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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 Al Purdy (excerpt)
Alfred Wellington Purdy, OC OOnt (December 30, 1918 – April 21, 2000) was a 20th-century Canadian free verse poet.Purdy's writing career spanned fifty-six years.His works include thirty-nine books of poetry; a novel; two volumes of memoirs and four books of correspondence, in addition to his posthumous works.
Biography of Mitsuyo Maeda (excerpt)
Mitsuyo Maeda (前田 光世 Maeda Mitsuyo, born November 18, 1878 – November 28, 1941), a Brazilian naturalized as Otávio Maeda, was a Japanese judōka (judo expert) and prizefighter in no holds barred competitions, also being one of the first documented mixed martial artists of the modern era for he frequently challenged practitioners of other arts and sports.
Biography of Géza Maróczy (excerpt)
Géza Maróczy (3 March 1870 – 29 May 1951) was a Hungarian chess master, one of the leading players in the world in his time.He was also a practicing engineer. Géza Maróczy was born in Szeged, Hungary on 3 March 1870.He won the "minor" tournament at Hastings 1895, and over the next ten years he won several first prizes in international events.
Biography of Maxim Vallentin (excerpt)
Maxim Gerhard Vallentin (born October 9, 1904 in Berlin; † September 2, 1987 there) was a German actor, theater director, SED-ZK member and long-time director of the Berlin Maxim Gorki Theater.
Biography of Sara Ginaite (excerpt)
Sara Ginaite-Rubinson (17 March 1924 – 2 April 2018) was a Jewish Lithuanian-born Canadian author and academic.During the Second World War she was a resistance fighter during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania, becoming a Jewish partisan in 1942. She was about to complete her secondary school education when Germany invaded Lithuania in 1941.
Biography of Rasul Gamzatov (excerpt)
Rasul Gamzatovich Gamzatov (8 September 1923 – 3 November 2003) was a popular Avar poet and politician.Among his poems was Zhuravli, which became a well-known Soviet song. Gamzatov was born on 8 September 1923 in the Avar village of Tsada in the north-east Caucasus.
Biography of Andrée De Jongh (excerpt)
Andrée Eugénie Adrienne De Jongh (30 November 1916 – 13 October 2007), called Dédée and Postman, was a member of the Belgian Resistance during the Second World War.She organised and led the Comet Line (Le Réseau Comète) to assist Allied soldiers and airmen to escape from Nazi-occupied Belgium.
Biography of Marianne Joachim (excerpt)
Marianne Joachim (born Marianna/Marianne Prager: 5 November 1921 - 4 March 1943) was a Jewish German resistance activist during the Nazi years. She was executed at Plötzensee on 4 March 1943 following an arson attack the previous summer on the party propaganda department's (ironically named) "Soviet Paradise" exhibition in Berlin's "Lustgarten" pleasure park.
Biography of Mildred Bruce (excerpt)
Mildred Mary Petre (10 November 1895 – 21 May 1990) was a British record-breaking racing motorist, speedboat racer and aviator in the 1920s and 1930s, and later, successful businesswoman. Commonly referred to as Mrs Victor Bruce, she was also known in contemporary references as Mary Petre Bruce, Mildred Bruce, Mildred Mary Bruce and Mary Victor Bruce.
Biography of Huber Lotti (excerpt)
Lotti Huber (16 October 1912 - 31 May 1998) was a German actress. She appeared in more than twenty films from 1978 to 1999. Selected filmography 1984 Horror vacui 1988 Anita: Dances of Vice 1990 Affengeil 1995 Neurosia: 50 Years of Perversity
Biography of Red Garland (excerpt)
William McKinley "Red" Garland, Jr. (May 13, 1923 – April 23, 1984) was an American modern jazz pianist. Known for his work as a bandleader and during the 1950s with Miles Davis, Garland helped popularize the block chord style of piano playing.
Biography of Martha Gellhorn (excerpt)
Martha Ellis Gellhorn (8 November 1908 – 15 February 1998) was an American novelist, travel writer, and journalist who is considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century. Gellhorn reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career.
Biography of Abidin Dino (excerpt)
Abidin Dino (23 March 1913 – 7 December 1993) was a Turkish artist and a well-known painter. Within a short time, the home of Guzin and Abidin Dino in Paris became the haunt of many famous artists and writers. The couple first moved into the studio on the top floor of Max Ernst's apartment on the quay of Saint-Michel, and later to a small flat in L'Eure.
Biography of Nikolay Bogolyubov (actor) (excerpt)
Nikolay Ivanovich Bogolyubov (October 22, 1899 – March 9, 1980) was a Soviet actor born in Ivanovskoye, Russia and a People's Artist of the RSFSR (1945). In 1933 he played in Boris Barnet's Okraina; in 1941, he was awarded the Stalin Prize.
Biography of Thea Rasche (excerpt)
Theodora Rasche (12 August 1899 – 25 February 1971) was Germany's first female aerobatics pilot. In 1927, her father bought her a BFW Flamingo, registration number D-1120, and in July, she set off for the United States, the first of five trips.
Biography of Vecihi Hürkus (excerpt)
Vecihi Hürkuş (6 January 1896 – 16 July 1969) was a Turkish aviation engineer and aviation pioneer, who fought during World War I and the Turkish War of Independence. He designed and manufactured the first airplane in Turkey, and also founded the country's first airline company.
Biography of Walter Chiari (excerpt)
Walter Annicchiarico (8 March 1924 – 20 December 1991), known as Walter Chiari , was an Italian stage and screen actor, mostly in comedy roles. In 1951 Luchino Visconti offered him the role of the young lover, in Bellissima; he continued in the theater, in the musical comedy with Delia Scala in 1956 with Buonanotte Bettina and in 1958 with Il gufo e la gattina, and in 1960 with Sandra Mondaini, Ave Ninchi and Alberto Bonucci with Un mandarino per Teo, all by Garinei and Giovannini, but also in the prose theater, acting in 1965 with Gianrico Tedeschi in the comedy Luv by Murray Schisgal and, in 1966, with Renato Rascel in La strana coppia by Neil Simon.
Biography of Mathilde Kschessinska (excerpt)
Mathilde-Marie Feliksovna Kschessinska (Polish: Matylda Maria Krzesińska; Russian: Матильда Феликсовна Кшесинская; 31 August (O.S. 19 August) 1872 in Ligovo – 6 December 1971 in Paris; also known as Princess Romanovskaya-Krasinskaya after her marriage) was a Polish/Russian ballerina from the noble family Krzesiński.
Biography of Gerda Taro (excerpt)
Gerta Pohorylle (1 August 1910 – 26 July 1937), known professionally as Gerda Taro, was a German war photographer active during the Spanish Civil War. She is regarded as the first woman photojournalist to have died while covering the frontline in a war.
Biography of Marie Hackin (excerpt)
Marie Parmentier, married name Marie Hackin, (7 September 1905 - 24 February 1941) was an archaeologist and Resistance member who worked with her husband Joseph Hackin who also was an archaeologist, philologist, and Resistance member. Marie Hackin's father was from Luxembourg. She died in 1941 when she was in a sea convoy trying to go from Liverpool into the Atlantic ocean en route to Africa, when the ship was sunk by a German submarine.
Biography of Alexey Eisner (excerpt)
Alexey Eisner (18 October 1905 (5 October O.S.), in St.Petersburg – 30 November 1984, in Moscow), was a Russian poet, translator and writer. His poem "Looming Autumn, Yellow Bushes .." was published in 1932 and became a textbook and was very popular in literary émigré circles.
Biography of Édouard de Max (excerpt)
Eduard Alexandru Max, known as Édouard de Max, born February 14, 1869 in Iași (Moldavia region in Romania), and died October 28, 1924 in Paris, is a French theater and film actor of Romanian origin. He protected André Gide who wrote Saul for him, as well as Jean Cocteau, then 19 years old (1908), and whose style fascinated him.
Biography of Edwin Arlington Robinson (excerpt)
Edwin Arlington Robinson (December 22, 1869 – April 6, 1935) was an American poet.Robinson won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on three occasions and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times. At the age of 21, Edwin entered Harvard University as a special student.
Biography of Pavlo Virsky (excerpt)
Pavlo Pavlovych Virsky (Ukrainian: Павло Павлович Вірський), born on February 25, 1905 (Gregorian calendar) in Odessa, Russian Empire, died on July 5, 1975 in Kiev.), PAU (People's Artist of the USSR), was a dancer, balletmaster, choreographer, and founder of the P.
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 Moe Howard (excerpt)
Moses Harry Horwitz (June 19, 1897 – May 4, 1975), better known by his stage name Moe Howard, was an American comedian and actor. He is best known as the leader and straight man of the Three Stooges, the farce comedy team who starred in motion pictures and television for four decades.
Biography of Marina Semyonova (excerpt)
Marina Timofeyevna Semyonova (Russian: Марина Тимофеевна Семёнова, 12 June (O.S.30 May) 1908 – 9 June 2010) was the first Soviet-trained prima ballerina.She was born in Saint-Petersburg.She was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1975. The Soviet choreographer Maya Plisetskaya wrote of her that "what she demonstrated in her time was unusual, brand new, breathtaking.
Biography of Léon Moreau (excerpt)
Léon Moreau (13 July 1870 – 11 April 1946) was a French/Breton composer, winner of the second prize for composition in the Prix de Rome of 1899. Born in Brest, he was active as a piano teacher and composer in Brest and Paris.
Biography of Aleksandr Gerasimov (painter) (excerpt)
Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Gerasimov (12 August 1881 (gregorian calendar) – 23 July 1963) was a leading proponent of Socialist Realism in the visual arts, and painted Joseph Stalin and other Soviet leaders. Gerasimov was born on 12 August 1881 in Kozlov (now Michurinsk) in Tambov Governorate.
Biography of Nando Gazzolo (excerpt)
Ferdinando "Nando" Gazzolo (October 16, 1928 – November 16, 2015) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Born in Savona, the son of the actor and voice actor Lauro Gazzolo and EIAR radio announcer Aida Ottaviani Piccolo, Gazzolo debuted at young age on radio, and in 1948, at twenty years old, he started his acting career entering the stage company led by Antonio Gandusio.
Biography of Julia Morgan (excerpt)
Julia Morgan (January 20, 1872 – February 2, 1957) was an American architect and engineer. She designed more than 700 buildings in California during a long and prolific career. She is best known for her work on Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California.
Biography of Jean Roger-Ducasse (excerpt)
Jean Jules Aimable Roger-Ducasse (Bordeaux, 18 April 1873 – Le Taillan-Médoc (Gironde), 19 July 1954) was a French composer. Jean Roger-Ducasse studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Emile Pessard and André Gedalge, and was the star pupil and close friend of Gabriel Fauré.
Biography of Theo van Doesburg (excerpt)
Theo van Doesburg (30 August 1883 – 7 March 1931) was a Dutch artist, who practiced painting, writing, poetry and architecture. He is best known as the founder and leader of De Stijl. He was married to artist, pianist and choreographer Nelly van Doesburg.
Biography of Maksym Rylsky (excerpt)
Maksym Tadeyovych Rylsky (Ukrainian: Максим Тадейович Рильський; Russian: Максим Фадеевич Рыльский; 19 March (O.S.7 March) 1895 in Kiev – 24 July 1964 id.) was a Ukrainian poet, journalist, translator, academician, Doctor of Philological Sciences. The 1920s were marked by the poet's creative flourishing: his collections "Through storm and snow" (1925), "The 13th spring" (1926), "Where roads meet", "Hum and rumbling" (both 1929).
Biography of Jacques Puisais (excerpt)
Jacques Puisais (8 June 1927 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 6 December 2020) was a French oenologist and taste philosopher born in Poitiers. Holder of a PhD in chemistry, he directed the laboratoire départemental et régional d'analyse in Tours.
Biography of Suzanne Hiltermann-Souloumiac (excerpt)
Suzanne Hiltermann-Souloumiac, née Hiltermann, alias Touty, (17 January 1919 – 2 October 2001) was a member of the Dutch-Paris network during the French Resistance.Captured by the Nazi she was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp. After the liberation Suzanne Hiltermann moved to China in the 1960s.
Biography of Karl Shapiro (excerpt)
Karl Jay Shapiro (November 10, 1913 – May 14, 2000) was an American poet.He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946. In his later work, he experimented with more open forms, beginning with The Bourgeois Poet (1964) and continuing with White-Haired Lover (1968).
Biography of Gertrude Tompkins Silver (excerpt)
Gertrude "Tommy" Tompkins Silver (October 16, 1911 – disappeared October 26, 1944) was the only Women Airforce Service Pilots member to go missing during World War II. Gertrude Vreeland Tompkins was born October 16, 1911, in Jersey City, New Jersey, the daughter of Vreeland Tompkins, founder of Smooth-On, Inc., and Laura Tompkins (née Towar).
Biography of Georges Perros (excerpt)
Georges Poulot, known as Georges Perros, born August 31, 1923 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 2722; Wikipedia gives August 23, an error) and died in Paris (Laënnec hospital) on January 24, 1978 (cancer of the larynx), is a French writer and actor.
Biography of Paul Roussel (excerpt)
Hippolyte Paul René Roussel born in Paris (12th arrondissement) on October 23, 1867 and died in the 16th arrondissement of the same city on January 1, 1928 is a French sculptor, winner of the Prix de Rome in 1895. Paul Roussel is the son of Victor Roussel, building contractor and Eugénie Desfontaines.
Biography of Ernest Dumont (excerpt)
Ernest François Dumont, born October 13, 1877 in the 17th arrondissement of Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), the city where he died on December 11, 1941 in his home in the 15th arrondissement, is a French lyricist. Ernest Dumont co-authored numerous works (songs and monologues) with Louis Bénech, notably Nuits de Chine, L'Hirondelle du faubourg, L'Étoile du marin, Riquita, Dans les jardins de l'Alhambra, Du gris, La Femme aux bijoux ..
Biography of Jean Toomer (excerpt)
Jean Toomer (born Nathan Pinchback Toomer, December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and modernism.His reputation stems from his novel Cane (1923), which Toomer wrote during and after a stint as a school principal at a black school in rural Sparta, Georgia.
Biography of Violette Szabo (excerpt)
Violette Reine Elizabeth Szabo, GC (née Bushell; 26 June 1921 – c. 5 February 1945) was a British-French Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent during the Second World War and a posthumous recipient of the George Cross. On her second mission into occupied France, Szabo was captured by the German army, interrogated, tortured and deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany, where she was executed.
Biography of Manuel Infante (excerpt)
Manuel Infante (July 29, 1883 – April 21, 1958) was a Spanish composer long resident in France. A native of Osuna, Infante studied piano and composition with Enrique Morera, and settled in Paris in 1909.While there, he presented numerous concerts of Spanish music; a Spanish nationalist element is predominant in his own works.
Biography of Rose Valland (excerpt)
Rose Antonia Maria Valland (1 November 1898 – 18 September 1980) was a French art historian, member of the French Resistance, captain in the French military, and one of the most decorated women in French history. She secretly recorded details of the Nazi plundering of National French and private Jewish-owned art from France; and, working with the French Resistance, she saved thousands of works of art.
Biography of Rhené-Baton (excerpt)
René-Emmanuel Baton, known as Rhené-Baton (5 September 1879 – 23 September 1940), was a French conductor and composer.Though born in Courseulles-sur-Mer, Normandy, his family originated in Vitré in neighbouring Brittany.He returned to the region at the age of 19, and many of his compositions express his love of the area.
Biography of Alexander Fadeyev (writer) (excerpt)
Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeyev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Фаде́ев; 24 December (O.S.11 December) 1901 – 13 May 1956) was a Soviet writer, one of the co-founders of the Union of Soviet Writers and its chairman from 1946 to 1954. In 1945, he wrote the novel, The Young Guard (based upon real events of World War II) about the underground Komsomol organization named Young Guard, which fought against the Nazis in the occupied city Krasnodon (in the Ukrainian SSR).
Biography of Pierre Sidos (excerpt)
Pierre Sidos (6 January 1927 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 4 September 2020) was a French far right nationalist, neo-Pétainist, and antisemitic activist. One of the main figures of post-WWII nationalism in France, Sidos was the founder and leader of the nationalist organizations Jeune Nation (1949–1958) and L'Œuvre Française (1968–2013).
Biography of Armand Cuvillier (excerpt)
Armand Cuvillier (October 3, 1887 (source for his time of birth: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - April 23, 1973) is a professor of philosophy and French journalist. Ranked first in the October special session of the philosophy aggregation of 19191, he became a teacher in many high schools, including Lycée Louis-le-Grand.
Biography of Gisèle Guillemot (excerpt)
Gisèle Guillemot is a French resistance fighter, born February 24, 1922 in Mondeville (Calvados) and died January 31, 2013 in Paris. Resisting the German occupation during World War II, she became responsible for the Patriotic Youth Front for Calvados. Then a member of the FTPF, she took part in sabotage against German trains. |
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