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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 Charles Bennett (screenwriter) (excerpt)
Charles Bennett (2 August 1899 – 15 June 1995) was an English playwright and screenwriter, probably best known for his work with Alfred Hitchcock. Born in Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, England, Bennett served in World War I and worked as an actor and writer, before finding success as a playwright in the 1920s.
Biography of Donald Duart MacLean (excerpt)
Donald Duart Maclean (25 May 1913 London – 6 March 1983 Moscow) was a British diplomat, and after having been recruited as a straight penetration agent while still an undergraduate at Cambridge, by the Soviet intelligence service, was one of the Cambridge Five, members of MI5, MI6 or the diplomatic service who acted as spies for the Soviet Union in the Second World War and beyond.
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Biography of Hans-Georg Gadamer (excerpt)
Hans-Georg Gadamer (German pronunciation: ; February 11, 1900 – March 13, 2002) was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 magnum opus, Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode). Life Gadamer was born in Marburg, Hesse-Nassau, as the son of a pharmaceutical chemist who later also served as the rector of the university there.
Biography of Thomas Ring (excerpt)
Thomas Ring, born November 28, 1892 in Nürnberg, died August 24, 1983, was a German author, astrologer, philosopher, artist and painter. ![]()
Biography of François de Callières (excerpt)
François de Callières, sieur de Rochelay et de Gigny (Thorigny-sur-Vire, Lower Normandy, 14 May 1645 — Paris, 5 March 1717) was a member of the Académie française, a diplomat and writer, a special envoy of Louis XIV who was one of three French plenipotentiaries who signed the Peace of Ryswick in 1697; his De la manière de négocier avec les souverains, 1716 ("On the manner of negotiating with sovereigns", translated as The Practice of Diplomacy), based on his experiences in negotiating the Treaty and having its origins in a letter to the Regent, Philippe, duc d'Orléans, to whom the work was dedicated, became a textbook for eighteenth-century diplomacy: Thomas Jefferson had a copy in his library at Monticello. ![]()
Biography of Andrei Gromyko (excerpt)
Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (Russian: Андре́й Андре́евич Громы́ко; Belarusian Андрэ́й Андрэ́евіч Грамы́ка; 18 July 1909 – 2 July 1989) was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs (1957–1985) and as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1985–1987).
Biography of Hubert Josef Urban (excerpt)
Hubert Josef Urban, born June 4, 1904 in Linz, is an Austrian parapsychologist, professor of psychiatry and writer. ![]()
Biography of John Foster Dulles (excerpt)
John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism around the world. ![]()
Biography of Jacques Soustelle (excerpt)
Jacques Soustelle (3 February 1912–6 August 1990) was a French anthropologist specializing in pre-Columbian civilizations. He became vice-director of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris in 1938. Soustelle was born in Montpellier. An anti-fascist, he joined the French resistance and Charles de Gaulle in London, coming to head the information and intelligence services.
Biography of Jess Stearn (excerpt)
Jess Stearn (April 26, 1914 - March 27, 2002), born in Syracuse, New York, was a journalist and author of more than thirty books, nine of which were bestsellers. He was a prize-winning reporter for the New York Daily News for 17 years, and was later an Associate Editor at Newsweek1.
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Biography of E.E. Smith (excerpt)
E. E. Smith, also Edward Elmer Smith, Ph.D., E.E. "Doc" Smith, Doc Smith, "Skylark" Smith, and (to family) Ted (May 2, 1890 - August 31, 1965) was a food engineer (specializing in doughnut and pastry mixes) and early science fiction author who wrote the Lensman series and the Skylark series, among others.
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Biography of Len Harvey (excerpt)
Len Harvey was born in St. Tudy on the 11 July, 1907. A great tactician and defensive boxer who boxed at every weight division's of his day. He began boxing at the very young age of 12 and boxed to he was 36. ![]()
Biography of Robert Merle (excerpt)
Robert Merle (August 28, 1908 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - March 28, 2004) was a French novelist. Born in Tebessa in French occupied Algeria, he moved to France in 1918. Merle wrote in many styles and won the Prix Goncourt for his novel Week-end à Zuydcoote. ![]()
Biography of Lew Ayres (excerpt)
Lew Ayres (December 28, 1908 – December 30, 1996) was an American actor. Career Born Lewis Frederick Ayres III in Minneapolis, Minnesota and reared in San Diego, California, Ayres began acting in bit player roles in films in 1927. He was discovered in 1927 playing banjo in the Henry Halstead Orchestra as Halstead was recording one of the earliest Vitaphone movie shorts called Carnival Night in Paris (Warner Brothers, 1927).
Biography of George van Tassel (excerpt)
George Van Tassel (March 12, 1910 - February 9, 1978) was an American contactee, ufologist, and paranormal research leader who commenced building the Integratron in 1958 in Landers, California. History Van Tassel was born in Jefferson, Ohio and grew up in a fairly prosperous middle-class family. ![]()
Biography of Georges Auric (excerpt)
Georges Auric (February 15, 1899 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – July 23, 1983) was a French composer, born in Lodève, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. He was a child prodigy and at age 15 he had his first compositions published.
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Biography of David Packard (excerpt)
David Packard (September 7, 1912 – March 26, 1996) was a co-founder of Hewlett-Packard (1939), serving as president (1947-1964), CEO (1964-1968), and Chairman of the Board (1964-1968, 1972-1993). He served as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1969-1971 during the Nixon administration.
Biography of Paul Fraisse (excerpt)
Paul Fraisse (March 20th, 1911, St-Etienne, France) was a French psychologer best known for his works on the perception of time. He was President of the International Union of Scientific Psychology between 1966 and 1969, and Director of the Laboratoire de psychologie expérimentale at the Université René Descartes -Paris V between 1952 and 1979.
Biography of Marcel Prélot (excerpt)
Marcel Prélot, born October 30, 1898 in Janville ((Eure-et-Loir), died December 26, 1972 in Puget (Var), was a French politician, member of UDR (Union démocratique pour la Ve République). ![]()
Biography of André Marty (excerpt)
André Marty (6 November 1886 - 23 November 1956) was a leading figure in the French Communist Party, the PCF, for nearly thirty years. He was also a member of the National Assembly, with some interruptions, from 1924 to 1955; Secretary of Comintern from 1935 to 1944; and Political Commissar of the International Brigades in Spain from 1936 to 1938. ![]()
Biography of Louis MacNeice (excerpt)
Frederick Louis MacNeice (September 12, 1907 – September 3, 1963) was a British and Irish poet and playwright. He was part of the generation of "thirties poets" which included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and C. Day Lewis; nicknamed 'MacSpaunday' as a group - a name invented by Roy Campbell, in his Talking Bronco (1946). ![]()
Biography of Samuel Fuller (excerpt)
Samuel Fuller or Sam Fuller (August 12, 1912 – October 30, 1997) was an American screenwriter and film director known for low-budget genre movies with controversial themes. He was born Samuel Michael Fuller in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of Benjamin Rabinovitch, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, and Rebecca Baum, a Jewish immigrant from Poland.
Biography of Paulette Dubost (excerpt)
Paulette Dubost, born Paulette, Marie, Emma Deplanque October 8, 1910 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on September 21, 2011, is a French actress. Filmography (extract) Curriculum (2007) .. Ginette Les yeux clairs (2005) .. Madame Le Sciellour Duval: Un mort de trop (2001) (TV) .
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Biography of James Finlayson (excerpt)
James Henderson "Jimmy" Finlayson (August 27, 1887 – October 9, 1953) was a Scottish-American actor who worked in both silent and sound comedies. Bald, with a fake moustache, Finlayson had many trademark comic mannerisms and is famous for his squinting, outraged, "double take and fade away" head reaction, and characteristic expression "d'ooooooh.
Biography of Philippe Agostini (excerpt)
Philippe Agostini is a French cinematographer, director, photographer and screenwriter born 11 August 1910 in Paris (France), died 20 October 2001. He was married to Odette Joyeux until the end of her life. Biography Founder of École Louis-Lumière (situated on rue de Vaugirard), Philippe Agostini debuted as assistant to the chief operators Georges Périnal and Armand Thirard. ![]()
Biography of Larry Adler (excerpt)
Lawrence "Larry" Cecil Adler, (February 10, 1914 – August 7, 2001), was an American musician, widely acknowledged as one of the world's most skilled harmonica players. Composers such as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Darius Milhaud and Arthur Benjamin composed works for him.
Biography of Geraldo França de Lima (excerpt)
Geraldo França de Lima,, born April 24, 1914 in Araguari, Minas Gerais, died March 22, 2003, was a Brazilian writer and professor. Selected bibliography: * Serras azuis, romance (1961) (transformado em telenovela pela TV Bandeirantes) * Brejo alegre, romance (1964); * Branca Bela, romance (1965); * Jazigo dos vivos, romance (1969); * O nó cego, romance (1973); * A pedra e a pluma, romance (1979); * A herança de Adão, romance (1983); * A janela e o morro, romance (1988);
Biography of Roger Chapelain-Midy (excerpt)
Roger Chapelain-Midy, born August 24, 1904 in Paris, died April 1, 1992 in Paris, was a French painter. ![]()
Biography of Marc Bloch (excerpt)
Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch (July 6, 1886 (birth time source: Gauquelin) – June 16, 1944) was a French historian of medieval France in the period between the First and Second World Wars, and a founder of the Annales School. Bloch was shot by the Gestapo during the German occupation of France for his work in the French Resistance.
Biography of Pierre Béarn (excerpt)
Pierre Béarn (15 June 1902 – October 27, 2004) was a French writer. He was born Louis-Gabriel Besnard in Bucharest, Romania. He is known to Anglophones for his poem "Couleurs d'usine", which includes the line Métro boulot bistrots mégots dodo zéro (translation: "Subway work bars (cigarette) butts sleep nothing") A multifaceted personality, at one time a journalist, novelist, poet, fabulist and humanist, at age nine Béarn began writing in French slang, his "natural" language. ![]()
Biography of Jean-Gabriel Domergue (excerpt)
Jean-Gabriel Domergue, born March 4, 1889 in Bordeaux, died in 1962, was a French painter. ![]()
Biography of Mary Lou Williams (excerpt)
Mary Lou Williams (May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. Williams wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements, and recorded more than one hundred records (in 78, 45, and LP versions). Williams wrote and arranged for such bandleaders as Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, and she was friend, mentor, and teacher to Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie. ![]()
Biography of Galeazzo Ciano (excerpt)
Gian Galeazzo Ciano, Count of Cortellazzo and Buccari (March 18, 1903 – January 11, 1944), was Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Benito Mussolini's son-in-law. Early life Ciano was born in Livorno. He was the son of Admiral Count Costanzo Ciano, a veteran of World War I, founding member of the fascist party in Italy and re-organizer of the Italian Merchant Marine in the 20s. ![]()
Biography of Paul Nizan (excerpt)
Paul Nizan (February 7, 1905 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – May 23, 1940, age 35) was a French philosopher and writer. He was born in Tours and studied in Paris where he befriended fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre at the Lycée Henri IV. ![]()
Biography of Jean Bart (excerpt)
Jean Bart (21 October 1650 - 27 April 1702) was a French naval commander and privateer. His birth name was most probably Jan Baert. Career Born in Dunkirk as the son of a simple fisherman, Bart served when young in the Dutch navy under De Ruyter.
Biography of André Berley (excerpt)
André Berley, born André Edmond Obrecht January 13, 1890 in Paris and died November 26, 1936 in Paris at 4:00 pm, was a French actor. Filmography (extract) # The House Across the Street (1937) .... Renaudeau ... aka "La maison d'en face" - France (original title) ![]()
Biography of Barnes Wallis (excerpt)
Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, CBE FRS, RDI, FRAeS (26 September 1887 – 30 October 1979), was an English scientist, engineer and inventor. He is best known for inventing the bouncing bomb used by the RAF in Operation Chastise (the "Dambusters" raid) to attack the Möhne, Sorpe, and Eder dams in the Ruhr area in May 1943, during World War II.
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Biography of Louis Gérardin (excerpt)
Louis Gérardin, born on August 12, 1912 in Billancourt (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died on May 23, 1982 in Paris, was a French bicycle racer. He was called "Toto" and has won a lot of competitions. French singer Edith Piaf was one of his devoted admirers and loved him.
Biography of Jeanne de Funès (excerpt)
Jeanne Augustine Barthélemy, born on February 1, 1914 in Nancy (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on March 7, 2015, was the wife of French actor Louis de Funès.
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Biography of Félix Lévitan (excerpt)
Félix Lévitan, born October 11, 1911 in Paris, died February 18, 2007 in Cannes, was a French Sports journalist.
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Biography of Evelyn Laye (excerpt)
Evelyn Laye (10 July 1900 – 17 February 1996) was an English theatre actress. Born Elsie Evelyn Lay in Bloomsbury, London, England, Laye made her first stage appearance in August 1915 at the Theatre Royal, Brighton as Nang-Ping in Mr. Wu, and her first London appearance at the East Ham Palace on 24 April, 1916, in the revue Honi Soit, in which she subsequently toured. ![]()
Biography of Lionel Hampton (excerpt)
Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor. Like Red Norvo, he was one of the first jazz vibraphone players. Hampton ranks among the great names in jazz history, having worked with a who's who of jazz musicians, from Benny Goodman and Buddy Rich to Charlie Parker and Quincy Jones. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Dux (excerpt)
Alex Martin, best known as Pierre Dux, born October 21, 1908 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died December 1, 1990 in Paris, was a French actor and director. He was a member of Comédie-Française. Filmography (extract)
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Biography of Evalyn Walsh McLean (excerpt)
Evalyn Walsh McLean (August 1, 1886 in Denver, Colorado – April 24. 1947 in Washington, D.C.) was an American mining heiress and socialite who was famous for being the last private owner of the 45-carat Hope Diamond as well as another famous diamond, the 94-carat Star of the East. ![]()
Biography of Kurt Gerstein (excerpt)
Kurt Gerstein (August 11, 1905 – July 25, 1945) was a German SS officer and member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS. He witnessed mass murders in the Nazi extermination camps Belzec and Treblinka. He contacted the Swedish diplomat Göran von Otter as well as members of the Catholic Church with contacts to Pope Pius XII in order to inform the international public about the Holocaust. ![]()
Biography of Max Fleischer (excerpt)
Max Fleischer (July 19, 1883 – September 11, 1972) was an American animator. He was a pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon and served as the head of Fleischer Studios. He brought such animated characters as Betty Boop, Koko the Clown, Popeye, and Superman to the movie screen and was responsible for a number of technological innovations. ![]()
Biography of Madeleine Sologne (excerpt)
Madeleine Simone Vouillon, best known as Madeleine Sologne, born October 27, 1913 in La Ferté-Imbault (41), died March 31, 1995 in Vierzon, was a French actress. Filmography (extract) 1936 : la vie est à nous, réalisation collective (8 réalisateurs) 1936 : Une femme par intérim, d'André Hugon ![]()
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Madeira (/məˈdɪərə/ mə-DEER-ə, US also /-ˈdɛər-/ -DAIR-, Portuguese: ), officially the Autonomous Region of Madeira (Portuguese: Região 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 Eleonore Zugun (excerpt)
Eleonore Zugun, born, May 24, 1913 in Romania, was a famous medium. She demonstrated teleportation and telekinesis to parapsychologists. ![]()
Biography of Hans Rosbaud (excerpt)
Hans Rosbaud (July 22, 1895, Graz, Austria – December 29, 1962, Lugano, Switzerland) was an Austrian conductor, particularly associated with the music of the twentieth century. As children, Hans and his brother Paul Rosbaud performed with their mother, who taught piano. |
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