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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 Gussie Moran (excerpt)
Gertrude "Gussie" Moran was an American tennis player active in the 1940s and 1950s, ranking 4th nationally. Born and died in California, she experienced family tragedy during World War II. Known for her Wimbledon 1949 attire, designed by Ted Tinling, it featured visible lace-trimmed knickers, causing a stir and earning her the nickname "Gorgeous Gussie." The incident led to a debate in Parliament and a temporary career setback.
Biography of Óscar Castro Zúñiga (excerpt)
Óscar Castro Zúñiga (Rancagua, 25 March 1910 – Santiago, 1 November 1947) was a Chilean writer and poet. His literary work encompassed both the lyrical genre — with a transparent, human, and melancholic language, with perfect meter — and the narrative genre, much more realistic and close to criollismo.
Biography of Edward Steichen (excerpt)
Edward Jean Steichen (March 27, 1879 – March 25, 1973) was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, and curator, renowned as one of the most prolific and influential figures in the history of photography. Steichen was credited with transforming photography into an art form.
Biography of Rose Heilbron (excerpt)
Dame Rose Heilbron, DBE (19 August 1914 – 8 December 2005) was a British barrister who served as a High Court judge. Her career included many "firsts" for a woman – she was the first woman to achieve a first class honours degree in law at the University of Liverpool, the first woman to win a scholarship to Gray's Inn, one of the first two women to be appointed King's Counsel in England, the first woman to lead in a murder case, the first woman recorder, the first woman judge to sit at the Old Bailey, and the first woman treasurer of Gray's Inn.
Biography of Rosalyn Drexler (excerpt)
Rosalyn Drexler (born November 25, 1926) is an American visual artist, novelist, Obie Award-winning playwright, and Emmy Award-winning screenwriter, and former professional wrestler. Although she has had a polymathic career, Drexler is perhaps best known for her pop art paintings and as the author of the novelization of the film Rocky, under the pseudonym Julia Sorel.
Biography of Jay Stewart (excerpt)
Jay Stewart Fix (September 6, 1918 – September 17, 1989), known professionally as Jay Stewart, was an American television and radio announcer known primarily for his work on game shows. He was probably best known as the announcer on the long running game show Let's Make a Deal, in which he appeared throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
Biography of Ada Werring (excerpt)
Ada Werring (3 November 1898 - 13 January 1985) was a renowned Norwegian tennis player, winning 37 Norwegian Championship titles between 1928 and 1951. She started playing tennis at twelve and represented Oslo Tennis Club. Werring was part of the first Norwegian team to compete at Wimbledon in 1935 and received the Norwegian Tennis Federation's gold badge in 1939.
Biography of Geneviève Lantelme (excerpt)
Geneviève Lantelme, stage name of Mathilde Hortense Claire Fossey, was a French actress, celebrity, fashion icon, and courtesan of the early 20th century, born in the 18th arrondissement of Paris on May 20, 1883, and died near Rees, Germany, on July 25, 1911.
Biography of Kurt Warnekros (excerpt)
Kurt Warnekros (November 15, 1882–September 30, 1949) was a German gynaecologist and pioneer in sex reassignment surgery. Biography Kurt Warnekros was born on November 15, 1882, in the family of the professor of medicine Ludwig Warnekros at the University of Berlin.Warnekros himself studied medicine in Würzburg and Berlin from 1902 to 1907.
Biography of Johnny Sain (excerpt)
John Franklin "Johnny" Sain (September 25, 1917 – November 7, 2006) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who was best known for teaming with left-hander Warren Spahn on the Boston Braves teams from 1946 to 1951. He was the runner-up for the National League's Most Valuable Player Award in the Braves' pennant-winning season of 1948, after leading the National League in wins, complete games and innings pitched.
Biography of Ruth Moufang (excerpt)
Ruth Moufang (10 January 1905 – 26 November 1977) was a pioneering German mathematician known for her contributions to projective and affine geometry. Born to a family of scholars, she was denied a teaching position by the Nazi regime and worked as an industrial mathematician at Krupp during World War II.
Biography of Silvan Tomkins (excerpt)
Silvan Solomon Tomkins (June 4, 1911 – June 10, 1991) was a psychologist and personality theorist who developed both affect theory and script theory. Following the publication of the third volume of his book Affect Imagery Consciousness in 1991, his body of work received renewed interest, leading to attempts by others to summarize and popularize his theories.
Biography of Maurits Sabbe (excerpt)
Maurits Sabbe, born Maurice Charles Marie Guillaume Sabbe (Bruges, 9 February 1873 – Antwerp, 12 February 1938), was a Flemish man of letters and educator who became curator of the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp. Life He was a son of Julius Sabbe and the eldest of seven children.
Biography of Jan Mankes (excerpt)
Jan Mankes (August 15, 1889 – April 23, 1920) was a Dutch painter.He created around 200 paintings, 100 drawings, and 50 prints before dying of tuberculosis at the age of 30.His delicate, detailed works include self-portraits, landscapes, and studies of birds and animals.
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 Jane Bryan (excerpt)
Jane Bryan (born Jane O'Brien, June 11, 1918 – April 8, 2009) was an American actress groomed by Warner Bros. to become a leading lady. However, she retired from acting in 1940 at age 22 and later became a philanthropist and arts patron.
Biography of Aleksander Zabczynski (excerpt)
Aleksander Bożydar Żabczyński (July 24, 1900 – May 31, 1958) was a Polish actor and singer. A key figure in Polish interwar cinema, he was renowned for playing romantic lead roles in numerous films. His career spanned theater, cabaret, and film, making him one of the most popular actors of his time.
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 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.
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 Julius Curtius (excerpt)
Julius Curtius (born February 11, 1877, in Duisburg and died November 10, 1948, in Heidelberg) was a German politician.A member of the German People's Party (DVP), he served as Minister of Economy (1926–1929) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1929–1931). From a family of industrialists, he studied law in Bonn, Kiel, and Strasbourg, earning his doctorate in 1900.
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.
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.
Biography of Per Aabel (excerpt)
Per Pavels Aabel (25 April 1902 – 22 December 1999) was a Norwegian actor, artist, dancer, choreographer and instructor. Per Aabel was the son of Hauk Aabel, a popular Norwegian comedian and actor in Norwegian and Swedish silent film, and the actress Svanhild Johannessen.
Biography of Ken Thorne (excerpt)
Kenneth Thorne (26 January 1924 – 9 July 2014) was a British television and film score composer. Early life Thorne was born in Dereham, a town in the English county of Norfolk.Thorne began his musical career as a pianist with the big bands of England during the 1940s, playing at night clubs and the dance halls.
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.
Biography of Claude Tresmontant (excerpt)
Claude Tresmontant (5 August 1925 - 16 April 1997) was a French philosopher skilled in Hebrew and ancient Greek. He taught medieval and scientific philosophy at the Sorbonne and won the Grand Prize of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in 1987.
Biography of Charles Starrett (excerpt)
Charles Robert Starrett (March 28, 1903 – March 22, 1986) was an American actor, best known for his starring role in the Durango Kid westerns. Starrett still holds the record for starring in the longest series of theatrical features: 131 westerns, all produced by Columbia Pictures.
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 Franz Hack (excerpt)
Franz Hack (February 3, 1915 - June 9, 1997) was a German officer who served in the Deutsches Heer (German Army) during World War II. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.
Biography of Rudolf Olden (excerpt)
Rudolf Olden was a prominent German lawyer and journalist during the Weimar period, known for his opposition to the Nazis and advocacy for human rights. In 1934, he was among the first to highlight the Nazis' treatment of Jews. His book "Hitler the Conqueror, Debunking of a Myth," part of German exile literature, was banned by the Nazis.
Biography of Jean Morin (1916-2008) (excerpt)
Jean Morin (June 23, 1916 - September 6, 2008) was a magistrate of the Court of Audit, a member of the Resistance, a senior civil servant, Secretary General of the Merchant Navy, and in retirement, a director or chairman of numerous companies, often focused on maritime professions, or those in advertising.
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Sauvage (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Sauvage, born in 1908 and passed away in 1991, was a French Catholic bishop who led the diocese of Annecy from 1962 to 1987. Initially a teacher and seminary superior, he was appointed by Pope John XXIII shortly before the Second Vatican Council.
Biography of Isabel García Lorca (writer) (excerpt)
Isabel García Lorca, born in Granada on October 11, 1909 and died on January 9, 2002 in Madrid, is a Spanish academic and writer exiled to the United States after the Spanish Civil War. She is the sister of Federico García Lorca and dedicated a large part of her life to his legacy.
Biography of Henry Bouquillard (excerpt)
Henry Bouquillard, born June 14, 1908, in Nevers and killed in combat over London on March 11, 1941, was a French aviator and a Companion of the Liberation. A prominent figure in the Free French Air Forces, Bouquillard joined England in July 1940 and served in the 245th Squadron, participating in the Battle of Britain where he achieved two confirmed victories.
Biography of Raffaele Viviani (excerpt)
Raffaele Viviani (10 January 1888 – 22 March 1950) was an Italian author, playwright, actor and musician. Viviani belongs to the turn-of-the-century school of realism in Italian literature, and his works touch on seamier elements of the lives of the poor in Naples of that period, such as petty crime and prostitution.
Biography of Alta Little (excerpt)
Alta Lucille Little (May 21, 1923 – March 10, 1999) was an American baseball player, playing as a first baseman and pitcher in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1947 to 1948. Born in Gas City, Indiana, she grew up in Muskegon, Michigan, and joined her sisters' softball team at age 11.
Biography of Abraham Bueno de Mesquita (excerpt)
Abraham "Appie" Bueno de Mesquita (July 23, 1918, in Amsterdam – August 19, 2005, in Lelystad) was a Dutch comedian, actor and stage artist, well known for his ability to make funny faces. In World War II, Bueno de Mesquita was imprisoned in the Dossin Barracks in Mechelen, Belgium on account of being Sephardi Jewish, and was scheduled to be deported to Auschwitz.
Biography of Enzo Paci (excerpt)
Enzo Paci (born September 18, 1911, in Monterado and died July 21, 1976, in Milan) was an Italian philosopher, one of the representatives of Existentialism in Italy, before turning towards phenomenology. He studied philosophy at the University of Milan, where he was notably a student of Antonio Banfi, and then began teaching at the University of Pavia, before returning to the University of Milan where he spent the remainder of his career.
Biography of Antonia Maymón (excerpt)
Antonia Rufina Maymón Giménez (18 July 1881 – 20 December 1959) was a Spanish rationalist pedagogue, militant naturist, anarchist, and feminist who published books on various topics. Antonia Rufina Maymón Giménez was born to a family from Aragon.She studied to be a teacher in the 'Escuela Normal Femenina' of Zaragoza, a city where she also married professor Lorenzo Lagoon, an anarchist.
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.
Biography of Henk Bremmer (excerpt)
Hendricus Peter (Henk) Bremmer (17 May 1871, Leiden – 10 January 1956, The Hague) was a Dutch painter, art critic, art teacher, collector and art dealer.He was the father of the painter Rudolph Bremmer (1900–1993). Bremmer trained as a painter and artist, working in journalism from 1893–1895 and began teaching art in 1896.
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 Rudolf Nelson (excerpt)
Rudolf Nelson, born on April 8, 1878, died February 5, 1960, was a German composer known for hit songs, film music, operettas, vaudevilles, and as the founder of the Nelson Revue, pivotal in 1930s Berlin nightlife. Raised in Berlin in a poor Jewish family, Nelson started piano early and later won a scholarship to the Stern Conservatory.
Biography of Carroll Pratt (excerpt)
Carroll Holmes Pratt (April 19, 1921 – November 11, 2010) was an American sound engineer who, along with laugh track inventor Charley Douglass, pioneered the use of prerecorded laughter. Carroll Pratt was influenced early by his father, a sound engineer.After serving in the U.S.
Biography of Pier Giorgio Frassati (excerpt)
Pier Giorgio Frassati, born in Turin on April 6, 1901, and deceased there on July 4, 1925, was a student, mountaineer, and member of the Dominican Third Order.Coming from a bourgeois family, he devoted his youth to faith and charity, secretly helping Turin’s poor.
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.
Biography of Élie Faure (excerpt)
Élie Faure, born April 4, 1873, in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, and died October 30, 1937, in Paris, was a French physician, art historian, and essayist. His "Histoire de l’art" was a significant contribution to the field.Son of Pierre Faure and Zéline Reclus, he was closely connected to Élisée and Élie Reclus.
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.
Biography of C. L. Moore (excerpt)
Catherine Lucille Moore (January 24, 1911 – April 4, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, who first came to prominence in the 1930s writing as C.L.Moore.She was among the first women to write in the science fiction and fantasy genres (though earlier woman writers in these genres include Clare Winger Harris, Greye La Spina, and Francis Stevens, among others). |
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