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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. ![]() ![]()
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Biography of Ellen H. Johnson (excerpt)
Ellen Hulda Johnson (1910–1992) was a prominent art historian and professor of modern art at Oberlin College from 1945 to 1977.Born in Warren, Pennsylvania, she studied at Oberlin, Columbia, Uppsala, and the Sorbonne. She began her career at the Toledo Museum of Art and returned to Oberlin in 1939.
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Biography of Robert Burnier (excerpt)
Robert Burnier (19 May 1897 in Paris 6e – 24 April 1974 in Paris 16e) was a French film actor. Selected filmography When Do You Commit Suicide. (1931) Let's Get Married (1931) Miche (1932) The Porter from Maxim's (1933) Ciboulette (1933) Radio Surprises (1940) Dakota 308 (1951) L'Amour, Madame (1952) ![]()
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 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.
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Biography of Holmes Herbert (excerpt)
Holmes Herbert (born Horace Edward Jenner; 30 July 1882 – 26 December 1956) was an English character actor who appeared in Hollywood films from 1915 to 1952, often as a British gentleman. Career Holmes Herbert never made a film in his native country but managed to appear in 228 films during his career in the U.S., beginning with stalwart leading roles during the silent era and numerous supporting roles in many classic Hollywood films of the sound era, including Captain Blood (1935), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), The Life of Emile Zola (1937), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and Foreign Correspondent (1940).
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Biography of Touran Mirhadi (excerpt)
Touran Mirhadi (June 16, 1927 – November 8, 2016) was an Iranian teacher, author, and researcher. She founded Farhad School, a progressive kindergarten and elementary school in Tehran, and co-founded The Children's Book Council of Iran and The Encyclopedia for Young People.
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Biography of Renato Rascel (excerpt)
Renato Ranucci (28 April 1912 – 2 January 1991), known by the stage name Renato Rascel, was an Italian film actor and singer. He appeared in 50 films between 1942 and 1972. He represented Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 1960 with the song "Romantica", which tied for eighth place out of thirteen entries.
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Biography of Urania Mella (excerpt)
Urania Mella Serrano, born November 15, 1899 in Vigo, Galicia and died May 26, 1945 in Lugo, Galicia, was a Spanish politician, a pioneer of women's associations, a women's rights activist, and a victim of the Francoist dictatorship. Daughter of anarchist thinker Ricardo Mella and Esperanza Serrano, she was highly educated and socially active.
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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.
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Biography of Erna Schilling (excerpt)
Erna Schilling (25 December 1884 – 2 October 1945) was a German nightclub dancer and artist's model. Embroidery by Erna Schilling The daughter of a proofreader for a publishing company, she was born in Berlin.When she was eighteen, she left home with her elder sister Gerda; the two became dancers in Berlin nightclubs.
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Biography of Francis Gruber (excerpt)
Francis Gruber was a French expressionist painter born in Nancy on March 15, 1912, and died of tuberculosis on December 1, 1948, in Paris. The son of Art Nouveau master glassmaker Jacques Gruber, this painter is indicative of pre-war painting, but instead of seeking the abstract, Francis Gruber favored human figures with chiseled and raw features.
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Biography of Ann Doran (excerpt)
Ann Lee Doran (July 28, 1911 – September 19, 2000) was an American character actress, best known as Carol Stark in "Rebel Without a Cause." An early Screen Actors Guild member, she served on the Motion Picture & Television Fund board for 30 years. ![]()
Biography of Kornelis Heiko Miskotte (excerpt)
Kornelis Heiko Miskotte (23 September 1894 in Utrecht – 31 August 1976 in Voorst) was a Dutch Protestant theologian and a representative of dialectical theology.
Biography of Michel Décaudin (excerpt)
Michel Décaudin, born on April 22, 1919, in Roubaix and passed away on March 5, 2004, in Paris, was a French literature professor. After teaching at various high schools and colleges, he became a professor at the University of Toulouse (1957-1969), then at Paris X-Nanterre, and finally at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, where he was named professor emeritus in 1984. ![]()
Biography of E. B. White (excerpt)
Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899 – October 1, 1985) was an American writer.He was the author of several highly popular books for children, including Stuart Little (1945), Charlotte's Web (1952), and The Trumpet of the Swan (1970). In a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, Charlotte's Web was ranked first in their poll of the top one hundred children's novels.
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Biography of Wolf Kaiser (excerpt)
Wolf Kaiser (October 26, 1916 – October 22, 1992) was a German theatre and film actor.Raised in Switzerland, he studied chemistry and physiology before training as an actor in Berlin. Kaiser debuted in 1941 at the Stadtheater in Jihlava, Czechoslovakia, and later joined Berlin's Volksbühne. ![]()
Biography of Dorothy Canfield Fisher (excerpt)
Dorothy Canfield Fisher (February 17, 1879 – November 9, 1958) was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early 20th century.She strongly supported women's rights, racial equality, and lifelong education. Eleanor Roosevelt named her one of the ten most influential women in the United States.
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Biography of Daisy Fellowes (excerpt)
Daisy Fellowes, born Marguerite Séverine Philippine Decazes de Glucksberg on April 29, 1890, in Paris and died on December 13, 1962, was a prominent figure in European high society, renowned for her beauty. Daughter of the Duke Decazes and heiress to the Singer fortune, she was a journalist for Harper's Bazaar and authored several novels.
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Biography of Gerhard Rose (excerpt)
Gerhard August Heinrich Rose (30 November 1896 – 13 January 1992) was a Nazi German physician and war criminal who performed medical atrocities on concentration camp prisoners at Dachau and Buchenwald without the subjects' consent. He infected Jews, Romani people, and the mentally ill with malaria and typhus.
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Biography of Willem Elsschot (excerpt)
Willem Elsschot, born Alfons-Jozef de Ridder, was born in Antwerp on May 7, 1882, and died on May 31, 1960.A Belgian writer and poet who wrote in Dutch, he produced only 750 pages of prose, yet remains highly influential. Born into a baker's family, he left school early and held various jobs in Antwerp, Brussels, Paris, and Rotterdam.
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Biography of Jacoba Hol (excerpt)
Jacoba Hol (21 September 1886 – 15 October 1964) was a Dutch physical geographer. In 1945, she was appointed professor of physical geography at the Geographic Institute at Utrecht University. This made her the first female 'normal' professor in the Netherlands.
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Biography of Juliette Faber (excerpt)
Juliette Faber is a French actress of Luxembourgish origin, born on March 19, 1919 in Grevenmacher (Grand Duchy of Luxembourg), and died on July 13, 2008 in Pontoise.
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Biography of Luis Trenker (excerpt)
Luis Trenker (born October 4, 1892 in Saint-Ulrich in Gröden (Urtijëi), Tyrol, Austria-Hungary - died April 13, 1990 in Bolzano, Italy) is an Italian-Austrian mountaineer, actor, director, screenwriter, producer and editor, whose His career began in the last years of silent cinema and continued for more than half a century, until Heimat aus Gottes Hand, a film he made in 1979, at the age of 87.
Biography of Francisco Amighetti (excerpt)
Francisco Amighetti (1 June 1907 – 12 November 1998) was a Costa Rican painter and writer. In addition to his paintings, Amighetti also produced wood engravings, poetry and works of art criticism. He based his artwork on basic lifestyle in Costa Rica.
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Biography of Peter of Greece and Denmark (excerpt)
Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark (3 December 1908 – 15 October 1980) was a Greek prince, soldier and anthropologist specialising in Tibetan culture and polyandry. Born in Paris and high in the line of succession to the Greek throne, Prince Peter was deemed to have forfeited his succession rights by marrying a twice-divorced Russian commoner, Irina Aleksandrovna Ovtchinnikova.
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Biography of Claude Stavisky (excerpt)
Claude Stavisky was a French magician, illusionist, and conjurer, born on July 28, 1926, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, and died in 2006. He was the son of Alexandre Stavisky, a French financier and swindler whose actions led to a political scandal known as the Stavisky Affair.
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Biography of Asbjřrg Borgfelt (excerpt)
Asbjřrg Borgfelt (31 October 1900 – 5 June 1976) was a Norwegian sculptor. Personal life She was the daughter of Samuel Borgfeldt (1872-1936) and Magnhild Telma Sćther (1876-1941).In 1937 she married sculptor Per Hurum (1910–1989). Career Borgfeldt first studied art in Kristiania at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry (Statens Hĺndverks- og Kunstindustriskole) with Wilhelm Rasmussen (1879–1965).
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Biography of James Dougherty (police officer) (excerpt)
James Edward Dougherty (April 12, 1921 – August 15, 2005) was an American police officer, best known as the first husband of Marilyn Monroe. Early Life: Born in California, Dougherty grew up in a modest family. Popular in high school, he dated Norma Jeane Baker (future Marilyn Monroe) and married her in 1942 to prevent her from going to an orphanage.
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Biography of Manolo Caracol (excerpt)
Manuel Ortega Juárez (July 9, 1909 – February 24, 1973) was a Spanish flamenco singer, known by his stage name El Caracol.Born in Seville, he descended from a long line of renowned flamenco artists and bullfighters. He gained international fame for his flamboyant personality and exceptional talent.
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Biography of Amedeo Agostini (excerpt)
Amedeo Agostini (6 March 1892, in Capugnano di Porretta Terme — 27 June 1958, in Livorno) was an Italian mathematician born in Capugnano di Porretta Terme. In 1919 he graduated at the University of Bologna, where he later worked on a freelance basis as teaching assistant and professor of History of Mathematics.
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Biography of Jéhan de Buhan (excerpt)
Henri Jéhan Éric Joseph Marie de Buhan, sometimes Jehan Buhan, born on April 5, 1912, in Bordeaux and died on September 14, 1999, in the same city, was a French fencer. A member of the French epee and foil team, he won several gold medals in the Olympics and World Championships.
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Biography of Paul Capellani (excerpt)
Paul Henri Capellani (born September 9, 1877, in Paris 4th arrondissement and died on November 7, 1960, in Cagnes-sur-Mer) was a French theater and film actor. He was the brother of director and screenwriter Albert Capellani and the uncle of director Roger Capellani. ![]()
Biography of Anita Brenner (excerpt)
Anita Brenner (born Hanna Brenner; 22 August 1905 – 1 December 1974) was a transnational Jewish scholar and intellectual who extensively wrote about Mexican art, culture, and history. Born in Mexico and educated in the U.S., she returned to Mexico post-Revolution and coined the term 'Mexican Renaissance' to describe the cultural growth.
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Biography of Henry Farrell (novelist) (excerpt)
Henry Farrell (September 27, 1920 – March 29, 2006) was an American novelist and screenwriter, best known as the author of the renowned gothic horror story What Ever Happened to Baby Jane., which was made into a film starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.
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Biography of Laureano Gómez (excerpt)
Laureano Eleuterio Gómez Castro (20 February 1889 – 13 July 1965) was a Colombian politician and civil engineer who served as the 18th President of Colombia from 1950 to 1953.In November 1951 poor health led him to cede presidential power to Roberto Urdaneta Arbelaez. ![]()
Biography of Germaine Beaumont (excerpt)
Germaine Beaumont, born Germaine Battendier on October 31, 1890, in Petit-Couronne and died on March 21, 1983, in Montfort-l'Amaury, was a French journalist and novelist. She was the first woman to win the Renaudot Prize in 1930 for her novel Pičge. Influenced by Virginia Woolf and Colette, she worked for various newspapers, including Le Matin and Les Nouvelles littéraires, and was one of the first women to write for Le Monde.
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Biography of Marthe Richard (excerpt)
Marthe Richard (née Betenfeld; 15 August 1889 – 9 February 1982) was a French prostitute, spy, and later a politician who played a key role in the closure of brothels in France in 1946. Initially an apprentice tailor, she became a prostitute in 1905 and later married industrialist Henry Richer.
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Biography of Charlotte Lysčs (excerpt)
Charlotte Augustine Hortense Lejeune, known as Charlotte Lysčs, was born on May 17, 1877, in Paris's 8th arrondissement and died on April 6, 1956, in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Alpes-Maritimes. She was a French theater and film actress. She was the first wife of Sacha Guitry from 1907 to 1918.
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Biography of Dow Finsterwald (excerpt)
Dow Henry Finsterwald, Sr.(September 6, 1929 – November 4, 2022) was an American professional golfer who is best known for winning the 1958 PGA Championship.He won 11 Tour titles between 1955 and 1963, played on four Ryder Cup teams, and served as non-playing captain for the 1977 U.S.
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Biography of Janet Flanner (excerpt)
Janet Flanner (March 13, 1892 – November 7, 1978) was an American writer and pioneering narrative journalist who served as the Paris correspondent of The New Yorker magazine from 1925 until she retired in 1975. She wrote under the pen name "Genęt".
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Biography of Fritz Wolffheim (excerpt)
Fritz Wolffheim (30 October 1888 – 17 March 1942) was a German communist politician and writer.He was a leading figure in the National Bolshevism tendency that was briefly influential in Germany after World War I. Wolffheim, from a prominent Jewish family, was politically active from 1909, joining the Social Democratic Party of Germany and later the Socialist Party of America in San Francisco.
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Biography of Bob King (athlete) (excerpt)
Robert Wade King (June 20, 1906 – July 29, 1965) was an American athlete, who won a gold medal in the high jump at the 1928 Summer Olympics with a jump of 1.93 m. His personal best was 1.997 m, achieved earlier that year.
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Biography of Joan Leslie (excerpt)
Joan Leslie (born Joan Agnes Theresa Sadie Brodel; January 26, 1925 – October 12, 2015) was an American actress and vaudevillian, who during the Hollywood Golden Age, appeared in such films as High Sierra (1941), Sergeant York (1941), and Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942).
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Biography of Leda Gloria (excerpt)
Leda Gloria (30 August 1908 – 16 March 1997) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 66 films between 1929 and 1965. During the expansion of Italian cinema of the Fascist era of the 1930s and early 1940s she appeared in starring roles, later transitioning into character parts after the Second World War.
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Biography of Janis Carter (excerpt)
Janis Carter (born Janis Elinore Dremann, October 10, 1913 – July 30, 1994) was an American stage and film actress active in the 1940s and 1950s. She transitioned to television in the mid-1950s, co-hosting the NBC daytime game show "Feather Your Nest" with Bud Collyer.
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Biography of José G. Tormos Vega (excerpt)
José Guillermo Tormos Vega (born February 23, 1925), known as Joselín, was a Puerto Rican politician and Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from January 2, 1977, to February 22, 1984. He is credited with establishing the Centro Ceremonial Indígena de Tibes as a museum.
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Biography of Erna de Vries (excerpt)
Erna de Vries, born Erna Korn on October 21, 1923, was a German Holocaust survivor who passed away on October 24, 2021.Growing up in a mixed religious family, she faced increasing persecution under the Nazis. After her father’s death, her family’s business was seized, and her education was disrupted.
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.
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Biography of Léopold Survage (excerpt)
Léopold Survage, a Russian-French painter of Finnish origin, born in 1879 in Finland, played a significant role in the Russian avant-garde movement before settling in Paris. There, he interacted with artists like Modigliani and delved into abstract cinema. His work was influenced by music, leading to his concept of "Rythmes colorés" aimed at combining art and film.
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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. |
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