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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. ![]() ![]()
Biography of Kata Pejnovic (excerpt)
Kata Pejnović, née Bogić (21 March 1899 – 1966), was a Yugoslav feminist and politician. Life Kata Pejnović was born on 21 March 1899 in the village of Smiljan in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to a poor Serbian family.
Biography of Jean de Milleret (excerpt)
Jean de Milleret, known as "Carnot" (but also "Marnac", "Martel", "Jacomy"), born March 19, 1908 in Montauban, died January 10, 1980 in Buenos Aires, is a French soldier and resistance fighter, historian and biographer.
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Biography of Maurice Bardèche (excerpt)
Maurice Bardèche (1 October 1907 – 30 July 1998) was a French art critic and journalist, better known as one of the leading exponents of neo-fascism in post–World War II Europe. Bardèche was also the brother-in-law of the collaborationist novelist, poet and journalist Robert Brasillach, executed after the liberation of France in 1945.
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Biography of Paulette Duhalde (excerpt)
Paulette Duhalde (July 23, 1921 – April 23, 1945) was a French Resistance fighter, who operated under the alias of "Jojo" with the Jeanne Network in France's Normandy region during World War II. Betrayed to the Gestapo by a spy within the network, she was arrested, tried, sentenced to five years in prison, and jailed at Fresnes before being deported to a prison facility in Aachen, Germany.
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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 Pierrette Caillol (excerpt)
Pierrette Emmanuelle Caillol is a French actress, born in Marseille on July 17, 1898 and died in Nice on June 8, 1991. She is the sister of actress Paulette Ray (1902-1987). Filmography (selection) 1947 : Une mort sans importance d'Yvan Noé 1948 : Bagarres d'Henri Calef : Mme Leroux
Biography of Léon Bernard (excerpt)
Léon-Constant-Jean Bernard is a French actor born February 26, 1877 in the 1st arrondissement of Paris and died in the 5th arrondissement of Paris on November 20, 1935.
Biography of Hugh Cruttwell (excerpt)
Hugh Cruttwell (31 October 1918 – 24 August 2002) was an influential English teacher of drama and principal of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Hugh Percival Cruttwell was born in Singapore, but lived in England from the age of eight.He was educated at King's School, Bruton, in Somerset, and studied history at Hertford College, Oxford.
Biography of Erwin Anton Gutkind (excerpt)
Erwin Anton Gutkind (May 20, 1886, Berlin – 7 August 1968, Philadelphia), was a German-Jewish architect and city planner, who left Berlin in 1935 for Paris, London and then Philadelphia, where he became a member of the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Biography of Yvette Lévy (excerpt)
Yvette Henriette Lévy (née Dreyfuss; born 21 June 1926 in Paris) is a French educator and survivor of the Holocaust.In July 1944, she was arrested by the Gestapo and was eventually sent to Auschwitz concentration camp.She survived and now educates youths about her experiences.
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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 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 Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves (excerpt)
Henri Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves (5 June 1901 – 29 August 1941) was a French Navy officer and one of the major heroes of the French Resistance, said to be the "first martyr of Free France". Role in Occupied France D'Estienne d'Orves was codenamed "Jean-Pierre Girard". ![]()
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 René Gilson (excerpt)
René Gilson, born September 8, 1921 in Arras (Pas-de-Calais) and died June 6, 2018 in Lens (Pas-de-Calais)1, was a French film critic and director.
Biography of Francesco von Mendelssohn (excerpt)
Francesco von Mendelssohn (born Franz von Mendelssohn; 6 September 1901 – 22 September 1972) was a German cellist and art collector.He also became known during the 1920s as a stage actor and theater director.He acquired additional notability with a lifestyle that some found eccentric.
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Biography of Robert Cami (excerpt)
Robert Cami, born January 1, 1900 in Bordeaux and died January 12, 1975 in Paris (or in Sermaise (Essonne) according to certain sources including INSEE), is a draftsman, engraver (burinist, etcher and wood engraver), engraver medals and French stamps. Although rarely said to be a painter, he was also so, notably through the important work on zinc which won him a gold medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1937.
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Biography of Yvonne Chollet (excerpt)
Yvonne Chollet (1897–1945) was a teacher in Vendôme, France, who surveilled the movement of German equipment on behalf of the French Resistance and reported her findings to Allied forces during World War II. Arrested by the Gestapo in May 1943, she was imprisoned at Blois, Orléans, Romainville, and Compiègne before being deported to the Nazi concentration camp near the village of Ravensbrück (part of Fürstenberg/Havel) in northern Germany, where she survived barely a year.
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Biography of Geneviève de Galard (excerpt)
Geneviève de Galard Terraube, born on April 13, 1925, in Paris and died on May 30, 2024, was a French military nurse known as "the Angel of Dien Bien Phu" during the Indochina War. Graduating in 1950, she became an Air Force nurse in 1952.
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Biography of Eddie Vinson (excerpt)
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (born Edward L.Vinson Jr., December 18, 1917 – July 2, 1988) was an American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter.He was nicknamed Cleanhead after an incident in which his hair was accidentally destroyed by lye contained in a hair straightening product, necessitating shaving it off; enamoured of the look, Vinson maintained a shaved head thereafter.
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Biography of Henriëtte Pimentel (excerpt)
Henriëtte Henriquez Pimentel (17 April 1876 – 17 September 1943) was a Dutch teacher and trained nurse who during the Second World War headed a crèche in Amsterdam which cared for small children while their parents were otherwise occupied.Together with Walter Süskind and Johan van Hulst, from around October 1942 she helped to save the lives of hundreds of Jewish infants by smuggling them into the homes of sympathetic host families.
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Biography of Joseph de Goislard de Monsabert (excerpt)
Joseph Jean de Goislard de Monsabert (Libourne 30 September 1887 – Dax, 13 June 1981), was a French general who served during the Second World War. Monument to the memory of General Joseph de Goislard de Monsabert dedicated on 8 July 1985, in the Place des Martyrs de la Résistance, Bordeaux, France
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Biography of Erich Mühsam (excerpt)
Erich Mühsam (6 April 1878 – 10 July 1934) was a German-Jewish antimilitarist anarchist essayist, poet and playwright. He emerged at the end of World War I as one of the leading agitators for a federated Bavarian Soviet Republic, for which he served 5 years in prison.
Biography of Jean Amila (excerpt)
Jean Amila (Paris, 24 November 1910 – 6 March 1995) was a French author and screenwriter who also wrote under the names John Amila, Jean Mekert, or Jean Meckert. He also published other popular novels under the pseudonyms of Édouard, Edmond or Guy Duret, Albert Duvivier, Mariodile and Marcel Pivert.
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Biography of Roland Caillaux (excerpt)
Roland Raymond Ferdinand Caillaud (January 5, 1905 – December 3, 1977) – known professionally as Roland Caillaux, and sometimes using the pseudonym Roland Caipland – was a French actor and artist. He is known for acting in several French films in the 1920s and 1930s, and for producing and publishing homoerotic illustrations in the mid 20th century.
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Biography of Ivo Caprino (excerpt)
Ivo Caprino (17 February 1920 – 8 February 2001) was a Norwegian film director and writer, best known for his puppet films.His most noted film, Flåklypa Grand Prix ("Pinchcliffe Grand Prix"), was made in 1975. The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix In 1970, Caprino and his small team of collaborators, started work on a 25-minute TV special, which eventually became The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix.
Biography of Georges Chevalier (artist) (excerpt)
Georges Chevalier, born July 12, 1894 in Ivry-sur-Seine, died in 1987, was a French artist, designer of glassware. He was notably artistic director at Baccarat.
Biography of Jacques Beauvallet (excerpt)
Jacques Beauvallet, born September 13, 1909 in Dieppe and died January 16, 2000 in Nancy, is a French general. Polytechnique graduate of 1929, he opted for the artillery weapon. Captain in Indochina during World War II, he was captured and tortured by the Japanese in 1945.
Biography of Mimi Perrin (excerpt)
Mimi Perrin, born Jeannine Quintard on February 2, 1926 in Saint-Maurice and died on November 16, 2010 in Paris 10th district, is a French pianist, singer and translator. After her musical career, she became one of the translators from English most in demand by the publishing world.
Biography of Eric Knight (excerpt)
Eric Mowbray Knight (10 April 1897 – 15 January 1943) was an English novelist and screenwriter, who is mainly known for his 1940 novel Lassie Come-Home, which introduced the fictional collie Lassie. He took American citizenship in 1942 shortly before his death. ![]()
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 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.
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Biography of Sonja Wigert (excerpt)
Sonja Wigert (11 November 1913 – 12 April 1980) was a Norwegian-Swedish actress. She appeared in 34 films between 1934 and 1960. She was a spy for Swedish intelligence during World War II. Ingrid Bolsø Berdal portrayed her in the film The Spy.
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Biography of Lyubov Shevtsova (excerpt)
Lyubov Shevtsova (Russian: Любовь Шевцова; September 8, 1924 – February 9, 1943) was a Soviet partisan and a member of the Young Guard, an underground anti-Nazi organization in Krasnodon during World War II. She participated in spreading leaflets, helped Soviet prisoners of war hide from the Germans, and participated in burning down the Labour Exchange building, which contained documents with the names of people that were to be deported and forced into hard labour for Germany.
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Biography of Vincenzo Cardarelli (excerpt)
Vincenzo Cardarelli, pseudonym of Nazareno Caldarelli (1 May 1887 – 18 June 1959) was an Italian poet and journalist. Cardarelli was born in Corneto, Lazio, in a family of Marche origin.His father was Antonio Romagnoli.His studies were irregular and he applied to different jobs.
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Biography of Simon Maris (excerpt)
Simon Willem Maris (May 21, 1873, The Hague - January 22, 1935, Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter best known as a portrait artist.He was the son of Dutch landscape painter Willem Maris of the Hague School. Maris was a well-known figure in Amsterdam artist circles around 1900.
Biography of Georges Cahuzac (excerpt)
Georges Séverin Cahuzac, born in Sénouillac (Tarn) on February 10, 1871 and died in Eaubonne (Seine-et-Oise) on February 26, 1956, is a French actor and comedian. ![]()
Biography of Maria Kotarba (excerpt)
Maria Kotarba (4 September 1907 — 30 December 1956) was a courier in the Polish resistance movement, smuggling clandestine messages and supplies among the local partisan groups.She was arrested, tortured and interrogated by the Gestapo as a political prisoner before being imprisoned in Tarnów and then deported to Auschwitz on January 6, 1943. ![]()
Biography of Ruth Cidor-Citroën (excerpt)
Ruth Cidor-Citroën (born Franziska-Margarete Vallentin November 25, 1906 in Berlin; died February 26, 2002 in Jerusalem) was a German-Israeli artist.
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Biography of Maurice Marinot (excerpt)
Maurice Marinot (born 20 March 1882 in Troyes, France, died 1960, Troyes) was a French artist.He was a painter considered a member of Les Fauves, and then a major artist in glass. Marinot's father was a bonnet maker.Maurice did poorly in school, but convinced his parents to send him to the École des Beaux-Arts in 1901 to train as a painter under French painter, Fernand Cormon.
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Biography of Dagmar Lahlum (excerpt)
Dagmar Mohne Hansen Lahlum (10 March 1923, Norway – 28 December 1999) was a member of the Norwegian resistance in Oslo during World War II and was later recruited (unofficially) to work for MI5. In April 1943, when British double agent Eddie Chapman was drinking with German officers in The Ritz bar at Skillebekk, which was also popular with members of the Norwegian national socialist party, his eye fell on the attractive Dagmar, who – complete with a décolletage and high heels – was smoking Craven A's with an ivory mouthpiece.
Biography of Philippe Boegner (excerpt)
Philippe Boegner (January 7, 1910, Aouste-sur-Sye, Drôme (source for his birth time: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - October 14, 1991, Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine) is a journalist, boss of French press and writer, who participated in the Resistance. He was successively the director of Marie Claire, Paris Soir and Paris Match.
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Biography of M. Vasalis (excerpt)
M.Vasalis, pseudonym for Margaretha (Kiekie) Droogleever Fortuyn-Leenmans (13 February 1909 in The Hague – 16 October 1998 in Roden) was a Dutch poet and psychiatrist. The pseudonym 'Vasalis' is a Latinization of her last name 'Leenmans'.The 'M' does not stand for 'Maria' as is sometimes incorrectly reported.
Biography of Marie Kuderíková (excerpt)
Marie Kudeříková (also known as Maruška Kudeříková) (24 March 1921, Vnorovy, today Hodonín District, Czechoslovakia – 26 March 1943 Breslau, Lower Silesia, Nazi Germany, today Poland) was a student active in the Czech resistance to Nazi occupation during World War II.
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Biography of Clotilde von Derp (excerpt)
Clotilde Margarete Anna Edle von der Planitz (5 November 1892 – 11 January 1974), known professionally as Clotilde von Derp, was a German expressionist dancer, an early exponent of modern dance. Her career was spent essentially dancing together with her husband Alexander Sakharoff with whom she enjoyed a long-lasting relationship. ![]()
Biography of François Gros (excerpt)
François Gros (born 24 April 1925 in Paris) is a French biologist and one of the pioneers of cellular biochemistry in France. His scientific career concerned genes and their role in regulating cellular functions. Honorary professor at the Collège de France, member of the Institute of France, he was also director of the Pasteur Institute (1976-1982) and advisor to Prime Ministers Pierre Mauroy and Laurent Fabius (1981-1985).
Biography of Daniel Carasso (excerpt)
Daniel Carasso (December 16, 1905 – May 17, 2009) was a French American member of the prominent Sephardic Jewish Carasso family and the son of Isaac Carasso, founder of the (now) multinational Danone. Carasso, son of Isaac Carasso, was born in Salonica, Ottoman Empire (modern Thessaloniki, Greece), where his family had lived for four hundred years following Spain's expulsion of its Jews.
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Biography of Henriette Roland Holst (excerpt)
Henriette Goverdine Anna "Jet" Roland Holst-van der Schalk (24 December 1869 – 21 November 1952) was a Dutch poet and communist. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. The poet Adriaan Roland Holst (1888–1976), nicknamed "the Dutch Prince of Poets", was the nephew of her husband.
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Biography of Luisa Ferida (excerpt)
Luisa Ferida (18 March 1914 – 30 April 1945) was an Italian stage and film actress. Career Born Luigia Manfrini Frané in Bologna, Ferida started as a stage actress.In 1935 she made her first appearance in film with a supporting role in La Freccia d'oro.
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Biography of Ferruccio Amendola (excerpt)
Ferruccio Amendola (July 22, 1930 – September 3, 2001) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Born in Turin to actors Federico Amendola and Amelia Ricci and the nephew of director and screenwriter Mario Amendola, he was among Italy's most accomplished actors who worked for cinema and television and also did extensive voice dubbing work. |
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