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birth charts with Poseidon in VirgoYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Poseidon in Virgo. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. in ![]()
Biography of Johnny Mercer (excerpt)
John Herndon Mercer (November 18, 1909 – June 25, 1976) was an American lyricist, songwriter, and singer.He was also a record label executive who co-founded Capitol Records with music industry businessman Buddy DeSylva and Glenn E.Wallichs. He is best known as a Tin Pan Alley lyricist, but he also composed music.
Biography of Emilio Massera (excerpt)
Emilio Eduardo Massera (19 October 1925 – 8 November 2010) was an Argentine Naval military officer, and a leading participant in the Argentine coup d'état of 1976.In 1981, he was found to be a member of P2 (also known as Propaganda Due, a clandestine Masonic lodge involved in Italy's strategy of tension).
Biography of Bess Houdini (excerpt)
Wilhelmina Beatrice "Bess" Houdini (née Rahner; January 23, 1876 – February 11, 1943) was an American stage assistant and wife of Harry Houdini. Bess was working at Coney Island in a song and dance act called The Floral Sisters when she was first courted by Houdini's younger brother, Theo (a.k.a.
Biography of Émilie Schindler (excerpt)
Emilie Schindler (née Pelzl; 22 October 1907 – 5 October 2001) was a Sudeten German-born woman who, with her husband Oskar Schindler, helped to save the lives of 1,200 Jews during World War II by employing them in his enamelware and munitions factories, providing them immunity from the Nazis.
Biography of Raúl Alberto Lastiri (excerpt)
Raúl Alberto Lastiri (11 September 1915 – 11 December 1978) was an Argentine politician who was interim president of Argentina from July 13, 1973 until October 12, 1973. Lastiri, who presided over the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, was promoted to the presidency of the country after Héctor Cámpora and Vicente Solano Lima resigned, he organized new elections and delivered the country's government to Juan Perón, who won with over 60% of the votes.
Biography of Robert Héliès (excerpt)
Robert Héliès, born February 8, 1927 in Brest (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died on February 19, 2019, is a French footballer turned international referee. He has refereed many high-level international matches including the final of the European Cup of Champions Clubs in May 1972, Ajax Amsterdam-Inter Milan.
Biography of Carl Einstein (excerpt)
Carl Einstein (26 April 1885 – 5 July 1940), born Karl Einstein, was an influential German Jewish writer, art historian, anarchist and critic. Regarded as one of the first critics to appreciate the development of Cubism, as well as for his work on African art and influence on the European avant-garde, Einstein was a friend and colleague of such figures as George Grosz, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso and Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler.
Biography of Park Kyung-won (excerpt)
Park Kyung-won (24 June 1901 – 7 August 1933) was, along with Kwon Ki-ok of the Republic of China Air Force, one of the earliest Korean female aviators.Though it is generally agreed that Kwon was the first female pilot, Park is still recognised as the first Korean female civilian pilot, as Kwon was trained by the Republic of China Air Force.
Biography of André Bloch (excerpt)
André Bloch (14 January 1873, in Wissembourg – 7 August 1960, in Paris) was a French composer and music educator.He studied with André Gedalge, Ernest Guiraud, and Jules Massenet at the Conservatoire de Paris.In 1893 he won the Prix de Rome for his cantata Antigone which used a text by Ferdinand Beissier.
Biography of Étienne Piquiral (excerpt)
Étienne Piquiral (June 15, 1901 – March 13, 1945) was a French rugby union player who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was born in Perpignan and died in a prisoner-of-war camp during World War II. In 1924 he won the silver medal as member of the French team.
Biography of Yvette Chassagne (excerpt)
Yvette Madeleine Chassagne (28 March 1922 (birth time source: Dreuille, Auréas AstroPC) – 4 September 2007) was a French civil servant.She was the first woman to hold the position of prefect in France. In 1981, she was named prefect for Loir-et-Cher by François Mitterrand.
Biography of Witold Gombrowicz (excerpt)
Witold Marian Gombrowicz (August 4, 1904 – July 24, 1969) was a Polish writer and playwright.His works are characterised by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and absurd, anti-nationalist flavor.In 1937 he published his first novel, Ferdydurke, which presented many of his usual themes: problems of immaturity and youth, creation of identity in interactions with others, and an ironic, critical examination of class roles in Polish society and culture.
Biography of Sumner Redstone (excerpt)
Sumner Murray Redstone (né Rothstein; May 27, 1923 – August 11, 2020) was an American billionaire businessman and media magnate.He is the founder and chairman of the second incarnation of Viacom which was dissolved in 2019 (a year before Redstone's death) and was the majority owner and chairman of the National Amusements theater chain.
Biography of Andy Rooney (excerpt)
Andrew Aitken Rooney (January 14, 1919 – November 4, 2011) was an American radio and television writer who was best known for his weekly broadcast "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney", a part of the CBS News program 60 Minutes from 1978 to 2011.
Biography of Lise London (excerpt)
Lise London (15 February 1916 – 31 March 2012) was a French Communist politician and activist. She participated in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War and the French Resistance during World War II. She was the widow of Artur London, a Czechoslovak communist politician and co-defendant in the Slánský Trial.
Biography of Sante Geronimo Caserio (excerpt)
Sante Geronimo Caserio (9 September 1873 (birth time source: Grazia Bordoni, birth certificate) – 16 August 1894) was an Italian anarchist and the assassin of Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of the French Third Republic.Caserio was born in Motta Visconti, Lombardy.
Biography of Milena Jesenská (excerpt)
Milena Jesenská (10 August 1896 – 17 May 1944) was a Czech journalist, writer, editor and translator. Milena Jesenská, coming from a Bohemian aristocratic family, lost her mother at the age of thirteen and had a distant relationship with her father, a renowned surgeon.
Biography of Edmond Jouhaud (excerpt)
Edmond Jouhaud (2 April 1905 – 4 September 1995) was one of four French generals who briefly staged a putsch in Algeria in April 1961. As Army General he had been the Inspector General of the Air Force in French North Africa.
Biography of André Colomer (excerpt)
André Colomer (4 December 1886 in Cerbère (Pyrénées-Orientales – 7 October 1931 in Moskow) was a French poet and anarchist. Publications Roland Malmos (roman). le Réfractaire (drame en trois actes). À nous deux, Patrie ! (mémoires), paru en feuilleton dans L’Action d’art en 1919-1920, édité en brochure en 1925.
Biography of Mildred Harnack (excerpt)
Mildred Elizabeth Fish-Harnack (née Fish; 16 September 1902 – 16 February 1943) was an American-German literary historian, translator, and German Resistance fighter in Nazi Germany. Together with her husband Arvid, the writer Adam Kuckhoff and his wife Greta, Fish-Harnack brought together a discussion circle which debated political perspectives on the time after the National Socialists' expected downfall or overthrow.
Biography of Bulat Okudzhava (excerpt)
Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava (Russian: Була́т Ша́лвович Окуджа́ва; Georgian: ბულატ ოკუჯავა; Armenian: Բուլատ Օկուջավա; May 9, 1924 – June 12, 1997) was a Soviet and Russian poet, writer, musician, novelist, and singer-songwriter of Georgian-Armenian ancestry. He was one of the founders of the Soviet genre called "author song" (авторская песня, avtorskaya pesnya), or "guitar song", and the author of about 200 songs, set to his own poetry.
Biography of Nikolai Tikhonov (writer) (excerpt)
Nikolai Semenovich Tikhonov (Russian: Никола́й Семёнович Ти́хонов; 4 December (O.S.22 November) 1896 – 8 February 1979) was a Soviet writer and member of the Serapion Brothers literary group. He began writing poetry early; his first collection, Orda (The Horde, 1922), "shows startling maturity" and "contains most of the few short poems which have made him famous." After 1922 he devoted himself to traveling and writing, and his later work, both verse (the collection Ten' druga, or The Shadow of a Friend, 1936) and prose (many adventure stories and the novel Voina, or War, 1931) reflects his delight in what he found in his travels, particularly in Georgia.
Biography of Aleksandr Tvardovsky (excerpt)
Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovsky (21 June (O.S. 8 June) 1910 – 18 December 1971) was a Soviet poet and writer and chief editor of Novy Mir literary magazine from 1950 to 1954 and 1958 to 1970. His name has also been rendered in English as Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovski, Aleksandr Tvardovski, and Alexander Tvardovsky (though "Aleksandr Tvardovsky" is by far the most common spelling).
Biography of Marcel Cachin (excerpt)
Marcel Cachin (20 September 1869 – 12 February 1958) was a French politician. In 1891, Cachin joined Jules Guesde French Workers' Party (POF).In 1905, he joined the new French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) and won election to the Chamber of Deputies representing the Seine in 1914.
Biography of Léon Jaussely (excerpt)
Léon Jaussely (9 January 1875 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 28 December 1932) was a French architect and urban planner. Born in Toulouse, Jaussely studied at the local fine arts school, then to the École des Beaux-Arts in the ateliers of Honoré Daumet and Pierre Esquié.
Biography of Émile David (excerpt)
Emile David, born July 29, 1922 in Nantes (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), shot as a hostage by the Germans on October 22, 1941 in Châteaubriant (Loire-Inferieure, Loire-Atlantique), was a mechanic dentist and communist activist.
Biography of Roland Moisan (excerpt)
Roland Henri Honoré Moisan, said Moisan, born in Reims on November 26, 1907 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died in Paris on February 28, 1987, is a French cartoonist and journalist. He entered the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris in 1927.
Biography of Vladimir Shainsky (excerpt)
Vladimir Yakovlevich Shainsky (Russian: Владимир Яковлевич Шаинский, IPA: ; 12 December 1925 – 25 December 2017) was a Soviet and Russian composer. During his career as a composer, Shainsky wrote a great number of works for children.He created music and songs for cartoons such as Cheburashka, Katerok, Mamontenok and Kroshka Enot; also for films, including Breakfast on the Grass, Aniskin and Fantomas, Aniskin Again, School Waltz, Finest, the brave Falcon; and for musicals.
Biography of Max Deutsch (excerpt)
Max Deutsch (17 November 1892 – 22 November 1982) was an Austrian-French composer, conductor, and academic teacher.He studied with Arnold Schönberg and was his assistant.Teaching at the Sorbonne and the École Normale de Musique de Paris, he influenced notable students such as Philippe Capdenat, Donald Harris, György Kurtág and Philippe Manoury.
Biography of Gilbert Garcin (excerpt)
Gilbert Garcin (born on 21 June 1929 in La Ciotat (birth time source: Marc Brun, birth certificate n° 117) – 17 April 2020) was a French photographer. He was not particularly interested in photography, and managed a factory which sold lamps. When he retired, he participated in a photography contest, and won the first prize, which allowed him to go to a Photomontage training course organized by the photographer Pascal Dolémieux during the Rencontres d'Arles in 1992.
Biography of André Hornez (excerpt)
André Hornez (12 May 1905 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 9 March 1989) was a French lyricist and screenwriter. Lyricist of Paul Misraki in the years 1930-1940 for which he writes many songs lyrics like Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux .
Biography of Sébastienne Guyot (excerpt)
Sébastienne Guyot (26 April 1896 – 21 August 1941) was a French engineer who specialized in aerodynamic flying.She was born in Pont l'Abbé in the Finistère. A teacher, Guyot resigned in 1917 to prepare for the competition of the Ecole Centrale of the Paris Lycée Jules-Ferry when she learned that the school would accept girls into its ranks.
Biography of Mikhail Isakovsky (excerpt)
Mikhail Vasil'evich Isakovsky (Russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Исако́вский) (19 January (O.S. 7 January) 1900 – 20 July 1973) was a Russian poet. A communist from an early age, he wrote many poems and songs in praise of the Soviet Union, but his most famous song is doubtless the rather apolitical Katyusha.
Biography of Joe Robinson (actor) (excerpt)
Joseph Robinson (31 May 1927 – 3 July 2017) was an English actor and stuntman born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. He was a champion professional wrestler, as were his father Joseph and his grandfather John. His brother, Doug Robinson, is also an actor and stuntman.
Biography of Robert Blémant (excerpt)
Robert Léon Arthur Blémant, known as Monsieur Robert, born on Februray 13, 1911 in Valenciennes (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on May 15, 1965 in Salon-de-Provence (killed by Antoine Guérini), was a French policeman.
Biography of Günther Krupkat (excerpt)
Günther Krupkat (5 July 1905, Berlin – 14 April 1990, Berlin) was a German fiction writer, known as one of the leading science fiction writers of East Germany. He wrote his first novel, Od, at age 19, having been inspired by Soviet writer Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy's 1923 novel Aelita.
Biography of Marina Ginestà (excerpt)
Marina Ginestà i Coloma (29 January 1919 – 6 January 2014) was a French-born Catalan veteran of the Spanish Civil War, journalist and a member of the Unified Socialist Youth.She became famous due to the photo taken by Juan Guzmán on the rooftop of Plaça de Catalunya 9, 08002 Barcelona, Catalonia, Barcelona during the July 1936 military uprising in Barcelona.
Biography of Mercedes de Acosta (excerpt)
Mercedes de Acosta (March 1, 1892 – May 9, 1968) was an American poet, playwright, and novelist.Although she failed to achieve artistic and professional distinction, de Acosta is known for her many lesbian affairs with celebrated Broadway and Hollywood personalities including Alla Nazimova, Isadora Duncan, Eva Le Gallienne, and Marlene Dietrich.
Biography of Bernard Privat (excerpt)
Bernard Privat (25 October 1914 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 11 October 1985) was a French writer and editor. Biography Bernard Privat received the Prix Femina for Au pied du mur in 1959. He was also in charge of the éditions Grasset for over twenty-five years.
Biography of Michel Ragon (excerpt)
Michel Ragon (24 June 1924 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 14 February 2020) was a French art and literature critic and writer.His primary focus was on anarchic and libertarian literature. Ragon was born into a poor family on 24 June 1924 in Marseille, but spent much of his childhood in Fontenay-le-Comte.
Biography of Vladimir Zeldin (excerpt)
Vladimir Mikhailovich Zeldin (Russian: Владимир Михайлович Зельдин; 10 February (O.S. 28 January) 1915 – 31 October 2016) was a Soviet and Russian theatre and cinema actor. A centenarian, he was among the longest-serving stage performers and continued acting up until his death.
Biography of Willem Drees (excerpt)
Willem Drees Sr. (5 July 1886 – 14 May 1988) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and later co-founder of the Labour Party (PvdA) and historian who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 7 August 1948 until 22 December 1958.
Biography of Yevgeny Zamyatin (excerpt)
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (20 January (Julian) / 1 February (Gregorian), 1884 – 10 March 1937), sometimes anglicized as Eugene Zamyatin, was a Russian author of science fiction, philosophy, literary criticism, and political satire.He was also an naval engineer. Despite being the son of a Russian Orthodox priest, Zamyatin lost his faith in Christianity at an early age and became a Bolshevik.
Biography of Charles Fossez (excerpt)
Charles Joseph Fossez, alias the Burmese fakir born May 10, 1901 in Saint-Étienne (Loire) is a very controversial astrologer, clairvoyant or diviner, condemned by the courts for breach of trust, but extremely popular in France during the 1930s and who ended his life on December 12, 1952, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris.
Biography of Henri Laurens (excerpt)
Henri Laurens (February 18, 1885 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, Paris archives V4E6278) – May 5, 1954) was a French sculptor and illustrator. Later Laurens was drawn to a new gathering of artistic creativity in Montparnasse. From 1915 he began to sculpt in the Cubist style after meeting Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris and Fernand Léger.
Biography of Elizaveta Karamihailova (excerpt)
Elisabeth Ivanova Kara-Michailova (Bulgarian: Елисавета Иванова Карамихайлова), alternatively Elisabeth Karamichailova, born on September 3, 1897 in Vienna, Autstria, was a Bulgarian physicist of a Bulgarian father and an English mother. She was among the handful of female nuclear physics pioneers at the beginning of the 20th century, established the first practical courses of particle physics in Bulgaria and was the first woman to hold a professorial title in the country.
Biography of Karen Horney (excerpt)
Karen Horney (née Danielsen; 16 September 1885 – 4 December 1952) was a German psychoanalyst who practiced in the United States during her later career. Her theories questioned some traditional Freudian views. This was particularly true of her theories of sexuality and of the instinct orientation of psychoanalysis.
Biography of Carmen Conde (excerpt)
Carmen Conde Abellán (15 August 1907 in Cartagena – 8 January 1996 in Madrid) was a Spanish poet, narrative writer and teacher. In 1931 she founded the first Popular University of Cartagena, along with her husband Antonio Oliver Belmás. She was also the first woman to become an academic numerary of the Real Academia Española, where she delivered her induction speech in 1979.
Biography of Victoria Kent (excerpt)
Victoria Kent Siano (March 6, 1892 – September 25, 1987) was a Spanish lawyer and republican politician. Shortly after her arrival in Madrid, she joined the Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Españolas y la Juventud Universitaria Femenina (a women's rights organization), directed by Maria Espinosa de los Monteros.
Biography of Anni Albers (excerpt)
Anni Albers (born Annelise Elsa Frieda Fleischmann; June 12, 1899 – May 9, 1994) was an American textile artist and printmaker credited with blurring the lines between traditional craft and art. Besides surface qualities, such as rough and smooth, dull and shiny, hard and soft, textiles also includes colour, and, as the dominating element, texture, which is the result of the construction of weaves. |
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