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birth charts with Zeus in CancerYou will find on these pages astrological charts of thousands of celebrities with Zeus in Cancer. Just click on the celebrities of your choice to get their interactive natal chart, planetary dominants and excerpts of astrological portrait. ![]() ![]() ![]()
Biography of Frieda Belinfante (excerpt)
Frieda Belinfante (May 10, 1904 in Amsterdam – April 26, 1995 in Santa Fe, New Mexico) was a Dutch cellist, conductor, a prominent lesbian and a member of the Dutch resistance during World War II.After the war, Belinfante immigrated to the United States and continued her career in music.
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Biography of Dore Hoyer (excerpt)
Dore Hoyer (12 December 1911 – 31 December 1967) was a German expressionist dancer and choreographer.She is credited as "one of the most important solo dancers of the Ausdruckstanz tradition." Inspired by Mary Wigman, she developed her own solo programmes and toured widely before and after the Second World War.
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Biography of Nikolay Bogolyubov (actor) (excerpt)
Nikolay Ivanovich Bogolyubov (October 22, 1899 – March 9, 1980) was a Soviet actor born in Ivanovskoye, Russia and a People's Artist of the RSFSR (1945). In 1933 he played in Boris Barnet's Okraina; in 1941, he was awarded the Stalin Prize.
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Biography of Yakov Frenkel (excerpt)
Yakov Il'ich Frenkel (Russian: Яков Ильич Френкель) (10 February 1894 – 23 January 1952) was a Soviet physicist renowned for his works in the field of condensed matter physics.He is also known as Jacov Frenkel, and he frequently put down his name as J.
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Biography of Karol Swierczewski (excerpt)
Karol Wacław Świerczewski (10 February 1897 – 28 March 1947) was Pole serving as the Red Army general.He was a Bolshevik party member and Soviet officer in the wars fought abroad by the Soviet Union including the one against Polish as well as Ukrainian Republics and in Republican Spain.
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Biography of Lev Sverdlin (excerpt)
Lev Naumovich Sverdlin (Russian: Лев Наумович Свердлин; 16 November 1901 - 29 August 1969) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He appeared in more than forty films from 1936 to 1969. Selected filmography Year Title Role Notes 1936 By the Bluest of Seas Yussef 1939 Minin and Pozharsky 1943 Wait for Me Nasreddin in Bukhara
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Biography of Thea Rasche (excerpt)
Theodora Rasche (12 August 1899 – 25 February 1971) was Germany's first female aerobatics pilot. In 1927, her father bought her a BFW Flamingo, registration number D-1120, and in July, she set off for the United States, the first of five trips.
Biography of Marina Semyonova (excerpt)
Marina Timofeyevna Semyonova (Russian: Марина Тимофеевна Семёнова, 12 June (O.S.30 May) 1908 – 9 June 2010) was the first Soviet-trained prima ballerina.She was born in Saint-Petersburg.She was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1975. The Soviet choreographer Maya Plisetskaya wrote of her that "what she demonstrated in her time was unusual, brand new, breathtaking.
Biography of Grete Hermann (excerpt)
Grete (Henry-)Hermann (March 2, 1901 – April 15, 1984) was a German mathematician and philosopher noted for her work in mathematics, physics, philosophy and education. She is noted for her early philosophical work on the foundations of quantum mechanics, and is now known most of all for an early, but long-ignored critique of a no-hidden-variable theorem by John von Neumann.
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Biography of Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson (excerpt)
Stanley Bréhaut Egerton Ryerson (March 12, 1911 – 25 Apr 1998) was a Canadian historian, educator, political activist.His parents were Edward Stanley Ryerson and Tessie De Vigne, a well-off middle-class family in Toronto. Ryerson could trace his paternal lineage back to Egerton Ryerson, a leading Methodist in nineteenth century Toronto.
Biography of Leslie Kish (excerpt)
Leslie Kish (born László Kiss, July 27, 1910 – October 7, 2000) was a Hungarian-American statistician and survey methodologist. In 1997, the American Statistical Association gave Kish their Wilks Memorial Award.The award citation read: "For being a truly outstanding statistician, who has had a profound influence on sample survey practice throughout the world.
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Biography of Andrée De Jongh (excerpt)
Andrée Eugénie Adrienne De Jongh (30 November 1916 – 13 October 2007), called Dédée and Postman, was a member of the Belgian Resistance during the Second World War.She organised and led the Comet Line (Le Réseau Comčte) to assist Allied soldiers and airmen to escape from Nazi-occupied Belgium. ![]()
Biography of María Conesa (excerpt)
María Conesa, also known as La Gatita Blanca (The White Kitten) (December 12, 1892 – September 9, 1978), was a Spanish-born Mexican stage, television, film actress and vedette. She was one of the principal stars of the Revue and Vaudeville in México and Latin America in the early 20th century.
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Biography of Aleksandr Gerasimov (painter) (excerpt)
Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Gerasimov (12 August 1881 (gregorian calendar) – 23 July 1963) was a leading proponent of Socialist Realism in the visual arts, and painted Joseph Stalin and other Soviet leaders. Gerasimov was born on 12 August 1881 in Kozlov (now Michurinsk) in Tambov Governorate.
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Biography of Max Volmer (excerpt)
Max Volmer (3 May 1885 – 3 June 1965) was a German physical chemist, who made important contributions in electrochemistry, in particular on electrode kinetics. He co-developed the Butler–Volmer equation. Volmer held the chair and directorship of the Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry Institute of the Technische Hochschule Berlin, in Berlin-Charlottenburg.
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Biography of Richard Proenneke (excerpt)
Richard Louis Proenneke (May 4, 1916 – April 20, 2003) was an American self-educated naturalist, conservationist, writer, and wildlife photographer who, from the age of about 51, lived alone for nearly thirty years (1969–1999) in the mountains of Alaska in a log cabin that he constructed by hand near the shore of Twin Lakes.
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Biography of Maxim Vallentin (excerpt)
Maxim Gerhard Vallentin (born October 9, 1904 in Berlin; † September 2, 1987 there) was a German actor, theater director, SED-ZK member and long-time director of the Berlin Maxim Gorki Theater.
Biography of Yvon Belaval (excerpt)
Yvon Belaval, born in Sčte on February 24, 1908 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died on November 19, 1988, is a French philosopher and philologist, specialist in Leibniz and the eighteenth century.Playing an important institutional role, he was at the origin of the renewal of the collective studies on the unpublished leibniziens.
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Biography of Marie-Louise Charpentier (excerpt)
Marie-Louise Charpentier, also known as Lily Charpentier (26 November 1905 - 24 June 1998), was a nurse, social worker, and active member of the French Resistance in Brittany during World War II. Her most well known accomplishment was hiding a Jewish woman and her two grandchildren from German forces and arranging their safe passage to relatives in the south of France.
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Biography of Martial Valin (excerpt)
Martial Henri Valin (14 May 1898 in Limoges – 19 September 1980 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French Air Force general.He initially served as a cavalryman in the First World War.After nine years cavalry service in the chasseurs d'Afrique, dragoons, spahis, and hussars, he eventually volunteered for the French Army's aviation branch, the aéronautique militaire, in 1926.
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Biography of Eduard Toldrŕ (excerpt)
Eduard Toldrŕ Soler (Vilanova i la Geltrú 7 April 1895 – Barcelona, 31 May 1962) was a Spanish Catalan conductor and composer. Toldrŕ played an important role in the Culture of Barcelona. In 1944 he founded the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra at the Palau de la Música Catalana, where his deputy in 1957 was his friend Ricardo Lamote de Grignon.
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Biography of Hubert Faure (excerpt)
Hubert Faure (28 May 1914 – 17 April 2021) was a French soldier during World War II. He was a member of the Kieffer commandos.
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Biography of Theo van Doesburg (excerpt)
Theo van Doesburg (30 August 1883 – 7 March 1931) was a Dutch artist, who practiced painting, writing, poetry and architecture. He is best known as the founder and leader of De Stijl. He was married to artist, pianist and choreographer Nelly van Doesburg. ![]()
Biography of Olga Bergholz (excerpt)
Olga Fyodorovna Bergholz (May 16 (O.S.May 3) 1910 – November 13, 1975) was a Soviet poet, writer, playwright and journalist.She is most famous for her work on the Leningrad radio during the city's blockade, when she became the symbol of city's strength and determination.
Biography of Angčle Laval (excerpt)
The Raven affair is a French criminal case which has as its starting point a news item that occurred in Tulle.From 1917 to 1922, the inhabitants of the city were victims of a wave of anonymous letters signed "Tiger's Eye" and denouncing the actions of each other.
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Biography of Suzanne Hiltermann-Souloumiac (excerpt)
Suzanne Hiltermann-Souloumiac, née Hiltermann, alias Touty, (17 January 1919 – 2 October 2001) was a member of the Dutch-Paris network during the French Resistance.Captured by the Nazi she was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp. After the liberation Suzanne Hiltermann moved to China in the 1960s.
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Biography of Ricardo Lamote de Grignon (excerpt)
Ricard Lamote de Grignon i Ribas (25 September 1899 – 5 February 1962), was a Catalan Spanish composer and orchestral conductor. Ricard Lamote de Grignon was born and died in Barcelona.He was the only son of the composer Joan Lamote de Grignon and Florentina Ribas. ![]()
Biography of Witold Gombrowicz (excerpt)
Witold Marian Gombrowicz (August 4, 1904 – July 24, 1969) was a Polish writer and playwright.His works are characterised by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and absurd, anti-nationalist flavor.In 1937 he published his first novel, Ferdydurke, which presented many of his usual themes: problems of immaturity and youth, creation of identity in interactions with others, and an ironic, critical examination of class roles in Polish society and culture. ![]()
Biography of Suzanne Borel (excerpt)
Marie Nancy Suzanne "Suzy" Bidault (née Borel; 18 October 1904 (birth time source: FDAF, birth certificate n° 1983) – 8 November 1995) was the first French woman to become a diplomat when she was employed as an attaché at the Quai d'Orsay on 1 July 1930 after passing the entrance examination to the French Foreign Ministry.
Biography of Shelby Foote (excerpt)
Shelby Dade Foote Jr. (November 17, 1916 – June 27, 2005) was an American writer, historian and journalist. Although he primarily viewed himself as a novelist, he is now best known for his authorship of The Civil War: A Narrative, a three-volume history of the American Civil War. ![]()
Biography of Krystyna Skarbek (excerpt)
Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek, OBE, GM (1 May 1908 – 15 June 1952), also known as Christine Granville, was a Polish agent of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War.She became celebrated for her daring exploits in intelligence and irregular-warfare missions in Nazi-occupied Poland and France.
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Biography of Abidin Dino (excerpt)
Abidin Dino (23 March 1913 – 7 December 1993) was a Turkish artist and a well-known painter. Within a short time, the home of Guzin and Abidin Dino in Paris became the haunt of many famous artists and writers. The couple first moved into the studio on the top floor of Max Ernst's apartment on the quay of Saint-Michel, and later to a small flat in L'Eure. ![]()
Biography of Lee Ya-Ching (excerpt)
Li Xiaqing pronounced Lee Ya Ching, also known by her stage name Li Dandan (李旦旦), was a Chinese film actress, pioneering aviator, and philanthropist. She was the first Chinese woman to be granted a civil aviation license in China, in 1936, and also co-founded its first civilian flying school.
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Biography of Lina Radke (excerpt)
Karoline "Lina" Radke-Batschauer (18 October 1903 – 14 February 1983) was a German track and field athlete.She was the first Olympic champion in the 800 m for women. Together with her husband, Lina Radke was one of the pioneers of female athletics in the mid-1920s.
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Biography of Leigh Brackett (excerpt)
Leigh Douglass Brackett (December 7, 1915 – March 18, 1978) was an American writer, particularly of science fiction, and has been referred to as the Queen of Space Opera.She was also a screenwriter, known for her work on such films as The Big Sleep (1946), Rio Bravo (1959) and The Long Goodbye (1973). ![]()
Biography of Diana Mosley (excerpt)
Diana, Lady Mosley (née Mitford; 17 June 1910 – 11 August 2003) was a British aristocrat, fascist, writer and editor.She was one of the Mitford sisters and eventually, the wife of Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists.The source for her time of birth comes from the biography "Diana Mosley: Mitford Beauty, British Fascist, Hitler's Angel" by Anne de Courcy (London: Chatto & Windus, 2003) p.
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Biography of Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler (excerpt)
Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler (28 April 1918 – 20 September 2001) was an East German communist propagandist and host of the television show Der schwarze Kanal (German: The Black Channel) from 21 March 1960 to 30 October 1989. As host of Der Schwarze Kanal, which ran for 20 minutes every Monday night, Schnitzler edited together extracts of Western television footage and recorded caustic, virulently anti-Western commentary over it.
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Biography of Willi Bredel (excerpt)
Willi Bredel (2 May 1901 – 27 October 1964) was a German writer and president of the DDR Academy of Arts, Berlin. Born in Hamburg, he was a pioneer of socialist realist literature. His propaganda material, along with those of Walter Ulbricht and Erich Weinert was used in an attempt to lure the 6th Army into surrendering at the Battle of Stalingrad. ![]()
Biography of Janis Dalins (excerpt)
Jānis Daliņš (5 November 1904 in Valmiera, Livonian Governorate – 11 June 1978 in Melbourne, Australia) was a Latvian athlete who competed in race walking. Jānis Daliņš was the first Latvian to win a medal at the Olympic Games, he won silver in the 50 km race walk at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
Biography of Mary Heath (excerpt)
Mary, Lady Heath (17 November 1896 – 9 May 1939) was an Irish aviator and began life as Sophie Catherine Theresa Mary Peirce-Evans in Knockaderry, County Limerick, near the town of Newcastle West. She was one of the best known women in the world for a five-year period from the mid-1920s.
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Biography of Vasili Kuznetsov (politician) (excerpt)
Vasili Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (13 February (O.S. 31 January) 1901 – 5 June 1990) was a Russian Soviet politician who acted as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union from 1982 to 1983, for a second time in 1984, and for a third time in 1985.
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Biography of Nikolay Semyonov (excerpt)
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov (or Semënov), ForMemRS 15 April (O.S.3 April) 1896 – 25 September 1986) was a Russian/Soviet physicist and chemist.Semyonov was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on the mechanism of chemical transformation. In 1925, Semyonov, together with Yakov Frenkel, studied kinetics of condensation and adsorption of vapors.
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Biography of Jean Toomer (excerpt)
Jean Toomer (born Nathan Pinchback Toomer, December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and modernism.His reputation stems from his novel Cane (1923), which Toomer wrote during and after a stint as a school principal at a black school in rural Sparta, Georgia.
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Biography of Émilie Schindler (excerpt)
Emilie Schindler (née Pelzl; 22 October 1907 – 5 October 2001) was a Sudeten German-born woman who, with her husband Oskar Schindler, helped to save the lives of 1,200 Jews during World War II by employing them in his enamelware and munitions factories, providing them immunity from the Nazis. ![]()
Biography of Marcel Griaule (excerpt)
Marcel Griaule (16 May 1898 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – 23 February 1956) was a French author and anthropologist known for his studies of the Dogon people of West Africa, and for pioneering ethnographic field studies in France.
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Biography of Horst Sindermann (excerpt)
Horst Sindermann (5 September 1915 – 20 April 1990) was a Communist German politician and one of the leaders of East Germany. Sindermann was born in a traditional family in Dresden as the son of the Saxon Social Democratic politician Karl Sindermann.
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Biography of Boris Livanov (excerpt)
Boris Nikolayevich Livanov (8 May (O.S. 25 April) 1904—22 September 1972) was a Soviet theater and film actor and a theatre director. People's Artist of the USSR (1948). He was a member of the Moscow Art Theatre from 1924 through 1972. Il is the father of actor Vasiliy Livanov. ![]()
Biography of Colleen Moore (excerpt)
Colleen Moore (born Kathleen Morrison; August 19, 1899 – January 25, 1988) was an American film actress who began her career during the silent film era. Moore became one of the most fashionable (and highly-paid) stars of the era and helped popularize the bobbed haircut.
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Biography of Ruth Elder (excerpt)
Ruth Elder (September 8, 1902 – October 9, 1977) was an aviation pioneer and actress.She carried private pilot certificate P675, and was known as the "Miss America of Aviation." She was a charter member of the Ninety-Nines. In 1927 she took off from New York in the airplane American Girl, George Haldeman as her pilot, in an attempt to become the first woman transatlantic airplane rider. ![]()
Biography of Salomėja Nėris (excerpt)
Salomėja Nėris (real name Salomėja Bačinskaitė - Bučienė) (November 17, 1904 – July 7, 1945) was a Lithuanian poet. Salomėja Nėris was awarded the State Literature Prize in 1938. She was a member of the Catholic youth and student organization Ateitis. |
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