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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 Giuseppe Porelli (excerpt)
Giuseppe Porelli (24 November 1898 – 5 March 1982) was an Italian stage, film and television actor. Life and career Born Giuseppe Porcelli in Naples, he graduated from the Istituto Tecnico and became an employee of Ferrovie dello Stato. While there, he spent his free time involved in amateur dramatics.
Biography of Arnold Zadikow (excerpt)
Arnold Zadikow (27 March 1884, Kolberg – 8 March 1943, Theresienstadt ghetto) was a German-Jewish modernist sculptor and medalist. A student of Heinrich Waderé, he created portrait busts, gravestones, and plaques, often using biblical themes. His major work, a statue of David, was displayed at the Berlin Jewish Museum in 1933 but was lost during World War II.
Biography of Anita Brenner (excerpt)
Anita Brenner (born Hanna Brenner; 22 August 1905 – 1 December 1974) was a transnational Jewish scholar and intellectual who extensively wrote about Mexican art, culture, and history. Born in Mexico and educated in the U.S., she returned to Mexico post-Revolution and coined the term 'Mexican Renaissance' to describe the cultural growth.
Biography of Tina Modotti (excerpt)
Tina Modotti (born Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti Mondini, August 16, 1896 – January 5, 1942) was an Italian American photographer, model, actor, and revolutionary political activist for the Comintern. She left her native Italy in 1913 and emigrated to the United States, where she settled in San Francisco with her father and sister.
Biography of Silvan Tomkins (excerpt)
Silvan Solomon Tomkins (June 4, 1911 – June 10, 1991) was a psychologist and personality theorist who developed both affect theory and script theory. Following the publication of the third volume of his book Affect Imagery Consciousness in 1991, his body of work received renewed interest, leading to attempts by others to summarize and popularize his theories.
Biography of Tewhida Ben Sheikh (excerpt)
Tewhida Ben Sheikh (January 2, 1909 – December 6, 2010) was the first modern Tunisian woman to become a physician and a pioneer in women’s medicine, particularly in contraception and abortion access. Born in Tunis, she attended the Lycée de la rue de Russie and later earned her medical degree from the Faculté de médecine de Paris in 1936.
Biography of Johnny Sain (excerpt)
John Franklin "Johnny" Sain (September 25, 1917 – November 7, 2006) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who was best known for teaming with left-hander Warren Spahn on the Boston Braves teams from 1946 to 1951. He was the runner-up for the National League's Most Valuable Player Award in the Braves' pennant-winning season of 1948, after leading the National League in wins, complete games and innings pitched.
Biography of René Taton (excerpt)
René Taton, born on April 4, 1915, in L'Échelle in the Ardennes and died on August 9, 2004, in Ajaccio, was a French historian of science and co-editor of the Revue d'histoire des sciences. He directed the Centre Alexandre-Koyré and was instrumental in establishing the history of science as a professional discipline.
Biography of Ottone Rosai (excerpt)
Ottone Rosai (28 April 1895 – 13 May 1957) was an Italian painter born in Florence, Italy. Rosai graduated from the Florence Academy of Fine Arts in 1912, a period in which he was closely associated with the Lacerba group of Florentine Futurists and especially Ardengo Soffici, with whom he held a joint exhibition at the Galleria Sprovieri, Rome, in 1914.
Biography of Rakshak Sridhar (excerpt)
Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar (IAST: Bhakti-rakṣaka Śrīdhara; 10 October 1895 – 12 August 1988) was an Indian guru, writer, sannyasi and spiritual leader in the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, founder-president-acharya of the Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math. His time of birth comes from his online biography (which is no longer available).
Biography of Bob Simmons (surfer) (excerpt)
Robert Wilson Simmons (March 29, 1919 – September 26, 1954) was an American surfer and surfboard shaper, considered to be the father of the modern surfboard. Simmons was born in Los Angeles, California.During his early teens, he developed a tumor on his left ankle which nearly caused his leg to be amputated.
Biography of Francis Gruber (excerpt)
Francis Gruber was a French expressionist painter born in Nancy on March 15, 1912, and died of tuberculosis on December 1, 1948, in Paris. The son of Art Nouveau master glassmaker Jacques Gruber, this painter is indicative of pre-war painting, but instead of seeking the abstract, Francis Gruber favored human figures with chiseled and raw features.
Biography of Éloi Tassin (excerpt)
Éloi Tassin was a French cyclist born on June 6, 1912, in Vay (Loire-Inférieure) and passed away on August 17, 1977, in Les Sables-d'Olonne. A strong rider, he had his best year in 1945, winning the French Championship, the Grand Prix de Plouay, and the Grand Prix des Nations.
Biography of Théophile Alajouanine (excerpt)
Théophile Alajouanine, born June 12, 1890, in Verneix and died May 2, 1980, in Paris, was a French neurologist and writer. The son of a blacksmith, he studied medicine in Paris, becoming a hospital intern in 1913. Influenced by Achille Souques and Charles Foix, he specialized in neurology.
Biography of Walter Rothenburg (excerpt)
Walter R.Rothenburg, known as Wero (born December 28, 1889, in Hamburg; died March 10, 1975, in Ascona), was a boxing promoter, lyricist, and writer. Born into a family of brewers and publishers, he served in the Imperial Navy during World War I.
Biography of Wade Ray (excerpt)
Wade Ray (April 6, 1916 in Griffin, Indiana (Wikipedia is wrong) – November 11, 1998 in Sparta, IL) was an American Western Swing fiddler and vocalist. His bands, the Wade Ray Five, Wade Ray And His Ozark Mountain Boys, etc., included musicians such as Kenneth Carllile and Curly Chalker.
Biography of Raffaele Bendandi (excerpt)
Raffaele Bendandi (1893–1979), an Italian clockmaker, was known for his earthquake predictions. Self-taught, he became interested in planetary motion and seismology after witnessing a solar eclipse in 1905. Bendandi theorized, without scientific backing, that earthquakes were caused by planetary alignments. He gained fame for his predictions, notably the one in 1924, which missed by two days.
Biography of Arthur Hoffmann (athlete) (excerpt)
Arthur ("Aute") Hoffmann (10 December 1887 – 4 April 1932) was a German athlete.He competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.He was born in Danzig, and died in Hamburg, Germany. Hoffmann was a member of the silver medal German medley relay team.
Biography of Henry H. Arnold (excerpt)
Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold (June 25, 1886 – January 15, 1950) was an American general holding the ranks of General of the Army and General of the Air Force, the only officer to achieve five-star rank in two U.S. military branches.
Biography of Stefan Wiechecki (excerpt)
Stefan Wiechecki, known by his pen name Wiech (10 August 1896 – 26 July 1979), was a Polish writer and journalist, best known for his humorous feuilletons that depicted the everyday life of Warsaw and highlighted the city's dialect. Born on 10 August 1896, he began as a court reporter in interwar Poland, capturing the unique personalities of Warsaw's poorer districts.
Biography of Luigi Gui (excerpt)
Luigi Gui (26 September 1914 – 26 April 2010) was an Italian politician and philosopher. Gui was born in Padua (Veneto).He graduated in philosophy at the Catholic University in Milan.He was an officer of the Alpini corps of the Italian Army, and fought in USSR during World War II.
Biography of Margaret Allan (racing driver) (excerpt)
Margaret Mabel Gladys Jennings (née Allan; 26 July 1909 – 21 September 1998) was a Scottish motor racing driver. As Margaret Allan (sometimes erroneously "Allen") she was one of the leading British female racing and rally drivers in the inter-war years, and one of only four women ever to earn a 120 mph badge at the Brooklands circuit.
Biography of Meridel Le Sueur (excerpt)
Meridel Le Sueur (February 22, 1900 – November 14, 1996) was an American writer associated with the proletarian literature movement of the 1930s and 1940s. Born Meridel Wharton, she adopted her stepfather's surname, Le Sueur.She grew up in a family of social activists and was influenced by Native American stories.
Biography of Helmuth Plessner (excerpt)
Helmuth Plessner (September 4, 1892 - June 12, 1985) was a German philosopher and sociologist, a leading figure in philosophical anthropology. Born in Wiesbaden, he studied medicine, zoology, and philosophy under notable figures like Wilhelm Windelband, Max Weber, and Edmund Husserl. His work spanned various fields, with major publications including "Die Stufen des Organischen und der Mensch" (1928) and "Lachen und Weinen" (1941).
Biography of Monna Delza (excerpt)
Monna Delza, born Marguerite Delesalle in Paris on September 26, 1882, and later known as the Countess of Patrimonio through marriage, was a distinguished French actress. Discovered by playwright Gaston Arman de Caillavet, she started her acting career in the early 20th century and quickly achieved success.
Biography of Fernando Tambroni (excerpt)
Fernando Tambroni Armaroli (25 November 1901 – 18 February 1963) was an Italian politician. A member of Christian Democracy, he served as the 36th Prime Minister of Italy from March to July 1960. He also served as Minister of the Interior from July 1955 until February 1959, Minister of Budget and Treasury from February 1959 to March 1960, and Minister of the Merchant Navy from August 1953 until July 1955.
Biography of Ray Still (excerpt)
Ray Still, born on March 12, 1920, in Elwood, Indiana, and died on March 12, 2014, in Woodstock, Vermont, was an American classical oboist and the principal oboe of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for 40 years (1953-1993). Initially trained in clarinet, he switched to oboe, inspired by Henri de Busscher.
Biography of Lisa Della Casa (excerpt)
Lisa Della Casa (2 February 1919 – 10 December 2012) was a Swiss soprano most admired for her interpretations of major heroines in operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss, and of German lieder. She was also described as “the most beautiful woman on the operatic stage”.
Biography of Laura Carli (excerpt)
Laura Carli (29 May 1907 – 15 August 2005) was an Italian actress and dubber. She appeared in more than thirty films from 1944 to 1974. Selected filmography Year Title Role Notes 1947 The Courier of the King The Brothers Karamazov 1950 Snow White and the Seven Thieves 1951 Last Meeting 1952 Five Paupers in an Automobile
Biography of Marie Wilson (American actress) (excerpt)
Marie Wilson, born on August 19, 1916, in Anaheim, California, and died on November 23, 1972, in Hollywood, was an American actress. Primarily known for her roles as a decorative blonde, she portrayed Irma in "My Friend Irma," a popular radio and then television show in the 1940s and 1950s.
Biography of Ah Jook Ku (excerpt)
Ah Jook Ku, born April 24, 1910, in Kailua, Hawaii, and died August 6, 2007, was a trailblazing American journalist. She was the first Asian American reporter for the Associated Press and the first Asian American woman at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, where she began as a high school correspondent.
Biography of Alice Joyce (excerpt)
Alice Joyce Brown (née Joyce; October 1, 1890 – October 9, 1955) was an American actress famous for her roles in the 1923 film The Green Goddess and its 1930 remake. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, she was educated in Maryland and later moved to New York.
Biography of Katta Sterna (excerpt)
Katta Sterna (born Katharina Ida Stern, December 19, 1897 – July 29, 1984) was a German actress and dancer. The daughter of engineer Georg Stern and Bertha Schmidt, she was the niece of Käthe Kollwitz and sister to actresses Johanna Hofer, Maria Matray, and Regula Keller.
Biography of Erwin Vierow (excerpt)
General Erwin Vierow (15 May 1890 – 1 February 1982) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II. Between the wars he served on the General Staff of the Reichswehr and in the infantry and by the outbreak of World War II he had reached the rank of Generalmajor in the Wehrmacht.
Biography of Frieda Nugel (excerpt)
Frieda Nugel (18 June 1884 - 6 November 1966) was a pioneering German mathematician and civil rights advocate, one of the first women in Germany to obtain a mathematics doctorate in 1912 at Halle University. Born in Cottbus, she initially worked as a private tutor and later taught at schools in Cottbus and Emden, while also focusing on women's rights.
Biography of André Auffray (excerpt)
André Auffray (born Alexandre Offray; 2 September 1884 – 3 November 1953) was a French racing cyclist. At the 1908 Olympics he won a gold medal in the tandem, together with Maurice Schilles, and a bronze in the 5000 m event; he also competed in the individual sprint and in the 1,980 yard team pursuit.
Biography of Luis Trenker (excerpt)
Luis Trenker (born October 4, 1892 in Saint-Ulrich in Gröden (Urtijëi), Tyrol, Austria-Hungary - died April 13, 1990 in Bolzano, Italy) is an Italian-Austrian mountaineer, actor, director, screenwriter, producer and editor, whose His career began in the last years of silent cinema and continued for more than half a century, until Heimat aus Gottes Hand, a film he made in 1979, at the age of 87.
Biography of Emma Tenayuca (excerpt)
Emma Beatrice Tenayuca (December 21, 1916 – July 23, 1999) was an American labor leader, union organizer, civil rights activist, and educator. She is best known for her work organizing Mexican workers in Texas during the 1930s, particularly for leading the 1938 San Antonio pecan shellers strike.
Biography of Arend Heyting (excerpt)
Arend Heyting (9 May 1898 – 9 July 1980) was a Dutch mathematician and logician. Heyting was a student of Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer at the University of Amsterdam, and did much to put intuitionistic logic on a footing where it could become part of mathematical logic.
Biography of Ellen H. Johnson (excerpt)
Ellen Hulda Johnson (1910–1992) was a prominent art historian and professor of modern art at Oberlin College from 1945 to 1977.Born in Warren, Pennsylvania, she studied at Oberlin, Columbia, Uppsala, and the Sorbonne. She began her career at the Toledo Museum of Art and returned to Oberlin in 1939.
Biography of Màrius Torres (excerpt)
Màrius Torres (30 August 1910 – 29 October 1942) was a Catalan poet, first published by fellow writer Joan Sales in Mexico. He was among the most influential poets in the first 30 years of post-Civil War Catalonia and is today considered one of the most important Catalan poets of the twentieth century.
Biography of Antoon Coolen (excerpt)
Antonius Franciscus Coolen, known as Antoon Coolen, was born in Wijlre on April 17, 1897, and died in Waalre on November 9, 1961.A Dutch regionalist novelist and also a journalist, he was influenced by his neighbor H.N.Ouweling in Deurne. After living in Zevenbergen, he returned to Deurne and later moved to Waalre.
Biography of Aleksander Zabczynski (excerpt)
Aleksander Bożydar Żabczyński (July 24, 1900 – May 31, 1958) was a Polish actor and singer. A key figure in Polish interwar cinema, he was renowned for playing romantic lead roles in numerous films. His career spanned theater, cabaret, and film, making him one of the most popular actors of his time.
Biography of Helga Uys (excerpt)
Helga Uys (July 2, 1908 - May 26, 1969) was a German-born South African concert pianist and piano teacher of Jewish descent. She was married to Hannes Uys, with whom she had two children: Tessa Uys, a concert pianist, and Pieter-Dirk Uys, a satirist and writer.
Biography of Hermann Abendroth (excerpt)
Hermann Paul Maximilian Abendroth (January 19, 1883 – May 29, 1956) was a German conductor. Born in Frankfurt, he studied music in Munich under Ludwig Thuille and Felix Mottl. He began his career conducting in Munich, Lübeck, and Essen. From 1915 to 1934, he was the Kapellmeister of the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne and director of the Cologne Conservatory.
Biography of Reed Erickson (excerpt)
Reed Erickson (October 13, 1917 – January 3, 1992) was an American trans man and philanthropist whose contributions significantly influenced the field of gender affirmation in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1964, he founded the Erickson Educational Foundation (EEF), which funded and supported research and initiatives related to LGBTQ issues.
Biography of Kurt von Tippelskirch (excerpt)
Kurt Oskar Heinrich Ludwig Wilhelm von Tippelskirch (9 October 1891 – 10 May 1957) was a German general in World War II, commanding several armies and Army Group Vistula. He surrendered to the US Army on May 2, 1945.Tippelskirch wrote multiple books, including "History of the Second World War" in 1951.
Biography of Alexandre Bóveda (excerpt)
Alexandre Bóveda Iglesias (Ourense, 4 June 1903 - executed in A Caeira, Poio, 17 August 1936), commonly known as Alexandre Bóveda, was a Spanish politician and financial officer from Galicia. He is considered one of the most important Galicianist intellectuals during the Spanish Second Republic.
Biography of Asbjørg Borgfelt (excerpt)
Asbjørg Borgfelt (31 October 1900 – 5 June 1976) was a Norwegian sculptor. Personal life She was the daughter of Samuel Borgfeldt (1872-1936) and Magnhild Telma Sæther (1876-1941).In 1937 she married sculptor Per Hurum (1910–1989). Career Borgfeldt first studied art in Kristiania at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry (Statens Håndverks- og Kunstindustriskole) with Wilhelm Rasmussen (1879–1965).
Biography of Hollis B. Chenery (excerpt)
Hollis Burnley Chenery (January 6, 1918 – September 1, 1994) was an American economist recognized for his pioneering contributions to development economics. He held positions at Stanford and Harvard before serving as vice president for development policy at the World Bank. Chenery's research, notably his collaboration with Alan Strout on "Foreign assistance and economic development," influenced aid strategies, emphasizing poverty-focused approaches. |
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