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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 Hollis B. Chenery (excerpt)
Hollis Burnley Chenery (January 6, 1918 – September 1, 1994) was an American economist recognized for his pioneering contributions to development economics. He held positions at Stanford and Harvard before serving as vice president for development policy at the World Bank. Chenery's research, notably his collaboration with Alan Strout on "Foreign assistance and economic development," influenced aid strategies, emphasizing poverty-focused approaches.
Biography of Cor Bruijn (excerpt)
Cornelis Pieter (Cor) Bruijn (May 17, 1883 – November 16, 1978) was a Dutch writer, best known for "Sil de Strandjutter," which became a TV series. Born in Wormerveer, he worked as a teacher and later dedicated himself to writing, particularly focusing on regional novels and children’s books.
Biography of Pat O'Dea (excerpt)
Patrick John "Kangaroo Kicker" O'Dea (16 March 1872 – 5 April 1962) was an Australian rules and American football player and coach. An Australian by birth, O'Dea played Australian rules football for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA).
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 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.
Biography of Ned Garver (excerpt)
Ned Franklin Garver (December 25, 1925 – February 26, 2017) was an American professional baseball pitcher in MLB for the St.Louis Browns, Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Athletics, and Los Angeles Angels. Notably, he was one of only two pitchers since 1901 to win 20 games for a team that lost 100 in a season.
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 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 Lew Worsham (excerpt)
Lewis Elmer Worsham, Jr.(October 5, 1917 – October 19, 1990) was an American professional golfer, the U.S.Open champion in 1947. Life and career Worsham was born on October 5, 1917, in Staunton River, Virginia.He grew up in Long Island, Virginia.Worsham attended Hampton High School and was a member of the golf team from 1933 to 1935.
Biography of Georges Victor-Hugo (excerpt)
Georges Victor-Hugo, born Georges Charles Victor Léopold Hugo on August 16, 1868, in Brussels, was a French painter and skipper who died on February 5, 1925, in Paris. The son of Charles Hugo and grandson of Victor Hugo, he was raised by his grandfather after his father's death when he was 3 years old.
Biography of Peggy Wood (excerpt)
Mary Margaret Wood (February 9, 1892 – March 18, 1978) was an American actress of stage, film, and television. She is best remembered for her performance as the title character in the CBS television series Mama (1949–1957), for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series; her starring role as Naomi, Ruth's mother-in-law, in The Story of Ruth (1960); and her final screen appearance as Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music (1965), for which she received an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award.
Biography of Lisa Della Casa (excerpt)
Lisa Della Casa (2 February 1919 – 10 December 2012) was a Swiss soprano most admired for her interpretations of major heroines in operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss, and of German lieder. She was also described as “the most beautiful woman on the operatic stage”.
Biography of Elena Caffarena (excerpt)
Elena Caffarena Morice (March 22, 1903 - July 19, 2003) was a Chilean lawyer, jurist and politician.Contemporary historians and humanists consider her to be one of the most important 20th-century public figures in Chile. Biography Elena Caffarena was born in Iquique, Chile, to Ana Morice and Blas Caffarena, an Italian immigrant.
Biography of Max Hansen (SS officer) (excerpt)
Max Hansen (July 31, 1908 - March 7, 1990) was a German officer who served in the Waffen-SS during World War II.He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. Career Max Hansen joined the SS-Verfügungstruppe in 1933.By 1939, he was commanding the 12th company of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler.
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 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 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.
Biography of Russell Arms (excerpt)
Russell Lee Arms (February 3, 1920 – February 13, 2012) was an American actor and singer.His time of birth comes from his autobiography "My Hit Parade…and a Few Misses" by Russell Arms (BearManor, 2005). Career Arms was born on February 3, 1920 in Berkeley, California, gaining acting experience via the Pasadena Playhouse.
Biography of Jan Wolkers (excerpt)
Jan Hendrik Wolkers (26 October 1925 – 19 October 2007) was a Dutch author, sculptor and painter. Wolkers is considered by some to be one of the "Great Four" writers of post-World War II Dutch literature, alongside Willem Frederik Hermans, Harry Mulisch and Gerard Reve (the latter authors are also known as the "Great Three").
Biography of Jesús Flores Magón (excerpt)
Gaspar Jesús Melchor Flores Magón (6 January 1871 – 7 December 1930) was a Mexican politician, journalist, and jurist, the more moderate brother of Ricardo and Enrique Flores Magón.He served in Francisco I.Madero’s cabinet. Born in San Jerónimo Tecóatl, Oaxaca, his family moved to Mexico City when he was young.
Biography of Arend Heyting (excerpt)
Arend Heyting (9 May 1898 – 9 July 1980) was a Dutch mathematician and logician. Heyting was a student of Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer at the University of Amsterdam, and did much to put intuitionistic logic on a footing where it could become part of mathematical logic.
Biography of Annette Strauss (excerpt)
Annette Louise Greenfield Strauss (January 26, 1924 – December 14, 1998) was an American philanthropist and politician who served as the 54th mayor of Dallas. The Annette Strauss Artist Square in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas is named in honor of her.
Biography of Manuel Pertegaz (excerpt)
Manuel Pertegaz Ibáñez (18 May 1918 - 30 August 2014), known as Manuel Pertegaz, was a renowned Spanish fashion designer. He was asked to succeed Christian Dior in 1957 but chose to remain in Spain, becoming its leading couturier by the 1960s.
Biography of Didier Béguin (excerpt)
Didier Béguin (Paris, December 14, 1918 - Died for France in Arnhem on November 26, 1944) is a French soldier, Companion of the Liberation. Rallying Free France from the first days of June 1940, he fought on the Western Front then distinguished himself particularly on the Russian front by winning several aerial victories.
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On June 12, 2025, Air India Flight 171 crashed 30 seconds after takeoff from Ahmedabad, striking a student hostel at B. J. Medical College. At least 269 people died, including 241 on board and 28 on the ground. One passenger survived.
Biography of Alfred Döblin (excerpt)
Bruno Alfred Döblin (10 August 1878 – 26 June 1957) was a German novelist, essayist, and doctor, best known for his novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).A prolific writer, he is a key figure in German literary modernism. His œuvre spans over fifty years and includes a dozen novels (historical fiction, science fiction, urban themes), plays, radio scripts, philosophical treatises, essays, and letters.
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 Saint-Granier (excerpt)
Saint-Granier, whose real name was Jean Adolphe Alfred de Granier de Cassagnac, was a French actor and singer-songwriter, born on May 27, 1890, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris and died on June 25, 1976, in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine). A creator of numerous revues, he was also a screenwriter, radio personality, and journalist.
Biography of Daniele D'Anza (excerpt)
Daniele D'Anza (20 April 1922 – 12 April 1984) was an Italian director, playwright and screenwriter. Life and career Born in Milan, D'Anza started his career on stage, in which he is best known for the direction of the antimilitarist play Venticinque metri di fango that he presented in Milan in 1946 raising several controversities as well as critical appreciation.
Biography of Asbjørg Borgfelt (excerpt)
Asbjørg 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 Sæther (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 Håndverks- og Kunstindustriskole) with Wilhelm Rasmussen (1879–1965).
Biography of Jan Karski (excerpt)
Jan Karski (born Jan Kozielewski, 24 June 1914 – 13 July 2000) was a Polish World War II soldier, resistance fighter, and diplomat. He is notable for reporting to the Polish government-in-exile and the Allies on the situation in German-occupied Poland, including the Warsaw Ghetto and extermination camps.
Biography of Sixto Escobar (excerpt)
Sixto Escobar, born on March 23, 1913, in Barceloneta and died on November 17, 1979, was a Puerto Rican professional boxer and Puerto Rico's first world champion in the bantamweight division. Beginning his professional career in 1931, Escobar amassed a record of 21 wins, 1 draw, and 1 loss as an amateur.
Biography of Stacia Napierkowska (excerpt)
Stacia Napierkowska was a French actress and dancer of Polish origin, born Renée Claire Angèle Élisabeth Napierkowski on September 16, 1891, in the 6th arrondissement of Paris and died on May 11, 1945, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. Stacia Napierkowska was the daughter of Stanisław Artur Napier-Kowski, the engraver Napier, and Claire Angèle Hortense Comte.
Biography of Rakshak Sridhar (excerpt)
Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar (IAST: Bhakti-rakṣaka Śrīdhara; 10 October 1895 – 12 August 1988) was an Indian guru, writer, sannyasi and spiritual leader in the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, founder-president-acharya of the Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math. His time of birth comes from his online biography (which is no longer available).
Biography of Louis-Marie Raclet (excerpt)
Louis-Marie Raclet, born on October 17, 1903, in Grenoble, was a French astrologer. He founded the periodical "Astres" in 1948, which was published until 2009.
Biography of Alf Løvberg (excerpt)
Alf Gunnar Løvberg (19 September 1898 (Wikipedia gives 1899 in error) – 17 October 1986) was a Norwegian painter from Oslo. Løvberg, who was the son of an orchestra musician, was a student of Christian Krohg and Halfdan Strøm at the Norwegian Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo.
Biography of Matías Prats Cañete (excerpt)
Matías Prats Cañete (4 December 1913 - 8 September 2004) was a renowned Spanish radio and television journalist known for his sports commentary. Starting his career post-Spanish Civil War on Radio Algeciras, he later narrated bullfights and football matches on RNE in Málaga.
Biography of Odd Eidem (excerpt)
Odd Eidem (23 October 1913 – 10 June 1988) was a Norwegian writer, journalist and literary critic. He was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway.He was the eldest of three sons born to Gunnar Kølbel (1890–1963) and Dorothea Serine Eidem (1889–1940).His parents divorced during his youth.
Biography of Loe de Jong (excerpt)
Louis "Loe" de Jong (24 April 1914 – 15 March 2005) was a Dutch historian who specialized in the Netherlands during World War II and the Dutch resistance. He studied history and social geography at the University of Amsterdam and worked as a foreign correspondent.
Biography of Verne Gagne (excerpt)
Laverne Clarence "Verne" Gagne (February 26, 1926 – April 27, 2015) was an American amateur and professional wrestler, football player, wrestling trainer, and promoter. He owned and promoted the Minneapolis-based American Wrestling Association (AWA), the leading promotion in the Midwest and Manitoba for many years until it folded in 1991.
Biography of Marilyn Buferd (excerpt)
Marilyn Buferd (January 30, 1925 – March 27, 1990) was an American film and television actress as well as the winner of both the Miss California and Miss America pageants of 1946.During the latter half of the 1940s and throughout the 1950s, she performed in nearly two dozen American, Italian, and French films, including Touchez pas au grisbi opposite Jean Gabin (1954).
Biography of Karl Theodor Fahr (excerpt)
Karl Theodor Fahr (3 October 1877 – 29 October 1945) was a German pathologist born in Pirmasens of the Rhineland-Palatinate. In 1903 he earned his medical doctorate from the University of Giessen, afterwards continuing his studies with Eugen Bostroem (1850-1926) in Giessen, under Morris Simmonds (1855-1925) in Hamburg and with Ilya Ilyich Metchnikoff (1845-1916) in Paris.
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.
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 Luigi Gui (excerpt)
Luigi Gui (26 September 1914 – 26 April 2010) was an Italian politician and philosopher. Gui was born in Padua (Veneto).He graduated in philosophy at the Catholic University in Milan.He was an officer of the Alpini corps of the Italian Army, and fought in USSR during World War II.
Biography of Alda do Espírito Santo (excerpt)
Alda do Espírito Santo (April 30, 1926 – March 9, 2010) was a Santomean writer and politician, a key figure in the fight for São Tomé and Príncipe's independence. Born to Maria de Jesus Agostinho das Neves and João Graça do Espírito Santo, she studied in Portugal and co-founded the Centro de Estudos Africanos in Lisbon in 1948.
Biography of Marcia Hafif (excerpt)
Marcia Jean Hafif (August 15, 1929 – April 17, 2018) was an American painter known for her minimalist approach and association with the Radical Painting Group of the 1970s and 1980s. Born in Pomona, California, she graduated from Pomona College in 1951, initially working as a teacher before turning to art full-time.
Biography of Enrique Iturriaga (excerpt)
Enrique Iturriaga Romero (born April 3, 1918, in Lima, Peru – died November 23, 2019) was a Peruvian composer, professor, pianist, rector, teacher, and music critic. Iturriaga studied composition, music theory, and piano at the National Conservatory of Music (1945-1950).He then continued his studies in Paris under Arthur Honegger.
Biography of Rodolfo Acosta (excerpt)
Rodolfo Pérez Acosta (July 29, 1920 – November 7, 1974) was a Mexican-American character actor who became known for his roles as Mexican outlaws or American Indians in Hollywood western films.He was sometimes credited as Rudolfo Acosta. After the war, Acosta worked in stage and film, leading to a role in John Ford's 1947 film "The Fugitive".
Biography of Franz Weber (activist) (excerpt)
Franz Weber (27 July 1927 – 2 April 2019) was a Swiss environmentalist and animal welfare activist who began his career as a journalist. After studying at the Sorbonne, he became deeply involved in environmental conservation starting in 1965, notably through his efforts to protect the Engadine Valley of the Lakes in Switzerland, which was eventually declared a National Conservation Region. |
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