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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 Leo von König (excerpt)
Leo Freiherr von König (28 February 1871 - 19 April 1944) was a German painter and a member of the Berlin Secession. He was the eldest son of Götz von König, a cavalry general, and Baroness Hertha von Cramm. He studied at the Prussian Academy of Art and later at the Académie Julian in Paris from 1889 to 1897.
Biography of Marcel Boulenger (excerpt)
Marcel Jacques Amand Romain Boulenger, born on September 9, 1873, in Paris 8th arrondissement and died on May 21, 1932, in Chantilly, was a French novelist, journalist, and fencer. He notably wrote several pastiches and "literary fakes," autobiographies attributed to imaginary characters, the most famous being Souvenirs du marquis de Floranges (1811-1834), preceded by a detailed biography of this fictional character, a hoax that deceived several scholars (reminiscent of Pierre Louÿs' feat with his Chansons de Bilitis).
Biography of Cecil Williams (pastor) (excerpt)
Albert Cecil Williams (September 22, 1929 – April 22, 2024) was an American pastor, civil and LGBT rights activist, community leader, and author who was the pastor of Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco. He was one of the first five African-American graduates of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University.
Biography of Lee Morse (excerpt)
Lena Corinne "Lee" Morse (née Taylor on November 30, 1897, and died December 16, 1954) was an American jazz and blues singer-songwriter, composer, guitarist, and actress. She rose to fame in the 1920s and 1930s as a torch singer, recording over 200 songs during her career.
Biography of Emilio Segrè (excerpt)
Emilio Gino Segrè (January 30, 1905 – April 22, 1989) was an Italian-American physicist and Nobel laureate, known for discovering the elements technetium and astatine, as well as the antiproton, a subatomic antiparticle. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959 alongside Owen Chamberlain.
Biography of Edmund Bacon (architect) (excerpt)
Edmund Norwood Bacon (May 2, 1910 – October 14, 2005) was an American urban planner, architect, educator, and author. During his tenure as the executive director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission from 1949 to 1970, his visions shaped today's Philadelphia, the city of his birth, to the extent that he is sometimes described as "The Father of Modern Philadelphia".
Biography of Hugo Sinzheimer (excerpt)
Hugo Sinzheimer (12 April 1875 – 16 September 1945) was a German legal scholar and contributor to the Weimar Constitution, known as a leading proponent of social law. He specialized in labor law, publishing a significant work in 1907. As a member of the Weimar National Assembly, he greatly influenced the labor law section of the constitution, earning the title "father of labor law" in Germany.
Biography of João Havelange (excerpt)
Jean-Marie Faustin Godefroid "João" de Havelange (Brazilian Portuguese: , French: ; 8 May 1916 – 16 August 2016) was a Brazilian lawyer, businessman, and athlete who served as the seventh president of FIFA from 1974 to 1998. His tenure as president is the second longest in FIFA's history, behind only that of Jules Rimet.
Biography of Gabriellino D'Annunzio (excerpt)
Gabriele Maria "Gabriellino" D'Annunzio (10 April 1886 – 8 December 1945) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. He was the son of the Italian writer Gabriele D'Annunzio. He adapted the 1921 film The Ship from a novel by his father.
Biography of Bjarne Øen (excerpt)
Bjarne Øen (6 November 1898 – 20 September 1994) was a significant figure in the Royal Norwegian Air Force, serving as a pilot, military officer, and Lieutenant General. During World War II, he was pivotal in establishing the Royal Norwegian Air Force in Canada and the UK.
Biography of Louis de Vries (actor) (excerpt)
Louis de Vries, born Levi de Vries, (Amsterdam, October 18, 1871 - Nice, March 10, 1940) was a Dutch actor. De Vries came from a background of Jewish diamond workers.His parents were Samuel de Vries and Saartje Philip Peper, both of whom were deaf-mute.
Biography of John Decker (artist) (excerpt)
John Decker, born Leopold von der Decken on November 8, 1895, in Berlin, Germany, was a prominent painter, set designer, and caricaturist in Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s. Initially painting scenery in London theaters, his career was interrupted by World War I, leading to his internment as an enemy alien.
Biography of Robert Runcie (excerpt)
Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie, Baron Runcie, MC, PC (2 October 1921 – 11 July 2000) was an English Anglican bishop.He was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1980 to 1991, having previously been Bishop of St Albans.He travelled the world widely to spread ecumenicism and worked to foster relations with both Protestant and Catholic churches across Europe.
Biography of Rahel Straus (excerpt)
Rahel Straus, née Goitein (1880–1963), was a pioneering German-Jewish medical doctor, feminist, and writer. She was the first female student to study medicine normally at Heidelberg University, earning her degree in January 1905. After marrying her childhood friend, lawyer Elias Straus (1878–1933), she moved to Munich, where she opened a medical practice and became a prominent advocate for Zionism and the League of Jewish Women.
Biography of Carmen Baroja (excerpt)
Carmen Baroja Nessi (10 December 1883, Pamplona - 4 June 1950, Madrid) was a significant Spanish writer and ethnologist, known for her pseudonym Vera Alzate. Born into a culturally rich family, she was the sister of noted writers Ricardo and Pío Baroja.
Biography of Willy Pfeiffer (excerpt)
Willy Pfeiffer (born July 29, 1879, in Stuttgart; died October 1, 1937, in Frankfurt am Main) was a German Associate Professor of Otolaryngology at the University Hospital Frankfurt. Life Pfeiffer initially studied medicine for four semesters at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.
Biography of Charles Brunier (excerpt)
Charles Armand Brunier, born on May 31, 1901, in Paris, and passed away on January 26, 2007, in Cormeilles-en-Parisis, was a French adventurer and soldier. He fought in World War I in Syria, earning the Croix de Guerre.In 1923, he was sentenced to life in prison for murder and sent to the French Guiana penal colony, where he escaped several times.
Biography of Bob Donham (excerpt)
Robert E. Donham (October 11, 1926 – September 21, 1983) was an American professional basketball player. Donham was selected in the third round of the 1950 NBA draft by the Boston Celtics after a collegiate career at Ohio State. In four NBA seasons, all with the Celtics, Donham recorded 1,818 points, 1,071 rebounds and 706 assists.
Biography of Dörte Helm (excerpt)
Dorothea "Dörte" Helm (3 December 1898 – 24 February 1941) was a German Bauhaus artist, painter, and graphic designer. Life and Career Born to philologist Rudolf Helm and Alice Caroline Bauer, of Jewish descent, Helm studied in Berlin-Steglitz and later in Rostock.From 1915 to 1918, she attended the Kunsthochschule Kassel before joining the Academy of Fine Arts in Weimar in 1918.
Biography of Arvid Fladmoe (excerpt)
Arvid Fladmoe, born on May 8, 1915, in Oslo, Norway, was a distinguished composer and conductor, especially noted for his contributions to opera and operetta. He studied under Carl Flesch at the Royal Academy of Music in London and with Max Rostal in Oslo.
Biography of José Luccioni (excerpt)
José Luccioni (14 October 1903 in Bastia – 5 October 1978 in Marseille) was a French operatic tenor of Corsican origin.He possessed one of the best dramatic voices of the 1930s and 1940s. Initially a racing car driver and mechanic at the Citroën car company, his voice was discovered while he was serving in the military.
Biography of Antonio Monteiro (mathematician) (excerpt)
António Aniceto Monteiro (1907–1980) was a mathematician born in Portuguese Angola who later emigrated to Brazil in 1945 and finally to Argentina in 1950.Monteiro is best known for establishing a school of algebraic logic at Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina.
Biography of Pierre Arrighi (excerpt)
Pierre Arrighi, born March 2, 1921 and died during deportation in Mauthausen on August 5, 1944, was a French lawyer and resistance fighter.
Biography of Harry Northrup (actor) (excerpt)
Henri Stabo Wallace Northrup (born July 31, 1875, in Paris and died July 2, 1936, in Los Angeles, California) was a French-born American actor, known as Harry Northrup (or Harry S.Northrup). After emigrating to the United States, he began his film career in 1911, appearing in six short films, including Vanity Fair by Charles Kent (with Helen Gardner and William V.
Biography of Kurt Gerron (excerpt)
Kurt Gerron, born on 11 May 1897 and murdered on 30 October 1944, was a German Jewish actor and film director.He and his wife, Olga, were killed during the Holocaust. From a merchant family, he studied medicine before serving as a military doctor in World War I.
Biography of Herm Wehmeier (excerpt)
Herman Ralph Wehmeier (February 18, 1927 – May 21, 1973) was an American professional baseball player, a right-handed pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds (1945 and 1947–54), Philadelphia Phillies (1954–56), St.Louis Cardinals (1956–58) and Detroit Tigers (1958).Wehmeier stood 6 feet 2 inches (188 cm) tall and weighed 185 pounds (84 kg; 13.2 st).
Biography of Nanna With (excerpt)
Nanna Bergitte Caroline With (30 May 1874 – 22 February 1965) was a Norwegian journalist, voice pedagogue, and organizational leader. Born in Andenes, she was the daughter of shipowner and politician Richard With and Oline Sophie Wennberg. She served as editor-in-chief of Vesteraalens Avis from 1905 to 1907 and Hver 8.
Biography of Polly Ann Young (excerpt)
Polly Ann Young, born October 25, 1908, in Denver and died January 21, 1997, in Los Angeles, was an American actress.She was the sister of fellow actresses Loretta Young and Sally Blane. From 1917 to 1941, she appeared in over 40 films, many in minor or uncredited roles.
Biography of Queta Lavat (excerpt)
Enriqueta Margarita Lavat Bayona (22 February 1929 – 4 December 2023), known professionally as Queta Lavat, was a Mexican actress. She was the sister of actor Jorge Lavat and voice actor José Lavat, and mother of Mexican sports anchor Pablo Carrillo.
Biography of Albert Oustric (excerpt)
Albert Oustric (2 September 1887 – 16 April 1971) was a French entrepreneur and banker. The son of a café owner, he worked in various jobs before raising capital for a hydroelectric power generation company. In 1919, he founded a small bank, specializing in rescuing financially troubled enterprises through debt consolidation and inflated stock sales.
Biography of Robert Smyth McColl (excerpt)
Robert Smyth McColl (13 April 1876 – 25 November 1959) was a Scottish footballer who played as a centre forward. Playing career McColl started his career with junior club Benmore in 1892 and moved to Queen's Park in 1894.He represented the Scottish League in 1901.
Biography of Reinhold Schneider (excerpt)
Reinhold Schneider (Baden-Baden, May 13, 1903 – Freiburg im Breisgau, April 6, 1958) was a German poet who also wrote novels. Initially his works were less religious, but later his poetry had a Christian and specifically Catholic influence. His first works included ones about Luís de Camões and Portugal.
Biography of Eleanor Keaton (excerpt)
Eleanor Ruth Keaton (née Norris; July 29, 1918 – October 19, 1998) was an American dancer and variety performer. She became an MGM contract dancer in her teens. At age 21, she married silent film legend Buster Keaton, becoming his third wife. She played a key role in reviving his personal life and career.
Biography of Karl Helfferich (excerpt)
Karl Theodor Helfferich (July 22, 1872 – April 23, 1924) was a German politician, economist, and financier born in Neustadt an der Weinstraße. He studied law and political science before becoming a key figure in German economic imperialism, notably as director of Deutsche Bank.
Biography of André Donner (excerpt)
Andreas Matthias Donner (15 January (not June) 1918 in Rotterdam – 24 August 1992 in Amersfoort) was a Dutch judge and the second President of the European Court of Justice, a position which he served between 1958 and 1964. Early life Donner stems from a prominent Dutch Reformed family of jurists.
Biography of Fred Taylor (basketball, 1924) (excerpt)
Frederick Rankin Taylor (December 3, 1924 – January 6, 2002) was a prominent college men's basketball coach at Ohio State University from 1959 to 1976 and a former professional baseball player for the Washington Senators. After serving in the U.S.Army Air Forces, he played basketball and baseball at Ohio State, where his number 27 is retired.
Biography of Anya Seton (excerpt)
Anya Seton (January 23, 1904 – November 8, 1990), born Ann Seton, was an American writer of historical fiction, which she preferred to call "biographical novels." Her first novel, My Theodosia, was published in 1941.Her best-known works include Dragonwyck (1944) and Foxfire (1950), both adapted into Hollywood films, as well as Katherine (1954), Green Darkness (1973), and The Winthrop Woman.
Biography of Pierre-Louis Flouquet (excerpt)
Pierre-Louis Flouquet, born in the 6th arrondissement of Paris on February 21, 1900, and died in Dilbeek on October 25, 1967, was a Belgian abstract painter and poet. Settled in Brussels from 1910, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts during World War I.
Biography of Craig Ellwood (excerpt)
Craig Ellwood (born Jon Nelson Burke on April 22, 1922, in Clarendon, Texas; died May 30, 1992) was an American architect whose career spanned from 1950 to 1977 in Los Angeles. Despite lacking formal training, he achieved recognition for merging Mies van der Rohe's formalism with California modernism, supported by his talent and self-promotion.
Biography of Hillel Oppenheimer (excerpt)
Hillel Oppenheimer (born Heinz Reinhard Oppenheimer; 4 April 1899 – 15 June 1971), was an Israeli professor of botany. Hillel Oppenheimer was born in Berlin, Germany. His father was Franz Oppenheimer, a German-Jewish sociologist and political economist. Between 1917 and 1922, Oppenheimer studied botany at universities in Berlin, Frankfurt and Freiburg in Germany and at the University of Vienna in Austria, where he received his doctorate.
Biography of Paul Rivière (politician) (excerpt)
Paul Rivière, born November 22, 1912, in Montagny (Loire) and died December 15, 1998, in Bron, was a French Compagnon de la Libération, resistance fighter, and politician. He joined the Resistance in 1941 and later participated in the Indochina and Algerian wars.
Biography of Hanna Nagel (excerpt)
Hanna Nagel (born Johanna Nagel on June 10, 1907, in Heidelberg, where she died on March 15, 1975) was a German engraver and illustrator known for her activism against patriarchy and discrimination. The eldest of three children, she grew up in Heidelberg, attended a girls’ school, trained as a bookbinder, and later joined the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe.
Biography of Paul Cambo (excerpt)
Paul Cambo (de son vrai nom Paul-Marius-Raymond Mignonat), born on July 2, 1908, in Bort-les-Orgues (Corrèze) and died on February 19, 1978, in Maisons-Laffitte (Yvelines), was a French actor and comedian.
Biography of Giulio Battiferri (excerpt)
Giulio Battiferri (15 July 1893 – 22 January 1973) was an Italian actor.He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1939 to 1972.He was married to the actress Pina Piovani. Life and career Born in Rome, Battiferri started his career on stage in 1913, working alongside his wife Pina Piovani in the Romanesco dialect stage company Compagnia Romanesca directed by Gastone Monaldi.
Biography of Wieland Wagner (excerpt)
Wieland Wagner (5 January 1917 – 17 October 1966) was a German opera director, and grandson of Richard Wagner. As co-director of the Bayreuth Festival when it re-opened after World War II, he was noted for innovative new stagings of the operas, departing from the naturalistic scenery and lighting of the originals.
Biography of Cécile Thévenet (excerpt)
Cécile Thévenet, born on November 22, 1872, in Bruges and died on March 15, 1956, in Meudon, was a Belgian opera singer. Cécile Anne Marie Alphonsine Thévenet was the daughter of Alphonse Constantin Thévenet and Anne Thérèse Françoise Van Vyve. She had a sister, Marie, and two brothers, Pierre and Louis Thévenet, both of whom would become painters.
Biography of Jean de Beaumont (excerpt)
Count Jean Bonnin de la Bonninière de Beaumont (13 January 1904 – 12 June 2002) was a French aristocrat, businessman, politician, journalist, and sport shooter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. Born in Paris, he hailed from a notable aristocratic family and studied at prestigious French institutions.
Biography of Pietro Bucalossi (excerpt)
Pietro Bucalossi (August 9, 1905 – March 15, 1992) was an Italian physician and politician known for his cancer research and fiscal conservatism as Mayor of Milan in the 1960s. Born in San Miniato, he graduated in medicine from the University of Pisa and became a prominent oncologist in Milan.
Biography of Giuseppe Checchia Rispoli (excerpt)
Giuseppe Checchia Rispoli (San Severo, April 21, 1877 – Rome, November 30, 1947) was an Italian geologist and paleontologist. He graduated in 1900 with a degree in natural sciences, and earned his teaching qualification in 1908. He taught geology and paleontology at the universities of Palermo (from 1908), Cagliari (from 1926), and Rome (holding the chair of paleontology from 1928 and of geology from 1935).
Biography of Gene Woodling (excerpt)
Eugene Richard Woodling (August 16, 1922 – June 2, 2001) was an American professional baseball player, coach and scout. He played in Major League Baseball as an outfielder between 1943 and 1962, most prominently as a member of the New York Yankees dynasty that won five consecutive World Series championships between 1949 and 1953. |
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