used aliases like Bill Henry. He is best remembered for his soft-R&B hits of the 1950s, co-written with Clyde Otis and Brook Benton, and for his refined, versatile arrangements.
Biography of Marc-Adolphe Guégan (excerpt)
Marc-Adolphe Guégan (25 January 1891 – 6 November 1959) was a French journalist and poet, a pioneer of haiku in the French language. He lived on the Île d’Yeu in the Atlantic, drawing inspiration from its landscapes. A close friend of Claude Cahun and Suzanne Malherbe (known as Marcel Moore), he collaborated with them on two books.
Biography of Johannes Post (excerpt)
Johannes Post, born on 4 October 1906 in Hollandscheveld, was a key Dutch resistance leader during the Nazi occupation.A farmer in Nieuwlande, he hid Jews in his home and led part of the Landelijke Knokploegen, a resistance combat group. In 1942, after learning of the Jewish persecution, he began organizing a local rescue network with Arnold Douwes, expanding it to include much of the region.
Biography of Lorenzo Domínguez (excerpt)
Lorenzo Domínguez (born May 15, 1901, in Santiago, Chile – died March 21, 1963, in Mendoza, Argentina) was a Chilean sculptor known for his unique artistic synthesis of pre-Columbian aesthetics, Rapa Nui art, and European sculpture. After studying in Madrid during the 1920s, he taught in Santiago before settling in Argentina, where he lived and worked in Mendoza and Tucumán.
Biography of Fernando Santiván (excerpt)
Fernando Santiván (pseudonym of Fernando Antonio Santibańez Puga, 1 July 1886 – 12 July 1973) was a Chilean writer and winner of the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1952. Born in Arauco to a Spanish father and a Chilean mother, he became an orphan at age 8.
Biography of Dodie Smith (excerpt)
Dodie Smith, born Dorothy Gladys Smith on May 3, 1896 and died November 24, 1990, was an English novelist and playwright best known for I Capture the Castle (1948) and The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956). Her children's novel was adapted by Disney into an animated film in 1961 and a live-action version in 1996.
Biography of Adrienne Dore (excerpt)
Adrienne Dore, born Elizabeth Himmelsbach on May 22, 1907, and died November 26, 1992, was an American actress, model, and beauty queen.She was Miss Los Angeles and first runner-up at the 1925 Miss America pageant. Educated at a convent in Seattle, she trained in theater and dance, later performing in musical revues in New York.
Biography of Daniel J. Terra (excerpt)
Daniel J. Terra (June 8, 1911 – June 28, 1996) was an American chemist, businessman, and art collector of Italian descent. He earned a degree in chemical engineering in 1931 and founded Lawter Chemicals in Chicago in 1940. The global success of his ink and chemical firm enabled him to support his deep interest in art and culture, building a major art collection and supporting Chicago art institutions.
Biography of Pierre Bourgeois (poet) (excerpt)
Pierre Bourgeois (born December 4, 1898, in Charleroi; died May 25, 1976) was a Belgian poet and filmmaker. The younger brother of architect Victor Bourgeois, he co-edited the 7 Arts magazine from 1922 to 1929.This publication, dedicated to geometric abstraction, aimed to synthesize various arts, including painting, sculpture, literature, and cinema.
Biography of Edmundo O'Gorman (excerpt)
Edmundo O'Gorman (born November 24, 1906, in Mexico City, died September 28, 1995, in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, historian, and philosopher. He is regarded as one of the foremost historical revisionists challenging established narratives about the Spanish colonial period in Latin America. |
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