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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 Hermann Broch (excerpt)
Hermann Broch (1 November 1886 – 30 May 1951) was an Austrian writer, best known for two major works of modernist fiction: The Sleepwalkers (Die Schlafwandler, 1930–32) and The Death of Virgil (Der Tod des Vergil, 1945). Life Broch was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, to a prosperous Jewish family and worked for some time in his family's factory, though he maintained his literary interests privately.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Henri Delauze (excerpt)
Henri Germain Delauze, born September 17, 1929 in Cairanne (Vaucluse), died February 14, 2012 in Marseilles, was a French engineer, diver and entrepreneur, founder of the COMEX company. COMEX (or Compagnie Maritime d'Expertises) is a company specializing in engineering and deep diving operations, created in November 1961 by Henri Germain Delauze and ran by him until his death in 2012.
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 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 Charlotte Delbo (excerpt)
Charlotte Delbo (10 August 1913 – 1 March 1985) was a French writer chiefly known for her haunting memoirs of her time as a prisoner in Auschwitz, where she was sent for her activities as a member of the French resistance.
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 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 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 Ruth Page (ballerina) (excerpt)
Ruth Page (March 22, 1899 – April 7, 1991) was an American ballerina and choreographer, who created innovative works on American themes. Born in Indianapolis in 1899, Ruth Page undertook professional studies with Jan Zalewski, Adolph Bolm, Enrico Cecchetti, Harald Kreutzberg and Mary Wigman.
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 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 India, Princess of Afghanistan (excerpt)
Princess India of Afghanistan (7 June 1929 – 13 October 2023) was an Afghan royal. She was the youngest daughter of Emeritus King of Afghanistan Amanullah Khan and Queen consort Soraya Tarzi. She held the title of princess of the royal house of Mohammadzai-Tarzi.
Biography of Alexander Hall (excerpt)
Alexander Hall (January 11, 1894 – July 30, 1968) was an American film director, film editor and theatre actor. Biography Hall acted in the theatre from the age of 4 through 1914, when he began to work in silent movies.Following his military service in World War I, he returned to Hollywood and pursued a career in film production.
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 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 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 Maud Allan (excerpt)
Maud Allan (born as either Beulah Maude Durrant or Ulah Maud Alma Durrant; 27 August 1873 – 7 October 1956) was a Canadian dancer, chiefly noted for her Dance of the Seven Veils. In World War I, she faced accusations of being a lesbian spy, for which she sued unsuccessfully for libel.
Biography of Allyn Ann McLerie (excerpt)
Allyn Ann McLerie (December 1, 1926 – May 21, 2018) was a Canadian-born, Brooklyn-reared actress, singer, and dancer who worked with many of Golden Age musical theatre's major choreographers, including George Balanchine, Agnes de Mille, and Jerome Robbins. Life and career McLerie was born in Grand-Mère, Quebec, Canada, the only child of Vera Alma MacTaggart (née Stewart; 1897–1980) and Allan Gordon McLerie, an aviator (1888–1926).
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 Hans Kammler (excerpt)
Hans Kammler (26 August 1901 – 1945 ) was an SS-Obergruppenführer responsible for Nazi civil engineering projects and its top secret weapons programmes. He oversaw the construction of various Nazi concentration camps before being put in charge of the V-2 rocket and jet programmes towards the end of World War II.
Biography of Sabina Spielrein (excerpt)
Sabina Nikolayevna Spielrein (born October 26, 1885 OS / November 7, 1885 NS – died August 11, 1942) was a Russian physician and one of the first female psychoanalysts. She was initially a patient, then student, and later colleague of Carl Gustav Jung, with whom she had an intimate relationship from 1908 to 1910, as evidenced by their correspondence and her diaries.
Biography of Karl Kraus (writer) (excerpt)
Karl Kraus (28 April 1874 – 12 June 1936) was an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. He directed his satire at the press, German culture, and German and Austrian politics. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.
Biography of Jean Cardot (excerpt)
Jean Cardot (20 July 1930 (source for his time of birth: Didier Geslain, birth certificate.The act indicates "midnight", which can be interpreted as 00:00 or 23:59) – 13 October 2020) was a French sculptor, born in Saint-Étienne, France. He was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts on 9 November 1983 and president in 1992 and 1997.
Biography of Serena Foglia (excerpt)
Serena Fonda Foglia (Trieste, September 9, 1925 - Milan, July 25, 2010) was an Italian writer, sociologist and psychologist. After two degrees (in political science in Trieste and in sociology at Bryn Mawer College in the United States), she specialized in psychology in Milan and Florence.
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 Elizabeth Mernin (excerpt)
Elizabeth "Lily" Mernin (16 November 1886 - 18 February 1957) was an Irish intelligence agent known as the "Little Gentleman" or "Lt.G.".She was a member of the Keating branch of the Gaelic League, and through this her cousin, Piaras Béaslaí, introduced her to Michael Collins in 1918.
Biography of Suzanne Martel (excerpt)
Suzanne Chouinard Martel (October 8, 1924 – July 29, 2012) was a French Canadian journalist, novelist and children's writer. Suzanne Chouinard was the daughter of Francis Xavier Chouinard, clerk of Quebec City between 1927 and 1961 and Lady Couillard, who resided at rue de Bernières in Quebec City until 1963.
Biography of Mary Bell (aviator) (excerpt)
Mary Teston Luis Bell (3 December 1903 – 6 February 1979) was an Australian aviator and founding leader of the Women's Air Training Corps (WATC), a volunteer organisation that provided support to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) during World War II.
Biography of Jean Bertin (engineer) (excerpt)
Jean Henri Bertin (5 December 1917 (Wikipedia is incorrect) – 21 December 1975) was a French scientist, engineer and inventor. He was born in Druyes-les-Belles-Fontaines and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, both French communes. He is best known as the lead engineer for the French experimental Aérotrain mass transit system.
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 Marianne Grunberg-Manago (excerpt)
Marianne Grunberg-Manago (January 6, 1921 – January 3, 2013) was a Soviet-born French biochemist.Her work helped make possible key discoveries about the nature of the genetic code. Grunberg-Manago studied biochemistry and, in 1955, while working in the lab of Spanish-America biochemist Severo Ochoa, she discovered the first nucleic-acid-synthesizing enzyme.
Biography of Irma Bandiera (excerpt)
Irma Bandiera (8 April 1915– 14 August 1944) was a member of the seventh Gruppo di azione patriottica. In 1944 she was captured, blinded, and killed. Enrico Berlinguer, of the Italian Communist Party, held her in high esteem. A street in her native Bologna is named for her and the song Mimma e Balella relates to her.
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 Janis Dalins (excerpt)
Jānis Daliņš (5 November 1904 in Valmiera, Livonian Governorate – 11 June 1978 in Melbourne, Australia) was a Latvian athlete who competed in race walking. Jānis Daliņš was the first Latvian to win a medal at the Olympic Games, he won silver in the 50 km race walk at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
Biography of Lilo Ramdohr (excerpt)
Lieselotte "Lilo" Fürst-Ramdohr (11 October 1913 – 13 May 2013) was a member of the Munich branch of the student resistance group White Rose (Weisse Rose) in Nazi Germany. She was born in Aschersleben.
Biography of Mykola Skrypnyk (excerpt)
Mykola Oleksiyovych Skrypnyk (also known in Russian as Nikolai Alekseevich Skripnik, 25 January , 1872 – 7 July 1933) was a Ukrainian Communist leader who was a proponent of the Ukrainian Republic's independence, and led the cultural Ukrainization effort in Soviet Ukraine.
Biography of Polina Gelman (excerpt)
Polina Vladimirovna Gelman (Russian: Поли́на Влади́мировна Ге́льман, Ukrainian: Поли́на Володи́мирівна Ге́льман; 24 October 1919 – 25 November 2005) was a flight navigator in the all-female 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment who was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1946 for having totaled 857 sorties during World War II.
Biography of Pierre Barbizet (excerpt)
Pierre Barbizet born in Arica (Chile) on September 20, 1922 and died on January 19, 1990 in Marseille is a French pianist and musical teacher. He is notably known for having been the partner of the violinist Christian Ferras and for having directed from 1963 until his death the conservatory of Marseille which has since bears his name.
Biography of Leyla Mammadbeyova (excerpt)
Leyla Alasgar qizi Mammadbeyova, née Zeynalova (Azerbaijani: Leyla Ələsgər qızı Məmmədbəyova; 17 September 1909 – 1989), was the first Azerbaijani female aviator.She also was the first female pilot of Transcaucasia, of Southern Europe and of Middle East. Mammadbeyova was trained as a professional aviator at the Baku Airclub and performed her first flight in 1931.
Biography of Hanan Aharon Cidor (excerpt)
Hanan Aharon Cidor, born on November 12, 1905 in Berlin, died on March 8, 1985 in Jerusalem, was a German-Israeli diplomat. He worked for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was Israeli Ambassador to the Netherlands from 1957 to 1963.
Biography of Dora Schaul (excerpt)
Dora Schaul (born Dora Davidsohn, 21 September 1913 – 8 August 1999) was a German woman noted particularly for her undercover work at official offices in German-occupied France during World War II.She passed on significant information to the French Resistance.Her experiences and those of numerous other German opponents of the National Socialist (Nazi) regime in Germany were described in her 1973 book Résistance – Erinnerungen deutscher Antifaschisten (Résistance — Memories of German Antifascists).
Biography of Albert Ehrenstein (excerpt)
Albert Ehrenstein (22 December 1886 – 8 April 1950) was an Austrian-born German Expressionist poet.His poetry exemplifies rejection of bourgeois values and fascination with the Orient, particularly with China. He spent most of his life in Berlin, but also travelled widely across Europe, Africa, and the Far East. |
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