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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 Stanley F. Schmidt (excerpt)
Stanley F.Schmidt (January 21, 1926 – August 13, 2015) was an American aerospace engineer and pioneer of the Schmidt-Kalman filter, widely used in air and space navigation, notably in the Apollo missions. Born in Hollister, California, he began training in the Navy Air Corps in 1944 and earned an engineering degree from Marquette University in 1946, followed by an M.S.
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Biography of Ruth Rewald (excerpt)
Ruth Rewald (born June 5, 1906, in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, and likely killed in Auschwitz in 1942) was a German children’s author of Jewish origin.Her work combined revolutionary proletarian literature with humanist themes. After abandoning her law studies, she published her first children’s books in 1931, focusing on social issues like working children’s lives and feelings of statelessness.
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Biography of René Navarre (actor) (excerpt)
René Navarre, a French actor, was born on July 8, 1877, in Limoges and died on February 8, 1968, in Azay-sur-Cher.He started his career in theater in Paris before transitioning to cinema in 1909, notably with Gaumont. He gained fame for his leading role in Fantômas, a series of films directed by Louis Feuillade between 1913 and 1914.
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Biography of Gert Heinrich Wollheim (excerpt)
Gert Heinrich Wollheim (September 11, 1894 – April 22, 1974) was a German expressionist painter later associated with the New Objectivity.He fled Nazi Germany and settled in the United States in 1947. Born in Dresden-Loschwitz, he studied at the Weimar College of Fine Arts before serving in World War I, where he was wounded.
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Biography of Joaquín Zamacois (excerpt)
Joaquín Zamacois y Soler was a Chilean-Spanish composer, music educator, and author, born on December 15, 1894, in Santiago, Chile, and died on September 8, 1976, in Barcelona. Coming from a renowned family of Spanish artists, he was the son of composer Joaquín Zamacois y Zabala and the nephew of notable writers, singers, and painters.
Biography of Joseph Tusiani (excerpt)
Joseph Tusiani (January 14, 1924 – April 11, 2020) was an Italian-American poet, translator, and novelist.A professor emeritus at Lehman College, he was named New York State Poet Laureate Emeritus in 2016. His time of birth comes from him, in the book "The Book of Catholic Authors (First Series), Informal Self-portraits of Famous Modern Catholic Writers", Volume 6 (W.
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Biography of Dorothy Yost (excerpt)
Dorothy Yost (April 25, 1899 – June 10, 1967) was a prominent screenwriter of both silent and sound films, contributing to over 90 productions.Born in St.Louis, Missouri, she passed away in Monrovia, California. Before turning to screenwriting, she performed in theater plays.
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Biography of Jack Hooper (artist) (excerpt)
Jack Hooper (August 26, 1928 – January 24, 2014) was an American painter, muralist, sculptor, printmaker, and art educator, recognized as a key figure in the Southern California art scene of the 1950s and 1960s. Part of the Los Angeles generation that included Robert Irwin and Billy Al Bengston, he was an innovator in material exploration, particularly known for incorporating plastic into art.
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Biography of Anton Philips (excerpt)
Anton Frederik Philips, born on March 14, 1874, in Zaltbommel and died on October 7, 1951, in Eindhoven, was a Dutch industrialist and co-founder of Philips Electronics in 1912 with his elder brother Gerard. Born into a Dutch-Jewish family, he joined the family business in 1912 and served as CEO from 1922 to 1939.
Biography of Robert Hayden (poet) (excerpt)
Robert Hayden (August 4, 1913 – February 25, 1980) was an American poet, essayist, and educator.He was the first African-American to serve as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, now known as U.S.Poet Laureate. Born in Detroit to separated parents, he was raised by neighbors.
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Biography of Steffen Ahrends (excerpt)
Steffen Ahrends (16 August 1907 – 31 October 1992) was a German-born architect, son of architect Bruno Ahrends.His son, Peter Ahrends, born in 1933 in Berlin, is also an architect based in Dublin, Ireland. After graduating from Landheim Schondorf in 1924, Ahrends studied at the Technical Hochschule in Berlin and later at the Bauhaus in Weimar (1925–1929) under Otto Bartning and Ernst Neufert.
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Biography of Gordon Oliver (actor) (excerpt)
Gordon Oliver (April 27, 1910 – January 26, 1995) was an American actor and film producer.He appeared in more than 40 films and television shows between 1933 and 1972. Oliver began working in films in 1936, eventually working for Warner Bros., Columbia and RKO.
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Biography of Michel Théato (excerpt)
Michel Théato (born March 22, 1878, in Luxembourg City, and died April 2, 1923, in Paris) was a Luxembourgish athlete competing for France.A member of the Union Athlétique de Paris, he won the gold medal in the marathon at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, becoming the first Olympic champion in athletics for France.
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Biography of André Helbronner (excerpt)
André Samson Seby Helbronner, born on December 23, 1878, in Paris and died on March 14, 1944, at the Buchenwald concentration camp, was a French physicist, chemist, and inventor. He studied at the Lycée Condorcet and the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris, earning his PhD in 1904 under Gabriel Lippmann, Nobel Prize winner in 1908.
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Biography of Nalda Bird (excerpt)
Nalda Marie Bird (February 11, 1927 – September 15, 2004) was a starting pitcher and outfielder in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the 1945 season. Standing 5 ft 1 in and weighing 115 lb., Bird batted right-handed and threw left-handed.
Biography of Henri Bosc (excerpt)
Henri Bosc, born Henri Marie Joseph Danviolet in Perpignan on August 18, 1884, was a French theater and film actor.He was married to actress Cécile Guyon, with whom he had a daughter, actress Denise Bosc. His in-laws were deeply rooted in the theater world, with his father-in-law Alexandre Guyon fils and grandfather-in-law Alexandre Guyon père, both being actors.
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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.
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Biography of Gaston Roussel (industrialist) (excerpt)
Gaston Roussel (Auxonne, December 1, 1877 – Boulogne-sur-Seine, January 8, 1947) was a French veterinarian, physician, and industrialist, founder of France's leading pharmaceutical company. Graduating as a veterinarian in 1903, he became a doctor of medicine in 1909 with research on rabbit syphilis.
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Biography of Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (excerpt)
Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (Gustaf Adolf Oscar Fredrik Arthur Edmund; 22 April 1906 – 26 January 1947) was a Swedish prince who for most of his life was second in the line of succession to the Swedish throne. He was the eldest son of Gustaf VI Adolf, who was crown prince for most of his son's life and ascended the Swedish throne three years after his son's death.
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Biography of Léon Langeron (excerpt)
Léon Langeron (December 5, 1888 – June 29, 1963) was a French professor of medicine. A graduate of the University of Lyon, he became a hospital physician in 1926 before joining the Free Faculty of Medicine in Lille in 1927. For 35 years, he led the medical department at the Hôpital de la Charité, shaping both research and medical education.
Biography of Ah Jook Ku (excerpt)
Ah Jook Ku, born April 24, 1910, in Kailua, Hawaii, and died August 6, 2007, was a trailblazing American journalist. She was the first Asian American reporter for the Associated Press and the first Asian American woman at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, where she began as a high school correspondent.
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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.
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Biography of Manuel Cabré (excerpt)
Manuel Cabré, born on January 25, 1890, in Barcelona and passed away on February 26, 1984, in Caracas, was a renowned Venezuelan painter, especially celebrated for his landscapes. The son of sculptor Ángel Cabré i Magriñá, he grew up in Venezuela and joined the Caracas Academy of Fine Arts at 14, where his father taught.
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Biography of Felice Casorati (excerpt)
Felice Casorati (4 December 1883 – 1 March 1963) was an Italian painter, sculptor, and printmaker known for his figure compositions, portraits, and still lifes with unusual perspective effects. Born in Novara, he abandoned piano studies after an illness and turned to art.
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Biography of Peggy Shannon (excerpt)
Peggy Shannon (born Winona Sammon; January 10, 1907 – May 11, 1941) was an American actress.She appeared on the stage and screen of the 1920s and 1930s. Shannon began her career as a Ziegfeld girl in 1923 before moving on to Broadway productions.
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Biography of Isabelle Rivière (excerpt)
Isabelle Fournier, née Rivière (July 16, 1889 – June 18, 1971), was a French writer. The sister of Alain-Fournier, she was the daughter of schoolteachers Marie-Albanie Barthe and Augustin Fournier. She married Jacques Rivière, a writer and director of the Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF).
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Biography of Simone Louise des Forest (excerpt)
Simone Louise Pinet de Borde des Forest (March 7, 1910 – November 15, 2004) was a French racing driver, a pioneer in women's motorsports. She earned her driver’s license in 1929, a rarity for women at the time. By 1930, she began competing in car races and became a professional driver.
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Biography of Sohrab Sepehri (excerpt)
Sohrab Sepehri, born October 6, 1928, in Kashan and died April 21, 1980, in Tehran, was a major Iranian modernist poet and painter. He is considered one of the five most influential figures in modern Persian poetry. His date and time of birth come from him in the book "The Eight Books: A Complete English Translation", by Sohrab Sepehri (Brill, 2021).
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Biography of Adrien Turel (excerpt)
Adrien Turel (born June 5, 1890, in Saint Petersburg and died June 29, 1957, in Zurich) was a Swiss writer.His time of birth comes from him, in his autobiography "Bilanz eines erfolglosen Lebens: Autobiographie" by Adrien Turel (Moderne, 1989). He grew up in Switzerland and Germany, studying Germanic studies, Romance languages, and history before abandoning his studies to focus on psychoanalysis.
Biography of Robert Oboussier (excerpt)
Robert Oboussier (July 9, 1900 – June 9, 1957) was a Swiss composer and music critic. He began his musical studies in Heidelberg and Mannheim, then continued at the Zurich Conservatory under Volkmar Andreae and Carl Vogler. He later studied composition in Berlin with Philipp Jarnach and conducting with Siegfried Ochs and Rudolf Krasselt.
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Biography of Ernst Torgler (excerpt)
Ernst Torgler (April 25, 1893 – January 19, 1963) was a German politician who successively joined the SPD, USPD, KPD, and later returned to the SPD. After training as a salesman, Torgler served in World War I.He joined the SPD in 1911, switched to the USPD in 1918, and to the KPD in 1920.
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Biography of Cläre Jung (excerpt)
Cläre Jung (2 February 1892 – 25 March 1981) was a German journalist, writer, and political activist. Born into a middle-class family, she became involved with Berlin’s expressionist poet circle and the journal Die Aktion, where she worked with her partner Franz Jung.
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Biography of Ernst Balcke (excerpt)
Ernst Balcke (*April 9, 1887, Berlin – †January 16, 1912, Gatow) was a German author, best known for his friendship with poet Georg Heym, with whom he tragically died while skating on the Havel. The eldest son of a banker, Balcke grew up in Berlin-Schöneberg near the Heym family.
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Biography of Victor Bourgeois (excerpt)
Victor Bourgeois (born August 28, 1897, in Charleroi; died July 24, 1962, in Ixelles) was a Belgian architect and urban planner, a leading figure of the modernist movement. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, he co-edited the 7 Arts magazine (1922-1929) with his brother Pierre, focusing on the seven arts, including cinema, and co-founded the Club des Amis du Septième Art (CASA).
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Biography of George Lindbeck (excerpt)
George Arthur Lindbeck, born March 10, 1923, in Luoyang, China, and died January 8, 2018, was an American Lutheran theologian, best known as a key ecumenical figure and a founder of postliberal theology. Raised in China and Korea by missionary parents, he endured frequent illness and isolation in childhood.
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Biography of Daniel Gonzague (excerpt)
Daniel Gonzague, born on May 16, 1930, in Joinville-le-Pont, is a French designer and engraver of postage stamps. In 1956, as a young postal worker, he achieved early recognition by winning the competition for the first stamp in the EUROPA series, launched by the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).
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Biography of Francisco Eppens (excerpt)
Francisco Eppens Helguera, born on February 1, 1913, in San Luis Potosí, and died on September 6, 1990, in Mexico City, was a Mexican artist known for his paintings, sculptures, and murals that showcased Mexican identity. He gained international fame for his modern designs of Mexican postage stamps (1935-1953) and for redesigning Mexico’s national emblem in 1968, which is still used today on official documents, coins, and the national flag.
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Biography of Karel van den Oever (excerpt)
Modestus Carolus (Karel) van den Oever, born November 19, 1879, in Antwerp and passed away on October 6, 1926, in the same city, was a Flemish poet, essayist, and playwright. He came from a Frisian merchant family that settled in Antwerp in 1842.
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Biography of Wilhelm Cuno (excerpt)
Wilhelm Carl Josef Cuno (July 2, 1876 – January 3, 1933) was a German businessman and politician who served as chancellor of Germany from 1922 to 1923 for 264 days. His term was marked by the French and Belgian occupation of the Ruhr and the onset of hyperinflation in Germany.
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Biography of Käte Stresemann (excerpt)
Käte Stresemann (née Kleefeld; July 15, 1883 – July 23, 1970) was the wife of German Chancellor, Foreign Minister, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Gustav Stresemann. Admired for her elegance and intelligence, she was a prominent social figure in the 1920s, hosting diplomatic gatherings at her Berlin salon.
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Biography of Wolfgang Friedmann (excerpt)
Wolfgang Gaston Friedmann (25 January 1907 – 20 September 1972) was a German American legal scholar.Specializing in international law, he was a faculty member at Columbia Law School. Born in Berlin, Friedmann finished his studies of law at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1930.
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Biography of Adriaan Morriën (excerpt)
Adriaan Morriën (Velsen, June 5, 1912 – Amsterdam, June 7, 2002) was a Dutch poet, writer of short prose, essayist, translator, and critic.Morriën made his debut in 1935, shortly before its closure, in the magazine Forum, led by Menno ter Braak and E.
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Biography of Hermann Dietrich (excerpt)
Hermann Robert Dietrich (December 14, 1879 – March 6, 1954) was a German politician from the German Democratic Party (DDP) and served as a minister during the Weimar Republic. In 1930, he succeeded Paul Moldenhauer as Finance Minister during the Great Depression.
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Biography of Hans Purrmann (excerpt)
Hans Marsilius Purrmann (born April 10, 1880, in Speyer; died April 17, 1966, in Basel) was a German painter, graphic artist, art collector, and writer. He studied at the Karlsruhe School of Fine Arts (1897-1899) and the Munich Academy of Arts (1900-1905).
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Biography of Princess Chichibu Setsuko (excerpt)
Setsuko, Princess Chichibu (born Matsudaira Setsuko, September 9, 1909 – August 25, 1995), was a member of the Japanese imperial family and the wife of Prince Yasuhito, the second son of Emperor Taishō and Empress Teimei. She was the sister-in-law of Emperor Shōwa and aunt by marriage to Emperor Akihito.
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Biography of Hans Poelzig (excerpt)
Hans Poelzig (born April 30, 1869, in Berlin, died June 14, 1936, in Berlin) was a German architect, designer, painter, and stage designer. A member of the Deutscher Werkbund, he contributed to the Expressionist architecture movement and the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) in the 1920s. ![]()
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.
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Biography of Aldo Perroncito (excerpt)
Aldo Perroncito (18 May 1882, Turin – 1929) was an Italian pathologist. He was the son of parasitologist Edoardo Perroncito (1847–1936). He is known for research involving regeneration of peripheral nerves, kinetic behavior of the Golgi apparatus during mitosis, and studies of pellagra.
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Biography of James Denis (aviator) (excerpt)
James Denis (February 1, 1906 – June 21, 2003) was a French military officer and Compagnon de la Libération.A skilled pilot, he joined the Free French Forces in 1940, flying to England with five companions. He fought in North Africa and the Middle East, serving with the Royal Air Force before forming the Escadrille française de chasse n°1.
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Biography of Warren William (excerpt)
Warren William, born Warren William Krech on December 2, 1894, and died on September 24, 1948, was a Broadway and Hollywood actor, immensely popular during the early 1930s. Nicknamed the "King of Pre-Code," he was the first actor to portray defense attorney Perry Mason on the big screen. |
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