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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 Nadeschda Gernet (excerpt)
Nadeschda Gernet, also Nadezhda, Russian: Надежда Николаевна Гернет, (April 18, 1877 (gregorian calendar) – January 1, 1943), was a Russian mathematician. Gernet was the second woman in Russia to earn a doctorate. She extended the calculus of variations to further functions on the basis developed by her instructor, David Hilbert, and was one of the first to include inequalities in the calculus of variations.
Biography of Zona Gale (excerpt)
Zona Gale (August 26, 1874 – December 27, 1938), also known as Zona Gale Breese, was an American writer and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921. Her works, inspired by her hometown, portrayed realistic characters and deep emotional undercurrents.
Biography of Alain Bourbonnais (excerpt)
Alain Bourbonnais, born June 22, 1925 in Ainay-le-Château (Allier) and died June 20, 1988 in Sens (Yonne), is a famous French architect, sculptor, creator and collector. He is known for having constituted the extraordinary art collection gathered at La Fabuloserie since 1983.
Biography of Johan Carp (excerpt)
Johan Herman Carp (19 July 1893 – 18 November 1979) was a Dutch national socialist lawyer and influential ideologue within the National Socialist Movement (NSB) in the Netherlands. Before World War II, Carp was a department head in the provincial government of South Holland and evolved into a key theorist and personal advisor to NSB leader Anton Mussert.
Biography of Mary Carlisle (excerpt)
Mary Carlisle (born Gwendolyn Witter; February 3, 1914 – August 1, 2018) was an American actress, singer, and dancer known for her roles in 1930s musical-comedy films. She starred in over 60 Hollywood films, gaining attention in 1932 as a WAMPAS Baby Star.
Biography of Nicky Arnstein (excerpt)
Julius Wilford "Nicky" Arnstein (born Arndstein; July 1, 1879 – October 2, 1965) was an American professional gambler and con artist. Known for his multiple aliases, he was the second husband of entertainer Fanny Brice.Born in Berlin, he moved to the U.S.
Biography of Federico Borrell (excerpt)
Federico Borrell García (3 January 1912 – 5 September 1936) was a Spanish Republican and anarchist militiaman during the Spanish Civil War, believed to be the subject in Robert Capa's famous photo, The Falling Soldier. Born in Benilloba, he worked at a mill in Alcoi and founded a local branch of the anarchist FIJL.
Biography of Harold Abrahams (excerpt)
Harold Maurice Abrahams CBE (15 December 1899 – 14 January 1978) was an English track and field athlete who won the gold medal in the 100 metres at the 1924 Olympics, a victory famously depicted in the film Chariots of Fire.
Biography of René Montis (excerpt)
René Montis, stage name of René Émile Louis Maunoury, was a French actor and producer, born on December 20, 1888 in Pantin and died on March 2, 1959 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. An actor until the early 1930s, René Montis later became a production director and producer.
Biography of Cat Thompson (excerpt)
John Ashworth "Cat" Thompson (February 10, 1906 – October 7, 1990) was an American basketball player. He won the Utah state championship with Dixie High School team and finished second in the High School National Tournament in 1925.In college, he played for 3 seasons for Montana State, during which time his team had a record of 102-11.
Biography of Alice Milliat (excerpt)
Alice Milliat, born on May 5, 1884, in Nantes and died on May 19, 1957, in Paris, was a French swimmer, field hockey player, and rower. A co-founder and president of the Federation of French Female Sporting Societies, she is also recognized as one of the leading activists in the fight for the recognition of women's sports at an international level.
Biography of Henry M. Morris (excerpt)
Henry Madison Morris (October 6, 1918 – February 25, 2006) was an American young Earth creationist, Christian apologist and engineer.He was one of the founders of the Creation Research Society and the Institute for Creation Research.He is considered by many to be "the father of modern creation science".
Biography of René Taton (excerpt)
René Taton, born on April 4, 1915, in L'Échelle in the Ardennes and died on August 9, 2004, in Ajaccio, was a French historian of science and co-editor of the Revue d'histoire des sciences. He directed the Centre Alexandre-Koyré and was instrumental in establishing the history of science as a professional discipline.
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 Alice Recoque (excerpt)
Alice Recoque, born on August 29, 1929, in Cherchell, Algeria, and passed away on January 28, 2021, in Ballainvilliers, France, was a French computer scientist. She was notably influential in computer architecture, participating in the development of the CAB500 mini-computer in 1959 and later leading the Mitra 15 project.
Biography of Anna de Waal (excerpt)
Anna de Waal (25 November 1906, Culemborg – 22 March 1981, Arnhem), was a Dutch politician (Catholic party) and geographer. She was state secretary of education in 1953–1957. De Waal was the first female government secretary or minister in the Netherlands.
Biography of David Susskind (excerpt)
David Susskind (1925 – November 25, 2011) was a Belgian figure who founded the Jewish Cultural and Sports Center (CCSJ) in 1959, which later became the Jewish Secular Community Center (CCLJ).His time of birth comes from the biography The Best of Charles Jayne.
Biography of Aldo Semerari (excerpt)
Aldo Semerari (8 May 1923 − March or 1 April 1982) was an Italian criminologist, anthropologist and psychiatrist. He was also a noted neo-fascist, who was suspected of complicity in the terror attack that killed 85 people at Bologna railway station in 1980.
Biography of Marcel Bouguen (excerpt)
Marcel Bouguen, born April 14, 1920 in Le Faou, died for France March 9, 1944 (aged 23), was a French aviator. Captain Marcel-Louis Bouguen was decorated with the French Resistance medal, with rosette, awarded posthumously by decree of March 11, 1947 signed Vincent Auriol, President of the Republic.
Biography of Ethel Fisher (excerpt)
Ethel Fisher (7 June 1923 – 2017) was an American painter known for her work in abstraction and representational genres, including large-scale portraiture and architectural paintings. She studied at the Art Students League in the 1940s and gained success as an abstract artist in the late 1950s.
Biography of Ildebrando Pizzetti (excerpt)
Ildebrando Pizzetti (20 September 1880 – 13 February 1968) was an Italian composer of classical music, musicologist, and music critic. Biography Pizzetti was born in Parma in 1880.He was part of the "Generation of 1880" along with Ottorino Respighi, Gian Francesco Malipiero, and Alfredo Casella.
Biography of Amparo Alvajar (excerpt)
María del Amparo Alvajar López Jean, commonly known as Amparo Alvajar (August 11, 1916 - May 1998), was a multifaceted Spanish journalist, dramatist, and writer from Galicia, also notable for her work as a translator for international organizations. Born in A Coruña, she was deeply involved in the political and cultural movements of her time, working initially in the Second Republic's secret services.
Biography of Jimmy Carter (boxer) (excerpt)
James Walter Carter (December 15, 1923, in Aiken, SC – September 21, 1994) was an American world lightweight boxing champion three times between 1951 and 1955. His managers included Jimmy Roche and Willie Ketchum.He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2000.
Biography of Germaine Dulac (excerpt)
Germaine Dulac, born Charlotte Élisabeth Germaine Saisset-Schneider on November 17, 1882, in Amiens, and died on July 20, 1942, in Paris, was a French film director, producer, and screenwriter. She began her career in 1906 as a feminist journalist for La Française.
Biography of Ilse Trautschold (excerpt)
Ilse Gertrud Trautschold (1906-1991) was a German actress and cabaret performer.Born in Charlottenburg, the daughter of an actor, she began her career as a choir singer at 14 and trained at the Volksbühne Berlin. She joined the leftist Berlin cabaret "Die Wespen" in 1926 and performed in various theaters and films during the Nazi era.
Biography of Cornelia Sorabji (excerpt)
Cornelia Sorabji (15 November 1866 – 6 July 1954) was an Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer.She was the first female graduate from Bombay University, and the first woman to study law at Oxford University.Returning to India after her studies at Oxford, Sorabji became involved in social and advisory work on behalf of the purdahnashins, women who were forbidden to communicate with the outside male world, but she was unable to defend them in court since, as a woman, she did not hold professional standing in the Indian legal system.
Biography of Claude Sainval (excerpt)
Claude Sainval was a French director, theater manager, and actor, born Claude Duxbury Mac Connel in Strasburg, Germany (Wikipedia makes a mistake) on August 13, 1911, and died in Sainte-Croix-de-Caderle (Gard) on March 28, 1994. The son of Olivier Duxbury Mac Connel and Marianne Mac Connel, née Ungemach, he studied in Paris at the Lycée Fénelon and then at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique.
Biography of Anne Shirley (actress) (excerpt)
Anne Shirley (born Dawn Evelyn Paris; April 17, 1918 – July 4, 1993) was an American actress. Beginning her career as a child actress under the stage name Dawn O'Day, she adopted the stage name of Anne Shirley after playing the title character in the film adaptation of Anne of Green Gables in 1934, after which she achieved a successful career in supporting roles.
Biography of Michel Polonovski (excerpt)
Michel Polonovski was a French academic and trade unionist. Born on May 25, 1889, in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin), he became an agrégé professor in Lille in 1920. He held the chair of organic chemistry in 1924 and was appointed full professor of biological chemistry at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris in 1937.
Biography of Muriel Siebert (excerpt)
Muriel Faye Siebert (September 12, 1928 – August 24, 2013) was an American businesswoman who was the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, and the first woman to head one of the NYSE's member firms.
Biography of Jacob Israël de Haan (excerpt)
Jacob Israël de Haan (31 December 1881 – 30 June 1924) was a Dutch Jewish writer, lawyer, and journalist who moved to Palestine in 1919, becoming more religious and the political spokesman for the Haredim in Jerusalem. He was assassinated in 1924 by the Zionist paramilitary group Haganah due to his anti-Zionist activities.
Biography of Aarón Sáenz (excerpt)
Aarón Sáenz Garza, born June 1, 1891, in Monterrey, Nuevo León, was a significant Mexican politician.He served as the Secretary of Foreign Affairs under President Calles, staunchly defending the administration's decision to cut oil supplies to the United States. He was also Governor of Nuevo León and close to Calles, involving himself in the aftermath of President-elect Alvaro Obregon's assassination.
Biography of André Auffray (excerpt)
André Auffray (born Alexandre Offray; 2 September 1884 – 3 November 1953) was a French racing cyclist. At the 1908 Olympics he won a gold medal in the tandem, together with Maurice Schilles, and a bronze in the 5000 m event; he also competed in the individual sprint and in the 1,980 yard team pursuit.
Biography of Andrée Lafayette (excerpt)
Andrée Rose Godard (19 May 1903 – 3 October 1989), known by her stage-name as Andrée Lafayette, also known by her self-invented title as Countess Andrée de la Bigne, was a French stage and film actress, and granddaughter of the infamous demi-mondaine (prostitute) Émilie Louise Delabigne who was known by her self-invented title as Countess Valtesse de La Bigne.
Biography of Wanda Osiris (excerpt)
Wanda Osiris (pronounced ; born Anna Menzio, italianized as Vanda Osiri during the Fascist era; 3 June 1905 – 11 November 1994) was an Italian revue soubrette, actress and singer. Life and career Born in Rome, Italy, the daughter of a groom, she studied violin at a young age.
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 Margaret Allan (racing driver) (excerpt)
Margaret Mabel Gladys Jennings (née Allan; 26 July 1909 – 21 September 1998) was a Scottish motor racing driver. As Margaret Allan (sometimes erroneously "Allen") she was one of the leading British female racing and rally drivers in the inter-war years, and one of only four women ever to earn a 120 mph badge at the Brooklands circuit.
Biography of Frederik IX of Denmark (excerpt)
Frederik IX (Danish: Christian Frederik Franz Michael Carl Valdemar Georg; 11 March 1899 – 14 January 1972) was King of Denmark from 1947 to 1972. Frederik was born into the House of Glücksburg during the reign of his great-grandfather King Christian IX.
Biography of Jean Valton (excerpt)
Jean Valton, born on July 14, 1921, in Bry-sur-Marne and died on June 21, 1980, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French chansonnier, impressionist, and comedian. He is known for his participation in the TV shows Le Francophonissime and Les Jeux de 20 heures.
Biography of George Dantzig (excerpt)
George Bernard Dantzig (November 8, 1914 – May 13, 2005) was an American mathematical scientist who made contributions to industrial engineering, operations research, computer science, economics, and statistics. Dantzig is known for his development of the simplex algorithm, an algorithm for solving linear programming problems, and for his other work with linear programming.
Biography of Jan Tinbergen (excerpt)
Jan Tinbergen (12 April 1903 – 9 June 1994) was a Dutch economist who was awarded the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes.
Biography of Willemijn Posthumus-van der Goot (excerpt)
Willemijn Posthumus-van der Goot (2 May 1897 – 16 January 1989) was a Dutch economist, feminist and radio broadcaster. As the first woman to attain a doctorate in economics in the Netherlands, her work focused on the impact of working women on the economy.
Biography of Bella Starace Sainati (excerpt)
Bella Starace Sainati (June 2, 1878 – August 4, 1958) was an Italian stage and film actress. Selected filmography The Two Mothers (1938) Naples Will Never Die (1939) Goodbye Youth (1940) Inspector Vargas (1940) Saint John, the Beheaded (1940) The Sinner (1940) First Love (1941) The Secret Lover (1941) Carmela (1942)
Biography of Andrée Viénot (excerpt)
Andrée Viénot (7 June 1901 – 20 October 1976) was a French politician. Andrée Viénot was born as Andrée Mayrisch on 7 June 1901 in Dudelange.She studied political economy in London School of Economics.In 18 July 1929 she married Pierre Viénot (1897–1944), who was a war veteran, and became a cabinet minister.
Biography of Ulf Aas (excerpt)
Ulf Aas (14 September 1919 – 16 December 2011) was a Norwegian illustrator and journalist.He worked for the newspaper Aftenposten from 1948 (full-time from 1977). He has contributed with illustrations to more than 200 books.He was decorated Knight, First Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St.
Biography of Francis Popy (excerpt)
François Joseph Popy, known as Francis Popy, was a French composer born on July 1, 1874, in the Croix-Rousse district of Lyon and died in Belleville (now Belleville-en-Beaujolais) on January 29, 1928. His music is representative of the Belle Époque. The Later Years
Biography of Arianna W. Rosenbluth (excerpt)
Arianna Wright Rosenbluth (September 15, 1927 – December 28, 2020) was an American physicist who contributed significantly to the development of the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm and implemented the first Markov chain Monte Carlo method. Born in Houston, Texas, she received her BS from Rice University and her MA from Radcliffe College before completing her PhD at Harvard under John Hasbrouck Van Vleck.
Biography of Sylvia Pankhurst (excerpt)
Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (5 May 1882 – 27 September 1960) was an English feminist and socialist activist and writer.Following encounters with women-led labour activism in the United States, she worked to organise working-class women in London's East End. This, together with her refusal in 1914 to enter into a wartime political truce with the government, caused her to break with the suffragette leadership of her mother and sister, Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst.
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 Johan Antony Barrau (excerpt)
Johan Antony Barrau (3 April 1873, Oisterwijk – 8 January 1953, Utrecht) was a Dutch mathematician, specializing in geometry. Barrau was educated at the Dutch Royal Naval College at Willemsoord and then at the University of Amsterdam.From 1891 to 1898, Barrau was an officer with the Royal Netherlands Navy, later with the Netherlands Marine Corps. |
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