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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 Jacques-Paul Bonjean (excerpt)
Jacques-Paul Bonjean (born April 3, 1899, in Paris 15ᵉ, died November 18, 1990, in Paris 8ᵉ) was a French art dealer, antique dealer, and collector. In 1927, he co-founded La Maison des quatre chemins with Maurice Sachs, publishing luxury editions of works by Max Jacob and Jean Cocteau, and later opened galleries with Pierre Colle and Christian Dior.
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 Juventino Rosas (excerpt)
José Juventino Policarpo Rosas Cadenas (January 25, 1868 – July 9, 1894) was a renowned Mexican composer and violinist, best known for his piece Sobre las Olas (Over the Waves). Born in Santa Cruz, Guanajuato (now Santa Cruz de Juventino Rosas), he began as a street musician, performing with dance bands in Mexico City.
Biography of Petru Comarnescu (excerpt)
Petru Comarnescu (November 23, 1905 – November 27, 1970) was a Romanian literary and art critic, as well as a translator.His time of birth comes from him, in "Pagini de jurnal: 1948-1961" by Petru Comarnescu (Noul Orfeu, 2003). Born in Iași, he earned degrees in law, philosophy, and philology, then received a scholarship to study in the United States, where he earned a PhD in aesthetics in 1933.
Biography of Juan María Bordaberry (excerpt)
Juan María Bordaberry Arocena (17 June 1928 – 17 July 2011), was an Uruguayan politician and cattle rancher who served as the 34th President of Uruguay from 1972 until his resignation in 1976 and the 1st President of the Civic-Military Dictatorship from 1973 to 1976.
Biography of Larry Jansen (excerpt)
Lawrence Joseph Jansen (July 16, 1920 – October 10, 2009) was an American right-handed pitcher and coach in Major League Baseball. Born in Oregon, he began his career in the minor leagues before debuting in MLB in 1947 with the New York Giants.
Biography of Aleksander Zabczynski (excerpt)
Aleksander Bożydar Żabczyński (July 24, 1900 – May 31, 1958) was a Polish actor and singer. A key figure in Polish interwar cinema, he was renowned for playing romantic lead roles in numerous films. His career spanned theater, cabaret, and film, making him one of the most popular actors of his time.
Biography of Bill Carey (songwriter) (excerpt)
William D. Carey (May 21, 1916 – January 27, 2004) was an American songwriter, actor, and author. Born on May 20, 1916, in Hollister, California, he appeared in films such as Roberta, Old Man Rhythm, Freshman Love, and A Yank at Oxford.
Biography of Werner Kolhörster (excerpt)
Werner Heinrich Gustav Kolhörster (December 28, 1887 – August 5, 1946) was a German physicist and a pioneer in cosmic ray research. Born in Schwiebus (now Świebodzin, Poland), he studied physics at the University of Halle under Friedrich Ernst Dorn. In 1913-1914, replicating Victor Hess' experiments, he ascended to 9 km by balloon, confirming that cosmic ray ionization increases with altitude, proving that these ionizing rays originate from space.
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 Mary Ann Jackson (actress) (excerpt)
Mary Ann Jackson (January 14, 1923 – December 17, 2003) was an American child actress best known for her work in the Our Gang series from 1928 to 1931. Born into a film-oriented family, she began acting in 1925 and gained attention in Mack Sennett’s Smith Family shorts.
Biography of Dorothy Mackaill (excerpt)
Dorothy Mackaill (March 4, 1903 – August 12, 1990) was a British-American actress, best known for her roles during the silent and pre-Code film eras. Born in Kingston upon Hull, she was raised by her father after her parents separated. She trained in London and Paris, then moved to New York at 17 to dance in the Ziegfeld Follies.
Biography of Polly Ann Young (excerpt)
Polly Ann Young, born October 25, 1908, in Denver and died January 21, 1997, in Los Angeles, was an American actress.She was the sister of fellow actresses Loretta Young and Sally Blane. From 1917 to 1941, she appeared in over 40 films, many in minor or uncredited roles.
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 Louis Longequeue (excerpt)
Louis Longequeue (born November 30, 1914, in Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, died August 11, 1990, in Limoges) was a French politician affiliated with the Socialist Party, best known for serving as the mayor of Limoges from 1956 to 1990. Born into a family of teachers, he studied pharmacy and joined the Resistance during World War II, notably in the Haute-Vienne Medical Resistance Committee.
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.
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 Rina Morelli (excerpt)
Rina Morelli (December 6, 1908 – July 17, 1976) was an Italian actress known for her work in theater, cinema, dubbing, and television. She came from a prestigious family of actors. She began acting at 16 and later became a leading voice in Italian dubbing, lending her voice to Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, and Judy Holliday.
Biography of Anzia Yezierska (excerpt)
Anzia Yezierska (October 29, 1880 – November 20, 1970) was an American novelist, known for her stories about Jewish immigrants in New York. Born in Poland, then part of the Russian Empire, she emigrated to the U.S. in 1893 and grew up in Manhattan's Lower East Side.
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 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 Lino Vaccari (excerpt)
Lino Vaccari, born on August 23, 1873 in Crespano del Grappa and died in Rome in 1951, was an Italian botanist known for his alpine flora studies and educational contributions. He earned a doctorate in natural sciences from the University of Padua and taught in various secondary schools before becoming a headmaster, school inspector, and professor of botany in Rome and Florence.
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 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 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).
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 Paulette Noizeux (excerpt)
Marie-Paule Cœuré, known professionally as Paulette Noizeux, was a French actress born on May 30, 1887, in Saint-Omer, and died on April 9, 1971, in Paris. The daughter of a military officer, she began life in northern France before pursuing her artistic career in the capital.
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 Franz Bachér (excerpt)
Franz Hermann Theodor Nils Bachér was a German chemist and university professor, born on May 21, 1894, in Kassel and died on October 15, 1987, in Salzburg. Son of chemist Franz Bachér and grandson of Theodor Storm, he studied chemistry at Marburg, Kiel, and Rostock starting in 1912.
Biography of Tamie Tsuchiyama (excerpt)
Tamie Tsuchiyama (May 8, 1915 – May 12, 1984) was the only Japanese-American to work full time for the Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement Study during World War II. While interned at the Poston War Relocation Center, she produced detailed sociological journals and ethnographic reports.
Biography of Henriette Wyeth (excerpt)
Henriette Wyeth Hurd (October 22, 1907 – April 3, 1997) was an American artist known for her portraits and still life paintings. Her time of birth comes from her. The eldest daughter of illustrator N.C. Wyeth, she studied painting under her father and brother Andrew Wyeth at their home studio in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
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.
Biography of Rudolf Peierls (excerpt)
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls (June 5, 1907 – September 19, 1995) was a German-born British physicist who played a key role in Britain’s Tube Alloys nuclear program and the Manhattan Project. He studied physics at various universities, including under Werner Heisenberg and Wolfgang Pauli.
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.
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 Barron Patterson McCune (excerpt)
Barron Patterson McCune (February 19, 1915 – September 10, 2008) was a U.S. federal judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He earned a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1938, practiced privately, and served in the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1948.
Biography of Carl Theodor Sørensen (excerpt)
Søren Carl Theodor Marius Sørensen (24 July 1893 in Altona, Hamburg, Germany – 12 September 1979 in Copenhagen, Denmark) was a Danish landscape architect who is considered to be one of the greatest landscape architects of the 20th century. A contemporary of Thomas Church, Geoffrey Jellicoe and Luis Barragán he was a leading figure in the first generation of Modernists in landscape design.
Biography of Charles Despiau (excerpt)
Charles Alfred Marie Despiau, known as Charles Despiau, was a French sculptor born on November 4, 1874, in Mont-de-Marsan and died on October 28, 1946, in Paris. Primarily known as a portraitist with an archaic spirit and simplified features, he also received public commissions, such as the Apollo for the Palais de Tokyo in 1937.
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 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 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.
Biography of Charles Brink (excerpt)
Charles Oscar Brink FBA (born Karl Oskar Levy; 13 March 1907 – 2 March 1994) was a German-Jewish classicist and Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge University. After an education and an early career as a lexicographer in Weimar Germany, Brink emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1938.
Biography of Armando Falconi (excerpt)
Armando Falconi (born July 6, 1871 in Rome – died September 10, 1954 in Milan) was an Italian actor who appeared in over forty films. Born into a family of Neapolitan stage actors, he began acting professionally in the late 1890s after working in other fields.
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.
Biography of Henry Malherbe (excerpt)
Henri Émile Hermand Malherbe, known as Henry Malherbe or Henry Croisilles, was a French writer, born on February 4, 1886, in Bucharest and died on March 17, 1958, in Paris. A journalist for Le Temps and co-director of La Revue des vivants, he won the Prix Goncourt in 1917 for La flamme au poing, a poetic account of World War I.
Biography of Rufina Gasheva (excerpt)
Rufina Sergeyevna Gasheva (October 14, 1921 – May 1, 2012) was a Soviet Polikarpov Po-2 navigator in the famed all-female 588th Night Bomber Regiment, known as the "Night Witches." She flew 848 combat missions and was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
Biography of Philip Cochran (excerpt)
Philip Gerald Cochran (January 29, 1910 – August 26, 1979) was an officer in the U.S.Army Air Corps and U.S.Army Air Forces. During World War II, he was instrumental in developing tactical air combat, air transport, and air assault techniques, particularly in Burma as co-commander of the 1st Air Commando Group.
Biography of Emilio Amero (excerpt)
Emilio Amero (May 25, 1901, in Ixtlahuacán del Río, Jalisco – April 12, 1976, in Norman, Oklahoma) was a prominent Mexican artist, illustrator, muralist, and educator, central to the Mexican Modern art movement. Shaped by the Mexican Revolution, he expressed his artistic vision through painting, lithography, illustration, photography, and filmmaking.
Biography of Ramiro Fabiani (excerpt)
Ramiro Fabiani (Barbarano Vicentino, May 15, 1879 – Rome, April 28, 1954) was an Italian geologist and paleontologist, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Born into a modest family after the early death of his father, he studied at the Pigafetta High School in Vicenza and later at the University of Padua, earning degrees in mathematics (1901) and natural sciences (1903).
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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