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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 Henri Fescourt (excerpt)
Henri Fescourt (23 November 1880 – 9 August 1966) was a French film director. He directed some 40 films in his career.
Biography of Maurice Nasil (excerpt)
Maurice Nasillski said Maurice Nasil, born July 8, 1913 in Algiers (birth time source: birth certificate online at cineartistes.com, Wikipedia has July 7 by mistake) and died January 6, 2003 in Paris 9th, is a French actor. He has played notably in The Cow and the Prisoner, The President and The Jungle Book (as a French voice).
Biography of Charmion (excerpt)
Laverie Vallee née Cooper (July 18, 1875 – February 6, 1949), best known by her stage name Charmion, was an American vaudeville trapeze artist and strongwoman whose well-publicized suggestive performance was captured on film in 1901 by Thomas Edison. Career According to the Journal of Sport History article "Flying, Flirting, and Flexing: Charmion's Trapeze Act, Sexuality, and Physical Culture at the Turn of the Twentieth Century", she made her debut on December 25, 1897, at Koster and Bial's vaudeville theatre in New York City.
Biography of Pauline Dubuisson (excerpt)
Pauline Dubuisson, born March 11, 1927 in Malo-les-Bains (Nord) and died September 22, 1963 in Essaouira (Morocco), is known to have been at the center of a news item from the 1950s. Tried in 1953 in Paris for the murder of her ex-boyfriend Félix Bailly, she inspired the main character of Henri-Georges Clouzot's film, La Vérité (1960).
Biography of Suzanne Borel (excerpt)
Marie Nancy Suzanne "Suzy" Bidault (née Borel; 18 October 1904 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 1983) – 8 November 1995) was the first French woman to become a diplomat when she was employed as an attaché at the Quai d'Orsay on 1 July 1930 after passing the entrance examination to the French Foreign Ministry.
Biography of Max d'Ollone (excerpt)
Maximilien-Paul-Marie-Félix d'Ollone (13 June 1875 – 15 May 1959) was a 20th-century French composer. Born in Besançon, d'Ollone started composing very early, entering the Paris Conservatoire at 6, winning many prizes, receiving the encouragement of Gounod, Saint-Saëns, Massenet, Thomas and Delibes. His teachers at the Conservatoire were Lavignac, Massenet, Gédalge and Lenepveu; he won the Prix de Rome in 1897.
Biography of Victor Klemperer (excerpt)
Victor Klemperer (9 October 1881 – 11 February 1960) was a German Romance languages scholar who also became known as a diarist.His journals, published in Germany in 1995, detailed his life under the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, and the German Democratic Republic.
Biography of Nikolay Burdenko (excerpt)
Nikolay Nilovich Burdenko (Russian: Николай Нилович Бурденко; 22 May 1876 – 11 November 1946) was a Russian and Soviet surgeon, the founder of Russian neurosurgery.He was Surgeon-General of the Red Army (1937–1946), an academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (from 1939), an academician and the first director of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (1944–1946), a Hero of Socialist Labor (from 1943), Colonel General of medical services, and a Stalin Prize winner (1941).
Biography of Ricardo Lamote de Grignon (excerpt)
Ricard Lamote de Grignon i Ribas (25 September 1899 – 5 February 1962), was a Catalan Spanish composer and orchestral conductor. Ricard Lamote de Grignon was born and died in Barcelona.He was the only son of the composer Joan Lamote de Grignon and Florentina Ribas.
Biography of Gwenn-Aël Bolloré (excerpt)
Gwenn-Aël Bolloré (4 September 1925 (Wikipedia gives 5 September), Ergué-Gabéric – 12 July 2001) was a French soldier, businessman, author, and publisher. At the age of 17, Bolloré decided to join in the Free French Forces in England.He sailed across the English Channel in a small boat and met up with his brother René who had arrived in England few months earlier.
Biography of Franco Cristaldi (excerpt)
Franco Cristaldi (Turin, 3 October 1924 – Montecarlo, 1 July 1992) was an Italian film producer, credited with producing (or co-producing) feature films from the 1950s to the 1990s. In 1946 Cristaldi founded Vides Cinematografica in Turin. This production company initially produced short and documentary films, and would later be renamed to Cristaldifilm in the 1980s.
Biography of Vasili Kuznetsov (politician) (excerpt)
Vasili Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (13 February (O.S. 31 January) 1901 – 5 June 1990) was a Russian Soviet politician who acted as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union from 1982 to 1983, for a second time in 1984, and for a third time in 1985.
Biography of Ruth Berghaus (excerpt)
Ruth Berghaus (2 July 1927 – 25 January 1996) was a German choreographer and opera and theatre director. In 1954, Berghaus married the composer Paul Dessau, whose works for the theater she directed. Her association with the Berliner Ensemble culminated with her directorship of that theater until 1977.
Biography of Louise Thaden (excerpt)
Iris Louise McPhetridge Thaden (November 12, 1905 – November 9, 1979) was an American aviation pioneer, holder of numerous aviation records, and the first woman to win the Bendix trophy, alongside Blanche Noyes. She was inducted into the Arkansas Aviation Historical Society's Hall of Fame in 1980.
Biography of Jacques Fournier (civil servant) (excerpt)
Jacques Fournier, born May 5, 1929 in Épinal and died August 14, 2021, is a senior French civil servant. Jacques Fournier spent his youth and studied in French Algeria. A former student of the ENA, he was appointed legal adviser of the French Embassy in Morocco (1961-1964).
Biography of Victor Fleming (excerpt)
Victor Lonzo Fleming (February 23, 1889 – January 6, 1949) was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer.His most popular films were Gone with the Wind, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director, and The Wizard of Oz (both 1939).
Biography of Juhan Smuul (excerpt)
Juhan Smuul (18 February 1922 – 13 April 1971) was an Estonian writer. Until 1954 he used the given name Johannes Schmuul. Smuul was born in Koguva village on the island of Muhu to Jüri and Ruudu Schmuul. He had three older sisters: Salme, Linda, and Liisa and one younger sister, Aliide, as well as six half-siblings from his father's first marriage.
Biography of Yiannis Ritsos (excerpt)
Yiannis Ritsos (Greek: Γιάννης Ρίτσος; 1 May 1909 – 11 November 1990) was a Greek poet and communist and an active member of the Greek Resistance during World War II. While he disliked being regarded as a political poet, he has been called "the great poet of the Greek left".
Biography of Isaac Babel (excerpt)
Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (13 July (Gregorian calendar) 1894 – 27 January 1940) was a Russian writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator. He is best known as the author of Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories—stories from the life of Jewish gangsters from Odessa led by Benya Krik (prototype – Mishka Yaponchik).
Biography of Léon Bollée (excerpt)
Léon Bollée (1 April 1870 – 16 December 1913) was a French automobile manufacturer and inventor. Bollée's family were well known bellfounders and his father, Amédée Bollée (1844–1917), was the major pioneer in the automobile industry who produced several steam cars. Both Léon Bollée and his older brother Amédée-Ernest-Marie (1867–1926) became automobile manufacturers.
Biography of Dora Dougherty Strother (excerpt)
Dr. Dora Jean Dougherty Strother (also known as Dora Dougherty McKeown and/or Dora Strother McKeown; November 27, 1921 – November 19, 2013), was best known as a Woman Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and B-29 Superfortress demonstration pilot. She was a U.S. military pilot, human factors engineer with Bell Aircraft, instructor at the University of Illinois and helicopter test pilot for Bell Aircraft.
Biography of Eric Laithwaite (excerpt)
Eric Roberts Laithwaite (14 June 1921 – 27 November 1997) was a British electrical engineer, known as the "Father of Maglev" for his development of the linear induction motor and maglev rail system. He became professor of heavy electrical engineering at Imperial College London in 1964 where he continued his successful development of the linear motor.
Biography of Janine Niépce (excerpt)
Janine Niépce (February 12, 1921 – August 5, 2007) was a French photographer, author, and journalist. Her career spanned developing films for the French Resistance to covering the women's liberation movement in the 1970s. She is a distant relative of Nicéphore Niépce, the pioneer of photography.
Biography of Max Volmer (excerpt)
Max Volmer (3 May 1885 – 3 June 1965) was a German physical chemist, who made important contributions in electrochemistry, in particular on electrode kinetics. He co-developed the Butler–Volmer equation. Volmer held the chair and directorship of the Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry Institute of the Technische Hochschule Berlin, in Berlin-Charlottenburg.
Biography of Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler (excerpt)
Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler (28 April 1918 – 20 September 2001) was an East German communist propagandist and host of the television show Der schwarze Kanal (German: The Black Channel) from 21 March 1960 to 30 October 1989. As host of Der Schwarze Kanal, which ran for 20 minutes every Monday night, Schnitzler edited together extracts of Western television footage and recorded caustic, virulently anti-Western commentary over it.
Biography of Vasily Shukshin (excerpt)
Vasily Makarovich Shukshin (Russian: Василий Макарович Шукшин; 25 July 1929 – 2 October 1974) was a Soviet Russian writer, actor, screenwriter and film director from the Altay region who specialized in rural themes. Shukshin main interest lay in the situation of ordinary, simple people in the present-day Soviet Union.
Biography of Federico Moreno Torroba (excerpt)
Federico Moreno Torroba (3 March 1891 – 12 September 1982) was a Spanish composer, conductor, and theatrical impresario. He is especially remembered for his important contributions to the classical guitar repertoire, becoming one of the leading twentieth-century composers for the instrument.
Biography of Salvo Randone (excerpt)
Salvatore "Salvo" Randone (25 September 1906 – 6 March 1991) was an Italian theatrical, television and film actor. Born in Syracuse, Sicily, Randone debuted on stage in mid-1920s and, after some years in which he played roles of little weight, he became in the fifties one of the most critically appreciated actors in Italian theatre.
Biography of Jean Lartéguy (excerpt)
Jean Lartéguy (5 September 1920 in Maisons-Alfort (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 23 February 2011) was the nom de plume of Jean Pierre Lucien Osty, a French writer, journalist, and former soldier. Larteguy is credited with first envisioning the "ticking time bomb" scenario of torture in his 1960 novel Les centurions.
Biography of Leigh Brackett (excerpt)
Leigh Douglass Brackett (December 7, 1915 – March 18, 1978) was an American writer, particularly of science fiction, and has been referred to as the Queen of Space Opera.She was also a screenwriter, known for her work on such films as The Big Sleep (1946), Rio Bravo (1959) and The Long Goodbye (1973).
Biography of Doc Severinsen (excerpt)
Carl Hilding "Doc" Severinsen (born July 7, 1927 in Arlington, Oregon) is an American jazz trumpeter who led the band on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Severinsen was the principal pops conductor for several American orchestras during and after his time on The Tonight Show.
Biography of Denise Bloch (excerpt)
Denise Madeleine Bloch (21 January 1916 – 5 February 1945) was an agent working with the clandestine British Special Operations Executive (SOE) organization in the Second World War.Captured by the Germans, she was executed at Ravensbrück concentration camp. On 2 March 1944, with fellow SOE agent Robert Benoist, she was dropped back into central France.
Biography of Soong Mei-ling (excerpt)
Soong Mei-ling (also spelled Soong May-ling; March 5, 1898 – October 23, 2003), also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Chinese: 蔣介石夫人) or Madame Chiang (Chinese: 蔣夫人), was a Chinese political figure who was First Lady of the Republic of China, the wife of President Chiang Kai-shek of the Republic of China.
Biography of Carola Lorenzini (excerpt)
Carolina (Carola) Elena Lorenzini (15 August 1889 – 23 November 1941) was a pioneer Argentine aviator.Lorenzini was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the seventh of eight children. From 1938 to 1940, Lorenzini was involved in an air exploration mission to fly all of Argentina's 14 provinces and make aerial maps for transport and mail flights.
Biography of Marcelle Henry (excerpt)
Marcelle Marguerite Henry (7 September 1895 – 24 April 1945) was a French civil servant and a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War. In 1919, Henry went to work at the Ministry of Labour, as her father had done before her.
Biography of Walter Gotell (excerpt)
Walter Jack Gotell (15 March 1924 – 5 May 1997) was a German actor, known for his role as General Gogol, head of the KGB, in the Roger Moore-era of the James Bond film series, as well as having played the role of Morzeny, a villain, in From Russia With Love.
Biography of Alfhild Hovdan (excerpt)
Alfhild Hovdan (née Olsen; 13 September 1904 – 20 February 1982) was a Norwegian journalist, and later tourist manager for the city of Oslo for more than forty years. She is known for initiating the tradition of the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree, a present from the city of Oslo to the people of London, in recognition of their assistance during World War II.
Biography of Missak Manouchian (excerpt)
Missak Manouchian (1 September 1906 – 21 February 1944) was a French-Armenian poet and communist activist.An Armenian genocide survivor, he moved to France from an orphanage in Lebanon in 1925.He was active in communist Armenian literary circles. During World War II, he became the military commissioner of FTP-MOI, a group consisting of European immigrants, including many Jews, in the Paris Region which carried out assassinations and bombings of Nazi targets.
Biography of Germain Bazin (excerpt)
Germain René Michel Bazin (24 September 1901 – 2 May 1990) was a French art historian, curator at the Louvre Museum from 1951 to 1965. Life Germain Bazin was born in Suresnes on 24 September 1901.He studied art history at the University of Paris.
Biography of Abdi Ipekçi (excerpt)
Abdi İpekçi (9 August 1929 – 1 February 1979) was a Turkish journalist, intellectual and an activist for human rights. He was murdered while editor-in-chief of one of the main Turkish daily newspapers Milliyet which then had a centre-left political stance.
Biography of Princess Hélène of Orléans (excerpt)
Princess Hélène of Orléans (French: Princesse Hélène Louise Henriette d'Orléans; 13 June 1871 – 21 January 1951) was a member of the deposed Orléans royal family of France and, by marriage to the head of a cadet branch of the Italian royal family, the Duchess of Aosta.
Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (excerpt)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.(August 17, 1914 – August 17, 1988) was an American lawyer, politician, and businessman, notable as a congressman from New York and later as the Under Secretary of Commerce.He was the fifth of six children born to Franklin D.
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 Vonda Phelps (excerpt)
Avonda Maude Phelps (April 19, 1915 – September 2, 2004), credited as Vonda Phelps, was an American child stage actress, vaudeville performer and dancer in the 1920s. She appeared in four silent film productions in 1922 and 1923. Phelps was born on April 19, 1915 in Shreveport, Louisiana to Rinaldo Abel Phelps (1872–1951) and Lillian Maude Tiffin (1891–1983).
Biography of Lena Christ (excerpt)
Lena Christ (née Magdalena Pichler; 30 October 1881 – 30 June 1920) was a German writer. In 1913 she wrote the book Lausdirndlgeschichten (naughty girl stories), also composed of memories from her childhood.Thoma criticized her for it and saw it as a rip-off of his Lausbubengeschichten (naughty boy stories).
Biography of Aida de Acosta (excerpt)
Aida de Acosta Root Breckinridge (July 28, 1884 – May 26, 1962) was an American socialite and the first woman to fly a powered aircraft solo. In 1903, while in Paris with her mother, she caught her first glimpse of dirigibles. She then proceeded to take only three flight lessons, before taking to the sky by herself.
Biography of Maureen Dunlop de Popp (excerpt)
Maureen Adele Chase Dunlop de Popp (26 October 1920 – 29 May 2012), née Dunlop, was an Anglo-Argentine pilot who flew for the British Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) during World War II, and became notable as a pin-up on the cover of the Picture Post magazine.
Biography of Joseph Abadie (excerpt)
Joseph Louis Irenée Jean Abadie (15 December 1873, Tarbes – 1934) was a French neurologist who is remembered for naming Abadie's symptom. Brief biography Joseph Louis Irenée Jean Abadie was born in 1873 in Tarbes, département Hautes-Pyrénées, France.He studied medicine at the University of Bordeaux, qualifying in 1900.
Biography of Nelson Algren (excerpt)
Nelson Algren (born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham; March 28, 1909 – May 9, 1981) was an American writer. His 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm won the National Book Award and was adapted as the 1955 film of the same name.
Biography of Máté Zalka (excerpt)
Máté Zalka (April 23, 1896 – June 11, 1937) was a Hungarian writer, soldier and revolutionary.His real name was Béla Frankl.He fought in the Hungarian Army during the First World War and was captured by the Russians. Subsequently, he came under the influence of Bolshevism and fought during the Russian Civil War. |
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