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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 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.
Biography of Galina Ustvolskaya (excerpt)
Galina Ivanovna Ustvolskaya, 17 June 1919 – 22 December 2006), was a Russian composer of classical music. Ustvolskaya was a pupil of Shostakovich from 1939 to 1941 and from 1947 to 1948, but her works from the 1950s onwards retain little influence of his style.
Biography of Otto Nebel (excerpt)
Otto Nebel (25 December 1892 – 12 September 1973) was a German painter and poet, born in Berlin, Germany. The artist liked to experiment especially with the linocut, a great favorite among the German Expressionists and a medium that they imbued with new life.
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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).
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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.
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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 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.
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Biography of Giuseppe Borgese (excerpt)
Giuseppe Antonio Borgese (12 November 1882 – 4 December 1952) was an Italian writer, journalist and literary critic. In his early years he founded several literary reviews, including the Dannunzian Hermes (1904), and worked for newspapers such as Corriere della Sera, La Stampa and Il Mattino. ![]()
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 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.
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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.
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Biography of Ruby Dandridge (excerpt)
Ruby Jean Dandridge (née Butler; March 3, 1900 – October 17, 1987) was an American actress from the early 1900s through to the late 1950s.Dandridge is best known for her radio work in her early days of acting.Dandridge is best known for her role on the radio show Amos 'n Andy, in which she played Sadie Blake and Harriet Crawford, and on radio's Judy Canova Show, in which she played Geranium. ![]()
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 Lisa Ullmann (excerpt)
Lisa Ullmann (17 June 1907, in Berlin – 25 January 1985, in Chertsey) was a German-British dance and movement teacher, predominantly remembered for her work in association with dance pioneer Rudolf Laban. Ullmann taught in Nuremberg and at the Essen Folkwang School, where she worked for Kurt Jooss.
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Biography of James O. McKinsey (excerpt)
James Oscar McKinsey (June 4, 1889 – November 30, 1937) was an American accountant, management consultant, professor of accounting at the University of Chicago, and founder of McKinsey & Company. Youth, education and early career McKinsey was born in 1889 in Gamma, Missouri, son of James Madison McKinsey and Mary Elizabeth (Logan) McKinsey.
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Biography of James Bond (ornithologist) (excerpt)
James Bond (January 4, 1900 – February 14, 1989) was an American ornithologist and expert on the birds of the Caribbean, having written the definitive book on the subject: Birds of the West Indies, first published in 1936.He served as a curator of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
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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 Alfred Touny (excerpt)
Alfred Touny (24 October 1886 – April 1944) was a French soldier, lawyer and businessman who became one of the leaders of the French Resistance during World War II (1939–45). He was arrested by the Gestapo towards the end of the war and shot. ![]()
Biography of Claire Luce (excerpt)
Claire Luce (October 15, 1903 – August 31, 1989) was an American stage and screen actress, dancer and singer.Among her few films were Up the River (1930), directed by John Ford and starring Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart in their feature film debuts (Luce played Bogart's love interest), and Under Secret Orders, the English-language version of G.
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Biography of Salvo Randone (excerpt)
Salvatore "Salvo" Randone (25 September 1906 – 6 March 1991) was an Italian theatrical, television and film actor. Born in Syracuse, Sicily, Randone debuted on stage in mid-1920s and, after some years in which he played roles of little weight, he became in the fifties one of the most critically appreciated actors in Italian theatre. ![]()
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. ![]()
Biography of Richard Conte (excerpt)
Nicholas Peter Conte (March 24, 1910 – April 15, 1975), known professionally as Richard Conte, was an American actor.He appeared in more than 100 films from the 1940s through 1970s, including I'll Cry Tomorrow, Ocean's 11, and The Godfather. Family Conte was married to actress Ruth Storey, with whom he adopted a son, film editor Mark Conte.
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Biography of Máté Zalka (excerpt)
Máté Zalka (April 23, 1896 – June 11, 1937) was a Hungarian writer, soldier and revolutionary.His real name was Béla Frankl.He fought in the Hungarian Army during the First World War and was captured by the Russians. Subsequently, he came under the influence of Bolshevism and fought during the Russian Civil War.
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Biography of Elizabeth Mernin (excerpt)
Elizabeth "Lily" Mernin (16 November 1886 - 18 February 1957) was an Irish intelligence agent known as the "Little Gentleman" or "Lt.G.".She was a member of the Keating branch of the Gaelic League, and through this her cousin, Piaras Béaslaí, introduced her to Michael Collins in 1918. ![]()
Biography of Jean Batten (excerpt)
Jean Gardner Batten CBE OSC (15 September 1909 – 22 November 1982) was a New Zealand aviator. Born in Rotorua, she became the best-known New Zealander of the 1930s, internationally, by making a number of record-breaking solo flights across the world. She made the first-ever solo flight from England to New Zealand in 1936.
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Biography of Lina Merlin (excerpt)
Angelina "Lina" Merlin (15 October 1887 – 16 August 1979) was an Italian politician, perhaps best known for authoring and promoting the so-called "Merlin law" which abolished state-regulated prostitution in Italy. She was also an activist and educator, and took part in the Italian resistance movement.
Biography of Vecihi Hürkus (excerpt)
Vecihi Hürkuş (6 January 1896 – 16 July 1969) was a Turkish aviation engineer and aviation pioneer, who fought during World War I and the Turkish War of Independence. He designed and manufactured the first airplane in Turkey, and also founded the country's first airline company.
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Biography of Igor Moiseyev (excerpt)
Igor Alexandrovich Moiseyev (21 January (O.S.8 January) 1906 – 2 November 2007) has been widely acclaimed as the greatest 20th-century choreographer of character dance, a dance style similar to folk dance but with more professionalism and theatrics. Born in Kiev, Russian Empire, he was the only child of a Russian lawyer and a French-Romanian seamstress.
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Biography of Bruno Rossi (excerpt)
Bruno Benedetto Rossi (13 April 1905 – 21 November 1993) was an Italian experimental physicist. He made major contributions to particle physics and the study of cosmic rays. A 1927 graduate of the University of Bologna, he became interested in cosmic rays. To study them, he invented an improved electronic coincidence circuit, and travelled to Eritrea to conduct experiments that showed that cosmic ray intensity from the West was significantly larger than that from the East.
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Biography of Elly Beinhorn (excerpt)
Elly Beinhorn (30 May 1907 – 28 November 2007) was a German pilot.In the 1930s, she set many distance records. In her later years, Elly Beinhorn lived in Ottobrunn, Bavaria, near Munich.Her son, Dr.Bernd Rosemeyer, lives in the same area and has enjoyed a successful career as an orthopaedist.
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Biography of Alfhild Hovdan (excerpt)
Alfhild Hovdan (née Olsen; 13 September 1904 – 20 February 1982) was a Norwegian journalist, and later tourist manager for the city of Oslo for more than forty years. She is known for initiating the tradition of the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree, a present from the city of Oslo to the people of London, in recognition of their assistance during World War II.
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Biography of Irma Bandiera (excerpt)
Irma Bandiera (8 April 1915– 14 August 1944) was a member of the seventh Gruppo di azione patriottica. In 1944 she was captured, blinded, and killed. Enrico Berlinguer, of the Italian Communist Party, held her in high esteem. A street in her native Bologna is named for her and the song Mimma e Balella relates to her.
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Biography of Ernst Busch (field marshal) (excerpt)
Ernst Bernhard Wilhelm Busch (6 July 1885 – 17 July 1945) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) during World War II who commanded the 16th Army (as a Generaloberst) and Army Group Centre. His time of birth comes from Jacques de Lescaut, who states that he knows his birth certificate.
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Biography of Henriette Bie Lorentzen (excerpt)
Henriette Bie Lorentzen (18 July 1911 – 23 August 2001), born Anna Henriette Wegner Haagaas, was a Norwegian journalist, humanist, peace activist, feminist, co-founder of the Nansen Academy, resistance member and concentration camp survivor during World War II, and publisher and editor-in-chief of the women's magazine Kvinnen og Tiden (1945–1955). ![]()
Biography of Mary Eaton (excerpt)
Mary Eaton (January 29, 1901 – October 10, 1948) was an American stage actress, singer, and dancer in the 1910s and 1920s, probably best known today from her appearance in the first Marx Brothers film, The Cocoanuts (1929).A professional performer since childhood, she enjoyed success in stage productions such as the Ziegfeld Follies.
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Biography of Marina Raskova (excerpt)
Marina Mikhaylovna Raskova (née Malinina; 28 March 1912 – 4 January 1943) was the first woman in the USSR to achieve the diploma of professional air navigator.Raskova went from a young woman with aspirations of becoming an opera singer to a military instructor, the first female navigator in the Soviet Union.
Biography of Joseph Epstein (activist) (excerpt)
Joseph Epstein (October 16, 1911 – April 11, 1944 in Fort Mont-Valérien, France), also known as Colonel Gilles and as Joseph Andrej, was a Polish-born Jewish communist activist and a French Resistance leader during World War II. He was executed by the Germans.
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Biography of Diana Barnato Walker (excerpt)
Diana Barnato Walker MBE FRAeS (15 January 1918 – 28 April 2008) was a pioneering English aviator.In World War II, she became one of the first women pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary, flying 80 types of aircraft and delivering 260 Spitfires.
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Biography of Rosina Ferrario (excerpt)
Rosina Ferrario (28 July 1888 – 3 July 1959) was the first Italian woman to receive a pilot's licence when she passed her test on 3 January 1913 at Vizzola, Lombardy, in a Caproni monoplane. She received Licence No. 203 from the Aeroclub of Italy.
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Biography of Madeleine Damerment (excerpt)
Madeleine Zoe Damerment (11 November 1917 – 13 September 1944) was a French spy in World War II who served in the French Resistance and Britain's Special Operations Executive.Damerment was to be a courier for SOE's Bricklayer circuit in France during World War II but was arrested upon arrival by the Gestapo, who knew she was coming.
Biography of Ben Nye (excerpt)
Benjamin Emmet Nye, Sr.(January 12, 1907 – February 9, 1986) was an American makeup artist for the Hollywood film industry for over four decades, from the 1930s to the early 1980s.He worked on over five hundred 20th Century Fox films both in and out of Hollywood.
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Biography of Louise Thaden (excerpt)
Iris Louise McPhetridge Thaden (November 12, 1905 – November 9, 1979) was an American aviation pioneer, holder of numerous aviation records, and the first woman to win the Bendix trophy, alongside Blanche Noyes. She was inducted into the Arkansas Aviation Historical Society's Hall of Fame in 1980.
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Biography of Isabella Abbott (excerpt)
Isabella Aiona Abbott (June 20, 1919 – October 28, 2010) was an educator, phycologist, and ethnobotanist from Hawaii.The first native Hawaiian woman to receive a PhD in science, she became a leading expert on Pacific marine algae. She authored eight books and over 150 publications.
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Biography of Kandrat Krapiva (excerpt)
Kandrat Krapiva (5 March (O.S.22 February) 1896 – 7 January 1991) was a Belarusian writer, playwright, social activist, and literary critic.He was the winner of two Stalin Prizes in 1941 and 1951 and winner of the USSR State Prize in 1971.
Biography of Robert Hale Merriman (excerpt)
Robert Hale Merriman (November 17, 1908 – c. April 2, 1938) was an American doctoral student who fought with the Republican forces in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. He was killed while commanding the Abraham Lincoln Battalion of the International Brigades.
Biography of Marie-Thérèse Walter (excerpt)
Marie-Thérèse Walter (13 July 1909 – 20 October 1977) was a French model and lover of Pablo Picasso from 1927 to about 1935 and the mother of their daughter Maya Widmaier-Picasso.Their relationship began when she was seventeen years old; he was 45 and married to his first wife, Olga Khokhlova.
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Biography of Vonda Phelps (excerpt)
Avonda Maude Phelps (April 19, 1915 – September 2, 2004), credited as Vonda Phelps, was an American child stage actress, vaudeville performer and dancer in the 1920s. She appeared in four silent film productions in 1922 and 1923. Phelps was born on April 19, 1915 in Shreveport, Louisiana to Rinaldo Abel Phelps (1872–1951) and Lillian Maude Tiffin (1891–1983). ![]()
Biography of Isaac Babel (excerpt)
Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel (13 July (Gregorian calendar) 1894 – 27 January 1940) was a Russian writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator. He is best known as the author of Red Cavalry and Odessa Stories—stories from the life of Jewish gangsters from Odessa led by Benya Krik (prototype – Mishka Yaponchik).
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Biography of Mary Bell (aviator) (excerpt)
Mary Teston Luis Bell (3 December 1903 – 6 February 1979) was an Australian aviator and founding leader of the Women's Air Training Corps (WATC), a volunteer organisation that provided support to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) during World War II.
Biography of Eva Gouel (excerpt)
Eva Gouel, also known as Marcelle Humbert, born February 27, 1885 in the 12th arrondissement of Paris and died of cancer on December 14, 1915 in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, was Pablo Picasso's second companion during his cubist period, from 1912 to 1915. |
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