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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 Pope Benedict XIII (excerpt)
Pope Benedict XIII (February 2, 1649 – February 21, 1730), born Pietro Francesco Orsini, later Vincenzo Maria Orsini, was pope from 1724 until his death.He succeeded Pope Innocent XIII (1721–1724). He was born in Gravina in Puglia to Ferdinando III Orsini, duke of Gravina, and Giovanna Frangipani della tolfa, from Toritto.
Biography of Mireille (singer) (excerpt)
Mireille Hartuch (September 30, 1906 – December 29, 1996) was a French singer, composer, and actress.She was generally known by the stage name "Mireille". Born in Paris to Jewish parents, her mother came from a family of musicians and as a child Mireille was taught to play the piano and encouraged to pursue a career in music.
Biography of Beniamino Gigli (excerpt)
Beniamino Gigli (March 20, 1890 - November 30, 1957) was an Italian singer, widely regarded as one of the greatest operatic tenors of all time. He was blessed with a voice of immense beauty and technical facility but, regrettably, he was not always the most tasteful and stylish of singers, especially in the latter stages of his career.
Biography of Louise Fazenda (excerpt)
Louise Fazenda (June 17, 1895 - April 17, 1962) was an American film actress, appearing chiefly in silent comedy films. Early life She was born in Lafayette, Indiana.Her father, Joseph Fazenda, was a merchandise broker.After moving west Louise attended Los Angeles High School and St.
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
Biography of Jack Oakie (excerpt)
Jack Oakie (Born Lewis Delaney Offield on November 12, 1903 – January 23, 1978) was an American actor, starring mostly in films, but also working on stage, radio and television. Early life Oakie was born as Lewis Delaney Offield in Sedalia, Missouri.
Biography of Jean Follain (excerpt)
Jean Follain, (Canisy (province of la Manche) 29 August 1903 – Paris 10 March 1971) was a French author, poet and corporate lawyer.In the early days of his career he was a member of the “Sagesse” group.Follain was a friend of Max Jacob, Andre Salmon, Jean Paulhan, Pierre Pussy, Armen Lubin, and Pierre Reverdy.
Biography of Lou Nova (excerpt)
Lou Nova (March 16, 1913 – September 29, 1991) aka Cosmic punch was an American boxer and actor.Born in Los Angeles, California, the 6 ft 3½ in (1.92 m) Nova was the U.S. and World Amateur Boxing Champion in 1935.After turning pro, he remained undefeated in his first 22 matches, and won 40 fights in total.
Biography of Franz Werfel (excerpt)
Franz Werfel (September 10, 1890 – August 26, 1945) was an Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet. Born in Prague (then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), Werfel was the first of three children of a wealthy manufacturer of gloves and leather goods.His mother, Albine Kussi, was the daughter of a mill owner.
Biography of Richard Helms (excerpt)
Richard McGarrah Helms (March 30, 1913 – October 22, 2002) was the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) from 1966 to 1973.He was the only director to have been convicted of lying to the United States Congress over Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) undercover activities.
Biography of Battista Pininfarina (excerpt)
Giovanni Battista "Pinin" Farina (later Battista Pininfarina) (November 2, 1893 - April 3, 1966) was an Italian automobile designer, the founder of the Carrozzeria Pininfarina coachbuilding company, a name forever associated with many of the best-known postwar sports cars (especially Ferraris).
Biography of Edward R. Murrow (excerpt)
Edward R."Ed" Murrow (April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American journalist and television and radio figure.He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States and Canada.
Biography of Paul Grimault (excerpt)
Paul Grimault was one of the most important French animators.He made many traditionally animated films that were delicate in style, satirical, and lyrical in nature. His most important work is La Bergère et le Ramoneur (The Shepherdess and the Chimneysweep).He began it in 1948 and it was highly anticipated, but Grimault’s partner André Sarrut showed the film unfinished in 1952, against Grimault’s wishes.
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 Raissa Maritain (excerpt)
Raïssa Oumansoff Maritain (1883 (source not archived) - 1960) was a Russian-Ukrainian poet and philosopher.She emigrated to France and studied at Sorbona, where she met the young Jacques Maritain, also a philosopher, who she married in 1904.She was raised Jewish but converted to Roman Catholicism with her husband in 1906.
Biography of Anthony Blunt (excerpt)
Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907, Bournemouth, Hampshire – 26 March 1983, Westminster, London), , (Sir Anthony Blunt, KCVO between 1956 and 1979), was a British spy, art historian, Professor of the History of Art at the University of London, director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, London (1947-74), and Surveyor of the King's Pictures (1945-72).
Biography of Curtis LeMay (excerpt)
Curtis Emerson LeMay (November 15, 1906 – October 1, 1990) was a general in the United States Air Force and the vice presidential running mate of American Independent Party candidate George Wallace in 1968. He is credited with designing and implementing an effective, but also controversial, systematic strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific theater of World War II.
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 Claude Dauphin (excerpt)
Claude Dauphin (19 August 1903 – 16 November 1978), was a French actor.He appeared in over 130 films between 1930 and 1978. He was born in Corbeil-Essonnes, Paris.His father was Maurice Étienne Legrand, a poet who wrote as "Franc-Nohain" , and who was the librettist for Maurice Ravel's opera L'heure espagnole.
Biography of Marguerite Monnot (excerpt)
Marguerite Monnot (28 May 1903 - 12 October 1961) was a French songwriter and composer best known for having written many of the songs performed by Édith Piaf ("Milord," "Hymne à l'amour") and for the music in the stage musical Irma La Douce.
Biography of Alain de Rothschild (excerpt)
Alain de Rothschild, born on January 7, 1910 in Paris, died in 1982, was a French banker.He is the son of Éric de Rothschild, the President of the Mémorial de la Shoah.The Rothschild family (/ˈrɔːtʃilt/, known as The House of Rothschild, or more simply as the Rothschilds) is a European family of German Jewish origin that established European banking and finance houses starting in the late 18th century.
Biography of Charles XI of Sweden (excerpt)
Charles XI (Swedish: Karl XI) (24 November 1655 (4 December, Gregrorian calendar) – 5 April 1697) was King of Sweden from 1660 until his death and during the same time succeeded his father as Pfalzgraf. He was the only son of King Charles X of Sweden and Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp.
Biography of Emil Jannings (excerpt)
Emil Jannings (July 23, 1884 in Rorschach – January 3, 1950) was a Swiss-born German actor and the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor. Early life He was christened Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz in Rorschach, Switzerland, the son of a German mother and an American father.
Biography of Aguigui Mouna (excerpt)
André Dupont, best known as Aguigui Mouna, born in Meythet (Haute-Savoie) October 1, 1911 and died in Paris, May 8, 1999, was a French burlesque philosopher, activist, agitator, showman and humorist. Bibliography Cavanna, Cabu et Anne Galois, Aguigui Mouna, Gueule ou crève, Dossiers d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux, 2004 (ISBN 2905212349)
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 Jacques Dumesnil (excerpt)
Jacques Dumesnil, born Marie Émile Eugène André Joly November 9, 1903 in Paris, and died May 8, 1998 in Bron, Rhône, was a French actor. Filmography (selection) * 1931 : Mon ami l'assassin de Solange Bussi * 1932 : Danton de André Roubaud : Fabre d'Églantine
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 Valentine Tessier (excerpt)
Valentine Tessier, born August 5, 1892 in Paris 11e (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died August 11, 1981 in Vallauris, was a French actress. Filmography (extract) 1933 : Madame Bovary 1935 : Jérôme Perreau héros des barricades 1936 : Club de femmes
Biography of Paul Guth (excerpt)
Paul Guth (March 5, 1910 — 1997) was a French humorist, journalist and writer, and the President of the Académie des provinces françaises. Novelist, essayist, columnist, memoirist, historian, pamphleteer, he distinguished himself in every genre by his combination of sensitivity and savagery.
Biography of David O. Selznick (excerpt)
David O.Selznick, born David Selznick (May 10, 1902 – June 22, 1965), was an American film producer.He is best known for producing Gone with the Wind (1939) which earned him an Oscar for Best Picture. Early years Selznick was born to a Jewish family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of silent movie distributor Lewis J.
Biography of Anton Walbrook (excerpt)
Anton Walbrook, born German: (Adolf) Anton (Wilhelm) Wohlbrück (19 November 1896, Vienna, Austria – 9 August, 1967, Garatshausen) was an Austrian actor who settled in the United Kingdom. Life Originally known as Adolf Wohlbrück, he was descended from ten generations of actors though his father broke with tradition and was a circus clown.
Biography of Hume Cronyn (excerpt)
Hume Blake Cronyn, OC (July 18, 1911 – June 15, 2003) was a Canadian actor of stage and screen, a screenwriter, who enjoyed a long career, often appearing professionally alongside his second wife, Jessica Tandy. Early life Hume Cronyn, one of five children, was born in London, Ontario, Canada, the son of Hume Blake Cronyn, Sr., a businessman and a Member of Parliament for London (after whom the Hume Cronyn Memorial Observatory and asteroid (12050) Humecronyn are named) and Frances Amelia (née Labatt), an heiress of the brewing company of the same name.
Biography of Jacques Companéez (excerpt)
Jacques Companéez (or Companeez), is a French screenwriter and lyricist of Russian descent, born March 5, 1906 in Saint Petersburg. He is the father of French film director Nina Companeez.
Biography of Roger Ikor (excerpt)
Roger Ikor, born May 28, 1912 in Paris 10e (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n°1629), died on November 17, 1986 in Paris, was a French writer. Works (extract) L'insurrection ouvrière de juin 1848 ou la première Commune - 1936
Biography of Robert Donat (excerpt)
Robert Donat (18 March 1905 – 9 June 1958) was an English film and stage actor. He is best-known for his roles in Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps and Goodbye, Mr. Chips for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor.
Biography of Rudi Schneider (excerpt)
Rudi Schneider (27 July 1908 – 1957), son of Josef Schneider and brother of Willi Schneider, was an Austrian spiritualist and Physical Medium.His career was covered extensively by the journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, and he took part in a number of notable experiments conducted by paranormal researchers/debunkers, including Harry Price, Albert von Schrenck-Notzing and Eric J.
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 Oskar Schlemmer (excerpt)
Oskar Schlemmer (September 4, 1888 – April 13, 1943) was a German painter, sculptor and designer associated with the Bauhaus school.In 1923 he was hired as Master of Form at the Bauhaus theatre workshop, after working some time at the workshop of sculpture.
Biography of Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (excerpt)
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (December 1, 1884 - August 10, 1976) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker, and a member of Die Brücke. Karl Schmidt was born in Rottluff, today a district of Chemnitz, (Saxony), and began to call himself Schmidt-Rottluff in 1905.
Biography of Harry Benjamine (excerpt)
Harry Benjamine, born August 9, 1896 in London, was a British author.
Biography of Jean Galia (excerpt)
Jean Galia (born 20 March 1905 in Ille-sur-Tet, died 1949 in Toulouse) was a French rugby union and rugby league footballer and champion boxer.He is credited with establishing the sport of rugby league in France in 1934. Galia made his international debut for the France national rugby union team in a 1927 test against England in Paris.
Biography of Carlos Lacerda (excerpt)
Carlos Frederico Werneck de Lacerda (April 30, 1914 – May 21, 1977) was a Brazilian journalist, author, and politician. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Lacerda was the son of a family of politicians from Vassouras, Rio de Janeiro State. When he was a law student, Lacerda became sympathetic to Communist ideas, but by the 1940s he had transformed into a staunch anti-communist.
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 Albert Châtelet (excerpt)
Albert Châtelet (24 October 1883, Valhuon, Pas-de-Calais – 30 June 1960, Paris) was a French politician and mathematician.Châtelet received his teaching degree from the École Normale Supérieure in 1908.After earning a doctorate in 1913, Châtelet became a lecturer at École centrale de Lille and a professor at Université de Lille, rising to the rank of Vice-Chancellor by 1924.
Biography of François Lefebvre de Caumartin (excerpt)
François Lefebvre de Caumartin or Jean François Paul Lefèvre de Caumartin (16 December 1668, Châlons-en-Champagne - 30 August 1733, Blois) was a French bishop. He was elected member of the Académie française in 1694 and member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1701.
Biography of Raja Rao (excerpt)
Raja Rao (Kannada: ರಾಜ ರಾವ್) (November 8, 1908 – July 8, 2006) was an Indian writer of English language novels and short stories, whose works are deeply rooted in Hinduism.Raja Rao's semi-autobiographical novel, The Serpent and the Rope (1960), is a story of a search for spiritual truth in Europe and India.
Biography of Maurice Nadeau (excerpt)
Maurice Nadeau (21 May 1911 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 16 June 2013) was a French writer and editor.He was born in Paris.One of his well-known works, translated into several languages, is the Histoire du surréalisme (The History of Surrealism), published in French in 1944 and in English 21 years later, translated by Richard Howard.
Biography of Patrick White (excerpt)
Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990), an Australian author, was widely regarded as a major English-language novelist of the 20th century. From 1935 until his death, he published 12 novels, two short-story collections and eight plays.
Biography of André Baugé (excerpt)
André Gaston Baugé (4 January 1893, Toulouse - 25 May 1966, Clichy-la-Garenne) was a French baritone, active in opera and operetta, who also appeared in films in the 1930s. Life and career The son of Alphonse Baugé, a vocal teacher, and Anna Tariol-Baugé a soprano active in operetta, he studied with his parents and appeared in the French provinces billed as André Grilland.
Biography of Julien Duvivier (excerpt)
Julien Duvivier (Born, October 8, 1896 in Lille - Died, October 29, 1967 in Paris) was a French film director.He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930 - 1960.He created a world of dark images born of a strange imagination. |
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