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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 Édith Clark (excerpt)
Edith Georgette Clark (also known as Edith Boiteux, 5 June 1904 – 16 March 1937) was a French aviator and parachutist. Biography Clark was born in Cuffy, in the Cher region of France, on 5 June 1904.She worked as a typist and became interested in aviation; however, she could not afford the expenses of flying lessons on her salary.
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Biography of Zofia Nalkowska (excerpt)
Zofia Nałkowska (10 November 1884, in Warsaw, Congress Poland – 17 December 1954, in Warsaw) was a Polish prose writer, dramatist, and prolific essayist. She served as the executive member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature (1933–1939) during the interwar period.
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.
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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 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).
Biography of Robert Rigot (sculpteur) (excerpt)
Robert Rigot (14 September 1929 – 1 June 2023) was a French sculptor. Born in Buxy on 14 September 1929, Rigot grew up in a family of stonecutters, where he developed his talents prior to his admission to the Beaux-Arts de Paris.
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Biography of Sverre Matheson Halbo (excerpt)
Sverre Matheson Halbo (25 December 1899 – 27 July 1991) was a Norwegian jurist and officer. He was a genealogist and wrote several books about his family. He worked in the Norwegian Goldsmiths' Association for 36 years. Halbo helped start the national association Build your country after the end of the war in 1945 and was chairman of the board for 14 years in the association.
Biography of Yves Carbon (excerpt)
Yves Carbon, born April 3, 1911 in Lembeye, died October 25, 1949 (air crash at age 38), was a French aviator.
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. ![]()
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.
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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. ![]()
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.
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Biography of Bill Bowerman (excerpt)
William Jay Bowerman (February 19, 1911 – December 24, 1999) was an American track and field coach and co-founder of Nike, Inc. Over his career, he trained 31 Olympic athletes, 51 All-Americans, 12 American record-holders, 22 NCAA champions and 16 sub-4 minute milers.
Biography of Roger Bucher (excerpt)
Roger Bucher, born November 4, 1911 in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), was an Army volunteer who became second-in-command rifleman to serve in the 1st BFMC.He was a member of the Kieffer commando. 1er Bataillon de Fusiliers Marins Commandos was a Fusiliers Marins commando unit of the Free French Navy, raised in 1942, which served during the Second World War.
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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 Fernande Volral (excerpt)
ernande Volral (7 October 1920 – 7 August 1944), was a Belgian resistance fighter during World War II. Fernande Volral was born in Champigneulles, near Nancy, in October 1920. During the 1930s, her family moved to Charleroi, in Belgium. When she became an adult, she moved to Jette, launching a career in fashion.
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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.
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Biography of Elly Ney (excerpt)
Elly Ney (27 September 1882 – 31 March 1968) was a German romantic pianist who specialized in Beethoven, and was especially popular in Germany. Personal life Elly Ney was married twice; first, in 1911, to the Dutch conductor Willem van Hoogstraten.They had one daughter, Eleonore (1918–2007).
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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 Rex Bell (excerpt)
Rex Bell, born George Francis Beldam on October 16, 1903, was an American actor and politician, predominantly known for his roles in Western films. His film debut was in 1928's "Wild West Romance." Notably, he starred in the 1930 movie "True to the Navy," alongside Clara Bow, whom he married in 1931.
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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.
Biography of Roger Bordier (excerpt)
Roger Bordier (5 March 1923 – June 2015) was a French writer, journalist, and poet, winner of the 1961 Prix Renaudot. Bordier was born in Blois.He began working as a journalist in Blois and Paris.He then became an art critic for Art today.
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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.
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Biography of Anne W. Armstrong (excerpt)
Anne Wetzell Armstrong (September 20, 1872 – March 17, 1958) was an American novelist and businesswoman, active primarily in the first half of the 20th century. She is best known for her novel, This Day and Time, an account of life in a rural Appalachian community.
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Biography of Lois Nettleton (excerpt)
Lois June Nettleton (August 16, 1927 – January 18, 2008) was an American film, stage, radio and television actress.She received three Primetime Emmy Award nominations and won two Daytime Emmy Awards. Personal life and death Nettleton was the first caller to Jean Shepherd's late-night radio program on WOR, later becoming his third wife. ![]()
Biography of Mary Greyeyes (excerpt)
Mary Greyeyes Reid (November 14, 1920 – March 31, 2011) was a Canadian World War II servicewoman. A Cree from the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in Saskatchewan, she was the first First Nations woman to enlist in the Canadian Armed Forces.
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Biography of Lin Jaldati (excerpt)
Lin Jaldati (born Rebekka Brilleslijper; 13 December 1912 – 31 August 1988) was a Dutch-born, East German-based Yiddish singer.She was a Holocaust survivor, and one of the last people to see Anne Frank.After the war she published an article, "Memories of Anne Frank," in Joachim Hellwig and Günther Deicke's book A Diary for Anne Frank.
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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 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.
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Biography of Vladimir Pozner (excerpt)
Vladimir Solomonovich Pozner (Russian: Влади́мир Соломо́нович По́знер; 5 January 1905 in Paris – 19 February 1992 in Paris) was a French writer and translator of Russian-Jewish descent.His family fled the pogroms to take up residence in France.Pozner expanded on his inherited cultural socialism to associate both in writing and politics with anti-fascist and communist groups in the inter-war period. ![]()
Biography of Til Gardeniers-Berendsen (excerpt)
Mathilde Hubertine Maria Francisca "Til" Gardeniers-Berendsen (18 February 1925 – 22 October 2019) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Catholic People's Party (KVP) and later the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and nonprofit director. In February 1983 Gardeniers-Berendsen was nominated as a Member of the Council of State, she resigned as a Member of the House of Representatives on 23 February 1983 and was installed as a Member of the Council of State, serving from 1 March 1983 until 1 March 1995.
Biography of Frédéric Petitjean de La Rosière (excerpt)
Delly is the joint pen name of a brother and a sister, Jeanne-Marie Petitjean de La Rosière, born in Avignon on September 13, 1875, and Frédéric Petitjean de La Rosière, born in Vannes on September 6, 1876, authors of popular romance novels.
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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.
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Biography of Louis Saalborn (excerpt)
Louis Saalborn (Louis Alexander Abraham Zaalborn, born June 13, 1891 in Rotterdam and died June 18, 1957 (aged 66, unknown unspecified) in Amsterdam) is a Dutch director, actor, painter and musician. Louis Saalborn was one of the pioneers of abstract art and had exhibitions with Erich Wichmann (nl) and Theo van Doesburg. ![]()
Biography of Kirby Grant (excerpt)
Kirby Grant (November 24, 1911 – October 30, 1985), born Kirby Grant Hoon Jr., was a long-time B movie and television actor, mostly remembered for having played the title role in the Western-themed adventure television series Sky King. Between 1949 and 1954, Grant starred in 10 Mounted-Police adventures, usually in the role of Corporal Rod Webb.
Biography of Michel Renault (dancer) (excerpt)
Michel Renault, born December 15, 1927 in Paris, died January 29, 1993, was a French dancer and dance teacher. From 1972 to 1987, Michel Renault taught at the Paris Opera, from 1973 to 1974 at the Shool of America Ballet, from 1990 to 1991 in Lisbon and Japan and finally at the Paris Opera School of Dance. ![]()
Biography of Soong Mei-ling (excerpt)
Soong Mei-ling (also spelled Soong May-ling; March 5, 1898 – October 23, 2003), also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Chinese: 蔣介石夫人) or Madame Chiang (Chinese: 蔣夫人), was a Chinese political figure who was First Lady of the Republic of China, the wife of President Chiang Kai-shek of the Republic of China.
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Biography of Libertas Schulze-Boysen (excerpt)
Libertas "Libs" Schulze-Boysen, born Libertas Viktoria Haas-Heye (20 November 1913 in Paris – 22 December 1942 in Plötzensee Prison ) was a German aristocrat, journalist, and resistance fighter against the Nazis.From the early 1930s to 1940, Libs attempted to build a literary career, initially as a press officer and later as a writer and journalist.
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Biography of Louis Nallard (excerpt)
Louis Nallard, born June 17, 1918 in Algiers and died October 15, 2016 in Paris, is a French non-figurative painter of the new School of Paris. Born in 1918 in Algiers, Louis Nallard lost his mother to the Spanish flu and was raised by his grandparents.
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Biography of Concha Espina (excerpt)
María de la Concepción Jesusa Basilisa Rodríguez-Espina y García-Tagle, short form Concha Espina, 15 April 1869 in Santander – 19 May 1955 in Madrid), was a Spanish writer. She was nominated for a Nobel prize in literature 25 times in 28 years. ![]()
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 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. ![]()
Biography of Therese Brandl (excerpt)
herese Brandl (1 February 1902 – 24 January 1948) was a Nazi concentration camp guard. In March 1942, Brandl was among the SS women assigned to Auschwitz I concentration camp.Her duties included watching over women in the sorting sheds and as the SS Rapportaufseherin. ![]()
Biography of Marie Kalff (excerpt)
Marie Kalff, born Johanna Maria Kalff on July 29, 1874, was a Dutch-born actress based in Paris.Born in Amsterdam to a bank director, she spent part of her childhood in Java. Kalff's acting career in Paris spanned from 1904 to 1929, mainly at Théâtre Antoine-Simone Berriau and Théâtre de l'Œuvre.
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Biography of Georges Lapassade (excerpt)
Georges Lapassade, born on May 10, 1924, in Arbus, Basses-Pyrénées, and died on July 30, 2008, in Stains, Seine-Saint-Denis, was a French psychosociologist and academic. He had a distinguished career as a professor of educational sciences at the University of Paris-8.
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Biography of Elena Fortún (excerpt)
María de la Encarnación Gertrudis Jacoba Aragoneses y de Urquijo (November 18, 1886, Madrid – May 8, 1952, Madrid) was a Spanish author of children's literature known by her pen name Elena Fortún. She gained fame with her series starting with "Celia, lo que dice" (1929), which became classics of Spanish literature.
Biography of George Haines (excerpt)
George Frederick Haines (March 9, 1924 – May 1, 2006) was a competitive swimmer and coach who for twenty-three years coached the highly successful Santa Clara Swim Club which he founded in 1951. He later coached UCLA, Stanford University, and six U.S.
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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.
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Biography of Teresa Mattei (excerpt)
Teresa Mattei, also known as Teresita (1 February 1921 – 12 March 2013) was an Italian partisan and politician. Background Born in Genoa, in 1938 Mattei was expelled from all schools of the Kingdom of Italy for openly criticizing in her classroom the Racial laws.
Biography of Jacques Galton (excerpt)
Jacques Galton, born on June 2, 1912 in Paramé, died in 1978, was a marine rifleman, member of the Kieffer commando. 1er Bataillon de Fusiliers Marins Commandos was a Fusiliers Marins commando unit of the Free French Navy, raised in 1942, which served during the Second World War. |
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