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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 Lyndon Brook (excerpt)
Lyndon Brook (10 April 1926 – 9 January 2004) was a British actor, on film and television. Family and early life Lyndon Brook was born on 10 April 1926 in Los Angeles, California, to British parents.He came from an established acting family: his father, Clive Brook, had been a star of the silent movies and had moved to Hollywood to play quintessential Englishmen in a host of films. ![]()
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).
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Biography of Arve Opsahl (excerpt)
Arve Opsahl (14 May 1921 – 29 April 2007) was a Norwegian movie and stage actor, singer and stand-up comedian. Opsahl began his career as a comedian in 1942, and played numerous roles both on stage and in more than forty movies.
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Biography of Ursula Franklin (excerpt)
Ursula Martius Franklin CC OOnt FRSC (16 September 1921 – 22 July 2016) was a Canadian metallurgist, research physicist, author, and educator who taught at the University of Toronto for more than 40 years.Franklin is best known for her writings on the political and social effects of technology.
Biography of Hugh Watson (excerpt)
Admiral Sir Hugh Dudley Richards Watson KCB, CVO, CBE (20 April 1872 – 22 May 1954) was a Royal Navy officer who became Naval Secretary. Naval career Watson joined the Royal Navy in 1885.From 6 May 1902 he served as 1st Lieutenant on the armoured cruiser HMS Sutlej, soon to be commissioned for service on the China station.
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Biography of Wanda Krahelska (excerpt)
Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz (15 December 1886 – 5 February 1968), code name “Alinka”” or “Alicja”, was a leading figure in Warsaw’s underground resistance movement throughout the years of German occupation during World War II in Poland, co-founder of Żegota. As the well-connected wife of a former ambassador to Washington, she used her contacts with both the military and political leadership of the Polish Underground to materially influence the underground's policy of aiding Poland's Jewish population during the war. ![]()
Biography of Geneviève Aclocque (excerpt)
Geneviève Aclocque (Léopoldine Marcelle Geneviève Aclocque) (5 May 1884 - 28 August 1967) was a French historian. In 1906, She became the first woman to be admitted to the École Nationale des Chartes.She graduated in 1910. In 1917 she published a “historical study of the trades at Chartres.” An ordinance of wool makers at Chartres allowed women to participate in trade.
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Biography of Tito Lusiardo (excerpt)
Tito Lusiardo (September 13, 1896 – June 25, 1982 in Buenos Aires) was an iconic Argentine film actor and tango singer of the classic era. Lusiardo began acting for film in 1933 and made some 50 film appearances as an actor. He began appearing in tango films in the 1930s such as Idolos de la radio (1934), Así es el tango (1937), Adiós Buenos Aires (1938) and Así te quiero (1942).
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Biography of Carl Switzer (excerpt)
Carl Dean Switzer (August 8, 1927 – January 21, 1959) was an American singer, child actor, dog breeder, and guide.He was best known for his role as Alfalfa in the short subjects series Our Gang. Switzer began his career as a child actor in the mid-1930s appearing in the Our Gang short subjects series as Alfalfa, one of the series' most popular and best-remembered characters.
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Biography of Leonard Schapiro (excerpt)
Leonard Bertram Naman Schapiro CBE (22 April 1908 in Glasgow – 2 November 1983 in London) was the leading British scholar of the origins and development of the Soviet political system.He taught for many years at the London School of Economics, where he was Professor of Political Science with Special Reference to Russian Studies.
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Biography of Gregorio Marañón (excerpt)
Gregorio Marañón y Posadillo, OWL (19 May 1887 – 27 March 1960) was a Spanish physician, scientist, historian, writer and philosopher.He married Dolores Moya in 1911, and they had four children (Carmen, Belén, María Isabel and Gregorio). Gregorio Marañón, a Spanish intellectual known for his austere, humanist, and liberal values, is considered one of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century.
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Biography of Sidónio Pais (excerpt)
Sidónio Bernardino Cardoso da Silva Pais CavC OA CavA (pronounced ; 1 May 1872 – 14 December 1918) was a Portuguese politician, military officer, and diplomat, who served as the fourth president of the First Portuguese Republic in 1918. One of the most divisive figures in modern Portuguese history, he was referred to by the writer Fernando Pessoa as the "President-King", a description that stuck in later years and symbolizes his regime.
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Biography of Marc Herrand (excerpt)
Marc Herrand, whose real name is Marc Holtz, born May 9, 1925 in Alsace and died July 17, 2023 in Strasbourg, is a French musician, co-founder and first musical director of the Compagnons de la Chanson. Les Compagnons de la chanson were a French harmony vocal group, formed in 1946 from an earlier group founded in Lyon, France in 1941.
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Biography of Angiola Minella (excerpt)
Angiola Minella Molinari (3 February 1920 – 12 March 1988) was an Italian politician. She was elected to the Constituent Assembly in 1946 as one of the first group of women parliamentarians in Italy. She subsequently served for two non-consecutive terms in the Chamber of Deputies and two in the Senate.
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Biography of Jakob van Hoddis (excerpt)
Jakob van Hoddis, born Hans Davidsohn, was a German expressionist poet, born on May 16, 1887, in Berlin, and perished in 1942 at Sobibor.A friend of Georg Heym, he was a forerunner of Dadaism.As a poet, Jew, and mentally ill person, he became a symbolic victim of the Nazis' extermination policy.
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Biography of Fritz Rentrop (excerpt)
Fritz Rentrop, born on November 19, 1917, in Münster, Westphalia, and presumed dead on February 2, 1945, was an officer of the Waffen-SS during World War II, holding the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
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Biography of Kurt Tucholsky (excerpt)
Kurt Tucholsky, born on January 9, 1890, in Berlin and died on December 21, 1935, in Gothenburg, was a German journalist and writer. He was one of the most important authors of the Weimar Republic. As a politically engaged journalist and co-editor of the weekly Die Weltbühne, he emerged as a social critic in the tradition of Heinrich Heine.
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Biography of Suzan Rose Benedict (excerpt)
Suzan Rose Benedict (November 29, 1873 – April 8, 1942) was the first woman awarded a Ph.D.in Mathematics from the University of Michigan and had a long teaching career at Smith College. Career at Smith College Suzan returned to Smith as an associate professor after receiving her PhD.
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Biography of Olga Orozco (excerpt)
Olga Orozco (17 March 1920 – 15 August 1999) (real name Olga Noemí Gugliotta Orozco) was an Argentine poet.She was a recipient of the FIL Award.Her approximate time comes from indications given in one of her books. She was born in Toay, La Pampa, to Carmelo Gugliotta, a Sicilian from Capo d'Orlando, and an Argentinean mother, Cecilia Orozco.
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Biography of Evelyn McHale (excerpt)
Evelyn Francis McHale (September 20, 1923 – May 1, 1947) was an American bookkeeper who jumped from the 86th-floor observation deck of the Empire State Building, resulting in a famous photograph of her body on a crushed car, labeled "the most beautiful suicide" by Time magazine.
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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 Tucker McGuire (excerpt)
Anne Tucker McGuire (29 January 1913 in Winchester, Virginia, US – 3 August 1988 in London, England) was an American-born actress who appeared largely in British films and television. She married actor Tom Macaulay. She appeared in the 1949 West End musical Her Excellency.
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Biography of Karolina Lanckoronska (excerpt)
Countess Karolina Maria Adelajda Franciszka Ksawera Małgorzata Edina Lanckorońska (11 August 1898 — 25 August 2002) was a Polish noble, World War II resistance fighter, philanthropist, and historian. Lanckorońska bequeathed her family's enormous art collection to Poland only after her homeland became free from communism and Soviet domination during the Revolutions of 1989.
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Biography of James Douglas (actor) (excerpt)
James Douglas (May 20, 1929 – March 5, 2016) was an American actor probably best known for his role as Grant Colman on As the World Turns (1974–81, with return appearances in 1986 and 1989). Born in Los Angeles, Douglas was the son of Stan Johnson, himself an actor.
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Biography of Emilia Fogelklou (excerpt)
Emilia Fogelklou, born July 20, 1878 in Simrishamn and died September 26, 1972 in Uppsala, is a Swedish theologian and woman of letters. In 1909, she was the first woman to graduate in theology in her country. After studying at a normal school for women, Emilia Fogelklou became the first female theology graduate in Sweden in 1909 and received an honorary doctorate in 1941.
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Biography of Charles Piaget (excerpt)
Charles Piaget, born on July 23, 1928, in Besançon (Doubs) and died on November 4, 2023, in the same city, was a French labor unionist. He was particularly active during the labor dispute at the watchmaking company Lip in the 1970s, known as the "Lip affair," and he became an iconic figure in the French self-management movement.
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Biography of Agostino Salvietti (excerpt)
Agostino Salvietti (22 August 1882 (Wikipedia has 28 August) - 2 December 1967) was an Italian actor.He appeared in more than forty films from 1924 to 1964. In 1936-37, he was among the leaders of the "Fascist Union of Operetta, Revue, and Variety Workers." His theatrical works include Pulcinella principe in sogno, La terra non gira, and La follia dei brillanti.
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Biography of Charles Bardot (excerpt)
Charles Bardot was a French international football player, born on April 7, 1904, in Conakry, Guinea, and died in late April 1973 in Cannes. He played as a center forward. He earned six caps and scored three goals for the French national A team between 1925 and 1932. ![]()
Biography of Dorothy DeBorba (excerpt)
Dorothy Adele DeBorba (March 28, 1925 – June 2, 2010) was an American child actress of Portuguese descent who was a regular in the Our Gang series of short subjects as the leading lady from 1930 to 1933. Dorothy Adelle DeBorba was raised in Livermore, California.
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Biography of Louis Bernicot (excerpt)
Louis Bernicot, born December 13, 1883 in the port of Aber Wrac'h (municipality of Landéda, North Finistère), died November 29, 1952 in Saint-Nexans (Dordogne), is a French navigator known for his world tour solo from August 1936 to May 1938, i.e.
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Biography of Blanca Magrassi Scagno (excerpt)
Blanca Margarita Magrassi Scagno (November 29, 1923 – October 9, 2015) was a Mexican women's rights activist, civil and pro-democracy activist, politician and leading figure within the National Action Party (PAN). Magrassi Scagno, the wife and political partner of Luis H.Álvarez, the former President of the National Action Party, served as a member of PAN's national executive committee from 1988 to 1990.
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Biography of Tom Keane (excerpt)
Thomas Lawrence Keane (September 7, 1926 – June 19, 2001) was an American football cornerback. Selected by the Los Angeles Rams in the 1948 NFL Draft, he played four years and won the 1951 NFL title. Traded to the Dallas Texans in 1952, he later played for the Baltimore Colts and Chicago Cardinals, earning All-Pro honors twice and a 1953 Pro Bowl appearance.
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Biography of Gerrit Rietveld (excerpt)
Gerrit Rietveld (24 June 1888 – 25 June 1964) was a Dutch furniture designer and architect.Born in Utrecht, he apprenticed with his joiner father and worked as a draughtsman. In 1917, he opened his furniture workshop and joined the De Stijl movement, creating iconic designs like the Red and Blue Chair.
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Biography of Ewan Forbes (excerpt)
Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet, MBChB (September 6, 1912 – September 12, 1991), was a Scottish nobleman, general practitioner, and farmer, who was a trans man. Originally christened Elizabeth Forbes-Sempill and registered as a daughter, he transitioned to male in the 1930s after medical treatments in Germany and officially changed his registration to male in 1952.
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Biography of Max Bense (excerpt)
Max Bense, a German philosopher, publicist, and writer (7 February 1910 in Strasbourg – 29 April 1990 in Stuttgart), was known for integrating the natural sciences, art, and philosophy in his work. He aimed to unite humanities and natural sciences through his concept of existential rationalism. ![]()
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".
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Biography of Harvey Haddix (excerpt)
Harvey Haddix Jr.(September 18, 1925 – January 8, 1994) was an American MLB left-handed pitcher and pitching coach.He played for teams including the St.Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates. Haddix is renowned for pitching 12 perfect innings in 1959 against the Milwaukee Braves.
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Biography of Priscilla Lane (excerpt)
Priscilla Lane (born Priscilla Mullican; June 12, 1915 – April 4, 1995) was an American actress, and the youngest sibling in the Lane Sisters' family of singers and actresses. She is best remembered for her roles in the films The Roaring Twenties (1939) co-starring with James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart; Saboteur (1942), an Alfred Hitchcock film in which she plays the heroine; and Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), in which she portrays Cary Grant's fiancée and bride.
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Biography of Andrée Brabant (excerpt)
Andrée Brabant, born in Reims on May 23, 1901, and died in Toulon on November 2, 1989, was a French actress. Marie Thérèse Andrée Brabant started her career as a dancer before becoming a film actress. From 1916, she was recruited by Abel Gance to act in "Le Droit à la vie." From that year until 1939, she appeared in at least 32 films and made her final film appearance in 1964 in "L’âge ingrat."
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Biography of Anthony Warde (excerpt)
Anthony Warde (born Benjamin Schwartz; November 4, 1908 (Wikipedia has an error) – January 8, 1975) was an American actor who appeared in over 150 movies from 1937 to 1964. Early years Born as Benjamin Schwartz in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on New Year's Day 1909, Warde was raised in Danbury, Connecticut.
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Biography of Catherine Drinker Bowen (excerpt)
Catherine Drinker Bowen (January 1, 1897 – November 1, 1973) was an American biographer and writer.Born into a Quaker family on the Haverford College campus, she initially studied music but ultimately chose writing as her career. Despite having no formal writing education, she became a bestselling biographer, known for doing her own research and sometimes interviewing without taking notes.
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Biography of Robert de Saint Jean (excerpt)
Robert de Saint Jean (12 June 1901 – 16 January 1987) was a French writer and journalist. He was the companion of the French-speaking American writer Julien Green. Like the latter, he kept a diary which he published and allows to understand the French cultural life over several decades.
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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.
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Biography of Avoth Yeshurun (excerpt)
Avoth Yeshurun (1904–1992; Hebrew אבות ישורון, born Yehiel Perlmutter) was a celebrated modern Hebrew poet and winner of the Israel Prize for literature in 1992. His time of birth comes from his daughter. Born on Yom Kippur in 1904 in Ukraine, he grew up speaking Yiddish and moved to the British Mandate of Palestine in 1925, where he initially worked in various manual jobs.
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Biography of Édmée Chandon (excerpt)
Édmée Marie Juliette Chandon (21 November 1885 – 8 March 1944) was an astronomer known for being the first professional female astronomer in France.She worked at the Paris Observatory from 1908 until her retirement in 1941. Biography The eldest of five children, Chandon was born to Marie Duhan and merchant François Chandon on 21 November 1885 in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.
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Biography of Montagu Norman (excerpt)
Montagu Collet Norman, 1st Baron Norman DSO PC (6 September 1871 – 4 February 1950) was an English banker, best known for his role as the Governor of the Bank of England from 1920 to 1944.Son heure de naissance vient de Taeger Vol.
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Biography of Joseph Hirsch (painter) (excerpt)
Joseph Hirsch (25 April 1910 – 21 September 1981) was an American painter, illustrator, muralist and teacher. Social commentary was the backbone of Hirsch's art, especially works depicting civic corruption and racial injustice. His works are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and many other museums.
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Biography of Kiki Palmer (excerpt)
Giulia Fogliata (July 11, 1907 – August 11, 1949), better known by her stage names Kiki Palmer and Daniela Palmer, was an Italian stage, film, and radio actress. Life and career Born in Milan, after an occasional acting experience at the Teatro degli Arcimboldi Palmer left her universitary studies in medicine to became an actress.
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Biography of Sady Zañartu (excerpt)
Sady Zañartu (May 6, 1893 – March 5, 1983) was a Chilean writer who created foundational works in the genres of Criollismo, historical anecdote, and patriotic valorization of the nation.He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1974. Sady Zañartu, born in Taltal, Chile, was the younger of two sons to parents who were farmers and miners.
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Biography of Waclaw Berent (excerpt)
Wacław Berent (Warsaw, 28 September 1878 (his time of birth comes from the biography Hanna Muszyńska-Hoffmann "In the circle of Berent") – 19 November or 22 November 1940, Warsaw) was a Polish novelist, essayist and literary translator from the Art Nouveau period, publishing under the pen names S.A.M. |
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