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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 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.
Biography of Guy Gabaldon (excerpt)
Guy Louis Gabaldon (March 22, 1926 – August 31, 2006) was a United States Marine who, at age 18, captured or persuaded to surrender over 1,300 Japanese soldiers and civilians during the battles for Saipan and Tinian islands in 1944 during World War II.
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 Francis X. Bushman (excerpt)
Francis Xavier Bushman (January 10, 1883 – August 23, 1966) was an American film actor and director. His career as a matinee idol started in 1911 in the silent film His Friend's Wife. He gained a large female following and was one of the biggest stars of the 1910s and early 1920s.
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 Lyne de Souza (excerpt)
Marie Émilienne Caisson, known as Lyne de Souza, was a French actress and music-hall artist. Born in Nice on February 24, 1914, she was crowned Miss Côte d'Azur in 1931 and Miss France in 1932.The daughter of a lawyer and a distant relative of Gabriel Fauré, she married Dr.
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 Hanna Van de Voort (excerpt)
Hanna Van de Voort (born in Meerlo, November 26, 1904 and died in Utrecht on July 26, 1956), also known as Aunt Hanna, was a Dutch nurse and resistance fighter during the Second World War. Together with Nico Dohmen and Kurt Loewenstein, she placed 123 Jewish children in foster families in North Limburg, saving them from deportation and death.
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.
Biography of Liliana Amon (excerpt)
Liliana Amon, born Maria Liliana Brandstetter on June 23, 1892 in Linz, was an Austrian writer and muse. A model for Egon Schiele in 1909, she was also portrayed in literary works by Robert Musil and Franz Werfel. Active in Vienna’s artistic circles, she frequented cafés and met figures like Franz Werfel and Anton Kuh, who wrote the "Ten Commandments of Bibiana" inspired by her.
Biography of Erwin Finlay-Freundlich (excerpt)
Erwin Finlay-Freundlich FRSE FRAS (1885–1964) was a German astronomer and a pupil of Felix Klein.He collaborated with Albert Einstein and proposed experiments to test the general theory of relativity through astronomical observations of gravitational redshift. Born in Wiesbaden, Germany, he studied at the Charlottenburg Polytechnic and Göttingen University.
Biography of Jan Baalsrud (excerpt)
Sigurd Baalsrud, MBE (13 December 1917 – 30 December 1988) was a Norwegian commando trained by the British during World War II. Born in Oslo, he joined the Norwegian resistance against the German occupation. During the war, he embarked on a mission to destroy a German airfield control tower, but it was compromised, leading to a harrowing escape.
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 Özdemir Asaf (excerpt)
Özdemir Asaf, born on June 11, 1923, in Ankara, was a leading Turkish poet during the early Republican era. Born Halit Özdemir Arun, his father was a founder of the Council of State. His time of birth comes from a friend.
Biography of Genevičve Aclocque (excerpt)
Genevičve Aclocque (Léopoldine Marcelle Genevičve 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.
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 Thérčse 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 ŕ 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."
Biography of Ragnhild Butenschřn (excerpt)
Ragnhild Butenschřn (21 September 1912 – 3 September 1992) was a renowned Norwegian sculptor known for her church art. Born in Kristiania, she lost her mother at eleven and was raised by relatives.Trained by Vilmos Aba-Novák in Budapest and Wilhelm Rasmussen in Oslo, she married publisher Barthold A.
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 Alberto Vargas (excerpt)
Alberto Vargas is a Peruvian painter, illustrator and designer, born February 11, 1896 in Arequipa and died December 30, 1982 in Los Angeles.He is particularly known for his drawings of pin-ups. Alberto Vargas, born in Arequipa, was the son of a successful photographer.
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 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 Gerty Cori (excerpt)
Gerty Theresa Cori (née Radnitz; August 15, 1896 – October 26, 1957) was a Bohemian-Austrian and American biochemist who, in 1947, became the third woman to win a Nobel Prize in science and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of the catalytic conversion of glycogen.
Biography of Annie M.G. Schmidt (excerpt)
Anna Maria Geertruida "Annie" Schmidt (20 May 1911 – 21 May 1995) was a Dutch writer.She is called the mother of the Dutch theatrical song, and the queen of Dutch children's literature, praised for her "delicious Dutch idiom," and considered one of the greatest Dutch writers.
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 Denise Bastide (excerpt)
Denise Bastide, born Denise Simon on December 23, 1916, in Aurillac, was a French politician and PCF activist. Coming from a family of trade unionists, she joined the Resistance during World War II, was arrested and deported, which deeply impacted her health.
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 Ernst Gall (excerpt)
Ernst Emil Max Gall, born on February 17, 1888, in Danzig, West Prussia, and died on August 5, 1958, in Munich, was a German art historian and monument restorer. He studied law in France and art history in Berlin, earning his doctorate in 1915.
Biography of Werner Zimmermann (excerpt)
Werner Zimmermann (born June 21, 1893, in Lyss; died August 29, 1982, in Ringgenberg) was a Swiss life reformer, follower of Silvio Gesell's Freiwirtschaft economic theory, naturist, and writer. His time of birth comes from von Klöckner in "Sterne und Mensch".
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 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 Jan Romein (excerpt)
Jan Marius Nicolas Romein (30 October 1893 – 16 July 1962) was a Dutch historian, journalist, literary scholar and professor of history at the University of Amsterdam. A Marxist and a student of Huizinga, Romein is remembered for his popularizing books of Dutch national history, jointly authored with his wife Annie Romein-Verschoor.
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 Louis Davids (excerpt)
Louis Davids, born Simon David on December 19, 1883, in Rotterdam, was a seminal figure in Dutch entertainment as an actor, singer, and comedian. He began performing at a young age in Groningen and achieved early fame as a child prodigy. Alongside his sister Rika, he formed a successful duo, performing across the Netherlands and later, with his subsequent duo partners, including his second sister Henriëtte and later his partner Margareth Whitefoot, known as Margie Morris.
Biography of Carlo Fruttero (excerpt)
Carlo Fruttero (19 September 1926 – 15 January 2012) was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and editor of anthologies. Fruttero was born in Turin, Italy. He is mostly known for his joint work with Franco Lucentini, especially as authors of crime novels. The duo were also editors of the science-fiction series Urania from the 1960s to the 1980s, and of the comic-strip magazine Il Mago.
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 Aurora Miranda (excerpt)
Aurora Miranda da Cunha Richaid (20 April 1915 – 22 December 2005) was a Brazilian singer and actress.She began her career at 18 in 1933 and appeared in several films, including The Three Caballeros, where she danced with Donald Duck and José Carioca while singing "Os Quindins de Yayá".
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 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 Ramón Acín (excerpt)
Ramón Acín Aquilué (August 30, 1888, Huesca, Aragon, Spain – August 6, 1936) was a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist, teacher, painter, sculptor, writer, and avant-garde artist murdered by fascists in the first year of the Spanish Civil War. A friend of director Luis Buńuel, Acín funded and co-produced "Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan" (1932).
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 Demetrio Santos (astrologer) (excerpt)
Demetrio Santos Santos (born March 8, 1924, in Argańín; died February 26, 2016, in Muga de Sayago) is recognized as one of Spain's most influential astrologers of the 20th century. His career began in the military, where he reached the rank of colonel before shifting focus to scientific astrology.
Biography of Arrigo Levi (excerpt)
Arrigo Levi (17 July 1926 – 24 August 2020) was an Italian journalist, essayist, and television anchorman.He fled Fascist Italy for Argentina in 1938, beginning his journalism career there. After World War II, he returned to Italy, working for various newspapers and as a correspondent in London, Rome, and Moscow.
Biography of Richard Lyon-Dalberg-Acton (excerpt)
Richard Maximilian Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 2nd Baron Acton, KCVO, JP, DL (7 August 1870 – 16 June 1924) was a British peer and diplomat, ultimately Britain's first Ambassador to Finland in 1919–20. Honours Acton was appointed to the Royal Victorian Order as a Member (fourth class) in 1901.
Biography of Horst Caspar (excerpt)
Horst Joachim Arthur Caspar, born January 20, 1913, in Radegast, Germany, was a distinguished German actor recognized for his theatre and film work during the 1930s and 1940s. Despite being part-Jewish under the Nazi regime, he continued his acting career with protection from influential figures.
Biography of Arthur Biram (excerpt)
Arthur Yitzhak Biram, born on August 13, 1878, in Bischofswerda, Saxony, was a German-born Israeli philosopher, philologist, and educator. He studied languages and philosophy at the University of Berlin and the University of Leipzig, where he earned a doctorate in 1902. Biram founded the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa in 1913 and served as its first principal.
Biography of Albert van der Heide (politician) (excerpt)
Albert van der Heide (Leeuwarden, April 7, 1872 - The Hague, July 29, 1953), baptized Albertinus, was a Dutch socialist pastor and later a member of the Tweede Kamer. In his youth, he was part of the Frisian movement and a friend of Dirk Troelstra.
Biography of Roberto Farinacci (excerpt)
Roberto Farinacci (16 October 1892 – 28 April 1945) was a leading Italian fascist politician and important member of the National Fascist Party before and during World War II, as well as one of its ardent antisemitic proponents. English historian Christopher Hibbert describes him as "slavishly pro-German".
Biography of Ave Ninchi (excerpt)
Ave Maria Ninchi (14 December 1915 – 10 November 1997) was an Italian supporting actress who played character roles on stage, television, and in over 98 feature films that included Tomorrow Is Too Late (1949) and Louis Malle's Murmur of the Heart (1971) and Lacombe, Lucien (1974).
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 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. |
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