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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 René Cassin (excerpt)
René Samuel Cassin (5 October 1887, Bayonne – 20 February 1976, Paris) was a French jurist, law professor and judge.A French soldier in World War I, he later went on to form the Union Fédérale, a leftist, pacifist Veterans organisation.He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968 for his work in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948.
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The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end.The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.It was signed on 28 June 1919 in the Palace of Versailles, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which had directly led to the war.
Biography of Michèle Arnaud (excerpt)
Michèle Arnaud (born Micheline Caré on March 18, 1919 in Toulon (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on March 30, 1998 in Maisons-Laffitte in the département of Yvelines), was a French singer, producer, and director.She was entombed on September 18, 1998 in Montparnasse Cemetery.
Biography of Roger Désormière (excerpt)
Roger Désormière (September 13, 1898 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) - October 25, 1963) was a French conductor. He is well known for having directed the earliest complete recording of Claude Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande. made in Paris during the Nazi occupation.
Biography of Pierre Angénieux (excerpt)
Pierre Angénieux (Saint-Héand, 14 July 1907 in Saint-Héand (birth time source: Yoan Cocquebert, Saint-Héand archives on-line) - 26 June 1998) was a French engineer and optician, one of the inventors of the modern zoom lenses, and famous for introducing the Angénieux retrofocus.
Biography of Richard Wilhelm (excerpt)
Richard Wilhelm (May 10, 1873, Stuttgart, Germany - March 2, 1930, Tübingen, Germany) was a German translator.He translated many philosophical works from Chinese into German that in turn have been translated into other major languages of the world, including English.His translation of the I Ching is still regarded as one of the finest, as is his translation of The Secret of the Golden Flower, both of which include introductions by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, who was a personal friend.
Biography of André Maurois (excerpt)
André Maurois, born Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog, (July 26, 1885 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – October 9, 1967) was a French author and man of letters. "André Maurois" was a pen name that became his legal name in 1947.
Biography of José Cabanis (excerpt)
osé Cabanis (2 March 1922, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne - 6 October 2000) was a French novelist, essayist, historian and magistrate. He was elected mainteneur of the Académie des Jeux floraux in 1965 and a member of the Académie française in 1990. Works (extract)
Biography of René Thom (excerpt)
René Frédéric Thom (September 2, 1923 – October 25, 2002) was a French mathematician.He made his reputation as a topologist, moving on to aspects of what would be called singularity theory; he became world-famous among the wider academic community and the educated general public for one aspect of this latter interest, his work as founder of catastrophe theory (later developed by Erik Christopher Zeeman).
Biography of Marie Bell (excerpt)
Marie-Jeanne Bellon, best known as Marie Bell, born December 23, 1900 in Bordeaux, died August 15, 1985, was a French actress. Filmography (extracts) 1924 : Paris 1928 : La Valse de l'adieu 1928 : Madame Récamier 1929 : Figaro 1930 : L'Homme qui assassina : Lady Falkland
Biography of Léonce Perret (excerpt)
Léonce Perret (March 14, 1880 – August 14, 1935) was a prolific and innovative French film actor, director and producer. He also worked as a stage actor and director. Often described as avant-garde for his unorthodox directing methods, Léonce Perret introduced innovative camera, lighting and film scoring techniques to French cinema.
Biography of Mary Astor (excerpt)
Mary Astor (May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987) was an Academy Award-winning American actress. Most famous for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941) opposite Humphrey Bogart, Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s.
Biography of François Renaud (excerpt)
François Renaud, born in Hao Giang, Tonkin, Viet-Nâm, March 3, 1923 (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died in Lyon July 3, 1975, was a French judge.Hs was assassinated in the street at 2:45 AM July 3, 1975 in Lyon.The police never found the three killers.
Biography of Guy Tréjan (excerpt)
Guy Treichler, best known as Guy Tréjan or Guy Tréjean, born September 18, 1921 in Paris, died January 25, 2001 in Paris, was a French actor. Theater (extracts) 1953, Cocktail Party de T.S. Eliott 1957, Monsieur Masure de Claude Magnier 1957, La Fleur à la bouche de Luigi Pirandello
Biography of Mário Cesariny (excerpt)
Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos also known as Mário Cesariny (August 9, 1923, Lisbon, Portugal - November 26, 2006, Lisbon, Portugal) is among the most important Portuguese surrealist poets, having published several major works during a career spanning 50 years. Cesariny was also a painter, but his work became more centered on poetry in the 1950s.
Biography of Henri Vernes (excerpt)
Charles-Henri-Jean Dewisme (born 16 October 1918 (birth time source: probably an email (not archived) for him or from one of his relatives), better known by his pen name Henri Vernes, is an author of action and science-fiction novels, of which has he published over 200 titles.
Biography of George Marshall (excerpt)
General of the Army George Catlett Marshall (December 31, 1880 – October 16, 1959) was an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense.Once noted as the "organizer of victory" by Winston Churchill for his leadership of the Allied victory in World War II, Marshall served as the U.S.
Biography of Léon Schwartzenberg (excerpt)
Léon Schwartzenberg, born December 2, 1923 in Paris, died October 14, 2003 in Villejuif, was a French cancerologist and politician. Works (extracts) Changer la mort, A.Michel, 1977 (ISBN 2226005277) Requiem pour la vie, Pré aux clercs, 1985 (ISBN 2714417779) La Société humaine, P.
Biography of Luc Bérimont (excerpt)
André Leclercq, best known as Luc Bérimont, born September 16, 1915 in Magnac-sur-Touvre, Charente (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died in 1983, was a French author and poet. Works (extracts) Poetry Domaine de la nuit (ronéotypé aux Armées et préfacé par le sergent Maurice Fombeure, 1940).
Biography of Panaït Istrati (excerpt)
Panait Istrati (Romanian pronunciation: ; sometimes rendered as Panaït Istrati; August 10, 1884 – April 18, 1935) was a Romanian writer of French and Romanian expression, nicknamed The Maxim Gorky of the Balkans. Istrati was first noted for the depiction of one homosexual character in his work.
Biography of Gilbert Cesbron (excerpt)
Gilbert Cesbron (1913–1979) was a French novelist. Born in France, Cesbron attended what is now known as Lycée Condorcet. In 1944, he published his first novel, Les innocents de Paris ("The Innocent of Paris"), in Switzerland. He first came into wide public acclaim with the release of Notre prison est un royaume ("Our Prison is a Kingdom") in 1948, and Il est minuit, docteur Schweitzer ("It is midnight, Doctor Schweitzer") in 1950.
Biography of Manolete (excerpt)
Manuel Laureano Rodríguez Sánchez (July 4, 1917 in Córdoba, Spain (birth time source: Starkman, Bordoni) - August 28, 1947 in Linares, Spain), better known as Manolete, was a famous Spanish bullfighter. He rose to prominence shortly after the Spanish Civil War and is considered by some to be the greatest bullfighter of all time.
Biography of Roger Peyrefitte (excerpt)
Roger Peyrefitte (August 17, 1907 – November 5, 2000) was a French diplomat and writer.Born in Castres to a wealthy family, Peyrefitte went to Jesuit and Lazarist boarding schools and then studied language and literature in Toulouse.After graduating first of his year from Ecole des Sciences Politiques in 1930, he worked as an embassy secretary in Athens between 1933 and 1938.
Biography of Juan Ramon Jimenez (excerpt)
Juan Ramón Jiménez (Moguer, Spain, 24 December 1881 – Santurce, Puerto Rico, 29 May 1958) was a Spanish poet. One of his most important contributions to modern poetry was the idea of poesía pura (Spanish for "pure poetry"). A prolific author, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956.
Biography of Betty Friedan (excerpt)
Betty Friedan (February 4, 1921 – February 4, 2006) was an American feminist, activist and writer, best known for starting what is commonly known as the "Second Wave" of feminism through the writing of her book The Feminine Mystique. Early life and education
Biography of Emilien Amaury (excerpt)
Émilien Amaury, born March 5, 1909 in Etampes (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died January 2, 1977, was a French print media businessman, the founder of Le Parisien Libéré and Carrefour.
Biography of Henri Bosco (excerpt)
Henri Bosco (November 16, 1888 - May 4, 1976) was a French writer. He was born in Avignon. He died in Nice. He was buried at the cemetery of Lourmarin. Bibliography (extracts) Pierre Lampédouze, 1924 Le Sanglier, 1932 Le Trestoulas et L'Habitant de Sivergues, 1935
Biography of Pearl Buck (excerpt)
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, most familiarly known as Pearl S. Buck (birth name Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker; Chinese: 赛珍珠; pinyin: Sài Zhēnzhū) (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973), was a prolific American writer who won a Nobel Prize in Literature and a Pulitzer Prize.
Biography of Annabel Buffet (excerpt)
Annabel Buffet, born May 10, 1928 in Paris (birth tmie source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate)), was a French writer and the wife of French painter Bernard Buffet. Bibliography (extracts) Comme tout le monde (1959) L'Amour quotidien (1960) Les Bonnes manières (1961) La Corrida du veau d'or (1963)
Biography of John Delorean (excerpt)
John Zachary DeLorean (January 6, 1925 – March 19, 2005) was an American engineer and executive in the U.S.automobile industry, and founder of the DeLorean Motor Company.He was most well known for developing the Pontiac GTO muscle car, the DeLorean DMC-12 sports car, which was later featured in the movie Back to the Future, and his high profile 1982 arrest on charges of drug trafficking, in an apparent attempt to raise funds for his struggling company, which declared bankruptcy that same year.
Biography of Louison Bobet (excerpt)
Louis ("Louison") Bobet (March 12, 1925 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 10) – March 13, 1983) was a French professional road cyclist.He was one of just eight riders to win the Tour de France at least three times, and also the first to win the race three times in succession, a feat he accomplished from 1953 to 1955.
Biography of Eric Stanton (excerpt)
Eric Stanton (September 29, 1926–March 17, 1999; born Ernest Stanzoni) was an American bondage and fetish illustrator, cartoonist, and comic-book artist. Although the majority of his work depicted female dominance scenarios, he also produced work showing the inverse. Stanton also incorporated bisexual, homosexual, and transgender imagery into some of his later work.
Biography of Chuck Yeager (excerpt)
Charles Elwood Yeager (February 24, 1923 – December 7, 2020) was a United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot. In 1947, he became the first pilot in history confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight.
Biography of Chico Marx (excerpt)
Leonard Marx, known as Chico, (March 22, 1887 – October 11, 1961) was an American actor and musician, a member of the Marx Brothers. He was originally nicknamed Chicko due to his reputation as a ladies man, or a "chicken chaser" in the popular slang of the day.
Biography of Léon-Joseph Suenens (excerpt)
Leo Jozef Cardinal Suenens (July 16, 1904—May 6, 1996) was a Belgian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussel from 1961 to 1979, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1962. Suenens was a leading liberal voice at the Second Vatican Council, and an advocate of reform in the Church.
Biography of Léa Papin (excerpt)
Christine Papin (8 March 1905 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 18 May 1937) and Léa Papin (15 September 1911 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 24 July 2001) were two French maids who murdered their employer's wife and daughter in Le Mans, France, on 2 February 1933.
Biography of Antal Doráti (excerpt)
Antal Doráti (April 9, 1906 – November 13, 1988) was a Hungarian-born conductor and composer. Doráti was born Antal Deutsch in Budapest, where his father was a violinist with the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra.He studied at the Franz Liszt Academy with Zoltán Kodály and Leo Weiner for composition and Béla Bartók for piano.
Biography of Claretta Petacci (excerpt)
Clara Petacci (Claretta Petacci) (28 February 1912 – 28 April 1945) was an upper class Roman who became Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's mistress.Her father had been the personal physician to the Pope.She was twenty-nine years younger than Mussolini. Petacci was with Mussolini to the end.
Biography of Xavier de la Fournière (excerpt)
Xavier de la Fournière, born January 9, 1927 in Paris died in 1993, was a French politician.
Biography of Burgess Meredith (excerpt)
Oliver Burgess Meredith (November 16, 1907 (source: Imdb) – September 9, 1997) was a versatile two-time Academy Award-nominated American actor.He was known for portraying Rocky Balboa's trainer Mickey Goldmill in the Rocky films and The Penguin in the television series Batman.
Biography of Michio Kushi (excerpt)
Michio Kushi (久司 道夫 Kushi Michio) born 1926 in Japan, helped to introduce modern macrobiotics to the United States in the early 1950’s . He has lectured about philosophy, spiritual development, health, food and diseases at conferences and seminars all over the world.
Biography of Georges Rivière (excerpt)
Georges Rivière, born July 1, 1924 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, is a French actor. He is also known as : George Reviya | Georges Rivier | Jorge Rivier | Georges Riviere | George Riviere | Jorge Rivière. Filmography (extract) 1948 : Le Diable boiteux : Le marquis de la Tour
Biography of Hans Geisler (excerpt)
Hans Geilser, born October 12, 1910, is a German journalist, author, occulist and astrologer.
Biography of Jean-Pierre Rampal (excerpt)
Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal (7 January 1922 – 20 May 2000) was a celebrated French flautist and "has been credited with returning to the flute the popularity as a solo classical instrument it had not held since the 18th century." Born in Marseille, the son of Andrée (née Roggero) and flautist Joseph Rampal, Jean-Pierre Rampal became the first exponent of modern times to establish the solo flute on the international concert circuit and to attract the acclaim and large audiences comparable to those enjoyed by celebrity singers, pianists and violinists.
Biography of Thelma Todd (excerpt)
Thelma Todd (July 29, 1906 – December 16, 1935) was a popular American actress of the late 1920s and early 1930s film.Appearing in over 40 pictures between 1926 and 1935, she is best remembered for her comedic roles in films like Marx Brothers' Monkey Business and Horse Feathers, and co-starring with Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante in Speak Easily.
Biography of Huey P. Long (excerpt)
Huey Pierce Long, Jr.(August 30, 1893 – September 10, 1935), nicknamed The Kingfish, was an American politician from the U.S.state of Louisiana.A Democrat, he was noted for his radical populist policies.He served as Governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a U.S.
Biography of Roy Rogers (excerpt)
Leonard Franklin Slye (November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998), who became famous as Roy Rogers, was a singer and cowboy actor. He and his third wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger, and his German Shepherd Dog, Bullet, were featured in over one hundred movies and The Roy Rogers Show.
Biography of André Martinet (excerpt)
André Martinet (Saint-Alban-des-Villards, 12 April 1908 - Châtenay-Malabry, 16 July 1999) was a French linguist, influential by his work on structural linguistics.His wife, Jeanne Martinet, is a recognized semiotician. Martinet agregated in English and received his doctorate after submitting, as is traditional in France, two theses: La Gémination consonantique d'origine expressive dans les langues germaniques and La Phonologie du mot en danois.
Biography of Alexander Sutherland Neill (excerpt)
Alexander Sutherland Neill (October 17, 1883 - September 23, 1973) was a Scottish progressive educator, author and founder of Summerhill school, which remains open and continues to follow his educational philosophy to this day. He is best known as an advocate of personal freedom for children.
Biography of Amédée Ozenfant (excerpt)
Amédée Ozenfant (15 April 1886 - 4 May 1966) was a French cubist painter. He was born into a bourgeois family in Saint-Quentin, Aisne and was educated at Dominican colleges in Saint-Sébastien. After completing his education he returned to Saint-Quentin and began painting in watercolour and pastels. |
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