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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 Boy Capel (excerpt)
Arthur Edward Capel CBE (20 December 1881 – 22 December 1919), known as Boy Capel, was an English polo player best remembered as Coco Chanel’s lover and patron. Born into a British family with roots in England, Ireland, and France, he became a wealthy shipping merchant and prominent figure of high society by 1909.
Biography of Naomi W. Randall (excerpt)
Naomi Harriet Ward Randall (born October 5, 1908 – died May 17, 2001) was a songwriter, author, and leader in the Primary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). In 1957, she wrote the lyrics to the hymn "I Am a Child of God", originally created as a children's song and now translated into over 90 languages.
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 Willy Kruyt (excerpt)
Willy Kruyt (born John William Kruyt; September 8, 1877 – July 1943) was a Dutch Protestant minister and a Christian socialist turned Communist politician. The son of a Dutch publisher and a Scottish mother, he studied theology at Utrecht and joined the League of Christian Socialists in 1910.
Biography of Hans Dauser (military, 1908) (excerpt)
Hans Dauser (July 31, 1908 - November 20, 2001) was a German officer who served during World War II. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
Biography of Rose Grane (excerpt)
Rose Cremer, known as Rose Grane, was a French theater and silent film actress. She was born on January 14, 1889, in Liancourt, Oise, and passed away on July 2, 1931, at the age of 42 in Tlemcen, Algeria. The daughter of Louis Victor Crémer, a shoemaker, and Marie-Louise Cosmann, a housewife, Rose Crémer was born on Roger-Duplessis Street in Liancourt on January 14, 1889.
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 Jean Amsler (excerpt)
Jean Marcel Amsler (born on February 5, 1914, in Beaune, and died on January 29, 2005, in Paris) was a French-Swiss professor of German and translator, specializing in the works of Günter Grass, for whom he was the official translator. He was an agrégé of the University and a graduate of Oriental Languages.
Biography of Frans Masereel (excerpt)
Frans Masereel, born on July 30, 1889, in Blankenberge (province of West Flanders, Belgium) and died on January 3, 1972, in Avignon (France), was a Belgian engraver, painter, and illustrator. He primarily worked in Switzerland, Germany, and France. An engaged artist, humanist, libertarian, and pacifist antimilitarist, deeply affected by the bloody turmoil of World War I, his works uncompromisingly denounce the horrors of war, oppression, and social injustice.
Biography of Alv Torbjørnsen (excerpt)
Alv Johan Torbjørnsen (born April 24, 1908, in Christiania, died January 8, 1943, in Sachsenhausen) was a Norwegian dockworker and resistance fighter. Torbjørnsen joined the NKP (Norwegian Communist Party) and was a student at the so-called Lenin School in Moscow from 1928 to 1930.
Biography of Joseph Reinhardt (excerpt)
Joseph Reinhardt, born on March 1, 1912, in Paris and died on February 24, 1982, in Bondy, was a French jazz guitarist known for his contributions to gypsy jazz. He was the younger brother of Django Reinhardt and played a key role in his brother’s early career, including introducing Django to the guitar after an injury.
Biography of Henri van Booven (excerpt)
Hendrik Cornelis Alexander (Henri) van Booven (7 July 1877 in Haarlem – 31 January 1964 in The Hague) was a Dutch writer and journalist. His most successful work was the novel Tropenwee (Tropical agony, 1904), a thinly veiled autobiographical literary report of a mission to Congo in 1898, somewhat similar to Heart of Darkness.
Biography of Guy La Chambre (excerpt)
Guy La Chambre, born on June 5, 1898, in Paris and died on May 25, 1975, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French politician. A lawyer by profession, he served as a minister before and after the war, and as a deputy of Ille-et-Vilaine from 1928 to 1942, and again from 1951 to 1958.
Biography of Vincenzo Scarpetta (excerpt)
Vincenzo Scarpetta (born May 4, 1876, and passed away August 3, 1952) was an Italian actor, director, playwright, and composer. The son of Eduardo Scarpetta, he was the stepbrother of Eduardo, Peppino, Titina De Filippo, Eduardo Passarelli, and Pasquale De Filippo. After his father retired, he became the head of his theater company and was a pioneer of Neapolitan and Italian cinema.
Biography of Francesco Valagussa (excerpt)
Francesco Valagussa, born on August 2, 1872, in Pistoia and died on May 24, 1950, in Rome, was an Italian pediatrician and politician. Graduating in 1897, he became a professor of pediatrics in 1902 and served as the chief assistant at the pediatric clinic in Rome for twelve years.
Biography of Drucilla Strain (excerpt)
Drucilla Anna Strain (24 February 1913 – 19 January 1994) was an American musical theater actress and Ziegfeld Girl. The daughter of Robert Strain and Anna Fallon, she debuted on Broadway in 1929 in Follow Thru. She later appeared in several iconic musicals, including Cole Porter's Anything Goes (1934) and On Your Toes (1936).
Biography of Anna Kavan (excerpt)
Anna Kavan (born Helen Emily Woods; April 10, 1901 – December 5, 1968) was a British novelist, short story writer, and painter.Born into an affluent family in Cannes, she endured a lonely and unstable childhood.After marrying Donald Ferguson and living in Burma, she returned to London, where she began publishing under her married name.
Biography of Charles Trowbridge (actor) (excerpt)
Charles Silas Richard Trowbridge (January 10, 1888 (Wikipedia has 1882 in error) – October 30, 1967) was an American film actor. Born in Veracruz, Mexico, he was the older brother of actor Jack Rockwell and cousin of author John Townsend Trowbridge. Before acting, he ran a coffee plantation in Hawaii and worked in architecture.
Biography of Lyudmila Kasatkina (excerpt)
Lyudmila Ivanovna Kasatkina (15 May 1925 – 22 February 2012) was a Soviet and Russian actress who starred in a string of war-related films directed by her husband Sergey Kolosov. Kasatkina was born in Novoe Selo, Smolensk Oblast, and attended a ballet school.
Biography of Herbert Selpin (excerpt)
Herbert Selpin (29 May 1904 – 1 August 1942) was a German film director, editor, and screenwriter known for light entertainment during the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Berlin, he worked in various fields before joining UFA studios, where he worked on Faust by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau.
Biography of Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann (excerpt)
Mathilde Vollmoeller-Purrmann (October 18, 1876 – July 17, 1943) was a German modernist painter and the wife of painter Hans Purrmann. Born into a prominent family of scholars and entrepreneurs, she received a broad education in arts and languages. After studying painting in Berlin and Paris, she exhibited successfully at renowned salons like the Salon d’Automne and Salon des Indépendants.
Biography of John W. McEnery (excerpt)
John Winn McEnery (December 30, 1925 – February 26, 2021) was a Lieutenant General in the United States Army. Born in San Francisco to a military doctor, he grew up in the Presidio and Wyoming. A West Point graduate, McEnery served in the Army from a lieutenant to a three-star general.
Biography of Mary Roberts Rinehart (excerpt)
Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 – September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie. Rinehart published her first mystery novel, The Circular Staircase, in 1908, which introduced the "had I but known" narrative style. Rinehart is also considered the earliest known source of the phrase "the butler did it", in her novel The Door (1930), although the exact phrase does not appear in her work and the plot device had been used prior to that time.
Biography of Elfriede Kaiser-Nebgen (excerpt)
Elfriede Kaiser-Nebgen (11 April 1890 – 22 October 1983) was a German social scientist and labor activist involved in Christian trade unions (CTU) and similar organizations. She took part in the German resistance to Nazism before and during World War II.
Biography of Winifred Cullis (excerpt)
Winifred Cullis (June 2, 1875 - November 13, 1956) was a British physiologist and the first woman to hold a chair at a medical school in the UK. Born in Gloucester, she studied at Cambridge and earned a doctorate in science from the University of London in 1908.
Biography of Maria Matray (excerpt)
Maria Matray (born Maria Charlotte Stern; 14 July 1907 – 30 October 1993) was a German screenwriter and film actress.Matray became a star of late Weimar cinema. Following the Nazi takeover in 1933, Matray, who was Jewish, went into exile – initially in France and Britain before moving to the United States.
Biography of Hans Posse (excerpt)
Hans Posse (6 February 1879 – 7 December 1942) was a German art historian and museum curator, best known for his role in assembling Hitler's art collection for the Führermuseum in Linz. He studied art history at the University of Vienna under Franz Wickhoff after initial studies in history and philology at Marburg.
Biography of Alfons Sack (excerpt)
Alfons Gustav Sack (August 7, 1887 – March 31, 1945) was a German lawyer known for defending far-right figures during the Weimar Republic and Nazi officials later on. In the 1920s, Sack defended nationalist activists accused of political violence, including in the trial of Walther Rathenau's assassins.
Biography of Guido Piovene (excerpt)
Guido Piovene (27 July 1907 – 12 November 1974) was an Italian writer and journalist. Born in Vicenza into a noble family, Piovene graduated in philosophy in Milan and then devoted himself to journalism, notably collaborating with Corriere della Sera, La Stampa and Il Tempo.
Biography of Caesar Rudolf Boettger (excerpt)
Caesar Rudolf Boettger (20 May 1888 – 8 September 1976) was a German zoologist from Frankfurt am Main, specializing in malacology. He earned his PhD from the University of Bonn in 1912 and conducted expeditions in Africa and the Orient. During WWI, he served in France and Turkey.
Biography of Marian Januszajtis-Zegota (excerpt)
Marian Józef Żegota-Januszajtis (3 April 1889, Częstochowa, Piotrków Governorate - 24 March 1973, Royal Tunbridge Wells) was a Polish military commander and politician. One of the founders of Polish paramilitary pro-independence organizations in Austrian partition, and last commander of the 1st Brigade of Polish Legions.
Biography of Georges Brutelle (excerpt)
Georges Brutelle was a French resistance fighter, socialist politician, and businessman, born on November 20, 1922, in Paris and died on February 4, 2001, in Mougins. He joined the Resistance early, organizing a student resistance group in Rouen in 1940.Arrested in 1943, he was deported to Buchenwald, where he formed a clandestine socialist section.
Biography of Adalbert of Prussia (1884) (excerpt)
Prince Adalbert Ferdinand Berengar Viktor of Prussia (14 July 1884 – 22 September 1948) was the third son of Wilhelm II, German Emperor, by his first wife, Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein. Early life Prince Adalbert was born on 14 July 1884 as the third son of the then Prince Wilhelm of Prussia and his first wife, Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein.
Biography of Johnston McCulley (excerpt)
John William Johnston McCulley (February 2, 1883 – November 23, 1958) was an American writer of hundreds of stories, fifty novels and numerous screenplays for film and television, and the creator of the character Zorro. Born in Ottawa, Illinois, and raised in Chillicothe, Illinois, McCulley graduated from Chillicothe Township High School in 1901.
Biography of Marcella Pobbe (excerpt)
Marcella Pobbe, born on July 13, 1921, in Montegalda, and passed away on June 17, 2003, was an Italian soprano known for her roles in both the lyric and spinto repertories. She studied at the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro and the Accademia Chigiana in Siena.
Biography of Bruno Balz (excerpt)
Bruno Balz (6 October 1902 in Berlin – 14 March 1988 in Bad Wiessee) was a German songwriter and schlager lyricist. From writing for the first German sound film until his retirement in the 1960s, Balz penned the lyrics to over a thousand popular hits, many in collaboration with composer Michael Jary.
Biography of Waclaw Iwaniuk (excerpt)
Wacław Iwaniuk (born 17 December 1912 in Chełm Lubelski - died 4 January 2001 in Toronto), educated in Warsaw and Cambridge, England, was a poet, literary critic and essayist for various Polish émigré newspapers in Canada and abroad. He served in the Polish Diplomatic Corps and as an officer in the Polish Armed Forces during World War II.
Biography of Jacques de Bernonville (excerpt)
Count Jacques Charles Noel Dugé de Bernonville (December 20, 1897 – April 26, 1972) was a French collaborationist and senior officer in the Vichy regime's Milice. He tracked down and executed Resistance fighters and participated in deporting French Jews to Drancy and extermination camps.
Biography of Amalia Guglielminetti (excerpt)
Amalia Guglielminetti (5 April 1881 – 4 December 1941) was an Italian poet and writer born in Turin.After her father’s death in 1886, her family moved in with her grandfather, who enrolled her in a religious school. She began her literary career in 1901 with Gazzetta del Popolo and published her first poetry collection, Voci di Giovinezza, in 1903.
Biography of Olivier Alain (organist) (excerpt)
Olivier Georges Alain (August 3, 1918 – February 28, 1994) was a French organist, pianist, musicologist, and composer. Born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, he came from a family of musicians, the son of Albert Alain and brother of Jehan and Marie-Claire Alain. He studied at the Paris Conservatory, winning first prizes in composition (1951) and musical analysis (1950).
Biography of Ruth Etting (excerpt)
Ruth Etting (November 23, 1896 – September 24, 1978) was an American singer and actress from the 1920s and 1930s, known as "America's sweetheart of song." She recorded over 60 hits, including Shine On, Harvest Moon, Ten Cents a Dance, and Love Me or Leave Me.
Biography of Émile Brumpt (excerpt)
Alexandre Joseph Émile Brumpt, born on March 10, 1877, in Paris and died on July 7, 1951, was a renowned French parasitologist, considered the leading figure in his field during his time. Of Alsatian and Spanish descent, he studied natural sciences and medicine, and joined an expedition in Africa with explorer Du Bourg de Bozas, documenting cases of malaria.
Biography of Jim Lovell (astronaut) (excerpt)
James Arthur Lovell Jr., born on March 25, 1928, is a retired American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and engineer. He commanded the famed Apollo 13 mission in 1970, which returned safely to Earth after a mid-flight failure. In 1968, he flew aboard Apollo 8, becoming one of the first three people to orbit the Moon alongside Frank Borman and William Anders.
Biography of Willy Rosen (excerpt)
Willy Rosen (18 July 1894 – 1 October 1944) was a German-Jewish composer, songwriter, and renowned cabaret player. Rosen was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp on 1 October 1944. Rosen was born Willy Julius Rosenbaum in Magdeburg, Germany. In 1942, Rosen was incarcerated in the Westerbork transit camp, and in 1944 deported to Theresienstadt on 4 September 1944 and then on to the Auschwitz concentration camp on 29 September, where he was murdered.
Biography of Juan Negrín (excerpt)
Juan Negrín López (3 February 1892 – 12 November 1956) was a Spanish physician and politician who served as prime minister of the Second Spanish Republic.He was a leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Spanish: Partido Socialista Obrero Español, PSOE) and of the left-leaning Popular Front government during the Spanish Civil War.
Biography of Leopoldo Méndez (excerpt)
Leopoldo Méndez (June 30, 1902 – February 8, 1969) was one of Mexico's most important graphic artists and one of that country's most important artists from the 20th century. Méndez's work mostly focused on engraving for illustrations and other print work generally connected to his political and social activism.
Biography of Frank Horton (New York politician) (excerpt)
Frank Jefferson Horton (December 12, 1919 – August 30, 2004) was a U.S.Representative from New York.Born in Cuero, Texas, he graduated from Louisiana State University in 1941 and served in the U.S.Army during World War II. After the war, he attended Cornell Law School, obtaining his law degree in 1947.
Biography of Siegfried Sassoon (excerpt)
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry described the horrors of the trenches and satirized the jingoistic patriotism that he believed fueled the war.
Biography of Emlyn Williams (writer) (excerpt)
George Emlyn Williams, CBE (26 November 1905 – 25 September 1987) was a Welsh writer, dramatist, and actor. Born into a Welsh-speaking working-class family, he only learned English at age eight. Thanks to Sarah Grace Cooke’s encouragement, he earned a scholarship to study French and Italian at Oxford.
Biography of Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (excerpt)
Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (February 2, 1903 - January 12, 1996) was a renowned Dutch mathematician and historian of mathematics. He studied advanced mathematics at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Göttingen, earning a Ph.D. in algebraic geometry. Influenced by Emmy Noether, he published the influential "Moderne Algebra" at 27. |
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