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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 Maurice Delbez (excerpt)
Maurice Delbez (28 July 1922 – 23 March 2020) was a French film director. From the age of 12, Delbez attended the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris. His parents sold their bistro and took up multiple jobs to help pay for this education. During World War II, Delbez, along with other self-proclaimed pacifist students, led a series of protests against German Occupation.
Biography of Juvencio Valle (excerpt)
Juvencio Valle, also known by the pseudonym Gilberto Concha Riffo (November 6, 1900 – February 12, 1999), was a noted Chilean poet. He is a recipient of the Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile, a National Prize awarded to poets of high reputation.
Biography of Zofia Romanowicz (excerpt)
Zofia Romanowicz (born Zofia Górska; 18 October 1922 – 28 March 2010) was a Polish émigré novelist, essayist, poet, and translator and an eminent member of the Polish literary and cultural communities in exile as well as Parisian intellectual circles. Born in Radom, Zofia Górska was 16 when World War II broke out on September 1, 1939.
Biography of Lou Bandy (excerpt)
Lodewijk Ferdinand Dieben (April 19, 1890 – June 24, 1959), known as Lou Bandy, was a popular Dutch singer and conferencier between the world wars. Raised in The Hague, he worked various jobs before starting his entertainment career in 1915. Initially performing with his brother as The Bandy Brothers, he later pursued a solo career.
Biography of Tamara Karsavina (excerpt)
Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (9 March 1885 – 26 May 1978) was a Russian prima ballerina, renowned for her beauty, who was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later of the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev. After settling in Britain at Hampstead in London, she began teaching ballet professionally and became recognised as one of the founders of modern British ballet.
Biography of André Heuzé (excerpt)
André Heuzé, or sometimes André Heuse, (5 December 1880, in Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines –16 August 1942 in Paris) was a French movie director, screenwriter and playwright. Selected filmography Actor 1923 : La Rue du pavé d'amour by André Hugon 1928 : Little Devil May Care as André Bucaille
Biography of Dolores Costello (excerpt)
Dolores Costello (September 17, 1903 – March 1, 1979) was an American actress best known for her work in silent films. Nicknamed "The Goddess of the Silent Screen" by her first husband, John Barrymore, she was the mother of John Drew Barrymore and grandmother of Drew Barrymore.
Biography of Rosa Chacel (excerpt)
Rosa Chacel Arimón, born on June 3, 1898, in Valladolid, Spain, was a prominent and sometimes controversial Spanish writer. Growing up in Madrid from 1908, she pursued education in the arts and became actively involved in feminist movements. Chacel's early literary contributions began in the 1920s, and she married painter Timoteo Perez Rubio in 1921.
Biography of Maisie Renault (excerpt)
Maisie Renault (13 December 1907 – 7 April 2003) was a French Resistance fighter, a member of the Confrérie Notre-Dame network, she was arrested in 1942 and deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1944. Awards Renault received the Legion of Honor, the Croix de Guerre and the Resistance medal.
Biography of Rodolfo Graziani (excerpt)
Rodolfo Graziani (11 August 1882 – 11 January 1955) was a notable Italian military officer and a committed fascist. He was influential in Italy's colonial campaigns in Libya and Ethiopia, where he gained notoriety for using brutal repressive measures including concentration camps and mass executions.
Biography of Lao She (excerpt)
Shu Qingchun (3 February 1899 – 24 August 1966), known by his pen name Lao She, was a Manchu novelist and dramatist. He was a writer of 20th-century Chinese literature, known for his novel Rickshaw Boy and the play Teahouse (茶馆). He was of Manchu ethnicity, and his works are known for their vivid use of the Beijing dialect.
Biography of Andrei Platonov (excerpt)
Andrei Platonovich Platonov (born Klimentov (Russian: Климе́нтов); 28 August (O.S.16 August) 1899 – 5 January 1951) was a Soviet Russian novelist, short story writer, philosopher, engineer, playwright, and poet. Although Platonov regarded himself as a communist, his principal works remained unpublished in his lifetime because of their skeptical attitude toward collectivization of agriculture (1929–1940) and other Stalinist policies, as well as for their experimental, avant-garde form infused with existentialism.
Biography of Cecilia Miranda de Carvalho (excerpt)
Cecilia Miranda de Carvalho (née da Cunha; 20 October 1913 – 21 May 2011) was a Brazilian singer. She was Carmen Miranda and Aurora Miranda's sister. Cecilia Miranda da Cunha was born in Rio de Janeiro on October 20, 1913. She was the fourth daughter of the Portuguese marriage José Pinto da Cunha (1887–1938) and Maria Emilia Miranda (1886–1971).
Biography of Joan Woodbury (excerpt)
Joan Woodbury, an American actress born in Los Angeles in 1915, began her career in the 1930s, thriving into the 1960s. She grew up in a prominent family, with her mother a former Rose Queen and in vaudeville. Woodbury discovered acting early, leading to roles in films like "Eight Girls in a Boat." Her career rose significantly by 1936, showcasing her ethnic versatility in various roles.
Biography of Martha Blackman (excerpt)
Martha Elizabeth Blackman (January 1, 1927 – November 17, 2021) was an American viola da gamba player and lutenist. Blackman was born in Dallas, Texas.She studied cello at the Juilliard School under Leonard Rose.Receiving a Fulbright Scholarship (1953–54), she studied the viola da gamba, first in Munich and then at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg.
Biography of Virginia Vale (excerpt)
Virginia Vale (born Dorothy Howe, May 20, 1920 – September 14, 2006) was an American film actress. She starred in a number of B-movie westerns but took a variety of other roles as well, notably in Blonde Comet (1941), in which she played a race car driver.
Biography of Gordon Chung-Hoon (excerpt)
Gordon Paiʻea Chung-Hoon (July 25, 1910 – July 24, 1979) was an admiral in the United States Navy, who served during World War II and was the first Asian American flag officer. He received the Navy Cross and Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry and extraordinary heroism as commanding officer of USS Sigsbee from May 1944 to October 1945.
Biography of Mary Nolan (excerpt)
Mary Nolan (born Mariam Imogene Robertson; December 18, 1902 – October 31, 1948) was an American stage and film actress, singer and dancer.She began her career as a Ziegfeld girl in the 1920s performing under the stage name Imogene "Bubbles" Wilson.
Biography of Karlis Skalbe (excerpt)
Kārlis Skalbe (November 7 (O.S. October 26) 1879 — 1945 April 14) was a Latvian writer, poet, and activist. He is best known for his 72 fairy tales which are really written for adults. He has been called the 'King of Fairytales', and his words, Tēvzemei un Brīvībai (For Fatherland and Freedom), are inscribed on the Monument of Freedom in Riga.
Biography of Germán Valdés (excerpt)
Germán Genaro Cipriano Teodoro Gómez Valdés y Castillo (19 September 1915 – 29 June 1973), known professionally as Tin-Tan, was a Mexican actor, singer and comedian who was born in Mexico City but was raised and began his career in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua.
Biography of Hans Henkemans (excerpt)
Hans Henkemans (The Hague, 23 December 1913 – Nieuwegein, 29 December 1995) was a Dutch pianist, teacher, composer of classical music and psychiatrist. Henkemans was one of the most important Dutch composers of his time.From 1926 to 1931 he studied piano and composition with Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer, and from 1933 to 1938 with Willem Pijper.
Biography of Noël Delberghe (excerpt)
Noël Delberghe, born December 25, 1897, in Tourcoing and died September 17, 1965, in Paris, was a French water polo player. Noël Delberghe was a member of the Enfants de Neptune of Tourcoing. He won the Olympic gold medal in water polo at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris and earned a silver medal at the 1927 European Championships in Bologna.
Biography of Wah Chang (designer) (excerpt)
Wah Ming Chang (August 2, 1917 – December 22, 2003) was an American designer, sculptor, and artist. With the encouragement of his adoptive father, James Blanding Sloan, he began exhibiting his prints and watercolors at the age of seven to highly favorable reviews.
Biography of David Webster (opera manager) (excerpt)
Sir David Lumsden Webster KCVO FRCM (3 July 1903 – 9 May 1971) was the chief executive of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, from 1945 to 1970. He played a key part in the establishment of the Royal Ballet and Royal Opera companies.
Biography of Max Factor Sr. (excerpt)
Max Factor Sr. (September 15, 1872 – August 30, 1938), born Maksymilian Faktorowicz, was a Polish-American businessman, beautician, entrepreneur and inventor. As a founder of the cosmetics giant Max Factor & Company, he largely developed the modern cosmetics industry in the United States and popularized the term "make-up" in noun form based on the verb.
Biography of Andrée Dupeyron (excerpt)
Andrée (Julie Victorine Andréa Eugénie) Dupeyron born Mailho (October 19, 1902 in Ivry-sur-Seine - July 22, 1988 in Mont-de-Marsan) was a French civilian and military aviator.
Biography of Raoul Breton (excerpt)
Raoul Breton, born on August 26, 1896, in Vierzon and died at sea on April 23, 1959, was a French music publisher. Initially a dancer, he ventured into music publishing in 1933, discovering talents like Damia, Mireille, and Jean Nohain. His pivotal encounter with Charles Trenet propelled Trenet to international fame.
Biography of Jean Carmen (excerpt)
Jean Carmen, born Jean Carmean on April 7, 1913, was an American actress known for her work in film, stage, and radio. She used the stage name Julia Thayer at times. Carmen starred on Broadway in "The Man Who Came to Dinner" and had notable roles in 1930s films, including the 1937 western serial "The Painted Stallion."
Biography of Richard Gaines (excerpt)
Richard Houston Gaines (July 23, 1904 – July 20, 1975) was an American actor.He appeared in over 75 film and television productions between 1940 and 1962. Early years Gaines was born in Indian Territory and grew up in Texas, learning "to handle the ax, the plough, and the lariat".
Biography of Maud Mannoni (excerpt)
Maud Mannoni (born Magdalena Van der Spoel; 22 October 1923 – 15 March 1998) was a French psychoanalyst of Belgian origin, who married Octave Mannoni and became a major figure of the Lacanian movement. Life She was born as Magdalena Van der Spoel in the Belgian city of Kortrijk, but spent her early childhood in Ceylon.
Biography of Harvey Brooks (physicist) (excerpt)
Harvey Brooks (August 5, 1915 – May 28, 2004) was an American physicist, renowned for integrating science into public policy and shaping national science policies under Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson. He made significant contributions to the theory of semiconductors and metal band structure, and was the dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University.
Biography of Jean Bertrand (aviator) (excerpt)
Jean Bertrand, born on October 3, 1907 in Courban and reported missing on August 26, 1944 (aged 37), was a French aviator. He actively participated in the campaign of France and won during the single day of May 14, 1940 3 aerial victories.
Biography of Jeanne Matthey (excerpt)
Jeanne-Marie Matthey-Jonais (25 January 1886 – 24 November 1980) was a French tennis player. She competed during the first two decades of the 20th century. Matthey won the French Open Women's Singles Championship four times in succession from 1909 to 1912, but lost the 1913 final to Marguerite Broquedis.
Biography of Delphin (French actor) (excerpt)
Delphin Sirvaux, better known as Delphin, was a French dwarf actor born on October 12, 1882, in Les Fessey (Haute-Saône) and died by suicide on May 6, 1938, in Paris. Encouraged by Auguste Lamboley, another dwarf from the region, he moved to Paris and gained recognition at the 1900 Exposition and in Montmartre cabarets.
Biography of Ivan Bonar (excerpt)
Ivan Eugene Bonar (October 31, 1924 – December 8, 1988) was an American character actor whose career in Hollywood spanned four decades, from the mid-1950s to the 1980s. He appeared in notable films such as "Night of the Quarter Moon" (1959), "MacArthur" (1977), and "Same Time Next Year" (1978).
Biography of Agustín Muñoz Grandes (excerpt)
Agustín Muñoz Grandes (January 27, 1896 – July 11, 1970) was a Spanish general and politician, vice-president of the Spanish Government and minister several times under Francisco Franco. Born in Madrid, he joined the Toledo Infantry Academy and was deployed to Morocco in 1915.
Biography of Jeanne Provost (excerpt)
Jeanne Provost (28 November 1887 – 24 November 1980) was a French stage and film actress. She was a member of the Comédie-Française from 1907 to 1912. In 1928 she appeared in the original cast of Marcel Pagnol's play Topaze. Selected filmography
Biography of Art Lund (excerpt)
Arthur Lund (1915-1990) was an American baritone singer and actor.A graduate in aerological engineering, he began his career as a high school math teacher and musician, eventually working with Benny Goodman and Harry James. His solo hit "Mam'selle" topped the Billboard chart in 1947.
Biography of Anna Hofman-Uddgren (excerpt)
Anna Maria Viktoria Hofman-Uddgren (23 February 1868 – 1 June 1947) née Hammarström; also known as Hoffman and Hofmann, was a Swedish actress, cabaret singer, music hall and revue artist, theatre director, and film director. Until 2016, she was referred to as the first woman to become a film director in Sweden.
Biography of Kurt Herdemerten (excerpt)
Kurt Herdemerten (* August 17, 1900, in Dresden; † December 21, 1951, in Essen) was a German mining engineer and polar explorer. Herdemerten grew up in Upper Silesia and studied geology and mining. He participated in the 1930/31 German Greenland Expedition led by Alfred Wegener, where he conducted seismic measurements of the ice sheet’s thickness.
Biography of Lotte Ulbricht (excerpt)
Charlotte "Lotte" Ulbricht (née Kühn; April 19, 1903 – March 27, 2002) was an official of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and the second wife of East German leader Walter Ulbricht. Born in Rixdorf, she worked as an office worker before joining the communist movement in 1919.
Biography of Carlos Torre Repetto (excerpt)
Carlos Torre Repetto (November 23, 1904 or 1905 – March 19, 1978, in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico) was a great Mexican chess grandmaster. Chess Career Torre won the Louisiana Championship in New Orleans in 1923. He finished first in Detroit in 1924, ahead of Samuel Factor, Hahlbohm, Norman Whitaker, Samuel Reshevsky, and others, and also in Rochester the same year.
Biography of Maria Silva Cruz (excerpt)
Maria Silva Cruz (April 20, 1915 – August 23, 1936), an Andalusian anarchist known as "La Libertaria," was a hero of the Casas Viejas Uprising in Spain. Born in Cádiz, her parents were day laborers, and her father and uncle were members of the CNT, an anarchist group.
Biography of Ray McAnally (excerpt)
Ray McAnally (30 March 1926 – 15 June 1989) was an Irish actor.He was the recipient of three BAFTA Awards in the late 1980s: two BAFTA Film Awards for Best Supporting Actor (for The Mission in 1986 and My Left Foot in 1989), and a BAFTA Television Award for Best Actor for A Very British Coup in 1989.
Biography of Paul Ben-Haim (excerpt)
Paul Ben-Haim (or Paul Ben-Chaim, Hebrew: פאול בן חיים) (5 July 1897 – 14 January 1984) was an Israeli composer.Born Paul Frankenburger in Munich, Germany, he studied composition with Friedrich Klose and he was assistant conductor to Bruno Walter and Hans Knappertsbusch from 1920 to 1924.
Biography of Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia (excerpt)
Infante Jaime of Spain, Duke of Segovia (Spanish: Don Jaime Leopoldo Isabelino Enrique Alejandro Alberto Alfonso Víctor Acacio Pedro Pablo María de Borbón-Segovia y Battenberg; French: Jacques Léopold Isabellin Henri Alexandre Albért Alphonse Victor Acace Pierre Paul Marie de Bourbon; 23 June 1908 – 20 March 1975) was the second son of Alfonso XIII, King of Spain and his wife Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg.
Biography of Paul Stewart (actor) (excerpt)
Paul Stewart (born Paul Sternberg; March 13, 1908 – February 17, 1986) was an American character actor, director and producer who worked in theatre, radio, films and television.He frequently portrayed cynical and sinister characters throughout his career. A friend and associate of Orson Welles for many years, Stewart helped Welles get his first job in radio and was associate producer of the celebrated radio program "The War of the Worlds", in which he also performed.
Biography of Michel Charpentier (sculptor) (excerpt)
Michel Charpentier (6 September 1927 – 2 July 2023) was a French sculptor and medalist. Born in Auvers-sur-Oise on 6 September 1927, Charpentier received the Prix de Rome in 1951 and stayed at the Prix de Rome until 1955.In 1963, he received the Prix Malraux at the Biennale de Paris.
Biography of Blandine Ebinger (excerpt)
Blandine Ebinger, born Blandine Loeser on November 4, 1899, died on 25 December 1993, was a German actress and chansonniere. Introduced to Friedrich Hollaender in 1919, she thrived in the Berlin cabaret scene of the 1920s, performing, writing, and composing, and recorded many of Hollaender's cabaret songs.
Biography of Maria Vetulani de Nisau (excerpt)
Maria de Nisau née Vetulani (27 November 1898 – 2 September 1944) was a Polish woman soldier, combatant for Poland's independence, and participant in the Polish-Ukrainian War and World War II. She was the daughter of an engineer, Franciszek Vetulani (1856−1921), and Katarzyna Ipohorska-Lenkiewicz (1868−1915). |
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