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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 Michael Rennie (excerpt)
Michael Rennie (25 August 1909–10 June 1971) was an English film, television, and stage actor, best known for his starring role as the space visitor Klaatu in the 1951 classic science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still. Early years Eric Alexander Rennie was born in Idle, a village near the West Riding of Yorkshire city of Bradford (subsequently a Bradford suburb) and educated at The Leys School, Cambridge.
Biography of Karel Capek (excerpt)
Dr.Karel Čapek (pronounced (help·info)) (January 9, 1890 – December 25, 1938) was one of the most influential Czech writers of the 20th century.He introduced and made popular the frequently used international word robot, which first appeared in his play R.U.R.
Biography of Joseph L. Mankiewicz (excerpt)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (February 11, 1909 – February 5, 1993) was an American director, screenwriter, and producer, known for his sharp dialogue, use of voice-over narration, and narrative flashbacks. He directed screen legends like Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, and Elizabeth Taylor.
Biography of Mika Waltari (excerpt)
Mika Toimi Waltari (pronunciation (help·info)) (September 19, 1908 – August 26, 1979) was a Finnish historical novelist, best known for his magnum opus The Egyptian (Sinuhe egyptiläinen in Finnish) . Early life Waltari was born in Helsinki and lost his father, a Lutheran pastor, at the age of five.
Biography of Wilhelm Brückner (excerpt)
Wilhelm Brückner (11 December 1884 in Baden-Baden – 18 August 1954 in Herbsdorf, Upper Bavaria) was until 1940 Adolf Hitler's chief adjutant. Brückner grew up in Baden-Baden and also did his Abitur there. Afterwards he studied law and economics in Strasbourg (then Straßburg, Germany), Freiburg, Heidelberg and Munich.
Biography of André Kertész (excerpt)
(The Hungarian name form is Kertész Andor; this article uses the Western style.) André Kertész (2 July 1894 – 28 September 1985), born Kertész Andor, was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and the photo essay.In the early years of his career, his then-unorthodox camera angles and style prevented his work from gaining wider recognition.
Biography of James Pike (excerpt)
James Albert Pike (February 14, 1913 - September 1969) was an American Episcopal bishop, prolific writer, and one of the first mainline religious figures to appear regularly on television. His outspoken views on many theological and social issues made him one of the most controversial public figures of his time.
Biography of Wilhelm Kempff (excerpt)
Wilhelm Walter Friedrich Kempff (November 25, 1895 – May 23, 1991) was a world-renowned German virtuoso pianist and composer. Although his repertory included Bach, Liszt, Chopin, Schumann, and Brahms, Kempff was particularly well-known for his interpretations of the music of Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert, both of whose complete sonatas he recorded at least once.
Biography of Jean Effel (excerpt)
Jean Effel, real name François Lejeune (12 February 1908 Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 10 October 1982 Paris) was French painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist.Mostly he considered himself to be journalist and political commentator.His pseudonym is created by his initials F.
Biography of Richard Wright (author) (excerpt)
Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of powerful, sometimes controversial novels, short stories and non-fiction. Much of his literature concerned racial themes. His work helped redefine discussions of race relations in America in the mid-20th century.
Biography of André Dewavrin (excerpt)
Andre Dewavrin (9 June 1911 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 21 December 1998) was a French officer who served with Free French Forces intelligence services during World War II. He was born in France, the son of a businessman.
Biography of David Oistrakh (excerpt)
David Fyodorovich Oistrakh (Russian: Давид Фёдорович Ойстрах), David Fiodorovič Ojstrah; September 30 1908 – October 24, 1974) was a violin virtuoso who made many recordings and was the dedicatee of numerous violin works. His recordings and performances of Shostakovich's concerti are particularly well known, but he was also a performer of classical concerti.
Biography of Felix Wankel (excerpt)
Felix Heinrich Wankel, Hon.DEng (August 13, 1902 – October 9, 1988) was a German mechanical engineer.He was the inventor of the Wankel engine. Wankel was born in Lahr, Germany, in the upper Rhine Valley.Since his mother was widowed in World War I, Wankel received no university education or even an apprenticeship.
Biography of Albert Cohen (excerpt)
Albert Cohen (August 16, 1895, Corfu, Greece - October 17, 1981, Geneva, Switzerland) was a Greek-born Jewish Swiss novelist who wrote in French. He worked as a civil servant for various international organizations, such as the International Labour Organization. He became a Swiss citizen in 1919.
Biography of Paul Tortelier (excerpt)
Paul Tortelier (March 21, 1914 - December 18, 1990) was a French cellist and composer. Tortelier was born in Paris, the son of a cabinet maker with Breton roots.He was encouraged to play the cello by his father and mother, and at 12 he entered the Paris Conservatoire.
Biography of Joaquín Nin-Culmell (excerpt)
Joaquín María Nin-Culmell (September 5, 1908 – January 14, 2004) was a Cuban-Spanish composer, concert pianist, and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. The son of composer Joaquín Nin and singer Rosa Culmell, he grew up in New York and Europe, studying at the Schola Cantorum and the Paris Conservatoire under Paul Dukas and Manuel de Falla, earning a first prize in composition in 1934.
Biography of Léon Mathot (excerpt)
Léon Mathot (6 March 1885, Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais - 6 March 1968, in Paris) was a French film actor and film director best known perhaps for playing Edmond Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo film serial in 1918. He appeared in the 1923 silent film Coeur fidčle, directed by Jean Epstein.
Biography of Jean-Albert Grégoire (excerpt)
Jean-Albert Grégoire, born July 7, 1899 in Paris, died in 1992 in Paris, was a French engineer, scientist and inventor.
Biography of Corrado Gini (excerpt)
Corrado Gini (May 23, 1884 - March 13, 1965) was an Italian statistician, demographer and sociologist who developed the Gini coefficient, a measure of the income inequality in a society. Gini was also a leading fascist theorist and ideologue who wrote The Scientific Basis of Fascism in 1927.
Biography of Rebecca West (excerpt)
Cicely Isabel Fairfield (21 December 1892–15 March 1983), known by her pen name Rebecca West, or Dame Rebecca West, DBE was an English author, journalist, literary critic and travel writer.A prolific, protean author who wrote in many genres, West was committed to feminist and liberal principles and was one of the foremost public intellectuals of the twentieth century.
Biography of Marian Anderson (excerpt)
Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) was an American contralto and one of the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century.She possessed a rich and vibrant voice with an intrinsic quality of beauty.Most of her singing career was spent performing in concert and recital in major music venues and with major orchestras throughout the United States and Europe between 1925-1965.
Biography of André Guinebert (excerpt)
André Guinebert, born June 22, 1902 in Beaupréau (Maine-et-Loire) and died July 23, 1990 in Miré (Maine-et-Loire), was a French painter.
Biography of Robert Ripley (excerpt)
Robert LeRoy Ripley (February 22, 1890 - May 27, 1949) was an American cartoonist, entrepreneur and amateur anthropologist, who created the world famous Ripley's Believe It or Not! newspaper panel series, featuring odd 'facts' from around the world. Subjects covered in Ripley's cartoons and text ranged from sports feats to little known facts about unusual and exotic sites, but what ensured the concept's popularity may have been that Ripley also included items submitted by readers, who supplied photographs of a wide variety of small town American trivia, ranging from unusually shaped vegetables to oddly marked domestic animals, all documented by photographs and then depicted by Ripley's drawings.
Biography of Marjorie Merriweather Post (excerpt)
Marjorie Merriweather Post a.k.a. Marjorie Merriweather Post Close Hutton Davies May (March 15, 1887 – September 12, 1973) was a leading American socialite and the founder of General Foods, Inc. She was 27 when her father died, and she became the owner of the rapidly growing Postum Cereal Company later becoming the wealthiest woman in America when her fortune reached approximately USD$250 million, more than 1 billion of today's dollars.
Biography of Mary Welsh Hemingway (excerpt)
Mary Welsh Hemingway (April 5, 1908 – November 26, 1986) was an American journalist and the fourth wife (and widow) of Ernest Hemingway. Born in Minnesota, Welsh was a daughter of a lumberman.When she was 32, she married Lawrence Miller Cook, a drama student from Ohio.
Biography of Victor Moriamé (excerpt)
Victor Moriamé, born on June 4, 1888 in Saint-Waast (Nord), died on July 13, 1961 in Paris, was a French poet.
Biography of Barry Goldwater (excerpt)
Barry Morris Goldwater (January 2, 1909 – May 29, 1998) was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona (1953–1965, 1969–1987) and the Republican Party's nominee for President in the 1964 election.An articulate and charismatic figure in the 1960-64 era, he was known as "Mr.
Biography of Léon Cuffaut (excerpt)
Léon Cuffaut, born January 21, 1911 in Charenton- le-Pont (Val- de- Marne)(birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), and died September 18, 2002, was a French aviator and resistant.
Biography of François de la Rocque (excerpt)
François de La Rocque (1885–1946) was leader of the French right-wing league named the Croix de Feu from 1930-1936, before forming the more moderate Parti Social Français (1936-1940), seen as a precursor of Gaullism . The Croix de Feu and the February 6, 1934 crisis
Biography of René Jeanne (excerpt)
René Jeanne was a French actor, writer, and cinema historian. He was born on January 5, 1887 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain) and died on November 1, 1969 in Paris. Jeanne was married to actress Suzanne Bianchetti. Jeanne was also notable for serving on the jury of the Mostra de Venise in 1937 and 1938.
Biography of François Bloch-Lainé (excerpt)
François Bloch-Lainé, born March 25, 1912 in Paris, died February 25, 2002 in Paris, was a French civil servant. He is the father of Jean-Michel Bloch-Lainé. Awards Médaille de la Résistance Grand-Croix de la Légion d'honneur Bibliography François Bloch-Lainé, fonctionnaire, financier, citoyen, ouvrage sous la direction de Michel Margairaz, Comité pour l'histoire économique et financičre de la France, 2005, 270 p (ISBN 2-11-094797-7)
Biography of Jean Simon (general) (excerpt)
Jean Simon, born on April 29, 1912 in Brest (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on September 28, 2003 in Cherbourg, was a French general.
Biography of Charles Vanel (excerpt)
Charles-Marie Vanel , known as Charles Vanel (August 21, 1892 in Rennes, France - April 15, 1989, in Cannes, France) was a French director and actor. Filmography (extract) Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la Peur), 1953. Henri-Georges Clouzot's Les Diaboliques, 1955.
Biography of Charlotte Perriand (excerpt)
Charlotte Perriand (October 24, 1903 – October 27, 1999), was a French architect and designer. Perriand became known at 24 years of age with "Bar Under the Roof" — furniture made out of chromed steel and anodized aluminium.This was presented at the Salon d'Automne of 1927 and was acclaimed by the critics.
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Madeira (/məˈdɪərə/ mə-DEER-ə, US also /-ˈdɛər-/ -DAIR-, Portuguese: ), officially the Autonomous Region of Madeira (Portuguese: Regiăo Autónoma da Madeira), is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal, the other being the Azores.It is an archipelago situated in the North Atlantic Ocean, in a region known as Macaronesia, just under 400 kilometres (250 mi) to the north of the Canary Islands and 520 kilometres (320 mi) west of Morocco.
Biography of Philip Johnson (excerpt)
Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906– January 25, 2005) was an influential American architect.With his thick, round-framed glasses, Johnson was the most recognizable figure in American architecture for decades. In 1930, he founded the Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA and later (1978), as a trustee, he was awarded an American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and the first Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 1979.
Biography of Jean de la Varende (excerpt)
Jean Balthazar Marie Mallard de La Varende Agis de Saint-Denis, baron Agis de Saint-Denis, « vicomte » de La Varende, best known as Jean de la Varende, born May 24, 1887 in Chamblac, Eure, and died June 8, 1959 in Paris, was a French writer.
Biography of Jean-Pierre Aumont (excerpt)
Jean-Pierre Aumont (5 January 1911 – 30 January 2001) was a French actor. Early life Aumont was born in Paris as Jean-Pierre Philippe Salomons to Alexandre Salomons, owner of La Maison du Blanc (a linen department store) and Suzanne Cahen.His mother's uncle was well-known stage actor Georges Berr.
Biography of Léon Binet (excerpt)
Léon René Binet, born in Beauchery-Saint-Martin (Seine-et-Marne) October 11, 1891 and died in Paris July 10, 1971, was a French physician and cardiologist.
Biography of André Chamson (excerpt)
André Chamson, born June 6, 1900 in Nîmes and died November 9, 1983 in Paris, was a French novelist and author, member of Académie Française (May, 17, 1956). He is the father of French novelist Frédérique Hébrard.
Biography of Ramón Vinay (excerpt)
Ramón Vinay (August 31, 1911 – January 4, 1996) was a famous Chilean operatic tenor with a powerful, dramatic voice.He is probably best remembered for his appearances in the title role of Giuseppe Verdi's tragic opera Otello. Biography The young Vinay was encouraged by his mother to learn to sing.
Biography of Woody Hayes (excerpt)
Wayne Woodrow “Woody” Hayes (February 14, 1913 – March 12, 1987) was a college football coach who is best remembered for winning five national titles and 13 Big Ten championships in 28 years at Ohio State University. Early years Born in Clifton, Ohio, Hayes played center at Newcomerstown High School in Newcomerstown, Ohio.
Biography of Dom Helder Camara (excerpt)
Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara (February 7, 1909, Fortaleza, Ceará, North East Brazil - August 27, 1999 Recife) was Roman Catholic Archbishop of Olinda and Recife. He retired as archbishop in 1985, and lived to see many of his reforms rolled back by his conservative successors.
Biography of Hugues Cuénod (excerpt)
Hugues-Adhémar Cuénod (French pronunciation: ; 26 June 1902 – 6 December 2010) was a Swiss tenor known for his performances in opera, operetta, both traditional and musical theatre, and on the concert stage, where he was particularly known for his light, romantic and expressive interpretation of mélodie (French art song).
Biography of Bertie Albrecht (excerpt)
Berty Albrecht (or Bertie Albrecht) was a French Resistance Fighter, born Berthe Wild at Marseille, 15 February 1893 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate).She died in 1943 at Fresnes. Life Born into a middle-class Protestant family, she married the Dutch banker Frédéric Albrecht in 1918.
Biography of Gérard Blitz (entrepreneur) (excerpt)
Gérard Blitz (28 February 1912 (birth time source: André Dekoster, Act n°1161) – 3 March 1990) was a Belgian water polo player and Yogi. Born in Antwerp, he was the son of Maurice Blitz and nephew of Gérard Blitz, both members of the Belgian water polo national team who won Olympic medals.
Biography of Marcel Boussac (excerpt)
Marcel Boussac (April 17, 1889 – March 21, 1980) was a French entrepreneur best known for his ownership of the Maison Dior and one of the most successful thoroughbred race horse breeding farms in European history. Born in Châteauroux, Indre, France, Boussac made a fortune in textile manufacturing.
Biography of Kurt Weill (excerpt)
Kurt Julian Weill (Dassau, March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950), was a German, and in his later years American, composer active from the 1920s until his death. He was a leading composer for the stage. He also wrote a number of works for the concert hall.
Biography of Michael Redgrave (excerpt)
Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave, CBE (20 March 1908 – 21 March 1985) was an English stage and film actor, director, manager and author. He twice (1958 and 1963) won Best Actor trophies in the Evening Standard Awards and twice received the Variety Club of Great Britain 'Actor of the Year' Award (in the same years).
Biography of Roberto Matta (excerpt)
Roberto Antonio Sebastián Matta Echaurren (November 11, 1911, Santiago, Chile (birth time source: email) – November 23, 2002), usually known as Matta, was one of Chile's and France's and America's best-known painters and a seminal figure in 20th century art.Born in Santiago, he initially studied architecture at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, but became disillusioned with this occupation and left for Paris in 1933. |
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