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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. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Konrad Lorenz (excerpt)
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (November 7, 1903 in Vienna – February 27, 1989 in Vienna) was an Austrian zoologist, animal psychologist, ornithologist and Nobel Prize winner. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, developing an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth. ![]()
Biography of Charles Atlas (excerpt)
Charles Atlas (October 30, 1892 – December 23, 1972) was the owner and figurehead of a bodybuilding method and its associated exercise program; he was most well-known for a landmark advertising campaign featuring his name and likeness, which has been described as one of the most lasting and memorable ad campaigns of all time.
Biography of Claude Génia (excerpt)
Claude Génia, born March 4, 1913 in Vetlouga, Russia, and died May 18, 1979 in Tours, was a French actress and comedian of Russian descent. Filmography * 1942 : L'Honorable Catherine de Marcel l'Herbier * 1942 : Monsieur de Lourdines de Pierre de Hérain * 1943 : La Vie de plaisir de Albert Valentin * 1945 : Le Père Goriot de Robert Vernay d'après Honoré de Balzac * 1944 : L'Enfant de l'amour de Jean Stelli * 1945 : La Fille aux yeux gris de Jean Faurez ![]()
Biography of Maria Mandel (excerpt)
Maria Mandel (January 10, 1912 – January 24, 1948) was infamous for her key role in the Holocaust as a top-ranking official at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp where she is believed to have been directly responsible for orders to kill over 500,000 female Jews, Gypsies, and political prisoners. ![]()
Biography of Anthony Eden (excerpt)
Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, KG, MC, PC (12 June 1897 – 14 January 1977) was a British politician who was Foreign Secretary for three periods between 1935 and 1955, including World War II and Prime Minister from 1955 to 1957. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Véry (excerpt)
Pierre Véry, born in Bellon November 17, 1900 and died in Paris October 12, 1960, was a French writer. Works (extract) Pont-Égaré (1929) Le Testament de Basil Crookes (1930) Danse à l'ombre (1931) Les Métamorphoses (1931) Clavier universel (1933) Le Meneur de jeux (1934) ![]()
Biography of Manoel de Oliveira (excerpt)
Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira GCSE, GCIH (December 11, 1908 - April 2, 2015) was a Portuguese film director and screenwriter born in Cedofeita, Porto. He first began making films in 1927, when he and some friends attempted to make a film about World War I. ![]()
Biography of Hoagy Carmichael (excerpt)
Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael (November 22, 1899 – December 27, 1981) was an American composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for writing "Stardust" (1927), and "Heart and Soul", two of the most-recorded American songs of all time.
Biography of Guidette Carbonell (excerpt)
Guidette Carbonell, born January 23, 1910 in Meudon near Paris, is a French artist and one of France's leading ceramicists. Her colourful work was praised at the National Exhibition of Arts and Techniques in 1937. From the 1940s, she created dishes and large bas-relief medallions, bird-shaped lamps and more stylised sculptures. ![]()
Biography of Robert Stroud (excerpt)
Robert Franklin Stroud (January 28, 1890 – November 21, 1963), known as the Birdman of Alcatraz, was a prisoner in Alcatraz who raised and sold birds. Despite his nickname, he actually kept birds only at Leavenworth, prior to being transferred to Alcatraz.
Biography of Irene Handl (excerpt)
Irene Handl (27 December 1901 – 29 November 1987) was an English actress. Life Irene Handl was born in Maida Vale, London, the daughter of an Austrian banker father and French mother. She took to acting at the relatively advanced age of 36, and studied at the acting school run by the sister of Dame Sybil Thorndike. ![]()
Biography of Louis B. Mayer (excerpt)
Louis Burt Mayer (born Lazar Meir; July 12, 1884 – October 29, 1957) was a Canadian-American film producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios (MGM) in 1924. Under Mayer's management, MGM became the film industry's most prestigious movie studio, accumulating the largest concentration of leading writers, directors, and stars in Hollywood.
Biography of John Hench (excerpt)
John Hench (June 29, 1908 – February 5, 2004) was an employee of The Walt Disney Company for more than sixty five years, an exceptionally long tenure which saw the rise of nearly every Disney animated feature and theme park. Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Hench attended numerous art and creative schools across the country, including the Art Students League of New York , the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, and the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles.
Biography of Olga Wormser (excerpt)
Olga Wormser or Olga Wormser-Migot, born Olga Jongelson July 6, 1912 in Nancy and died August 3, 2002, was a French historian and writer. Selected bibliography * Catherine de Russie,Club français du livre, 1956 * Frédéric II, id. ![]()
Biography of Benoît Frachon (excerpt)
Benoît Frachon, born on May 13, 1893 in Chambon-Feugerolles (Loire) (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on August 1, 1975 in Les Bordes (Loiret), was a French syndicalist, a former member of the General Confederation of Labour (French: Confédération générale du travail, CGT).
Biography of René Voillaume (excerpt)
René Voillaume, born on July 19, 1905 in Versailles (birth time source: Yoan Cocquebert, online archives), died in 2003, was a French Catholic priest, the founder of The Little Brothers of Jesus, a religious congregation of brothers within the Catholic Church; it is inspired by the life and writings of Blessed Charles de Foucauld.
Biography of John Morrison (scientist) (excerpt)
John Morrison, born May 22, 1906 in Biggar, Scotland, is a Scottish professor and author of Mechanics books.
Biography of Jean Fournier (excerpt)
Jean Fournier, born July 3, 1911 in Paris 16e (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died July 9, 2003 in Caen (Calvados), was a French musician and violinist.
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Biography of Count Basie (excerpt)
William "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. Basie led his jazz orchestra almost continuously for nearly 50 years. Many notable musicians came to prominence under his direction, including tenor saxophonists Lester Young and Herschel Evans, trumpeters Buck Clayton and Harry "Sweets" Edison and singers Jimmy Rushing and Joe Williams.
Biography of André Gravier (excerpt)
André Gravier, born May 18, 1911 in Eloyes, Vosges, died November 14, 2004 in Nancy, was a French military. Awards Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur Compagnon de la Libération - décret du 9 septembre 1942 Croix de Guerre 39-45 (6 citations) Médaille de la Résistance Presidential Unit Citation (USA) Chevalier de l'Ordre du Cèdre (Liban) ![]()
Biography of Maurice Duruflé (excerpt)
Maurice Duruflé (11 January 1902 (birth time source: this book https://books.google.fr/books.id=EW4FfK2XhWoC&pg=PR9&lpg=PR9&dq=Maurice+Durufle&source=bl&ots=LLQpxiSquV&sig=aANenqZXFMCcBLoo6smbkTvbaK4&hl=el&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiewKyooazJAhUH1SwKHef6Cu84KBDoAQhLMAU#v=onepage&q&f=false at the end of the page 9) – 16 June 1986) was a French composer, organist, and pedagogue. Life Duruflé was born in Louviers, Eure. In 1912, he became chorister at the Rouen Cathedral Choir School, where he studied piano and organ with Jules Haelling.
Biography of André Lallemand (excerpt)
André Lallemand (1904-1978) was a French astronomer and director of the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris. He made important contributions to the development of photomultipliers for astronomical use and the "electronic telescope" (or Lallemand camera). He was awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1962 for his work. ![]()
Biography of André Marie (excerpt)
André Marie (3 December 1897 Honfleur – 12 June 1974 Rouen) was a French Radical politician who served as Prime Minister during the Fourth Republic in 1948. Ministry (26 July - 5 September 1948) André Marie - President of the Council ![]()
Biography of Marcel Pérès (excerpt)
Marcel Pérès, born Marcel Jean Paul Laurent Farenc January 24, 1898 in Castelsarrasin, Tarn-et-Garonne (birth time source: Yoan Cocquebert, on-line archives, page 8), died June 28, 1974 in Châlette-sur-Loing, Loiret, was a French actor (more than 190 movies) and comedian. Filmography (source: http://www. ![]()
Biography of Samuel Reshevsky (excerpt)
Samuel Herman (Sammy) Reshevsky (born Szmul Rzeszewski, November 26, 1912, Ozorków near Lodz, (then Russian Empire, today Poland) - died April 4, 1992, New York, USA) was a leading American chess Grandmaster. He won the U.S. Chess Championship six times outright, and lost a playoff for the title in 1973. ![]()
Biography of Kay Francis (excerpt)
Kay Francis (January 13, 1905 –August 26, 1968) was an American stage and film actress. After a brief period on Broadway in the late 1920s, she moved to film and achieved her greatest success between 1930 and 1936, when she was the number one female star at the Warner Brothers studio, and the highest paid American film actress. ![]()
Biography of Henry Purcell (excerpt)
Henry Purcell (play /ˈpɜrsəl/; 10 September 1659 (.)– 21 November 1695), was an English organist and Baroque composer of secular and sacred music. Although Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions, his legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music.
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Biography of Ray Milland (excerpt)
Ray Milland (January 3, 1907 – March 10, 1986) was a Welsh-born American actor and director. His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985, and he is best-remembered for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend (1945). ![]()
Biography of André Beaufre (excerpt)
André Beaufre (25 January 1902–13 February 1975) ends World War II as colonel. Well known by the anglo-saxon world as a military strategist and as an exponent of an independent French nuclear force. He can be considered as one of the founding father of the theories used nowadays in complex guerrillas and terrorism.
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Biography of François Faber (excerpt)
François Faber (26 January 1887, Aulnay-sur-Iton, Eure, France (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 2) – died Carency, Pas-de-Calais, 9 May 1915) was a Luxembourgian cyclist. He was born in France. He was the first foreigner to win the Tour de France in 1909, and his record of winning 5 consecutive stages still stands. ![]()
Biography of Ludwig Crüwell (excerpt)
Ludwig Crüwell (spelled Cruewell in some English-language histories) 20 March 1892 - 25 September 1958), was a German general known for his involvement with the Afrika Korps. He was captured by the British on 29 May 1942, after his plane was forced to land. ![]()
Biography of Rosemary Decamp (excerpt)
Rosemary DeCamp (November 14, 1910-February 20, 2001) was an American television and movie actress. She made her film debut in Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941) and appeared in many Warner Brothers films, including Eyes in the Night (1942), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) playing Nellie Cohan opposite James Cagney, and Nora Prentiss (1947).
Biography of Henri Pélissier (excerpt)
Henri Pélissier (25 January 1889 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 438) – 1 May 1935) was a French racing cyclist from Paris and champion of the 1923 Tour de France. In addition to his 29 career victories, he was known for his long-standing feud with Tour founder Henri Desgrange and for protesting against the conditions endured by riders in the early years of the Tour. ![]()
Biography of Eugène Chavant (excerpt)
Eugène Chavant (February 12 1894, Colombes, France) was the founder of the French resistance organisation France Combat in 1942 and a prominent member of the French resistance. His nom de guerre was Clement, hence the "dit Clement" on the memorial to him in Grenoble. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Renoir (excerpt)
Pierre Renoir (March 21, 1885 – March 11, 1952) was a French stage and film actor. He was the son of the impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and elder brother of the film director Jean Renoir. He is also noted for being the first actor to play Georges Simenon's character Inspector Jules Maigret in Night at the Crossroads, directed by his brother.
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Biography of Sylvère Maes (excerpt)
Sylvère Maes (born 27 August 1909 in Zevekote (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate from Grazia Bordoni) – died 5 December 1966 in Ostend) was a Belgian cyclist, who is most famous for winning the Tour de France in 1936 and 1939. ![]()
Biography of Max-Pol Fouchet (excerpt)
Max-Pol Fouchet, born May 1, 1913 in Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue and died August 22, 1980 in Vézelay, was a French writer, journalist and television personality. Bibliography (extract) Simples sans vertu, Charlot, coll. "Méditerranéennes", Alger, 1937. La France au cœur, Chroniques de la Résistance, 1940-1944, Charlot, Alger, 1944.
Biography of Jean-Denis Malclès (excerpt)
Jean-Denis Malclès, born May 15, 1912 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died May 30, 2002, was a French artist, painter, décorator and poster designer.
Biography of José Padilla (excerpt)
José Padilla Sánchez, born May 28, 1889 in Almeria and died October 25, 1960 in Madrid, is a Spanish musician, pianist and composer. ![]()
Biography of Carlos Salzedo (excerpt)
Carlos Salzedo (April 6, 1885-1961), was a harpist, composer and conductor, born in Arcachon, France, after whom the Salzedo Harp Colony in Camden, Maine is named. Life France Carlos Salzedo was born Charles Moise Léon Salzedo on April 6, 1885 at 11:30 a.
Biography of André Thirion (excerpt)
André Thirion, born April 18, 1907 in Baccarat, Meurthe-et-Moselle, died in 2001 in Levallois-Perret, was a French author and surrealist. ![]()
Biography of André Jousseaume (excerpt)
André Jousseaume (27 July 1894 in Yvré-l'Évêque – 26 May 1960) was a French equestrian and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in team dressage at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and another gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. ![]()
Biography of Lou Costello (excerpt)
Louis Francis "Lou" Costello (March 6, 1906 – March 3, 1959) was an American actor and comedian best known as half of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Bud Abbott. Costello was famous for his bumbling, chubby, clean-cut image that has appealed to many Americans over the decades, and for his shouted line of "HEEEEYYY ABBOTT!!. ![]()
Biography of Elias Canetti (excerpt)
Elias Canetti (25 July 1905, Ruse, Bulgaria (birth time source: Alois Treindl, birth certificate)–14 August 1994, Zurich, Switzerland) was a Bulgarian-born novelist of Sephardi Jewish ancestry who wrote in German and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981. Life Elias Canetti was the eldest son in a Jewish merchant family in Rustchuk (present-day Rousse). ![]()
Biography of Franz Völker (excerpt)
Franz Völker (born March 31, 1899 in Neu-Isenburg, Germany; died December 4, 1965 in Darmstadt, Germany) was a dramatic tenor who enjoyed a major European career. He excelled in particular as a performer of the operas of Richard Wagner. He was discovered by the conductor Clemens Krauss and he studied singing at Frankfurt, where he made his début as Florestan in Beethoven's only operatic work, Fidelio, in 1926.
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Biography of Michel Pécheux (fencer) (excerpt)
Michel Pécheux (May 24, 1911 – August 29, 1985) was a French fencer. Pécheux competed in the Men's Team Épée event at the 1936 Summer Olympics, winning a bronze medal for France. He was a team gold medalist at London in 1948, once again in épée. ![]()
Biography of René Pleven (excerpt)
René Pleven (April 15, 1901 – January 13, 1993) was a notable French politician of the Fourth Republic. A member of the Free French, he helped found the Democratic and Socialist Union of the Resistance (UDSR), a political party that was meant to be a successor to the wartime Resistance movement.
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Biography of Burl Ives (excerpt)
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American actor, writer and folk music singer. The prominent music critic John Rockwell has been quoted in the New York Times as saying that "Ives's voice. had the sheen and finesse of opera without its latter-day Puccinian vulgarities and without the pretensions of operatic ritual. ![]()
Biography of Vivi-Anne Hultén (excerpt)
Vivi-Anne Hultén (25 August 1911 – 15 January 2003) was a Swedish figure skater who was a ten time national champion in ladies singles. She finished fifth at the 1932 Winter Olympics and then won the bronze medal at the 1936 Games. ![]()
Biography of André Dhôtel (excerpt)
André Dhôtel, born September 1, 1900 in Attigny (Ardennes)(birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died July 22, 1991 in Paris, was a French writer, novelist, and screenwriter. He won the Prix Femina in 1955 for his novel "Le Pays où l'on n'arrive jamais". |
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