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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 Bernard Boutet de Monvel (excerpt)
Bernard Boutet de Monvel (born August 9, 1881 – died October 28, 1949) was a French painter, sculptor, engraver, fashion illustrator, and interior decorator. Initially recognized for his etchings, he later gained renown for his geometric paintings of the 1900s and his Moroccan-inspired works during World War I.
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.
Biography of Johnnie Davis (actor) (excerpt)
John Gustave Davis (April 11, 1910 – October 28, 1983) was an American actor, singer, and trumpeter.Born in Brazil, Indiana, into a musical family, he began playing trumpet young and joined local orchestras as a teenager. By 1933, Davis was living in New York City, where he formed his own trio and developed a talent for scat singing.
Biography of Yevgeniya Zhigulenko (excerpt)
Yevgeniya Andreyevna Zhigulenko (December 1, 1920 – March 2, 1994) was a pilot and navigator in the Soviet Union’s 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment during World War II. She flew 968 combat missions and was named Hero of the Soviet Union.
Biography of Rolando Valladares (excerpt)
Rolando Amadeo "Chivo" Valladares, born March 10, 1918 in San Miguel de Tucumán and died there on September 12, 2008, was an Argentine self-taught folk musician, singer, and composer. He started with the Trío Ollantay before continuing as a solo artist, releasing several albums.
Biography of Antonio Giolitti (excerpt)
Antonio Giolitti (12 February 1915 - 8 February 2010) was an Italian politician, grandson of Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti. He joined the Communist Party in 1940, was arrested by the fascist regime and later acquitted. During the Resistance, he was seriously wounded and sent to France, returning to Italy only after the war.
Biography of Pierre Bourgeois (poet) (excerpt)
Pierre Bourgeois (born December 4, 1898, in Charleroi; died May 25, 1976) was a Belgian poet and filmmaker. The younger brother of architect Victor Bourgeois, he co-edited the 7 Arts magazine from 1922 to 1929.This publication, dedicated to geometric abstraction, aimed to synthesize various arts, including painting, sculpture, literature, and cinema.
Biography of Jean Rouverol (excerpt)
Jean Rouverol (July 8, 1916 – March 24, 2017) was an American actress, screenwriter, and author who was blacklisted by Hollywood in the 1950s. Born in St.Louis, Missouri, she was the daughter of playwright Aurania Rouverol, creator of the Andy Hardy character.
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.
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.
Biography of Philip Hurlic (excerpt)
Philip Raymond Hurlic (December 20, 1927 – July 7, 2014) was an American child actor active in the 1930s and early 1940s. He began in the Baby Burlesks series with Shirley Temple, and had major roles as Little Jim in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938), Verman Diggs in the Penrod films, and Zeke in Zenobia (1939), noted for being a rare early positive Black male role.
Biography of Ernst Karchow (excerpt)
Ernst Günther Karchow (*23 September 1892 in Berlin; †7 October 1953 in Berlin) was a German actor, director, theater manager, and radio actor. The son of merchant and actor Albert Rudolph Karchow, he studied at Max Reinhardt's drama school in Berlin.He began his career at the Deutschen Theater and in Vienna before serving as a soldier in World War I (1914–1918).
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.
Biography of Anna Kavan (excerpt)
Anna Kavan (born Helen Emily Woods; April 10, 1901 – December 5, 1968) was a British novelist, short story writer, and painter.Born into an affluent family in Cannes, she endured a lonely and unstable childhood.After marrying Donald Ferguson and living in Burma, she returned to London, where she began publishing under her married name.
Biography of Philip J. Corso (excerpt)
Philip James Corso (May 22, 1915 – July 16, 1998) was a U.S. Army officer who served from February 23, 1942, to March 1, 1963. He achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel and held key intelligence positions during his military career. In 1997, he published The Day After Roswell, claiming involvement in the study of alien technology recovered from the 1947 Roswell Incident.
Biography of Marthe Gautier (excerpt)
Marthe Gautier, born on September 10, 1925 in Montenils and died on April 30, 2022 in Meaux, was a French physician, pediatrician, and honorary research director at INSERM, specializing in pediatric cardiology. In 1959, she played a crucial role in identifying the extra chromosome responsible for Down syndrome, working with Raymond Turpin and, to a lesser extent, Jérôme Lejeune.
Biography of Marcel Jaurant-Singer (excerpt)
Marcel Jaurant-Singer (May 27, 1921 – December 28, 2022) was a French secret agent parachuted in March 1944 as a radio operator for the SOE’s MASON network in the Chalon-sur-Saône region. He trained several operators and led over 300 maquisards in guerrilla actions during the Liberation.
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.
Biography of Ulrich Rauscher (excerpt)
Ulrich Karl Paul Rauscher (June 26, 1884 – December 18, 1930) was a German journalist, writer, and diplomat. After studying law, he became a correspondent for Frankfurter Zeitung in Strasbourg and Berlin, and collaborated with Die Schaubühne.He was among the first to recognize cinema's potential as a propaganda tool.
Biography of Emilio Carballido (excerpt)
Born on May 22, 1925, in Orizaba, Veracruz, Emilio Carballido was a prominent Mexican playwright of the Generación de los 50, alongside Castellanos, Sabines, and Galindo.He studied English literature and earned a master’s degree at UNAM. His first play, Rosalba y los Llaveros, debuted in 1950 at the Palacio de Bellas Artes.
Biography of Louis Kahn (architect) (excerpt)
Louis Isadore Kahn, born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky on March 5 (O.S. February 20), 1901, in Kuressaare, Estonia, and died March 17, 1974, in New York City, was an influential Estonian-American architect based in Philadelphia. He opened his own studio in 1935 after working with several firms.
Biography of Charles de Noailles (excerpt)
Charles de Noailles (26 September 1891 – 28 April 1981), Viscount and French art patron, was a key figure of the interwar avant-garde. He married Marie-Laure Bischoffsheim in 1923 and commissioned architect Robert Mallet-Stevens to build the iconic Villa Noailles in Hyères.
Biography of María Goyri (excerpt)
María Amalia Vicenta Goyri (August 29, 1873 – November 28, 1954), also known as Maria Goiri, was a Spanish writer, scholar, and philologist from a Basque family, and part of the Generation of ’14. She stood out as a pioneering advocate for women's rights.
Biography of Arthur Froehlich (excerpt)
Arthur Froehlich (May 17, 1909 – October 3, 1985) was an American architect based in Beverly Hills. He founded his own firm in 1938 after working on the Santa Anita Racetrack, and gained fame with the design of Hollywood Park Racetrack.
Biography of Fernando Santiván (excerpt)
Fernando Santiván (pseudonym of Fernando Antonio Santibañez Puga, 1 July 1886 – 12 July 1973) was a Chilean writer and winner of the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1952. Born in Arauco to a Spanish father and a Chilean mother, he became an orphan at age 8.
Biography of Philippe Olive (actor) (excerpt)
Philippe Olive, born Philippe Jean-Pierre Olive on January 10, 1908 in Pantin, France, was a French actor who died on June 28, 1981 in Paris’s 13th arrondissement. Active in 1950s French cinema, he often played supporting roles. Notably, he portrayed the coroner in Minuit, quai de Bercy (1953) and Porthos in The Vicomte of Bragelone (1954).
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.
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.
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.
Biography of John Bromfield (excerpt)
John Bromfield, born Farron Bromfield on June 11, 1922, in South Bend, Indiana, died on September 19, 2005, in Palm Desert, California.He was an American actor turned commercial fisherman.A college boxing champion and multi-sport athlete, he began acting in the 1940s after serving in the U.S.
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.
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.
Biography of Gottfried von Bismarck-Schönhausen (excerpt)
Count Gottfried von Bismarck-Schönhausen (9 March 1901 – 14 September 1949) was a German politician and a conspirator in the 20 July 1944 plot. Born in Berlin, he was the grandson of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck.A member of the Nazi Party, he was elected to the Reichstag in 1933 and served as Kreisleiter in Rügen until 1934.
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.
Biography of Phyllis Coates (excerpt)
Phyllis Coates, born Gypsie Ann Evarts Stell on January 15, 1927 in Wichita Falls, Texas, died on October 11, 2023 in Woodland Hills, California. She was an American actress best known for portraying Lois Lane in Superman and the Mole Men (1951) and the first season of Adventures of Superman.
Biography of Norman Granz (excerpt)
Norman Granz (August 6, 1918 – November 22, 2001) was an American jazz record producer and concert promoter.He founded Clef, Norgran, Down Home, Verve, and Pablo labels, and launched the Jazz at the Philharmonic concert series. A champion of racial equality, he insisted on integrated audiences at his events.
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.
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.
Biography of Henri Alméras (excerpt)
Henri Alméras (6 June 1893 – 1965) was a French perfumer, author, and painter.Born in Brittany into a military family, he excelled in chemistry and served in World War I, where he met couturier Jean Patou. After a brief stint at Dunlop, he trained in Grasse under Antoine Chiris alongside Ernest Beaux.
Biography of Tess Slesinger (excerpt)
Theresa "Tess" Slesinger (July 16, 1905 – February 21, 1945) was an American writer and screenwriter, active in New York’s intellectual scene. Born in New York to a Jewish family of Hungarian descent, she was educated at Ethical Culture Fieldston School, Swarthmore College, and Columbia Journalism School.
Biography of Octavia Ritchie (excerpt)
Octavia Grace Ritchie England (January 16, 1868 – February 1, 1948) was a Canadian physician and suffragist.In 1891, she became the first woman to earn a medical degree in Québec. Born in Montreal, she was the daughter of lawyer Thomas Weston Ritchie.
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.
Biography of Yvonne Dornès (excerpt)
Yvonne Dornès (born April 19, 1910, in Paris – died September 10, 1994, in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French high-ranking cultural official and co-founder of the Cinémathèque française in 1936 with Henri Langlois. She also played a central role between the French Family Planning Movement and Freemasonry.
Biography of George Butterworth (excerpt)
George Butterworth, born on July 12, 1885, in London, died on August 5, 1916, in Pozières.He was a British composer known for his simple, lyrical style. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he worked with Ralph Vaughan Williams and helped collect English folk songs.
Biography of Sarolta Steinberger (excerpt)
Sarolta Steinberger, born on September 12, 1875, in Tiszaújlak, Austria-Hungary (now Vylok, Ukraine), and died on November 24, 1966, in Budapest, was the first woman to graduate in medicine in Austria-Hungary. Born into a wealthy family, she studied in Kolozsvár (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania).
Biography of Gisèle Freund (excerpt)
Gisèle Freund (born Gisela Freund; 19 December 1908 – 31 March 2000) was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist, famous for her documentary photography and portraits of writers and artists.Her best-known book, Photographie et société (1974), is a expanded edition of her seminal 1936 dissertation.
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.
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.
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 Carlos Monge Alfaro (excerpt)
Carlos Monge Alfaro (born May 22, 1909 in Cervantes – died April 8, 1979 in San José) was a Costa Rican educator, historian, writer, and political thinker. He was one of the founders of the University of Costa Rica, serving three terms as its rector from 1961 to 1970. |
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