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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 Luis Olmo (excerpt)
Luis Rodríguez Olmo, born August 11, 1919, in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, was the first Puerto Rican to play and hit a home run in a World Series. He debuted in 1938 and joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1943, enjoying a standout season in 1945.
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 Albert Weisgerber (excerpt)
Albert Weisgerber (April 21, 1878 – May 10, 1915) was a German painter and wood engraver who created over 400 modern art works despite his early death. Born in St.Ingbert, he discovered his talent for drawing during school, encouraged by his parents.
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 Dulce Figueiredo (excerpt)
Dulce Maria Guimarães de Castro Figueiredo (May 11, 1923 – June 6, 2011) was the wife of Brazilian president João Figueiredo and served as First Lady of Brazil from 1979 to 1985. After her husband’s death in 1999, she faced financial hardship and held an auction in March 2001 to sell official gifts he had received, drawing media criticism.
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 Albert Volk (excerpt)
Albert Volk (* September 13, 1882, in Frankfurt am Main; † March 16, 1982, in Heilbronn) was a German painter, graphic artist, and sculptor. After World War I, he created several war memorials in his workshop in Weinsberg. From 1926 until the end of World War II, he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart before returning to Weinsberg in 1945, where he actively contributed to artistic and cultural reconstruction.
Biography of Ricardo Palmerín (excerpt)
Ricardo Palmerín Pavia, born on April 3, 1887, in Tekax, Yucatán, and died on January 30, 1944, in Mexico City, was a Mexican composer. He is best known for composing the music for Peregrina in 1922, at the request of Governor Felipe Carrillo Puerto, to honor American journalist Alma Reed.
Biography of Manfred George (excerpt)
Manfred George (October 22, 1893 – December 30, 1965), born Manfred Georg Cohn, later shortened to Manfred Georg, was a German journalist, author and translator. He left Germany after the Nazis came to power, living in several different European countries and eventually emigrating penniless to the United States in 1939.
Biography of Anita Conti (excerpt)
Anita Conti (born Caracotchian, May 17, 1899 – December 25, 1997) was the first female oceanographer in France.A pioneering scientist, photographer, and explorer, she helped shape modern marine research. Between the world wars, she created the first fishing maps, revolutionizing deep-sea fishing practices.
Biography of Georges Bruhat (excerpt)
Georges Bruhat (21 December 1887 – 1 January 1945) was a French physicist known for his contributions to optics and for authoring a renowned four-volume physics textbook series. He studied at the École normale supérieure and the Sorbonne, completing a PhD in optics under Aimé Cotton.
Biography of Charles J. Solomon (excerpt)
Charles Julius Solomon (February 12, 1906 – May 1, 1975) was an American bridge player, administrator, writer, and sponsor. He was inducted into the ACBL Hall of Fame in 2000. Originally a lawyer in Philadelphia, he left law to focus on bridge. In 1948, he married Margery "Peggy" Golder, daughter of philanthropist Jules Mastbaum, after teaching her the game.
Biography of Gloria Campobello (excerpt)
Gloria (Soledad) Campobello Luna was born on October 21, 1911, and died on November 1, 1968.A prominent Mexican ballerina and choreographer, she was the younger half-sister of famed writer and dancer Nellie Campobello. Her birth name was likely Soledad, and she may have been born in 1911.
Biography of Otto Ruff (excerpt)
Otto Ruff was born on 30 December 1871 in Schwäbisch Hall, Württemberg. Initially a pharmacist under Carl Magnus von Hell, he later joined Hermann Emil Fischer in Berlin, gaining early fame in 1898 for the Ruff degradation, which converts d-Glucose into d-Arabinose.
Biography of Jaime Fernández (actor) (excerpt)
Nicolás Jaime Fernández Reyes, born December 6, 1927, in Monterrey and died April 15, 2005, in Mexico City, was a Mexican actor.He was the half-brother of singer Fernando Fernández and cousin of famed director Emilio "Indio" Fernández. Starting as a radio technician, he entered film as an extra and gained prominence with Las Islas Marías.
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.
Biography of Alain Griotteray (excerpt)
Alain Griotteray, born on October 15, 1922, in Paris and passed away on August 30, 2008, in the same city, was a French resistance fighter, journalist, and politician. As a businessman and journalist, he contributed to the founding of the UDF (Union for French Democracy) and held several notable positions, including Member of Parliament for Val-de-Marne and Mayor of Charenton-le-Pont.
Biography of Rirette Maîtrejean (excerpt)
Henriette Maîtrejean, known as "Rirette," was the pseudonym of Anna Estorges, born on August 14, 1887, in Tulle and died on June 11, 1968. She was a French individualist anarchist who contributed to the magazine L'Anarchie alongside Émile Armand and Albert Libertad.
Biography of Valentina Leontyeva (excerpt)
Valentina Mikhaylovna Leontyeva (1 August 1923 in Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg) – 20 May 2007 in Ulyanovsk) was a famous anchor on Soviet television and one of the first TV presenters in the Soviet Union. Having survived the Siege of Leningrad, which claimed her father's life, Leontyeva briefly studied at the Mendeleyev Institute before attending the Vakhtangov Theatre School in Moscow.
Biography of Alfred de Waart (excerpt)
Alfred de Waart, born on October 12, 1888, in The Hague and passed away on April 6, 1981, in Voorburg, was a Dutch professor of physiology. He graduated in medicine from Leiden University under Willem Einthoven, working as his assistant before serving as a ship doctor and working in Constantinople.
Biography of David Alfaro Siqueiros (excerpt)
David Alfaro Siqueiros, born José de Jesús Alfaro Siqueiros on December 29, 1896, and died January 6, 1974, was a major Mexican muralist, known for his innovative large-scale public artworks. He stood alongside Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco as one of the most iconic figures of the Mexican muralism movement.
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.
Biography of Pierre Auger (physicist) (excerpt)
Pierre-Victor Auger was a French physicist, born on May 14, 1899, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris and passed away on December 24, 1993, in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. He dedicated his work to atomic physics, nuclear physics, and cosmic rays.
Biography of Oskar Maria Graf (excerpt)
Oskar Maria Graf (July 22, 1894 – June 28, 1967) was a German-American writer known for his autobiographical narratives about life in Bavaria. Born in Berg, Bavaria, Graf fled his family in 1911 to live in Munich’s bohemian circles.During World War I, he was discharged after refusing orders and being institutionalized.
Biography of Martin Held (actor) (excerpt)
Martin Erich Fritz Held, born in Berlin on November 11, 1908, and died in Berlin on January 31, 1992, was a German theater and film actor. After training as a mechanic at Siemens, he studied acting at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1929 to 1931.
Biography of Pierre Palué (excerpt)
Pierre Palué (May 13, 1920, Bordeaux – March 29, 2005, Chavannes) was a French painter. Early Life From a modest background, he joined the army in 1939 but was captured and escaped in 1940.He then discovered drawing in Saint-Donat. Artistic Beginnings After the Liberation, he exhibited at the Surindépendants salon and settled in the Drôme.
Biography of Jessie Tarbox Beals (excerpt)
Jessie Tarbox Beals (December 23, 1870 – May 30, 1942) was the first published female photojournalist in the U.S. and the first woman to do night photography. She became known for her news photography, notably of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, and for portraits of bohemian Greenwich Village.
Biography of Mikiso Hane (excerpt)
Mikiso “Miki” Hane (January 16, 1922 – December 8, 2003) was a Japanese American professor of history at Knox College, where he taught for over 40 years. He wrote and translated over a dozen books, wrote many articles, and was appointed a member of the National Council on the Humanities in 1991.
Biography of Dorothy West (actress) (excerpt)
Dorothy West (August 29, 1891 – December 11, 1980) was an American stage and film actress, as well as a radio performer. Originally from Huntsville, Alabama, but born in Griffin, Georgia, she began her career in silent films in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1909 with D.W.
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.
Biography of Georg Alfred Stockburger (excerpt)
Georg Alfred Stockburger (born May 12, 1907, in Kusterdingen, Landkreis Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg; died April 5, 1986, in Tübingen) was a German painter, draftsman, and graphic artist. As a young man, Stockburger was encouraged by his teachers to pursue his talent for drawing and trained at the Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts.
Biography of Nicolette Hennique (excerpt)
Nicolette Hennique (Paris 8th, April 17, 1882 - Paris 16th, April 11, 1956) was a French poet.Daughter of novelist Léon Hennique and Nicolette-Louise Dupont, she was born on Rue de Courcelles in Paris. She contributed to several literary magazines, including L'Ermitage, L'Hémicycle, La Revue blanche, La Revue, and Le Gaulois.
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.
Biography of Bill Svoboda (excerpt)
William Ray Svoboda (July 12, 1928 – June 20, 1980) was an American football linebacker who played nine seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the Chicago Cardinals and New York Giants.He played college football at Tulane University and was drafted in the third round of the 1950 NFL draft.
Biography of Pauline Pô (excerpt)
Pauline Pô (August 28, 1904 – October 16, 1979) was a French actress and the winner of the 1921 Miss France contest, then called La plus belle Femme de France. Originally from Ajaccio, she first won the Miss Corse title in 1920 before being crowned Reine de Beauté des Provinces de France in 1921.
Biography of Alberto Buccicardi (excerpt)
Alberto Buccicardi, born on May 11, 1914, and died on December 8, 1970, was a Chilean football player, coach, and later sports journalist. He coached Universidad Católica multiple times, leading the club to its first national title in 1949 and to a tournament win in Catalonia the following year.
Biography of Rodolfo Galeotti Torres (excerpt)
Rodolfo Galeotti Torres, born 11 March 1912 in Quetzaltenango and died 22 May 1988 in Guatemala City, was a renowned Guatemalan sculptor.He served as director of the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas "Rafael Rodríguez Padilla". He created several sculptures for the National Palace, including depictions of the Guatemalan Coat of Arms.
Biography of Hisaye Yamamoto (excerpt)
Hisaye Yamamoto (August 23, 1921 – January 30, 2011) was an American writer and journalist best known for her short story collection Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories, published in 1988. Her work explored the Japanese immigrant experience in the U.S., the generational divide between Issei and Nisei, and the challenges faced by women.
Biography of Don DeFore (excerpt)
Donald DeFore, born August 25, 1913, and died December 22, 1993, was an American actor best known for his roles in the sitcoms The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952–1957) and Hazel (1961–1965), earning an Emmy nomination for the former. He married singer Marion Holmes in 1942; they had five children and remained married until his death.
Biography of Karl Plagge (excerpt)
Karl Plagge (10 July 1897 – 19 June 1957) was a German engineer and army officer who saved over 1,250 Jews during the Holocaust in Lithuania. A wounded World War I veteran, he joined the Nazi Party in 1931 hoping to help rebuild Germany.
Biography of Étienne Balsan (excerpt)
Fulcran Étienne Balsan (February 11, 1878, Paris – March 1, 1954, Rio de Janeiro) was a French gentleman rider, horse breeder, and influential figure in high society. The son of industrialist Auguste Balsan, he left his military career to focus on horse breeding and racing, particularly at his Royallieu estate near Compiègne.
Biography of Michel Lejeune (linguist) (excerpt)
Michel Lejeune, born in Paris on January 30, 1907, and died in the same city on January 27, 2000, was a renowned French linguist and Hellenist. He was the brother of the famous cartoonist Jean Effel and the father of writer Philippe Lejeune.
Biography of Frank Foster (jazz musician) (excerpt)
Frank Benjamin Foster III (born September 23, 1928 – died July 26, 2011) was an American tenor and soprano saxophonist, flautist, arranger, and composer. After studying at Wilberforce University, he joined Detroit’s jazz scene before being drafted to Korea in 1951.
Biography of Johan Huizinga (excerpt)
Johan Huizinga (7 December 1872 – 1 February 1945) was a Dutch historian regarded as one of the pioneers of modern cultural history. Born in Groningen, he initially studied Indo-European languages and wrote his 1897 doctoral thesis on the jester in Indian drama.
Biography of Keith Holyoake (excerpt)
Sir Keith Jacka Holyoake (born February 11, 1904 – died December 8, 1983) was a New Zealand politician.He served as the 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand, briefly in 1957 and then from 1960 to 1972, and as the 13th Governor-General from 1977 to 1980.
Biography of Piet Meertens (excerpt)
Pieter Jacobus (Piet) Meertens (6 September 1899 – 28 October 1985) was a Dutch scholar specializing in literature, dialectology, and ethnology. He founded the institutes that later merged into the Meertens Instituut, part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), where he served as director until 1965.
Biography of Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle (excerpt)
Hugo Makibi Enomiya-Lassalle, born on 11 November 1898 in Gut Externbrock, Westphalia, was a German Jesuit priest and one of the foremost teachers to embrace both Roman Catholic Christianity and Zen Buddhism.He was ordained as a priest in 1927 and traveled to Japan in 1929, where he developed an interest in Buddhist practices.
Biography of Alfred Weber (économist) (excerpt)
Carl David Alfred Weber (July 30, 1868 – May 2, 1958) was a German economist, geographer, sociologist, philosopher, and cultural theorist whose work significantly influenced the development of modern economic geography. The younger brother of sociologist Max Weber, he was born in Erfurt and raised in Charlottenburg.
Biography of Werner Scholem (excerpt)
Werner Scholem (December 29, 1895 – July 17, 1940) was a German politician.A member of the Reichstag for the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1924 to 1928, he was arrested in 1933 due to his Jewish background and communist activities.
Biography of Walter Blume (aircraft designer) (excerpt)
Walter Blume (10 January 1896 – 27 May 1964) was an engineer and German fighter ace of World War I. During World War I, he flew with two fighter squadrons, Jagdstaffel 26 and Jagdstaffel 9 gaining 28 aerial victories and earning the Iron Cross, Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, and the Pour le Merite. |
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