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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 Yelizaveta Chaikina (excerpt)
Yelizaveta Ivanovna Chaikina (Russian: Елизавета Чайкина; 28 August 1918 – 23 November 1941) often referred to as Liza Chaikina, was the Secretary of the Kalinin Komsomol Penovsky underground committee, a Soviet partisan detachment organizer and posthumous Heroine of the Soviet Union.
Biography of César Moro (excerpt)
César Moro (August 31, 1903 – January 10, 1956) is the pseudonym of Alfredo Quíspez-Asín Mas, a Peruvian poet and painter. Most of his poetic works are written in French; he was the only Latin American poet included in the 1920s and '30s surrealist journals of André Breton and the first Latin American artist to join the surrealist group on his own initiative, as opposed to being recruited by Breton.
Biography of Afifa Karam (excerpt)
Afifa Karam (July 22, 1883 – July 28, 1924) was a Lebanese-American journalist, novelist, and translator. She wrote for the New York-based Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hoda and authored three Arabic novels along with several translations from English and French. An advocate for women's rights and Arab feminism, she promoted social emancipation and education for Levantine-American immigrants.
Biography of Tito Lusiardo (excerpt)
Tito Lusiardo (September 13, 1896 – June 25, 1982 in Buenos Aires) was an iconic Argentine film actor and tango singer of the classic era. Lusiardo began acting for film in 1933 and made some 50 film appearances as an actor. He began appearing in tango films in the 1930s such as Idolos de la radio (1934), Así es el tango (1937), Adiós Buenos Aires (1938) and Así te quiero (1942).
Biography of Michel Polonovski (excerpt)
Michel Polonovski was a French academic and trade unionist. Born on May 25, 1889, in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin), he became an agrégé professor in Lille in 1920. He held the chair of organic chemistry in 1924 and was appointed full professor of biological chemistry at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris in 1937.
Biography of Libertas Schulze-Boysen (excerpt)
Libertas "Libs" Schulze-Boysen, born Libertas Viktoria Haas-Heye (20 November 1913 in Paris – 22 December 1942 in Plötzensee Prison ) was a German aristocrat, journalist, and resistance fighter against the Nazis.From the early 1930s to 1940, Libs attempted to build a literary career, initially as a press officer and later as a writer and journalist.
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.
Biography of Werner Zimmermann (excerpt)
Werner Zimmermann (born June 21, 1893, in Lyss; died August 29, 1982, in Ringgenberg) was a Swiss life reformer, follower of Silvio Gesell's Freiwirtschaft economic theory, naturist, and writer. His time of birth comes from von Klöckner in "Sterne und Mensch".
Biography of Peggy Wood (excerpt)
Mary Margaret Wood (February 9, 1892 – March 18, 1978) was an American actress of stage, film, and television. She is best remembered for her performance as the title character in the CBS television series Mama (1949–1957), for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series; her starring role as Naomi, Ruth's mother-in-law, in The Story of Ruth (1960); and her final screen appearance as Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music (1965), for which she received an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award.
Biography of Lotte Reiniger (excerpt)
Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger (2 June 1899 – 19 June 1981) was a German film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation.Her best known films are The Adventures of Prince Achmed, from 1926, the first feature-length animated film, and Papageno (1935).
Biography of René Montis (excerpt)
René Montis, stage name of René Émile Louis Maunoury, was a French actor and producer, born on December 20, 1888 in Pantin and died on March 2, 1959 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. An actor until the early 1930s, René Montis later became a production director and producer.
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.
Biography of Étienne Fajon (excerpt)
Étienne Fajon, born September 11, 1906 in Jonquičres (Hérault) and died December 4, 1991 in Argenteuil, is a French schoolteacher and politician. Member of the central committee and the political bureau of the French Communist Party, he was director of Humanité from 1958 to 1974 and deputy from 1936 to 1940, from 1945 to 1958 and from 1962 to 1978.
Biography of Andrée Lafayette (excerpt)
Andrée Rose Godard (19 May 1903 – 3 October 1989), known by her stage-name as Andrée Lafayette, also known by her self-invented title as Countess Andrée de la Bigne, was a French stage and film actress, and granddaughter of the infamous demi-mondaine (prostitute) Émilie Louise Delabigne who was known by her self-invented title as Countess Valtesse de La Bigne.
Biography of Martha Sharp (excerpt)
Martha Ingham Dickie Sharp Cogan (April 25, 1905 – December 6, 1999) was an American Unitarian who was involved in humanitarian and social justice work with her first husband, a Unitarian minister, Waitstill Sharp, and others of her denomination, and so helped hundreds of Jews to escape Nazi persecution, through relocation and other efforts.
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.
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.
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.
Biography of Helena Kuipers-Rietberg (excerpt)
Helena Theodora Kuipers-Rietberg (Winterswijk, 1893 – Ravensbrück, 27 December 1944) was a Dutch resistance member who played an important role during World War II, when she was one of the driving forces of a national underground organization that supported those who were hiding from the German occupying forces.
Biography of Jakob van Hoddis (excerpt)
Jakob van Hoddis, born Hans Davidsohn, was a German expressionist poet, born on May 16, 1887, in Berlin, and perished in 1942 at Sobibor.A friend of Georg Heym, he was a forerunner of Dadaism.As a poet, Jew, and mentally ill person, he became a symbolic victim of the Nazis' extermination policy.
Biography of Yi Bangja (excerpt)
Yi Bangja, Crown Princess of Korea (4 November 1901 – 30 April 1989) was the wife of Crown Prince Euimin, the last Crown Prince of the Korean Empire. Her birth time comes from the biography The World is One: Princess Yi Pangja's Autobiography by Pang-ja Yi (Taewon, 1973).
Biography of Paulette Nardal (excerpt)
Paulette Nardal, born on October 12, 1896, in Le François, Martinique, and died on February 16, 1985, in Fort-de-France, was a French woman of letters and journalist. An activist for the black cause alongside her sister Jeanne, she was one of the inspirations behind the literary movement of Négritude and the first black woman to study at the Sorbonne.
Biography of Jacques Vaché (excerpt)
Jacques Vaché (7 September 1895 – 6 January 1919) was a friend of André Breton, an artist and author. Vaché was one of the chief inspirations behind the Surrealist movement. As Breton said: "En littérature, je me suis successivement épris de Rimbaud, de Jarry, d'Apollinaire, de Nouveau, de Lautréamont, mais c'est ŕ Jacques Vaché que je dois le plus"
Biography of Leopoldo Valentini (excerpt)
Leopoldo Valentini, born in Rome on March 4, 1907, and died in the same city on January 26, 1983, was an Italian actor. Leopoldo Valentini began his career in review theater, establishing himself as a high-quality actor both in mimetic and dramatic roles.
Biography of Leda Gloria (excerpt)
Leda Gloria (30 August 1908 – 16 March 1997) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 66 films between 1929 and 1965. During the expansion of Italian cinema of the Fascist era of the 1930s and early 1940s she appeared in starring roles, later transitioning into character parts after the Second World War.
Biography of Eudora Welty (excerpt)
Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American short story writer, novelist, and photographer. She is known for her works portraying the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty received numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Order of the South.
Biography of Pierre Boillot (excerpt)
Pierre Boillot was a French World War II fighter pilot and ace.He was born on June 22, 1918 in Laissey and died on September 1, 1994 in Paris. After the Second World War, he decided to continue his career in the Air Force.
Biography of Roger Mompezat (excerpt)
Roger Georges Mompezat was born in Bordeaux on April 3, 1899 and died on March 21, 1958 in Toulouse. With Henri Sevenet, member of S.O.E (F), he founded the Corps franc de la Montagne Noire. From the start of the war, he took an active part in the Resistance and was a member of several resistance networks.
Biography of Alice Zeppilli (excerpt)
Alice Zeppilli (28 August 1881 (Wikipedia incorrectly lists 1885) – 14 September 1969) was a French operatic soprano of Italian heritage who had an active international singing career from 1901 to 1930. The pinnacle of her career was in the United States where she enjoyed great popularity between 1906 and 1914; particularly in the cities of Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia.
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.
Biography of Véra Sergine (excerpt)
Véra Sergine (Marie Roche) was a French actress, born Marie, Marguerite, Aimée Roche, on August 18, 1884, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, and died on August 19, 1946, in Cagnes-sur-Mer (Alpes-Maritimes). Véra Sergine was born at 88 Rue Claude Bernard at 11 o'clock in the evening.
Biography of Jane Jacobs (excerpt)
Jane Isabel Jacobs (née Butzner; May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) was an American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who shaped urban studies, sociology, and economics. Her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) criticized "urban renewal" and "slum clearance" for disregarding city-dwellers' needs.
Biography of Janis Carter (excerpt)
Janis Carter (born Janis Elinore Dremann, October 10, 1913 – July 30, 1994) was an American stage and film actress active in the 1940s and 1950s. She transitioned to television in the mid-1950s, co-hosting the NBC daytime game show "Feather Your Nest" with Bud Collyer.
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.
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.
Biography of Joseph Hirsch (painter) (excerpt)
Joseph Hirsch (25 April 1910 – 21 September 1981) was an American painter, illustrator, muralist and teacher. Social commentary was the backbone of Hirsch's art, especially works depicting civic corruption and racial injustice. His works are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and many other museums.
Biography of Pietro Bembo (excerpt)
Pietro Bembo, O.S.I.H. (Latin: Petrus Bembus; 20 May 1470 – 18 January 1547) was an Italian scholar, poet, and literary theorist who also was a member of the Knights Hospitaller, and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. As an intellectual of the Italian Renaissance (15th–16th c.), Pietro Bembo greatly influenced the development of the Tuscan dialect as a literary language for poetry and prose, which, by later codification into a standard language, became the modern Italian language.
Biography of Susie Sharp (excerpt)
Susie Marshall Sharp (July 7, 1907 – March 1, 1996) was an American jurist who served as the first female chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. She was not the first woman to head the highest court in a U.S.
Biography of Jane Novak (excerpt)
Jane Novak (born Johana Barbara Novak; January 12, 1896 – February 3, 1990) was an American actress of the silent film era.Her birth year and time come from a photo of her tombstone and from Ruth Waterbury's Photoplay (1940): "Jane Novak, born on January 12, 1897, at 2:00 PM, in St.
Biography of Alan Curtis (American actor) (excerpt)
Alan Curtis (born Harry Ueberroth or Harold Neberroth, July 24, 1909 – February 2, 1953) was an American film actor who appeared in over 50 films. Early life and career Born Harry Ueberroth or Harold Neberroth in Chicago, he began his career as a model before becoming an actor, appearing in local newspaper ads.
Biography of Jadwiga Dzido (excerpt)
Jadwiga Dzido (1918–1985) was a Polish resistance worker and pharmacy student who was arrested by the Gestapo in 1941 and deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp where she was subjected to forced operations.She was infected with bacteria, dirt and slivers of glass to test the effects of sulphonamide on healing infected wounds.
Biography of Harold Abrahams (excerpt)
Harold Maurice Abrahams CBE (15 December 1899 – 14 January 1978) was an English track and field athlete who won the gold medal in the 100 metres at the 1924 Olympics, a victory famously depicted in the film Chariots of Fire.
Biography of Margaret Woodrow Wilson (excerpt)
Margaret Woodrow Wilson (April 16, 1886 – February 12, 1944) was the eldest child of President Woodrow Wilson. Her time of birth was provided by her family. After her mother's death in 1914, she served as the White House social hostess. Margaret was born in Gainesville, Georgia, and later attended schools associated with her father's teaching career.
Biography of Gilbert Roland (excerpt)
Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso, known professionally as Gilbert Roland, was a Mexican-born American actor.Born on December 11, 1905, in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, he planned to become a bullfighter like his father. His family fled to the U.S.during Pancho Villa's reign, and he later moved to Hollywood.
Biography of Suzanne Grinberg (excerpt)
Suzanne Grinberg ( 25 January 1888 - 5 July 1972) was a pioneering French lawyer, feminist and pacifist. She was one of the women who participated in the Inter-Allied Women's Conference which opened in Paris in February 1919. In 1920, she was vice-president of the Association du Jeune Barreau and secretary of the central committee of the French Union for Women's Suffrage.
Biography of Jeanne Matthey (excerpt)
Jeanne-Marie Matthey-Jonais (25 January 1886 – 24 November 1980) was a French tennis player. She competed during the first two decades of the 20th century. Matthey won the French Open Women's Singles Championship four times in succession from 1909 to 1912, but lost the 1913 final to Marguerite Broquedis.
Biography of Jacques Presser (excerpt)
Jacob (Jacques) Presser (24 February 1899 – 30 April 1970) was a Dutch historian, writer, and poet, best known for his book Ashes in the Wind (The Destruction of the Dutch Jews), which chronicled the persecution of Jews in the Netherlands during World War II.
Biography of Lyne de Souza (excerpt)
Marie Émilienne Caisson, known as Lyne de Souza, was a French actress and music-hall artist. Born in Nice on February 24, 1914, she was crowned Miss Côte d'Azur in 1931 and Miss France in 1932.The daughter of a lawyer and a distant relative of Gabriel Fauré, she married Dr.
Biography of Dorothy Norman (excerpt)
Dorothy Norman (née Stecker; March 28, 1905 – April 12, 1997) was an American photographer, writer, editor, and arts patron known for her social activism. Her time of birth comes from her, in "Encounters: A Memoir" by Dorothy Norman (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987).
Biography of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (excerpt)
Margarete "Grete" Lihotzky (born 23 January 1897 in the Margareten district of Vienna, Austria-Hungary – 18 January 2000) was an Austrian architect and a communist activist in the Austrian resistance to Nazism. She is mostly remembered today for designing what is known as the Frankfurt kitchen. |
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