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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. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Horst Wessel (excerpt)
Horst Ludwig Wessel (October 9, 1907 – February 23, 1930) was a German Nazi activist who was made a posthumous hero of the Nazi movement following his violent death in 1930. He was the author of the lyrics to the song "Die Fahne hoch" ("Raise High the Flag"), usually known as Horst-Wessel-Lied ("the Horst Wessel Song"), which became the Nazi Party anthem and Germany's official co-national anthem from 1933 to 1945.
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Biography of Maurice Nadeau (excerpt)
Maurice Nadeau (21 May 1911 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – 16 June 2013) was a French writer and editor.He was born in Paris.One of his well-known works, translated into several languages, is the Histoire du surréalisme (The History of Surrealism), published in French in 1944 and in English 21 years later, translated by Richard Howard. ![]()
Biography of Michel Butor (excerpt)
Michel Butor (b.14 September 1926 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate n° 86), died on 24 August 2016) is a French post-World War II writer. Life and work Michel Marie Francois Butor was born in Mons-en-Baroeul.He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, graduating in 1947.
Biography of André Baugé (excerpt)
André Gaston Baugé (4 January 1893, Toulouse - 25 May 1966, Clichy-la-Garenne) was a French baritone, active in opera and operetta, who also appeared in films in the 1930s. Life and career The son of Alphonse Baugé, a vocal teacher, and Anna Tariol-Baugé a soprano active in operetta, he studied with his parents and appeared in the French provinces billed as André Grilland. ![]()
Biography of Alastair Sim (excerpt)
Alastair Sim, CBE (9 October 1900 – 19 August 1976) was a Scottish character actor who appeared in a string of classic British films.He is best remembered in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1951 film Scrooge, and for his portrayal of Miss Fritton, the headmistress in two of the much-loved St.
Biography of Masahilo Nakazono (excerpt)
Mutsuro Nakazono (b.May 22 1918 or Dec 20, 1918, died 1994) (first name also spelled "Mitsuro" or "Masahiro" or Masahilo") is a Japanese acupuncturist, an Oriental medicine practitioner and an aikido teacher with a strong judo background. Born in the Kagoshima prefecture, he relocated to France in 1961 where he remained until the early 1970s before moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S. ![]()
Biography of Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (excerpt)
Emmanuel Bernard Le Roy Ladurie (born 19 July 1929, died November 22, 2023) was a French historian whose work is mainly focused upon Languedoc in the Ancien Régime, particularly the history of the peasantry. One of the leading historians of France, Le Roy Ladurie has been called the "standard-bearer" of the third generation of the Annales school and the "rock star of the medievalists", noted for his work in social history. ![]()
Biography of Artur Axmann (excerpt)
Artur Axmann (18 February 1913 in Hagen – 24 October 1996 in Berlin) was leader of the Hitler Youth from 1940 through war's end in 1945. Biography Early life Axmann was born in Hagen on 18 February 1913. He studied law and in 1928, founded the first Hitler Youth group in Westphalia.
Biography of André Méric (excerpt)
André Méric (August 14, 1913, Toulouse, France - August 14, 1993, Calmont, France) was a French politician, member of the PS (Parti Socialiste). ![]()
Biography of Philippe Gaubert (excerpt)
Philippe Gaubert (July 5, 1879 – July 8, 1941) was a French musician who was a distinguished performer on the flute, a respected conductor, and a composer, primarily for the flute. Gaubert was born in Cahors in Southwest France.He became one of the most prominent French musicians between the two World Wars. ![]()
Biography of Grazia Deledda (excerpt)
Grazia Deledda (September 28, 1871 (2:00 AM Cagliari time) - August 15, 1936) was an Italian writer whose works won her a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926. Born in Nuoro, Sardinia, into a bourgeois family, she attended elementary school and then was educated by a private tutor (a guest of one of her relatives) and moved on to study literature on her own.
Biography of Howard L. Cornell (excerpt)
Howard L. Cornell, born July 23, 1872 in Hartsville en Pennsylvania, died February 13, 1939 in Los Angeles (heart failure), was an American author, teacher and astrologer. ![]()
Biography of Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (excerpt)
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.(November 30, 1918 – May 2, 2014) was a Golden Globe-winning American actor known for his starring roles in the television series 77 Sunset Strip and The F.B.I.He is also known as recurring character "Dandy Jim Buckley" in the series Maverick and as the voice behind the character Alfred Pennyworth in Batman: The Animated Series and associated spin-offs. ![]()
Biography of Paul Muni (excerpt)
Paul Muni (October 14, 1895 – August 25, 1967) was an American Academy Award-winning and Tony Award-winning stage and film actor. Early life and career He was born Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund to a Jewish family in Lemberg, Galicia, a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Lviv, Ukraine.
Biography of Edna Ballard (excerpt)
Edna Ballard, born June 25, 1886 in Chicago, died in 1971, was the wife of Guy Ballard, and co-founder of "The Mighty I Am" religion. The "I AM" Activity is a religious movement founded in the early 1930s by Guy Ballard (1878–1939) and his wife Edna (1886-1971) in Chicago, Illinois.
Biography of Jacques Birr (excerpt)
Jacques Birr, born October 14, 1920 in Paris, is a French painter and engineer.
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Biography of Claude Dauphin (excerpt)
Claude Dauphin (19 August 1903 – 16 November 1978), was a French actor.He appeared in over 130 films between 1930 and 1978. He was born in Corbeil-Essonnes, Paris.His father was Maurice Étienne Legrand, a poet who wrote as "Franc-Nohain" , and who was the librettist for Maurice Ravel's opera L'heure espagnole. ![]()
Biography of P. D. James (excerpt)
Rt. Hon. Phyllis Dorothy, Baroness James of Holland Park, OBE, FRSA, FRSL (3 August 1920 (birth time source: Starkman, rectified time) – 27 November 2014), known as P. D. James, was an English crime writer. She rose to fame for her series of detective novels starring policeman and poet Adam Dalgliesh. ![]()
Biography of Wiley Post (excerpt)
Wiley Hardeman Post (November 22, 1898 – August 15, 1935) was the first pilot to fly solo around the world.Also known for his work in high altitude flying, Post helped develop one of the first pressure suits.His plywood monocoque aircraft, the Winnie Mae is on display at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. ![]()
Biography of Jesse L. Lasky (excerpt)
Jesse Louis Lasky, Sr.(September 13, 1880 – January 13, 1958) was a pioneer Hollywood film producer, a key founder of Paramount Pictures with Adolph Zukor, and father of screenwriter Jesse Lasky Jr. Born in San Francisco, California, he worked at a variety of jobs but began his entertainment career as a vaudeville performer that eventually led to the motion picture business.
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Biography of Cornelius H. Charlton (excerpt)
Cornelius H.Charlton (July 24, 1929 – June 2, 1951) was a United States Army soldier and a posthumous recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Korean War. Cornelius Charlton was born in Eastgulf, West Virginia to Van and Clara (née Thompson) Charlton. ![]()
Biography of Nestor Makhno (excerpt)
Nestor Ivanovich Makhno (Ukrainian: Нестор Іванович Махно, October 26, 1888 (November 8, Gregorian calendar)–July 6, 1934) was an anarcho-communist guerrilla leader turned army commander who led an independent anarchist army in the Ukraine during the Russian Civil War. A commander of the peasant Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine, also known as the Anarchist Black Army, Makhno led a guerrilla campaign during the Russian Civil War. ![]()
Biography of Charles Forte (excerpt)
Charles Forte, born November 26, 1908 in Casalattico, was an Italian businessman. He became a Bristh Lord. ![]()
Biography of Paul Grimault (excerpt)
Paul Grimault was one of the most important French animators.He made many traditionally animated films that were delicate in style, satirical, and lyrical in nature. His most important work is La Bergčre et le Ramoneur (The Shepherdess and the Chimneysweep).He began it in 1948 and it was highly anticipated, but Grimault’s partner André Sarrut showed the film unfinished in 1952, against Grimault’s wishes.
Biography of John Berryman (excerpt)
John Allyn Berryman (originally John Allyn Smith) (October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet, born in McAlester, Oklahoma.He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and often considered one of the founders of the Confessional school of poetry.
Biography of James Jones (excerpt)
James Ramon Jones (November 6, 1921 – May 9, 1977) was an American author known for his explorations of World War II and its aftermath. Life Jones was born and raised in Robinson, Illinois, the son of Ramon and Ada M.(nee Blessing) Jones. ![]()
Biography of Jacques Thibaud (excerpt)
Jacques Thibaud (September 27, 1880 - September 1, 1953) was a French violinist. Thibaud was born in Bordeaux and studied the violin first with his father before entering the Paris Conservatoire at the age of thirteen.In 1896 he jointly won the conservatoire's violin prize with Pierre Monteux (who later became a famous conductor). ![]()
Biography of June Haver (excerpt)
June Haver (June 10, 1926 – July 4, 2005), was an American film actress, who was born in Rock Island, Illinois as Beverly Jane Stovenour."June" was her nickname and her surname became "Haver" when her mother divorced and remarried. Career Haver began singing on stage at the age of six. ![]()
Biography of Nigel Hawthorne (excerpt)
Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne CBE (5 April 1929 – 26 December 2001) was an English actor, perhaps best remembered for his role as Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Permanent Secretary in the sitcom Yes Minister and the Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister.
Biography of Albert Decaris (excerpt)
Albert Decaris, born May 6, 1901 in Sotteville-lčs-Rouen, died January 1, 1988 in Paris, is a french engraver. ![]()
Biography of Adrian (costume designer) (excerpt)
Adrian Adolph Greenberg (March 3, 1903 — September 13, 1959), most widely known as Adrian, was an American costume designer whose most famous costumes were for The Wizard of Oz and other Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films of the 1930s and 1940s.During his career, he designed costumes for over 250 films and his screen credits usually read as "Gowns by Adrian". ![]()
Biography of Mary McCarthy (excerpt)
Mary Therese McCarthy (June 21, 1912 – October 25, 1989) was an American author, critic, journalist and political activist. Early life Born in Seattle, Washington, to Roy Winfield McCarthy and his wife, the former Therese Preston, McCarthy was orphaned at the age of six when both her parents died in the great flu epidemic of 1918.
Biography of Thomas Huckle Weller (excerpt)
Thomas Huckle Weller (June 15, 1915 – August 23, 2008) was an American virologist. He, John Franklin Enders and Frederick Chapman Robbins were awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 for showing how to cultivate poliomyelitis viruses in a test tube, using tissue from a monkey. ![]()
Biography of Albert Londres (excerpt)
Albert Londres (ovember 1, 1884 - May 16, 1932) was a French journalist and writer. One of the inventors of investigative journalism, he criticized abuses of colonialism such as forced labour. Albert Londres gave his name to a journalism prize for French journalists.
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Biography of Manuel Fraga Iribarne (excerpt)
Manuel Fraga Iribarne (born November 23, 1922) is a Spanish politician from the northwest region of Galicia.Fraga's career as one of the key political figures in Spain straddles both General Franco's dictatorial regime and the subsequent democracy.He was the President of Galicia from 1990 to 2005 and is currently a Senator.
Biography of Paolo Abbate (excerpt)
Paolo Abbate, born April 12, 1884 in Villarosa, Sicily (at 1:00 am, time of Palermo), died in 1973, was an internationally renowned sculptor, museum curator of the Torrington Museum of Art, and also a teacher and author.
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Biography of Marc Cassot (excerpt)
Marc Cassot, born June 16, 1923 in Paris (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate)), died on January 21, 2016 in Paris, is a French actor and comedian. He is the voice of American actor Paul Newman and "Albus Dumbledore" (Harry Potter series) in France.
Biography of George Abell (excerpt)
George Ogden Abell (March 1, 1927 – October 7, 1983) was an astronomer at UCLA.He worked as a research astronomer, teacher, administrator, popularizer of science and education, and skeptic.Abell received his B.S.(1951), M.S.(1952) and Ph.D.(1957) from the California Institute of Technology. ![]()
Biography of Alain Touraine (excerpt)
Alain Touraine (3 August 1925 – 9 June 2023) was a French sociologist. He was research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he founded the Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux. Touraine was an important figure in the founding of French sociology of work after World War II and later became an internationally-renowned sociologist of social movements, particularly the May 68 student movement in France and the Solidarity trade-union movement in communist Poland. ![]()
Biography of Karl Barth (excerpt)
Karl Barth (May 10, 1886 – December 10, 1968) (pronounced "bart") a Swiss Reformed theologian, was one of the most important Christian thinkers of the 20th century; Pope Pius XII described him as the most important theologian since Thomas Aquinas. Beginning with his experience as a pastor, he rejected his training in the predominant liberal theology typical of 19th-century Protestantism especially German.
Biography of Maria Parego (excerpt)
Maria Parego, born December 8, 1923 in Venise, was an Italian puppeteer. ![]()
Biography of Indro Montanelli (excerpt)
Indro Montanelli (April 22, 1909 - July 22, 2001) was an Italian journalist and historian, known for his new approach to writing history in books such as History of the Greeks and History of Rome. Career Montanelli was born at Fucecchio, near Florence. ![]()
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Namibia officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean; it shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. ![]()
Biography of Christian X of Denmark (excerpt)
Christian X (Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm; 26 September 1870 – 20 April 1947) was King of Denmark from 1912 to 1947, and the only King of Iceland (as Kristján X) between 1918 and 1944.He was a member of the House of Glücksburg, a branch of the House of Oldenburg, and the first monarch since King Frederick VII born into the Danish royal family; both his father and his grandfather were born as princes of a ducal family from Schleswig.
Biography of Ann Landers (excerpt)
Ann Landers (Esther Pauline Friedman) was a pen name created by Chicago Sun-Times advice columnist Ruth Crowley in 1943 and taken over by Eppie Lederer in 1955.For 56 years, the Ask Ann Landers syndicated advice column was a regular feature in many newspapers across North America.
Biography of Florence Aadland (excerpt)
Florence Aadland, born September 20, 1914, is an American news figure.She is the mother of Beverly Aadland who has had a love affair with actor Errol Flynn.She tried to make money with this and sold love letters of her daugther.
Biography of Joseph Fontanet (excerpt)
Joseph Fontanet (February 9, 1921 - February 2, 1980) was a French politician. He was first elected to Parliament in 1956 as MP for Savoie.In his 17 years in Parliament he held various cabinet positions including Health, Labour and Employment, and trade and industry. ![]()
Biography of Emil Jannings (excerpt)
Emil Jannings (July 23, 1884 in Rorschach – January 3, 1950) was a Swiss-born German actor and the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor. Early life He was christened Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz in Rorschach, Switzerland, the son of a German mother and an American father.
Biography of Frédéric Moriss (excerpt)
Frédéric Moriss, born Frédéric Edouard Maurice Boyer on May 3, 1874 in Nîmes, Gard, is a French actor. Filmography (extract) 1953 Lettre ouverte Le vieux monsieur 1950 Souvenirs perdus (uncredited) 1950 Quai de Grenelle Petit rôle (uncredited) 1948 Clochemerle (uncredited) 1947 Le charcutier de Machonville
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Biography of Germaine Acremant (excerpt)
Germaine Acremant, born June 13, 1889 in Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais) (birth time source: Didier Geslain), died in 1986 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French novelist. Novels (extract) Ces dames aux chapeaux verts (Prix Nelly Lieutier, 1921) La hutte d'acajou La Sarrasine Gai ! Marions-nous ! (Prix National de Littérature, 1927) |
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