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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 Carlo Dapporto (excerpt)
Carlo Dapporto (26 June 1911 – 1 October 1989) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 35 films between 1944 and 1987. He was born in Sanremo, Italy and died in Rome, Italy. His son Massimo Dapporto is also an actor.
Biography of Knut Blom (excerpt)
Knut Blom (February 14, 1916 – February 6, 1996) was a prominent Norwegian judge who served as a Supreme Court Justice from 1968 until his retirement in 1986. Born in Kristiania (now Oslo), he completed his law degree in 1939 and began his legal career in Melbu.
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 William Tubbs (excerpt)
William Tubbs (May 10, 1907 – January 25, 1953) was an American stage and film actor.He appeared in a number of European films in the years after the Second World War, including several by Roberto Rossellini. Bibliography Bondanella, Peter.The Films of Roberto Rossellini.
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 Isidro Fabela (excerpt)
José Isidro Fabela Alfaro (29 June 1882 – 12 August 1964) was a Mexican judge, politician, professor, writer, publisher, governor of the State of Mexico, diplomat, and delegate to the now defunct League of Nations. Fabela was born in Atlacomulco, Mexico State.
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 Inez Asher (excerpt)
Inez Asher, born Inez Harriett Silverberg on January 1, 1911, was an American novelist and television writer.Her time of birth comes from her birth certificate, which lacks the exact hour but states that she was born on January 10, and from the local newspaper, which reports her birth on December 31, 1910.
Biography of Ivan Daja (excerpt)
Ivan Đaja (Serbian Cyrillic: Иван Ђаја, French: Jean Giaja; 21 July 1884 – 1 October 1957) was a Serbian biologist, physiologist, author and philosopher. He was founder of the Chair for physiology at the Serbian Institute for Physiology, rector of the University of Belgrade, and member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts.
Biography of Robert D. Nesen (excerpt)
Robert Dean Nesen, born on January 22, 1918, and passing away on November 14, 2005, was an American car dealer and diplomat.His birth time comes from one of his friends. He served as the U.S.Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management and Comptroller) from 1972 to 1974 and as the U.S.
Biography of Rachel Baes (excerpt)
Rachel Baes (August 1, 1912 – June 8, 1983) was a Belgian surrealist painter and photographer.Born in Ixelles to painter Émile Baes, she started painting young, influenced by Flemish Expressionism. She exhibited in Paris in 1929.Baes' romantic involvement with Flemish nationalist Joris Van Severen deeply impacted her life, especially after his execution in 1940.
Biography of Edmée Jarlaud (excerpt)
Edmée Jarlaud, born Edmée Jeanne Jacob on July 10, 1910 in Paris 20th and died in April 1939 in Beynes (Yvelines), was a French aviator who broke several records including that of female endurance on a glider (5 hours) on September 15, 1937.
Biography of Roy Barcroft (excerpt)
Roy Barcroft (born Howard Harold Ravenscroft; September 7, 1902 – November 28, 1969) was an American character actor famous for playing villains in B-Westerns and other genres. From 1937 to 1957, he appeared in more than 300 films for Republic Pictures. Film critic Leonard Maltin acclaimed Barcroft as "Republic Pictures' number one bad guy".
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 Germaine Dulac (excerpt)
Germaine Dulac, born Charlotte Élisabeth Germaine Saisset-Schneider on November 17, 1882, in Amiens, and died on July 20, 1942, in Paris, was a French film director, producer, and screenwriter. She began her career in 1906 as a feminist journalist for La Française.
Biography of Jean Gachet (excerpt)
Jean Gachet (2 June 1894 in Saint-Étienne – 4 February 1968) was a French featherweight boxer. He competed in the 1920s. Gachet won a silver medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics, losing to Paul Fritsch in the final. Olympic results 1st round bye
Biography of Adelqui Migliar (excerpt)
Adelqui Migliar (5 August 1891 – 6 August 1956), also known as Adelqui Millar, was a Chilean film actor, director, screenwriter and producer. He appeared in 31 silent films between 1916 and 1928. He also directed 24 films between 1922 and 1954.
Biography of Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (excerpt)
Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (1900–1975) was an Italian archaeologist and art historian.Born into Siena's aristocracy, his early research focused on Etruscan centers near his family lands. Disgusted by Italian fascism, he converted to communism after World War II and co-founded the magazine "Società" in 1945.
Biography of Federico Borrell (excerpt)
Federico Borrell García (3 January 1912 – 5 September 1936) was a Spanish Republican and anarchist militiaman during the Spanish Civil War, believed to be the subject in Robert Capa's famous photo, The Falling Soldier. Born in Benilloba, he worked at a mill in Alcoi and founded a local branch of the anarchist FIJL.
Biography of Stanislaw Wigura (excerpt)
Stanisław Wigura (9 April 1901 – 11 September 1932) was a Polish aircraft designer and aviator, co-founder of the RWD aircraft construction team and lecturer at the Warsaw University of Technology. Along with Franciszek Żwirko, he won the international air contest Challenge 1932.
Biography of Ilse Trautschold (excerpt)
Ilse Gertrud Trautschold (1906-1991) was a German actress and cabaret performer.Born in Charlottenburg, the daughter of an actor, she began her career as a choir singer at 14 and trained at the Volksbühne Berlin. She joined the leftist Berlin cabaret "Die Wespen" in 1926 and performed in various theaters and films during the Nazi era.
Biography of Jo Giaever Tenfjord (excerpt)
Johanne Giæver Tenfjord (13 August 1918 – 12 June 2007) was a Norwegian librarian, educator, children's writer and translator. Personal life She was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway.She was the daughter of Harald Birger Giæver (1873-1943) and Rut Berger (1893-1959).Her brother was publisher Knut T.
Biography of Gaby Casadesus (excerpt)
Gaby Casadesus (August 9, 1901 – November 12, 1999) was a French classical pianist and teacher born in Marseille.She was married to the French pianist Robert Casadesus and their son Jean was also a notable pianist. Born Gabrielle l'Hôte, she studied at the Paris Conservatory with Louis Diémer and Marguerite Long and was awarded the first prize in piano at age 16.
Biography of Lina Òdena (excerpt)
Paulina Òdena García, better known as Lina Òdena, was born in Barcelona on January 22, 1911. She was a communist leader and militiawoman in the Spanish Civil War who committed suicide on September 14, 1936, near Granada to avoid capture by fascists.
Biography of Alf Løvberg (excerpt)
Alf Gunnar Løvberg (19 September 1898 (Wikipedia gives 1899 in error) – 17 October 1986) was a Norwegian painter from Oslo. Løvberg, who was the son of an orchestra musician, was a student of Christian Krohg and Halfdan Strøm at the Norwegian Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo.
Biography of Sady Zañartu (excerpt)
Sady Zañartu (May 6, 1893 – March 5, 1983) was a Chilean writer who created foundational works in the genres of Criollismo, historical anecdote, and patriotic valorization of the nation.He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1974. Sady Zañartu, born in Taltal, Chile, was the younger of two sons to parents who were farmers and miners.
Biography of Charles Bardot (excerpt)
Charles Bardot was a French international football player, born on April 7, 1904, in Conakry, Guinea, and died in late April 1973 in Cannes. He played as a center forward. He earned six caps and scored three goals for the French national A team between 1925 and 1932.
Biography of Aarón Sáenz (excerpt)
Aarón Sáenz Garza, born June 1, 1891, in Monterrey, Nuevo León, was a significant Mexican politician.He served as the Secretary of Foreign Affairs under President Calles, staunchly defending the administration's decision to cut oil supplies to the United States. He was also Governor of Nuevo León and close to Calles, involving himself in the aftermath of President-elect Alvaro Obregon's assassination.
Biography of Alessandro Natta (excerpt)
Alessandro Natta (7 January 1918 – 23 May 2001) was an Italian politician and secretary of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) from 1984 to 1988. An illuminist, Jacobin, and communist, as he used to describe himself, Natta represented the political and cultural prototype of a PCI militant and party member for over fifty years of the Italian democratic-republican history.
Biography of Christian Herter (excerpt)
Christian Archibald Herter (March 28, 1895 – December 30, 1966) was an American diplomat and Republican politician who was the 59th Governor of Massachusetts from 1953 to 1957 and United States Secretary of State from 1959 to 1961.He served as president of the board of trustees at the Dexter School from 1937 to 1939.
Biography of Karolina Lanckoronska (excerpt)
Countess Karolina Maria Adelajda Franciszka Ksawera Małgorzata Edina Lanckorońska (11 August 1898 — 25 August 2002) was a Polish noble, World War II resistance fighter, philanthropist, and historian. Lanckorońska bequeathed her family's enormous art collection to Poland only after her homeland became free from communism and Soviet domination during the Revolutions of 1989.
Biography of Óscar Murúa (excerpt)
José Óscar Francisco Murúa Robledo (January 25, 1898 – April 1, 1980) was a prominent Guatemalan artist born to Spanish immigrants. In 1903, his family moved from Guatemala to Madrid, Spain, where he later studied Commerce. Returning to Guatemala in 1915, he settled in Antigua Guatemala in 1946, focusing on rebuilding a property into a hotel.
Biography of Annie M.G. Schmidt (excerpt)
Anna Maria Geertruida "Annie" Schmidt (20 May 1911 – 21 May 1995) was a Dutch writer.She is called the mother of the Dutch theatrical song, and the queen of Dutch children's literature, praised for her "delicious Dutch idiom," and considered one of the greatest Dutch writers.
Biography of Arturo Uslar Pietri (excerpt)
Arturo Uslar Pietri (May 16, 1906 - February 26, 2001) was a prominent Venezuelan intellectual, historian, writer, TV producer, and politician. Born in Caracas to parents with diverse cultural backgrounds, Uslar Pietri played a significant role in Venezuelan politics and culture.
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.
Biography of Daniel Schorr (excerpt)
Daniel Louis Schorr (August 31, 1916 – July 23, 2010) was an American journalist who covered world news for more than 60 years. He was most recently a Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio (NPR). Schorr won three Emmy Awards for his television journalism.
Biography of Enrique Iturriaga (excerpt)
Enrique Iturriaga Romero (born April 3, 1918, in Lima, Peru – died November 23, 2019) was a Peruvian composer, professor, pianist, rector, teacher, and music critic. Iturriaga studied composition, music theory, and piano at the National Conservatory of Music (1945-1950).He then continued his studies in Paris under Arthur Honegger.
Biography of Thorleif Heyerdahl (excerpt)
Thorleif Heyerdahl (born 16 April 1900 in Oslo, died 11 February 1981 in Lillehammer) was a Norwegian painter. Heyerdahl lived 20 years of his life on Tjøme, where many of his motifs are also from. He also took motifs from Svolvær and later from Gausdal, Gudbrandsdalen and the Lillehammer area, especially after he moved to Lillehammer in 1953.
Biography of André Nicolle (excerpt)
André Nicolle is a French actor born June 1, 1885 in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, city where he died on February 25, 1945 at his home in the 16th arrondissement.
Biography of Ragnhild Butenschøn (excerpt)
Ragnhild Butenschøn (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.
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 Kornelis Heiko Miskotte (excerpt)
Kornelis Heiko Miskotte (23 September 1894 in Utrecht – 31 August 1976 in Voorst) was a Dutch Protestant theologian and a representative of dialectical theology.
Biography of Stefan Wolpe (excerpt)
Stefan Wolpe (25 August 1902, Berlin – 4 April 1972, New York City) was a German-Jewish-American composer. He was associated with interdisciplinary modernism, with affiliations ranging from the Bauhaus, Berlin agitprop theater and the kibbutz movement to the Eighth Street Artists' Club, Black Mountain College, and the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music.
Biography of Edmond Marin la Meslée (excerpt)
Edmond Marin la Meslée, born on February 5, 1912 in Valenciennes and killed in combat on February 4, 1945 in Dessenheim (Haut-Rhin), is the most decorated French aviation ace of the French campaign with sixteen confirmed aerial victories (and four more probable) achieved between January and June 1940.
Biography of Helga Stene (excerpt)
Helga Stene (8 October 1904 – 2 October 1983) was a Norwegian educator, feminist and resistance member.She was born in Notodden, and was a sister of Aasta Stene.She graduated from the University of Oslo in 1932.She lectured a few years at universities in Berlin and in Sweden.
Biography of Emilia Ortiz (excerpt)
Emilia Ortiz Pérez (Tepic, Nayarit, February 10, 1917 – Tepic, Nayarit, November 24, 2012) was a Nayarit Mexican painter, cartoonist, caricaturist, and poet, best known for her watercolors she made of the indigenous groups in her area, and the caricatures she created from an early age of political figures and those she knew.
Biography of Felix Schlag (excerpt)
Felix Oscar Schlag (September 4, 1891 – March 9, 1974) was a German born American sculptor who was the designer of the United States five cent coin in use from 1938 to 2004. He was born to Karl and Teresa Schlag in Frankfurt, Germany where as a young man, he served in the German army of World War I.
Biography of Jan Romein (excerpt)
Jan Marius Nicolas Romein (30 October 1893 – 16 July 1962) was a Dutch historian, journalist, literary scholar and professor of history at the University of Amsterdam. A Marxist and a student of Huizinga, Romein is remembered for his popularizing books of Dutch national history, jointly authored with his wife Annie Romein-Verschoor.
Biography of Paul Wagner (actor) (excerpt)
Paul Wagner, born on August 24, 1899, in Cologne, Germany, and died on January 11, 1970, was a German actor and the brother of actor Konrad Wagner. He started his film career in the early 1930s, with one of his first notable roles in Richard Oswald's "Der Hauptmann von Köpenick" (1931).
Biography of Albert Kluyver (excerpt)
Albert Jan Kluyver (3 June 1888 – 14 May 1956) was a Dutch microbiologist and biochemist renowned for his pivotal work on biochemical unity. His 1926 paper, "Die Einheit in der Biochemie" ("Unity in Biochemistry"), co-authored with Hendrick Jean Louis Donker, established the concept that all organisms are biochemically similar, famously summarized by Kluyver's aphorism: "From elephant to butyric acid bacterium – it is all the same". |
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