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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 Luis Antonio Morales (excerpt)
Luis Antonio "Wito" Morales Crespo (February 5, 1928 – June 18, 2011) was a Puerto Rican politician who served as Mayor of Ponce from 1973 to 1976.He later became Senator for the District of Ponce between 1977 and 1980, and presided over the Ponce Municipal Assembly from 1989 to 2004.
Biography of Henry Winterfeld (excerpt)
Henry Winterfeld (April 9, 1901 – January 27, 1990), published under the pseudonym Manfred Michael, was a German writer and artist famous for his children’s and young adult novels. He emigrated to the United States in 1940, where he lived until his death.
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 Nelly Bodenheim (excerpt)
Nelly Bodenheim (born 27 May 1874 – died 7 January 1951) was a Dutch illustrator best known for her black-and-white silhouettes and color lithographs. She trained at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and studied under Jan Veth, who supported her artistic growth. She illustrated over twenty children’s books with traditional songs, fairy tales, and rhymes.
Biography of Juan O'Gorman (excerpt)
Juan O'Gorman O'Gorman (born July 6, 1905, in Coyoacán and died January 17, 1982, in Mexico City) was a Mexican architect and painter. Born into a family of Irish descent, he was the brother of historian Edmundo O'Gorman.He studied architecture at the Academy of San Carlos and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
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.
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 Pita Amor (excerpt)
Guadalupe Teresa Amor Schmidtlein, known as Pita Amor, was born in Mexico City on May 30, 1918, and died there on May 8, 2000. A powerful Mexican poet, her work delves into themes like solitude, emptiness, and God, always written in the first person.
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.
Biography of Marguerite Carré (soprano) (excerpt)
Marguerite Carré (born Marguerite Giraud, also known as Marguerite Giraud-Carré; Cabourg, August 16, 1880 - Paris 9th arrondissement, November 26, 1947) was a French soprano who, throughout her career, created numerous roles at the Opéra-Comique. She was the daughter of baritone and theater director Auguste Louis Giraud and the niece of Marguerite Vaillant-Couturier.
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 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 Adriana Benetti (excerpt)
Adriana Benetti, born on 5 December 1919 in Ferrara and died on 24 February 2016, was an Italian actress. Trained at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, she was discovered by Vittorio De Sica, who gave her her first role at age 22 in Teresa Venerdì (1941), playing the title character.
Biography of José Caballero (painter) (excerpt)
José Caballero y Muñoz-Caballero (11 June 1913 – 26 May 1991) was a prominent 20th-century Spanish painter whose work evolved through surrealism, expressionism, and geometric abstraction. Closely associated with Lorca, Neruda, and Buñuel, he collaborated with the "La Barraca" theatre group before the Spanish Civil 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 Marco Antonio Campos (excerpt)
Marco Antonio Campos (9 July 1919 – 19 February 1996) was a Mexican comedian, actor, and singer best known as Viruta in the double act Viruta y Capulina with Gaspar Henaine. His best known role is as the straight man in the comic duo Viruta y Capulina along with Gaspar Henaine.
Biography of Wilibald Gurlitt (excerpt)
Wilibald Gurlitt (March 1, 1889, Dresden – December 15, 1963, Freiburg) was a German musicologist. The son of art historian Cornelius Gurlitt, he studied at Heidelberg and Leipzig, focusing on philosophy and musicology, particularly 16th- and 17th-century music. Trained in violin and organ, he also studied composition with Karl Straube, organist in Leipzig.
Biography of Peggy Ahern (excerpt)
Peggy Ahern (March 9, 1917 – October 24, 2012) was an American actress best known for appearing in eight Our Gang films between 1924 and 1927. Born in Douglas, Arizona, she moved to Culver City in 1921 and made her film debut at age six in The Call of the Wild (1923), followed by roles in several 1920s productions.
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.
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 Ewald Mataré (excerpt)
Ewald Wilhelm Hubert Mataré, born on February 25, 1887, in Burtscheid, Aachen, and passed away on March 28, 1965, in Büderich, was a German painter and sculptor, known for his stylized figures of men and animals. Mataré studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin starting in 1907.
Biography of Erv Wilson (excerpt)
Ervin Wilson (June 11, 1928 – December 8, 2016) was a Mexican-American music theorist born in the remote mountains of Chihuahua, Mexico. Taught by his mother, he began composing early but soon realized that conventional instruments could not express the sounds he imagined.
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 Janine Bazin (excerpt)
Janine Bazin (January 29, 1923 – May 31, 2003) was a French film and television producer. She was married to André Bazin, a renowned film critic and historian, and was involved in the Travail et Culture association, linked to the French Communist Party.
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.
Biography of Alan Armer (excerpt)
Alan A. Armer, born July 7, 1922 in Los Angeles and died December 5, 2010 in Century City, was an American television producer best known for his Emmy-winning work on The Fugitive. He also produced The Invaders, The Untouchables, and the first season of Cannon.
Biography of Siegfried Jacobsohn (excerpt)
Siegfried Jacobsohn (born January 28, 1881, in Berlin – December 3, 1926, in Berlin) was a German journalist and theater critic. His magazine Die Weltbühne was regarded as a pacifist forum for the left. Many prominent contributors wrote for it, including Kurt Tucholsky, Kurt Hiller, Alfons Goldschmidt, Hans Reimann, Otto Lehmann-Rußbüldt, Heinrich Ströbel, Adolf Behne, Walter Mehring, Richard Lewinsohn, Friedrich Sieburg, and Carl von Ossietzky.
Biography of Harold Arlin (excerpt)
Harold Wampler Arlin (December 8, 1895 – March 14, 1986) was an American engineer regarded as the first full-time, salaried announcer in radio broadcasting history. While working at Westinghouse Electric, he was hired part-time by KDKA, the first licensed commercial radio station in the U.S.
Biography of Wah Kau Kong (excerpt)
Wah Kau Kong (January 17, 1919 – February 22, 1944) was the first Chinese American fighter pilot. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, he studied chemistry at the University of Hawaii before joining the United States Army Air Forces after the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
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.
Biography of Hans Poelzig (excerpt)
Hans Poelzig (born April 30, 1869, in Berlin, died June 14, 1936, in Berlin) was a German architect, designer, painter, and stage designer. A member of the Deutscher Werkbund, he contributed to the Expressionist architecture movement and the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) in the 1920s.
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 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 Adrienne Monnier (excerpt)
Adrienne Monnier (April 26, 1892 – June 19, 1955) was a French bookseller, publisher, writer, and poet. In 1915 she founded “La Maison des Amis des Livres” on rue de l’Odéon in Paris, which soon became a major intellectual hub of its time, praised by André Breton.
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.
Biography of Francisco Morales Bermúdez (excerpt)
Francisco Remigio Morales Bermúdez Cerruti (4 October 1921 – 14 July 2022) was a Peruvian politician and general who was the de facto President of Peru (2nd President of the Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces) between 1975 and 1980, after deposing his predecessor, General Juan Velasco.
Biography of Norbert Casteret (excerpt)
Norbert Casteret (19 August 1897 – 20 July 1987) was a famous French caver, adventurer and writer, and is one of the most recognisable names in caving worldwide. Following Édouard-Alfred Martel (the "father of modern speleology", although Casteret sometimes also enjoys this title), Casteret, along with Robert de Joly, became a leading figure of French speleology between the world wars and into the middle of the 20th century.
Biography of Woodley Lewis (excerpt)
Woodley Carl Lewis, Jr.(June 14, 1925 – December 29, 2000) was an American football end, wide receiver and defensive back in the National Football League (NFL).He played eleven seasons for the Los Angeles Rams, the Chicago Cardinals, and the Dallas Cowboys.
Biography of Zdzislaw Krasnodebski (pilot) (excerpt)
Zdzisław Krasnodębski, known as Król, born July 10, 1904, in Wola Osowińska and died July 3, 1980, in Toronto, was a Polish pilot, founder and commander of No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron, and leader of the 1st Fighter Group. He began his military career at 16 during the Polish-Soviet War, later becoming a fighter officer in Warsaw’s 111th Squadron.
Biography of Fernand Mailly (excerpt)
Fernand Mailly, born Fernand Jean Paul Anne-dit-Mousset on February 26, 1873, in Le Havre, was a French actor and stage director. He died in Paris on August 20, 1942. He began his career in theater before transitioning to silent cinema, debuting in 1914 with La Dénonciatrice.
Biography of Eugene Borden (excerpt)
Eugene Borden, born Élysée Eugène Prieur-Bardin on March 21, 1897, in Paris, was a French-American actor active in Hollywood from 1917 to 1966.He immigrated to the United States at 17 and began acting shortly after. Appearing in over 150 films, he often played uncredited roles such as waiters and porters.
Biography of Nell O'Day (excerpt)
Nell O’Day, born September 22, 1909, in Prairie Hill, Texas, and died January 5, 1989, in Los Angeles, California, was an accomplished American actress and equestrian known for her work in 1930s and 1940s B-movies. She began as a vaudeville dancer and moved on to Broadway, with credits including Fine and Dandy (1930).
Biography of Eugène Bloch (excerpt)
Eugène 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.
Biography of Martin Luserke (excerpt)
Martin Otto Rudolf Luserke, born May 3, 1880 in Berlin and died June 1, 1968 in Meldorf, Holstein, was a German reform educator, bard, storyteller, writer, and theatre practitioner. A leading figure in German progressive education, he is seen as a forerunner of today’s experiential learning.
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 Eugenie Anderson (excerpt)
Eugenie Anderson, born May 26, 1909, in Adair, Iowa, and died March 31, 1997, was the first American woman appointed chief of mission at the ambassador level. Trained as a musician, she graduated from Carleton College and married John P.Anderson in 1929, with whom she had two children.
Biography of Andrew Pitcairn-Knowles (excerpt)
Andrew Pitcairn-Knowles (March 13, 1871 – February 27, 1956), born in Rotterdam to a Scottish father and a Polish mother, was a British publisher and photojournalist. He spent part of his youth in Wiesbaden and later travelled Europe as a photographer, contributing to the rise of illustrated magazines.
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.
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 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. |
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