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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 Mel Weitsman (excerpt)
Hakuryu Sojun Mel Weitsman (July 9, 1929 – January 7, 2021) was an American Sōtō Zen roshi, founder, abbot, and guiding teacher of Berkeley Zen Center in California. Practicing in the lineage of Shunryū Suzuki, he received Dharma transmission in 1984 from Suzuki’s son, Hoitsu.
Biography of Bill Hickman (excerpt)
William "Bill" Hickman (January 25, 1921 – February 24, 1986) was an American stunt driver, actor, and coordinator famed for his work in Bullitt, The French Connection, and The Seven-Ups. A close friend of James Dean, he was trailing Dean on the day of his fatal crash and was the first to reach him, holding him in his final moments — a memory that haunted him for life.
Biography of Lida Barrett (excerpt)
Lida Baker Kittrell Barrett, born May 21, 1927, in Houston, Texas, and died January 28, 2021, in Knoxville, Tennessee, was an American mathematician and academic administrator. A specialist in mathematics education and an advocate for underrepresented groups, she served as president of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) from 1989 to 1990, becoming the second woman to hold the position.
Biography of Wander de Haas (excerpt)
Wander Johannes de Haas (March 2, 1878 – April 26, 1960) was a Dutch physicist and mathematician. He is best known for his groundbreaking contributions to physics, including the Shubnikov–de Haas effect, the de Haas–van Alphen effect, and the Einstein–de Haas effect.
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 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 Bertha Knight Landes (excerpt)
Bertha Ethel Knight Landes (October 19, 1868 – November 29, 1943) was the first woman to serve as mayor of a major American city, leading Seattle, Washington, from 1926 to 1928.A graduate in history and political science from Indiana University, she moved to Seattle in 1895 after marrying geologist Henry Landes.
Biography of Olive Borden (excerpt)
Olive Mary Borden (July 14, 1907 – October 1, 1947) was an American film and stage actress who rose to fame during the silent film era.Nicknamed “The Joy Girl” after her 1927 hit of the same name, she was celebrated for her striking beauty and jet-black hair.
Biography of Francisco Palma Burgos (excerpt)
Francisco Palma Burgos, a Spanish sculptor, religious image-maker, and painter, was born on February 12, 1918, in Málaga and died on December 31, 1985, in Úbeda. Trained by his father Francisco Palma García, he studied at the Málaga School of Fine Arts.
Biography of Régina Badet (excerpt)
Anne Régina Badet was born on October 9, 1876, in Bordeaux and died on October 26, 1949, in Bordeaux.She was a French comedic actress and dancer, renowned for her performances at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. She began as a principal dancer at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux in 1890 before joining the Opéra-Comique in 1904.
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 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 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 Serge Nigg (excerpt)
Serge Nigg (6 June 1924 – 12 November 2008) was a French composer born and died in Paris.He gained early recognition at age 19 with Timour, premiered in 1944 by the French National Radio Orchestra. In 1946, he became one of the first French composers to embrace twelve-tone music, later blending it with the refined harmonic tradition of French musical aesthetics.
Biography of Kåre Siem (excerpt)
Kåre Siem, born on June 8, 1914, in Kristiania and died on June 23, 1986, in Oslo, was a Norwegian musician and writer.He was married to Evy Christophersen and later to dancer Alice Mürer from 1960. He studied piano with Nils Larsen, Erling Westher, and Ivar Johnsen, and made his concert debut as a pianist in 1938.
Biography of Suzanne Devé (excerpt)
Suzanne Devé, born on December 14, 1901, and died on April 12, 1994, was a French tennis player active during the 1920s.After marriage, she was also known as Suzanne Desloges. In 1928, she reached the women's doubles final at the French Championships with Sylvie Jung Lafaurie, losing to Eileen Bennett and Phoebe Holcroft.
Biography of Robert Boudrioz (excerpt)
Robert Boudrioz, born on February 12, 1887, in Versailles and who died on June 22, 1949, in Paris, was a French film director, screenwriter, journalist, storyteller, and songwriter. His full name was Robert Pierre Frédéric Boudriot. In 1918, he married Camille Vayssières in Bergerac.
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 Paul Chack (excerpt)
Louis Paul André Chack, born in Paris on February 12, 1876, and executed at Fort de Montrouge in Arcueil on January 9, 1945, was a French naval officer, writer, and collaborator. A brilliant sailor, he was repeatedly decorated for heroism and courage before and during World War I.
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 José Santos Chocano (excerpt)
José Santos Chocano (born May 14, 1875 in Lima – died December 13, 1934 in Santiago, Chile) was a Peruvian poet known for his bold, lyrical celebration of Latin America’s natural and cultural identity. His time of birth comes from several biographies and from himself.
Biography of Ataúlfo Argenta (excerpt)
Ataúlfo Argenta, born November 21, 1913, in Castro Urdiales, and died January 21, 1958, in Los Molinos, was a Spanish conductor and pianist.Wikipedia has November 19 in error. He studied at the Madrid Royal Conservatory and quickly rose to prominence. In 1946, he began conducting the Spanish National Orchestra, becoming its co-director in 1947.
Biography of Dorothy Whipple (excerpt)
Dorothy Whipple (née Stirrup), born February 26, 1893 in Blackburn and died September 14, 1966, was an English writer of popular fiction and children's books. Her work was widely read between the world wars and saw a revival in the 2000s.
Biography of Mary DeWitt Pettit (excerpt)
Mary DeWitt Pettit (January 1, 1908 – May 5, 1996) was an American physician, researcher, and professor who taught at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. Born in Philadelphia into a distinguished family, she descended from Connecticut governor John Treadwell and chemistry professor John Pitkin Norton.
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 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 Hawley Pratt (excerpt)
Hawley Pratt (June 9, 1911 – March 4, 1999) was an American director, animator, illustrator, and designer, best known for his work at Warner Bros.Cartoons and for co-creating the Pink Panther. A graduate of the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, he began his career at Disney in 1933, working on Fantasia.
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 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 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 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 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 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 Ruth Cohn (excerpt)
Ruth Charlotte Cohn (born August 27, 1912, in Berlin – died January 30, 2010, in Düsseldorf) was a German psychotherapist, educator, and poet. She is best known as the creator of Theme-Centered Interaction (TCI), a group learning and communication method. She also founded the Workshop Institute for Living Learning (WILL), now known as the Ruth Cohn Institute for TCI.
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 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 Pop Chalee (excerpt)
Pop Chalee, born Merina Lujan on April 17, 1906 (an error on Wikipedia), and deceased on December 11, 1993, was an American painter, muralist, performer, and singer of Taos Pueblo heritage. Her distinctive style, blending Native traditions with dreamlike imagery, made her a leading figure in 20th-century Native American art.
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.
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 Friedrich Karl Georg Rumpf (excerpt)
Friedrich Karl Georg Rumpf, known as Fritz Rumpf (* January 5, 1888, in Berlin Charlottenburg; † May 13, 1949, in Potsdam), was a German draftsman, folklorist, and Japanologist. The son of painter Fritz Rumpf the Elder, he learned Japanese at the age of 15 and studied at the Königliche Kunstschule Berlin.
Biography of Larry Bunker (excerpt)
Lawrence Benjamin Bunker (November 4, 1928 – March 8, 2005) was an American jazz drummer, vibraphonist, and percussionist.A member of the Bill Evans Trio in the 1960s, he also played timpani with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Born in Long Beach, California, Bunker was a key figure on the West Coast jazz scene.
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 José Corbiniano Lins (excerpt)
José Corbiniano Lins, born on March 2, 1924, in Olinda (Pernambuco), Brazil, and died on March 10, 2018, in Recife, was a sculptor, engraver, and painter.He was a leading figure in the modern art movement of northeastern Brazil. He began his artistic career as a painter in 1949 and joined the Atelier Coletivo in 1952.
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 Pitigrilli (excerpt)
Pitigrilli, the pen name of Dino Segre (9 May 1893 – 8 May 1975), was an Italian writer and journalist, best known for Cocaina (1921), a provocative novel banned by the Catholic Church for its themes of drug use and sexuality.
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 Margie Stewart (excerpt)
Margie Stewart, born on December 14, 1919, in Wabash, Indiana, and died on April 26, 2012, in Burbank, California, was the official U.S. Army poster girl during World War II. Her twelve posters, totaling 94 million copies, became icons of morale and wartime patriotism.
Biography of Irwin Shapiro (writer) (excerpt)
Irwin Shapiro (May 19, 1911 – November 7, 1981) was an American writer and translator who authored over 40 books, mainly children's titles and works on Americana. Born in Pittsburgh, he initially translated Hungarian texts in the late 1930s and studied at New York’s Art Students League, taking a class under Thomas Hart Benton.
Biography of Clyde Snow (excerpt)
Clyde Snow, born January 7, 1928 in Fort Worth, Texas, was an American forensic anthropologist. He became widely known for his skeletal identifications in major cases, including victims of John Wayne Gacy, the Oklahoma City bombing, as well as examinations of King Tutankhamun and Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.
Biography of Arline Judge (excerpt)
Margaret Arline Judge (February 21, 1912 - February 7, 1974) was an American actress and singer, mainly active in low-budget films of the 1930s and 1940s. Known for portraying bold women in pre-code productions such as The Age of Consent and Sensation Hunters, she also appeared in supporting roles in major studio films. |
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