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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. ![]() ![]()
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Biography of Sylvie (actress) (excerpt)
Louise Pauline Mainguené, known as Sylvie (3 January 1883 – 5 January 1970), was a French actress. The daughter of a sailor and a teacher, Sylvie entered an acting conservatory where she won a class comedy award unanimously.She started her professional career in 1903 and she earned her first success with The Old Heidelberg.
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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.
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Biography of Bill Bill Henry (baseball) (excerpt)
William Rodman Henry (October 15, 1927 – April 11, 2014) was an American professional baseball player.A left-handed pitcher, he appeared in Major League Baseball between 1952 and 1969 for the Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, San Francisco Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Houston Astros.
Biography of René Ben Chemoul (excerpt)
René Ben Chemoul was a French wrestler, born January 8, 1925 in Paris and died September 17, 2010 in Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse. Adored by the crowd, he was nicknamed "the Tiger of Wrestling" and was one of the great stars of French wrestling from the 1950s to the 1970s. ![]()
Biography of Zenta Maurina (excerpt)
Zenta Mauriņa (15 December 1897 – 25 April 1978) was a Latvian writer, essayist, translator, and researcher in philology.She was married to the Electronic Voice Phenomena researcher Konstantin Raudive. Born to doctor Roberts Mauriņš, Zenta spent her childhood in Grobiņa, where, at the age of six, she contracted polio, leaving her confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life.
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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.
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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.
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Biography of Evert Taube (excerpt)
Axel Evert Taube (12 March 1890 – 31 January 1976) was a Swedish author, artist, composer and singer.He is widely regarded as one of Sweden's most respected musicians and the foremost troubadour of the Swedish ballad tradition in the 20th century.
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Biography of Erwin Strittmatter (excerpt)
Erwin Strittmatter (14 August 1912 – 31 January 1994) was a German writer.Strittmatter was one of the most famous writers in the GDR. Biography Strittmatter was born the son of a baker and foods wholesaler.Between 1924 and 1930 he attended the secondary school in Spremberg which has subsequently been named after him.
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Biography of Jennifer Holt (excerpt)
Jennifer Holt (born Elizabeth Marshall Holt; November 10, 1920 – September 21, 1997) was an American actress. Early years She was born in Los Angeles, California, to actor Jack Holt and his wife, Margaret Woods. She was the sister of western actor Tim Holt. ![]()
Biography of Jessie Redmon Fauset (excerpt)
Jessie Redmon Fauset (April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961) was an editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator. Her literary work helped sculpt African-American literature in the 1920s as she focused on portraying a true image of African-American life and history. Her black fictional characters were working professionals which was an inconceivable concept to American society during this time Her story lines related to themes of racial discrimination, "passing", and feminism.
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Biography of Lucien Choury (excerpt)
Lucien Choury (26 March 1898 – 6 May 1987) was a French cyclist. He won the gold medal in Men's tandem along with Jean Cugnot at the 1924 Summer Olympics.
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Biography of Jean Dinh Van (excerpt)
Jean Dinh Van, born September 11, 1927 in Boulogne-Billancourt and died July 3, 2022 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French jeweler. Considered one of the most creative French jewelers of the 1960s by the professional press, Jean Dinh Van reawakened the world of jewellery, still dominated at the time by a jewelery tradition of finery, worn with the outfits of great couturiers for exceptional occasions.
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Biography of André Mornet (excerpt)
Constant Victor André Mornet, born January 5, 1870 in La Châtre and died July 22, 1955 in Nohant-Vic, is a French magistrate. Both collaborator and resistance from 1943, he was the prosecutor for the trials of Pierre Laval and Philippe Pétain at the time of his release, which led to their death sentences, that of Pétain being commuted to life imprisonment because of his age.
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Biography of Kathryn McGuire (excerpt)
Kathryn McGuire (December 6, 1903 – October 10, 1978) was an American dancer and actress. Career While studying at the Hollywood High School, as well as her dancing, McGuire participated in a program exhibition at the Maryland Hotel in Pasadena. She was seen by Thomas H.
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Biography of Rachel Zylberberg (excerpt)
Rachel (Sarenka) Zylberberg (5 January 1920 – 8 May 1943 (age 23); 3 Iyar 5703 in Hebrew calendar) was an underground activist and participant in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.She held a key role in rousing the rebellion.Zylberberg was a member of Hashomer Hatzair, the Zionist-socialist youth movement.
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Biography of Willibald Nagel (excerpt)
Willibald Nagel (19 June 1870 – 13 November 1911) was a German physiologist, best known for his work in the field of sensory physiology. Born in Tübingen, Nagel earned doctorates in sciences (1892) and medicine (1893), obtaining his habilitation two years later at the University of Freiburg as an assistant to physiologist Johannes von Kries. ![]()
Biography of Nadejda Troïan (excerpt)
Nadezhda Viktorovna Troyan (Belarusian: Надзея Віктараўна Траян, Nadzieja Viktaraŭna Trajan; Russian: Надежда Викторовна Троян; 24 October 1921 – 7 September 2011) was a Soviet Belarusian intelligence officer who also served as a nurse in a partisan unit. She is most known for her role in the assassination of Wilhelm Kube, for which she and her fellow co-conspirators were honored with the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 29 October 1943.
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Biography of Ida Veldhuyzen van Zanten (excerpt)
Ida Laura Veldhuyzen van Zanten (22 June 1911 – 19 October 2000) was a Dutch pilot and social worker who was a member of the Dutch resistance during the Second World War and a pilot in the British Air Transport Auxiliary. ![]()
Biography of Hermine Braunsteiner (excerpt)
Hermine Braunsteiner, born July 16, 1919 in Vienna, Austria and died April 19, 1999, in Bochum, was a Nazi concentration camp guard (Aufseherin).She was the first Nazi war criminal to be extradited from the United States. In 1938, Hermine Braunsteiner became a German citizen and worked as an SS guard at Ravensbruck and then at the Majdanek concentration camp.
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Biography of Olga Petit (excerpt)
Olga Petit or Sophie Balachowsky-Petit (16 March 1870 – 1966) was a Russian-born, French lawyer.She is noted as the first woman to take the legal oath in France.She is also known for assisting Russian emigres settling in the country after the Russian Revolution.
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Biography of Karl Gebhardt (excerpt)
Karl Gebhardt (November 23, 1897 – June 2, 1948) was a Nazi doctor, the personal physician of Heinrich Himmler and one of the main coordinators and authors of medical experiments on prisoners of the Ravensbrück and Auschwitz concentration camps. After the war, Gebhardt was one of twenty-three defendants in the doctors' trial, held before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. ![]()
Biography of Eva Jessye (excerpt)
Eva Jessye (January 20, 1895 – February 21, 1992) was an American conductor who was the first black woman to receive international distinction as a professional choral conductor.She is notable as a choral conductor during the Harlem Renaissance.She created her own choral group which featured widely in performance.
Biography of Yvette Grollet-Briand (excerpt)
Yvette Grollet-Briand, born October 7, 1925 in Carhaix-Plouguer and died January 20, 2020 in Brest, was a French soldier of the Second World War, pilot in the female squadron created by the Minister of Air Charles Tillon in 1944-1946.
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Biography of Walkiria Terradura (excerpt)
Walkiria Terradura (born 9 January 1924) is an Italian anti-fascist partisan who was awarded the Silver Medal of Military Valour. One of five children of committed antifascist lawyer Gustavo Terradura and his wife Laura, Terradura witnessed her father's harassment and imprisonment several times during her youth.
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Biography of Curt Sachs (excerpt)
Curt Sachs, born June 29, 1881, and died February 5, 1959, was a German musicologist and a founder of modern organology, the study of musical instruments.He co-created the Hornbostel–Sachs system with Erich von Hornbostel. Born in Berlin, Sachs studied music but earned a doctorate in art history.
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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.
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Biography of Temple Bailey (excerpt)
Irene Temple Bailey (February 24, 1869 – July 6, 1953) was a popular American novelist and short story writer. Beginning around 1902, Temple Bailey was contributing stories to national magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Cavalier Magazine, Cosmopolitan, The American Magazine, McClure's, Woman's Home Companion, Good Housekeeping, McCall's and others.
Biography of Georges Bergé (excerpt)
Georges Bergé (Belmont, January 3, 1909 - Mimizan, September 15, 1997) is a French soldier, Companion of the Liberation. Rallying the Free French forces in 1940, he set up a company of French paratroopers with whom he carried out the first clandestine missions on occupied French territory.
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Biography of Boris Taslitzky (excerpt)
Boris Taslitzky, sometimes Boris Tazlitsky (September 30, 1911 – December 9, 2005), was a French painter with left-wing sympathies, best known for his figurative depictions of some difficult moments in the history of the twentieth century. His work is considered as representative of Socialist realism in art in France.
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Biography of Emile Hemmen (excerpt)
Emile Hemmen (6 December 1923 – 8 January 2021) was a lyric poet and writer from Luxembourg who lived in Mondorf-les-Bains. Hemmen was born in Sandweiler in December 1923. In his youth he refused to do military service for the German national socialist occupants and joined the resistance LPL "Lëtzebuerger Patrioteliga". ![]()
Biography of Nancy Astor (excerpt)
Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor, CH (19 May 1879 – 2 May 1964) was an American-born British politician who was the first woman seated as a Member of Parliament (MP), serving from 1919 to 1945.Astor was born in Danville, Virginia and raised in Greenwood, Virginia.
Biography of Roger Bastide (sports journalist) (excerpt)
Roger Jean Bastide, born June 2, 1917 in Marseille, died August 29, 1999, was a French sports journalist.
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Biography of Emma Padilla (excerpt)
Emma Padilla (April 27, 1899 – July 3, 1966 (respiratory failure, cerebral thrombosis, diabetes, age 67)) was Mexico's first film star. She was noted for her resemblance to, and copying the mannerisms of, Italian film star Pina Menichelli, particularly in La luz (1917), which was essentially a copy of the successful Italian film Il Fuoco (1915) starring Menichelli.
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Biography of Émilie Tillion (excerpt)
Émilie Tillion (née Cussac; 20 February 1876 – 2 March 1945) was a French writer and art critic. Tillion is known for her work on the popular "Les Guides Bleus" and as a member of French Resistance during the Second World War.
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Biography of Danuta Siedzikówna (excerpt)
Danuta Helena Siedzikówna (nom de guerre: Inka; underground name: Danuta Obuchowicz; 3 September 1928 – 28 August 1946) was a Polish medical orderly in the 4th Squadron of the 5th Wilno Brigade of the Home Army.In 1946 she served with the Brigade's 1st Squadron in Poland's Pomerania region.
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Biography of Silvio Zavala (excerpt)
Silvio Arturo Zavala Vallado (February 7, 1909 – December 4, 2014) was a Mexican historian who was considered to be a pioneer in law history studies and Mexico’s institutions. Early life Silvio Zavala was born on February 7, 1909, in Mérida, Yucatán.He studied at the National University of Mexico and at the University of Madrid, where he received a Ph.D. ![]()
Biography of Paul Guillaume (art dealer) (excerpt)
Paul Guillaume (28 November 1891 in Paris – 1 October 1934 in Paris) was a French art dealer. Dealer of Chaïm Soutine and Amedeo Modigliani, he was one of the first to organize African art exhibitions. He also bought and sold many works from cutting-edge artists of the time, such as Henri Matisse, Constantin Brâncuși, Pablo Picasso, and Giorgio de Chirico.
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Biography of Greta Andersen (excerpt)
Greta Marie Andersen (married names Jeppesen and Sonnichsen and Veress, 1 May 1927 – 6 February 2023) was a Danish swimmer who won a gold and a silver medal in 100 m freestyle events at the 1948 Summer Olympics. In the mid-1950s she moved to the United States, where she set several world records in marathon swimming in the distances up to 50 miles.
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Biography of Claude Cahun (excerpt)
Claude Cahun (born Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob; 25 October 1894 – 8 December 1954) was a French surrealist photographer, sculptor, and writer. Schwob adopted the pseudonym Claude Cahun in 1914. Cahun is best known as a writer and self-portraitist, who assumed a variety of performative personae.
Biography of Claude Bonnier (excerpt)
Claude Bonnier is an aeronautical engineer, French resistance fighter, born November 4, 1897 in Paris and died February 10, 1944 in Bouscat, in the suburbs of Bordeaux. Role in the Resistance He quickly joined the Resistance and settled first in Algiers then joined London in 1943.
Biography of Suzanne Spaak (excerpt)
Suzanne Spaak, née Augustine Lorge known as Suzette Spaak (6 July 1905 – 12 August 1944) was a World War II French Resistance operative. On 21 April 1985, Yad Vashem recognized Spaak as Righteous Among the Nations, for helping to smuggle several Jewish children to safety, by providing them with ration cards and clothing.
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Biography of Bessie Schonberg (excerpt)
Bessie Schonberg (December 27, 1906 – May 14, 1997) was a highly influential dancer, choreographer and teacher of the 20th century.She was at the center of contemporary modern dance from her beginning at Bennington College up until her death in 1997. ![]()
Biography of Antonie Pfülf (excerpt)
Antonie "Toni" Pfülf (14 December 1877 – 8 June 1933) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).An advocate of equal rights for women, she was a member of the Reichstag from 1920 to 1933 and one of the most prominent women in her party.
Biography of Maurice Bourdieu (excerpt)
Maurice Bourdieu, born November 27, 1918 in Bordeaux, died March 18, 1944 (aged 25), was a French aviator.
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Biography of Poul Schlüter (excerpt)
Poul Holmskov Schlüter (3 April 1929 – 27 May 2021) was a Danish politician who served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 1982 to 1993. He was the first member of the Conservative People's Party to become Prime Minister, as well as the first conservative to hold the office since 1901.
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Biography of Enid Yandell (excerpt)
Enid Yandell (October 6, 1869 – June 12, 1934) was an American sculptor from Louisville, Kentucky, who studied with Auguste Rodin in Paris, Philip Martiny in New York City, and Frederick William MacMonnies. Yandell specialized in portrait busts and monuments.She created numerous portraits, garden pieces and small works as well as public monuments.
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Biography of Mary Bunting (excerpt)
Mary Ingraham Bunting (July 10, 1910 – January 21, 1998) was a bacterial geneticist and an influential American college president; Time profiled her as the magazine's November 3, 1961, cover story.She became Radcliffe College's fifth president in 1960 and was responsible for fully integrating women into Harvard University. ![]()
Biography of Colin Chapman (excerpt)
Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman CBE (19 May 1928 – 16 December 1982) was an English design engineer, inventor, and builder in the automotive industry, and founder of Lotus Cars. In 1952 he founded the sports car company Lotus Cars.Chapman initially ran Lotus in his spare time, assisted by a group of enthusiasts.
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Biography of Sheila Sherlock (excerpt)
Dame Sheila Patricia Violet Sherlock DBE, FRCP FRCPE FRS HFRSE FMGA FCRGA (31 March 1918 – 30 December 2001) was a British physician and medical educator who is considered the major 20th-century contributor to the field of hepatology (the study of the liver). |
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