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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 Fanny Cradock (excerpt)
Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey, known as Fanny Cradock, was an influential English television cook and writer, prominent from the 1950s to the 1970s. Born in Leytonstone, Essex, she became renowned for her television shows and cookbooks which popularized more elaborate cooking. With her fourth husband, Johnnie Cradock, she often portrayed a comic domestic dynamic that captivated audiences.
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 Joan Riudavets Moll (excerpt)
Joan Riudavets Moll (born December 15, 1889 in Es Migjorn Gran in the Balearic Islands and died March 5, 2004 in the island of Menorca in the Balearic archipelago following a cold, was the male dean of humanity since November 2003.
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.
Biography of Ivo Garrani (excerpt)
Ivo Garrani (6 February 1924 – 25 March 2015) was an Italian actor and voice actor.In films since 1952, Garrani is possibly best known for his role as Prince Vajda in Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960). Born in Introdacqua, Garrani was a student at the Faculty of Engineering in Rome when started his theatrical career, at first as amateur, then entering the stage company of Carlo Tamberlani in 1943.
Biography of Pavel Florensky (excerpt)
Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky (also P.A.Florenskiĭ, Florenskii, Florenskij; Russian: Па́вел Алекса́ндрович Флоре́нский; Armenian: Պավել Ֆլորենսկի, romanized: Pavel Florenski; 21 January 1882 – December 8, 1937) was a Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor, polymath, neomartyr and folk saint.
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 Paul Poiret (excerpt)
Paul Poiret (April 8, 1879, Paris, France - April 30, 1944, Paris) was a French fashion designer whose contributions to 20th-century fashion have been compared to Picasso’s in art. He is credited with freeing women from the corset and was called "The King of Fashion."
Biography of Kurt Kreuger (excerpt)
Kurt Kreuger (July 23, 1916 – July 12, 2006) was a Swiss-reared German actor.Kreuger once was the third most requested male actor at 20th Century Fox.He starred with, among others, Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart. Personal life Kreuger was a successful real estate investor, primarily in properties in Beverly Hills, California.
Biography of Vladka Meed (excerpt)
Vladka Meed (born Feigele Peltel, December 29, 1921 – November 21, 2012) was a member of Jewish resistance in Poland who famously smuggled dynamite into the Warsaw Ghetto, and also helped children escape out of the Ghetto. At 14, she joined Jewish Labor Bund and in 1942 the Jewish Combat Organization.
Biography of Fred Gwynne (excerpt)
Frederick Hubbard Gwynne (July 10, 1926 – July 2, 1993) was an American actor, artist and author, who is widely known for his roles in the 1960s television sitcoms Car 54, Where Are You. (as Francis Muldoon) and The Munsters (as Herman Munster), as well as his later film roles in The Cotton Club (1984), Pet Sematary (1989), and My Cousin Vinny (1992).
Biography of Marion Pritchard (excerpt)
Marion Philippina Pritchard (née van Binsbergen; 7 November 1920 – 11 December 2016) was a Dutch-American social worker and psychoanalyst, who distinguished herself as a saviour of Jews in the Netherlands during the Second World War. Pritchard helped save approximately 150 Dutch Jews, most of them children, throughout the German occupation of the Netherlands.
Biography of Colleen Dewhurst (excerpt)
Colleen Rose Dewhurst (June 3, 1924 – August 22, 1991) was a Canadian-American actress mostly known for theatre roles. She was a renowned interpreter of the works of Eugene O'Neill on the stage, and her career also encompassed film, early dramas on live television, and performances in Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival.
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 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.
Biography of August Momber (excerpt)
August Momber (born May 16, 1886 in Danzig, † May 17, 1969 in Karlsruhe) was a German actor and director.He was a student of Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater Berlin.Momber worked as a lecturer at the theater college in Leipzig, among others.
Biography of Grazyna Chrostowska (excerpt)
Grażyna Chrostowska (20 September 1921, Lublin - 18 April 1942, Ravensbrück), was a Polish poet and an activist of the Polish underground during the Second World War, She came from a Polish noble family of the Clan of Ostoja.She joied with her sister Apolonia and her father Stanisław Ostoja-Chrostowski ps.
Biography of Ann Hutchinson Guest (excerpt)
Ann Hutchinson Guest (born November 3, 1918) is a world authority on dance notation and movement analysis. She has studied more than 80 dance notation systems and translated 20 to Labanotation. This has given her access to a number of dance works in their original version – such as Vaslav Nijinsky’s L’Après-midi d’un Faune.
Biography of Forrest Tucker (excerpt)
Forrest Meredith Tucker (February 12, 1919 – October 25, 1986) was an American actor in both movies and television who appeared in nearly a hundred films. Tucker worked as a vaudeville straight man at the age of fifteen. A mentor provided funds and contacts for a trip to California, where party hostess Cobina Wright persuaded guest Wesley Ruggles to give Tucker a screen test because of Tucker's photogenic good looks, thick wavy hair and height of six feet, four inches (according to IMDb).
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.
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.
Biography of Rawya Ateya (excerpt)
Rawya Ateya (19 April 1926 – 9 May 1997) was an Egyptian woman who became the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world in 1957. Legacy Rawya Ateya is considered a pioneering figure in the history of Egyptian and Arab feminism.In December 2007, a ceremony was held in the Egyptian Parliament to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Ateya's electoral victory.
Biography of Camillo Berneri (excerpt)
Camillo Berneri (also known as Camillo da Lodi; May 20 (according to his Italian Wikipedia page), 1897, Lodi – May 5, 1937, Barcelona) was an Italian professor of philosophy, anarchist militant, propagandist and theorist. He was married to Giovanna Berneri, and was father of Marie-Louise Berneri and Giliana Berneri, all of whom were also anarchists.
Biography of Werner R. Heymann (excerpt)
Werner Richard Heymann (14 February 1896 – 30 May 1961), also known as Werner R.Heymann was a German-Jewish composer active in Germany and in Hollywood. When the theater impresario Max Reinhardt opened the satirical cabaret Sound And Smoke he became, with Friedrich Hollaender, one of its two main pianists.
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 Angie Brooks (excerpt)
Angie Elizabeth Brooks (August 24, 1928 – September 9, 2007) was a Liberian diplomat and jurist. She was the only African female President of the United Nations General Assembly. She was also the second woman from any nation to head the U.N. body.
Biography of Betye Saar (excerpt)
Betye Irene Saar (born July 30, 1926) is an African American artist known for her work in the medium of assemblage.Saar is a visual storyteller and an accomplished printmaker.Saar was a part of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s, which engaged myths and stereotypes about race and femininity.
Biography of Trude Hesterberg (excerpt)
Trude Hesterberg (2 May 1892 – 31 August 1967) was a German film actress and singer. She appeared in 89 films between 1917 and 1964. Selected filmography The Rosentopf Case (1918) The Story of a Maid (1921) Fridericus Rex (1922) The Woman with That Certain Something (1925)
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 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).
Biography of Robert Fabre (excerpt)
Robert Fabre, born December 21, 1915 in Villefranche-de-Rouergue (Aveyron) and died December 23, 2006 in the same city, was a French pharmacist and politician. He was named the third man to have signed with François Mitterrand and Georges Marchais, as president of the Mouvement des radicals de gauche, the program of Union de la Gauche, on November 27, 1973.
Biography of Victoria Ocampo (excerpt)
Ramona Victoria Epifanía Rufina Ocampo CBE (7 April 1890 (her birth time had been displayed on the Spanish Wikipedia, without an original source.) – 27 January 1979) was an Argentine writer and intellectual.Best known as an advocate for others and as publisher of the literary magazine Sur, she was also a writer and critic in her own right and one of the most prominent South American women of her time.
Biography of Cécile Sauvage (excerpt)
Cécile Sauvage, “poet of motherhood”, is a French woman of letters, born in La Roche-sur-Yon on July 20, 1883 and died in Paris on August 26, 1927. A student at the Lycée de Digne, she sent a manuscript Les Trois Muses to La Revue forézienne, whose editor was Pierre Messiaen.
Biography of Philippe Auboyneau (excerpt)
Philippe Auboyneau (9 November 1899 – 22 February 1961) was an officer in the French Navy. As an admiral, he was commander of the Free French naval forces in the Pacific and the Mediterranean during the Second World War. He was awarded the Ordre de la Libération for his service to the country.
Biography of Mario Brega (excerpt)
Mario Brega (25 March 1923 – 23 July 1994) was an Italian character actor.His heavy build meant that he regularly portrayed a thug in his films, particularly earlier in his career in westerns.Later in his career, however, he featured in numerous Italian comedy films.
Biography of Richard Huelsenbeck (excerpt)
Carl Wilhelm Richard Hülsenbeck (23 April 1892 – 20 April 1974) was a German writer, poet, and psychoanalyst born in Frankenau, Hessen-Nassau. Huelsenbeck was a medical student on the eve of World War I.He was invalided out of the army and emigrated to Zürich, Switzerland in February 1916, where he fell in with the Cabaret Voltaire.
Biography of Sidney Kimmel (excerpt)
Sidney J.Kimmel (born January 16, 1928) is an American businessman, philanthropist, and film producer.He is ranked number 2141 in the Forbes list of the richest people alive in 2021. Personal life Kimmel was born into a Jewish family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of a cab driver.
Biography of François Balsan (excerpt)
François Balsan, born June 25, 1902 in Châteauroux and died November 25, 1972 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, is a French industrialist, explorer, ethnographer and writer, president of the Society of French explorers. Some of his works have been published under the pseudonym of Jacques Termant.
Biography of Henri Le Fauconnier (excerpt)
Henri Victor Gabriel Le Fauconnier (July 5, 1881 – December 25, 1946) was a French Cubist painter born in Hesdin.Le Fauconnier was seen as one of the leading figures among the Montparnasse Cubists. At the 1911 Salon des Indépendants Le Fauconnier and colleagues Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Fernand Léger and Robert Delaunay caused a scandal with their Cubist paintings.
Biography of Sergei Bulgakov (excerpt)
Sergei Nikolayevich Bulgakov (Russian: Серге́й Никола́евич Булга́ков; 28 July (O.S. 16 July) 1871 – 13 July 1944) was a Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, and economist. Orthodox writer and scholar David Bentley Hart has said that Bulgakov was "the greatest systematic theologian of the twentieth century."
Biography of Vicki Baum (excerpt)
Hedwig "Vicki" Baum was an Austrian writer, famous for her novel "Menschen im Hotel" ("People at a Hotel"), which became a hit film and musical.Born in Vienna into a Jewish family, Baum faced the early loss of her mother and lived under a tyrannical father.
Biography of Aleksandrs Caks (excerpt)
Aleksandrs Čaks (born Aleksandrs Čadarainis October 27, 1901 – February 8, 1950), was a Latvian poet and writer. Čaks is arguably the first Latvian writer whose works are distinctly urban, compared to the usual depictions of country life or small villages in earlier Latvian literature.
Biography of Xavier Grall (excerpt)
Xavier Grall (1930–1981) was a journalist and poet from Brittany, France, who was a strong advocate of Breton nationalism during the Third Emsav.His work glorifies a mystical Brittany. Bretonism Grall rediscovered his Breton identity in the 1970s, leaving Paris permanently in 1973, returning to Brittany to live at Bossulan Farm in Nizon, just outside Pont-Aven.
Biography of Dada Vaswani (excerpt)
Jashan Pahlajrai Vaswani (2 August 1918 – 12 July 2018), better known as Dada Vaswani, was an Indian spiritual leader.He promoted vegetarianism and animal rights, and was the spiritual head at the Sadhu Vaswani Mission founded by his Guru, Sadhu Vaswani.
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.
Biography of Herb Geller (excerpt)
Herbert Arnold Geller (November 2, 1928 – December 19, 2013) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger.He was born in Los Angeles, California, United States. Career After three years in New York, Geller joined the Billy May orchestra in 1952 and, following an engagement in Los Angeles, the Gellers returned there to live.
Biography of Louise Thuliez (excerpt)
Louise Thuliez (12 December 1881 – 10 October 1966) was a French schoolteacher, resistance fighter during World War I and World War II and author. Life and career Thuliez was born in Preux-au-Bois, northern France, on 12 December, 1881. When World War I broke out, Thuliez was working as a teacher in Saint-Waast-la Vallée.
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.
Biography of Mary Helen Young (excerpt)
Mary Helen Young (5 June 1883 – 14 March 1945) was a Scottish nurse and resistance fighter who helped British servicemen escape from Nazi-occupied France during World War II. She was imprisoned by the Gestapo and put to death at Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1945.
Biography of Henri Adeline (excerpt)
Henri Adeline (born May 8, 1898 in Verdun - died May 1, 1971 in Châlons-sur-Marne) is a French general and resistance fighter. He fought in the ranks of the French army during the two world wars, and enlisted from 1943 in the maquis of Dordogne then, during the Liberation, fought in the southwest and against the German pockets of Royan and La Rochelle. |
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