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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 Josef Friedrich Perkonig (excerpt)
Josef Friedrich Perkonig (3 August 1890 – 8 February 1959) was an Austrian writer, dramatist, and film producer from Carinthia.The son of a gunsmith and engraver, he did not serve as a soldier in World War I due to health issues, but instead acted as a journalist and propagandist advocating German interests in the region.
Biography of Antonia Matos (excerpt)
Antonia Matos (November 21, 1902 – June 22, 1994) was a Guatemalan painter.She took part in the art competition at the 1932 Olympic Games with her painting La Carrera de Piraguas and is best known for her nude works. She studied painting at private academies at an early age and later joined the newly founded National Academy of Painting in 1920.
Biography of Eddie Dew (excerpt)
Eddie Dew (January 29, 1909 – April 6, 1972) was an American actor, film director, and television director. He is best remembered for starring roles in B movie westerns during the 1940s. Later in his career he became active as a director for both film and television.
Biography of Anne-Marcelle Kahn (excerpt)
Anne-Marcelle Kahn (née Schrameck, 4 June 1896 – 28 June 1965) was a French engineer and the first woman to graduate as an engineer from a French grande école.In 1917, she became the first woman admitted to the École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne, where she studied from 1917 to 1919.
Biography of Walter Feilchenfeldt (excerpt)
Walter Feilchenfeldt (born January 21, 1894, in Berlin; died December 9, 1953, in Zurich) was a German art dealer and publisher. The son of a physician, he began working in 1919 for the renowned art dealer and publisher Paul Cassirer and became a partner in the Cassirer gallery in 1924.
Biography of Lavinia Williams (excerpt)
Lavinia Williams (July 2, 1916 – July 19, 1989), sometimes known as Lavinia Williams Yarborough, was an American dancer and dance educator.She is known for founding national dance schools in several Caribbean countries. Born in Philadelphia to a family of West Indian descent, she trained in New York and began her career in dance companies.
Biography of Ellen Albertini Dow (excerpt)
Ellen Rose Albertini Dow (November 26, 1913 (Wikipedia has November 16 in error) – May 4, 2015) was an American film and television character actress and drama coach. She became known for portraying spirited elderly women, most notably the rapping grandmother in The Wedding Singer (1998).
Biography of George Gordon (animator) (excerpt)
George Gordon, born September 2, 1906 and died May 24, 1986, was an American animator and director of animated films and television productions. Beginning his career in film in the 1930s, he later transitioned to television, contributing to hundreds of cartoons over several decades.
Biography of Arthur Knight (film critic) (excerpt)
Arthur Knight, born September 3, 1916 and died July 25, 1991, was an American film critic, historian, professor, and television host.He is best known for his book The Liveliest Art (1957), a widely used academic reference on film history. After graduating from the City College of New York in 1940, he began his career as an assistant film curator at the Museum of Modern Art and later served in the U.S.
Biography of Ann Baker (singer) (excerpt)
Ann Baker (August 21, 1915 – August 29, 1999) was an American jazz singer. Discovered by Louis Armstrong, she performed with his band on Broadway and became best known as a member of Billy Eckstine’s “Dream Band,” alongside major figures such as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and Art Blakey.
Biography of Eugène Maës (excerpt)
Eugène Maës, born 15 September 1890 in Paris and deceased in deportation between March and early April 1945, was a French international footballer who played as a forward.His official death certificate, dated June 4, 1946, wrongly records the date as March 30, 1945 at the Dora-Mittelbau camp in Ellrich.
Biography of Felix Esterl (excerpt)
Felix Esterl (born June 22, 1894, in Klagenfurt, died June 13, 1931, in the same city) was an Austrian painter. He grew up in a prosperous family environment and lost his mother at the age of ten, while his father held a senior position in regional administration.
Biography of Ninalee Craig (excerpt)
Ninalee Craig (née Allen; November 6, 1927, in Indianapolis – May 1, 2018, in Toronto) was an American woman best known as the subject of a series of photographs by Ruth Orkin, most notably American Girl in Italy. In 1951, traveling through Europe under the name Jinx Allen, she met Orkin in Florence, where the photographer captured her in everyday scenes, including the iconic image of her walking down a street observed by a group of men.
Biography of Dextra Quotskuyva (excerpt)
Dextra Quotskuyva Nampeyo, born September 7, 1928 and died in February 2019, was a Native American Hopi potter and artist.She belonged to the fifth generation of a distinguished ancestral line of Hopi potters. She was the great-granddaughter of the Hopi-Tewa potter Nampeyo of Hano, who revived the traditional Sikyátki style of pottery.
Biography of Suzanne Veil (excerpt)
Suzanne Zélie Pauline Veil (28 April 1886 – 24 February 1956) was a French chemist. She studied under Marie Curie from 1912 to 1918 at the Curie laboratory on rue Cuvier and later at the Institut du Radium. She then joined the laboratory of Georges Urbain at the École supérieure de chimie, continuing her work in chemistry.
Biography of Dick Walsh (executive) (excerpt)
Richard Bishop Walsh Jr., born on October 30, 1925 and died on May 6, 2011, was an American executive in professional sports and the events industry.His career lasted more than fifty years. He held senior positions in Major League Baseball, professional soccer, and convention center management.
Biography of Sam Savitt (excerpt)
Sam Savitt (March 22, 1917 – December 25, 2000) was an American equine artist, author, teacher, and prolific illustrator.He illustrated over 130 books and wrote 16 of his own, becoming a leading figure in equine art. In 1958, he was named the official illustrator of the United States Equestrian Team, reflecting his recognized expertise.
Biography of Betty Grissom (excerpt)
Betty Lavonne Grissom (née Moore, August 8, 1927 – October 7, 2018) was the wife of American astronaut Gus Grissom, one of the Mercury Seven.She became a notable figure after her husband’s death in the first fatal accident of the U.S.
Biography of Ardel Wray (excerpt)
Ardel Wray, born Mockbee on October 28, 1907 and died October 14, 1983, was an American screenwriter and story editor. She is best known for her work on Val Lewton’s classic horror films of the 1940s. Her screenplay credits from that period include I Walked with a Zombie, The Leopard Man, and Isle of the Dead, which later became notable works in the horror genre.
Biography of Alice Rahon (excerpt)
Alice Rahon, born Alice Phillipot (June 8, 1904 – September 1987), was a French-born Mexican poet and artist who contributed to the emergence of abstract expression in Mexico. She began her career in Europe as a surrealist poet before moving to Mexico, where she turned to painting and developed a significant artistic body of work beginning in the late 1940s.
Biography of Eddie Rosner (excerpt)
Ady Rosner, born Adolph Ignatievich Rosner (May 26, 1910 – August 8, 1976), was a German, Polish, and later Soviet jazz trumpeter, sometimes called “the White Louis Armstrong.” Born into a Jewish family in Berlin, he received classical training at the Stern Conservatory before turning to jazz at an early age.
Biography of Josiane Serre (excerpt)
Josiane Serre (born Heulot, 17 December 1922 – 11 October 2004) was a French academic chemist. She was the last director of the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles and later served as acting director of the École normale supérieure on rue d’Ulm in Paris.
Biography of Sijtje Aafjes (excerpt)
Sijtje Antje Agatha Johanna Aafjes (born August 22, 1893, in Amsterdam, died April 16, 1972, in Rotterdam) was a Dutch painter, draftswoman, and illustrator, best known for her work in children’s literature. She began her professional life as a kindergarten teacher around the age of twenty.
Biography of Wilma Baker (excerpt)
Wilma Baker, born Wilma June McAlister on June 24, 1917 and died September 4, 2016, was an American animation artist who worked for Walt Disney Animation Studios. Over a long career she contributed to several well-known Disney films and later received a Golden Award from the Animation Guild for lifetime achievement.
Biography of Bud Day (excerpt)
George Everette “Bud” Day (February 24, 1925 – July 27, 2013) was a United States Air Force officer and aviator who served in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Captured during the Vietnam conflict, he became a prisoner of war and received both the Medal of Honor and the Air Force Cross.
Biography of Tommy Conlon (excerpt)
Tommy Conlon, born June 21, 1917 in Philadelphia and died January 8, 2000 in Huntington Beach, was an American actor known as a child performer in early 1930s cinema.He achieved early recognition before gradually leaving the entertainment industry. The son of a stage actor, he was introduced to acting at a young age.
Biography of Jeanie Tomaini (excerpt)
Bernice Evelyn “Jeanie” Smith Tomaini (August 23, 1916 in Jefferson, Indiana – August 10, 1999 in Gibsonton, Florida) was an American sideshow performer. Born without legs due to a congenital condition, she was exhibited from a very young age as the “Half-Girl” or “Acrobatic Half-Girl.”
Biography of Gwen Pharis Ringwood (excerpt)
Gwen Pharis Ringwood (August 13, 1910 Anatone, Washington – May 24, 1984 Williams Lake, British Columbia) was a Canadian playwright. Although born in the United States, she built her career in Canada and became an important figure in twentieth century Canadian theatre.
Biography of Ann Wyeth McCoy (excerpt)
Ann Wyeth McCoy, born on March 15, 1915, in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and died on November 10, 2005, was an American composer, pianist, and painter. She was the youngest daughter of artist-illustrator N. C. Wyeth and the fourth of his five children.
Biography of Marianne Breslauer (excerpt)
Marianne Breslauer (20 November 1909 – 7 February 2001) was a German photographer and photojournalist, regarded as a pioneer of street photography during the Weimar Republic. Trained in Berlin in the late 1920s, she was influenced by Frieda Riess, André Kertész, and briefly by Man Ray during her time in Paris.
Biography of Otto Kraigher-Mlczoch (excerpt)
Otto Kraigher-Mlczoch (*22 August 1886 in Klagenfurt, Carinthia; † 4 October 1951 in Klagenfurt) was a Moravian Carinthian artist.Born into a family with roots in Moravia and Carinthia, he spent his youth between Carinthia, Olomouc, and Brno before moving to Vienna around 1900.
Biography of Louise Mack (excerpt)
Marie Louise Hamilton Mack, born October 10, 1870 in Hobart, Tasmania, and died November 23, 1935 in Mosman, New South Wales, was an Australian poet, journalist, and novelist. She is especially known for being one of the first female war correspondents during World War I.
Biography of Jack Mercer (excerpt)
Jack Mercer, born Winfield Bennett Mercer (January 31, 1910 – December 7, 1984), was an American voice actor best known for voicing the cartoon characters Popeye the Sailor and Felix the Cat. The son of vaudeville and Broadway performers, he began working at Fleischer Studios as an apprentice animator.
Biography of Daniel P. Mannix (excerpt)
Daniel Pratt Mannix IV, born October 27, 1911 and died January 29, 1997, was an American writer, journalist, and multifaceted artist who was also a photographer, magician, animal trainer, and filmmaker.His unique career combined literature, performance, and exploration. He is best known for two major works.
Biography of Theo Marcuse (excerpt)
Theodore Carroll Marcuse (August 2, 1920 – November 29, 1967) was an American character actor who appeared frequently on television during the 1950s and 1960s. He was often cast as villains or intense supporting characters. His distinctive presence made him a recognizable figure in many television series of the era.
Biography of Heinrich Hetsch (excerpt)
Heinrich Hetsch, born July 2, 1873 in Mainz and died December 3, 1947 in Bad Homburg, was a German physician and microbiologist.He is known as the co-author, with Wilhelm Kolle, of the book Experimental Bacteriology, a major reference work in microbiology during the first half of the twentieth century.
Biography of Franc Pribosek (excerpt)
Franc Pribošek, born January 14, 1917 and died in January 1981, was a Yugoslav ski jumper.He competed in two editions of the Winter Olympic Games during his sporting career. He first participated in the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, finishing 39th in the normal hill competition.
Biography of Retta Scott (excerpt)
Retta Scott (February 23, 1916 – August 26, 1990) was an American animator and artist who became the first woman to receive screen credit as an animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios.She is recognized as a pioneering female figure during the golden age of American animation.
Biography of Gerhard Gustmann (excerpt)
Gerhard Gustmann (13 August 1910 – 30 March 1992) was a German rower, born in Bonn, who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936 he won the gold medal as member of the German boat in the coxed pair competition.
Biography of Carl Lerner (excerpt)
Carl Lerner, born June 17, 1912 in Philadelphia and died August 26, 1973 in New York City, was an American film editor, director, and educator. His career bridged New York’s postwar documentary movement and Hollywood cinema, and he is best known for his work on 12 Angry Men (1957) and for directing Black Like Me (1964).
Biography of Martha Settle Putney (excerpt)
Martha Settle Putney (November 9, 1916 – December 11, 2008) was an American historian and educator who specialized in documenting the role of African Americans in the armed forces. She was among the first Black women to serve in the Women’s Army Corps during World War II.
Biography of Joan Vatsek (excerpt)
Joan Vatsek (May 6, 1916 – November 25, 1996) was an American writer best known for her novel This Fiery Night (1959), set in Egypt during the pre-Nasser period, which became a Literary Guild Main Selection. The daughter of a diplomat, she spent much of her life abroad, particularly in Egypt, where she worked as a teacher in Alexandria and Cairo.
Biography of Ruth McKenney (excerpt)
Ruth Marguerite McKenney (November 18, 1911 – July 25, 1972) was an American author and journalist, best known for My Sister Eileen, a memoir based on her youth in Ohio and her move to Greenwich Village with her sister. First published as short stories in The New Yorker, the book achieved wide success and was adapted for stage, radio, film, and television.
Biography of Art Gilmore (excerpt)
Arthur Wells Gilmore (March 18, 1912 – September 25, 2010) was an American actor and announcer known for his distinctive voice on radio, television, and film trailers. He also narrated documentary films and children’s recordings and appeared in several television series. His voice became widely recognized in American broadcasting during the mid twentieth century.
Biography of David Goodis (excerpt)
David Loeb Goodis (March 2, 1917 – January 7, 1967) was an American crime fiction writer known for his noir novels and short stories, often focused on outsiders and troubled lives. Born in Philadelphia, he divided his time between that city, New York, and Hollywood.
Biography of Allison Brooks (excerpt)
Allison C.Brooks (June 26, 1917 – December 9, 2006) was a United States Air Force aviator.During World War II, he flew B-17 bombers and P-51 fighter aircraft in combat missions over Nazi Germany. He continued his military career during the Vietnam War, flying C-130 aircraft in combat support missions.
Biography of Norman Lloyd (composer) (excerpt)
Norman Lloyd (November 8, 1909 – July 31, 1980) was an American pianist, composer, educator, author, and supporter of the arts.He composed works for modern dance, documentary film, and classical chamber music. As an influential teacher, notably at Juilliard, he had a lasting impact on the teaching of music theory.
Biography of Odile Croissant (excerpt)
Odile Croissant (born October 6, 1923, in Honfleur, died August 3, 2020, in Paris) was a French biologist and physicist specializing in electron microscopy. Through continuous training in several countries, she rose from laboratory assistant at the Pasteur Institute to the rank of research scientist.
Biography of Carl Walther Meyer (excerpt)
Carl Walther Meyer (né le 1 February 1898 à Dresde, mort le 12 March 1985 à Waldkirch) est un acteur et monteur allemand. Fils d’un médecin urologue, il abandonne des études de médecine à Göttingen pour suivre des cours d’art dramatique auprès d’Erich Ponto et débute sur scène en 1922 au théâtre municipal de Gotha, avant de rejoindre le Staatstheater de Munich.
Biography of Dorothy Claire (excerpt)
Dorothy Claire (born Marietta Wright, June 5, 1920 in La Porte, Indiana – died September 4, 1982) was an American singer and radio personality. She began singing at the age of four, performing with her sisters in a trio that appeared at local events and on WSBT radio in South Bend. |
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