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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. in ![]()
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 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.
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.
Biography of Freya Stark (excerpt)
Dame Freya Madeline Stark DBE (31 January 1893 – 9 May 1993), was a British-Italian explorer and travel writer.She wrote more than two dozen books on her travels in the Middle East and Afghanistan as well as several autobiographical works and essays.
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.
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.
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 Marie-Louise Sondaz (excerpt)
Marie-Louise Sondaz, born December 31, 1889 in Saint-Marcellin (birth certificate n° 60, Marc Brun), died in 1981, was a French astrologer and author.She indicates in one of her books "I was born a quarter of an hour before noon".There is therefore a doubt about her time of birth, with 45 minutes of difference between her birth certificate and what she writes.
Biography of Carola Lorenzini (excerpt)
Carolina (Carola) Elena Lorenzini (15 August 1889 – 23 November 1941) was a pioneer Argentine aviator.Lorenzini was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the seventh of eight children. From 1938 to 1940, Lorenzini was involved in an air exploration mission to fly all of Argentina's 14 provinces and make aerial maps for transport and mail flights.
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).
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.
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 Denise Bloch (excerpt)
Denise Madeleine Bloch (21 January 1916 – 5 February 1945) was an agent working with the clandestine British Special Operations Executive (SOE) organization in the Second World War.Captured by the Germans, she was executed at Ravensbrück concentration camp. On 2 March 1944, with fellow SOE agent Robert Benoist, she was dropped back into central France.
Biography of Eileen Kramer (excerpt)
Eileen Kramer (born 8 November 1914) is an Australian dancer, artist, performer and choreographer.She began by studying singing and music in Sydney in the 1930s, but after attending a performance of the Bodenwieser Ballet in 1940, immediately decided on a career change to dance.
Biography of Marcelle Henry (excerpt)
Marcelle Marguerite Henry (7 September 1895 – 24 April 1945) was a French civil servant and a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War. In 1919, Henry went to work at the Ministry of Labour, as her father had done before her.
Biography of Kurt Schwitters (excerpt)
Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (20 June 1887 – 8 January 1948) was a German artist, poet, painter, and sculptor, who was born in Hanover, Germany. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including dadaism, constructivism, surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography, and what came to be known as installation art.
Biography of Dora Schaul (excerpt)
Dora Schaul (born Dora Davidsohn, 21 September 1913 – 8 August 1999) was a German woman noted particularly for her undercover work at official offices in German-occupied France during World War II.She passed on significant information to the French Resistance.Her experiences and those of numerous other German opponents of the National Socialist (Nazi) regime in Germany were described in her 1973 book Résistance – Erinnerungen deutscher Antifaschisten (Résistance — Memories of German Antifascists).
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 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 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 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.
Biography of Gertrud Kolmar (excerpt)
Gertrud Käthe Chodziesner (10 December 1894 – March 1943), known by the literary pseudonym Gertrud Kolmar, was a German lyric poet and writer.She was born in Berlin and died, after her arrest and deportation as a Jew, in Auschwitz, a victim of the Nazi Final Solution.
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 Maurice Nasil (excerpt)
Maurice Nasillski said Maurice Nasil, born July 8, 1913 in Algiers (birth time source: birth certificate online at cineartistes.com, Wikipedia has July 7 by mistake) and died January 6, 2003 in Paris 9th, is a French actor. He has played notably in The Cow and the Prisoner, The President and The Jungle Book (as a French voice).
Biography of Aida de Acosta (excerpt)
Aida de Acosta Root Breckinridge (July 28, 1884 – May 26, 1962) was an American socialite and the first woman to fly a powered aircraft solo. In 1903, while in Paris with her mother, she caught her first glimpse of dirigibles. She then proceeded to take only three flight lessons, before taking to the sky by herself.
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.
Biography of María Zambrano (excerpt)
María Zambrano Alarcón (22 April 1904 – 6 February 1991) was a Spanish essayist and philosopher associated with the Generation of '36 movement. Her extensive work between the civic engagement and the poetic reflection started to be recognised in Spain over the last quarter of the 20th century after living many years in exile.
Biography of Martha Gellhorn (excerpt)
Martha Ellis Gellhorn (8 November 1908 – 15 February 1998) was an American novelist, travel writer, and journalist who is considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century. Gellhorn reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career.
Biography of Hilde Coppi (excerpt)
Betty Gertrud Käthe Hilda (30 May 1909 – 5 August 1943) was a German resistance member of the anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra by the Gestapo. Hilde Coppi and her husband were both arrested on 12 September 1942, along with Hans' parents and brother, and Hilde's mother.
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.
Biography of Gisi Fleischmann (excerpt)
Gisi Fleischmann (Slovak: Gizela Fleischmannová; 21 January 1892 – 18 October 1944) was a Zionist activist and the leader of the Bratislava Working Group, one of the best known Jewish rescue groups during the Holocaust. Fleischmann was arrested on 15 October 1944 and was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp three days later.
Biography of Said Rustamov (excerpt)
Said Rustamov (Azerbaijani: Səid Rüstəmov), born Mir-Jabbar Ali oglu Seyid-Rustamzadeh (12 May 1907 in Erivan – 10 June 1983 in Baku), was an Azerbaijani composer and conductor. Rustamov published textbooks on note acquisition and the instruction of tar.His monographs include Azerbaijani Folk Dances, Azerbaijani Folk Songs and Azerbaijani Ashig Songs.
Biography of Germain Bazin (excerpt)
Germain René Michel Bazin (24 September 1901 – 2 May 1990) was a French art historian, curator at the Louvre Museum from 1951 to 1965. Life Germain Bazin was born in Suresnes on 24 September 1901.He studied art history at the University of Paris.
Biography of Missak Manouchian (excerpt)
Missak Manouchian (1 September 1906 – 21 February 1944) was a French-Armenian poet and communist activist.An Armenian genocide survivor, he moved to France from an orphanage in Lebanon in 1925.He was active in communist Armenian literary circles. During World War II, he became the military commissioner of FTP-MOI, a group consisting of European immigrants, including many Jews, in the Paris Region which carried out assassinations and bombings of Nazi targets.
Biography of Suzanne Belperron (excerpt)
Suzanne Belperron (26 September 1900 – 28 March 1983), born in Saint-Claude, France, was an influential 20th-century jewellery designer based in Paris. She worked for the Boivin and Herz jewellery houses before the outbreak of World War II.Subsequently, she took over the Herz company, renaming it Herz-Belperron.
Biography of Leyla Mammadbeyova (excerpt)
Leyla Alasgar qizi Mammadbeyova, née Zeynalova (Azerbaijani: Leyla Ələsgər qızı Məmmədbəyova; 17 September 1909 – 1989), was the first Azerbaijani female aviator.She also was the first female pilot of Transcaucasia, of Southern Europe and of Middle East. Mammadbeyova was trained as a professional aviator at the Baku Airclub and performed her first flight in 1931.
Biography of Charlotte Möhring (excerpt)
Charlotte Möhring (born 31 March 1887 - died 19 October 1970 in Berlin) was a German aviator and the second German woman to receive a pilot's license. Möhring was a passenger on a flight from Johannisthal to Döberitz on board a Rumpler Taube.
Biography of Miyamoto Yuriko (excerpt)
Miyamoto Yuriko (宮本 百合子, 13 February 1899 – 21 January 1951) was a Japanese novelist, short-story writer, social activist, and literary critic active during the Taishō and early Shōwa periods of Japan. She is best known for her autobiographical fiction and involvement in proletarian and women's liberation movements.
Biography of François Méténier (excerpt)
François Méténier, born May 3, 1896 in Jaligny in Allier, is an activist of extreme right of the Thirties then responsible for the service of order of the marshal Pétain in 1940, mainly known to have been one of the principal persons in charge of the Plot de la Cagoule but also for remaining close to François Mitterrand from the start of the Occupation until his death on July 24, 1956.
Biography of John Williams (actor) (excerpt)
John Williams (15 April 1903 – 5 May 1983) was a Tony Award-winning British stage, film, and television actor.He is remembered for his role as Chief Inspector Hubbard in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder, as the chauffeur in Billy Wilder's Sabrina (both 1954), and as the second "Mr.
Biography of Ruth Law Oliver (excerpt)
Ruth Law Oliver (May 21, 1887 - December 1, 1970) was a pioneer American aviator during the 1910s. She was inspired to take up flying by her brother, parachutist and pioneer movie stuntman Rodman Law (1885–1919), with whom she challenged herself to physically keep up during their childhood.
Biography of Fritz Ascher (excerpt)
Fritz Ascher (17 October 1893 in Berlin, Germany – 26 March 1970 in Berlin, Germany) was a German artist, whose work is characterized by Expressionist and Symbolist sensitivity. In paintings, works on paper and poetry he explored existential questions and themes of contemporary social and cultural relevance, of spirituality and mythology.
Biography of Marie-Victorin (excerpt)
Brother Marie-Victorin, F.S.C.(April 3, 1885 – July 15, 1944), was a Canadian member of Brothers of the Christian Schools and a noted botanist in Quebec, Canada.He is known as the father of the Botanical Garden of Montreal. He was born Joseph-Louis-Conrad Kirouac to Cyrille Kirouac, a flower merchant, and Philomène Luneau in Kingsey Falls, Quebec.
Biography of Lena Christ (excerpt)
Lena Christ (née Magdalena Pichler; 30 October 1881 – 30 June 1920) was a German writer. In 1913 she wrote the book Lausdirndlgeschichten (naughty girl stories), also composed of memories from her childhood.Thoma criticized her for it and saw it as a rip-off of his Lausbubengeschichten (naughty boy stories).
Biography of Ferdinand, Duke of Montpensier (excerpt)
Ferdinand d'Orléans, Duke of Montpensier (French: Ferdinand François Philippe Marie Laurent d'Orléans, Duc de Montpensier) (9 September 1884 – 30 January 1924) was a member of the House of Orléans and a Prince of France. Career The Duke lived in England for many years, until "his reported indiscretions with regard to his recollections of Queen Victoria made it somewhat uncomfortable for him when in London." When the Germans went into Belgium, he returned to London until World War I was over and then returned to Belgium.
Biography of Wanda Jakubowska (excerpt)
Wanda Jakubowska (10 October (source: her Wikipedia page in Polish) 1907 – 25 February 1998) was a Polish film director.Although she directed as many as 15 films over 50 years, Jakubowska is best known for her work on the Holocaust.Her 1948 film The Last Stage was an early and influential depiction of concentration camps.
Biography of Pauline Gower (excerpt)
Pauline Mary de Peauly Gower Fahie (22 July 1910 – 2 March 1947) was a British pilot and writer who established the women's branch of the Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War. On the outbreak of the Second World War, Gower made use of her high-level connections to propose the establishment of a women's section in the new Air Transport Auxiliary —the ATA would be responsible for ferrying military aircraft from factory or repair facility to storage unit or operational unit—to the authorities.
Biography of Marcel Taillandier (excerpt)
Marcel Taillandier, born March 25, 1911 in Condat-en-Combraille in Puy-de-Dôme, and died July 11, 1944, in Saint-Martin-du-Touch, is the creator and host of one of the most important counter-espionage networks of the French Resistance during the Second World War: the Morhange Network.
Biography of Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (excerpt)
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (10 August 1889 – 9 April 1968) was a Polish writer and World War II resistance fighter.She co-founded two wartime Polish organizations: Front for the Rebirth of Poland and Żegota, set up to assist Polish Jews to escape the Holocaust.
Biography of Georges Cabanier (excerpt)
Admiral Georges Cabanier (22 November 1906 (Wikipedia gives 21 November) – 26 October 1976) was a French Naval Officer and Admiral, in addition to Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour. Military career Entered into the École Navale in 1925, he navigated on several naval warships (French: bâtiments) in the Atlantic, before opting for submarine service. |
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