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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. ![]() ![]()
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Biography of Tommy Manville (excerpt)
Thomas Franklyn Manville, Jr., universally known as Tommy Manville (April 9, 1894 – October 9, 1967), was a Manhattan socialite and heir to the Johns-Manville asbestos fortune.He was a celebrity in the mid 20th Century, by virtue of his large financial inheritance, and his 13 marriages to 11 women. ![]()
Biography of Raymond Massey (excerpt)
Raymond Hart Massey (August 30, 1896 – July 29, 1983) was a Canadian/American actor. Early life Massey was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Anna (née Vincent), who was born in Illinois, and Chester Daniel Massey, the wealthy owner of the Massey-Ferguson Tractor Company.
Biography of Norma Hadsden (excerpt)
Norma Hadsden, born on January 26, 1902 in Sydney, is an Australian opera singer (source: Robert Jansky).
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Biography of Jan Kiepura (excerpt)
Jan Wiktor Kiepura (May 16, 1902, Sosnowiec, Poland – August 15, 1966, Harrison, New York) was a Polish singer (tenor) and actor.He was born of a Jewish mother and a Polish father. In 1926 he left Poland.Before World War II, he built a well-known hotel, "Patria", in Krynica-Zdrój, which cost him about US$3 million.
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Biography of Marc Blancpain (excerpt)
French writer, novelist, journalist and professor.
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Biography of Pierre Le Gros the Younger (excerpt)
Pierre Le Gros (Paris, 12 April 1666 - Rome, 3 May 1719) was a French sculptor, active almost exclusively in Baroque Rome.Nowadays, his name is commonly written Legros, while he himself always signed as Le Gros; he is frequently referred to either as 'the Younger' or 'Pierre II' to distinguish him from his father, Pierre Le Gros the Elder, who was also a sculptor. ![]()
Biography of Clarrie Grimmett (excerpt)
Clarence Victor "Clarrie" Grimmett (25 December 1891 (source not archived) – 2 May 1980) was a cricketer; although born in New Zealand, he played most of his cricket in Australia. He is thought by many to be one of the finest early spin bowlers, and usually credited as the developer of the flipper. ![]()
Biography of Robert Taft (excerpt)
Robert Alphonso Taft (September 8, 1889, Cincinnati, OH – July 31, 1953), of the Taft political family of Cincinnati, was a Republican United States Senator and a prominent conservative statesman.As the leading opponent of the New Deal in the Senate from 1939 to 1953, he led the successful effort by the conservative coalition to curb the power of labor unions, and was a major proponent of the foreign policy of non-interventionism. ![]()
Biography of Pierre Lyautey (excerpt)
Pierre Lyautey, born in Châteaudun January 20, 1893 and died in 1974, was a French journalist, writer and travel author, the nephew of Maréchal Lyautey.
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Biography of Jean Borotra (excerpt)
Jean Robert Borotra (13 August 1898–17 July 1994) was a French champion tennis player, one of the famous "Four Musketeers" from his country who dominated tennis in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Borotra was born in Domaine du Pouy, near Biarritz, Aquitaine and married with an English woman.
Biography of Henri Knap (excerpt)
Henri Alexis Anne Reinier Knap, born February 8, 1911 in Amsterdam, died March 4, 1986, was a Dutch writer and journalist. Selected bibliography * Sanatorium (1946) * Appels in het gras (1963) * Meneer Recht, mevrouw averecht (1963; met Annie M.G. ![]()
Biography of Kurt Jooss (excerpt)
Kurt Jooss (12 January 1901, Wasseralfingen, Germany – 22 May 1979, Heilbronn, West Germany) was a famous German Ballet dancer and choreographer mixing classical ballet with theatre; he is also widely regarded as the founder of Dance Theatre or Tanztheater. Jooss is noted for establishing several dance companies, including most notably, the Folkwang Tanztheater, in Essen.
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Biography of Sidney Skolsky (excerpt)
Sidney Skolsky, born May 2, 1905 in New York, died May 3, 1983 in Los Angeles, was an American columnist, journalist, actor, screewriter, author and producer. He is portrayed by Michael Laskin in Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996) (TV) ![]()
Biography of Berthe Sylva (excerpt)
Berthe Sylva, born Berthe Faquet February 7, 1885 in Kerloďs (now Lambézellec) and died May 26, 1941 in Marseille, was a French singer. Selected discrography * 1920 o L'Enfant de la misčre ![]()
Biography of August Derleth (excerpt)
August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 (source for his time of birth: Steinbrecher) – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist.Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H.P.Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the so-called Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror, as well as his founding of the publisher Arkham House (which did much to bring supernatural fiction into print in hardcover in the US that had only been readily available in the UK), Derleth was a leading American regional writer of his day, as well as prolific in several other genres, including historical fiction, poetry, detective fiction, science fiction and biography.
Biography of Ted Kavanaugh (excerpt)
Ted Kavanaugh, born March 7, 1892 in Liverpool, is a British former scriptwriter, radio host and journalist during World War II. ![]()
Biography of Emmanuel Berl (excerpt)
Emmanuel Berl (2 August 1892–21 September 1976) was a French journalist, historian and essayist.He was born at Le Vésinet in the modern département of Yvelines, and is buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris.In 1937 he married the singer, composer and film actress Mireille Hartuch; she had nicknamed him "Théodore" (which is what appears on their tomb).
Biography of Povl Bang-Jenson (excerpt)
Povl Bang-Jenson, born April 6, 1909 and dead November 26, 1959, was a Danish politician and lawyer. His death is considered as a suicide, but it is maybe a crime.
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Biography of Luigi Longo (excerpt)
Luigi Longo (March 15, 1900 —October 16, 1980), also known as Gallo, was an Italian communist politician and secretary of the Italian Communist Party from 1964 to 1972. Early life Luigi Longo was born in Fubine Monferrato (province of Alessandria, Piedmont). As a student at the Politecnico di Torino, he became active in the youth wing of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), and engaged in political propaganda from a Marxist perspective.
Biography of Maryse Martin (excerpt)
Maria Bourintein, best known as Maryse Martin, born December 14, 1906 in Paris (birth certificate n° 4857) and died May 18, 1984 in Paris, was a French actress. Filmography (selection) 1948 : Les Casse-pieds de Jean Dréville - le sketch additionnel dans lequel elle figurait a été coupé au montage -
Biography of Mainbocher (stylist) (excerpt)
Mainbocher (1891 (many sources give 1890)-1976) (born Main Rousseau Bocher) was an American couturier who operated fashion houses in Paris and later New York from the 1930s through the 1960s.He is best known for designing Wallis Simpson's wedding dress and trousseau for her 1937 marriage to the former Edward VIII (the Duke of Windsor) which was photographed by Cecil Beaton. Mainbocher's wedding dress worn by the Duchess of Windsor on the wedding day.
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Biography of E. M. Delafield (excerpt)
Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood, née de la Pasture (9 June 1890 – 2 December 1943), commonly known as E.M.Delafield, was a prolific author who is best-known for her largely autobiographical Diary of a Provincial Lady, which took the form of a journal of the life of an upper-middle class Englishwoman living mostly in a Devon village of the 1930s, and its sequels in which the Provincial Lady buys a flat in London and travels to America.
Biography of Maurice Henry (excerpt)
Maurice Henry, born December 29, 1907 in Cambrai, Nord, and died October 21, 1984 in Milan, Italy, was a French poet, painter, illustrator and film director. Works Poetry * Les Abattoirs du sommeil, 1937 * Les Paupičres de verre, 1946 ![]()
Biography of Sonny Terry (excerpt)
Saunders Terrell, better known as Sonny Terry (24 October 1911 - 11 March 1986) was a blind blues musician. He was most widely known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included vocal whoops and hollers, and imitations of trains and fox hunts.
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Biography of Pierre Seghers (excerpt)
Pierre Seghers (5 January 1906, Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - 4 November 1987, Créteil) was a French poet and editor. During the Second World War he took part in the French Resistance movement. He founded, among other things, the famous line of books Počtes d’aujourd’hui (Contemporary poets) in 1944, which published 270 books of poets both famous and unknown (such as an anthology of modern accursed poets in 1972, Počtes maudits d'aujourd'hui: 1946-1970).
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Biography of Pierre-Etienne Flandin (excerpt)
Pierre Étienne Flandin (French pronunciation: ; 12 April 1889 at Paris, France-13 June 1958 at Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France) was a French conservative politician of the Third Republic, leader of the Democratic Republican Alliance (ARD), and Prime Minister of France from 8 November 1934 to 31 May 1935. ![]()
Biography of Rudolf Arnheim (excerpt)
Rudolf Arnheim (July 15, 1904 – June 9, 2007) was a German-born author, art and film theorist and perceptual psychologist.He himself said that his major books are Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye (1954), Visual Thinking (1969), and The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts (1982), but it is Art and Visual Perception for which he was most widely known.
Biography of Pierre Capdevielle (excerpt)
Pierre Capdevielle, born February 1, 1906 in Paris, died July 9, 1969 in Bordeaux, was a French composer and conductor.
Biography of Jules Evenou (excerpt)
Jules Evenou, born on July 12, 1908 in Pléguien, died on December 2, 2002 in Asničres-sur-Seine (92), was a French military and a member of the French Resistance. Awards: • Grand Officier de la Légion d'Honneur • Compagnon de la Libération - décret du 31 décembre 1942 • Grand Croix de l'Ordre National du Mérite • Croix de Guerre 39/45 (5 citations) • Médaille de la Résistance • Commandeur du Mérite Maritime • Médaille Coloniale • Croix du Combattant Volontaire de la Résistance • Médaille des Services Volontaires dans la France Libre • Grand Croix du Mérite Naval Espagnol • Grand Officier de l'Ordre Royal des Grandes Comores • Grand Officier du Nichan El Anouar
Biography of Barbara H. Watters (excerpt)
Barbara H. Watters, born October 17, 1907 in Chicago, died January 2, 1984 (heart attack), was an American professional astrologer and author.
Biography of Elliot Carter (excerpt)
Elliott Cook Carter, Jr.(born December 11, 1908) is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City.He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, and then returned to the United States.After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, rhythmically complex music. ![]()
Biography of Louis Jordan (excerpt)
Louis Jordan (July 8, 1908 – February 4, 1975) was a pioneering American jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician, songwriter and bandleader who enjoyed his greatest popularity from the late 1930s to the early 1950s.Known as "The King of the Jukebox", Jordan was highly popular with both black and white audiences in the later years of the swing era.
Biography of Gerald Nabarro (excerpt)
Sir Gerald David Nunes Nabarro (29 June 1913 – 18 November 1973) was a wealthy and flamboyant British Conservative Party politician of the 1950s and 1960s with a high public profile and a reputation for taking maverick political stances. Early life Nabarro was born in Harlesdon, the son of an unsuccessful shopkeeper. ![]()
Biography of Carol Reed (excerpt)
Sir Carol Reed (30 December 1906 – 25 April 1976) was an English film director best known for Odd Man Out (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948), The Third Man (1949) and Oliver! (1968). He won the Palme d'Or for The Third Man and the 1968 Academy Award for Best Director for Oliver!
Biography of Mireille Perrey (excerpt)
Mireille Perrey, born Camille-Mireille Perrey February 3, 1904 in Bordeaux, and died May 8, 1991 in Fontainebleau, was a French actress and comedian. Filmography Actress * 1931 : Pas sur la bouche de Nicolas Rimsky et Nicolas Evreďnoff * 1931 : Je serai seule aprčs minuit de Jacques de Baroncelli * 1932 : Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's de Karl Anton * 1934 : École des contribuables de René Guissart * 1935 : Dédé de René Guissart * 1935 : Jim la houlette de André Berthomieu ![]()
Biography of Henri Frenay (excerpt)
Henri Frenay (November 19, 1905 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - August 6, 1988) was a French military officer and French resistance member. Henri Frenay was born in Lyon, France on 19 November 1905, into a Catholic family with a military tradition.
Biography of Christian Stengel (excerpt)
Christian Stengel, born on September 22, 1902 in Marly-le-Roi, Yvelines (birth certificate n° 54), died on June 15, 1986 in Versailles, was a French director, screenwriter, and producer. His surname comes from his father Frédéric's Danish family, who served in the French army during the War of 1914-1918. ![]()
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Torquay is a seaside town in Devon, England, part of the unitary authority area of Torbay. It lies 18 miles (29 km) south of the county town of Exeter and 28 miles (45 km) east-north-east of Plymouth, on the north of Tor Bay, adjoining the neighbouring town of Paignton on the west of the bay and across from the fishing port of Brixham.
Biography of Paul Pauley (excerpt)
Paul Pauley, born on February 18, 1886 in Paris, died on May 13, 1938 (age 52), was a French comedian, humorist, and actor. Filmography (extracts) * 1921 : Asmodée ŕ Paris de Chaudy * 1924 : Le Comte Kostia de Jacques Robert
Biography of John Knittel (excerpt)
John Knittel, born March 24, 1891 in Dharwad India, died April 26, 1970 in Maienfeld, Switzerland, was a Swiss author. Works (extract) The Travels of Aaron West, 1919 A Traveller in the night, 1924 Into the abyss, 1927 (Thérčse Etienne) Nile Gold, 1929 ![]()
Biography of Dan Duryea (excerpt)
Dan Duryea (January 23, 1907, in White Plains, New York – June 7, 1968, in Hollywood, California) was an American actor of film, stage and television.Duryea graduated from Cornell University in 1928.While at Cornell, Duryea was elected into the Sphinx Head Society.
Biography of Nikolai Nademsky (excerpt)
Nikolai Nademsky, born on December 21, 1982 in Kiev, died on September 27, 1937, was a Russian actor. Filmography (source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0618859/) 1937 Solovey Kaspar 1937 Nazar Stodolya Master Khaletski (as M.E.Nademsky) 1937 Le député de la Baltique 1932 Ivan 1930 La terre Semyon 'Simon' Opanas (as N.
Biography of Malcolm McCulloch (excerpt)
Sir Malcolm McCulloch, born October 26, 1894 in Glasgow, was a Scottish policeman, Police chief of the Glasgow Police.
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Biography of Berto Lardera (excerpt)
Berto Lardera, born December 18, 1911 in Spezia, died in 1989 in Paris, was an Italian sculptor and artist.
Biography of Jean Aujame (excerpt)
Jean Aujame, born May 12, 1905 in Aubusson (Creuse), died in July 1965 in Chemilly (Allier) (road accident), was a French painter and artist.
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Biography of Russell Procope (excerpt)
Russell Procope (11 August 1908–21 January 1981), an American clarinettist and alto saxophonist, was known best for his long tenure in the reed section of Duke Ellington's orchestra, where he was one of its two signature clarinet soloists. Before Ellington Procope was born in New York City, and grew up in San Juan Hill, where he went to school with Benny Carter. ![]()
Biography of Marnix Gijsen (excerpt)
Marnix Gijsen 20 October 1899 - 29 September 1984) was a Flemish writer.His real name was Jan-Albert, Baron Goris, his pseudonym relates to Marnix van Sint Aldegonde and the surname of his mother (Gijsen). Early years Gijsen was born in 1899 in Antwerp, Belgium.
Biography of Carolyn Wyeth (excerpt)
Carolyn Wyeth, born October 26, 1909 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, is an American artist, the daugther of artist N.C. Wyeth and the sister of Andrew Wyeth. ![]()
Biography of Alessandro Scarlatti (excerpt)
Alessandro Scarlatti (2 May 1660 – 24 October 1725) was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. He was the father of two other composers, Domenico Scarlatti and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti.
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Biography of Carl Clauberg (excerpt)
Carl Clauberg (September 28, 1898-August 9, 1957) was a German medical doctor who conducted medical experiments on human beings in Nazi concentration camps during World War Two.He worked with Horst Schumann in X-ray sterilization experiments at Auschwitz concentration camp. Carl Clauberg was born in 1898 in Wupperhof near Solingen, Germany, into a family of craftsmen. |
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