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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 Konrad Wolff (excerpt)
Konrad Wolff (11 March 1907 – 23 October 1989) was a German pianist and musicologist. Born in Berlin, he studied at the University of Heidelberg and Berlin, earning a Doctor of Law degree.He was close friends with Stephan Kuttner and Hsu Dau-lin.
Biography of Peder Lunde Sr. (excerpt)
Peder Eugen Lunde (25 May 1918 – 26 December 2009) was a Norwegian sailor and Olympic medalist. He was born in Nordstrand and represented the Royal Norwegian Yacht Club. He received a silver medal in the 5.5 metre class with the boat Encore at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, together with his wife Vibeke Lunde ("Babben") and Børre Falkum-Hansen.
Biography of Maly Delschaft (excerpt)
Maly Delschaft, born on December 4, 1898, in Hamburg and died on August 20, 1995, in Berlin, was a German actress active in both theater and film. Maly Delschaft began her career in theater before transitioning to silent films.Her most significant film roles were during the Weimar Republic and the Nazi era.
Biography of Lola Álvarez Bravo (excerpt)
Lola Álvarez Bravo (April 1, 1903 – July 31, 1993) was Mexico’s first female photographer and a key figure in the post-revolutionary cultural renaissance. In 1964, she received the Premio José Clemente Orozco for her contributions to photography and cultural preservation.
Biography of Elga Brink (excerpt)
Elisabeth Margarete Biermann (born Frey, formerly Brink; 2 April 1905 – 28 October 1985), known as Elga Brink, was a German film actress.She rose to prominence in the 1920s through her roles in numerous silent films.Her final silent film, Marriage in Trouble, was released in 1928.
Biography of Eelco van Kleffens (excerpt)
Eelco Nicolaas van Kleffens (born 17 November 1894, died 17 June 1983) was a Dutch politician and diplomat. Descending from a Frisian family of civil servants, he studied law at Leiden University and started his career at the League of Nations and later at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Biography of Gustave André (French resistance fighter) (excerpt)
Gustave André, born on November 21, 1908, in Chabeuil and executed by the Germans by machine gun on August 29, 1944, in Limonest, was a French resistance fighter and Companion of the Liberation. He was a schoolteacher in Chabrillan and a member of the BCRA.
Biography of Paul Schürmann (excerpt)
Paul Schürmann (* 25 July 1895 in Gütersloh; † 2 July 1941 near Borissow) was a German military pathologist and tuberculosis researcher.He served as a commander at the Military Medical Academy. Son of a merchant, he joined World War I but was injured and deemed unfit for military service.
Biography of Hubert Amyot d'Inville (excerpt)
Hubert Amyot d'Inville, born on August 3, 1909, in Beauvais and died on June 10, 1944, in Montefiascone, Lazio, Italy, was one of the first Free French fighters in the summer of 1940. Nicknamed "l'Astuce" and always accompanied by his dog Bob, Hubert Amyot d'Inville was one of the key figures of the Free French Naval Forces (FNFL), closely associated with the history of the 1st Marine Fusiliers Regiment.
Biography of Ernst Balcke (excerpt)
Ernst Balcke (*April 9, 1887, Berlin – †January 16, 1912, Gatow) was a German author, best known for his friendship with poet Georg Heym, with whom he tragically died while skating on the Havel. The eldest son of a banker, Balcke grew up in Berlin-Schöneberg near the Heym family.
Biography of Bulldog Turner (excerpt)
Clyde Douglas "Bulldog" Turner (March 10, 1919 – October 30, 1998) was an American professional football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL).He was elected, as a player, to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1960 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1966.
Biography of Ruth Etting (excerpt)
Ruth Etting (November 23, 1896 – September 24, 1978) was an American singer and actress from the 1920s and 1930s, known as "America's sweetheart of song." She recorded over 60 hits, including Shine On, Harvest Moon, Ten Cents a Dance, and Love Me or Leave Me.
Biography of Elsa Gindler (excerpt)
Elsa Gindler (19 June 1885 – 8 January 1961) was a somatic bodywork pioneer in Germany. Born in Berlin, teacher of gymnastik, student of Hedwig Kallmeyer (who, in turn, had been a student of Genevieve Stebbins). From her personal experience of recovering from tuberculosis (it is said by concentrating on breathing only with her healthy lung and resting the diseased lung), Gindler originated a school of movement education, in close collaboration with Heinrich Jacoby.
Biography of Elizabeth Pickett Chevalier (excerpt)
Elizabeth Pickett Chevalier (25 March 1896 - 3 January 1984), known earlier in her career as Elizabeth Pickett, was an American writer best known for her 1942 novel, the bestseller Drivin' Woman, which was promoted as a novel in the vein of Gone with the Wind.
Biography of Walter Gramatté (excerpt)
Walter Gramatté (Berlin, January 8, 1897 - Hamburg, February 9, 1929) was a German painter and printmaker of the second generation of Expressionism.In 1920, he married Sophie Eckhardt, known as Sonia, whom he painted numerous times.A renowned soloist, Sonia Gramatté stopped performing in public after her husband’s death and dedicated herself to composing.
Biography of Willy Sachs (excerpt)
Wilhelm Josef Sachs known as Willy Sachs (23 July 1896 – 19 November 1958) was a German industrialist and Nazi party member.He served in the SS as an Obersturmbannführer and was appointed as a Wehrwirtschaftsführer, recognizing his company's importance to the war effort.
Biography of Maurice Girodias (excerpt)
Maurice Girodias (born Maurice Kahane, April 12, 1919, Paris – July 3, 1990, Paris) was a French publisher and writer, founder of Éditions du Chêne in 1940 and The Olympia Press in 1953. The son of Jack Kahane, founder of Obelisk Press, Maurice adopted his mother’s surname to escape Vichy laws.
Biography of Philipp Jarnach (excerpt)
Philipp Jarnach, born on July 26, 1892, in Noisy-le-Sec, France, and died on December 17, 1982, in Börnsen, was a German composer of modern music, pianist, teacher, and conductor. The son of a Spanish sculptor and a Flemish mother, he studied piano at the Conservatoire de Paris before becoming a student of Ferruccio Busoni in Zurich during World War I.
Biography of Olivier Alain (organist) (excerpt)
Olivier Georges Alain (August 3, 1918 – February 28, 1994) was a French organist, pianist, musicologist, and composer. Born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, he came from a family of musicians, the son of Albert Alain and brother of Jehan and Marie-Claire Alain. He studied at the Paris Conservatory, winning first prizes in composition (1951) and musical analysis (1950).
Biography of Naomi W. Randall (excerpt)
Naomi Harriet Ward Randall (born October 5, 1908 – died May 17, 2001) was a songwriter, author, and leader in the Primary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). In 1957, she wrote the lyrics to the hymn "I Am a Child of God", originally created as a children's song and now translated into over 90 languages.
Biography of Henning Brütt (excerpt)
Henning Brütt (August 14, 1888 – January 24, 1979) was a German surgeon, urologist, and neurosurgeon. After studying medicine at several universities, he earned his doctorate in 1912. He became a surgeon under Hermann Kümmell and specialized in urology in 1919. In 1920, he qualified as a professor of surgery.
Biography of Pauline Trigère (excerpt)
Pauline Trigère, born on November 4, 1908, in Paris and died on February 13, 2002, in New York, was a French-born American fashion designer. She quickly moved towards ready-to-wear after a brief start in couture and became known for her sharp, tailored cuts, coats, and capes.
Biography of Minoru Yasui (excerpt)
Minoru Yasui (安井稔, Yasui Minoru, October 19, 1916 – November 12, 1986) was an American lawyer from Oregon.Born in Hood River, Oregon, he earned both an undergraduate degree and his law degree at the University of Oregon.He was one of the few Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor who fought laws that directly targeted Japanese Americans or Japanese immigrants.
Biography of Joseph J. Katz (excerpt)
Joseph J. Katz (April 19, 1912, Detroit – January 28, 2008, Chicago) was a chemist at Argonne National Laboratory. His groundbreaking research on photosynthesis earned him membership in the US National Academy of Sciences. He was the son of Jewish immigrants from Czarist Russia, neither of whom had formal schooling.
Biography of John Wilson McIlvaine (excerpt)
John Wilson McIlvaine (June 22, 1907 – July 1, 1963) was a United States District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He earned a Bachelor of Science from Washington & Jefferson College in 1928, and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Pittsburgh in 1932, before entering private legal practice.
Biography of Alan Baxter (actor) (excerpt)
Alan Edwin Baxter (November 19, 1908 – May 7, 1976) was an American film and television actor. Born in East Cleveland, Ohio, he graduated from Williams College, where he was a Phi Sigma Kappa member and classmate of Elia Kazan. He further studied at Yale University’s 47 Drama Workshop.
Biography of Joaquín Zamacois (excerpt)
Joaquín Zamacois y Soler was a Chilean-Spanish composer, music educator, and author, born on December 15, 1894, in Santiago, Chile, and died on September 8, 1976, in Barcelona. Coming from a renowned family of Spanish artists, he was the son of composer Joaquín Zamacois y Zabala and the nephew of notable writers, singers, and painters.
Biography of Shirley Warde (excerpt)
Shirley Warde (January 23, 1901 - October 1991) was an American actress and playwright active in theater from the 1910s to the 1930s, then in film and radio. Born in New York City, she studied theater at the Ethical Culture School and began performing as a teenager.
Biography of Franciska Clausen (excerpt)
Franciska Clausen (7 January 1899 – 5 March 1986) was a Danish painter who was involved in the abstract art movement of the early twentieth century. Clausen studied at the Die Grossherzogliche sächsische Hochschule für bildende Kunst in Weimar, Germany (1916–17), at the Women's Academy in Munich (1918–19), at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, in Copenhagen, Denmark (1920–21), and under Hans Hofmann at the Hofmann Schule Fur Moderne Kunst in Munich (1921–22).
Biography of Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (excerpt)
Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (June 2, 1885 – December 30, 1964) was a German neurologist and neuropathologist.Though often credited with first describing Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, this is disputed. Born into a medical family in Harburg an der Elbe, he earned his doctorate from the University of Rostock in 1909.
Biography of Hans Baron (excerpt)
Hans Baron (Berlin, June 22, 1900 – November 26, 1988) was a German-American historian of political thought and the literature of the Italian Renaissance. As Ernst Troeltsch’s last assistant in Berlin, he oversaw the publication of the fourth volume of the philosopher’s Gesammelte Werke after his death.
Biography of Hélène de Beauvoir (excerpt)
Henriette-Hélène de Beauvoir (born June 9, 1910 (Wikipedia has June 6 in error), died July 1, 2001) was a French painter and the younger sister of philosopher Simone de Beauvoir. Her work was exhibited across Europe, Japan, and the United States, and she married Lionel de Roulet.
Biography of Paul Guiraud (psychiatrist) (excerpt)
Paul Guiraud, born on August 4, 1882, in Cessenon (Hérault) and died on April 21, 1974, in Paris, was a French psychiatrist. In 1922, he co-authored, alongside Maurice Dide, a seminal manual on psychiatric clinical practice that remained a reference until the 1950s.
Biography of Francisco Luis Urquizo (excerpt)
Francisco Luis Urquizo Benavides, born June 27, 1891, in San Pedro de las Colonias and died April 6, 1969, in Mexico City, was a Mexican general, writer, and historian. A key figure in the Mexican Revolution, he later served as Secretary of National Defense from 1945 to 1946.
Biography of Rirette Maîtrejean (excerpt)
Henriette Maîtrejean, known as "Rirette," was the pseudonym of Anna Estorges, born on August 14, 1887, in Tulle and died on June 11, 1968. She was a French individualist anarchist who contributed to the magazine L'Anarchie alongside Émile Armand and Albert Libertad.
Biography of Katharine Newlin Burt (excerpt)
Katharine Newlin Burt (September 6, 1882 – June 22, 1977) was an American novelist and film scenarist. She was a prolific author of Westerns and other novels, with a publishing career that spanned more than 60 years. At least seven of Burt's published works were adapted to film, and she authored the original screen stories for two more films.
Biography of Doris Hill (excerpt)
Doris Hill, born Roberta M. Hill on March 21, 1905, in Roswell, New Mexico, died on March 3, 1976. She was an American actress active in the 1920s and 1930s. Discovered dancing in Los Angeles, she began her film career in 1926 and successfully transitioned to sound films.
Biography of Alfred Lichtenstein (writer) (excerpt)
Alfred Lichtenstein (August 23, 1889 – September 25, 1914) was a German Expressionist writer, born in Wilmersdorf, a district of Berlin. The eldest son of a textile industrialist, he studied law in Berlin and at Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg after completing his Abitur in 1909.
Biography of James Rosati (excerpt)
James Rosati (9 June 1911 in Washington, Pennsylvania – 24 February 1988 in New York City) was an American abstract sculptor. He is best known for creating an outdoor sculpture in New York: a stainless steel Ideogram that was located in the World Trade Center Plaza.
Biography of Hans Jendretzky (excerpt)
Gustav Ernst Hans Jendretzky (July 20, 1897 – July 2, 1992) was a German Communist politician.He was a prominent figure in the Socialist Unity Party (SED) of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). He joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1919 and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1920.
Biography of Denny Galehouse (excerpt)
Dennis Ward Galehouse (December 7, 1911 – December 12, 1998) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher with the Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox and the St.Louis Browns between 1934 and 1949.Galehouse batted and threw right-handed. Later life Galehouse remained in baseball after his playing career as a scout for both the Red Sox and Indians, as well as the Detroit Tigers, St.
Biography of Martin Held (actor) (excerpt)
Martin Erich Fritz Held, born in Berlin on November 11, 1908, and died in Berlin on January 31, 1992, was a German theater and film actor. After training as a mechanic at Siemens, he studied acting at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1929 to 1931.
Biography of Hartmut Kallmann (excerpt)
Hartmut Kallmann (born on February 5, 1896, in Berlin, and died on June 11, 1978) was a German physicist, known for his work on the scintillation counter for gamma ray detection. Kallmann was born into a Jewish family in Berlin and studied at the University of Göttingen, completing his dissertation under Max Planck in 1920.
Biography of Pierre Auger (physicist) (excerpt)
Pierre-Victor Auger was a French physicist, born on May 14, 1899, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris and passed away on December 24, 1993, in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. He dedicated his work to atomic physics, nuclear physics, and cosmic rays.
Biography of Jean Voilier (publisher) (excerpt)
Jean Voilier, born Jeanne Loviton on April 1, 1903, in Paris and died on July 20, 1996, was a French lawyer, publisher, and novelist. Raised in an artistic family, she was adopted by publisher Ferdinand Loviton, who gave her his name.
Biography of Nic Waal (excerpt)
Nic Waal, born Caroline Schweigaard Nicolaysen on January 1, 1905, in Kristiania and passed away on May 28, 1960, in Oslo, was a Norwegian psychoanalyst and physician. She graduated in medicine in 1930, specialized in psychology in Berlin, and studied under Harald Schjelderup and Wilhelm Reich.
Biography of Duke Iversen (excerpt)
Christopher Arnold "Duke" Iversen (February 26, 1920 – May 20, 2011) was an American professional football player who played five seasons in the National Football League (NFL) and All-America Football Conference (AAFC) with the New York Giants, New York Yankees and New York Yanks.
Biography of Marcello Marchesi (excerpt)
Marcello Marchesi, born on April 4, 1912, in Milan and died on July 19, 1978, in Cabras, was an Italian screenwriter and director. Marchesi wrote or contributed to the writing of 64 film scripts between 1939 and 1977. He also directed seven films between 1951 and 1952.
Biography of Jan Duiker (excerpt)
Jan Duiker (March 1, 1890 – February 23, 1935) was a leading Dutch architect of the Modern movement Het Nieuwe Bouwen.He partnered with Bernard Bijvoet from 1917 until 1935. Recommended by Hendrik Berlage for the Zonnestraal project, Duiker and Bijvoet left a major mark on Dutch modernist architecture.
Biography of Hans Quest (excerpt)
Hans Quest (August 20, 1915 – March 29, 1997) was a German actor and director, active in film, television, radio, and theater. Born into a family of musicians, he studied at the Schauspielschule in Berlin (1933-1935) and began his career in Wuppertal before joining the Preußisches Staatstheater in Berlin until his military service in 1939. |
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