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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 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 Walter Göttsch (excerpt)
Leutnant Walter Göttsch HoH, IC (10 June 1896—10 April 1918) was a German World War I flying ace credited with 20 aerial victories. Born in Altour, he joined the German army on 1 July 1915 and was initially assigned to Flieger-Abteilung 33.
Biography of Robert Hayden (poet) (excerpt)
Robert Hayden (August 4, 1913 – February 25, 1980) was an American poet, essayist, and educator.He was the first African-American to serve as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, now known as U.S.Poet Laureate. Born in Detroit to separated parents, he was raised by neighbors.
Biography of Marcella Pobbe (excerpt)
Marcella Pobbe, born on July 13, 1921, in Montegalda, and passed away on June 17, 2003, was an Italian soprano known for her roles in both the lyric and spinto repertories. She studied at the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro and the Accademia Chigiana in Siena.
Biography of Jean-Paul Neveu (excerpt)
Jean-Paul Neveu, sometimes Jean Neveu, born on February 20, 1918, in Paris 10th arrondissement, and passed away on October 28, 1949, was a French pianist. He was the brother of violinist Ginette Neveu and performed with her in numerous concerts. Both he and his sister died in a plane crash.
Biography of Julien Épaillard (excerpt)
Julien Épaillard (born 24 July 1977 in Cherbourg) is a French international show jumping rider. Epaillard has won multiple medals at the Championship level, including an individual bronze medal at the 2023 European Championships and a gold, silver and bronze medal at the 1996 and 1998 European Championships for Young Riders.
Biography of Jim Busby (excerpt)
James Franklin Busby (1927-1996) was an American Major League Baseball center fielder and coach, playing for teams including the Chicago White Sox and Washington Senators from 1950 to 1962. Born in Kenedy, Texas, he was a fast runner and a good contact hitter, achieving his best offensive seasons early in his career.
Biography of Heinrich Eduard Jacob (excerpt)
Heinrich Eduard Jacob (7 October 1889 – 25 October 1967) was a German and American journalist and author.Born to a Jewish family in Berlin and raised partly in Vienna, Jacob worked for two decades as a journalist and biographer before the rise to power of the Nazi Party.
Biography of Herbert Selpin (excerpt)
Herbert Selpin (29 May 1904 – 1 August 1942) was a German film director, editor, and screenwriter known for light entertainment during the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Berlin, he worked in various fields before joining UFA studios, where he worked on Faust by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau.
Biography of Damon Knight (excerpt)
Damon Francis Knight (September 19, 1922 – April 15, 2002) was an American science fiction writer, editor, and critic. He is best known for his 1950 short story To Serve Man, adapted for The Twilight Zone. He was married to fellow writer Kate Wilhelm.
Biography of Georges Brutelle (excerpt)
Georges Brutelle was a French resistance fighter, socialist politician, and businessman, born on November 20, 1922, in Paris and died on February 4, 2001, in Mougins. He joined the Resistance early, organizing a student resistance group in Rouen in 1940.Arrested in 1943, he was deported to Buchenwald, where he formed a clandestine socialist section.
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 Tomás Yarrington (excerpt)
Tomás Jesús Yarrington Ruvalcaba, born March 7, 1957, in Matamoros, is a former Mexican politician from the PRI who later became a convicted criminal. He served as mayor of Matamoros (1993–1995), governor of Tamaulipas (1999–2004), and sought the PRI’s presidential nomination in 2005.
Biography of Stéphane Lhomme (excerpt)
Stéphane Lhomme (born 4 November 1965 in Bordeaux) is a French activist. He is president of Tchernoblaye association, and was spokesperson of "Sortir du nucléaire" Network from 2002 to 2010. Stéphane Lhomme was arrested in May 2006 and in April 2008 by French police for allegedly leaking a confidential report saying that the European Pressurized Reactor French nuclear reactor would not resist to an airplane crash.
Biography of Joseph Reinhardt (excerpt)
Joseph Reinhardt, born on March 1, 1912, in Paris and died on February 24, 1982, in Bondy, was a French jazz guitarist known for his contributions to gypsy jazz. He was the younger brother of Django Reinhardt and played a key role in his brother’s early career, including introducing Django to the guitar after an injury.
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.
Biography of Roy Jansen (excerpt)
Roy Jansen (born 6 May 1950) is a former Norwegian ice hockey player. He was born in Oslo, Norway and represented the clubs IL Sparta and Vålerengens IF. He played for the Norwegian national ice hockey team, and participated at the Winter Olympics in Sapporo in 1972, where the Norwegian team placed 8th.
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 Don Whittington (excerpt)
Reginald Donald Whittington, born January 23, 1946, in Lubbock, Texas, is a former American racing driver. He is best known for winning the 1979 24 Hours of Le Mans with his brother Bill Whittington and Klaus Ludwig. The victory was largely due to Ludwig, a seasoned driver, who did most of the driving in heavy rain, as the Whittington brothers had only recently taken up racing in the late 1970s.
Biography of Marieluise Flesser (excerpt)
Marieluise Fleißer (November 22, 1901 – February 2, 1974) was a German writer and playwright associated with the aesthetic movement of New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit). Early Life Born in Ingolstadt, she studied literature, philosophy, and theater in Munich, where she befriended Lion Feuchtwanger and Bertolt Brecht.
Biography of Michael Longley (excerpt)
Michael Longley, CBE, born on July 27, 1939, and passed away on January 22, 2025, was a Northern Irish poet. Following his death, Irish President Michael D. Higgins called him "a peerless poet." His time of birth comes from him, in the book "Tuppenny Stung: Autobiographical Chapters" by Michael Longley (Lagan Press, 1994).
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 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 Hugo Fischer (politician) (excerpt)
Hugo Fischer (born January 17, 1902, in Munich, died July 11, 1979, in Holzkirchen) was a German politician and chief of staff of the NSDAP Reich Propaganda Directorate. Fischer joined the NSDAP in 1922 and participated in Hitler's 1923 coup, receiving the Golden Party Badge and the Blood Order.
Biography of Roland Alibert de Falconnet (excerpt)
Roland Alibert, born on February 27, 1917, in Paris, and killed in action on May 17, 1944, at Casa Chiara de Liri, was a French resistance fighter. He was killed while leading his men from the 11th Marching Battalion during the Italian campaign.
Biography of Antonio Giolitti (excerpt)
Antonio Giolitti (12 February 1915 - 8 February 2010) was an Italian politician, grandson of Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti. He joined the Communist Party in 1940, was arrested by the fascist regime and later acquitted. During the Resistance, he was seriously wounded and sent to France, returning to Italy only after the war.
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 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 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 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 Frank Horton (New York politician) (excerpt)
Frank Jefferson Horton (December 12, 1919 – August 30, 2004) was a U.S.Representative from New York.Born in Cuero, Texas, he graduated from Louisiana State University in 1941 and served in the U.S.Army during World War II. After the war, he attended Cornell Law School, obtaining his law degree in 1947.
Biography of Erminio Spalla (excerpt)
Erminio Spalla (7 July 1897 – 14 August 1971) was an Italian professional heavyweight boxer, film actor and singer. Spalla studied fine arts in Brera, when in 1910 he saw film footage of the world boxing championships and decided to become a professional boxer.
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 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 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 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 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 Jørn Erik Jensen (excerpt)
Jørn Erik Jensen (born August 14, 1954, in Oslo) is a Norwegian musician, radio program host, and broadcasting executive. After 10 years as a musician in the groups Folque, Kong Lavring, and Folk & Rackare, he began in 1986 as a program secretary in the music department of NRK Radio, with a special focus on early classical music, as well as folk music from around the world.
Biography of Jeanne Bieruma Oosting (excerpt)
Adriana Johanna Wilhelmina (Jeanne) Bieruma Oosting (5 February 1898 – 14 July 1994) was a Dutch sculptor, engraver, graphic artist, lithographer, illustrator, glass artist, painter, illustrator and book designer. She studied at the School of Arts and Applied Arts in Haarlem, the Academy of Art in The Hague and the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris.
Biography of Nicol Stephen (politician) (excerpt)
Nicol Ross Stephen, Baron Stephen (born 23 March 1960) is a Scottish politician who served as Deputy First Minister of Scotland and Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning from 2005 to 2007. A member of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, he was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Aberdeen South from 1999 to 2011, and was leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats from 2005 to 2008.
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 François Laurent (jurist) (excerpt)
François Laurent, born on 8 July 1810 in Luxembourg and passed away on 11 February 1887, was a Belgian historian and jurisconsult.He held a prominent position in the Ministry of Justice before becoming a professor of civil law at Ghent University in 1836.
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 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 Will Jennings (excerpt)
Wilbur Herschel Jennings, born on June 27, 1944, in Kilgore, Texas, and died on September 6, 2024, was an American lyricist widely regarded as one of the most accomplished of his generation.He wrote the lyrics to iconic songs such as Up Where We Belong, Higher Love, Tears in Heaven, My Heart Will Go On, and Valerie.
Biography of Véronique Ovaldé (excerpt)
Véronique Ovaldé, born April 12, 1972, in Le Perreux-sur-Marne, is a French writer of Basque-Spanish origin.Raised in Seine-Saint-Denis, she discovered her love of literature secretly and developed a passion for American authors such as Hemingway and Brautigan. After studying at École Estienne and completing correspondence courses in literature, she began working in publishing while writing.
Biography of Miri Bohadana (excerpt)
Miri Bohadana (born October 12, 1977, in Ben-Aharon) is an Israeli actress, model, TV host, and beauty pageant winner who was crowned Miss Israel 1995. Born to Moroccan-Jewish parents, she grew up in Sderot. On May 8, 2007, she gave birth to twins, Ben and Esti, and later had another child in 2011.
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 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 Marko Pohlin (excerpt)
Marko Pohlin, born Anton Pohlin (April 13, 1735 – February 4, 1801), was a Slovene philologist and author, regarded as the first exponent of the Age of Enlightenment in the Slovene Lands. Born in Ljubljana, he studied at Jesuit colleges and joined the Augustinian order. |
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