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birth charts with Vertex in CancerYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with the Vertex in Cancer. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. in ![]()
Biography of Bill Butland (excerpt)
Wilburn Rue Butland (March 22, 1918 – September 19, 1997) was an American professional baseball pitcher who appeared in 32 games in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox over four seasons between 1940 and 1947.Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, Butland batted right-handed and threw left-handed.
Biography of Sandie Lindsay (excerpt)
Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker, born on May 14, 1879, in Glasgow, died on March 18, 1952, was a distinguished Scottish academic and peer. Starting his career as a fellow in moral philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, Lindsay also worked at the University of Manchester before joining Balliol College, Oxford, where he became master.
Biography of José de Palafox (excerpt)
José Rebolledo de Palafox y Melzi, 1st Duke of Zaragoza (October 28, 1775 - February 15, 1847), was a notable Spanish general during the Peninsular War. Born into an old Aragonese family, he became involved in military actions after attempting to assist King Ferdinand VII’s escape in 1808.
Biography of Jean Astier de Villatte (excerpt)
Jean Astier de Villatte (Soturac, November 25, 1900 – 13th arrondissement of Paris, October 6, 1985) was a French engineer and military officer, Companion of the Liberation. A civil company administrator, he was mobilized in 1939 and chose to join General de Gaulle's Free French forces.
Biography of David Friedrich Strauss (excerpt)
David Friedrich Strauss (27 January 1808 – 8 February 1874) was a German liberal Protestant theologian and writer, who influenced Christian Europe with his portrayal of the "historical Jesus", whose divine nature he explored via myth. Strauss conceived of myths as expressions of Truths, as opposed to the modern shorthand of myth for "falsity"- Strauss did not deny Jesus' divine nature.
Biography of Pedro Gailhard (excerpt)
Pierre Samson Gailhard, known as Pedro Gailhard, was born in Toulouse on August 1, 1848, and died in Paris (9th arrondissement) on October 12, 1918.He was a French opera singer and theatre director. Gifted with an exceptional singing bass voice, Pedro Gailhard made his debut at the Opéra-Comique and later performed at the Paris Opera, debuting in the role of Méphisto in Faust by Charles Gounod in 1871.
Biography of Charlie Cooke (excerpt)
Charles Cooke (born 14 October 1942) is a Scottish former footballer.He played as a winger for Aberdeen, Dundee, Chelsea and Crystal Palace, before ending his career in the United States. International career He was a Scotland international, winning 16 caps.He made his debut in a 4–1 win over Wales in 1965 and played his final match in 1975 against Portugal.
Biography of Dulce Figueiredo (excerpt)
Dulce Maria Guimarães de Castro Figueiredo (May 11, 1923 – June 6, 2011) was the wife of Brazilian president João Figueiredo and served as First Lady of Brazil from 1979 to 1985. After her husband’s death in 1999, she faced financial hardship and held an auction in March 2001 to sell official gifts he had received, drawing media criticism.
Biography of Joe Brooks (actor) (excerpt)
John Joseph Brooks Jr. (December 14, 1923 – December 5, 2007) was an American character actor, best known for portraying Trooper Vanderbilt, the near-sighted soldier, in F Troop. He was born and died in Los Angeles, and began his acting career after graduating from high school; he had his first speaking part in the 1944 John Wayne film, The Fighting Seabees.
Biography of Henri Bosc (excerpt)
Henri Bosc, born Henri Marie Joseph Danviolet in Perpignan on August 18, 1884, was a French theater and film actor.He was married to actress Cécile Guyon, with whom he had a daughter, actress Denise Bosc. His in-laws were deeply rooted in the theater world, with his father-in-law Alexandre Guyon fils and grandfather-in-law Alexandre Guyon père, both being actors.
Biography of Duane Acker (excerpt)
Duane Calvin Acker (March 13, 1931 – December 13, 2024) was an American academic who served as the president of Kansas State University from 1975 to 1986. Acker attended Iowa State University and Oklahoma State University and held B.S., M.S., and Ph.D.
Biography of Fritz Pregl (excerpt)
Fritz Pregl (Slovene: Friderik Pregl; 3 September 1869 – 13 December 1930), was a Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician from a mixed Slovene-German-speaking background. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1923 for making important contributions to quantitative organic microanalysis, one of which was the improvement of the combustion train technique for elemental analysis.
Biography of Joe Funk (excerpt)
Joseph Funk (March 19, 1914 – February 2, 1981) was an American artist, printmaker, and educator, known for his quiet but key role in reviving fine art lithography in the United States. Trained at Otis and Chouinard, he worked on WPA murals in the 1940s and served in Korea, where he developed a lasting interest in Asian art.
Biography of Albert Kappis (excerpt)
Albert Kappis, born August 20, 1836, in Wildberg and died September 18, 1914, in Stuttgart, was a German painter and draftsman best known for landscapes and rural genre scenes. Originally trained as a lithographer, he later studied at the academies in Stuttgart and Munich under teachers like Karl von Piloty.
Biography of Leopold Auenbrugger (excerpt)
Josef Leopold Auenbrugger (19 November 1722 – 17 May 1809), also known as Leopold von Auenbrugger, was an Austrian physician who invented percussion as a diagnostic technique, making him one of the founders of modern medicine. His time of birth comes from Franz Clar's book, "Leopold Auenbrugger, der Erfinder der Percussion des Brustkorbes" (Leuschner & Lubensky, 1867).
Biography of Don Bourret (excerpt)
Don Bourret, born on May 11, 1940, in Sioux City, Iowa, is an American musician best known as the drummer for the rock and roll band The Velaires. Formed in 1958 as The Screamers, the group later became The Flairs and finally The Velaires after playing at the Val Air Ballroom.
Biography of Andrea Nahles (excerpt)
Andrea Maria Nahles (born 20 June 1970) is a former German politician who has been the director of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) since 2022.Her time of birth comes from her. Nahles is best known for having served as leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from April 2018 until June 2019 and the leader of the SPD in the Bundestag from September 2017 until June 2019.
Biography of Friedrich Weinreb (excerpt)
Friedrich Weinreb (18 November 1910 – 19 October 1988) was a Dutch economist and author.His time of birth comes from him. Weinreb grew up in Scheveningen, Netherlands, where his family settled in 1916.During World War II, he became infamous for selling a fictitious escape route for Jews.
Biography of Giuseppe Prezzolini (excerpt)
Giuseppe Prezzolini (27 January 1882 – 14 July 1982) was an Italian literary critic, journalist, editor and writer.He later became an American citizen. Prezzolini was born in Perugia in January 1882, to Tuscan parents from Siena, Luigi and Emilia Pianigiani.In 1903 he founded together with Giovanni Papini the literary journal Leonardo.
Biography of Gusta Noske (excerpt)
Gustav Noske (9 July 1868 – 30 November 1946) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He served as the first Minister of Defence (Reichswehrminister) of the Weimar Republic between 1919 and 1920. Noske was known for using army and paramilitary forces to suppress the socialist/communist uprisings of 1919.
Biography of Katharine Lyall (excerpt)
Katharine Culbert Lyall (born April 26, 1941 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) was the fifth president of the University of Wisconsin System, serving in that capacity from 1992 to 2004. The first woman ever to be appointed president of that university system, she had previously served as executive vice president of the system, and director of the Graduate Program in Public Policy at Johns Hopkins University.
Biography of Alfons Maria Jakob (excerpt)
Alfons Maria Jakob (2 July 1884 – 17 October 1931) was a German neurologist specializing in neuropathology. Born in Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, he earned his medical doctorate in 1908 after studying in Munich, Berlin, and Strasbourg. He worked with Franz Nissl and Alois Alzheimer in Munich.
Biography of Felipe Trigo (excerpt)
Felipe Trigo (13 February 1864 in Villanueva de la Serena, Badajoz – 2 September 1916 in Madrid) was a 20th-century Spanish writer. He studied Medicine in Madrid and practised in several villages in Extremadura. He later become a member of Military Health Corps and he was appointed to Philippines, where he was about to die and he had to be repatriated as a Lieutenant-Colonel.
Biography of Albertus Antonie Nijland (excerpt)
Albertus (Albert) Antonie Nijland (born October 30, 1868 – died August 18, 1936) was a Dutch astronomer. He was a professor of astronomy at Utrecht University and served as director of the Sterrewacht Sonnenborgh observatory. Nijland was born in Utrecht and took part in a Dutch solar eclipse expedition to Karang Sago, Sumatra, in 1901.
Biography of Ken Roberts (baseball) (excerpt)
Kenneth Elwin Roberts, born on March 9, 1988, is a former American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Colorado Rockies and Philadelphia Phillies. After playing college baseball at Middle Tennessee State University, he was selected by the Rockies in the 25th round of the 2010 MLB Draft.
Biography of Paolo Volponi (excerpt)
Paolo Volponi (February 6, 1924 – August 23, 1994) was an Italian writer, poet, and politician.Born in Urbino, he joined the Italian partisans in 1943. He graduated in law from Urbino University in 1947 and was deeply influenced by Adriano Olivetti, for whom he worked during the 1950s.
Biography of Louis Longequeue (excerpt)
Louis Longequeue (born November 30, 1914, in Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, died August 11, 1990, in Limoges) was a French politician affiliated with the Socialist Party, best known for serving as the mayor of Limoges from 1956 to 1990. Born into a family of teachers, he studied pharmacy and joined the Resistance during World War II, notably in the Haute-Vienne Medical Resistance Committee.
Biography of Theodor Kallifatides (excerpt)
Theodor Kallifatides (born March 12, 1938) is a Greek-born Swedish writer. Born in Molaoi, Laconia, Greece, he emigrated to Sweden in 1964 and writes primarily in Swedish. His time of birth comes from him, in the book "Mothers and Sons: A Memoir", by Theodor Kallifatides (Other Press, 2024).
Biography of Julius Richard Petri (excerpt)
Julius Richard Petri (born 31 May 1852 in Barmen, Germany – died 20 December 1921) was a German microbiologist, best known for inventing the Petri dish. He studied medicine at the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy for Military Physicians and earned his doctorate from Charité Hospital in Berlin in 1876.
Biography of William Sharp (writer) (excerpt)
William Sharp, born on September 12, 1855, in Paisley and died on December 12, 1905, in Syracuse, was a Scottish writer best known for publishing under the secret pseudonym Fiona MacLeod. This alter ego allowed him to explore mystical and Celtic themes.
Biography of Lisa Cholodenko (excerpt)
Lisa Cholodenko (born 5 June 1964 in Van Nuys, California) is an American screenwriter and director.She wrote and directed the films High Art (1998), Laurel Canyon (2002), and The Kids Are All Right (2010). She has also directed television, including the acclaimed miniseries Olive Kitteridge (2014) and Unbelievable (2019).
Biography of Keith Holyoake (excerpt)
Sir Keith Jacka Holyoake (born February 11, 1904 – died December 8, 1983) was a New Zealand politician.He served as the 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand, briefly in 1957 and then from 1960 to 1972, and as the 13th Governor-General from 1977 to 1980.
Biography of Gustavo Wabner (excerpt)
Gustavo Wabner (born August 23, 1975, in Porto Alegre) is a Brazilian actor. He has appeared in numerous advertising campaigns and played roles in several successful telenovelas. He is best known for portraying music teacher René in the SBT telenovela Carrossel. On a personal note, Gustavo Wabner is openly gay and has been married since 1997 to theater director Sergio Módena.
Biography of Rudolf Levy (excerpt)
Rudolf Levy (July 15, 1875 – January 1944) was a German Expressionist painter of Jewish descent. Born into an Orthodox Jewish family, he grew up in Danzig.Despite his parents’ objections, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe in 1895, later moving to Munich.
Biography of Dick Grove (musician) (excerpt)
Richard Dean Grove (December 18, 1927 – December 26, 1998) was an American musician, composer, arranger, and educator. He is best remembered as the founder of the Dick Grove School of Music in Los Angeles, whose students included Michael Jackson, Linda Ronstadt, and Barry Manilow.
Biography of Peder Lunde Sr. (excerpt)
Peder Eugen Lunde (25 May 1918 – 26 December 2009) was a Norwegian sailor and Olympic medalist. He was born in Nordstrand and represented the Royal Norwegian Yacht Club. He received a silver medal in the 5.5 metre class with the boat Encore at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, together with his wife Vibeke Lunde ("Babben") and Børre Falkum-Hansen.
Biography of Robert Oboussier (excerpt)
Robert Oboussier (July 9, 1900 – June 9, 1957) was a Swiss composer and music critic. He began his musical studies in Heidelberg and Mannheim, then continued at the Zurich Conservatory under Volkmar Andreae and Carl Vogler. He later studied composition in Berlin with Philipp Jarnach and conducting with Siegfried Ochs and Rudolf Krasselt.
Biography of Käthe Latzke (excerpt)
Käthe Latzke (8 May 1899 - 31 March 1945) was a German political activist (KPD) who resisted Nazism and spent most of her final twelve years in state detention.Her health having been broken, she died in Ravensbrück concentration camp. Käthe Latzke came from a working-class family and started her political activism by joining socialist youth organizations in 1918.
Biography of Chris Lebeau (excerpt)
Joris Johannes Christiaan Lebeau, known as Chris Lebeau (May 26, 1878 - April 30, 1945), was a Dutch artist, art teacher, theosophist, and anarchist. Born into a poor working-class family, he supported his father in selling an anarchist magazine and led a sober, vegetarian lifestyle.
Biography of Sanger D. Shafer (excerpt)
Sanger D."Whitey" Shafer was born on October 24, 1934, in Whitney, Texas, and died on January 12, 2019.He was a renowned country songwriter and musician. He wrote hits for artists like George Jones, Lefty Frizzell, and George Strait, and also recorded under his own name.
Biography of Lella Costa (excerpt)
Lella Costa, born Gabriella Costa on September 30, 1952, in Milan, is an Italian actress, playwright, humorist, and voice artist, best known for her theatrical monologues. She studied literature and trained at the Accademia dei Filodrammatici, debuting on stage in 1980.
Biography of Betty Curtis (excerpt)
Roberta Corti, better known as Betty Curtis, was born on March 22, 1936, and died on June 15, 2006. An Italian singer active from 1957 to 2004, she began performing in Milan nightclubs before being discovered in 1958 by Teddy Reno.
Biography of Don Elston (excerpt)
Donald Ray Elston, born April 6, 1929, and died January 2, 1995, was an American relief pitcher who played 450 games in Major League Baseball, nearly all with the Chicago Cubs (1953, 1957–1964). He began his career in the Cubs' minor league system in 1948.
Biography of Alfred Poell (painter) (excerpt)
Alfred Poell, born on March 26, 1867, in Oberndorf bei Salzburg and died on September 8, 1929, in Gmunden, was an Austrian painter. Son of the medical inspector François Poell, he initially studied medicine at the University of Innsbruck before shifting to art.
Biography of Ellen Hambro (excerpt)
Ellen Christine Hambro (born 20 July 1964) is a Norwegian civil servant. Graduating in law from the University of Oslo in 1991, Hambro began her career at the Ministry of the Environment, becoming head of the waste management department in 1997.She was instrumental in increasing Norway's recycling rate from nearly zero to about 70%.
Biography of Shaun Proulx (excerpt)
Shaun Proulx, born on August 1, 1968, in Toronto, Ontario, is a Canadian media entrepreneur, performer, humorist, and radio and television personality.His time of birth comes from him on X. He is the openly gay host of The Shaun Proulx Show on OUTtv.
Biography of Tommy Bond (actor) (excerpt)
Thomas "Tommy" Bond (September 16, 1926 – September 24, 2005) was an American actor best known for his dual roles in Our Gang as both Tommy and the bully Butch. Discovered at age 4, he appeared in 27 shorts of the series and became the first actor to portray Jimmy Olsen in the Superman serials of 1948 and 1950.
Biography of Gianni Amelio (excerpt)
Gianni Amelio, born 20 January 1944 in San Pietro di Magisano, Calabria, is one of Italy’s most acclaimed film directors. Raised by his mother and grandmother after his father emigrated to Argentina, themes of absence and family run through his work.
Biography of Franciska Clausen (excerpt)
Franciska Clausen (7 January 1899 – 5 March 1986) was a Danish painter who was involved in the abstract art movement of the early twentieth century. Clausen studied at the Die Grossherzogliche sächsische Hochschule für bildende Kunst in Weimar, Germany (1916–17), at the Women's Academy in Munich (1918–19), at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, in Copenhagen, Denmark (1920–21), and under Hans Hofmann at the Hofmann Schule Fur Moderne Kunst in Munich (1921–22).
Biography of James Rosati (excerpt)
James Rosati (9 June 1911 in Washington, Pennsylvania – 24 February 1988 in New York City) was an American abstract sculptor. He is best known for creating an outdoor sculpture in New York: a stainless steel Ideogram that was located in the World Trade Center Plaza. |
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