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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 John Eccles (neurophysiologist) (excerpt)
Sir John Carew Eccles, AC (January 27, 1903 – May 2, 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize together with Andrew Fielding Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin.
Biography of Fritz Schäffer (excerpt)
Fritz Schäffer (12 May 1888, München – 29 March 1967, Berchtesgaden) was a German politician for the Bavarian People's Party (BVP) and the Christian Social Union (CSU). In 1945 he became the first Bavarian Minister-President after World War II. From 1949 to 1957 he was German Minister of Finance and from 1957 to 1961 Minister of Justice.
Biography of Georges Duhamel (excerpt)
Georges Duhamel (June 30, 1884 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) - April 13, 1966), was a French author, born in Paris.Duhamel trained as a doctor, and during World War I was attached to the French army.In 1920, he published Confession de minuit (ISBN 2-7152-1793-5), the first of a series featuring the anti-hero Salavin.
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 Urho Kekkonen (excerpt)
Urho Kaleva Kekkonen (3 September 1900 - 31 August 1986), was a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland (1950–1953, 1954–1956) and later as the eighth President of Finland (1956–1982). Kekkonen continued the “active neutrality” policy of his predecessor President Juho Kusti Paasikivi, a doctrine which came to be known as the “Paasikivi–Kekkonen line”.
Biography of Joseph Barbera (excerpt)
Joseph Roland Barbera (play /bɑrˈbɛrə/ bar-berr-ə; March 24, 1911 – December 18, 2006) was an influential American animator, director, producer, storyboard artist, and cartoon artist, whose film and television cartoon characters entertained millions of fans worldwide for much of the twentieth century.
Biography of Paul Frankeur (excerpt)
Paul Frankeur (29 June 1905 - 27 October 1974) was a French actor who appeared in films by Jacques Tati (Jour de fête) and Luis Buñuel (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Phantom of Liberty). He was sometimes credited as Paul Francoeur.
Biography of Indro Montanelli (excerpt)
Indro Montanelli (April 22, 1909 - July 22, 2001) was an Italian journalist and historian, known for his new approach to writing history in books such as History of the Greeks and History of Rome. Career Montanelli was born at Fucecchio, near Florence.
Biography of Lucien Coëdel (excerpt)
Lucien Coëdel, born August 30, 1899 in Paris and died September 28, 1947 in Blaisy-Haut (Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne), was a French actor and comedian. Filmography * 1935 : Lucrèce Borgia d'Abel Gance * 1936 : Le Coupable de Raymond Bernard * 1936 : Nitchevo de Jacques de Baroncelli * 1937 : Le Messager de Raymond Rouleau * 1937 : Mollenard de Robert Siodmak * 1938 : Courrier d'Asie d'Oscar-Paul Guilbert * 1939 : Nord-Atlantique de Maurice Cloche * 1939 : Remorques de Jean Grémillon
Biography of Alexei Kosygin (excerpt)
Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Косы́гин, Aleksej Nikolajevič Kosygin; French: Alexis Nikolaievitch Kossyguine) (February 20 (March 4, Gregorian calendar) 1904 – December 18, 1980) was a Soviet politician and administrator. Serving as Premier of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1980, he was considered a reformer in the Soviet leadership and the main rival to hardline Communist Party leader Leonid Brezhnev.
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 Adrienne Bolland (excerpt)
Adrienne Bolland (November 25, 1895 (birth time source: FDAF) – March 18, 1975) was a French test pilot and the first woman to fly over the Andes. Bolland was the first or second woman to cross the English Channel on August 25, 1920.
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 Nikita Magaloff (excerpt)
Nikita Magaloff (Born Magalashvili) (21 February (old style 8 February), 1912 - 26 December 1992) was a Georgian-Russian pianist. He was born to a Georgian noble family in St.Petersburg.Magaloff and his family left Russia in 1918 for Finland and then Paris, where he studied with Isidor Philipp, chair of the piano department at the Paris Conservatory.
Biography of André Francois-Poncet (excerpt)
André François-Poncet (13 June 1887, Provins, Seine-et-Marne – 8 January 1978) was a French politician and diplomat whose post as ambassador to Germany allowed him to witness first-hand the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, and the Nazi regime's preparations for war.
Biography of John Reed (excerpt)
John "Jack" Silas Reed (October 23, 1887 – October 19, 1920) was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist, famous for his first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution, Ten Days that Shook the World. He was the husband of the writer and feminist Louise Bryant.
Biography of Emilio Fernandez (excerpt)
Emilio "El Indio" Fernández (born Emilio Fernández Romo, March 16 (error on Wikipedia), 1904 in Sabinas, Coahuila – August 6, 1986) was an actor, screenwriter and director of the cinema of Mexico. He is best known for his work as director of the film Maria Candelaria which won the Grand Prix at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.
Biography of François-Timoléon de Choisy (excerpt)
François Timoléon, abbé de Choisy (Augsut 16, 1644 – October 2, 1724) was a French author. He was born in Paris.His father was attached to the household of the duke of Orléans, and his mother, who was on intimate terms with Anne of Austria, was regularly called upon to amuse Louis XIV.
Biography of Léonce Bourliaguet (excerpt)
Léonce Bourliaguet, born on January 6, 1895 in Thiviers, died on March 26, 1965 in Malemort-sur-Corrèze, was a French writer and teacher. Selected bibliography: La Geste des Bestes, Bestions et Bestioles - 1935 la trilogie des « gangsters » de la Mardondon (Quatre du cours moyen, Les farauds de la Mardondon, Le maquis de la Mardondon)
Biography of Jerome Kern (excerpt)
Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of popular music.He wrote around 700 songs, including such classics as Ol' Man River, A Fine Romance, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, All the Things You Are and The Way You Look Tonight.
Biography of Lily Pons (excerpt)
Lily Pons (April 12, 1898 – February 13, 1976) was a French-American coloratura soprano. Born Alice Joséphine Pons in Draguignan near Cannes, Pons first studied piano at the Paris Conservatory, winning the First Prize at the age of 15.During World War I, she played piano and sang for soldiers in Paris hospitals.
Biography of Robert Jean de Vogue (excerpt)
Robert Jean de Vogue, born August 3, 1896 in Menetou-Salon, died October 17, 1976 in Paris, was a French producer of champagne, entrepreneur and aristocrat. He was honored for his behaviour during WW II (he was a member of the French Resistance).
Biography of Fulton J. Sheen (excerpt)
Servant of God Fulton John Sheen, born Peter John Sheen (May 8, 1895 (source: Steinbrecher) – December 9, 1979) was an American archbishop of the Catholic Church known for his preaching and especially his work on television and radio. His cause for canonization for sainthood was officially opened in 2002, so he is now referred to as a "Servant of God".
Biography of Douglas Harding (excerpt)
Douglas Edison Harding (1909 - 2007) was an English mystic, philosopher, and author of many books. Developer of a modern method of meditation that enables participants to actually see who they really are.His method involves leading subjects in a series of experiments that reverse attention.
Biography of Eddie Rickenbacker (excerpt)
Edward Vernon Rickenbacker (October 8, 1890 – July 27, 1973) was an American fighter ace in World War I and Medal of Honor recipient.He was also a race car driver and automotive designer, a government consultant in military matters and a pioneer in air transportation.
Biography of Marcel Jouhandeau (excerpt)
Marcel Jouhandeau (born in Guéret, July 26, 1888 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - died in Rueil-Malmaison, April 7, 1979) was a French writer. Marcel Jouhandeau grew up in a world of women presided over by his grandmother.Under the influence of a young woman from the Carmel of Limoges, he embraced a mystical form of Catholicism and for a time thought to enter the orders.
Biography of Bertus Aafjes (excerpt)
Lambertus Jacobus Johannes Aafjes (May 12, 1914 – April 23, 1993), known as Bertus Aafjes was a Dutch poet whose work is marked by his devout Catholicism. Aafjes was born in Amsterdam.He wrote poems on the resistance to the German occupation during the World War II.
Biography of Meghnad Saha (excerpt)
Megh Nad (or Meghnad) Saha (Bangla:মেঘনাদ সাহা) (Devanagari: मेघनाद साहा) (October 6, 1893 – February 16, 1956) was an Indian astrophysicist.He was born on 6 October, 1893 in Shaoratoli village near Dhaka (in present Bangladesh).He had his initial schooling at Dhaka Collegiate School, and later moved to Dhaka College.
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 Pierre Alcover (excerpt)
Pierre Alcover (14 March 1893 – 14 November 1957) was a French film actor. He starred in 40 films between 1918 and 1943. In 1920 he starred in the film Champi-Tortu. One of his most notable performances was in Marcel L'Herbier's 1928 film L'Argent, as the corrupt banker Saccard.
Biography of Richard Rodgers (excerpt)
Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals.He also composed music for films and television.He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II.
Biography of Michel Leiris (excerpt)
Julien Michel Leiris (April 20, 1901 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, J.Tissot, birth certificate) – September 30, 1990 in Saint-Hilaire, Essonne) was a French surrealist writer and ethnographer. Michel Leiris obtained his baccalauréat in philosophy in 1918 and after a brief attempt at studying chemistry, he developed a strong interest in jazz and poetry.
Biography of Walther Model (excerpt)
Otto Moritz Walter Model (IPA: ) (24 January 1891 – 21 April 1945) was a German general and later field marshal during World War II.He is noted for his defensive battles in the latter half of the war, mostly on the Eastern Front but also in the west, and for his close association with Adolf Hitler and Nazism.
Biography of Donald Douglas (excerpt)
Donald Douglas, born April 6, 1892 in Brooklyn, New York, died in 1981, was an American U.S. aircraft designer who founded the Douglas Aircraft Company.
Biography of Egon von Vietinghoff (excerpt)
Egon von Vietinghoff (February 6, 1903, The Hague, Netherlands – October 14, 1994, Zurich) was a German-Swiss painter, author, philosopher and creator of the Egon von Vietinghoff Foundation. He reconstructed the lost painting techniques of the Old Masters, and created some 2.700 paintings.
Biography of Abel Gance (excerpt)
Abel Gance (French: ; born Abel Eugène Alexandre Péréthon; 25 October 1889 – 10 November 1981) was a French film director and producer, writer and actor. A pioneer in the theory and practice of montage, he is best known for three major silent films: J'accuse (1919), La Roue (1923), and Napoléon (1927).
Biography of Auguste Le Breton (excerpt)
Auguste Le Breton (born Auguste Monfort 18 February 1913 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 31 May 1999) was a French novelist who wrote primarily about the criminal underworld.His novels were adapted into several notable films of the 1950s, such as Rififi, Razzia sur la chnouf, Le rouge est mis and Le clan des siciliens.
Biography of Olivier Séchan (excerpt)
Olivier Séchan, born January 14, 1911 in Montpellier (birth time source: Paddy de Jabrun, BC) and died July 7, 2006, is a French writer, the son of Louis Séchan, the father of French singer Renaud and French writer and journalist Thierry Séchan.
Biography of Denise Zola (excerpt)
Denise Zola, born Septembre 20, 1889 in Paris, is the daugther of French writer Emile Zola and Jeanne Rozerot.
Biography of Judith Anderson (excerpt)
Dame Judith Anderson, (10 February 1897 – 3 January 1992) was an Australian Tony award- and Emmy-winning actress of stage and screen, who was also nominated for a Grammy and an Oscar. She is generally regarded by theatre critics as the greatest classical actress produced by Australia.
Biography of Carlo Emilio Gadda (excerpt)
Carlo Emilio Gadda (November 14, 1893 - May 21, 1973) was an Italian writer and poet. He belongs to the tradition of the language innovators, writers that played with the somewhat stiff standard pre-war Italian language, and added elements of dialects, technical jargon and wordplay.
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 Henry Bowers (excerpt)
Lieutenant Henry Robertson (Birdie) Bowers (July 29, 1883 - March 29, 1912) was one of Robert Falcon Scott's polar party on the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913) who all died during their return from the South Pole. Early life Bowers was born on 29 July 1883 in Greenock, of Scottish descent, and was raised alone by his mother after his father died in Rangoon when he was three years old.
Biography of M. M. Kaye (excerpt)
Mary Margaret ('Mollie') Kaye (August 21, 1908 - January 29, 2004) was a British writer.Her most famous book was The Far Pavilions (1978). Life M.M.Kaye was born in India and spent her early childhood and much of her early-married life there.Her family ties with the country are strong: her grandfather, father, brother and husband all served the British Raj and her grandfather's cousin, Sir John Kaye, wrote the standard accounts of the Sepoy Mutiny and the First Afghan War.
Biography of Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (excerpt)
Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (29 June 1911 in Jena – 1 December 2004 in Utrecht), Prince of Lippe-Biesterfeld, born Count Bernhard Leopold Friedrich Eberhard Julius Kurt Karl Gottfried Peter of Biesterfeld (later elevated thus to Prince of Lippe-Biesterfeld, was Prince Consort to the late Queen Juliana, and father of 6 children; one of them is the current monarch, Queen Beatrix.
Biography of Rémy Roure (excerpt)
Rémy Roure, born on October 1885 in Arcens (birth time source: Lescaut), died on November 8, 1966 in Paris, was a French journalist, author, and a member of the French Resistance. Bibliography (extract) L'Alsace minée ou De l'autonomisme alsacien, Paris, 1929
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 Harry Andrews (excerpt)
Harry Fleetwood Andrews, CBE (10 November 1911 – 6 March 1989) was an English film actor known for his frequent portrayals of tough military officers.His performance as Sergeant Major Wilson in The Hill alongside Sean Connery earned Andrews the 1965 National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor and a nomination for the 1966 BAFTA Award for Best British Actor.
Biography of Achille Van Acker (excerpt)
Achille Honoré Van Acker (8 April 1898—10 July 1975) was the 33rd Prime Minister of Belgium in four different cabinets from 1945 to 1958, for a total period of seven years.He was a member of the BSP-PSB - the then still national Belgian Socialist Party.
Biography of Albert Decaris (excerpt)
Albert Decaris, born May 6, 1901 in Sotteville-lès-Rouen, died January 1, 1988 in Paris, is a french engraver. |
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