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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 Gabriel Figueroa (excerpt)
Gabriel Figueroa Mateos (April 24, 1907 – April 27, 1997) was one of the most renowned cinematographers of Mexico’s Golden Age of cinema.He was known for his mastery of chiaroscuro, precise framing, and painterly aesthetics. Trained in painting and violin, he began as a photographer before entering film in 1933.
Biography of Nellie Campobello (excerpt)
Nellie Campobello (November 7, 1900 – July 9, 1986) was a Mexican writer known for Cartucho, a rare chronicle of the Mexican Revolution from a woman’s perspective. The book recounts her childhood in northern Mexico amid the clashes between Villistas and Carrancistas.
Biography of Gloria Campobello (excerpt)
Gloria (Soledad) Campobello Luna was born on October 21, 1911, and died on November 1, 1968.A prominent Mexican ballerina and choreographer, she was the younger half-sister of famed writer and dancer Nellie Campobello. Her birth name was likely Soledad, and she may have been born in 1911.
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Biography of Aisha Rateb (excerpt)
Born on February 22, 1928, in Cairo, Aisha Rateb was a lawyer, minister, professor of international law, and Egypt’s first female ambassador. She graduated from Cairo University in 1949, earned a PhD in 1955, and sued the state after being denied a judicial post due to her gender.
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Biography of Monk Montgomery (excerpt)
William Howard "Monk" Montgomery (born October 10, 1921 – died May 20, 1982) was an American jazz bassist and a pioneer of the electric bass. He is likely the first jazz musician recorded on electric bass, on a 1953 Art Farmer Septet session.
Biography of Frank Palumbo (excerpt)
Frank Palumbo (born May 22, 1911 – died February 12, 1983) was a Philadelphia entrepreneur, political insider, and philanthropist. He owned Palumbo’s entertainment complex, the Click Club, and Nostalgia’s Restaurant, shaping the city’s cultural and political landscape. Expanding his grandfather’s 1884 boarding house, he turned it into a popular entertainment hub that defined Philadelphia’s pop music scene in the 1940s and 1950s.
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).
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Biography of Wally Albright (excerpt)
Wally Albright (September 3, 1925 – August 7, 1999) was an American actor best known for his childhood roles in the Our Gang short films. He began acting at the age of three and briefly became one of the gang's central figures alongside Stymie.
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Biography of John McGraw (brigadier general) (excerpt)
John Robert McGraw (January 4, 1912 – June 19, 1976) was a U.S.Air Force brigadier general and flight surgeon during World War II.Born in Pennsylvania, he earned his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1934. After briefly practicing medicine, he joined the Army in 1937.
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Biography of Jane Rose (actress) (excerpt)
Jane Phin Rose (February 7, 1913 – June 29, 1979) was an American character actress, perhaps best remembered as Audrey Dexter, the gently befuddled mother-in-law of Cloris Leachman’s character (Phyllis Lindstrom) on the CBS sitcom Phyllis (1975–1977). Career Rose appeared in the original Broadway productions of The Time of the Cuckoo (1952–53), Orpheus Descending (1957), and The Gazebo (1958–59), as well as a revival of Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House (1959–60), in which she played Nurse Guinness.
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Biography of Joanna Macy (excerpt)
Joanna Macy (May 2, 1929 – July 19, 2025) was an American environmental activist, author, and scholar of Buddhism, systems theory, and deep ecology. She earned a PhD in religious studies and developed a synthesis of spiritual practice and ecological thought, most notably through her book Coming Back to Life and the practice she called The Work that Reconnects.
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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.
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Biography of Auguste Sartory (excerpt)
Auguste Théodore Sartory (born May 22, 1881 in Limoges – died December 2, 1950 in Strasbourg) was a French microbiologist and academic. He served as a professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy in Paris and later as dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy in Strasbourg.
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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.
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Biography of Carmel Myers (excerpt)
Carmel Myers (April 9, 1899 – November 9, 1980) was an American silent film star, known for her vamp roles and her breakout performance as Iras in Ben-Hur (1925).She began her career with D.W.Griffith’s Intolerance. She thrived during the 1920s with major roles and transitioned modestly into sound films, appearing in Svengali and The Mad Genius.
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Biography of Wilma De Angelis (excerpt)
Wilma De Angelis, born 8 April 1930 in Milan, is a popular Italian singer and television presenter.She rose to fame with her warm voice and accessible, charming personality. From 1978 to 1987, she hosted the long-running cooking show Telemenù on Telemontecarlo, cementing her reputation as a beloved TV chef.
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Biography of Tutte Lemkow (excerpt)
Tutte Lemkow (born Isak Samuel Lemkow, 28 August 1918 – 10 November 1991) was a Norwegian actor and dancer, frequently cast in villainous roles on British television and in film. He is best remembered for his parts as the fiddler in Fiddler on the Roof and the imam in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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Biography of Brunella Gasperini (excerpt)
Brunella Gasperini, pen name of Bianca Robecchi (Milan, 22 December 1918 – Milan, 7 January 1979), was an Italian journalist and novelist. She lived between Milan and San Mamete, on Lake Lugano. After a short teaching stint, she began writing in the 1950s for Il Corriere della Sera and various Rizzoli magazines.
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Biography of Raúl Anguiano (excerpt)
José Raúl Anguiano Valadez, born February 26, 1915, and died January 13, 2006, was a prominent Mexican painter of the 20th century. Part of the “second generation” of muralists, he carried on the legacy of Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueiros while developing his own stylistic voice.
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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 Stan Jones (songwriter) (excerpt)
Stanley Davis Jones, born on June 5, 1914, in Douglas, Arizona, and died on December 13, 1963, in Los Angeles, was an American songwriter best known for the Western classic Ghost Riders in the Sky, written in 1948 while working as a park ranger in Death Valley.
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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.
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Biography of Daniel J. Terra (excerpt)
Daniel J. Terra (June 8, 1911 – June 28, 1996) was an American chemist, businessman, and art collector of Italian descent. He earned a degree in chemical engineering in 1931 and founded Lawter Chemicals in Chicago in 1940. The global success of his ink and chemical firm enabled him to support his deep interest in art and culture, building a major art collection and supporting Chicago art institutions.
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.
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Biography of Harry Spear (excerpt)
Harry Sherman Bonner, known as Harry Spear, was born on December 16, 1921, in Los Angeles and died on September 22, 2006, in San Diego. He was a child actor and vaudevillian, best known for appearing in Our Gang films from 1927 to 1929.
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Biography of Mariano Azuela (excerpt)
Mariano Azuela (January 1, 1873 – March 1, 1952) was a Mexican physician and writer, known as the first major novelist of the Mexican Revolution.His socially committed novels influenced generations of protest writers. He began publishing in the 1890s and wrote early novels about fate and society under Porfirio Díaz.
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Biography of Brutus Molkenbuhr (excerpt)
Brutus Molkenbuhr, born March 10, 1881, in Ottensen and died September 11, 1959, in Berlin, was a German socialist and the son of SPD politician Hermann Molkenbuhr. A trained typesetter, he joined the SPD in 1899 and served as a sergeant during World War I.
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Biography of Francis Doublier (excerpt)
Francis Doublier, born April 11, 1878, in Lyon, and died April 2, 1948, in Fort Lee, New Jersey, was a French cinema pioneer and operator for the Lumière brothers. Orphaned young, he began working at the Lumière factories where he learned the secrets of early filmmaking.
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Biography of Richard Müller (socialist) (excerpt)
Richard Müller, born December 9, 1880, and died May 11, 1943, was a German socialist, lathe-operator, and union activist. A leader of the 1918 German Revolution, he helped organize mass strikes against World War I and championed the workers’ council movement.
Biography of Josefina Niggli (excerpt)
Josefina Niggli (13 July 1910 – 17 December 1983), born Josephine Niggli, was a Mexican-born Anglo-American novelist and playwright.She was the first—and for a time the only—Mexican American writing in English on Mexican themes, before the Chicano movement. Her work dealt progressively with gender, race, and cultural identity.
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Biography of Jan Foudraine (excerpt)
Jan Foudraine (25 February 1929 – 27 February 2016) was a Dutch psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and author.He gained public fame in 1971 with Wie is van hout, challenging conventional views on schizophrenia and promoting humane, empowering treatment. Following his success, he spent time with Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in India and adopted the name Swami Deva Amrito. ![]()
Biography of Robert Aickman (excerpt)
Robert Fordyce Aickman, born on 27 June 1914 and died on 26 February 1981, was an English writer and conservationist.He co-founded the Inland Waterways Association, which helped save and restore Britain’s inland canal system. As a writer, he was best known for his supernatural fiction, which he called “strange stories.” His work is noted for psychological depth, occult themes, and literary richness, often compared to M.
Biography of Arne Thomas Olsen (excerpt)
Arne Thomas Olsen (3 December 1909 – 26 June 2000) was a Norwegian actor, stage producer, and theatre director.A central figure at Studioteatret, he helped launch the group in 1945 after secretly studying Stanislavski’s work during the Nazi occupation. Originally trained in mathematics, Olsen worked in insurance for fourteen years before committing fully to theatre.
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Biography of Norman Chaney (excerpt)
Norman Chaney (October 18, 1914 – May 29, 1936) was an American actor best known for playing "Chubby" in 19 Our Gang short films from 1929 to 1931. He won a nationwide contest to replace Joe Cobb and quickly became a fan favorite in the early sound era.
Biography of José Manuel Fortuny (excerpt)
José Manuel Fortuny Arana (born March 22, 1916 – died March 18, 2005) was a key communist leader in Guatemala and a close adviser to President Jacobo Árbenz during his government from 1951 to 1954. Active in leftist politics since the 1940s, Fortuny founded the Guatemalan Communist Party and later led the Guatemalan Party of Labor (PGT) until the U.S.-backed coup of 1954.
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Biography of Eyre de Lanux (excerpt)
Eyre de Lanux, born Elizabeth Eyre on March 20, 1894 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and died September 8, 1996 in New York, was an American artist, writer, and designer. She became known in 1920s Paris for her lacquered Art Deco furniture and geometric rugs. ![]()
Biography of Preston Foster (excerpt)
Preston Foster, born August 24, 1900, and died July 14, 1970, was an American actor whose career spanned stage, film, radio, and television.He was also a vocalist and performed in nightclubs and on the radio. Born in New Jersey, he worked as a clerk before transitioning to vaudeville and Broadway.
Biography of Jay Livingston (excerpt)
Jay Livingston (born Jacob Harold Levison; March 28, 1915 – October 17, 2001) was an American composer best known for his songwriting partnership with Ray Evans, specializing in film scores and theme songs. Born in McDonald, Pennsylvania, to Jewish parents, he had an older sister and a younger brother, Alan W.
Biography of Marc Dantzer (excerpt)
Marc Dantzer was born on August 30, 1903, in Le Palais, on Belle-Île-en-Mer in the Morbihan region. He died in the same town on June 12, 1990. He was a French film actor active during the 20th century. In addition to his work in cinema, Dantzer ran the Élysée-Matignon restaurant in Paris, a popular spot for figures from the film industry.
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Biography of Luis Sánchez Polack (excerpt)
Luis Sánchez Polack, known as “Tip,” was born on July 22, 1926, in Valencia and died on February 8, 1999, in Madrid. He was a Spanish actor and comedian, best known for the comic duos Tip y Top and the more iconic Tip y Coll, with José Luis Coll.
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Biography of Albert Johan Kramer (excerpt)
Albert Johan Kramer (Amsterdam, 15 June 1897 – Amsterdam, 4 April 1976) was possibly the tallest Dutchman of all time, with a reported height of 2.42 meters. He performed worldwide as a variety artist under the stage names Lofty and Jan van Albert.
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Biography of Félix Brunet (colonel) (excerpt)
Félix Brunet, born on January 1, 1913, in Loos and died on December 5, 1959, in Colomb-Béchar, was a French Air Force colonel and a pioneer in the use of armed helicopters in combat. A decorated WWII pilot, he fought in North Africa and later led units in Indochina, where his courage and tactical ingenuity earned him wide recognition. ![]()
Biography of Jack Randall (ichthyologist) (excerpt)
John Ernest “Jack” Randall (born May 22, 1924 in Los Angeles – died April 26, 2020) was an American ichthyologist and one of the world’s foremost authorities on coral reef fishes. He described over 800 species and published 11 books and more than 900 scientific and popular articles.
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Biography of Jay R. Smith (excerpt)
Jay R.Smith (August 29, 1915 – October 5, 2002) was an American actor best known for his appearances in the Our Gang film series.He debuted in 1925’s Boys Will Be Joys, replacing Mickey Daniels. He also appeared in Hollywood Bound (1926) and left the series after Moan And Groan, Inc.
Biography of Kate Wilhelm (excerpt)
Kate Wilhelm, born June 8, 1928, in Toledo, Ohio, and died March 8, 2018, was an American author known for her work in science fiction, mystery, and suspense. Her novel Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang earned the Hugo and Locus Awards and remains one of her best-known works.
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Biography of Alfredo Placencia (excerpt)
Alfredo Placencia (September 15, 1875 – May 20, 1930) was a Mexican priest and poet, born in Jalostotitlán and deceased in Guadalajara. Also known as Alfredo R. Placencia, he blended religious fervor with poetic sensitivity in a spiritually intense body of work.
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Biography of Lem Billings (excerpt)
Kirk LeMoyne “Lem” Billings, born April 15, 1916, and died May 28, 1981, was an American businessman best known for his lifelong, close friendship with John F. Kennedy. A prep school roommate of JFK, he served as an usher at his wedding and was a key supporter of his 1960 presidential campaign.
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Biography of Alfred Newman (composer) (excerpt)
Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900 – February 17, 1970) was an American composer, conductor, and arranger, considered one of the founding fathers of film music.A child prodigy, he became a major figure in Hollywood’s Golden Age. He scored over 200 films and won 9 Academy Awards out of 45 nominations.
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Biography of Louis-François Biloul (excerpt)
Louis-François Biloul (October 15, 1874 – October 31, 1947) was a French painter known for his portraits, nudes, and genre scenes.He made his Salon debut in 1900. In 1904, he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts, studying under Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens.
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Biography of Muriel Vanderbilt (excerpt)
Muriel Vanderbilt, born November 23, 1900, in New York City and died February 3, 1972, was an American heiress and socialite, a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family. She was the daughter of William K. Vanderbilt II and Virginia Fair, raised between Long Island and the West Coast after her parents separated. |
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