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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 Ruth Page (ballerina) (excerpt)
Ruth Page (March 22, 1899 – April 7, 1991) was an American ballerina and choreographer, who created innovative works on American themes. Born in Indianapolis in 1899, Ruth Page undertook professional studies with Jan Zalewski, Adolph Bolm, Enrico Cecchetti, Harald Kreutzberg and Mary Wigman.
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 Jean Bertin (engineer) (excerpt)
Jean Henri Bertin (5 December 1917 (Wikipedia is incorrect) – 21 December 1975) was a French scientist, engineer and inventor. He was born in Druyes-les-Belles-Fontaines and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, both French communes. He is best known as the lead engineer for the French experimental Aérotrain mass transit system.
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 Charlotte Delbo (excerpt)
Charlotte Delbo (10 August 1913 – 1 March 1985) was a French writer chiefly known for her haunting memoirs of her time as a prisoner in Auschwitz, where she was sent for her activities as a member of the French resistance.
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 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 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 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 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 Victor Fleming (excerpt)
Victor Lonzo Fleming (February 23, 1889 – January 6, 1949) was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer.His most popular films were Gone with the Wind, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director, and The Wizard of Oz (both 1939).
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Nelson Algren (excerpt)
Nelson Algren (born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham; March 28, 1909 – May 9, 1981) was an American writer. His 1949 novel The Man with the Golden Arm won the National Book Award and was adapted as the 1955 film of the same name.
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 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 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 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 Liesel Bach (excerpt)
Liesel Bach (14 June 1905 – 22 January 1992) was a German aerobatic pilot and flight instructor.She was the first woman to fly over Mount Everest. In December 1950, Bach was invited to India by the Indian government.She was initially based at Chaudhary Charan Singh International Airport in Lucknow and in 1951 she competed in an international aerobatics competition at Kanpur, at which she won first place.
Biography of Tilly Fleischer (excerpt)
Ottilie "Tilly" Fleischer (2 October 1911 – 14 July 2005) was a German athlete who competed in a variety of track and field athletic events.She competed for Germany in the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United States in three different events, taking the bronze medal in the javelin.
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 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 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.
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 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 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 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 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 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 Katherine Stinson (excerpt)
Katherine Stinson (February 14, 1891 – July 8, 1977) was a pioneering American aviator.She set flying records for aerobatic maneuvers, distance, and endurance. After she received her certificate, Stinson and her family moved to San Antonio, Texas, an area with an ideal climate for flying.
Biography of Pierrette Caillol (excerpt)
Pierrette Emmanuelle Caillol is a French actress, born in Marseille on July 17, 1898 and died in Nice on June 8, 1991. She is the sister of actress Paulette Ray (1902-1987). Filmography (selection) 1947 : Une mort sans importance d'Yvan Noé 1948 : Bagarres d'Henri Calef : Mme Leroux
Biography of Soong Mei-ling (excerpt)
Soong Mei-ling (also spelled Soong May-ling; March 5, 1898 – October 23, 2003), also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Chinese: 蔣介石夫人) or Madame Chiang (Chinese: 蔣夫人), was a Chinese political figure who was First Lady of the Republic of China, the wife of President Chiang Kai-shek of the Republic of China.
Biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (excerpt)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.(August 17, 1914 – August 17, 1988) was an American lawyer, politician, and businessman, notable as a congressman from New York and later as the Under Secretary of Commerce.He was the fifth of six children born to Franklin D.
Biography of Doris Duranti (excerpt)
Doris Duranti (25 April 1917 – 10 March 1995) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 43 films between 1935 and 1975. She had a years-long affair with Alessandro Pavolini, a Fascist politician who in 1945 was executed by Italian partisans; his body was then hung with that of Benito Mussolini.
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 Max Born (excerpt)
Max Born (December 11, 1882 in Breslau, German Empire (now Wrocław) – January 5, 1970 in Göttingen, West Germany) was a German physicist and mathematician. A remarkable theoretical physicist, he is best known for his major contribution to quantum physics. He was the first to interpret the square of the modulus of the wave function as the probability density of presence.
Biography of Paul Gordeaux (excerpt)
Paul Gordeaux born Philippe, Georges, Emmanuel Gordolon on April 4, 1891 in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) (source for his birth time: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) and died on March 4, 1974 in the same city, is a journalist, historian, dramatic critic, man of letters and French humorist.
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 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 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 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 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 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 Olga Desmond (excerpt)
Olga Desmond (born Olga Sellin 2 November 1890 in Allenstein in East Prussia (now Olsztyn, Poland); died 2 August 1964 in Berlin) was a German dancer, actress, art model and living statue. Selected filmography 1915 : Seifenblasen 1915 : Nocturno 1917 : Postkarten-Modell : Wanda
Biography of Ery Bos (excerpt)
Ery Bos (October 3, 1908 - March 10, 2005) was a German dancer and film actress. She established herself as a star in the cinema of the Weimar Republic, but was forced to flee following the takeover of the Nazi Party due to her Jewish background. |
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