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Horoscopes 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. ![]() ![]()
Biography of Jacques Prevel (excerpt)
Jacques Marie Prevel (Bolbec, July 21, 1915 - Sainte-Feyre, May 27, 1951) was a French poet, best known for being one of the last and most loyal friends of the poet Antonin Artaud. Jacques Prevel had a son named Stéphane Dominique Jacques Prevel.
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Biography of Michel Jouvet (excerpt)
Michel Jouvet (born November 16, 1925, in Lons-le-Saunier, died October 3, 2017, in Villeurbanne) was a French neurobiologist. Considered a pioneer in sleep research, he described himself as a oneirologist and coined the term "paradoxical sleep" to describe the sleep phase during which dreams occur.
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Biography of Yvonne Pagniez (excerpt)
Yvonne Pagniez, born on August 10, 1896, in Cauroir, was a French journalist, award-winning writer, and a member of the French Resistance during World War II. She studied Philosophy and served as a nurse during World War I. Her family experienced occupation and separation during the war; her father was arrested as a spy but escaped.
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Biography of Elizabeth Casson (excerpt)
Elizabeth Casson OBE (14 April 1881 – 17 December 1954) was a British medical doctor and a pioneer in occupational therapy. Initially trained as a secretary, she began studying medicine at 32 and became the first woman to receive a medical degree from the University of Bristol in 1926.
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Biography of Licia Albanese (excerpt)
Licia Albanese (July 22, 1909 – August 15, 2014) was an Italian-born American operatic soprano. Noted especially for her portrayals of the lyric heroines of Verdi and Puccini, Albanese was a leading artist with the Metropolitan Opera from 1940 to 1966.
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Biography of Ruth Freitag (excerpt)
Ruth Steinmuller Freitag (8 June 1924 – 3 October 2020) was an American reference librarian at the Library of Congress, known for her expertise in astronomy and compiling extensive bibliographies. Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, she studied history at Pennsylvania State University and served with the Women's Army Corps in China.
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Biography of Bettiola Heloise Fortson (excerpt)
Bettiola Heloise Fortson (December 29, 1890 – April 13, 1917) was an African-American poet, essayist, activist, and suffragist. Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, she moved to Chicago at age 12. Fortson co-founded the University Society of Chicago, promoting artistic and intellectual development among African Americans.
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Biography of Hermann Abendroth (excerpt)
Hermann Paul Maximilian Abendroth (January 19, 1883 – May 29, 1956) was a German conductor. Born in Frankfurt, he studied music in Munich under Ludwig Thuille and Felix Mottl. He began his career conducting in Munich, Lübeck, and Essen. From 1915 to 1934, he was the Kapellmeister of the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne and director of the Cologne Conservatory.
Biography of Barney Liddell (excerpt)
Barney Liddell (August 13, 1921 – May 5, 2003) was an American big band trombonist known for his long tenure on The Lawrence Welk Show. Born and raised in Gary, Indiana, Liddell was the oldest of eleven children. He started playing the trombone in high school and later attended the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago.
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Biography of Cor van der Lugt Melsert (excerpt)
Cornelis Dirk van der Lugt Melsert (Rotterdam, July 4, 1882 – The Hague, August 16, 1969) was a Dutch actor and director. He debuted at age 9 with the Nederlandsche Tooneelvereeniging and graduated from the Amsterdam School of Theatre in 1902. He directed the Vereenigd Rotterdamsch-Hofstad Tooneel from 1923 to 1938, then became head of NV Het Nederlandsch Tooneel in Amsterdam.
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Biography of Ragnhild of Norway (excerpt)
Princess Ragnhild, Mrs Lorentzen (Ragnhild Alexandra; 9 June 1930 – 16 September 2012), was the eldest child of King Olav V of Norway and Princess Märtha of Sweden. She was the older sister of King Harald V and Princess Astrid. She was the first Norwegian royal to have been born in Norway since the Middle Ages.
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Biography of Isaac Puente (excerpt)
Isaac Puente Amestoy (3 June 1896 – 1 September 1936), born in Las Carreras near Biscay, was a Basque physician and Spanish anarchist of a strong anarchist communist bent, who adhered to concerns around birth control, hygiene and sexuality. He promoted anarcho-naturism, and was active in the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT).
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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 Donald Stewart (actor) (excerpt)
Donald Stewart (May 14, 1910 – March 1, 1966) was an American actor and singer, who settled and worked in the United Kingdom. After training at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and several appearances in Broadway musicals (including Life Begins at 8:40), Stewart moved to Britain.
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Biography of Óscar Murúa (excerpt)
José Óscar Francisco Murúa Robledo (January 25, 1898 – April 1, 1980) was a prominent Guatemalan artist born to Spanish immigrants. In 1903, his family moved from Guatemala to Madrid, Spain, where he later studied Commerce. Returning to Guatemala in 1915, he settled in Antigua Guatemala in 1946, focusing on rebuilding a property into a hotel.
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Biography of Wilhelm Feldberg (excerpt)
Wilhelm Siegmund Feldberg CBE FRS (19 November 1900 – 23 October 1993) was a German-British physiologist and biologist. Born in Hamburg to a Jewish family, he studied medicine in Heidelberg, Munich, and Berlin, graduating in 1925. He moved to England, working with John Newport Langley and Henry Dale, then returned to Berlin in 1927 but was dismissed in 1933 due to Nazi policies.
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Biography of Kurt Herdemerten (excerpt)
Kurt Herdemerten (* August 17, 1900, in Dresden; † December 21, 1951, in Essen) was a German mining engineer and polar explorer. Herdemerten grew up in Upper Silesia and studied geology and mining. He participated in the 1930/31 German Greenland Expedition led by Alfred Wegener, where he conducted seismic measurements of the ice sheet’s thickness.
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Biography of Inez Asher (excerpt)
Inez Asher, born Inez Harriett Silverberg on January 1, 1911, was an American novelist and television writer. Her time of birth comes from her birth certificate, which lacks the exact hour but states that she was born on January 10, and from the local newspaper, which reports her birth on December 31, 1910.
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Biography of Gerlach Fiedler (excerpt)
Gerlach Fiedler (1925-2010) was a versatile German actor, director, writer, and voice actor born in Mannheim. Starting his acting career influenced by classmate Klaus Detlef Sierck, he became a prominent radio and TV figure in post-war Germany, particularly with NWDR/NDR.
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Biography of Randi Heide Steen (excerpt)
Randi Heide Steen (15 December 1909 – 12 November 1990) was a Norwegian soprano singer. Steen was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. Her parents, Harald Steen (1886–1941) and Signe Heide Steen (1881–1959), were both actors and singers who performed on stage and in opera.
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Biography of Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (excerpt)
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (June 19, 1884 – July 9, 1974) was a French writer and artist associated with the Dada movement. He was born in Montpellier and died in Saint-Jeannet. In addition to numerous early paintings, Ribemont-Dessaignes wrote plays, poetry, manifestos and opera librettos.
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Biography of Helen Westcott (excerpt)
Helen Westcott (born Myrthas Helen Hickman, January 1, 1928 – March 17, 1998) was an American stage and screen actress, best known for her role in "The Gunfighter" (1950). Born to singer Hazel McArthur and actor Gordon Westcott, she lost her father at age seven.
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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.
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Biography of Théophile Alajouanine (excerpt)
Théophile Alajouanine, born June 12, 1890, in Verneix and died May 2, 1980, in Paris, was a French neurologist and writer. The son of a blacksmith, he studied medicine in Paris, becoming a hospital intern in 1913. Influenced by Achille Souques and Charles Foix, he specialized in neurology.
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Biography of Germaine Deschanel (excerpt)
Germaine Deschanel, born Germaine Brice de Ville on September 13, 1876, in Vezin-le-Coquet and died on July 8, 1959, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was the wife of Paul Deschanel, President of the French Republic from February to September 1920. Family Daughter of René Joseph Brice de Ville, a deputy from Ille-et-Vilaine, and granddaughter of the playwright Camille Doucet, Germaine married Paul Deschanel, then President of the Chamber of Deputies, on February 13, 1901, in Paris.
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Biography of Emilia Ortiz (excerpt)
Emilia Ortiz Pérez (Tepic, Nayarit, February 10, 1917 – Tepic, Nayarit, November 24, 2012) was a Nayarit Mexican painter, cartoonist, caricaturist, and poet, best known for her watercolors she made of the indigenous groups in her area, and the caricatures she created from an early age of political figures and those she knew.
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Biography of Karl Schwarzschild (excerpt)
Karl Schwarzschild (9 October 1873 – 11 May 1916) was a German physicist and astronomer. Schwarzschild provided the first exact solution to the Einstein field equations of general relativity, for the limited case of a single spherical non-rotating mass, which he accomplished in 1915, the same year that Einstein first introduced general relativity.
Biography of Kenneth Tynan (excerpt)
Kenneth Peacock Tynan (1927–1980) was a groundbreaking English theatre critic, writer, and literary manager of the National Theatre Company. His birth time comes from the biography Kathleen Tynan, "The Life," Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1987, in which it is stated that he was born in the morning.
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Biography of Silvestre Revueltas (excerpt)
Silvestre Revueltas Sánchez (December 31, 1899 – October 5, 1940) was a Mexican classical music composer, violinist, and conductor. Born in Durango, he studied in Mexico City, Texas, and Chicago. He became assistant conductor of Mexico's National Symphony Orchestra in 1929, promoted contemporary Mexican music, and composed film scores, including the famous "La noche de los mayas."
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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.
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Biography of Art Farmer (excerpt)
Arthur Stewart Farmer (August 21, 1928 – October 4, 1999) was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player. He also played the flumpet, a trumpet-flugelhorn hybrid designed for him. With his twin brother Addison, a bassist, he began playing professionally in high school in Los Angeles.
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Biography of Helmut Kolle (excerpt)
Helmut Kolle, born on February 24, 1899, and died on November 17, 1931, was a German painter who achieved significant success in France during the 1920s. He blended German modernist style with French painting. Kolle was born in Berlin-Charlottenburg, the son of bacteriologist Wilhelm Kolle. ![]()
Biography of Jean Saudray (excerpt)
Jean Saudray, born on July 17, 1928, in Bordeaux and died on August 31, 2002, in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, was a French actor passionate about theater from a young age. He began in Les Fourberies de Scapin and studied at the drama center on rue Blanche in Paris.
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Biography of Feliks Nowowiejski (excerpt)
Feliks Nowowiejski (7 February 1877 – 18 January 1946) was a Polish composer, conductor, concert organist, and music teacher. Nowowiejski was born in Wartenburg (today Barczewo) in Warmia in the Prussian Partition of Poland (then administratively part of the Province of East Prussia, German Empire).
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Biography of Harold Courlander (excerpt)
Harold Courlander (September 18, 1908 – March 15, 1996) was an American novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist and an expert in the study of Haitian life. The author of 35 books and plays and numerous scholarly articles, Courlander specialized in the study of African, Caribbean, Afro-American, and Native American cultures.
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Biography of Leopold Mountbatten (excerpt)
Lord Leopold Arthur Louis Mountbatten (21 May 1889 – 23 April 1922) was a British Army officer and a descendant of the Hessian princely Battenberg family and the British royal family. A grandson of Queen Victoria, he was known as Prince Leopold of Battenberg from his birth until 1917, when the British royal family relinquished their German titles during World War I, and the Battenberg family changed their name to Mountbatten.
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Biography of Richard Glücks (excerpt)
Richard Glücks (22 April 1888 – 10 May 1945) was a high-ranking German SS functionary during the Nazi era. Wikipedia has 1889 in error. From November 1939 until the end of World War II, he commanded the Concentration Camps Inspectorate, later integrated into the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office as "Amt D".
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Biography of Walter Hasenclever (excerpt)
Walter Georg Alfred Hasenclever (8 July 1890 – 22 June 1940) was a German Jewish Expressionist poet and playwright. His works were banned when the Nazis came to power, leading him to exile in France where he was imprisoned as a "foreign enemy.
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Biography of Oscar Orth (surgeon) (excerpt)
Oscar Karl Orth was a distinguished German surgeon and professor at the State Hospital in Homburg. Born into a merchant family in 1876 in Ensheim, he pursued medical studies in Munich, Berlin, and Heidelberg, earning his degree in 1901. Throughout his career, Orth made significant contributions to internal pathology and the history of civil engineering.
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Biography of August Krogh (excerpt)
Schack August Steenberg Krogh, a Danish professor at the University of Copenhagen's department of zoophysiology (1916-1945), was a renowned physiologist who made significant discoveries across various fields and developed the Krogh Principle. His time of birth comes from the biography August and Marie Krogh: Lives in Science" by his daughter Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen " in which it is specified that he was born "in the morning.
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Biography of Paul Batiment (excerpt)
Paul Batiment (born October 7, 1920, in Strasbourg) was a French military officer and Companion of the Liberation. While preparing for Saint-Cyr at the onset of World War II, he joined the Free French Forces in 1940 after Alsace's annexation by the Third Reich.
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Biography of Giuseppe Gola (botanist) (excerpt)
Giuseppe Gola (Novara, February 26, 1877 – Padua, July 25, 1956) was an Italian botanist. After earning a medical degree from the University of Turin in 1900, he developed a passion for botany and obtained a degree in natural sciences in 1902.
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Biography of Xia Peisu (excerpt)
Xia Peisu or Pei-su Hsia (28 July 1923 – 27 August 2014) was a Chinese computer scientist and educator known for her pioneering research in computer science and technology. The leading developer of Model 107, the nation's first domestically designed general-purpose electronic computer, she has been called the "Mother of Computer Science in China".
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Biography of Nellie Gray (activist) (excerpt)
Nellie Jane Gray (June 25, 1924 – August 13, 2012) was an American anti-abortion activist who founded the annual March for Life in 1974, in response to the Supreme Court ruling Roe v. Wade, which decriminalized abortion the previous year. The New York Times credits her with popularizing the term pro-life.
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Biography of Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (excerpt)
Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (1900–1975) was an Italian archaeologist and art historian. Born into Siena's aristocracy, his early research focused on Etruscan centers near his family lands. Disgusted by Italian fascism, he converted to communism after World War II and co-founded the magazine "Società" in 1945.
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Biography of Arthur Tedder (excerpt)
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Arthur William Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder, GCB (11 July 1890 – 3 June 1967) was a Scottish senior Royal Air Force commander. He was a pilot and squadron commander in the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War and he went on to serve as a senior officer in the Royal Air Force during the inter-war years when he served in Turkey, Great Britain and the Far East.
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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.
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Biography of Arturo García Bustos (excerpt)
Arturo García Bustos (born August 8, 1926, in Mexico City; died April 7, 2017, in the same city) was a Mexican artist. Starting in 1941, he studied at the La Esmeralda Academy of Fine Arts. His teachers included Agustín Lazo, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Feliciano Peña.
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Biography of Marie Juchacz (excerpt)
Marie Juchacz (née Marie Gohlke; born Gorzów Wielkopolski, 15 March 1879; died Düsseldorf, 28 January 1956) was a German social reformer. She joined the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in 1908, more than ten years before women acquired the right to vote, and pursued a career that included politics, becoming, in 1919, the first female Reichstag member to address a German parliament.
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Biography of Helene Stanton (excerpt)
Helene Stanton (born Eleanor Mae Stansbury, November 4, 1925 – June 7, 2017) was an American singer and actress. Her career began as an opera singer for the Cosmopolitan Opera Company in Philadelphia, before moving to Hollywood, where she became a singer of popular music. |
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