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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 Gordon B. Hinckley (excerpt)
Gordon Bitner Hinckley (June 23, 1910 – January 27, 2008) was an American religious leader and author who served as the 15th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from March 12, 1995 until his death.
Biography of Ann Todd (excerpt)
Dorothy Anne Todd (24 January 1909, Hartford, Cheshire – 6 May 1993, London) was an English actress and producer. She was born in Hartford, Cheshire and was educated at St.Winifrid's School, Eastbourne.She became a popular actress from appearing in such films as Perfect Strangers (1945) (as a nurse) and The Seventh Veil (1945) (as a troubled concert pianist).
Biography of Serge de Lenz (excerpt)
Serge de Lenz was born November 7, 1892 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, and dies September 11, 1945 in Issy-les-Moulineaux. Biography on http://www.speedylook.com/Serge_of_Lenz.html He is known for his burglings and swindles and passed to the posterity under the name of "Cambrioleur" gentleman, allusion to the famous character of Arsene Lupin, created by Maurice Leblanc at the same time.
Biography of Leon Orthel (excerpt)
Leon Orthel, born October 4, 1905 in Roosendaal, was a Dutch pianist and composer.
Biography of Edward Spears (excerpt)
Major-General Sir Edward Louis Spears, 1st Baronet, KBE, CB, MC (7 August 1886 – 27 January 1974) was a British Army officer and Member of Parliament noted for his role as a liaison officer between British and French forces in two world wars.
Biography of Barnett Newman (excerpt)
Barnett Newman (January 29, 1905 – July 4, 1970) was an American artist.He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters. Youth Newman was born in New York City, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants.
Biography of Lucien Michard (excerpt)
Lucien Michard, born November 17, 1903 in Epinay-sur-Seine, is a French cyclist. He won a Gold Medal at the Paris Olympics in 1924.
Biography of Carl Esmond (excerpt)
Carl Esmond (June 14, 1902 – December 4, 2004) was an Austrian stage actor, born in Vienna, Austria.His birth name was Willy Eichberger which he later changed to Charles Esmond and finally to Carl Esmond.Like many of his fellow actors, Esmond fled Nazi Germany to England during World War II.
Biography of Douglas Sirk (excerpt)
Douglas Sirk (born Hans Detlef Sierck; April 26, 1897 – January 14, 1987) was a Danish-German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas in the 1950s. Life and work Sirk was born Hans Detlef Sierck in Hamburg, Germany to Danish parents.
Biography of Ottavio Bottecchia (excerpt)
Ottavio Bottecchia (born San Martino di Colle Umberto, Italy, 1 August 1894 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died Gemona, Italy, 14 June 1927) was an Italian cyclist and the first Italian winner of the Tour de France. He was found dead by the roadside; the reason remains a mystery.
Biography of Joachim Ringelnatz (excerpt)
Joachim Ringelnatz is the pen name of the German author and painter Hans Bötticher (Wurzen-Sachsen, 7 August 1883 - 17 November 1934).His pen name Ringelnatz is usually explained as a dialect expression for an animal, possibly a variant of Ringelnatter, German for Grass Snake.
Biography of Pierre Ambrogiani (excerpt)
Pierre Ambrogiani, born January 16, 1907 in Ajaccio, died in 1985, was a French painter. Awards Prix international (Menton 1951) Peintres Témoins de leur temps (Grand Prix 1967), Prix du Gemmail en 1968 (consacré « Peintre de Lumière »)
Biography of Roland Armontel (excerpt)
Auguste Magnien, best known as Roland Armontel, born December 21, 1901 in Vimoutiers, Orne, died March 8, 1980 in Paris, was a French actor. Filmography (source : http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0035553/ ) "Au théâtre ce soir" .Eustache / .(8 episodes, 1967-1979) - Les petites têtes (1979) TV episode (as Armontel) .
Biography of Bruno Ducati (excerpt)
Bruno Ducati, born November 5, 1904 in Bologne and died May 14, 2001, was the founder, with Adriano and Marcello Ducati, of Ducati Motor Holding. Company history Ownership Since 1926, Ducati has been owned by a number of groups and companies: * (1926–1950) Ducati Family * (1950–1967) Government IRI management In 1953 split into Ducati Meccanica-now called Ducati Motor and Ducati Elettronica-now called Ducati Energia * (1967–1978) Government EFIM management (control over day-to-day factory operations) (1967–1973) Headed By Giuseppe Montano
Biography of George Oppenheimer (excerpt)
George Oppenheimer, born February 7, 1900 in New York and died August 14, 1977 in New York, was an American screnwriter, playwright, writer, critic and columnist. Filmography (extract) Screenwriter # "The Thin Man" (1 episode, 1957) - Unwelcome Alibi (1957) TV episode (writer)
Biography of Maxwell Taylor (excerpt)
General Maxwell Davenport Taylor (August 26, 1901 – April 19, 1987) was an American soldier and diplomat of the mid-20th century. Taylor was born in Keytesville, Missouri and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1922. World War II Taylor's rise to the highest echelons of U.S.
Biography of Dominique Pire (excerpt)
Dominique Pire (Georges Charles Clement Ghislain Pire) (February 10, 1910 – January 30, 1969) was a Belgian Dominican monk whose work helping refugees in post-World War II Europe saw him receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1958. Pire became a Dominican monk, taking his final vows in 1932 and took up the name of "Dominique Pire".
Biography of Greet Hofmans (excerpt)
Greet Hofmans (23 June 1894, Amsterdam – 16 November 1968, Amsterdam) was a faith healer and hand layer.For nine years she was a friend and advisor of Queen Juliana, often residing at Palace Soestdijk. Hofmans was introduced on the initiative of Prince Bernhard in 1948 to treat the eye sickness of Princess Marijke Christina.
Biography of Henri Calef (excerpt)
Henri Calef, born on July 20, 1910 in Plovdiv, died on August 18, 1994, was a French film director and screenwriter. Filmography (selection) 1945 : L'Extravagante mission 1946 : Jéricho 1947 : Les Chouans, d'après le roman d'Honoré de Balzac, avec Jean Marais (le marquis de Montauran)
Biography of Armand Salacrou (excerpt)
Armand Camille Salacrou (9 August, 1899 (birth time source: Gauquelin) – 23 November, 1989) was a French dramatist. He was born in Rouen, but spent most of his childhood at Le Havre, and moved to Paris in 1917. His first works show the influence of the Surrealists.
Biography of Maurice Podoloff (excerpt)
Maurice Podoloff (August 18, 1890 - November 24, 1985) was a U.S.lawyer and basketball and ice hockey administrator.He was the first president of the National Basketball Association.He served from the league's founding as the Basketball Association of America in 1946 until 1963. Profile Maurice Podoloff was born to a Jewish family in Elizabethgrad, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine) on August 18, 1890.
Biography of Carlo Levi (excerpt)
Carlo Levi (November 29, 1902 – January 4, 1975) was an Italian-Jewish painter, writer, activist, anti-fascist, and doctor. He is best known for his book, Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (Christ Stopped at Eboli), published in 1945, a memoir of his time spent in exile in Lucania, Italy, after being arrested in connection with his political activism.
Biography of George Antheil (excerpt)
George Antheil (July 8, 1900 (source : Rudhyar) – February 12, 1959) was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor. A self-described "Bad Boy of Music", his modernist compositions amazed and appalled listeners in Europe and the US during the 1920s with their cacophonous celebration of mechanical devices.
Biography of David Sarnoff (excerpt)
David Sarnoff (Russian: Давид Сарнов, February 27, 1891 – December 12, 1971) was a Belarusian-born Russian-American businessman and pioneer of American commercial radio and television.He founded the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and throughout most of his career he led the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in various capacities from shortly after its founding in 1919 until his retirement in 1970.
Biography of Aquilino Ribeiro (excerpt)
Aquilino Gomes Ribeiro, ComL (Sernancelhe, Carregal, September 13, 1885 - Lisbon, May 27, 1963) was a Portuguese writer and diplomat. He is considered as one of the great Portuguese novelist of the 20th century. He was nominated for the Nobel Literature Prize in 1960.
Biography of Una Merkel (excerpt)
Una Merkel (December 10, 1903, Covington, Kentucky – January 2, 1986) was an American film actress. Merkel resembled the popular actress Lillian Gish, and her resemblance allowed her to begin her career as a stand-in for Gish in 1920's Way Down East (she also did stand-in work for Gish in 1928's The Wind).
Biography of Xavier Vallat (excerpt)
Xavier Vallat (December 23, 1891 in Villedieu (Vaucluse - 6 January 1972 in Annonay (Ardèche)), French politician, was Commissioner-General for Jewish Questions in the wartime Vichy collaborationist government, and was sentenced after World War II to ten years in prison for his part in the persecution of French Jews.
Biography of Elizabeth Bishop (excerpt)
Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) was an American poet and short-story writer. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, the National Book Award winner in 1970, and the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976.
Biography of Josephine Stevens (excerpt)
Josephine Stevens, born February 20, 1909 in Los Angeles, California, died April 16, 1976, was an American mystic, astrologer, and a student of Alice A. Bailey with her husband Norman.
Biography of Hannes Alfven (excerpt)
Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén (30 May 1908; Norrköping, Sweden – 2 April 1995; Djursholm, Sweden) was a Swedish plasma physicist and Nobel laureate for his work on the theory of magnetohydrodynamics.He was originally trained as an electrical power engineer and later moved to research and teaching in the fields of plasma physics.
Biography of Vassili Grossman (excerpt)
Vasily Semyonovich Grossman (first name alternatively spelled as Vassily or Vasiliy, Russian: Василий Семёнович Гроссман, Ukrainian: Василь Семенович Гроссман), December 12, 1905 – September 14, 1964, was a Soviet writer and journalist.Grossman trained as an engineer and worked in the Donets Basin, but changed career in the 1930s.
Biography of David Rousset (excerpt)
David Rousset (January 18, 1912 — December 13, 1997) was a French writer and political activist, a recipient of Prix Renaudot, a French literary award. A survivor of the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp, he is famous for his books about concentration camps.
Biography of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1906-1940) (excerpt)
Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (Wilhelm Friedrich Franz Joseph Christian Olaf, in English, William Frederick Francis Joseph Christian Olaf; 4 July 1906 (birth time source: Sy Scholfield) – 26 May 1940) was the eldest child and son of Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany and Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
Biography of Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf (excerpt)
Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorf (14 October 1896 in Merseburg – 15 August 1944 in Berlin) was a leading figure in the Nazi regime, being appointed by the Nazis as Police-President of Berlin, a post in which he remained for the last decade of his life.
Biography of Johannes Heesters (excerpt)
Johan Marius Nicolaas "Johannes" Heesters (5 December 1903 – 24 December 2011) was a Dutch actor, singer, and entertainer with a career dating back to 1921.Active almost exclusively in the German-speaking world from the mid-1930s, he was a controversial figure for his actions during the Second World War and his success in Nazi Germany. In Germany and Austria Heesters is almost a part of popular culture and mainly known for his acting career.
Biography of Walter Hieber (excerpt)
Walter Hieber was an inorganic chemist, known as the father of metal carbonyl chemistry. He was born 18 December, 1895 and died 29 November, 1976.Hieber's father was Johannes Hieber, an influential evangelical minister and politician. Hieber was educated at Tübingen, Würzburg, and Heidelberg.
Biography of Jean Wiener (excerpt)
Jean Wiener, born March 19, 1896 in Paris, died June 8, 1982 in Paris, was a French pianist and composer. His daugther is Elisabeth Wiener. Filmography (extract) La Femme de nulle part (1922) L'Âne de Buridan (1932) L'Homme à l'Hispano (1933)
Biography of Anna Roosevelt (excerpt)
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Halsted (May 3, 1906 – December 1, 1975) was an American writer who worked as a newspaper editor and in public relations.Halsted also wrote two children's books published in the 1930s.She was the eldest child and only daughter of the U.S.
Biography of Cesare Zavattini (excerpt)
Cesare Zavattini (September 20, 1902-October 13, 1989) was an Italian screenwriter and one of the first theorists and proponents of the Neorealist movement in Italian cinema. Brief biography Born at Luzzara, near Reggio Emilia in northern Italy, on September 20, 1902, Zavattini studied law at the University of Parma, but devoted himself to writing.
Biography of Carveth Wells (excerpt)
Carveth Wells, born July 16, 1911 in Cheltenham, was an explorer, world traveler, author and radio commentator. Selected works Around the World With Bobby & Betty Bermuda in Three Colors Bermuda in Three Colors Exploring the World With Carveth Wells
Biography of Roger Duchesne (excerpt)
Roger Duchesne (27 July 1906, Luxeuil-les-Bains, Haute-Saône – 25 December 1996) was a French film actor. He appeared in 30 films between 1934 and 1957, but is best remembered for playing the lead in Bob le flambeur (1956). Selected filmography Tempête sur l'Asie (1938) Gibraltar (1938) Bob le flambeur (1956)
Biography of Drew Pearson (excerpt)
Andrew Russell Pearson (December 13, 1897–September 1, 1969), known professionally as Drew Pearson, and born in Evanston, Illinois, was one of the most well-known American newspaper and radio journalists of his day.He was best known for his muckraking syndicated newspaper column "Washington Merry-Go-Round".
Biography of Ellen Yoakum (excerpt)
Ellen Yoakum, born August 2, 1903 in Hillsboro, Texas, is an American healer by laying-on-hands.
Biography of Rik Wouters (excerpt)
Rik Wouters (August 21, 1882, Malines—July 11, 1916, Amsterdam) was a Belgian fauvist painter and sculptor.
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The Johnstown Flood (or Great Flood of 1889 as it became known locally) occurred on May 31, 1889. It was the result of the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam situated 14 miles (23 km) upstream of the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA, made worse by several days of extremely heavy rainfall.
Biography of Eleanor Clark (excerpt)
Eleanor Clark (July 6, 1913 – February 16, 1996) was an American writer.Clark was born in Los Angeles.She attended Vassar College in the 1930s and was involved with the literary magazine Con Spirito there, along with Elizabeth Bishop, Mary McCarthy, and her sister Eunice Clark.
Biography of Bernardo Alberto Houssay (excerpt)
Bernardo Alberto Houssay (April 10, 1887–September 21, 1971) was an Argentine physiologist who in 1947 with Carl Ferdinand Cori and Gerty Cori received Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of the role played by pituitary hormones in regulating the amount of blood sugar (glucose) in animals.
Biography of Claude Autant-Lara (excerpt)
Claude Autant-Lara (5 August 1901 in Luzarches, Val-d’Oise – 5 February 2000 in Antibes, Alpes-Maritimes), was a French film director and later MEP. He was educated in France and at London's Mill Hill School during his mother's exile as a pacifist.As a director, he frequently created provocative movies, saying "if a film does not have venom, it is worthless".
Biography of Claire Waldoff (excerpt)
Claire Waldoff (born October 21, 1884 in Gelsenkirchen; January 22, 1957) (Clara Wortmann) was a German singer.She was a famous cabaret singer and entertainer in Berlin during the 1910s and 1920s. Wortmann was born as the eleventh child in a German family of 16 children in 1884.
Biography of Eduard Dietl (excerpt)
Eduard Dietl (21 July 1890 - 23 June 1944) was a German general of World War II.He was born in Bad Aibling, Bavaria. Eduard Dietl was the son of a Bavarian finance official .In 1909, at his second attemp to join 5. |
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