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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 John Walker (curator) (excerpt)
John Walker III (December 24, 1906 – October 16, 1995) was an American art curator and the second director of the National Gallery of Art, serving from 1956 to 1969. A Harvard graduate in art history in 1930, he co-founded the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art with Philip Johnson and Lincoln Kirstein.
Biography of Pierre-Paul Grassé (excerpt)
Pierre-Paul Grassé (born November 27, 1895, in Périgueux, Dordogne, and died July 9, 1985, in Paris) was a French biologist, zoologist, and paleontologist, author of over 300 publications, including a significant treatise on zoology. A Doctor of Biological Sciences, he taught at the University of Montpellier, Clermont-Ferrand, and later at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he became the Chair of Evolution in 1941.
Biography of Eduard Ausfeld (colonel) (excerpt)
Ernst Wilhelm Eduard Ausfeld (18 August 1885 – 31 August 1946) was a German military officer involved in the Finnish Civil War.He was a participant in the Jäger Movement, which trained Finnish volunteers in the German Empire. He participated at the Battle of Tampere and the Battle of Vyborg alongside the White Army.
Biography of Günther Treptow (excerpt)
Günther Treptow (22 October 1907 - 28 March 1981) was a prominent German operatic tenor, acclaimed for his Wagnerian roles. Beginning as a baritone, he studied under Giovanni Scarneo in Berlin. His career faced challenges due to his mother's Jewish heritage, but he resumed performing in 1935 with Goebbels' approval.
Biography of Janice Logan (actress) (excerpt)
Janice Logan (May 30, 1915 – October 23, 1965) was an American film actress. Early years Logan was a native of Chicago.Her father was Stuart Logan, "one of Chicago's leading investment brokers." Film Logan's film debut came in Dr.Cyclops, in which she played Dr.Mary Robinson.
Biography of Teodoro Picado Michalski (excerpt)
Teodoro Picado Michalski (10 January 1900 – 1 June 1960) was the president of Costa Rica for four years (1944 to 1948).
Biography of Eligio Esquivel Méndez (excerpt)
Eligio Esquivel Méndez (October 31, 1908 – December 17, 1964) was a Mexican engineer and politician who served as the Governor of Baja California from 1959 until his death in 1964. Born in Mérida, Yucatán, he graduated in civil engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1933.
Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (excerpt)
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) was an American writer who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling, about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie of the same name.
Biography of Ray Corrigan (excerpt)
Ray "Crash" Corrigan (born Raymond Benitz; February 14, 1902 – August 10, 1976) was an American actor most famous for appearing in many B-Western movies (among these the Three Mesquiteers and Range Busters film series). He also was a stuntman and frequently acted as silver screen gorillas using his own gorilla costumes.
Biography of Joăo Havelange (excerpt)
Jean-Marie Faustin Godefroid "Joăo" de Havelange (Brazilian Portuguese: , French: ; 8 May 1916 – 16 August 2016) was a Brazilian lawyer, businessman, and athlete who served as the seventh president of FIFA from 1974 to 1998. His tenure as president is the second longest in FIFA's history, behind only that of Jules Rimet.
Biography of Scott Armstrong (basketball) (excerpt)
Scott Thomas Armstrong Jr. (October 21, 1913 (Wikipedia has 12 October in error) – August 20, 1997) was an American professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball League for the Fort Wayne General Electrics, Oshkosh All-Stars, and Indianapolis Kautskys.
Biography of Oswald de Andrade (excerpt)
José Oswald de Souza Andrade (January 11, 1890 – October 22, 1954) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, and cultural critic, born, raised, and deceased in Săo Paulo. His time of birth comes from his autobiography. A founder of Brazilian modernism, he took part in the Modern Art Week and belonged to the Group of Five, alongside Mário de Andrade, Anita Malfatti, Tarsila do Amaral, and Menotti del Picchia.
Biography of Erich Kettelhut (excerpt)
Erich Kettelhut (born November 1, 1893, in Berlin; died March 13, 1979, in Hamburg) was a German set designer and scenographer. He trained as a theater painter at the Städtische Oper in Berlin and also worked in cities such as Aachen. He entered the film industry in 1919, working on productions by Joe May.
Biography of Gianni Santuccio (excerpt)
Gianni Santuccio, born Giovanni Santuccio on May 21, 1911, in Clivio and died September 29, 1989, in Milan, was an Italian actor and theater director. He debuted in 1941 at EIAR. After graduating from the National Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1942, he worked with notable figures like Ruggeri and Ferrati, and at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano.
Biography of Edda Ciano (excerpt)
Edda Ciano, Countess of Cortellazzo and Buccari (née Mussolini; 1 September 1910 – 9 April 1995) was the daughter of Benito Mussolini, fascist Prime Minister of Italy from 1922 to 1943. Her husband, the fascist propagandist and Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano, was executed in January 1944 for his role in Mussolini's ousting.
Biography of Soledad Estorach (excerpt)
Soledad Estorach Esterri, born on February 6, 1915, in Albatŕrrec in the Segriŕ comarca (province of Lleida), and died on March 14, 1993, in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, was a feminist political activist and resistance fighter, and the founder of the Mujeres Libres movement, one of the pioneers of women's rights.
Biography of Aida Lafuente (excerpt)
Aida de la Fuente Penaos (25 February 1915 in León – 13 October 1934 in Oviedo), better known as Aida Lafuente, was a Spanish communist militant who died in the Revolution of 1934 in Asturias after the repression by the Second Spanish Republic.
Biography of Heinrich Eduard Jacob (excerpt)
Heinrich Eduard Jacob (7 October 1889 – 25 October 1967) was a German and American journalist and author.Born to a Jewish family in Berlin and raised partly in Vienna, Jacob worked for two decades as a journalist and biographer before the rise to power of the Nazi Party.
Biography of Alex Curling (excerpt)
Alex Curling (born in San José on September 3, 1908, and died on August 22, 1987) was a lawyer and politician of Afro-Caribbean descent.He was the first Black person to be elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica, serving from 1953 to 1958.
Biography of Vicente Escudero (excerpt)
Vicente Escudero (27 October 1888, Valladolid, Spain – 4 December 1980, Barcelona) was a Spanish flamenco dancer who engaged with the avant-garde, bringing modernist aesthetics to flamenco dance. His time of birth comes from the biography "Antología del baile flamenco" by Manuel Ríos Vargas (Signatura Ediciones, 2002).
Biography of Alejandro Freundt Rosell (excerpt)
Alejandro Freundt Rosell (Lima, February 22, 1895 - August 24, 1970) was a Peruvian magistrate, diplomat, university professor, and politician. He presided over the Superior Court of Piura and served as Minister of Justice and Worship under the government of Manuel Odría (1952-1955).
Biography of Marieluise Flesser (excerpt)
Marieluise Fleißer (November 22, 1901 – February 2, 1974) was a German writer and playwright associated with the aesthetic movement of New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit). Early Life Born in Ingolstadt, she studied literature, philosophy, and theater in Munich, where she befriended Lion Feuchtwanger and Bertolt Brecht.
Biography of Fritz Jacobsen (excerpt)
Fritz John Jacobsen (born 21 May 1896 in Berlin-Charlottenburg – died 3 August 1981 in Nuremberg) was a German World War I flying ace credited with eight confirmed aerial victories and two unconfirmed. Fascinated by aviation from 1909, he became a test pilot and instructor before joining the German air troops in 1915.
Biography of José María Albareda (excerpt)
José María Albareda Herrera (Caspe, 15 April 1902 - 26 February 1966, Madrid) was a Spanish soil scientist and science administrator. From its 1939 creation by Francoist Spain to his 1966 death, he was the secretary general and head of the Higher Council of Scientific Research (CSIC), the main Spanish scientific institution.
Biography of Leonard Nelson (excerpt)
Leonard Nelson (11 July 1882 – 29 October 1927), sometimes spelt Leonhard, was a German mathematician, critical philosopher, and socialist. He was part of the neo-Friesian school (named after post-Kantian philosopher Jakob Friedrich Fries) of neo-Kantianism and a friend of the mathematician David Hilbert.
Biography of Jean Filiol (excerpt)
Jean Paul Robert Filiol (12 May 1909 – died in 1975) was a French militant, who was active in La Cagoule before the Second World War. After the war, he fled to Spain, where he worked for the local office of L'Oréal.
Biography of Francisco Vales Villamarín (excerpt)
Francisco Vales Villamarín (Betanzos, La Coruńa, 7 May 1891 - id., 25 August 1982) was a Spanish historian and professor, serving as the perpetual secretary of the Real Academia Gallega and the official chronicler of Betanzos. He studied in Santiago de Compostela and became a teacher in La Coruńa until his retirement in 1961.
Biography of Hans Kramers (excerpt)
Hendrik Anthony Kramers was a Dutch theoretical physicist (December 17, 1894, in Rotterdam – April 24, 1952, in Oegstgeest). Hendrik Kramers studied mathematics and physics at Leiden University.After earning his master’s degree in 1916, he intended to complete his PhD under the supervision of Max Born at the University of Göttingen.
Biography of Irčne Bordoni (excerpt)
Irčne Charlotte Bordoni, born on January 16, 1889 in Paris and died on March 19, 1953 in New York, was a French actress and singer. She began her career at the Variétés Theater in Paris, before emigrating to the United States in 1907.
Biography of Cor van der Lugt Melsert (excerpt)
Cornelis Dirk van der Lugt Melsert (Rotterdam, July 4, 1882 – The Hague, August 16, 1969) was a Dutch actor and director. He debuted at age 9 with the Nederlandsche Tooneelvereeniging and graduated from the Amsterdam School of Theatre in 1902. He directed the Vereenigd Rotterdamsch-Hofstad Tooneel from 1923 to 1938, then became head of NV Het Nederlandsch Tooneel in Amsterdam.
Biography of Teodoro Lolo Fernández (excerpt)
Teodoro "Lolo" Fernández Meyzán (20 May 1913 – 17 September 1996) was a Peruvian professional footballer who played as forward.All his football work was carried out as a player of the Universitario de Deportes of the Peruvian First Division.He was champion, best player and top scorer in the 1939 Copa América.
Biography of Mary Poonen Lukose (excerpt)
Mary Poonen Lukose (2 August 1886 - 2 October 1976) was an Indian gynecologist, obstetrician and the first female Surgeon General in India. She was the founder of a Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Nagarcoil and the X-Ray and Radium Institute, Thiruvananthapuram, served as the head of the Health Department in the Princely State of Travancore and was the first woman legislator of the state.
Biography of Irina Baronova (excerpt)
Irina Mikhailovna Baronova FRAD (Russian: Ирина Михайловна Баронова; 13 March 1919 – 28 June 2008) was a Russian ballerina and actress who was one of the Baby Ballerinas of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, discovered by George Balanchine in Paris in the 1930s.
Biography of Jean Rudolf von Salis (excerpt)
Jean Rudolf von Salis (12 December 1901 – 14 July 1996) was a Swiss historian. He gained prominence with his weekly "Weltchronik" (English: world chronicle) radio broadcasts from 1940 until 1947. As von Salis never wrote English publications and his works were rarely translated, he is little known outside of the European historical sciences.
Biography of Len Younce (excerpt)
Leonard Alonzo Younce (January 8, 1917 – March 26, 2000) was an American football player and coach. He had a six year career, interrupted by World War II in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the New York Giants.
Biography of Teresa Andrés Zamora (excerpt)
Teresa Andrés Zamora (February 27, 1907 – July 5, 1946) was a pioneering Spanish librarian and academic. Born in Villalba de los Alcores, she studied Philosophy and Letters in Valladolid, and later pursued a doctorate in Madrid. A committed feminist, republican, and trade unionist, Andrés led the Sección de Bibliotecas de Cultura Popular and was deeply involved in education and cultural preservation.
Biography of Virginia Cutler (excerpt)
Virginia Farrer Cutler (* December 17, 1905 – † May 20, 1993) was an American academic. She was the head of the Home Economics Department at the University of Utah and dean of the College of Family Living at Brigham Young University (BYU).
Biography of Jean Nocher (excerpt)
Jean Nocher, real name Gaston Charon1, born September 27, 1908 in Poitiers and died June 24, 1967 in Bougival, is a French journalist and polemicist. Gaston Charon, who later became Jean Nocher, began his career as a teacher before turning to journalism in 1933.
Biography of Achille Campanile (excerpt)
Achille Campanile (28 September 1899 – 4 January 1977) was an Italian writer, playwright, journalist and television critic known for his surreal humour and word play. His father was one of the editors of the newspaper La Tribuna. Always a prolific contributor to newspapers and periodicals, Campanile wrote for the newspapers La Tribuna, L'Idea Nazionale and the satirical magazine Il Travaso delle idee.
Biography of Józef Retinger (excerpt)
Józef Hieronim Retinger (April 17, 1888 – June 12, 1960) was a Polish politician, scholar, and international political activist. A brilliant student in Paris and London, he befriended Joseph Conrad.During World War I, he actively supported Polish independence in Austria-Hungary and Russia.
Biography of Silvestre Revueltas (excerpt)
Silvestre Revueltas Sánchez (December 31, 1899 – October 5, 1940) was a Mexican classical music composer, violinist, and conductor. Born in Durango, he studied in Mexico City, Texas, and Chicago. He became assistant conductor of Mexico's National Symphony Orchestra in 1929, promoted contemporary Mexican music, and composed film scores, including the famous "La noche de los mayas."
Biography of Harry Lauter (excerpt)
Herman Arthur "Harry" Lauter (June 19, 1914 – October 30, 1990) was an American character actor born in White Plains, New York. Initially a model and rodeo rider, he came from an entertainment family. Lauter’s acting break came in "The Magnificent Rogue" (1946), and he gained recognition for roles in low-budget films, serials, and many TV shows, including "Tales of the Texas Rangers" and "The Roy Rogers Show."
Biography of Ava Helen Pauling (excerpt)
Ava Helen Pauling (born Miller; December 24, 1903 – December 7, 1981) was an American human rights activist.Throughout her life, she was involved in various social movements including women's rights, racial equality, and international peace. An avid New Dealer, Ava Helen Pauling was heavily interested in American politics and social reforms.
Biography of Gussy Holl (excerpt)
Gussy Holl (born Auguste Marie Holl on February 22, 1888, in Frankfurt am Main, German Empire; died July 16, 1966, in Salzburg, Austria) was a German silent film actress and singer. Gussy Holl briefly became a star in the early days of the Weimar Republic, appearing in films by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and Richard Oswald.
Biography of Charles Brunier (excerpt)
Charles Armand Brunier, born on May 31, 1901, in Paris, and passed away on January 26, 2007, in Cormeilles-en-Parisis, was a French adventurer and soldier. He fought in World War I in Syria, earning the Croix de Guerre.In 1923, he was sentenced to life in prison for murder and sent to the French Guiana penal colony, where he escaped several times.
Biography of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (excerpt)
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (July 6, 1888 – February 24, 1973) was a historian and social philosopher whose work encompassed history, theology, sociology, and linguistics. Born in Berlin to a non-observant Jewish family, he converted to Christianity in his late teens, which deeply influenced his writings.
Biography of Christine Teusch (excerpt)
Christine Teusch (11 October 1888, Cologne, Rhine Province – 24 October 1968) was a German politician of the Zentrumspartei ("Centre Party") and the Christian Democratic Union. From 1947 to 1954 Teusch was Minister of Education of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, having been the first female minister in German history.
Biography of Georg Streiter (journalist) (excerpt)
Georg Heinrich Karl Streiter (October 20, 1907 – August 9, 1976) was a German journalist and civil servant. He studied economics and psychology in Berlin and Danzig, later working as a secretary and press spokesperson in Danzig.He fled to Poland in 1935 and worked as a journalist until WWII.
Biography of Archibald Roosevelt (excerpt)
Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt Sr.(April 9, 1894 – October 13, 1979) was a U.S.Army officer and commander of U.S.forces in World War I and II, and the fifth child of U.S.President Theodore Roosevelt. In both conflicts he was wounded.He earned the Silver Star with three oak leaf clusters, Purple Heart with oak leaf cluster, and the French Croix de Guerre.
Biography of Tarjei Vesaas (excerpt)
Tarjei Vesaas (20 August 1897 - 15 March 1970) was a renowned Norwegian poet and novelist, considered one of Norway’s most significant 20th-century writers. Born in Vinje, Telemark, to farmer Olav Vesaas and teacher Signe Řygarden, he experienced guilt over not taking over the family farm, a theme reflected in his works. |
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