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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. ![]() ![]()
Biography of Leopold Abraham Ries (excerpt)
Leopold Abraham Ries (born 15 April 1893 in Groningen, died 10 July 1962 in New York) was a Dutch senior civil servant, appointed Treasurer-General in 1935. A talented jurist from a wealthy Jewish family, he was close to Eelco van Kleffens and an early quiet supporter of gay rights in the Netherlands.
Biography of Marc-Adolphe Guégan (excerpt)
Marc-Adolphe Guégan (25 January 1891 – 6 November 1959) was a French journalist and poet, a pioneer of haiku in the French language. He lived on the Île d’Yeu in the Atlantic, drawing inspiration from its landscapes. A close friend of Claude Cahun and Suzanne Malherbe (known as Marcel Moore), he collaborated with them on two books.
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Biography of Elinor Wylie (excerpt)
Elinor Wylie (September 7, 1885 – December 16, 1928) was an American poet and writer, renowned in the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Somerville, New Jersey, she grew up in Washington in a prominent family: her grandfather was the Governor of Pennsylvania, and her father was the U.S.
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Biography of John Wilson McIlvaine (excerpt)
John Wilson McIlvaine (June 22, 1907 – July 1, 1963) was a United States District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He earned a Bachelor of Science from Washington & Jefferson College in 1928, and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Pittsburgh in 1932, before entering private legal practice.
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Biography of Salvador Novo (excerpt)
Salvador Novo López (July 30, 1904 – January 13, 1974) was a Mexican writer, poet, playwright, translator, and the official chronicler of Mexico City. A member of Los Contemporáneos and the Mexican Academy of Language, he significantly influenced Mexican politics, culture, and society.
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Biography of Dick Rathmann (excerpt)
James Merwin "Dick" Rathmann (January 6, 1926 – February 1, 2000) was an American racing driver known for competing in both NASCAR and open-wheel series. As a teen, he swapped identities with his brother Jim to help him race underage — a switch that stuck for life.
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Biography of Joyce Collins (pianist) (excerpt)
Joyce Collins (born May 5, 1927 in Battle Mountain, Nevada – died January 3, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, vocalist, and educator. She began performing at 15 while attending Reno High School and played in clubs during college in San Francisco.
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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 Don Ingalls (excerpt)
Donald G. Ingalls (July 29, 1918 – March 10, 2014) was an American screenwriter and television producer. A B-17 pilot during World War II, he later became a test pilot before joining the Los Angeles Police Department, where he met Gene Roddenberry.
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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.
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Biography of George Hodel (excerpt)
George Hill Hodel (October 10, 1907 – May 17, 1999) was an American physician and a suspect in the murder of Elizabeth Short, known as the "Black Dahlia".He was never charged, though police considered him a serious suspect, and two of his children believed he was guilty.
Biography of Nikki Bridges Flynn (excerpt)
Noriko Bridges Flynn (née Sawada; February 11, 1923 – February 7, 2003), known as "Nikki", was a Japanese American civil rights activist and writer. Born in California to Japanese parents, she was interned during World War II at Poston for three years, an experience that deeply shaped her activism.
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Biography of Carlos Pellicer (excerpt)
Carlos Pellicer Cámara (January 16, 1897, Villahermosa – February 16, 1977) was a modernist Mexican poet renowned for his depictions of nature and a sensual energy shared with Octavio Paz. His time of birth comes from the biography "Mirando el río de aquellas tardes: estudio sobre Carlos Pellicer" by Samuel Gordon, ICT, Government of the State of Tabasco, 1990.
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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 Rüdiger von der Goltz (lawyer) (excerpt)
Gustav Adolf Karl Joachim Rüdiger Graf von der Goltz (10 July 1894 – 18 April 1976) was a German lawyer and Nazi Party member known for defending figures like Joseph Goebbels before their rise to power. Born into a noble family in Charlottenburg, he lost a leg in World War I and earned a Doctor of Law degree in 1919.
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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.
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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.
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Biography of Amado Alonso (excerpt)
Amado Alonso García (13 September 1896 – 26 May 1952) was a Spanish philologist, linguist, and literary critic, later naturalized as an Argentine citizen. He was a key figure in the development of stylistics and a student of Ramón Menéndez Pidal at Madrid’s Center for Historical Studies.
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Biography of Jimmy Wyble (excerpt)
James Otis Wyble (January 25, 1922 – January 16, 2010) was an American guitarist known for his work in both jazz and Western swing. He began his career in Texas and joined Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys before serving in World War II.
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Biography of Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (excerpt)
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (31 July 1884 – 2 February 1945) was a German conservative politician, monarchist, executive, economist, civil servant and opponent of the Nazi regime.He opposed anti-Jewish policies while he held office and was opposed to the Holocaust. Had the 20 July plot to overthrow Hitler's dictatorship in 1944 succeeded, Goerdeler would have served as the Chancellor of the new government.
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Biography of Eleanor Keaton (excerpt)
Eleanor Ruth Keaton (née Norris; July 29, 1918 – October 19, 1998) was an American dancer and variety performer. She became an MGM contract dancer in her teens. At age 21, she married silent film legend Buster Keaton, becoming his third wife. She played a key role in reviving his personal life and career.
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Biography of Willem van Hoogstraten (excerpt)
Willem van Hoogstraten was born on March 18, 1884, in Utrecht.A Dutch violinist and conductor, he began studying the violin at eight and continued his training in Cologne and Prague. He started his career conducting at a health resort before leading the Kleefeld Orchestra from 1914 to 1918.
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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.
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Biography of Marguerite Higgins (excerpt)
Marguerite Higgins Hall (September 3, 1920 – January 3, 1966) was an American journalist and war correspondent.She covered World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, helping to secure equal access for female war correspondents. She worked for the New York Herald Tribune (1942–1963) and Newsday (1963–1965).
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Biography of Conte Candoli (excerpt)
Secondo "Conte" Candoli (born July 13, 1927 – died December 14, 2001) was an American jazz trumpeter, best known for his work on the West Coast. He played with the big bands of Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, and Dizzy Gillespie, and later in Johnny Carson's Tonight Show band.
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Biography of Pete Candoli (excerpt)
Pete Candoli (born Walter Joseph Candoli, June 28, 1923 – died January 11, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter known for his high-note range and vibrant stage presence—earning him the nickname “Superman.” He rose to fame in the 1940s playing with big bands led by Woody Herman, Tommy Dorsey, and Stan Kenton.
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Biography of Friedrich Sämisch (excerpt)
Friedrich (Fritz) Sämisch (Berlin, September 20, 1896 – Berlin, August 16, 1975) was a German chess grandmaster.He won the first Austrian Championship in Vienna in 1921, though this edition was unofficial.He also finished 3rd in the 1925 Baden-Baden tournament, behind Alexander Alekhine and Akiba Rubinstein.
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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.
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Biography of Marion Dönhoff (excerpt)
Marion Hedda Ilse Gräfin von Dönhoff (December 2, 1909 – March 11, 2002) was a German journalist and publisher who resisted Nazism alongside Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, and Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. Born into Prussian nobility, she grew up in Friedrichstein Palace, which was destroyed by the Red Army in 1945.
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Biography of Dorothy West (novelist) (excerpt)
Dorothy West (June 2, 1907 – August 16, 1998) was an American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and magazine editor associated with the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement in the 1920s and 1930s that celebrated black art, literature, and music. She was one of the few Black women writers to be published in major literary magazines in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Biography of Kurt Hirsch (excerpt)
Kurt August Hirsch (12 January 1906 – 4 November 1986) was a German mathematician who moved to England to escape the Nazi persecution of Jews.His research was in group theory.He also worked to reform mathematics education and became a county chess champion.
Biography of James Lewin (excerpt)
James Lewin (October 28, 1887 – December 31, 1937) was a German-Jewish psychiatrist and physician. Born in Berlin, he studied medicine and philosophy at the University of Berlin, earning his PhD in 1912. He specialized in psychiatry, working in Kiel and Leipzig.
Biography of Dick Grove (musician) (excerpt)
Richard Dean Grove (December 18, 1927 – December 26, 1998) was an American musician, composer, arranger, and educator. He is best remembered as the founder of the Dick Grove School of Music in Los Angeles, whose students included Michael Jackson, Linda Ronstadt, and Barry Manilow.
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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 Sherwood Bailey (excerpt)
Sherwood Bailey (August 6, 1923 – August 6, 1987) was an American child actor and later a civil engineer.He is best remembered for playing Spud, the mischievous redhead in the Our Gang series from 1931 to 1932. His standout role was in Dogs Is Dogs as a bratty stepbrother outwitted by his dog and the gang.
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Biography of Jean Tilho (excerpt)
Jean Auguste Marie Tilho (May 1, 1875, Domme – April 8, 1956, Paris) was a French officer and explorer. Graduating from Saint-Cyr in 1895, he joined the Colonial Infantry and took part in border delineation missions in Africa. Between 1903 and 1907, he explored French Niger and reached Lake Chad.
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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.
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Biography of Félix Mesguich (excerpt)
Félix Mesguich, born September 15, 1871, in Algiers and died April 25, 1949, in Paris, was a pioneering French cameraman and one of the first cinema reporters, working closely with the Lumière brothers on global filming missions. In 1898, he created the first-ever advertising film for the Ripolin brand, a short comic scene considered a landmark in commercial cinema history.
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Biography of José Santos Chocano (excerpt)
José Santos Chocano (born May 14, 1875 in Lima – died December 13, 1934 in Santiago, Chile) was a Peruvian poet known for his bold, lyrical celebration of Latin America’s natural and cultural identity. His time of birth comes from several biographies and from himself.
Biography of Dan Wickenden (excerpt)
Leonard Daniel Wickenden, an American author and editor, was born on March 24, 1913, in Tyrone, Pennsylvania, to English parents, and grew up in Long Island. He graduated from Amherst College in 1935 and began publishing stories in Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.
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Biography of Ed Walker (American veteran) (excerpt)
Edgar Walker (August 28, 1917 – October 28, 2011) was an American World War II veteran, businessman, publisher, and writer.He was a member of "Castner's Cutthroats," an elite reconnaissance unit in the Aleutian Islands. Born in San Juan Bautista, California, he enlisted in the Army in 1937 and developed a passion for Alaska, where he joined Castner's Cutthroats.
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Biography of Robert Busnel (excerpt)
Robert Busnel (14 September 1914 – 15 March 1991) was a French professional basketball player, coach, and administrator.Standing 1.92 m tall, he played as a power forward. Busnel was made an Officer of the Legion of Honor in 1989 and awarded the Olympic Order by the IOC in 1990.
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Biography of Régina Badet (excerpt)
Anne Régina Badet was born on October 9, 1876, in Bordeaux and died on October 26, 1949, in Bordeaux.She was a French comedic actress and dancer, renowned for her performances at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. She began as a principal dancer at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux in 1890 before joining the Opéra-Comique in 1904.
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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.
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Biography of Leroy Vinnegar (excerpt)
Leroy Vinnegar (July 13, 1928 – August 3, 1999) was an American jazz bassist, born in Indianapolis, Indiana. A self-taught musician, he rose to fame in 1950s Los Angeles for his signature walking bass lines, earning him the nickname The Walker.
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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.
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Biography of Jean Voilier (publisher) (excerpt)
Jean Voilier, born Jeanne Loviton on April 1, 1903, in Paris and died on July 20, 1996, was a French lawyer, publisher, and novelist. Raised in an artistic family, she was adopted by publisher Ferdinand Loviton, who gave her his name.
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Biography of Francisco Asorey (excerpt)
Francisco Asorey González, born March 4, 1889, in Cambados, and died July 2, 1961, in Santiago de Compostela, was a prominent Spanish sculptor of the 20th century.As a child, he showed talent for carving wooden Christs and saints. He studied with the Salesians in Sarrià and later taught drawing in Baracaldo, where he opened a religious sculpture workshop.
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Biography of Bernie Hamilton (excerpt)
Bernie Hamilton, born June 12, 1928, in Los Angeles and died December 30, 2008, was an American actor best known for his role as Captain Dobey in the TV series Starsky & Hutch. He was also the younger brother of jazz drummer Chico Hamilton.
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Biography of Lorenzo Domínguez (excerpt)
Lorenzo Domínguez (born May 15, 1901, in Santiago, Chile – died March 21, 1963, in Mendoza, Argentina) was a Chilean sculptor known for his unique artistic synthesis of pre-Columbian aesthetics, Rapa Nui art, and European sculpture. After studying in Madrid during the 1920s, he taught in Santiago before settling in Argentina, where he lived and worked in Mendoza and Tucumán. |
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