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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 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.
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Biography of Wolfgang von Gronau (excerpt)
Hans Wolfgang von Gronau (25 February 1893 – 17 March 1977) was a German aviation pioneer and Luftwaffe general. Born in Berlin to a noble family, he joined the Imperial German Navy before World War I and led a flying boat squadron.
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Biography of Hugh Lofting (excerpt)
Hugh John Lofting (14 January 1886 – 26 September 1947) was an English American writer and civil engineer, best known for creating the beloved children's character Doctor Dolittle. The character, a physician who could talk to animals, originated from illustrated letters Lofting sent to his children during World War I while he served in the British Army.
Biography of Piero Sraffa (excerpt)
Piero Sraffa FBA (5 August 1898 – 3 September 1983) was an influential Italian economist who served as lecturer of economics at the University of Cambridge. His book Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities is taken as founding the neo-Ricardian school of economics.
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Biography of Gabriel de Gravone (excerpt)
Gabriel de Gravone, born Antoine Paul André Faggianelli on November 21, 1887, in Ajaccio, and died on December 5, 1972, in Marseille, was a French theater and film actor, as well as a director. Son of a postal worker, he began acting as a child and later studied dramatic arts at the Conservatoire de Paris, including under Sarah Bernhardt.
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Biography of Peter Schaap (SD member) (excerpt)
Pieter (Peter) Schaap (Zandvoort, June 18, 1902 – Groningen, June 29, 1949) was a Dutch collaborator of the SD, one of the German police organizations under the authority of Heinrich Himmler and the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin. He was a fanatical persecutor of Jews and shot numerous people dead.
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Biography of Carlo Ninchi (excerpt)
Carlo Ninchi (Bologna, May 31, 1896 – Milan, April 27, 1974) was a prominent Italian actor. The youngest of five children of Arnaldo Ninchi and Lidia Bedetti, he began his career in his brother Annibale’s troupe, debuting as Pilade in L'Oreste by Alfieri.
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Biography of Elisabeth Zernike (excerpt)
Elisabeth Zernike (July 8, 1891 – March 12, 1982) was a Dutch writer. She was the sister of Anne Zernike and Frits Zernike. Her father was a school principal and pedagogue, and her mother was a teacher. She attended the girls’ HBS (secondary school) in Amsterdam and later the School of Music for Sound Art before pursuing writing.
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Biography of Georges Barbier (illustrator) (excerpt)
Georges Barbier, born in Nantes on October 16, 1882, and died in Paris on March 16, 1932, was a French painter, fashion illustrator, and designer.He also worked under the pseudonym Edward W.Larry. After studying at the Académie Julian in Paris, he began exhibiting in 1910 under this pseudonym.
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Biography of Sylvain Grysolle (excerpt)
Sylvain Grysolle (12 December 1915 – 19 January 1985) was a Belgian cyclist. He won the 1948 Omloop Het Volk, the 1945 Tour of Flanders, and the 1941 La Flèche Wallonne.
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Biography of Josette Andriot (excerpt)
Camille Élisa Andriot, known as Josette Andriot (23 August 1886 – 13 May 1942), was a French actress from the silent film era of the 1910s. Without theatrical training, she began her career in 1909 at Laboratoires Éclair, standing out as an actress thanks to her athletic skills (swimming, cycling, horse riding).
Biography of Irmgard Enderle (excerpt)
Irmgard Enderle (born Irmgard Rasch: April 28, 1895 – September 20, 1985) was a German politician, trade unionist, and journalist.She was active in the Communist Party and later joined the Socialist Workers' Party (SAPD). After the Nazis came to power, Enderle fled Germany, eventually settling in Sweden, where she continued her political activities.
Biography of Wilhelm Wigand (excerpt)
Wilhelm Wigand (born July 2, 1895, in Barth; died April 22, 1945, in Großkrausnik) was a German politician (NSDAP). After obtaining his Abitur, he participated in World War I, where he was wounded and decorated.From 1918 to 1920, he was a French prisoner of war.
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Biography of Alfred Braun (excerpt)
Alfred Braun (3 May 1888 (Wikipedia has 13 May in error) – 3 January 1978) was a pioneer of German radio.He became famous as a radio reporter and radio play director, among other things.He was also an actor, stage and film director, and screenwriter.
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Biography of Francesco Baracca (excerpt)
Count Francesco Baracca (born May 9, 1888 – died June 19, 1918) was Italy's top fighter ace during World War I. He was credited with 34 aerial victories. The emblem he wore on his plane, a black horse rearing on its two hind legs, inspired Enzo Ferrari to use it on his race cars and later in his automotive company.
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Biography of Alberto Hurtado (excerpt)
Alberto Hurtado, SJ (born Luis Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga; January 22, 1901 – August 18, 1952), popularly known as Padre Hurtado, was a Chilean Jesuit priest, lawyer, social worker, and writer of Basque ancestry. He founded the Hogar de Cristo foundation in 1944.
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Biography of Horace Savelli (excerpt)
Horace Savelli, born on November 27, 1906, in Luçon, Vendée, and died on June 2, 1998, in Paris, was an officer of the Free French Forces during World War II. A Companion of the Liberation, he distinguished himself during the Tunisian campaign and the Normandy campaign.
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Biography of Alv Torbjørnsen (excerpt)
Alv Johan Torbjørnsen (born April 24, 1908, in Christiania, died January 8, 1943, in Sachsenhausen) was a Norwegian dockworker and resistance fighter. Torbjørnsen joined the NKP (Norwegian Communist Party) and was a student at the so-called Lenin School in Moscow from 1928 to 1930.
Biography of Xavier de Langlais (excerpt)
Xavier de Langlais (April 26, 1906 in Sarzeau – June 15, 1975) was a Breton painter, printmaker and writer.He usually signed his work with the name Langleiz, a Breton language version of his surname. A supporter of the Breton National Party, this Breton artist and activist edited and illustrated nationalist literature.
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Biography of Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (excerpt)
Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Beatrice Leopoldine Victoria; 20 April 1884 – 13 July 1966) was a member of the British royal family, a male-line granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She later married into the Spanish royal family, and was the wife of Prince Alfonso de Orleans y Borbón, Infante of Spain, a first cousin of Alfonso XIII of Spain.
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Biography of Irina Paley (excerpt)
Irina Pavlovna Romanova, Princess Paley (December 21, 1903 – November 15, 1990), was the daughter of Grand Duke Paul Romanov and his second wife, Olga Valerianovna von Pistohlkors. Early Life: Irina was born in Paris as her parents were exiled for marrying without Tsar Nicholas II's permission.
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Biography of Herbert Selpin (excerpt)
Herbert Selpin (29 May 1904 – 1 August 1942) was a German film director, editor, and screenwriter known for light entertainment during the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Berlin, he worked in various fields before joining UFA studios, where he worked on Faust by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau.
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Biography of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (excerpt)
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler (25 June 1884 – 11 January 1979) was a German-born art collector, and one of the most notable French art dealers of the 20th century. He became prominent as an art gallery owner in Paris beginning in 1907 and was among the first champions of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and the Cubist movement in art.
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Biography of Armando Businco (excerpt)
Armando Businco (Jerzu, June 11, 1886 – Cagliari, September 4, 1967) was an Italian physician. He earned his medical degree in 1912, specializing in pathological anatomy. He held various teaching positions, including at the Universities of Perugia and Cagliari, where he was appointed professor in 1927.
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Biography of Bruno Balz (excerpt)
Bruno Balz (6 October 1902 in Berlin – 14 March 1988 in Bad Wiessee) was a German songwriter and schlager lyricist. From writing for the first German sound film until his retirement in the 1960s, Balz penned the lyrics to over a thousand popular hits, many in collaboration with composer Michael Jary.
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Biography of Vittorio Sardelli (excerpt)
Vittorio Sardelli (10 June 1918 – 7 October 2000) was an Italian footballer who played as a defender. On 26 November 1939, he represented the Italy national football team on the occasion of a friendly match against Germany in a 5–2 away loss.
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Biography of Ann Tiné (excerpt)
Ann Tiné, pseudonym of Anne Marie France Tiné, was born on March 30, 1916, in Algiers and died on January 29, 1990, in Cassis. She was a French sculptor and engraver. Her work belongs to the non-figurative movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Biography of Isabel Wilder (excerpt)
Isabel Wilder (January 13, 1900, Madison, Wisconsin – February 27, 1995, Hamden, Connecticut) was an American novelist, biographer, and arts patron.She was the sister of playwright Thornton Wilder, serving as his literary agent, spokesperson, and biographer. Born into a prominent family, her father Amos Parker Wilder was a newspaper publisher and U.S. ![]()
Biography of Lee Morse (excerpt)
Lena Corinne "Lee" Morse (née Taylor on November 30, 1897, and died December 16, 1954) was an American jazz and blues singer-songwriter, composer, guitarist, and actress. She rose to fame in the 1920s and 1930s as a torch singer, recording over 200 songs during her career.
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Biography of Anya Seton (excerpt)
Anya Seton (January 23, 1904 – November 8, 1990), born Ann Seton, was an American writer of historical fiction, which she preferred to call "biographical novels." Her first novel, My Theodosia, was published in 1941.Her best-known works include Dragonwyck (1944) and Foxfire (1950), both adapted into Hollywood films, as well as Katherine (1954), Green Darkness (1973), and The Winthrop Woman.
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Biography of Antonio Brivio (excerpt)
Antonio Brivio Sforza (born December 27, 1905, and died January 20, 1995) was an Italian racing driver and bobsledder.His greatest achievements in motorsport include victories at the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps (1932), the Targa Florio (1933 and 1935), and the Mille Miglia (1936).
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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).
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Biography of Georg Aumann (excerpt)
Georg Aumann (11 November 1906 in Munich, Germany – 4 August 1980), was a German mathematician.He was known for his work in general topology and regulated functions. During World War II, he worked as part of a group of five mathematicians, recruited by Wilhelm Fenner, and which included Ernst Witt, Alexander Aigner, Oswald Teichmueller and Johann Friedrich Schultze, and led by Wolfgang Franz, to form the backbone of the new mathematical research department in the late 1930s, which would eventually be called: Section IVc of Cipher Department of the High Command of the Wehrmacht (abbr.
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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.
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Biography of Octave Mannoni (excerpt)
Dominique-Octave Mannoni (August 29, 1899 – July 30, 1989) was a French ethnologist, philosopher, and psychoanalyst born in Lamotte-Beuvron to a Corsican family. His studies, interrupted by World War I, culminated in a 1923 philosophy degree on Plotinus. Teaching in France and abroad, he lived in Madagascar (1931–1945), where he explored botany, wrote poetry, and supported Madagascar’s independence, leading to his dismissal in 1947.
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Biography of Black Guzmán (excerpt)
Miguel Wenceslao Guzmán Huerta (September 28, 1915 – December 1, 1973), best known by his ring name Black Guzmán, was a Mexican luchador (or professional wrestler). His ring name was a nickname he had earned due to his tan skin color.Guzmán's style was centered on the headscissors, pioneering several variations of the headscissors takedown, and was one of the first luchadors to work a fast-paced, aerial style.
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Biography of Yank Terry (excerpt)
Lancelot "Yank" Terry (February 11, 1911 – November 4, 1979) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the Boston Red Sox (1940, 1942–1945).He batted and threw right-handed. He made his big league debut on August 3, 1940 during a double-header against the Detroit Tigers at Tiger Stadium.
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Biography of Giambattista Dal Piaz (excerpt)
Giambattista Dal Piaz (Feltre, September 3, 1904 – Padua, October 28, 1995) was an Italian geologist. He graduated in natural sciences from the University of Padua in 1927 and taught geology at the University of Turin and later in Padua, where he also taught paleontology and petrography.
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Biography of Sig Ruman (excerpt)
Siegfried Carl Alban Rumann (October 11, 1884 – February 14, 1967), known as Sig Ruman, was a German-American actor famous for his portrayals of pompous officials or villains in over 100 films. Born in Hamburg, German Empire, he studied electrical engineering before becoming an actor.
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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.
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Biography of Benigno Zaccagnini (excerpt)
Benigno Zaccagnini (April 17, 1912 – November 5, 1989) was an Italian politician and physician. Graduating in pediatrics in 1937, he joined the Italian Resistance during World War II, contributing to the liberation of Romagna. A co-founder of Christian Democracy (DC), he was elected to the Constituent Assembly in 1946, then to the Chamber of Deputies in 1948, serving until 1979, before becoming a senator.
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Biography of Margaret Chung (excerpt)
Margaret Jessie Chung, born on October 2, 1889, and died on January 5, 1959, was the first Chinese-American female physician.After a freelance career, she enrolled at the University of Southern California and graduated from the medical school in 1916, completing her internship and thesis in Illinois.
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Biography of Friedrich Weinreb (excerpt)
Friedrich Weinreb (18 November 1910 – 19 October 1988) was a Dutch economist and author.His time of birth comes from him. Weinreb grew up in Scheveningen, Netherlands, where his family settled in 1916.During World War II, he became infamous for selling a fictitious escape route for Jews. ![]()
Biography of Otto Skopil (excerpt)
Otto Richard Skopil Jr. (June 3, 1919 – October 18, 2012) was an American attorney and judge in the state of Oregon. The native Oregonian was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1979 to 1986.
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Biography of Sigrun Svenningsen (excerpt)
Sigrun Svenningsen (June 23, 1902 – February 24, 1971) was a Norwegian actress. Svenningsen was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), the daughter of the traveling salesman Sigurd Svenningsen (1875–1901) and Karen Beate Hoff (1869–.).She had a successful stage career, including as the lead actress at the Chat Noir cabaret in the 1920s.
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Biography of Liliana Lubinska (excerpt)
Liliana Lubińska (October 14, 1904 - November 19, 1990) was a Polish neuroscientist known for her research on the peripheral nervous system and her discovery of bidirectional axoplasmic transport. Born in Łódź in 1904, she married neuroscientist Jerzy Konorski. She began her studies at the University of Warsaw, then continued at the Sorbonne, earning her doctorate in 1932 for work on reflexes.
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Biography of Frans Masereel (excerpt)
Frans Masereel, born on July 30, 1889, in Blankenberge (province of West Flanders, Belgium) and died on January 3, 1972, in Avignon (France), was a Belgian engraver, painter, and illustrator. He primarily worked in Switzerland, Germany, and France. An engaged artist, humanist, libertarian, and pacifist antimilitarist, deeply affected by the bloody turmoil of World War I, his works uncompromisingly denounce the horrors of war, oppression, and social injustice.
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Biography of Henri Jacotot (excerpt)
Henri Louis Jacotot, born on May 29, 1896, in Dijon and died on April 16, 1991, in Paris, was a French veterinarian and biologist. His entire career was spent at the Pasteur Institute: first in Indochina, at the Pasteur Institute of Nha Trang (where he served as director from 1927 to 1947), and later at the Pasteur Institute in Paris (from 1948 to 1966).
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Biography of Kurt Hiller (excerpt)
Kurt Hiller (born August 17, 1885, Berlin – died October 1, 1972, Hamburg) was a German essayist, lawyer, expressionist poet, and pacifist journalist. Born into a middle-class Jewish family, he was a communist inspired by Kant and Schopenhauer, though he rejected Hegel, which alienated him from Marxists.
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Biography of H. Verlan Andersen (excerpt)
Hans Verlan Andersen (November 6, 1914 – July 16, 1992) was a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and a professor at Brigham Young University (BYU). Andersen was called to the LDS Church's First Quorum of the Seventy in April 1986. |
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