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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 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.
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Biography of Joseph J. Katz (excerpt)
Joseph J. Katz (April 19, 1912, Detroit – January 28, 2008, Chicago) was a chemist at Argonne National Laboratory. His groundbreaking research on photosynthesis earned him membership in the US National Academy of Sciences. He was the son of Jewish immigrants from Czarist Russia, neither of whom had formal schooling.
Biography of Penelope Turing (excerpt)
Penelope Turing, born on 5 April 1925 in Hampstead, was a British traveller, author, critic, and lecturer, widely recognized as an expert on the Bayreuth Festival. Her time of birth is cited by herself in her book Lance Free (Joseph, 1968). Her published works include New Bayreuth (1969), Hans Hotter: Man and Artist (1983), and Egypt: A Concise Guide for Independent Travellers (1992), among others.
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Biography of Jorge Cáceres (pentathlete) (excerpt)
Jorge Cáceres (14 April 1917 – 3 December 1975) was an Argentine modern pentathlete and army general.His brother, José Rafael Cáceres Monié, served as Minister of Defense under Roberto Levingston and Alejandro Lanusse. Born in Paraná, Entre Ríos, he entered the Colegio Militar de la Nación in 1925 and graduated as a second lieutenant.
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Biography of Wilhelm Röpke (excerpt)
Wilhelm Röpke (10 October 1899 – 12 February 1966) was a German economist and social critic, one of the spiritual fathers of the social market economy. A professor of economics, first in Jena, then in Graz, Marburg, Istanbul, and finally Geneva, Röpke theorised and collaborated to organise the post-World War II economic re-awakening of the war-wrecked German economy, deploying a program referred to as ordoliberalism, a more conservative variant of German liberalism.
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Biography of Nita Bieber (excerpt)
Nita Gale Bieber (July 18, 1926 – February 4, 2019) was an American actress and dancer. Born in Los Angeles, she studied dance from childhood with her four siblings.After graduating from Hollywood High School, she toured with a USO troupe. She began her film career in 1946 with Columbia Pictures, notably appearing in Rhythm and Weep with the Three Stooges.
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Biography of Luigi Sturzo (excerpt)
Luigi Sturzo (26 November 1871 – 8 August 1959) was an Italian Catholic priest and politician, considered one of the fathers of Christian democracy. In 1919, he co-founded the Italian People's Party (PPI) but was forced into exile in 1924 due to fascism.
Biography of Erling Christie (excerpt)
Erling Christie (19 May 1928 — 3 September 1996) was a Norwegian author. Christie was among the pioneers of modernism in Norway both as a poet and a critic. Christie published five poetry collections in his life, and these were collected in the posthumous collection Samlede dikt (Aschehoug 1998).
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Biography of Billy Cross (American football) (excerpt)
William Jarrel "Billy" Cross (May 3, 1929 – July 5, 2013) was a professional American football player who played halfback for three seasons for the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). Life after football After his time in professional football, Cross became an educator, teaching back home in Canadian from 1968 until 1989.
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.
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.
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 David Steindl-Rast (excerpt)
Brother David Steindl-Rast, O.S.B.(born July 12, 1926), is an American Catholic Benedictine monk, author, and lecturer.He is dedicated to interfaith dialogue and examines the intersection of spirituality and science. Born in Vienna, Austria, into a Catholic family, he emigrated to the United States in 1952 after earning a PhD in experimental psychology from the University of Vienna.
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Biography of Dannie Abse (excerpt)
Daniel Abse, born on 22 September 1923 in Cardiff and died on 28 September 2014, was a Welsh poet and physician known for his dual career in literature and medicine.He worked over 30 years in a chest clinic. His approximate time of birth comes from him, in the book "Coch is Welsh for red.
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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 Mary Eccles (excerpt)
Mary Eccles, Viscountess Eccles, born Mary Morley Crapo on July 8, 1912, and died August 26, 2003, was an American-British author and renowned literary collector.She was also known as Mary Hyde during her first marriage. She assembled one of the greatest private collections of 18th-century literature, focused on Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, which she donated to Harvard.
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Biography of Eugčne Bloch (excerpt)
Eugčne Bloch (10 June 1878 – 12 March 1944) was a French physicist and professor at the École normale supérieure and the University of Paris. He was a pioneer in radioelectricity and one of the first to introduce quantum mechanics in France.
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Biography of Fred Vlčs (excerpt)
Fred Manuel Raoul Vlčs (born January 22, 1885, in Le Havre and died July 2, 1944, in Dachau) was a French zoologist and biologist. He earned a doctorate in science and was a professor of biological physics at the Faculty of Medicine in Strasbourg from 1922 until his deportation in 1944.
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Biography of Jack Fleck (excerpt)
Jackson Donald Fleck, born on November 8, 1921, and died on March 21, 2014, was an American professional golfer best known for winning the 1955 U.S.Open in a playoff against Ben Hogan. Raised in Bettendorf, Iowa, he started as a caddie and turned pro in 1939.
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Biography of François Neuens (excerpt)
François Neuens (September 6, 1912 – August 27, 1985) was a Luxembourgish professional road cyclist. He won two stages of the 1939 Tour de France. During World War II, he claimed two victories in the Tour de Luxembourg. Neuens also competed in the individual and team road race events at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
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Biography of Elbert A. Smith (excerpt)
Elbert Aoriul Smith (8 March 1871 – 15 May 1959) was a leader in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS Church). He served in the church's First Presidency from 1909 to 1938 and as Presiding Patriarch from 1938 to 1958.
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Biography of Shoji Sadao (excerpt)
Shoji Sadao (January 2, 1927 – November 3, 2019) was a Japanese American architect best known for his collaborations with R.Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi. Born in Los Angeles, he and his family were interned during World War II at Gila River.
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Biography of Barthold Theodoor Willem Van Hasselt (excerpt)
Barthold Theodoor Willem van Hasselt (7 November 1896, Leiden – 5 August 1960, Wassenaar) was a Dutch business executive in the Dutch East Indies and served as CEO of Royal Dutch Shell from 1949 to 1951. The son of Marie Elise Prins (1875-1949) and physician Sjoerd Folkert Willem van Hasselt (1868-1934), he married Elisabeth Henriette Versteegh (1898-1957) in 1920 and Marion Elizabeth Davidson (1892-1992) in 1938.
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Biography of Arthur O'Connell (excerpt)
Arthur Joseph O'Connell, born on March 29, 1908, and died on May 18, 1981, was an American actor known for character roles in film, stage, and TV during the 1950s. He earned two Academy Award nominations for Picnic (1955) and Anatomy of a Murder (1959).
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Biography of Jean Webster (author) (excerpt)
Jean Webster, born Alice Jane Chandler Webster on July 24, 1876, and died on June 11, 1916, was an American author best known for Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. Her books feature lively young female protagonists who grow intellectually, morally, and socially, while incorporating humor, witty dialogue, and subtle social critique.
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Biography of Wilber Brotherton Huston (excerpt)
Wilber Brotherton Huston (October 2, 1912 – May 25, 2006) was an American scientist and NASA mission director who coordinated seven satellite launches.He won the first Edison Scholarship Contest at the age of sixteen.Huston died in Fountain Hills, Arizona.
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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.
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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.
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 Ethelene Crockett (excerpt)
Ethelene Jones Crockett (1914–1978) was an American physician and activist, the first African-American woman in Michigan to be board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology, and the first woman to serve as president of the American Lung Association. Born in 1914, she studied at Jackson Junior College and the University of Michigan, then earned her medical degree from Howard University.
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Biography of Pilar Del Rey (excerpt)
Pilar Bougas (May 26, 1929 – February 23, 2025), professionally known as Pilar Del Rey, was an American actress whose career spanned from the late 1940s until 1990. She is best remembered for playing Mrs. Obregón in the 1956 epic film Giant, alongside James Dean.
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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.
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Biography of Adrienne Dore (excerpt)
Adrienne Dore, born Elizabeth Himmelsbach on May 22, 1907, and died November 26, 1992, was an American actress, model, and beauty queen.She was Miss Los Angeles and first runner-up at the 1925 Miss America pageant. Educated at a convent in Seattle, she trained in theater and dance, later performing in musical revues in New York.
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Biography of Frank Graham (voice actor) (excerpt)
Frank Lee Graham (November 22, 1914 – September 2, 1950) was an American radio announcer and voice actor active during the 1940s. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he was the son of attorney Frank L. Graham and opera singer Ethel Briggs Graham, with whom he toured during his youth.
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Biography of Del Martin (activist) (excerpt)
Dorothy "Del" Martin (May 5, 1921 – August 27, 2008) and Phyllis Lyon (November 10, 1924 – April 9, 2020) were an iconic lesbian couple from San Francisco, known for their pioneering work in feminism and gay rights. They met in 1950, moved in together in 1953, and cofounded the Daughters of Bilitis in 1955, the first lesbian political and social organization in the U.S.
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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 Greta Thyssen (excerpt)
Greta Thyssen, born Grethe Karen Thygesen on March 30, 1927, in Hareskovby, Denmark, and died January 6, 2018, in Manhattan, was a Danish actress and model who settled in the U.S. She launched her screen career after being crowned Miss Denmark in 1951.
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Biography of Dottie Frazier (excerpt)
Dottie May Frazier (July 16, 1922 – February 8, 2022) was an American diving pioneer, the first female scuba instructor and the first woman to own a dive shop in the U.S. She survived the 1933 Long Beach earthquake and graduated from high school in 1939.
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Biography of Jim Lovell (astronaut) (excerpt)
James Arthur Lovell Jr., born on March 25, 1928, is a retired American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and engineer. He commanded the famed Apollo 13 mission in 1970, which returned safely to Earth after a mid-flight failure. In 1968, he flew aboard Apollo 8, becoming one of the first three people to orbit the Moon alongside Frank Borman and William Anders.
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Biography of Richard Devon (excerpt)
Richard Devon, born Richard Gibson Ferraiole on December 11, 1926, in Glendale, California, was an American character and voice actor.From the late 1940s to 1991, he performed in hundreds of stage, radio, film, and television roles. Raised in a modest family of Italian descent, Devon worked early on as a stable hand and riding instructor—skills that served him well in his many roles in Westerns.
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Biography of Henri Chrétien (excerpt)
Henri Jacques Chrétien (born February 1, 1879, in Paris – died February 6, 1956, in Forest Glen, Maryland) was a French astronomer, optical engineer, professor, and inventor. A graduate of the University of Paris and SupOptique, he became an assistant astronomer at the Nice Observatory in 1906.
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Biography of David A. Burchinal (excerpt)
David Arthur Burchinal (April 17, 1915 – August 17, 1990) was a four-star general in the United States Air Force.He served as Deputy Commander in Chief of the United States European Command from 1966 to 1973. A Brown University graduate, he began pilot training in 1939.
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Biography of Jan Duiker (excerpt)
Jan Duiker (March 1, 1890 – February 23, 1935) was a leading Dutch architect of the Modern movement Het Nieuwe Bouwen.He partnered with Bernard Bijvoet from 1917 until 1935. Recommended by Hendrik Berlage for the Zonnestraal project, Duiker and Bijvoet left a major mark on Dutch modernist architecture.
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Biography of Heddy Astrup (excerpt)
Hedevig (Heddy) Stang Astrup, born on April 21, 1904, and died on August 23, 1978, was a Norwegian philanthropist known as “the mother of child aid.” In 1931, she founded a local charity that became Oslo Red Cross Child Aid. She supported vulnerable children and disabled people, establishing the "Tomtebo" center in 1944 and significantly funding the Bakkebř institution and its chapel.
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Biography of Richard Löwenthal (excerpt)
Richard Löwenthal (April 15, 1908 – August 9, 1991) was a German journalist and professor specializing in democracy, communism, and world politics.Born in Berlin, he was influenced by Max Weber and Karl Mannheim.A member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) until 1929, he left due to disagreements with Comintern tactics.
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Biography of Odile de Vasselot de Régné (excerpt)
Odile de Vasselot de Régné (January 6, 1922 – April 21, 2025) was a French Resistance fighter and consecrated laywoman. Born into a military family, she joined the Resistance during WWII, first as a liaison agent, then in the Comet network, helping Allied airmen escape to Spain.
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Biography of Dick Carson (excerpt)
Richard Charles Carson (June 4, 1929 – December 19, 2021) was an American television director and five-time Emmy Award winner. He directed iconic programs such as The Tonight Show, Wheel of Fortune, and The Merv Griffin Show. His time of birth comes from his birth certificate, but it is not specified whether it was morning or afternoon (am or pm, the letter before the m is missing).
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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.
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Biography of Robert W. Tucker (excerpt)
Robert Warren Tucker (born August 25, 1924 – died February 7, 2025) was an American realist writer and professor of American Foreign Policy at the Johns Hopkins University, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Biography of Richard G. Colbert (excerpt)
Richard Gary Colbert (February 12, 1915 – December 2, 1973) was a four-star U.S. Navy admiral renowned for fostering international naval cooperation during the Cold War. He served as President of the Naval War College from 1968 to 1971, and then as Commander in Chief of NATO's Southern European forces from 1972 until his death in 1973. |
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