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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 Aaron Soltz (excerpt)
Aaron Aleksandrovich Soltz (10 March 1872 (22 March Gregorian calendar) - 30 April 1945) was an Old Bolshevik and a Soviet politician and lawyer. He was informally known as the "conscience of the Party". While partially responsible for the Soviet repressions he was one of very few high-ranking Joseph Stalin loyalists who openly objected to the Great Purge; he died in a psychiatric clinic after years of involuntary commitment.
Biography of Annette Chalut (excerpt)
Annette Chalut (née Annette Brigitte Weill; born 29 April 1924 in Paris) is a French physician who was a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War. Annette Weill was born in Paris, the daughter of Pierre Weill, a veteran of the First World War, and his wife Emma Alexandre.
Biography of Claire Luce (excerpt)
Claire Luce (October 15, 1903 – August 31, 1989) was an American stage and screen actress, dancer and singer.Among her few films were Up the River (1930), directed by John Ford and starring Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart in their feature film debuts (Luce played Bogart's love interest), and Under Secret Orders, the English-language version of G.
Biography of Willi Bredel (excerpt)
Willi Bredel (2 May 1901 – 27 October 1964) was a German writer and president of the DDR Academy of Arts, Berlin. Born in Hamburg, he was a pioneer of socialist realist literature. His propaganda material, along with those of Walter Ulbricht and Erich Weinert was used in an attempt to lure the 6th Army into surrendering at the Battle of Stalingrad.
Biography of Tikhon Khrennikov (excerpt)
Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov (10 June (O.S. 28 May) 1913 – 14 August 2007) was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist, and leader of the Union of Soviet Composers, who was also known for his political activities. He wrote three symphonies, four piano concertos, two violin concertos, two cello concertos, operas, operettas, ballets, chamber music, incidental music and film music.
Biography of Michel Marot (architect) (excerpt)
Michel Marot (born in Troyes on January 29, 1926 and died on August 24, 2021) is a French architect. He entered the National School of Fine Arts in 1945, graduated in 1950.After graduating, he went to Harvard to study.He was awarded the Prix de Rome on his return in 1954 for the program "An African research center in Kano, in British Nigeria".
Biography of Antonio Buero Vallejo (excerpt)
Antonio Buero Vallejo (September 29, 1916, Guadalajara - April 29, 2000, Madrid) was a Spanish playwright associated with the Generation of '36 movement and considered the most important Spanish dramatist of the Spanish Civil War. During the civil war, he served as a medical aid in the Republican army.
Biography of Ben Nye (excerpt)
Benjamin Emmet Nye, Sr.(January 12, 1907 – February 9, 1986) was an American makeup artist for the Hollywood film industry for over four decades, from the 1930s to the early 1980s.He worked on over five hundred 20th Century Fox films both in and out of Hollywood.
Biography of Rosina Ferrario (excerpt)
Rosina Ferrario (28 July 1888 – 3 July 1959) was the first Italian woman to receive a pilot's licence when she passed her test on 3 January 1913 at Vizzola, Lombardy, in a Caproni monoplane. She received Licence No. 203 from the Aeroclub of Italy.
Biography of Pierre Fournier (cellist) (excerpt)
Pierre Léon Marie Fournier (24 June 1906 – 8 January 1986) was a French cellist who was called the "aristocrat of cellists" on account of his elegant musicianship and majestic sound. Biography He was born in Paris, the son of a French Army general.
Biography of Douglas Wilmer (excerpt)
Douglas Wilmer (8 January 1920 – 31 March 2016) was an English actor, best known for playing Sherlock Holmes in the 1965 TV series Sherlock Holmes. He is mainly associated with the role of Sherlock Holmes, which he first played in the BBC's 1964 production of "The Speckled Band".
Biography of Freeman Dyson (excerpt)
Freeman Dyson was a British-American theoretical physicist and mathematician notable for his contributions across a broad spectrum of science, ranging from quantum field theory to astrophysics. Born in England December 15, 1923, he displayed an early proclivity for mathematics and physics, leading him to study at Cambridge and then move to the United States for postgraduate work.
Biography of Marcel Griaule (excerpt)
Marcel Griaule (16 May 1898 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 23 February 1956) was a French author and anthropologist known for his studies of the Dogon people of West Africa, and for pioneering ethnographic field studies in France.
Biography of Guy Doleman (excerpt)
Guy Doleman (22 November 1923 – 30 January 1996) was a New Zealand-born actor.Doleman was born in Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand, later moving to Australia. He was cast in Long John Silver (1954) but passed on the role because it meant he had to wear contact lenses – Rod Taylor took the part instead.
Biography of María Zambrano (excerpt)
María Zambrano Alarcón (22 April 1904 – 6 February 1991) was a Spanish essayist and philosopher associated with the Generation of '36 movement. Her extensive work between the civic engagement and the poetic reflection started to be recognised in Spain over the last quarter of the 20th century after living many years in exile.
Biography of Ivan Sidorenko (excerpt)
Ivan Mikhailovich Sidorenko (Russian: Ива́н Миха́йлович Сидоре́нко; 12 September 1919 – 19 February 1994) was a Red Army officer and a Hero of the Soviet Union, who served during World War II. He was one of the top Soviet snipers in the war, with five hundred confirmed kills.
Biography of Yuri Shaporin (excerpt)
Yuri Alexandrovich Shaporin (November 8 (O.S.October 27) 1887 – 9 December 1966), PAU, was a Russian-Ukrainian Soviet composer. After the Bolshoi Drama Theater was established in 1919, he served as its musical director until 1928.He then worked with the Russian State Pushkin Academy Drama Theater — also known as the Alexandrinsky Theater — until 1934.
Biography of Ruth Elder (excerpt)
Ruth Elder (September 8, 1902 – October 9, 1977) was an aviation pioneer and actress.She carried private pilot certificate P675, and was known as the "Miss America of Aviation." She was a charter member of the Ninety-Nines. In 1927 she took off from New York in the airplane American Girl, George Haldeman as her pilot, in an attempt to become the first woman transatlantic airplane rider.
Biography of Manfred Gerlach (excerpt)
Manfred Gerlach (8 May 1928 – 17 October 2011) was a German jurist and politician, and the longtime leader of the East German Liberal Democratic Party. He served as Chairman of the Council of State and was thus head of state of East Germany from 6 December 1989 to 5 April 1990.
Biography of Herrera Helenio (excerpt)
Helenio Herrera Gavilán (10 April 1910 – 9 November 1997) was an Argentine, naturalized French, football player and manager.He is best remembered for his success with the Inter Milan team known as Grande Inter in the 1960s. During his managerial career, Herrera won four La Liga titles in Spain (with Atlético Madrid and Barcelona) and three Serie A titles in Italy with Inter.
Biography of Grete Hermann (excerpt)
Grete (Henry-)Hermann (March 2, 1901 – April 15, 1984) was a German mathematician and philosopher noted for her work in mathematics, physics, philosophy and education. She is noted for her early philosophical work on the foundations of quantum mechanics, and is now known most of all for an early, but long-ignored critique of a no-hidden-variable theorem by John von Neumann.
Biography of Joseph Epstein (activist) (excerpt)
Joseph Epstein (October 16, 1911 – April 11, 1944 in Fort Mont-Valérien, France), also known as Colonel Gilles and as Joseph Andrej, was a Polish-born Jewish communist activist and a French Resistance leader during World War II. He was executed by the Germans.
Biography of John Williams (actor) (excerpt)
John Williams (15 April 1903 – 5 May 1983) was a Tony Award-winning British stage, film, and television actor.He is remembered for his role as Chief Inspector Hubbard in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder, as the chauffeur in Billy Wilder's Sabrina (both 1954), and as the second "Mr.
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 Martial Valin (excerpt)
Martial Henri Valin (14 May 1898 in Limoges – 19 September 1980 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French Air Force general.He initially served as a cavalryman in the First World War.After nine years cavalry service in the chasseurs d'Afrique, dragoons, spahis, and hussars, he eventually volunteered for the French Army's aviation branch, the aéronautique militaire, in 1926.
Biography of Gidsken Jakobsen (excerpt)
Gidsken Nilsine Jakobsen (1 August 1908 – 13 June 1990) was a Norwegian aviation pioneer. At the age of 20, Jakobsen became only the second Norwegian woman to be awarded a pilot's license (after Dagny Berger in 1927), having achieved the highest position of the ten students attending the course.
Biography of Jean Batten (excerpt)
Jean Gardner Batten CBE OSC (15 September 1909 – 22 November 1982) was a New Zealand aviator. Born in Rotorua, she became the best-known New Zealander of the 1930s, internationally, by making a number of record-breaking solo flights across the world. She made the first-ever solo flight from England to New Zealand in 1936.
Biography of Bess Myerson (excerpt)
Bess Myerson (July 16, 1924 – December 14, 2014) was an American politician, model and television actress who became famous in 1945 as the first Jewish Miss America.Myerson is the only Jewish woman to win the title. Her achievement, in the aftermath of the Holocaust, was seen as an affirmation of the Jewish place in American life.
Biography of John Heartfield (excerpt)
John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld; 19 June 1891 – 26 April 1968) was a German visual artist who pioneered the use of art as a political weapon. Some of his most famous photomontages were anti-Nazi and anti-fascist statements. Heartfield also created book jackets for book authors, such as Upton Sinclair, as well as stage sets for contemporary playwrights, such as Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator.
Biography of Igor Moiseyev (excerpt)
Igor Alexandrovich Moiseyev (21 January (O.S.8 January) 1906 – 2 November 2007) has been widely acclaimed as the greatest 20th-century choreographer of character dance, a dance style similar to folk dance but with more professionalism and theatrics. Born in Kiev, Russian Empire, he was the only child of a Russian lawyer and a French-Romanian seamstress.
Biography of Kandrat Krapiva (excerpt)
Kandrat Krapiva (5 March (O.S.22 February) 1896 – 7 January 1991) was a Belarusian writer, playwright, social activist, and literary critic.He was the winner of two Stalin Prizes in 1941 and 1951 and winner of the USSR State Prize in 1971.
Biography of Kurt Schwitters (excerpt)
Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948) was a German artist, poet, painter, and sculptor, who was born in Hanover, Germany. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including dadaism, constructivism, surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography, and what came to be known as installation art.
Biography of Rosina Anselmi (excerpt)
Rosina Anselmi ( 26 July 1880 – 23 May 1965) was an Italian stage, television and film actress.She was a prominent actress in the Sicilian language theater, especially in the province of Catania. Born in Catania into a family of stage actors, Anselmi began acting with her father Alessandro, then with Nino Martoglio in some comedies written by him.
Biography of Joachim Peiper (excerpt)
Joachim Peiper (30 janvier 1915 – 14 juillet 1976) était un officier allemand de la Schutzstaffel (SS) et criminel de guerre. Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il fut l'adjoint personnel de Heinrich Himmler, chef de la SS, et commandant de chars dans la Waffen-SS, où il incarna l'idéologie nazie en encourageant des crimes de guerre.
Biography of Alfred Touny (excerpt)
Alfred Touny (24 October 1886 – April 1944) was a French soldier, lawyer and businessman who became one of the leaders of the French Resistance during World War II (1939–45). He was arrested by the Gestapo towards the end of the war and shot.
Biography of Elly Beinhorn (excerpt)
Elly Beinhorn (30 May 1907 – 28 November 2007) was a German pilot.In the 1930s, she set many distance records. In her later years, Elly Beinhorn lived in Ottobrunn, Bavaria, near Munich.Her son, Dr.Bernd Rosemeyer, lives in the same area and has enjoyed a successful career as an orthopaedist.
Biography of Hilde Coppi (excerpt)
Hilde Coppi, born Betti Gertrud Käthe Hilda Rake on May 30, 1909, in Berlin and executed on August 5, 1943, was a German communist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. Raised in Berlin’s Mitte district, she trained at a vocational school and worked as a general practitioner’s assistant during the 1930s.
Biography of Henriette Bie Lorentzen (excerpt)
Henriette Bie Lorentzen (18 July 1911 – 23 August 2001), born Anna Henriette Wegner Haagaas, was a Norwegian journalist, humanist, peace activist, feminist, co-founder of the Nansen Academy, resistance member and concentration camp survivor during World War II, and publisher and editor-in-chief of the women's magazine Kvinnen og Tiden (1945–1955).
Biography of Lisa Ullmann (excerpt)
Lisa Ullmann (17 June 1907, in Berlin – 25 January 1985, in Chertsey) was a German-British dance and movement teacher, predominantly remembered for her work in association with dance pioneer Rudolf Laban. Ullmann taught in Nuremberg and at the Essen Folkwang School, where she worked for Kurt Jooss.
Biography of Mary Eaton (excerpt)
Mary Eaton (January 29, 1901 – October 10, 1948) was an American stage actress, singer, and dancer in the 1910s and 1920s, probably best known today from her appearance in the first Marx Brothers film, The Cocoanuts (1929).A professional performer since childhood, she enjoyed success in stage productions such as the Ziegfeld Follies.
Biography of Mae Brussell (excerpt)
Mae Magnin Brussell (May 29, 1922 – October 3, 1988) was an American radio personality and conspiracy theorist.She was the host of Dialogue: Conspiracy (later renamed World Watchers International).She was a radio host.Most of her work on the radio focused on the assassination of President John F.
Biography of Giuseppe Borgese (excerpt)
Giuseppe Antonio Borgese (12 November 1882 – 4 December 1952) was an Italian writer, journalist and literary critic. In his early years he founded several literary reviews, including the Dannunzian Hermes (1904), and worked for newspapers such as Corriere della Sera, La Stampa and Il Mattino.
Biography of Liane Berkowitz (excerpt)
Liane Berkowitz (7 August 1923 – 5 August 1943) was a German resistance fighter of the Red Orchestra organisation.Arrested and sentenced to death, she was executed shortly after she gave birth to a daughter in custody. In the context of breaking the Red Orchestra group, Liane Berkowitz was arrested and charged on 26 September 1942.
Biography of Jerrie Mock (excerpt)
Geraldine "Jerrie" Fredritz Mock (November 22, 1925 – September 30, 2014) was an American pilot and the first woman to fly solo around the world, which she did in 1964. She flew a single engine Cessna 180 (registered N1538C) christened the "Spirit of Columbus" and nicknamed "Charlie."
Biography of Yakov Frenkel (excerpt)
Yakov Il'ich Frenkel (Russian: Яков Ильич Френкель) (10 February 1894 – 23 January 1952) was a Soviet physicist renowned for his works in the field of condensed matter physics.He is also known as Jacov Frenkel, and he frequently put down his name as J.
Biography of Eileen Kramer (excerpt)
Eileen Kramer (born 8 November 1914) is an Australian dancer, artist, performer and choreographer.She began by studying singing and music in Sydney in the 1930s, but after attending a performance of the Bodenwieser Ballet in 1940, immediately decided on a career change to dance.
Biography of Bertrand de Jouvenel (excerpt)
Bertrand de Jouvenel des Ursins (31 October 1903 – 1 March 1987) was a French philosopher, political economist, and futurist.He has taught at the University of Oxford, Cambridge, Manchester, Yale University, Chicago and at the University of California, Berkeley. Life Bertrand was the heir of an old family from the French nobility, coming from the Champagne region.
Biography of Marie-Louise Sondaz (excerpt)
Marie-Louise Sondaz, born December 31, 1889 in Saint-Marcellin (birth certificate n° 60, Marc Brun), died in 1981, was a French astrologer and author.She indicates in one of her books "I was born a quarter of an hour before noon".There is therefore a doubt about her time of birth, with 45 minutes of difference between her birth certificate and what she writes.
Biography of Jeanne Paquin (excerpt)
Jeanne Paquin (1869 (birth certificate, Didier Geslain – 1936) was a leading French fashion designer, known for her resolutely modern and innovative designs.She was the first major female couturier and one of the pioneers of the modern fashion business. Jeanne Paquin was the first couturier to send models dressed in her apparel to public events such operas and horse races for publicity.
Biography of Elena Stasova (excerpt)
Yelena Dmitriyevna Stasova (15 October (3 October old style) 1873 – 31 December 1966) was a Russian communist revolutionary who became a political functionary working for the Communist International (Comintern).She was a Comintern representative to Germany in 1921.From 1927 to 1937 she was the president of International Red Aid (MOPR). |
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