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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 Carlos Canseco (excerpt)
Carlos Canseco González (March 17, 1921, Tampico, Mexico – January 14, 2009, Monterrey, Mexico) was a Mexican physician and philanthropist. In January 2002, he was honored as one of the "Public Health Heroes of the Americas" by the Pan American Health Organization.
Biography of Lars Nordrum (excerpt)
Lars Einar Nordrum (October 28, 1921 – January 25, 1973) was a Norwegian theater and film actor. He is especially remembered for acting the voice of Jennings (Norwegian: Stompa) in a series of Norwegian radio plays in the 1950s and 1960s.
Biography of Otto Leiber (excerpt)
Otto Leiber, born on May 11, 1878, in Strasbourg and died on January 27, 1958, in St. Georgen im Schwarzwald, was a German painter, draftsman, engraver, and sculptor. He created landscapes and portraits, both engraved and painted, and sculpted several busts of notable figures, including a 1929 bust of Albert Schweitzer, which helped establish his artistic reputation.
Biography of Aisha Rateb (excerpt)
Born on February 22, 1928, in Cairo, Aisha Rateb was a lawyer, minister, professor of international law, and Egypt’s first female ambassador. She graduated from Cairo University in 1949, earned a PhD in 1955, and sued the state after being denied a judicial post due to her gender.
Biography of Silvana Jachino (excerpt)
Silvana Jachino (February 2, 1916 – August 28, 2004) was an Italian actress born in Milan. The daughter of composer Carlo Jachino and niece of Admiral Angelo Iachino, she began her career in 1935 in Giovacchino Forzano’s Fiordalisi d'oro. During the era of the White Telephone films, she acted alongside notable stars like Vittorio De Sica, Totò, and Amedeo Nazzari, appearing in classics such as Partire and La Cavalerie héroïque.
Biography of Giovanni Minzoni (excerpt)
Giovanni Minzoni (1 July 1885 – 23 August 1923) was an Italian Catholic priest and anti-fascist, murdered by fascists in 1923. Ordained in 1909, he served as a military chaplain during World War I and was awarded the Silver Medal of Military Valor.
Biography of Raffaele La Capria (excerpt)
Raffaele La Capria, born on October 8, 1922, in Naples, was an Italian novelist and screenwriter. His second novel, The Mortal Wound (Ferito a morte), won the prestigious Strega Prize in 1961 and is now considered a classic of Italian literature. La Capria spent his early years in Naples before settling in Rome after stays in France, England, and the United States.
Biography of Jacques Andrieux (aviator) (excerpt)
Jacques Andrieux (Lorient, August 15, 1917 - Saint-Georges-de-Didonne, January 21, 2005) was a French military officer and Companion of the Liberation. A pilot who refused to accept defeat in 1940, he fled to England and fought throughout the war in the Royal Air Force, achieving several aerial combat victories.
Biography of Joseph Yablonski (excerpt)
Joseph Albert "Jock" Yablonski (March 3, 1910 – December 31, 1969) was an American labor leader in the United Mine Workers in the 1950s and 1960s known for seeking reform in the union and better working conditions for miners.In 1969 he challenged Tony Boyle for the presidency of the international union and was defeated.
Biography of Scott Armstrong (basketball) (excerpt)
Scott Thomas Armstrong Jr. (October 21, 1913 (Wikipedia has 12 October in error) – August 20, 1997) was an American professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball League for the Fort Wayne General Electrics, Oshkosh All-Stars, and Indianapolis Kautskys.
Biography of Theos Casimir Bernard (excerpt)
Theos Casimir Hamati Bernard (10 December 1908 – October 1947) was an American explorer and author known for his work on yoga and religious studies (particularly in Tibetan Buddhism). He was the nephew of Pierre Arnold Bernard, "Oom the Omnipotent", and like him became a yoga celebrity.
Biography of Eunice Michiles (excerpt)
Eunice Mafalda Michiles (born July 10, 1929) is a Brazilian writer, teacher and politician. In 1979, she took office as Senator for Amazonas, being the first woman to take office in the Federal Senate after Princess Isabel of Brazil. She was Federal Deputy for Amazonas between 1987 and 1991 by Liberal Front Party (PFL), participating of the 1988 Constituent Assembly.
Biography of Giambattista Dal Piaz (excerpt)
Giambattista Dal Piaz (Feltre, September 3, 1904 – Padua, October 28, 1995) was an Italian geologist. He graduated in natural sciences from the University of Padua in 1927 and taught geology at the University of Turin and later in Padua, where he also taught paleontology and petrography.
Biography of Richard Devon (excerpt)
Richard Devon, born Richard Gibson Ferraiole on December 11, 1926, in Glendale, California, was an American character and voice actor.From the late 1940s to 1991, he performed in hundreds of stage, radio, film, and television roles. Raised in a modest family of Italian descent, Devon worked early on as a stable hand and riding instructor—skills that served him well in his many roles in Westerns.
Biography of Francisco Luis Urquizo (excerpt)
Francisco Luis Urquizo Benavides, born June 27, 1891, in San Pedro de las Colonias and died April 6, 1969, in Mexico City, was a Mexican general, writer, and historian. A key figure in the Mexican Revolution, he later served as Secretary of National Defense from 1945 to 1946.
Biography of Hans Jantzen (excerpt)
Hans Jantzen (26 April 1881 – 15 February 1967) was a German art historian specializing in Medieval art. Initially studying law, he later turned to art history, archaeology, and philosophy, studying under Heinrich Wölfflin in Berlin and Adolph Goldschmidt in Halle. He earned his PhD in 1908 with a dissertation on architecture in Netherlandish paintings.
Biography of Willem van Konijnenburg (excerpt)
Willem Adriaan van Konijnenburg (The Hague, February 11, 1868 – The Hague, February 28, 1943) was a Dutch visual artist. During the interwar period (1919-1939), he was, alongside Jan Toorop and Jan Sluijters, one of the national figureheads of modern Dutch art.
Biography of Maurice Fernez (excerpt)
Maurice Fernez, born on August 30, 1885, and died on January 31, 1952, in Alfortville, was a French inventor and a pioneer in underwater breathing and gas masks. His innovative inventions helped transform scuba diving, evolving it from the "heavy-foot" diving suit to the self-contained diving suit during the first half of the 20th century.
Biography of Marieluise Flesser (excerpt)
Marieluise Fleißer (November 22, 1901 – February 2, 1974) was a German writer and playwright associated with the aesthetic movement of New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit). Early Life Born in Ingolstadt, she studied literature, philosophy, and theater in Munich, where she befriended Lion Feuchtwanger and Bertolt Brecht.
Biography of Mariano Azuela (excerpt)
Mariano Azuela (January 1, 1873 – March 1, 1952) was a Mexican physician and writer, known as the first major novelist of the Mexican Revolution.His socially committed novels influenced generations of protest writers. He began publishing in the 1890s and wrote early novels about fate and society under Porfirio Díaz.
Biography of Philipp Jarnach (excerpt)
Philipp Jarnach, born on July 26, 1892, in Noisy-le-Sec, France, and died on December 17, 1982, in Börnsen, was a German composer of modern music, pianist, teacher, and conductor. The son of a Spanish sculptor and a Flemish mother, he studied piano at the Conservatoire de Paris before becoming a student of Ferruccio Busoni in Zurich during World War I.
Biography of Walter Czollek (excerpt)
Walter Czollek (8 April 1907 – 23 April 1972) was the head of the East German publishing house Verlag Volk und Welt from 1954 to 1972. Born in Charlottenburg, Berlin, into a Jewish family, he trained in textile production and studied applied economics.
Biography of Federico Zeri (excerpt)
Federico Zeri (August 12, 1921 – October 5, 1998) was an Italian art historian specializing in Italian Renaissance painting. He graduated from Sapienza University of Rome in 1945, worked for the Ministry of Public Education, and directed the Galleria Spada. In 1963, he joined the Getty Villa board, leaving in 1984 after a dispute over a forgery issue.
Biography of Mentona Moser (excerpt)
Mentona Moser (19 October 1874 – 10 April 1971) was a Swiss social worker, communist functionary and writer. Born into wealth, she disapproved of high society, and became involved in philanthropic work, helping to launch the Swiss Communist Party and one of the first birth control clinics in Zürich.
Biography of Jelle Zijlstra (excerpt)
Jelle Zijlstra, born on August 27, 1918, and died on December 23, 2001, was a Dutch politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) and an economist. He earned a PhD in public economics from the Rotterdam School of Economics and became a professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam before entering politics.
Biography of Émile Decré (excerpt)
Émile Decré (28 July 1897 – 17 February 1973) was a French businessman and heir to the Decré department stores, founded by his grandfather Jules-César Decré.During World War I, he helped manage the family business alongside his brother. In 1930, he oversaw the renovation of the stores with architect Henri Sauvage and founded the Nantes chapter of the Christian Employers’ Confederation.
Biography of Lem Billings (excerpt)
Kirk LeMoyne “Lem” Billings, born April 15, 1916, and died May 28, 1981, was an American businessman best known for his lifelong, close friendship with John F. Kennedy. A prep school roommate of JFK, he served as an usher at his wedding and was a key supporter of his 1960 presidential campaign.
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.
Biography of Félix d'Hérelle (excerpt)
Félix d'Hérelle (25 April 1873 – 22 February 1949) was a French microbiologist and co-discoverer of bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria).He experimented with phage therapy and contributed significantly to applied microbiology. Self-taught, d'Hérelle discovered in 1917 that an "invisible antagonist" (bacteriophage) could kill bacteria, which he confirmed through dilution experiments.
Biography of Henry Pachter (excerpt)
Henry Pachter (1907–1980) was a Marxist intellectual and libertarian socialist activist. Renowned as an essayist on historical and political topics, he authored several books on diverse subjects. An exile from Nazi Germany, he taught at the New School for Social Research and City College in New York until his death.
Biography of Henri Borel (excerpt)
Henri Jean François Borel (* November 23, 1869, in Dordrecht; † August 31, 1933, in The Hague) was a Dutch writer and journalist. Life Henri Borel studied Chinese language and literature in Leiden and Amoy.In 1894, he became a Chinese interpreter in the Dutch East Indies, took a leave of absence in 1899, and then settled in The Hague.
Biography of Michel Jourdan (actor) (excerpt)
Michel Jourdan, stage name of Michel Yves René Leray, born on June 2, 1926, in Nantes and died on August 4, 1985, in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, was a French film actor and screenwriter.
Biography of Gertrud von Le Fort (excerpt)
Baroness Gertrud von Le Fort, born on October 11, 1876, in Minden, was a German writer. The daughter of a Prussian colonel, she studied at Heidelberg, Marburg, and Berlin, and settled in Bavaria in 1918. Her literary career began in earnest in 1925 when she edited a posthumous work by her mentor, Ernst Troeltsch.
Biography of Georges Barbier (illustrator) (excerpt)
Georges Barbier, born in Nantes on October 16, 1882, and died in Paris on March 16, 1932, was a French painter, fashion illustrator, and designer.He also worked under the pseudonym Edward W.Larry. After studying at the Académie Julian in Paris, he began exhibiting in 1910 under this pseudonym.
Biography of Jean Bartel (excerpt)
Jean Bartel (born Jean Bartlemeh on October 26, 1923, and passed away on March 6, 2011) was Miss California and Miss America 1943. Originally from Los Angeles, she entered the pageant to launch her Broadway career. She won Miss America after a praised vocal performance, securing contracts for international tours and across the U.S.
Biography of Robert Jacquinot de Besange (excerpt)
Robert Jacquinot de Besange, whose Chinese name is 饶家驹 Rao Jia-ju, was born on March 15, 1878, in Saintes, Charente-Maritime (France), and passed away on September 10, 1946, in Berlin (Germany) at the age of 68. He was a French Jesuit priest, a missionary in China, and a professor of science at the Aurore University in Shanghai.
Biography of Ben-Zion Orgad (excerpt)
Ben-Zion Orgad (originally Ben-Zion Büschel; born Gelsenkirchen, Germany, 21 August 1926; died Tel Aviv, Israel, 28 April 2006) was an Israeli composer.His time of birth comes frim him in an article in Haaretz newspaper. His family emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1933, where he started violin lessons in 1936.
Biography of Maurice Maillot (excerpt)
Maurice Maillot, born on September 18, 1906, in Rethel and deceased on February 8, 1968, in Paris, was a French film actor. The son of a Reims-based garment maker, he also played rugby with the SSPP before making his screen debut in 1930.
Biography of Hilderaldo Bellini (excerpt)
Hilderaldo Luiz Bellini (21 June 1930 (Wikipedia has 7 June in error) – 20 March 2014) was a Brazilian footballer of Italian origin who played as a defender and was known in Brazil as one of the nation's greatest central defenders ever.
Biography of José María Albareda (excerpt)
José María Albareda Herrera (Caspe, 15 April 1902 - 26 February 1966, Madrid) was a Spanish soil scientist and science administrator. From its 1939 creation by Francoist Spain to his 1966 death, he was the secretary general and head of the Higher Council of Scientific Research (CSIC), the main Spanish scientific institution.
Biography of Pilar de Zubiaurre (excerpt)
Pilar de Zubiaurre (Garai, Basque Country (Spain), July 24, 1884 – Mexico City, Mexico, June 24, 1970) was a Basque intellectual, writer, pianist, and art dealer and manager who lived in exile in Mexico for more than thirty years as a consequence of the Spanish Civil War.
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.
Biography of Teresa Andrés Zamora (excerpt)
Teresa Andrés Zamora (February 27, 1907 – July 5, 1946) was a pioneering Spanish librarian and academic. Born in Villalba de los Alcores, she studied Philosophy and Letters in Valladolid, and later pursued a doctorate in Madrid. A committed feminist, republican, and trade unionist, Andrés led the Sección de Bibliotecas de Cultura Popular and was deeply involved in education and cultural preservation.
Biography of Anneliese Rothenberger (excerpt)
Born on June 19, 1924, in Mannheim, Anneliese Rothenberger was a German soprano with a radiant voice and elegant technique, whose international career spanned from 1942 to 1983.She was especially acclaimed for her interpretations of Mozart and Richard Strauss. She began in Koblenz and joined Hamburg Opera in 1946, later shining in Berg’s Lulu.
Biography of Ernest Becker (excerpt)
Ernest Becker (September 27, 1924 – March 6, 1974) was an American cultural anthropologist and author, best known for The Denial of Death, which earned the Pulitzer Prize in 1974. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, to Jewish immigrant parents, he served in World War II and helped liberate a Nazi concentration camp.
Biography of Dorothy Gulliver (excerpt)
Dorothy Kathleen Gulliver (September 6, 1908 - May 23, 1997) was an American silent film actress, one of the few to make a successful transition to sound films. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and raised as a Mormon, she aspired to act from a young age.
Biography of Hans Bassermann (excerpt)
Hans Bassermann, born on September 20, 1888, in Frankfurt and died on February 12, 1978, was a German violinist and music scholar. The son of music teacher Fritz Bassermann and pianist Florence Bassermann, he began violin lessons with his father before studying in Berlin.
Biography of Salvador Seguí (excerpt)
Salvador Seguí Rubinat (born in Lleida on September 23, 1887, and assassinated in Barcelona on March 10, 1923), known as "El Noi del Sucre" ("The Sugar Kid"), was a leading anarcho-syndicalist figure in the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo in Catalonia during the early 20th century.
Biography of David Garnett (excerpt)
David Garnett (March 9, 1892 – February 17, 1981) was a British writer and publisher, a member of the Bloomsbury Group.He gained literary fame with Lady into Fox, winning the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1922 and the Hawthornden Prize in 1923.
Biography of Amado Alonso (excerpt)
Amado Alonso García (13 September 1896 – 26 May 1952) was a Spanish philologist, linguist, and literary critic, later naturalized as an Argentine citizen. He was a key figure in the development of stylistics and a student of Ramón Menéndez Pidal at Madrid’s Center for Historical Studies. |
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