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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. ![]() ![]()
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Biography of Manuel Álvarez Bravo (excerpt)
Manuel Álvarez Bravo (February 3, 1902 – October 19, 2002) was a Mexican artistic photographer and one of the most important figures in 20th century Latin American photography.He was born and raised in Mexico City. While he took art classes at the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes, his photography is self-taught.
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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.
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Biography of Alfons Maria Jakob (excerpt)
Alfons Maria Jakob (2 July 1884 – 17 October 1931) was a German neurologist specializing in neuropathology. Born in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, he earned his medical doctorate in 1908 after studying in Munich, Berlin, and Strasbourg. He worked with Franz Nissl and Alois Alzheimer in Munich.
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Biography of Michel Arnaud (French resistance fighter) (excerpt)
Michel Arnaud, born on November 27, 1915, in Bourg-en-Bresse (Ain) and passed away on August 1, 1990, in Fréjus, was a French resistance fighter and Companion of the Liberation.
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Biography of Günter Eich (excerpt)
Günter Eich, born on February 1, 1907, in Lebus and died on December 20, 1972, in Salzburg, was a German writer and playwright. Husband of the novelist and poet Ilse Aichinger, and trained as a sinologist, he was one of the participants in the Group 47.
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Biography of Narciso Parigi (excerpt)
Narciso Parigi (29 November 1927 – 25 January 2020) was an Italian actor and singer. Parigi was born in Tuscany. He made his debut at Radio Firenze in 1944 as a "radio singer" with different orchestras. He worked with Radio Firenze from 1945 to 1965.
Biography of Erich Unger (excerpt)
Erich Unger (1887-1950) was a Jewish philosopher known for his wide range of writings on topics such as poetry, Nietzsche, political theory, and Jewish philosophy, mainly published in German. Born in Berlin, Unger showed an early interest in intellectual debate.He attended school in Berlin-Lichterfelde, where he met Oskar Goldberg and became a founding member of the Expressionist literary movement in Germany.
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Biography of Jean Krämer (excerpt)
Jean Krämer (occasionally spelled Kremer or Kraemer), born March 11, 1886, in Kastel near Mainz, and died January 17, 1943, in Berlin, was a German architect active in Berlin and its surroundings. He favored elements of Expressionism with a turn toward New Objectivity.
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Biography of Helen Mayo (excerpt)
Helen Mary Mayo OBE (October 1, 1878 – November 13, 1967) was an Australian medical doctor and medical educator, born and raised in Adelaide. In 1896, she enrolled at the University of Adelaide to study medicine. After graduation, she spent two years working in infant health in England, Ireland, and British India.
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Biography of Bobby Anet (excerpt)
Charles Robert Anet (August 11, 1917 – July 25, 1981) was a college basketball guard who helped guide the University of Oregon to win the inaugural NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament championship in 1938–39. Aside from scoring 10 points in the 46–33 win over Ohio State in the title game, Anet is most remembered for breaking the championship game trophy when he accidentally knocked it over while diving for a loose ball during the course of play.
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Biography of Kenneth R. Powell (excerpt)
Kenneth R. Powell (December 11, 1915 – September 16, 1987) was a Major General in the US Air Force. Born on a farm in McMinnville, he grew up in Tacoma, Washington, and earned a degree in sociology and psychology from Washington State University in 1938 before joining the Air Force.
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Biography of Jean Gilbert (composer) (excerpt)
Jean Gilbert, born Max Winterfeld (February 11, 1879 – December 20, 1942), was a German composer and conductor. Born into a musical family in Hamburg, he studied with Philipp Scharwenka in Berlin and debuted as a piano virtuoso at 15. At 18, he became a conductor in Bremerhaven and composed his first operetta, Das Jungfernstift, adopting the pseudonym Jean Gilbert.
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Biography of Darcy Ribeiro (excerpt)
Darcy Ribeiro, born on October 26, 1922, in Montes Claros in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, and died on February 17, 1997, in Brasília, was a Brazilian anthropologist, historian, sociologist, novelist, and politician, primarily known for his work on Brazil's indigenous peoples and his contributions to developing various Latin American educational systems.
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Biography of Norbert Jacques (excerpt)
Norbert Jacques, born on June 6, 1880, in Eich, Luxembourg, and died on May 16, 1954, in Koblenz, Germany, was a Luxembourgish writer, journalist, and translator writing in German. After studying in Hamburg and Bonn, he became a journalist and traveled worldwide before World War I.
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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.
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Biography of Craig Rice (writer) (excerpt)
Craig Rice (born Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig; June 5, 1908 – August 28, 1957) was an American writer of mystery novels and short stories, described by book critic Bill Ruehlmann as "the Dorothy Parker of detective fiction, she wrote the binge and lived the hangover."
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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.
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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.
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Biography of Georg Jacoby (excerpt)
Georg Jacoby (23 July 1882 – 21 February 1964) was a German film director and screenwriter. Jacoby was born in Mainz, Germany, the son of Wilhelm Jacoby (1855–1925), a German comedic playwright, who concentrated largely on creating farces, such as The Duchess of Athens (1883) and Pension Schöller (1890), which he co-authored with Carl Laufs.
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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.
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Biography of Jean Astier de Villatte (excerpt)
Jean Astier de Villatte (Soturac, November 25, 1900 – 13th arrondissement of Paris, October 6, 1985) was a French engineer and military officer, Companion of the Liberation. A civil company administrator, he was mobilized in 1939 and chose to join General de Gaulle's Free French forces.
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Biography of Heidi Abel (excerpt)
Heidi Abel (21 February 1929 – 23 December 1986) was a popular Swiss television presenter. After attending the Basel School for Applied Art, she worked as a model and as a radio host with the Basel station Radibus.In 1954, she joined Swiss television, initially as a news presenter, and then as the host of a great number of educational and entertainment shows. ![]()
Biography of Alan Baxter (actor) (excerpt)
Alan Edwin Baxter (November 19, 1908 – May 7, 1976) was an American film and television actor. Born in East Cleveland, Ohio, he graduated from Williams College, where he was a Phi Sigma Kappa member and classmate of Elia Kazan. He further studied at Yale University’s 47 Drama Workshop.
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Biography of Bonnie Nettles (excerpt)
Bonnie Lu Nettles (née Trousdale, August 29, 1927 – June 19, 1985) was the co-founder and co-leader of the Heaven’s Gate religious movement alongside Marshall Applewhite. She died of liver cancer in 1985, twelve years before the group’s mass suicide in 1997.
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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.
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Biography of Pierre Anglade (French resistance fighter) (excerpt)
Pierre Anglade, born on November 7, 1921 (Wikipedia has November 21 in error), in Andernos les Bains and passed away on July 3, 1946, in Porto Novo, was a French resistance fighter. In June 1940, he left France with his brother and cousin, joining the Free French Forces in London.
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Biography of Óscar Castro Zúñiga (excerpt)
Óscar Castro Zúñiga (Rancagua, 25 March 1910 – Santiago, 1 November 1947) was a Chilean writer and poet. His literary work encompassed both the lyrical genre — with a transparent, human, and melancholic language, with perfect meter — and the narrative genre, much more realistic and close to criollismo.
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Biography of Aurelia Gabriela Tizón de Perón (excerpt)
Aurelia Gabriela Tizón de Perón (March 18, 1902 – September 10, 1938) was an Argentine educator and the first wife of former Argentine president Juan Perón. Born in Buenos Aires, she was the daughter of Tomasa Erostarbe and Cipriano Tizón, a photographer.
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Biography of Antonio Irineo Villarreal (excerpt)
Antonio Irineo Villarreal González (July 16, 1877 in Lampazos, Mexico – December 16, 1944 in Mexico City) was a Mexican politician and soldier.Opposed to Porfirio Díaz’s dictatorship from 1903, he published liberal magazines and was imprisoned.After his release, he fled to the U.S.
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Biography of Georges Charensol (excerpt)
Georges Charensol, born on December 26, 1899, in Privas (Ardèche) and died in Paris on May 15, 1995, was a French journalist, art, literary, and film critic, particularly known for his participation in the radio show Le Masque et la Plume, alongside Jean-Louis Bory, from 1964 to 1979.
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Biography of Hans Jonas (excerpt)
Hans Jonas, born on May 10, 1903, in Mönchengladbach (German Empire) and died on February 5, 1993, in New Rochelle (New York State, United States), was a historian of Gnosticism and a German philosopher. He is best known for his ethics for the technological age, particularly beyond philosophical circles.
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Biography of Marcel Moore (excerpt)
Marcel Moore (born Suzanne Alberte Malherbe, 19 July 1892 – 19 February 1972) was a French illustrator, designer, and photographer, known for her work with Claude Cahun. She studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Nantes and formed both an artistic and romantic partnership with Cahun.
Biography of Lily Vincent (excerpt)
Lily Vincent (May 1, 1926 – July 10, 2009) was a popular Belgian singer. Born Liliane De Smedt, she gained recognition in 1953 by winning a singing contest on Radio Luxembourg. In 1954, she placed second in Les étoiles chantent, solidifying her career.
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Biography of Aïcha (circus performer) (excerpt)
Emma Saïd Ben Mohamed (December 10, 1876 – July 18, 1930) was a French circus performer and the maternal grandmother of Édith Piaf, France's national chanteuse. Early Life Born in her parents' wagon in Soissons, she was the daughter of Saïd Ben Mohamed, a Kabyle acrobat from Algeria, and Margherita Bracco, an Italian acrobat.
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Biography of Elena Garro (excerpt)
Elena Garro (December 11, 1916 – August 22, 1998) was a Mexican author, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and novelist. Considered a pioneer of Magical Realism, though she rejected the label, her works Un hogar sólido (1958), Los Recuerdos del Porvenir (1963), and La Semana de Colores (1964) are among the earliest examples of the movement.
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Biography of Pierrette Madd (excerpt)
Pierrette Madd, stage name of Paulette Poggionovo, was a French actress from the silent film era, born in Charenton-le-Pont on August 9, 1893, and passed away in Cannes on August 22, 1967. An actress and operetta singer, Pierrette Madd—the younger sister of Jane Pierly—had a brief film career during the 1920s, exclusively under the direction of Henri Diamant-Berger.
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Biography of Jo Bouillon (excerpt)
Jo Bouillon (May 3, 1908 – July 9, 1984) was a French composer, conductor, and violinist, best known as the fourth husband of Joséphine Baker. Born to a musicologist in Montpellier, he led Jo Bouillon et son orchestre from 1936 to 1947 before accompanying artists like Mistinguett, Maurice Chevalier, and Joséphine Baker.
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Biography of Joe Sentieri (excerpt)
Joe Sentieri (real name Rino Luigi Sentieri, born in Genoa on March 3, 1925, and died in Pescara on March 27, 2007) was an Italian singer and actor. His first success came in 1959 when he won the Canzonissima competition with his version of Domenico Modugno's Piove.
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Biography of Quirino Cristiani (excerpt)
Quirino Cristiani (Santa Giuletta, July 2, 1896 – Bernal, August 2, 1984) was an Argentine animator and filmmaker of Italian origin, creator of El Apóstol and Sin dejar rastros, the first two animated feature films in history, as well as Peludópolis, the first animated feature with sound.
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Biography of Roy McMillan (excerpt)
Roy David McMillan (July 17, 1929 – November 2, 1997) was an American professional baseball player, coach and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a shortstop from 1951 to 1966, most prominently as a member of the Cincinnati Reds, where he was the starting shortstop for nine seasons.
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Biography of Karl Daeves (excerpt)
Karl Heinz Daeves (born April 24, 1893, in Cologne – died May 2, 1963) was a German metallurgist. He studied metallurgy at TH Aachen and Breslau, earning his doctorate in 1920. After a brief period in industry, he became a specialist in 1921 for the Verein Deutscher Eisenhüttenleute in Düsseldorf, where he developed the "large-number research" concept for quality control and materials development.
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Biography of Julius Curtius (excerpt)
Julius Curtius (born February 11, 1877, in Duisburg and died November 10, 1948, in Heidelberg) was a German politician.A member of the German People's Party (DVP), he served as Minister of Economy (1926–1929) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1929–1931). From a family of industrialists, he studied law in Bonn, Kiel, and Strasbourg, earning his doctorate in 1900.
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Biography of Maria Mandl (excerpt)
Maria Mandl (10 January 1912 – 24 January 1948) was an Austrian SS-Helferin ("SS helper") and war criminal known for her role in the Holocaust as a high-ranking official at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. She is linked to the deaths of over 500,000 prisoners.
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Biography of Fritz Boehle (excerpt)
Karl Friedrich "Fritz" Boehle, born on February 7, 1873, in Emmendingen, was a German visual artist associated with the Völkisch movement.He is best known for his realistic and romantic depictions of rural German life and Christian tradition figures. Trained at the Städel Institute in Frankfurt, Boehle was inspired by old masters like Matthäus Merian and Isaac van Ostade.
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Biography of Ray Wietecha (excerpt)
Raymond Walter Wietecha (November 4, 1928 – December 14, 2002) was an American football center in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Giants. He played college football at Northwestern University and Michigan State University. Following his retirement, Wietecha entered coaching and was the offensive coordinator under Vince Lombardi in Green Bay when the Packers won Super Bowl I and Super Bowl II.
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Biography of Franco Mannino (excerpt)
Franco Mannino (born April 25, 1924, in Palermo, Sicily, and died February 1, 2005, in Rome) was an Italian pianist, opera director, film composer, conductor, playwright, and novelist. Franco Mannino debuted as a pianist at the age of 16. He conducted the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, Canada, from 1982 to 1987.
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Biography of Margaret Laurence (novelist) (excerpt)
Jean Margaret Laurence CC (née Wemyss; July 18, 1926 – January 5, 1987) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, regarded as one of the major figures in Canadian literature. She was also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada.
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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.
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Biography of Tina Modotti (excerpt)
Tina Modotti (born Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti Mondini, August 16, 1896 – January 5, 1942) was an Italian American photographer, model, actor, and revolutionary political activist for the Comintern. She left her native Italy in 1913 and emigrated to the United States, where she settled in San Francisco with her father and sister.
Biography of Carl Hambro (excerpt)
Carl Joachim Hambro (7 June 1914 – 19 February 1985) was a Norwegian novelist, journalist, essayist, translator, and Romance philologist.The son of Conservative politician C.J.Hambro, he pursued a philological career, graduating in 1939. During World War II, he lectured at Oslo Commerce School and the Norwegian College in Uppsala. |
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