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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 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 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 Eric Knight (excerpt)
Eric Mowbray Knight (10 April 1897 – 15 January 1943) was an English novelist and screenwriter, who is mainly known for his 1940 novel Lassie Come-Home, which introduced the fictional collie Lassie. He took American citizenship in 1942 shortly before his death.
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 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 La Argentinita (excerpt)
Encarnación López Júlvez, known as La Argentinita (Buenos Aires, March 3, 1898 – New York, September 24, 1945), was a Spanish-Argentine flamenco dancer (bailaora), choreographer and singer. La Argentinita was considered the highest expression of this art form during that time.
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 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 Hermann Broch (excerpt)
Hermann Broch (1 November 1886 – 30 May 1951) was an Austrian writer, best known for two major works of modernist fiction: The Sleepwalkers (Die Schlafwandler, 1930–32) and The Death of Virgil (Der Tod des Vergil, 1945). Life Broch was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, to a prosperous Jewish family and worked for some time in his family's factory, though he maintained his literary interests privately.
Biography of Pierre Chateau-Jobert (excerpt)
Pierre Yvon Alexandre Jean Chateau-Jobert (alias Conan) is a senior officer of the French army, fighter of the Second World War (and as such, companion of the Liberation) and the wars of Indochina and Algeria, born in Morlaix on February 3, 1912, and died in Caumont-l'Éventé in Calvados on December 29, 2005 at the age of 93.
Biography of Moe Howard (excerpt)
Moses Harry Horwitz (June 19, 1897 – May 4, 1975), better known by his stage name Moe Howard, was an American comedian and actor. He is best known as the leader and straight man of the Three Stooges, the farce comedy team who starred in motion pictures and television for four decades.
Biography of Hans Kammler (excerpt)
Hans Kammler (26 August 1901 – 1945 ) was an SS-Obergruppenführer responsible for Nazi civil engineering projects and its top secret weapons programmes. He oversaw the construction of various Nazi concentration camps before being put in charge of the V-2 rocket and jet programmes towards the end of World War II.
Biography of Edgard de Larminat (excerpt)
Edgard de Larminat (29 November 1895 – 1 July 1962) was a French general, who fought in two World Wars. He was one of the most important military figures who rejoined the Free French forces in 1940. He was awarded the Ordre de la Libération.
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 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 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 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 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 Ibrahim Çalli (excerpt)
İbrahim Çallı (13 July 1882 in Çal – 22 May 1960 in İstanbul (gastrointestinal bleeding)) was a Turkish painter. He is popularly known as Çallı İbrahim. İbrahim Çallı was born in Çal, Denizli. He showed early interest in painting during his primary and secondary education which he finished in his hometown and in İzmir.
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 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 Robert Cami (excerpt)
Robert Cami, born January 1, 1900 in Bordeaux and died January 12, 1975 in Paris (or in Sermaise (Essonne) according to certain sources including INSEE), is a draftsman, engraver (burinist, etcher and wood engraver), engraver medals and French stamps. Although rarely said to be a painter, he was also so, notably through the important work on zinc which won him a gold medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1937.
Biography of Julie Gibson (excerpt)
Julie Gibson (born Gladys Camille Soray; September 6, 1913 – October 2, 2019 (age 106)) was an American singer; radio, television, and film actress; and vocal artist and coach, who had a career in movies during the 1940s.Gibson, who retired from the industry in 1984, was known for her work opposite The Three Stooges.
Biography of Pierre Bonny (excerpt)
Pierre Bonny (25 January 1895 – 26 December 1944) was a corrupt French police officer.As an inspector, he was the investigating officer in the 1923 Seznec case, and was accused of falsifying the evidence.He was once praised as one of the most talented police officers in the country, and helped to solve the notorious Stavisky financial scandal in 1934.
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.
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 Dirk Witte (excerpt)
Dirk Hermanus Witte (Zaandam, June 29, 1885 – Diemen, November 15, 1932) was a Dutch songwriter and singer. His most famous song is Mens, dare to live (1917). This became known through the performance of Jean-Louis Pisuisse. It was later recorded by Willy Alberti, Ramses Shaffy, The Amazing Stroopwafels and Wende Snijders, among others.
Biography of Maria Branyas (excerpt)
Maria Branyas Morera (March 4, 1907 – August 19, 2024) was an American-born Catalan supercentenarian.She was recognized as the world’s oldest living person from January 2023 until her death in August 2024 at the age of 117. Born in San Francisco to a Spanish family, she lived in the U.S.
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 Madeleine Pauliac (excerpt)
Madeleine Jeanne Marie Pauliac (17 September 1912 – 13 February 1946) was a French doctor and a member of the French Resistance.Her experience in post-World War II Poland formed the basis for the movie Les Innocentes. Life Pauliac was born in Villeneuve-sur-Lot.Pauliac's father, Roger Pauliac, died in 1916 in the Battle of Verdun.
Biography of Madeleine Charnaux (excerpt)
Madeleine Charnaux (18 January 1902 – 10 October 1943) was a French war correspondent, sculptor, designer and aviator.She was the first woman in the Roland Garros pilots’ club. Madeleine Charnaux, born in Vichy on January 18, 1902.Her father and brothers were doctors.
Biography of Ferenc Münnich (excerpt)
Ferenc Münnich (18 November 1886 – 29 November 1967) was a Hungarian Communist politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Hungary from 1958 to 1961. He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army in World War I, and fought in the Eastern front.
Biography of Israel Joshua Singer (excerpt)
Israel Joshua Singer ( November 30, 1893, Biłgoraj, Congress Poland — February 10, 1944 New York) was a Polish-Jewish novelist who wrote in Yiddish. He was born Yisruel Yehoyshye Zinger, the son of Pinchas Mendl Zynger, a rabbi and author of rabbinic commentaries, and Basheva Zylberman.
Biography of George Grosz (excerpt)
George Grosz (German: ; born Georg Ehrenfried Groß; July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s.He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups during the Weimar Republic.
Biography of Emily Hahn (excerpt)
Emily "Mickey" Hahn (January 14, 1905 – February 18, 1997) was an American journalist and author.Considered an early feminist and called "a forgotten American literary treasure" by The New Yorker magazine, she was the author of 54 books and more than 200 articles and short stories.
Biography of Thérèse Bertrand-Fontaine (excerpt)
Thérèse Bertrand-Fontaine, (born in Paris, 15 October 1895 - died in Paris, 24 December 1987), was a French doctor.By the time of her death, she held the title of Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur. The first female doctor in Paris hospitals, she notably studied pneumonia, hepatic and renal diseases, and amyloidosis.
Biography of Albert Ehrenstein (excerpt)
Albert Ehrenstein (22 December 1886 – 8 April 1950) was an Austrian-born German Expressionist poet.His poetry exemplifies rejection of bourgeois values and fascination with the Orient, particularly with China. He spent most of his life in Berlin, but also travelled widely across Europe, Africa, and the Far East.
Biography of Maria Josep Colomer i Luque (excerpt)
Maria Josep Colomer i Luque (31 March 1913 – 24 May 2004), better known as Mari Pepa Colomer, was one of the pioneers of Spanish aviation. She was the first female flight instructor in Spain and the first Catalan woman (third Spanish woman) to earn a pilot's license.
Biography of Jean Vercoutter (excerpt)
Jean Vercoutter (January 20, 1911 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – July 16, 2000) was a French Egyptologist. One of the pioneers of archaeological research into Sudan from 1953, he was Director of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale from 1977 to 1981.
Biography of Annie de Montfort (excerpt)
Annie de Montfort (16 December 1897 – 10 November 1944) was a French writer and physician and a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War. Early life She was born Arthémise Deguirmendjian-Shah-Vekil in the 9th arrondissement of Paris.Her parents were born in Turkey and were Armenian in origin.
Biography of Mariya Smirnova (excerpt)
Mariya Vasilyevna Smirnova (Russian: Мария Васильевна Смирнова; 31 March 1920 – 10 July 2002) was a squadron commander in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment (nicknamed the "Night Witches") of the Soviet Air Forces during the Second World War.
Biography of Erika von Brockdorff (excerpt)
Erika von Brockdorff (née Schönfeldt) (29 April 1911 – 13 May 1943) was a German resistance fighter against the Nazi régime during the Second World War. Brockdorff was a member of what the Nazi authorities termed the Red Orchestra resistance movement.
Biography of Rosa Manus (excerpt)
Rosette Susanna "Rosa" Manus was born 20 August 1881 and died either at Auschwitz or Ravensbruck in 1942.She was a Jewish Dutch pacifist and female suffragist and was involved in women's movements and anti-war movements. She served as the President of the Society for Female Suffrage, the Vice President of the Dutch Association for Women's Interests and Equal Citizenship, and was one of the founding members of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) as well as its secretary.
Biography of Laure Gatet (excerpt)
Laure Gatet (19 July 1913 - 25 February 1943) was a French pharmacist, biochemist, and a spy for the French Resistance during World War II. Gatet was born on 19 July 1913 in Boussac-Bourg, France.After attending several schools in the Southwest of France, including Périgueux and Bordeaux, Gatet finished her pharmacy studies before moving to biochemical research.
Biography of Paul Gadenne (excerpt)
Paul Gadenne, born in Armentières (Nord) on April 4, 1907 and died in Cambo-les-Bains (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) on May 1, 1956 (aged 49), is a French writer. Tuberculosis forced him in 1933 to interrupt his teaching career. He then spent long months at the Praz-Coutant sanatorium located near Sallanches in Haute-Savoie.
Biography of Suzanne Jannin (excerpt)
Suzanne Henriette Jannin, also Suzanne Henriette Delvoye, (1912–1982) was a French dentist, a resistance fighter in World War II, and an air force pilot in Indochina.After receiving her military pilot's licence in 1948, she gave up dentistry to devote herself to aviation.
Biography of Denis Peploe (excerpt)
Denis Frederic Neal Peploe (25 March 1914 – 22 May 1993) was a Scottish artist and sculptor known for his landscapes. During the war he served with the Royal Artillery and the Special Operations Executive where he was hurt in a motorcycle accident.
Biography of Dorothy Rice Sims (excerpt)
Dorothy Rice Sims (June 24, 1889 – March 24, 1960) was an American sportswoman, aviator, bridge player, artist, and journalist. She met Hal Sims when he chartered her plane; they later married. Their home in Deal, New Jersey, described in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle as reminiscent "of the castles of the feudal barons in medieval days" became a headquarters for bridge experts.
Biography of M. Vasalis (excerpt)
M.Vasalis, pseudonym for Margaretha (Kiekie) Droogleever Fortuyn-Leenmans (13 February 1909 in The Hague – 16 October 1998 in Roden) was a Dutch poet and psychiatrist. The pseudonym 'Vasalis' is a Latinization of her last name 'Leenmans'.The 'M' does not stand for 'Maria' as is sometimes incorrectly reported.
Biography of Irmgard Bartenieff (excerpt)
Irmgard Bartenieff (1900 Berlin – 1981 New York City) was a dance theorist, dancer, choreographer, physical therapist, and a leading pioneer of dance therapy.A student of Rudolf Laban, she pursued cross-cultural dance analysis, and generated a new vision of possibilities for human movement and movement training. |
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