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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 La Argentina (dancer) (excerpt)
Antonia Mercé y Luque (September 4, 1890 – July 18, 1936), stage name La Argentina, was an Argentine-born Spanish dancer known for her creation of the neoclassical style of Spanish dance as a theatrical art. She was one of the major influences on Japanese butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno. ![]()
Biography of Roman Bohnen (excerpt)
Roman Aloys Bohnen (November 24, 1901 – February 24, 1949) was an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the films Of Mice and Men (1939), The Song of Bernadette (1943), and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). ![]()
Biography of Zuleykha Seyidmammadova (excerpt)
Zuleykha Seyidmammadova (22 March 1919 – 1994) was one of the first Azerbaijan female pilots and the first Azerbaijani woman to fly in combat. Seyidmammadova was born in Baku on 22 March 1919.She gained her pilot's license in 1935 at a flying club in her hometown and later at the aviation academy in Zhukovsky near Moscow.
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Biography of Yvonne Jospa (excerpt)
Yvonne Jospa (née Have Groisman, February 3, 1910 in Poputi, Bessarabia (now Moldavia) – January 20, 2000 in Brussels) was a cofounder and leading organizer of the Comité de Défense des Juifs in September 1942 with her husband Hertz Jospa, which saved over 3,000 Jewish children from deportation and death. ![]()
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.
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Biography of François de Menthon (excerpt)
Count François de Menthon (8 January 1900 – 2 June 1984) was a French politician and professor of law. Second World War He was mobilised at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, becoming a captain in the French Army.He was severely wounded and captured in June 1940.
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Biography of Marthe Tesson (excerpt)
Marthe Marie Tesson, born January 22, 1892 in Le Havre and died December 23, 1971 in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, was a French metalworker and a member of the French Resistance. She was elected to the municipal council of Bobigny in 1925. ![]()
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.
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Biography of Anthony Caillot (excerpt)
Anthony Louis Léon Caillot, born March 14, 1908 in Valognes (Manche), died February 5, 1994 in Regnéville-sur-Mer (Manche), was a French Catholic bishop, titular bishop of Bononia and coadjutor of Évreux from 1962 to 1964 , then Bishop of Évreux from 1964 to 1972, and Bishop Emeritus of Évreux from 1972 to 1994.
Biography of Jeanne Fontaine (excerpt)
Jeanne Antoinette Fontaine (born Lagrue on August 29, 1897 in Génelard and died on March 5, 1994 in Villepinte), was a French flight attendant, co-pilot and administrator. ![]()
Biography of Yvette Labrousse (excerpt)
Yvonne Blanche Labrousse, best known as Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan (15 February 1906 – 1 July 2000) was the fourth and last wife of Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah, Aga Khan III.The couple had married for thirteen months after the Aga Khan III and his third wife were divorced by mutual consent.
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Biography of Iosif Grigulevich (excerpt)
Iosif Romualdovich Grigulevich (Russian: Иосиф Ромуальдович Григулевич; May 5, 1913 – June 2, 1988) was a Soviet secret police (NKVD) operative active between 1937 and 1953, when he took a leading role in assassinating Communist and Bolshevik individuals who were not loyal to Joseph Stalin.
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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.
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Biography of Louise Magadur (excerpt)
Louise Magadur (21 April 1899 - 12 May 1992) was a French resistance fighter, Communist and Holocaust survivor. Magadur was born on 21 April 1899 in Pont-Croix in Finistère, France.Her father was a miller and she was the fourth child of a family of six.
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Biography of Trude Hesterberg (excerpt)
Trude Hesterberg (2 May 1892 – 31 August 1967) was a German film actress and singer. She appeared in 89 films between 1917 and 1964. Selected filmography The Rosentopf Case (1918) The Story of a Maid (1921) Fridericus Rex (1922) The Woman with That Certain Something (1925)
Biography of William Goyen (excerpt)
Charles William Goyen (April 24, 1915 – August 30, 1983) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, editor, and teacher.Born in a small town in East Texas, these roots would influence his work for his entire life. In World War II he served as an officer aboard an aircraft carrier in the South Pacific, where he began work on one of his most important and critically acclaimed books, The House of Breath. ![]()
Biography of Olga Sanfirova (excerpt)
Olga Aleksandrovna Sanfirova (2 May (O.S. 19 April) 1917 – 13 December 1944) was a captain and squadron commander in the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment during World War II. She was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 23 February 1945, making her the first Tatar woman awarded the title.
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Biography of Dona Drake (excerpt)
Dona Drake (November 15, 1914 – June 20, 1989) was an American singer, dancer, and film actress, known for her ethnic roles in the 1930s and 1940s. Often presenting herself as Mexican, she also performed under the names Una Novella and Rita Novella.
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Biography of Walter Mehring (excerpt)
Walter Mehring (29 April 1896 – 3 October 1981) was a German author and one of the most prominent satirical authors in the Weimar Republic.He was banned during the Third Reich, and fled the country. From the 1920s, he published lyric poetry and satirical prose in various magazines and newspapers such as the famous Weltbühne or Das Tage-Buch . ![]()
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 Albert Naud (excerpt)
Albert Léopold Naud, born May 8, 1904 in Graves (Charente) and died February 20, 1977 in Paris 13th arrondissement, is a journalist, a political activist, an assize lawyer and a French resistance fighter. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Académie française, twice, in 1968 and 1975-1976.
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Biography of Smaranda Braescu (excerpt)
Smaranda Brăescu (May 21, 1897 – February 2, 1948) was a Romanian parachuting and aviation pioneer, former multiple world record holder. Her achievements earned her the nickname "Queen of the Heights". In 1928, she became the first Romanian woman to ever obtain a parachuting license (receiving it in Berlin, Germany), and one of the first women in the world to do so. ![]()
Biography of Cécile Sauvage (excerpt)
Cécile Sauvage, “poet of motherhood”, is a French woman of letters, born in La Roche-sur-Yon on July 20, 1883 and died in Paris on August 26, 1927. A student at the Lycée de Digne, she sent a manuscript Les Trois Muses to La Revue forézienne, whose editor was Pierre Messiaen. ![]()
Biography of Aleksandrs Caks (excerpt)
Aleksandrs Čaks (born Aleksandrs Čadarainis October 27, 1901 – February 8, 1950), was a Latvian poet and writer. Čaks is arguably the first Latvian writer whose works are distinctly urban, compared to the usual depictions of country life or small villages in earlier Latvian literature. ![]()
Biography of Marta Abba (excerpt)
Marta Abba (25, June 1900 – 24 June 1988) was an Italian actress, considered as the muse of the playwright Luigi Pirandello. Marta Abba lost her mother early and was raised by her grandparents.She began acting at 14, later joining Enrico Reinach's company in Milan.
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Biography of Philippe Auboyneau (excerpt)
Philippe Auboyneau (9 November 1899 – 22 February 1961) was an officer in the French Navy. As an admiral, he was commander of the Free French naval forces in the Pacific and the Mediterranean during the Second World War. He was awarded the Ordre de la Libération for his service to the country.
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Biography of Georgette Vallejo (excerpt)
Georgette Marie Philippart Travers (Paris, 7 January 1908 – Lima, 1984), French writer and poet. She was the wife of the Peruvian poet César Vallejo of international fame, considered by Mario Benedetti to be a "human paradigm", while the American poet-monk Thomas Merton points out that "the project for the translation of his poetry is of an urgent and enormous importance for the entire human race."
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Biography of Georges Pitoëff (excerpt)
Georges Pitoëff was born on 4 September 1884 in Tiflis (now Tbilisi, Georgia), then in Russia, and died on 17 September 1939 in Bellevue, near Geneva, Switzerland.Russian-born of Armenian origins, he was the son of the Director of the Tiflis Theatre.
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Biography of Colette Maze (excerpt)
Colette Maze, a French pianist, was born on June 16, 1914, in Paris.Born into a bourgeois family, she developed a passion for music early on and started playing the piano at the age of 5. Despite her parents' opposition, she joined the École Normale de Musique de Paris at 15, studying under masters like Alfred Cortot and Nadia Boulanger. ![]()
Biography of Bernard Malamud (excerpt)
Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 – March 18, 1986) was an American novelist and short story writer.Along with Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, and Philip Roth, he was one of the best known American Jewish authors of the 20th century. His baseball novel, The Natural, was adapted into a 1984 film starring Robert Redford.
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Biography of Simone Barillier (excerpt)
Simone Germaine Barillier, born April 1, 1917 in Clichy and died September 14, 2013 (aged 96) in Eaubonne, is a French actress. She was elected Miss France in Paris on June 30, 1934, among 32 candidates. The jury, gathered in the salons of the Bridge-Club, avenue des Champs-Élysées, is chaired by the painter Paul Chabas.
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Biography of Lothar Schreyer (excerpt)
Lothar Schreyer (1886 in Blasewitz – 1966 in Hamburg) was a German artist, writer, editor, stage designer and gallery owner.He was the first Master of the stagecraft workshop at the Bauhaus art school. Schreyer was born in Blasewitz in 1886.He studied art history at University of Heidelberg and then law at universities in Berlin and Leipzig.
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Biography of Virginia Dale (excerpt)
Virginia Dale (born Virginia Paxton; July 1, 1917 – October 3, 1994) was an American actress and dancer. While working with her sister, Frances, to form the dancing Paxton Sisters in New York City, she was discovered by Darryl F. Zanuck who signed her to a contract with 20th Century Fox.
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Biography of Henri Delaunay (excerpt)
Henri Delaunay (15 June 1883 – 9 November 1955) was a French football administrator. After playing for the Paris team Étoile des Deux Lacs, he became a referee. He retired following an incident during a match between AF Garenne-Doves and ES Benevolence, when he swallowed his whistle and broke two teeth on being struck full in the face by the ball. ![]()
Biography of Henri Deglane (excerpt)
Henri Deglane (22 June 1902 – 7 July 1975) was a French wrestler.He was an Olympic Champion in Greco-Roman wrestling and AWA World Champion. In May 1931, Deglane faced Ed "Strangler" Lewis for the AWA World Heavyweight Championship in Montreal in a two-out-of-three falls match.
Biography of André Pommiès (excerpt)
André Pommiès, born June 9, 1904 in Bordeaux, died September 16, 1972 in Arbus near Pau, is a French military hero of the Resistance. After the invasion of the southern zone in November 1942, he secretly set up a Pyrenean Free Corps (CFP) which would later be called the Pommiès Franc Corps.
Biography of Pericle Patocchi (excerpt)
Pericle Patocchi, born March 11, 1911 in Lugano and died April 13, 1968 in Leukerbad, is a Swiss writer and teacher. Pericle Patocchi was born in Lugano, to a Swiss father and an Italian mother of Spanish origin.He was educated in Varese and Milan, but from 1926 he attended the College of Sion where he graduated.
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Biography of Juana Bormann (excerpt)
Juana Bormann (or Johanna Borman; 10 September 1893 – 13 December 1945) was a German prison guard at several Nazi concentration camps from 1938, and was executed as a war criminal at Hamelin, Lower Saxony, Germany, after a court trial in 1945.
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Biography of Pierre Cathala (excerpt)
Pierre Cathala (1888 (birth certificate n° 49) – 1947) was a French politician. He served as the French Minister of Finance from 1942 to 1944. Pierre Cathala was born on 22 September 1888 in Montfort-sur-Meu, Brittany, France. He was educated at the Lycée Saint-Louis, and in Bayonne where he became friends with Pierre Laval.
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Biography of François Balsan (excerpt)
François Balsan, born June 25, 1902 in Châteauroux and died November 25, 1972 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, is a French industrialist, explorer, ethnographer and writer, president of the Society of French explorers. Some of his works have been published under the pseudonym of Jacques Termant.
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Biography of Sebastian Haffner (excerpt)
Raimund Pretzel (27 December 1907 – 2 January 1999), better known by his pseudonym Sebastian Haffner, was a German journalist and historian.As an émigré in Britain during World War II, Haffner argued that accommodation was impossible not only with Adolf Hitler but also with the German Reich with which Hitler had gambled.
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Biography of Sophia Antoniadis (excerpt)
Sophia Antoniadis (Greek: Σοφία Αντωνιάδη, 31 July 1895, Piraeus - 25 January 1972, Athens) was a Greek Byzantinist. She was the first female professor at the Leiden University, the first female Humanities professor in the Netherlands and during her career was one of the few Greek women to hold a position at a European university.
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Biography of Henri Adeline (excerpt)
Henri Adeline (born May 8, 1898 in Verdun - died May 1, 1971 in Châlons-sur-Marne) is a French general and resistance fighter. He fought in the ranks of the French army during the two world wars, and enlisted from 1943 in the maquis of Dordogne then, during the Liberation, fought in the southwest and against the German pockets of Royan and La Rochelle.
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Biography of Ethel Catherwood (excerpt)
Ethel Hannah Catherwood (April 28, 1908 – September 26, 1987) was a Canadian athlete. Born in Hannah, North Dakota, United States, Ethel Catherwood was raised and educated in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, where she excelled at baseball, basketball and track and field athletics.
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Biography of Sylvie (actress) (excerpt)
Louise Pauline Mainguené, known as Sylvie (3 January 1883 – 5 January 1970), was a French actress. The daughter of a sailor and a teacher, Sylvie entered an acting conservatory where she won a class comedy award unanimously.She started her professional career in 1903 and she earned her first success with The Old Heidelberg.
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Biography of Émilienne Moreau-Évrard (excerpt)
Émilienne Moreau-Evrard (4 June 1898 – 5 January 1971) was a French heroine of World War I, a high-profile female member of the "Brutus" Resistance network during World War II and later, a member of the Provisional Consultative Assembly. Moreover, she is one of only six women recipients of the Ordre de la Libération.
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Biography of August Momber (excerpt)
August Momber (born May 16, 1886 in Danzig, † May 17, 1969 in Karlsruhe) was a German actor and director.He was a student of Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater Berlin.Momber worked as a lecturer at the theater college in Leipzig, among others.
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Biography of Alice Ball (excerpt)
Alice Augusta Ball (July 24, 1892 – December 31, 1916) was an American chemist who developed the "Ball Method", the most effective treatment for leprosy during the early 20th century.She was the first woman and first African American to receive a master's degree from the University of Hawaiʻi, and was also the university's first female and African American chemistry professor. ![]()
Biography of Mary Helen Young (excerpt)
Mary Helen Young (5 June 1883 – 14 March 1945) was a Scottish nurse and resistance fighter who helped British servicemen escape from Nazi-occupied France during World War II. She was imprisoned by the Gestapo and put to death at Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1945.
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Biography of Mary Hallaren (excerpt)
Mary Agnes Hallaren (May 4, 1907 – February 13, 2005) was an American soldier and the third director of the Women's Army Corps (WAC) at the time that it became a part of the United States Army.As the director of the WAC, she was the first woman to officially join the U.S. |
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