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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 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 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 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 Edmundo O'Gorman (excerpt)
Edmundo O'Gorman (born November 24, 1906, in Mexico City, died September 28, 1995, in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, historian, and philosopher. He is regarded as one of the foremost historical revisionists challenging established narratives about the Spanish colonial period in Latin America.
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 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 Adriano Gozzini (excerpt)
Adriano Gozzini, born on April 13, 1917, in Florence and deceased on September 24, 1994, in Pisa, was an Italian physicist renowned for his work in experimental physics. He graduated in 1940 from the University of Pisa, training at the Scuola Normale Superiore under Luigi Puccianti, and later established Pisa’s first microwave spectroscopy laboratory.
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 Gab Sorère (excerpt)
Gabrielle Bloch (29 November 1877 – 14 July 1961), known as Gab Sorère, was a French art promoter, filmmaker, stage designer, and choreographer of the Belle Époque. In partnership with Loïe Fuller, she pioneered the transformation of stage performance into abstract displays of moving light.
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 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 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.
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.
Biography of Rudy Larriva (excerpt)
Rudolph Larriva (February 12, 1916 – February 19, 2010) was an American animator and director active from the 1940s to the 1980s. Born in El Paso, Texas, of Mexican descent, he grew up in California and graduated from John C. Fremont High School with a major in commercial art.
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 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 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 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.
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 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 Veda Victoria Ross (excerpt)
Veda Victoria Ross, born November 8, 1927, in Roscoe, Texas, and died May 29, 2002, was an American entertainer known by the stage name Maggie. She was part of The Ross Sisters, a harmony-singing and dancing trio celebrated for their acrobatics and contortionism.
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.
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 Francisco Urcuyo (excerpt)
Francisco Urcuyo Maliaños (July 30, 1915 – September 14, 2001) was a Nicaraguan politician who served as Vice President under Anastasio Somoza Debayle from 1967 to 1972 and briefly as president in 1979. He presided over the Chamber of Deputies from 1978 to 1979 and was handpicked by Somoza to succeed him upon his resignation on July 17, 1979.
Biography of Gert Heinrich Wollheim (excerpt)
Gert Heinrich Wollheim (September 11, 1894 – April 22, 1974) was a German expressionist painter later associated with the New Objectivity.He fled Nazi Germany and settled in the United States in 1947. Born in Dresden-Loschwitz, he studied at the Weimar College of Fine Arts before serving in World War I, where he was wounded.
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.
Biography of John Kellogg (actor) (excerpt)
John Kellogg (June 3, 1916 – February 22, 2000) was an American film, stage, and television actor.Some sources, including ancestry.com, list his birth name as Giles Vernon Kellogg, Jr. He began acting in the 1930s under the name Giles V.Kellogg, notably in the comedy Brother Rat.
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 Donald S. Bryan (excerpt)
Donald Septimus Bryan (August 15, 1921 – May 15, 2012) was an American flying ace in World War II, who was credited with 13 aerial victories while serving with the 352d Fighter Group. Post war After returning to the U.S.and taking leave, Bryan served as Operations and Training Assistant Air Inspector with the 342nd Base Unit in Florida from July to September 1945.
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.
Biography of Harry Warner (excerpt)
Born on December 12, 1881, in Krasnosielc (then part of the Russian Empire), Harry Morris Warner, originally Hirsch Mojżesz Wonskolaser, was a Polish-born American film producer and co-founder of Warner Bros. Raised in a poor Jewish family that emigrated to the United States, he grew up in Baltimore among twelve siblings and worked various odd jobs before entering the fledgling motion picture business with his brothers Albert, Sam, and Jack.
Biography of Robert Jentzsch (excerpt)
Robert Georg Adolf Alfred Jentzsch (November 4, 1890 – March 21, 1918) was a German mathematician and poet. Born in Königsberg, he was the youngest of four children.His father, Alfred Jentzsch, was a prominent geologist, and his mother, Clara Falkson, was the daughter of a Jewish physician.
Biography of Doris Kenyon (excerpt)
Doris Margaret Kenyon (September 5, 1897 – September 1, 1979) was an American film and television actress. She grew up in Syracuse, New York, where her father, Dr. James B. Kenyon, was a Methodist minister. Doris studied at Packer College Institute and Columbia University, singing in church choirs.
Biography of Amedeo Girard (excerpt)
Amedeo Girard, born 12 February 1893 in Montalto Uffugo and died on 12 February 1972, was an Italian actor. Active in theatre, cinema and television, he was known as a prominent character actor in Italian performing arts. He worked with major figures such as Federico Fellini, Eduardo De Filippo and Totò, and was occasionally credited as Amedeo Girardi.
Biography of Irina Arkhipova (singer) (excerpt)
Irina Arkhipova, born Vetoshkina on January 2, 1925, in Moscow, died on February 11, 2010, was a Soviet and later Russian mezzo-soprano and contralto, renowned for her roles at the Bolshoi and abroad. Before pursuing singing, she studied architecture and graduated in 1948.
Biography of Dirk Brouwer (astronomer) (excerpt)
Dirk Brouwer, born September 1, 1902 in Rotterdam and died January 31, 1966, was a Dutch-American astronomer.He earned his PhD in 1927 from Leiden University under Willem de Sitter. He later moved to the United States and joined Yale University, where he became a leading figure in astronomy.
Biography of Gertrud Eysoldt (excerpt)
Gertrud Eysoldt (30 November 1870 – 6 January 1955) was a German stage and film actress known for her groundbreaking roles. She debuted in 1890 in Henry IV with the Meiningen Ensemble and later performed under Max Reinhardt in Berlin. A pioneer of modern theater, she excelled in works by Wedekind, Ibsen, and Maeterlinck, and starred in the 1921 German premiere of Schnitzler’s Reigen.
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 Mario Pisu (excerpt)
Mario Pisu, born 21 May 1910 in Montecchio Emilia and died 17 July 1976 in Velletri, was an Italian actor and voice actor.Known for his elegance, he began his stage and film career in 1935 with The Joker King. He often worked with theatre greats like Andreina Pagnani and Gino Cervi, and appeared in 90 films through 1976.
Biography of Alexander Robertson (chemist) (excerpt)
Alexander Robertson, born on February 12, 1896, and died on February 9, 1970, was a British chemist known for his work on natural products. He received the Davy Medal in 1952 for his research on glycosides, bitter compounds, and pigments containing heterocyclic oxygen atoms.
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 Juan Espejo Asturrizaga (excerpt)
Juan Espejo Asturrizaga (born July 8, 1895, in Lima – died October 29, 1965, in the same city) was a Peruvian poet, writer, journalist, and educator. A member of the Trujillo-based Grupo Norte, he was a close friend of César Vallejo, about whom he wrote a major biography covering the poet’s Peruvian years (1892–1923).
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 Franco Rasetti (excerpt)
Franco Dino Rasetti (August 10, 1901 – December 5, 2001) was an Italian-born (later naturalized American) physicist, paleontologist, and botanist. A collaborator of Enrico Fermi, he contributed to key discoveries about nuclear fission but refused to work on the Manhattan Project for moral reasons.
Biography of Johan Borgen (excerpt)
Johan Borgen (28 April 1902 – 16 October 1979) was a Norwegian writer, journalist, and critic, best known for his semi-autobiographical novel Lillelord, which won the Norwegian Critics Prize in 1955. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1966. Borgen began working for Dagbladet in 1923, writing satirical columns under the pseudonym “Mumle Gåsegg,” and also contributed to Morgenbladet while translating various foreign works in the 1930s.
Biography of Paula Stone (excerpt)
Paula Stone (January 20, 1912 – December 23, 1997) was an American stage and film actress, born in New York City.The daughter of actor Fred Stone and singer Allene Crater, she grew up in a family of performers alongside her sisters Dorothy and Carol.
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 Jack Donner (excerpt)
Jack Donner (born Jake Doner; October 29, 1928 – September 21, 2019) was an American actor whose career in film, theater, and television spanned more than six decades. A Los Angeles native, he began acting in the 1950s with roles in The Guiding Light and As the World Turns, and spent seven seasons in New York regional theater.
Biography of Betsy Ann Ross (excerpt)
Betsy Ann Ross, born June 26, 1926, in Colorado, Texas, was an American entertainer who performed under the stage name Aggie. She was one of the Ross Sisters, a three-part harmony trio of singers and dancers noted for their acrobatics and contortionism.
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. |
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