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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 Ruth Langdon Inglis (excerpt)
Ruth Langdon Inglis (December 17, 1927 – December 15, 2005) was an American journalist and author, known for her books on child-rearing. Born in Mukden, Manchuria, she was the daughter of William Russell Langdon, an American diplomat and Japanese scholar, and Laura Filer, an Oriental art dealer.
Biography of George McFarland (excerpt)
George McFarland (October 2, 1928 – June 30, 1993) was an American actor best known for playing "Spanky" in the Our Gang (aka The Little Rascals) comedy shorts. He began acting at age three and quickly became one of the series’ most iconic figures, appearing in numerous shorts and the 1936 feature General Spanky.
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.
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 Erminio Spalla (excerpt)
Erminio Spalla (7 July 1897 – 14 August 1971) was an Italian professional heavyweight boxer, film actor and singer. Spalla studied fine arts in Brera, when in 1910 he saw film footage of the world boxing championships and decided to become a professional boxer.
Biography of Wilhelmus Josephus Jongmans (excerpt)
Wilhelmus Josephus Jongmans (born August 13, 1878, in Leiden and passed away on October 13, 1957, in Heerlen) was a professor of paleobotany at the University of Groningen from 1932 to 1950. Born in Leiden, he was the son of a tailor, Wilhelmus Josephus Jongmans, and Anna Elisabeth Maria Verbrugge.
Biography of Roland Alibert de Falconnet (excerpt)
Roland Alibert, born on February 27, 1917, in Paris, and killed in action on May 17, 1944, at Casa Chiara de Liri, was a French resistance fighter. He was killed while leading his men from the 11th Marching Battalion during the Italian campaign.
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.
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 Evangeline Walton (excerpt)
Evangeline Walton (November 24, 1907 – March 11, 1996), born Evangeline Wilna Ensley, was an American fantasy writer.She is known for her ability to bring historical and mythological subjects to life with eloquence, humor, and compassion. Born in Indianapolis to an educated Quaker family, she suffered from chronic respiratory illnesses and was privately educated.
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 Gustavo Arce Correa (excerpt)
Gustavo Arce Correa (19 February 1881 - 1966) was a Mexican lawyer, military officer, and politician, born in Tizimín, Yucatán, and died in Mexico City. He collaborated with General Salvador Alvarado during the revolutionary administration that Alvarado led in Yucatán starting in 1915, when Venustiano Carranza sent him to southeastern Mexico in command of a faction of the Constitutionalist Army.
Biography of Elsa Gindler (excerpt)
Elsa Gindler (19 June 1885 – 8 January 1961) was a somatic bodywork pioneer in Germany. Born in Berlin, teacher of gymnastik, student of Hedwig Kallmeyer (who, in turn, had been a student of Genevieve Stebbins). From her personal experience of recovering from tuberculosis (it is said by concentrating on breathing only with her healthy lung and resting the diseased lung), Gindler originated a school of movement education, in close collaboration with Heinrich Jacoby.
Biography of Georg Heym (excerpt)
Georg Theodor Franz Artur Heym (30 October 1887 – 16 January 1912) was a German writer, best known for his poetry, representative of early Expressionism. Born in Hirschberg, Silesia, he often clashed with social conventions, leaving his Wilhelmian middle-class parents baffled.In 1900, the family moved to Berlin, where Heym attended various schools unsuccessfully before enrolling at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Neuruppin.
Biography of David van Dantzig (excerpt)
David van Dantzig (September 23, 1900 – July 22, 1959) was a Dutch mathematician renowned for constructing the solenoid in topology. He was a member of the Significs Group. Born into a Jewish family in Amsterdam, he earned his PhD in 1931 at the University of Groningen under Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, focusing on topological algebra.
Biography of Selmar Aschheim (excerpt)
Selmar Aschheim (October 4, 1878 – February 15, 1965) was a German gynecologist and a native of Berlin. Born into a Jewish family, he earned his medical doctorate in Freiburg in 1902 and later became the director of the laboratory at the Universitäts-Frauenklinik in Berlin’s Charité.
Biography of Opal Lee (excerpt)
Opal Lee (born October 7, 1926 in Marshall, Texas) is a retired American teacher and activist, widely known as the "grandmother of Juneteenth" for her decades-long campaign to make it a federal holiday. Her efforts succeeded in 2021 when President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth bill into law, with Lee present as an honored guest at the signing ceremony.
Biography of Jimmy Hill (English footballer) (excerpt)
James William Thomas Hill, OBE (22 July 1928 – 19 December 2015), was an English footballer turned major television figure, known for holding nearly every role in football—from player and manager to pundit and assistant referee. He played for Brentford and Fulham, then led the Professional Footballers' Association in abolishing the wage cap in 1961.
Biography of Maxime Faget (excerpt)
Maxime "Max" Faget (August 26, 1921 – October 9, 2004) was an American mechanical engineer and key figure in early spaceflight.He designed the Mercury spacecraft and contributed to the Gemini, Apollo, and Space Shuttle programs. After serving as a submariner, Faget joined NACA and later became part of NASA’s founding Space Task Group.
Biography of Fabián Dobles (excerpt)
Fabián Dobles Rodríguez (January 17, 1918 – March 22, 1997) was a Costa Rican writer and left-wing political activist.An author of novels, short stories, poems, and essays, he earned international recognition as an author dealing with the plight of the poor and with social protest.
Biography of Hans Andreas Bugge (excerpt)
Hans Andreas Bugge (born October 1, 1906, in Oslo, died April 25, 1942, near Iceland) was a Norwegian officer (frigate captain) and aviator who participated in the Norwegian Naval Air Service during World War II. Bugge was educated at the Naval Academy and the Naval Flight School.
Biography of Hamengkubuwono IX (excerpt)
Hamengku Buwono IX (April 12, 1912 – October 2, 1988) was an Indonesian statesman and the ninth Sultan of Yogyakarta. His time of birth comes from the biography "Takhta untuk rakyat: celah-celah kehidupan Sultan Hamengku Buwono IX" (Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 2011).
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 María Domínguez Remón (excerpt)
María Domínguez Remón (1 April 1882 – 7 September 1936) was a Spanish journalist, poet, and republican socialist politician. In 1932, she was the first democratic mayor of the Second Spanish Republic in the town of Gallur, Zaragoza. She was shot by Francoists at the beginning of the Civil War.
Biography of Larry Pennell (excerpt)
Lawrence Kenneth Pennell (February 21, 1929 (Wikipedia gives 1928 by mistake) – August 28, 2013) was an American television and film actor, often remembered for his role as Dash Riprock in the television series The Beverly Hillbillies. His career spanned half a century, including starring in the first-run syndicated adventure series Ripcord in the leading role of skydiver Theodore "Ted" McKeever, and as Keith Holden in Lassie.
Biography of Jeanne Bieruma Oosting (excerpt)
Adriana Johanna Wilhelmina (Jeanne) Bieruma Oosting (5 February 1898 – 14 July 1994) was a Dutch sculptor, engraver, graphic artist, lithographer, illustrator, glass artist, painter, illustrator and book designer. She studied at the School of Arts and Applied Arts in Haarlem, the Academy of Art in The Hague and the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris.
Biography of Shirley Warde (excerpt)
Shirley Warde (January 23, 1901 - October 1991) was an American actress and playwright active in theater from the 1910s to the 1930s, then in film and radio. Born in New York City, she studied theater at the Ethical Culture School and began performing as a teenager.
Biography of Leroy Edwards (excerpt)
Leroy Harry Edwards (April 11, 1914 – August 25, 1971), nicknamed "Cowboy" and "Lefty", was one of the greatest basketball players of his era. He was an NCAA All-American at the University of Kentucky and also one of the most lauded professional players in the United States' National Basketball League's history.
Biography of Lock Martin (excerpt)
Joseph Lockard "Lock" Martin Jr.(October 12, 1916 – January 19, 1959) was an American performer afflicted with gigantism.Martin and a twin brother were born in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; his brother died in childbirth. Martin would eventually grow to over 7 feet tall by adulthood, though his exact height was reported inconsistently.
Biography of Beatrice Hastings (excerpt)
Beatrice Hastings, born Emily Alice Haigh (January 25, 1879 – October 30, 1943), was an English writer, literary critic, poet, and theosophist.Her time of birth comes from her, in "Beatrice Hastings – A Literary Life" by Stephen Gray (Penguin Random House South Africa, 2012).
Biography of Jacques Allard (military) (excerpt)
Jacques Allard, born on November 16, 1903 in Grainville-Ymauville, was a French officer who participated in the wars in Indochina and Algeria. After graduating from Saint-Cyr, he pursued a career in the Army of Africa. He served as a second lieutenant during the Rif War and was promoted to colonel in 1946.
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.
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.
Biography of Paul Oskar Kristeller (excerpt)
Paul Oskar Kristeller (May 22, 1905, Berlin – June 7, 1999, New York, United States) was a scholar of Renaissance humanism, best known for his studies on Marsilio Ficino and his Iter Italicum, a catalog of uncatalogued manuscripts. Trained by thinkers such as Heidegger and Husserl, he earned his doctorate at Heidelberg in 1928.
Biography of Jean Bassompierre (excerpt)
Jean Bassompierre, born on October 23, 1914, in Honfleur (Calvados) and executed by firing squad on April 20, 1948, at 7:10 a.m. at Fort de Montrouge (Seine), was a French military figure and far-right activist. His role in armed collaboration with the Third Reich during World War II led to his execution at the end of the war.
Biography of Alma Carroll (excerpt)
Alma Carroll (January 11, 1924 – May 3, 2019) was an American actress crowned Miss America of National Defense at the age of 17. Born in Los Angeles, she made her film debut at age 3 in an Our Gang short. A student at University High School, she initially planned to become a teacher or doctor before a beauty contest shifted her career path.
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 Pieter Oud (excerpt)
Pieter Jacobus Oud (5 December 1886 – 12 August 1968) was a Dutch politician of the Free-thinking Democratic League (VDB) and later co-founder of the Labour Party (PvdA) and the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and historian. He was granted the honorary title of Minister of State on 9 November 1963.
Biography of Margaret Chung (excerpt)
Margaret Jessie Chung, born on October 2, 1889, and died on January 5, 1959, was the first Chinese-American female physician.After a freelance career, she enrolled at the University of Southern California and graduated from the medical school in 1916, completing her internship and thesis in Illinois.
Biography of Robert Abraham (excerpt)
Robert Abraham, born on November 23, 1921, in Dourdan (Essonne) and died on November 27, 2004, was a French colonel and Companion of the Liberation. In September 1941, after the Syrian campaign, he joined the Free French Forces in Beirut. Assigned to the 1st Free French Tank Company, he took part in the Libyan campaign and the Battle of El Alamein, where he was wounded.
Biography of Jean Rudolf von Salis (excerpt)
Jean Rudolf von Salis (12 December 1901 – 14 July 1996) was a Swiss historian. He gained prominence with his weekly "Weltchronik" (English: world chronicle) radio broadcasts from 1940 until 1947. As von Salis never wrote English publications and his works were rarely translated, he is little known outside of the European historical sciences.
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 Eduard Spranger (excerpt)
Eduard Spranger (27 June 1882 – 17 September 1963) was a German philosopher and psychologist. A student of Wilhelm Dilthey, he was born in Berlin and died in Tübingen. A humanist, he developed a philosophical pedagogy as a counter to the experimental, psychology-oriented theories of his time.
Biography of Max Slevogt (excerpt)
Max Slevogt (8 or 20 October 1868 – 20 September 1932) was a German impressionist painter, engraver, and illustrator, and a key figure of the "plein air" style alongside Lovis Corinth and Max Liebermann. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (1885–1889) and later moved to Paris, where he was influenced by Manet.
Biography of Jan Campert (excerpt)
Jan Remco Theodoor Campert (Spijkenisse, 15 August 1902 – 12 January 1943) was a Dutch journalist, theater critic and writer who lived in Amsterdam. During the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II Campert was arrested for aiding Jews. He was held in the Neuengamme concentration camp, where he died.
Biography of Paul Schürmann (excerpt)
Paul Schürmann (* 25 July 1895 in Gütersloh; † 2 July 1941 near Borissow) was a German military pathologist and tuberculosis researcher.He served as a commander at the Military Medical Academy. Son of a merchant, he joined World War I but was injured and deemed unfit for military service.
Biography of Dalmacio Iglesias (excerpt)
Jesús María José Dalmacio Iglesias García (5 December 1879 – 13 January 1933) was a Spanish Carlist politician, active almost exclusively in Catalonia. His career climaxed during one term in the Congress of Deputies (1910–1914) and one term in the Senate (1918–1919).
Biography of Wilhelm Vocke (excerpt)
Wilhelm Vocke, born on February 9, 1886, in Aufhausen, and died on September 19, 1973, in Frankfurt am Main, was a German financial expert. He grew up in Mosbach and studied law at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Rostock, and Berlin. From 1919 to 1939, Vocke was a member of the board of the Deutsche Reichsbank.
Biography of Gus Bofa (excerpt)
Gus Bofa, born Charles Blanchot on May 23, 1883, in Brive-la-Gaillarde and died on September 1, 1968, was a French illustrator known for his work in satirical press and luxury illustrated books. The son of a military officer, he grew up in Bordeaux and Paris, where he met lifelong friends André Dunoyer de Segonzac and Maurice Constantin-Weyer.
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. |
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