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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 Jean-Paul de Dadelsen (excerpt)
Jean-Paul de Dadelsen, (20 August 1913 in Strasbourg – 23 June 1957 in Zurich) was a French schoolmaster, officer, journalist, broadcaster and poet.He was an early supporter of a European Common Market and adviser to Jean Monnet. Publications Jonas, Gallimard, 1962. Goethe en Alsace with commentary by Denis de Rougemont, François Mauriac and Baptiste-Marrey. ![]()
Biography of Riet van Grunsven (excerpt)
Maria Catharina van Grunsven (1918–2004), also known as Riet van Grunsven or Riet van de Haterd-van Grunsven, was an armed member of the Dutch Resistance during World War II. One of 21 people who became “line crossers,” special agents who helped to maintain a secret connection between occupied and liberated Netherlands across the waterways of the Biesbosch and the Merwede, she operated as a courier for part of the larger Biesbosch resistance group, and the Albrecht intelligence group.
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Biography of Orso Mario Corbino (excerpt)
Orso Mario Corbino (30 April 1876, Augusta – 23 January 1937, Rome) was an Italian physicist and politician.He served as the minister for education in 1921 and as the minister for economy in 1921.He also served as professor in Messina (1905) and in Rome (1908). ![]()
Biography of Léon Spilliaert (excerpt)
Léon Spilliaert (also Leon Spilliaert; 28 July 1881 – 23 November 1946) was a Belgian symbolist painter and graphic artist. Spilliaert was born in Ostend, the oldest of seven children of Léonard-Hubert Spilliaert, a perfumer, and his wife Léonie (née Jonckheere).From childhood, he displayed an interest in art and drawing.
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Biography of Pearl Primus (excerpt)
Pearl Eileen Primus (November 29, 1919 – October 29, 1994) was an American dancer, choreographer and anthropologist. Primus played an important role in the presentation of African dance to American audiences. Early in her career she saw the need to promote African dance as an art form worthy of study and performance.
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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.
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Biography of Maria Skobtsova (excerpt)
Maria Skobtsova (20 (8 Old Calendar) December 1891 – 31 March 1945), known as Mother Maria (Russian: Мать Мария), Saint Mary (or Mother Maria) of Paris, born Elizaveta Yurievna Pilenko (Елизавета Юрьевна Пиленко), Kuzmina-Karavayeva (Кузьмина-Караваева) by her first marriage, Skobtsova (Скобцова) by her second marriage, was a Russian noblewoman, poet, nun, and member of the French Resistance during World War II.
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Biography of José Corti (excerpt)
José Corti is a book shop and publishing house located in Paris, France, and was founded in 1925. It is named after its founder, José Corticchiato (15 January (Wikipedia gives 14 January by mistake) 1895 – 25 December 1984). José Corticchiato started his business by publishing the work of his surrealist friends, including André Breton, Paul Éluard, and Louis Aragon.
Biography of Paul Gilson (excerpt)
Paul Gilson, born January 31, 1904 in Paris and died May 26, 1963 in the same city, was a French writer and radio broadcaster. His work includes poems, stories, essays, plays, films, but he is best known for his many activities on the radio.
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Biography of Maria Rentmeister (excerpt)
Maria Rentmeister (27 January 1905 – 10 May 1996) was a German political activist who became an anti-government resistance activist after 1933. She spent much of the time during the twelve Nazi years abroad or, later, in state detention. In 1945 she relocated to what now became the Soviet occupation zone (after October 1949 East Germany) where she became the first General Secretary of the politically important Democratic Women's League ("Demokratischer Frauenbund Deutschlands" / DFD).
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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.
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Biography of Marcel Domingo (excerpt)
Marcel Domingo Algara (15 January 1924 – 10 December 2010) was a French football goalkeeper and manager of Spanish origin. He spent part of his career in Spain. Domingo coached RCD Espanyol, UD Las Palmas, UE Lleida, Pontevedra CF, Córdoba CF, Granada CF, Atlético de Madrid, CD Málaga, Elche CF, Burgos CF, Valencia CF, OGC Nice, Real Betis, RCD Mallorca, Nîmes Olympique, AC Arles and Hércules CF.
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Biography of Madame d'Ora (excerpt)
Dora Philippine Kallmus (20 March 1881 – 28 October 1963), also known as Madame D'Ora or Madame d'Ora, was an Austrian fashion and portrait photographer. In 1907, she established her own studio with Arthur Benda in Vienna called the Atelier d’Ora or Madame D'Ora-Benda.
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Biography of Victor Iturria (excerpt)
Victor Iturria (Bassussarry, October 22, 1914 - Died for France1 in Gâvre on August 25, 1944) is a French soldier, Companion of the Liberation posthumously by decree of December 29, 1944. During the Second World War, he distinguished himself from the Battle of France during which he was wounded. ![]()
Biography of Jessie Matthews (excerpt)
Jessie Margaret Matthews OBE (11 March 1907 – 19 August 1981) was an English actress, dancer and singer of the 1920s and 1930s, whose career continued into the post-war period. After a string of hit stage musicals and films in the mid-1930s, Matthews developed a following in the USA, where she was dubbed "The Dancing Divinity".
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Biography of Gilbert Bauvin (excerpt)
Gilbert Bauvin (born 4 August 1927 in Lunéville, Meurthe-et-Moselle) is a former professional French road bicycle racer.He was a professional from 1950 to 1960. The highlights of his career include winning the Paris–Camembert in 1954 and Tour de Romandie in 1958 and winning four stages in the Tour de France as well as wearing the yellow jersey for a total of four days.
Biography of Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack (excerpt)
Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack (11 July 1893, in Frankfurt-am-Main – 7 January 1965, in Allambie Heights, in Sydney) was a German-born Australian artist. His formative education was 1912–1914 at Debschitz art school in Munich.He studied at the Bauhaus from 1919–24 and remained working there until 1926 where, along with Kurt Schwerdtfeger, he further developed the Farblichtspiele ('coloured-light-plays'), which used a projection device to produced moving colours on a transparent screen accompanied by music composed by Hirschfeld Mack.
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Biography of Vera Leigh (excerpt)
Vera Leigh (17 March 1903 – 6 July 1944) was an agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive during World War II. Leigh was a member of the SOE's Donkeyman circuit and Inventor sub-circuit in occupied France until she was arrested by the Gestapo.
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Biography of Jean-Paul Auffray (excerpt)
Jean-Paul Auffray, born July 24, 1926 in Caen and died March 22, 2022, was a French physicist and historian of science. A specialist in quantum physics and mathematical physics, he is the author of popular science books. Jean-Paul Auffray is the son of the industrialist Henry Auffray and Amyelle de Caubios d'Andiran.
Biography of Jean de Bazelaire de Ruppierre (excerpt)
Jean Marie Joseph de Bazelaire de Ruppierre (October 18, 1916 - October 22, 1943) is a French officer of the colonial troops, captain, who served during the Second World War. He was Companion of the Liberation (1942) 1, and died for France (1943).
Biography of Roger Guérin (excerpt)
Roger Guérin (9 January 1926, Saarbrücken – 6 February 2010, Nîmes) was a French jazz trumpeter and singer. Initially a violinist, Guérin studied trumpet and cornet at the Paris Conservatory and won a first prize there as a teenager. He began working professionally in 1947, playing with Aimé Barelli, Django Reinhardt, Don Byas, Hubert Fol, James Moody, Benny Golson, Bernard Peiffer, Fats Sadi, Lucky Thompson, Kenny Clarke, Blossom Dearie, Martial Solal, Michel Legrand and André Hodeir.
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Biography of Yvonne Jospa (excerpt)
Yvonne Jospa (née Have Groisman, February 3, 1910 in Poputi, Bessarabia (now Moldavia) – January 20, 2000 in Brussels) was a cofounder and leading organizer of the Comité de Défense des Juifs in September 1942 with her husband Hertz Jospa, which saved over 3,000 Jewish children from deportation and death.
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Biography of Doris Duranti (excerpt)
Doris Duranti (25 April 1917 – 10 March 1995) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 43 films between 1935 and 1975. She had a years-long affair with Alessandro Pavolini, a Fascist politician who in 1945 was executed by Italian partisans; his body was then hung with that of Benito Mussolini.
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 Lewis Grassic Gibbon (excerpt)
Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (13 February 1901 – 7 February 1935), a Scottish writer. He was best known for his trilogy A Scots Quair, set in the north-east of Scotland in early years of the 20th century. ![]()
Biography of Chico Hamilton (excerpt)
Foreststorn "Chico" Hamilton, (September 20, 1921 – November 25, 2013) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He came to prominence as sideman for Lester Young, Gerry Mulligan, Count Basie, and Lena Horne. Hamilton became a bandleader, first with a quintet featuring the cello as a lead instrument, an unusual choice for a jazz band in the 1950s, and subsequently leading bands that performed cool jazz, post bop, and jazz fusion.
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Biography of Tadd Dameron (excerpt)
Tadley Ewing Peake Dameron (February 21, 1917 – March 8, 1965) was an American jazz composer, arranger, and pianist. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Dameron was the most influential arranger of the bebop era, but also wrote charts for swing and hard bop players.
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Biography of Aurora Bertrana (excerpt)
Aurora Bertrana i Salazar (October 29, 1892 in Girona – September 3, 1974 in Berga, Barcelona) was a Catalan cellist and writer, notable for her exotic stories and novels. Early years Born in Girona in 1892, she was the daughter of the modernist writer, Prudenci Bertrana.
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Biography of Margaret Hance (excerpt)
Margaret Taylor Hance (July 2, 1923 – April 29, 1990) was the first female mayor of Phoenix, Arizona, taking office in 1976. She proved popular, winning four consecutive two-year terms, from 1976 to 1983. Mrs. Hance was the president of the Junior League of Phoenix, a volunteer organization for women who want to improve the community, from 1959–1960.
Biography of Antonio Basurto (excerpt)
Antonio Basurto (Lecce, August 28, 1917 - Rome, December 20, 2007) was an Italian singer.
Biography of Gabrielle Bompard (excerpt)
The Gouffé Case, also known as the Gouffé trunk, Miller's bloody trunk or the Eyraud-Bompard affair was an 1889 murder case which unfolded in France.On 26 July 1889, bailiff Toussaint-Augustin Gouffé of Montmartre, Paris, was reported missing.Two weeks later, Gouffé's corpse was found 300 miles (480km) away, near Millery village, a suburb of Lyon.
Biography of Else Ury (excerpt)
Else Ury (1 November 1877 – 13 January 1943) was a German-Jewish novelist and children's book author.Her best-known character is the blonde doctor's daughter Annemarie Braun, whose life from childhood to old age is told in the ten volumes of the highly successful Nesthäkchen series.
Biography of François Chatel (excerpt)
François Chatel (his birth name François de Chateleux) is a television director born May 1, 1926 in Neuilly-sur-Seine and died July 28, 1982 in Paris 8th district. He is the son of Roger de Chateleux (1878-1956), writer and journalist, very famous in the 1950s for a series of reports on the wide world, published at La Table Ronde under the pseudonym of Stany and de Chalux, some broadcast on Radio Luxembourg. ![]()
Biography of Zuleykha Seyidmammadova (excerpt)
Zuleykha Seyidmammadova (22 March 1919 – 1994) was one of the first Azerbaijan female pilots and the first Azerbaijani woman to fly in combat. Seyidmammadova was born in Baku on 22 March 1919.She gained her pilot's license in 1935 at a flying club in her hometown and later at the aviation academy in Zhukovsky near Moscow.
Biography of Jean-Pierre Berger (excerpt)
Jean-Pierre Berger, born February 22, 1915 in Paris, died June 30, 1940 in Gibraltar, was an officer in the Air Force of Free France, a Companion of the Liberation posthumously by decree of May 13, 1941. ![]()
Biography of Jane Winton (excerpt)
Jane Winton (October 10, 1905 – September 22, 1959) was an American film actress, dancer, opera soprano, writer, and painter. Actress During the 1920s, she began her stage career as a dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies.After coming to the West Coast, Winton became known as "the green-eyed goddess of Hollywood".
Biography of Neda Naldi (excerpt)
Neda Naldi (30 January 1913 – 26 June 1993) was an Italian theatrical actress—also known under her stage name Talia Volpiana—and television and film actress. She was born as Italia Volpiana on 30 January 1913 in Tramutola, Basilicata, Italy. She was an actress and writer, known for La leggenda azzurra (1940), Lacrime di sangue (1944) and Vietato ai minorenni (1944).
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Biography of Hanna Solf (excerpt)
Johanna Susanne Elisabeth Solf (née Dotti, 14 November 1887 – 4 November 1954) was a member of the German resistance to Nazism and key member of the Solf Circle. Johanna Dotti married Wilhelm Solf in 1908, who was then governor of German Samoa. ![]()
Biography of Til Brugman (excerpt)
Mathilda (Til) Brugman (16 September 1888, Amsterdam – 24 July 1958, Gouda) was a Dutch author, poet and linguist. From 1926 to 1936, she lived in The Hague and later in Berlin with the German Dada artist Hannah Höch. In 1935, she published Scheingehacktes: Grotesken mit Zeichnungen von Hannah Höch.
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Biography of Raoul Paoli (excerpt)
Raoul Paoli (24 November 1887 – 23 March 1960) was a French athlete, boxer, wrestler, rower and actor.Aged 12, he served as a coxswain in the French coxed pair and won a bronze medal at the 1900 Summer Olympics.He competed in the shot put, his favourite event, at the 1912, 1920, 1924 and 1928 Summer Olympics with the best result of ninth place in 1924.
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Biography of Pierre Bertaux (excerpt)
Pierre Bertaux, born October 8, 1907 in Lyon (Rhône) and died August 14, 1986 in Saint-Cloud (Hauts-de-Seine), is a German scholar, French resistance fighter and politician. He is the author of a major thesis on Hölderlin in 1936. Member of several left-wing government cabinets, appointed Commissioner of the Republic for the Liberation of Toulouse, he was notably made Officer of the Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre, and Companion of the Liberation.
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Biography of Marie Médard (excerpt)
Marie Suzanne Médard (4 April 1921 – 27 April 2013) was a French librarian and a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War. Early life Médard was born in Paris's 4th arrondissement, into a Protestant family.Her father, Jean, was a minister of the Reformed Church of France, who ministered first at Le Fleix and later at Rouen, where the family was living when war broke out.
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Biography of Marianne Cohn (excerpt)
Marianne Cohn was a German-born French Resistance fighter. She was born on 17 September 1922 in Mannheim and died on 8 July 1944 in Haute-Savoie. In 1942 Marianne began to smuggle Jewish children out of France. Threatened with deportation, she was incarcerated at Nice and released three months later.
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Biography of Adrien Barrère (excerpt)
Adrien Barrère, artist name of Adrien Baneux, born November 13, 1874 in Paris and died in 1931 in Paris, is a French theater and cinema poster artist and cartoonist of the Belle Époque famous in the five years preceding the First War global.
Biography of Maurice Chevance (excerpt)
Maurice Chevance, known as Barrioz-Bertin, born March 6, 1910 in Nanteuil-le-Haudouin (Oise) and died June 17, 1996 in Paris, is a French politician and resistance fighter, Companion of the Liberation by decree of November 17, 1945.
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Biography of Ferdinand Béghin (excerpt)
Ferdinand Béghin, born January 21, 1902 in Thumeries and died April 18, 1994 in Friborg (Switzerland), is a French industrialist and businessman, in the sugar, cardboard, paper, press and publishing.
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Biography of Fazil Küçük (excerpt)
Fazil Küçük (14 March 1906 – 15 January 1984) was a Turkish Cypriot politician who served as the first Vice President of the Republic of Cyprus.
Biography of Philippe Daudet (excerpt)
The Philippe Daudet Affair, named after Philippe Daudet (1909–1923), was a French legal filing and subsequent controversy following the suicide of Philippe Daudet at age 14.The initial investigation into Philippe's death concluded he had committed suicide via gunshot, following plans to carry out anarchist attacks against the French government and other high profile individuals.
Biography of Georges Béjot (excerpt)
Georges Stanislas Jean Béjot, born August 23, 1896 in Besançon and died July 25, 1987 in Reims, is auxiliary bishop of Besançon then of Reims and personality of social Catholicism. ![]()
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. |
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