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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. ![]() ![]()
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Biography of Hanna Van de Voort (excerpt)
Hanna Van de Voort (born in Meerlo, November 26, 1904 and died in Utrecht on July 26, 1956), also known as Aunt Hanna, was a Dutch nurse and resistance fighter during the Second World War. Together with Nico Dohmen and Kurt Loewenstein, she placed 123 Jewish children in foster families in North Limburg, saving them from deportation and death.
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Biography of Lou Bandy (excerpt)
Lodewijk Ferdinand Dieben (April 19, 1890 – June 24, 1959), known as Lou Bandy, was a popular Dutch singer and conferencier between the world wars. Raised in The Hague, he worked various jobs before starting his entertainment career in 1915. Initially performing with his brother as The Bandy Brothers, he later pursued a solo career.
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Biography of Pastora Imperio (excerpt)
Pastora Imperio is the artistic name of Pastora Rojas Monje (April 13, 1885, in Seville – September 14, 1979, in Madrid), a dancer from Seville and one of the most representative figures of flamenco folklore of all times. She was the great-grandmother of the Spanish actress Pastora Vega.
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Biography of Suhayr al-Qalamawi (excerpt)
Sahier al-Qalamawi (Arabic: سهير القلماوي; July 20, 1911 – May 4, 1997) was a significant literary figure and politician from Egypt who shaped Arabic writing and culture through her writing, feminist activism, and advocacy. She was one of the first women to attend Cairo University and in 1941 became the first Egyptian woman to earn her Master of Arts Degree and PhD for her work in Arabic literature.
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Biography of Maria Silva Cruz (excerpt)
Maria Silva Cruz (April 20, 1915 – August 23, 1936), an Andalusian anarchist known as "La Libertaria," was a hero of the Casas Viejas Uprising in Spain. Born in Cádiz, her parents were day laborers, and her father and uncle were members of the CNT, an anarchist group.
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Biography of Katherine Anne Porter (excerpt)
Katherine Anne Porter (May 15, 1890 – September 18, 1980) was an American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, poet and political activist. Her 1962 novel Ship of Fools was the best-selling novel in America that year, but her short stories received much more critical acclaim.
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Biography of Anthony Warde (excerpt)
Anthony Warde (born Benjamin Schwartz; November 4, 1908 (Wikipedia has an error) – January 8, 1975) was an American actor who appeared in over 150 movies from 1937 to 1964. Early years Born as Benjamin Schwartz in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on New Year's Day 1909, Warde was raised in Danbury, Connecticut.
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Biography of W. Nelson Francis (excerpt)
W. Nelson Francis (October 23, 1910 – June 14, 2002) was an American author, linguist, and university professor. He served as a member of the faculties of Franklin & Marshall College and Brown University, where he specialized in English and corpus linguistics.
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Biography of Marcel Michelin (excerpt)
Marcel Michelin (Paris, April 12, 1886 - Ohrdruf, January 21, 1945), son of André Michelin, was a French businessman. Founder and first president in 1911 of the Association sportive Michelin (later AS Montferrand), a resistance fighter during World War II, he died in deportation at Buchenwald. ![]()
Biography of Genevičve Aclocque (excerpt)
Genevičve Aclocque (Léopoldine Marcelle Genevičve Aclocque) (5 May 1884 - 28 August 1967) was a French historian. In 1906, She became the first woman to be admitted to the École Nationale des Chartes.She graduated in 1910. In 1917 she published a “historical study of the trades at Chartres.” An ordinance of wool makers at Chartres allowed women to participate in trade.
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Biography of Rudolf Mendel (excerpt)
Rudolf Mendel (* October 18, 1907, in Berlin; † December 13, 1979, in the same city) was a German politician (CDU). Mendel attended the Mommsen-Gymnasium and completed a commercial apprenticeship at AEG. During the National Socialist period, he was persecuted and forced into labor during the war.
Biography of André Even (painter) (excerpt)
André Even, born on May 16, 1918, in Pont-Aven and died on March 14, 1997, in Lorient, was a French painter.Initially trained as a mechanic, he discovered painting through artists visiting his father's shop. During World War II, he left Pont-Aven and became a missionary.
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Biography of Lino Salini (excerpt)
Umberto Lino Salini (* December 27, 1889 in Frankfurt am Main; † December 20, 1944 in Würzburg) was a German painter and caricaturist.Salini is often compared to Heinrich Zille because he liked to choose motifs for his drawings from a specific milieu: the apple wine taverns of Sachsenhausen.
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Biography of David Webster (opera manager) (excerpt)
Sir David Lumsden Webster KCVO FRCM (3 July 1903 – 9 May 1971) was the chief executive of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, from 1945 to 1970. He played a key part in the establishment of the Royal Ballet and Royal Opera companies.
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Biography of Priscilla Lane (excerpt)
Priscilla Lane (born Priscilla Mullican; June 12, 1915 – April 4, 1995) was an American actress, and the youngest sibling in the Lane Sisters' family of singers and actresses. She is best remembered for her roles in the films The Roaring Twenties (1939) co-starring with James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart; Saboteur (1942), an Alfred Hitchcock film in which she plays the heroine; and Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), in which she portrays Cary Grant's fiancée and bride.
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Biography of Margarete Buber-Neumann (excerpt)
Margarete Buber-Neumann (née Thüring; 21 October 1901 – 6 November 1989) was a German writer. As a senior Communist Party of Germany member and Gulag survivor, which turned her into staunch anti-communist, she wrote the famous memoir Under Two Dictators. It begins with her arrest in Moscow during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge, followed by her imprisonment as a political prisoner in both the Soviet Gulag and the Nazi concentration camp system, after being handed over by the NKVD to the Gestapo during World War II.
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Biography of Avoth Yeshurun (excerpt)
Avoth Yeshurun (1904–1992; Hebrew אבות ישורון, born Yehiel Perlmutter) was a celebrated modern Hebrew poet and winner of the Israel Prize for literature in 1992. His time of birth comes from his daughter. Born on Yom Kippur in 1904 in Ukraine, he grew up speaking Yiddish and moved to the British Mandate of Palestine in 1925, where he initially worked in various manual jobs.
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Biography of Albert Chavanac (excerpt)
Albert Chavanac, born on October 19, 1909, in Saumur, and died on September 14, 1972, in Rennes, was a French politician and a Companion of the Liberation. He joined the Free French Forces in 1940, fighting notably in Syria and Libya before participating in the liberation of Italy.
Biography of Clarice Taylor (excerpt)
Clarice Taylor (September 20, 1917 – May 30, 2011) was an American stage, film and television actress.She is best known for playing Cousin Emma on Sanford and Son and the mother of Cliff Huxtable, Anna Huxtable on The Cosby Show.and Mrs. ![]()
Biography of Karin Booth (excerpt)
Karin Booth (born June Francis Hoffman, June 19, 1916 – July 27, 2003) was an American film and TV actress of the 1940s to 1960s. Life and career She was born June Francis Hoffman on June 19, 1916, in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Francis T.
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Biography of Joachim Lemelsen (excerpt)
Joachim Lemelsen (26 September 1888 – 30 March 1954) was a German general during World War II who rose to army-level command.Wikipedia has 28 September in error. During Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, troops of the XLVII Motorized Corps under his command executed the criminal Commissar Order, prompting Lemelsen to complain: "Soon the Russians will get to hear about the countless corpses lying along the routes taken by our soldiers (..). ![]()
Biography of Richard Gaines (excerpt)
Richard Houston Gaines (July 23, 1904 – July 20, 1975) was an American actor.He appeared in over 75 film and television productions between 1940 and 1962. Early years Gaines was born in Indian Territory and grew up in Texas, learning "to handle the ax, the plough, and the lariat".
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Biography of Lao She (excerpt)
Shu Qingchun (3 February 1899 – 24 August 1966), known by his pen name Lao She, was a Manchu novelist and dramatist. He was a writer of 20th-century Chinese literature, known for his novel Rickshaw Boy and the play Teahouse (茶馆). He was of Manchu ethnicity, and his works are known for their vivid use of the Beijing dialect.
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Biography of Raymond Meyer (excerpt)
Raymond Meyer, also known by his war name Jacques Marsay (Paris, August 28, 1918 - Livry-Gargan, December 31, 2002), was a French military officer during World War II and a Companion of the Liberation. Death: Raymond Meyer died accidentally after being struck by a motorcyclist on December 31, 2002, in Livry-Gargan, where he was buried.
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Biography of Ludwig Renn (excerpt)
Ludwig Renn (born Arnold Friedrich Vieth von Golßenau; 22 April 1889 – 21 July 1979) was a German author.Born a Saxon nobleman, he later became a committed communist and lived in East Berlin. Importance Renn was one of the founders of proletarian‒revolutionary literature in Germany.
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Biography of Céleste Albaret (excerpt)
Céleste Albaret, born on May 17, 1891, and died on April 25, 1984, was the devoted servant of Marcel Proust.Married in 1913 to Odilon Albaret, Proust's driver, she became the writer's servant at 23. She supported him daily until his death in 1922, contributing to his literary work.
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Biography of Luigi Fantappič (excerpt)
Luigi Fantappič (15 September 1901 – 28 July 1956) was an Italian mathematician known for his work in mathematical analysis and the creation of the theory of analytic functionals, being a student and follower of Vito Volterra. He was born in Viterbo and graduated from the University of Pisa in 1922.
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Biography of Gabriel Chevallier (writer) (excerpt)
Gabriel Chevallier, born on May 3, 1895, in Lyon (birth certificate n° 333) and died on April 5, 1969, in Cannes, was a French writer. Born in the 5th arrondissement of Lyon, the son of a notary's clerk, Chevallier studied at various institutions, including the religious college Sainte-Marie in Saint-Chamond.
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Biography of Rosa Stallbaumer (excerpt)
Rosa (Hoffman) Stallbaumer (30 November 1897 – 23 November 1942) was a member of the Austrian Resistance during World War II. Her name is one of 124 names of women and men from Tyrol, Austria inscribed on the Liberation Monument at The Eduard-Wallnöfer-Platz in Innsbruck in recognition of both her involvement in resisting National Socialism and of her death at Auschwitz, following her incarceration at that Nazi concentration camp as punishment for helping Jewish targets of Nazi persecution escape to Italy.
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Biography of Leonard Schapiro (excerpt)
Leonard Bertram Naman Schapiro CBE (22 April 1908 in Glasgow – 2 November 1983 in London) was the leading British scholar of the origins and development of the Soviet political system.He taught for many years at the London School of Economics, where he was Professor of Political Science with Special Reference to Russian Studies.
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Biography of Ragnhild Butenschřn (excerpt)
Ragnhild Butenschřn (21 September 1912 – 3 September 1992) was a renowned Norwegian sculptor known for her church art. Born in Kristiania, she lost her mother at eleven and was raised by relatives.Trained by Vilmos Aba-Novák in Budapest and Wilhelm Rasmussen in Oslo, she married publisher Barthold A.
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Biography of Lotte Ulbricht (excerpt)
Charlotte "Lotte" Ulbricht (née Kühn; April 19, 1903 – March 27, 2002) was an official of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and the second wife of East German leader Walter Ulbricht. Born in Rixdorf, she worked as an office worker before joining the communist movement in 1919.
Biography of Tucker McGuire (excerpt)
Anne Tucker McGuire (29 January 1913 in Winchester, Virginia, US – 3 August 1988 in London, England) was an American-born actress who appeared largely in British films and television. She married actor Tom Macaulay. She appeared in the 1949 West End musical Her Excellency.
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Biography of Catherine Drinker Bowen (excerpt)
Catherine Drinker Bowen (January 1, 1897 – November 1, 1973) was an American biographer and writer.Born into a Quaker family on the Haverford College campus, she initially studied music but ultimately chose writing as her career. Despite having no formal writing education, she became a bestselling biographer, known for doing her own research and sometimes interviewing without taking notes.
Biography of Alexander Imich (excerpt)
Alexander Herbert Imich (February 4, 1903 – June 8, 2014) was a Polish-American chemist, parapsychologist, zoologist and writer who was the president of the Anomalous Phenomena Research Center in New York City. He was born in 1903 in Częstochowa, Poland (then part of the Russian Empire) to a Jewish family.
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Biography of Noël Delberghe (excerpt)
Noël Delberghe, born December 25, 1897, in Tourcoing and died September 17, 1965, in Paris, was a French water polo player. Noël Delberghe was a member of the Enfants de Neptune of Tourcoing. He won the Olympic gold medal in water polo at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris and earned a silver medal at the 1927 European Championships in Bologna.
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Biography of Ester Horn (excerpt)
Ester Horn, born Ester Lind Jynge on June 19, 1902, in Kristiania, and passed away on April 14, 1993, in Stabekk, Bćrum, was a Norwegian humanist. Along with her husband Kristian Horn, she was among the founders of the Association for Civil Confirmation in 1950 and the Human-Ethical Union in 1956.
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Biography of Robert de Saint Jean (excerpt)
Robert de Saint Jean (12 June 1901 – 16 January 1987) was a French writer and journalist. He was the companion of the French-speaking American writer Julien Green. Like the latter, he kept a diary which he published and allows to understand the French cultural life over several decades.
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Biography of Wanda Krahelska (excerpt)
Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz (15 December 1886 – 5 February 1968), code name “Alinka”” or “Alicja”, was a leading figure in Warsaw’s underground resistance movement throughout the years of German occupation during World War II in Poland, co-founder of Żegota. As the well-connected wife of a former ambassador to Washington, she used her contacts with both the military and political leadership of the Polish Underground to materially influence the underground's policy of aiding Poland's Jewish population during the war.
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Biography of Álvaro Yunque (excerpt)
Álvaro Yunque (born Arístides Enrique José Roque Gandolfi Herrero in La Plata, Argentina, on June 20, 1889; died in Tandil on January 8, 1982) was an Argentine writer known from the 1920s, contributing to various magazines and publishing numerous books. A storyteller, playwright, historian, essayist, and predominantly a poet, his work spans over fifty published and numerous unpublished titles.
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Biography of Art Lund (excerpt)
Arthur Lund (1915-1990) was an American baritone singer and actor.A graduate in aerological engineering, he began his career as a high school math teacher and musician, eventually working with Benny Goodman and Harry James. His solo hit "Mam'selle" topped the Billboard chart in 1947.
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Biography of Joe Savoldi (excerpt)
Joseph Anthony Savoldi Jr., (born Giuseppe Antonio Savoldi; March 5, 1908 – January 25, 1974) more commonly known by his nickname "Jumping Joe" Savoldi, was an Italian-American professional wrestler, football player, and Special Ops agent for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II.
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Biography of Fritz Rentrop (excerpt)
Fritz Rentrop, born on November 19, 1917, in Münster, Westphalia, and presumed dead on February 2, 1945, was an officer of the Waffen-SS during World War II, holding the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
Biography of Julien Gouet (excerpt)
Julien Gouet, born on October 21, 1910, in Fillé and died on December 15, 1988, was a French Catholic priest who served as Auxiliary Bishop of Paris from 1966 until his death on December 15, 1988.
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Biography of Mario Zagari (excerpt)
Mario Zagari (14 September 1913 – 29 February 1996) was an Italian socialist politician, who served in the Italian Parliament and in the European parliament as well as in the Italian governments in various capacities. Early life and education Zagari was born in Milan on 14 September 1913.
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Biography of Isabel García Lorca (writer) (excerpt)
Isabel García Lorca, born in Granada on October 11, 1909 and died on January 9, 2002 in Madrid, is a Spanish academic and writer exiled to the United States after the Spanish Civil War. She is the sister of Federico García Lorca and dedicated a large part of her life to his legacy.
Biography of Franz Hack (excerpt)
Franz Hack (February 3, 1915 - June 9, 1997) was a German officer who served in the Deutsches Heer (German Army) during World War II. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.
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Biography of Simone Michel-Lévy (excerpt)
Simone Michel-Lévy, born on January 19, 1906, in Chaussin and hanged on April 13, 1945, in Flossenbürg, was a prominent figure in the French Resistance during World War II. Starting her career in the PTT (Postal, Telegraph, and Telephone Services) in 1924, she used her position to establish a secret information agency within the Regional Telephone Directorate in Paris.
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Biography of Hans-Gustav Felber (excerpt)
Hans-Gustav Felber (July 8, 1889 – March 8, 1962) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. From 15 October 1939 Felber was the chief of staff of the 2nd Army, becoming chief of staff of the Army Group Centre in February 1940. ![]()
Biography of Aldo Fabrizi (excerpt)
Aldo Fabrizi, born Aldo Fabbrizi on November 1, 1905, and passing on April 2, 1990, was an acclaimed Italian actor, director, screenwriter, and comedian. Best known for his role as the priest in Roberto Rossellini's neorealist drama "Rome, Open City," and for his comedic partnerships with Totň, Fabrizi began his career on stage in 1931 in Rome. |
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