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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 Virgilio Polara (excerpt)
Virgilio Polara (born in Modica on July 7, 1887, died in Messina on August 25, 1974) was an Italian physicist. A student at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa from 1904, he graduated in physics in 1908 under the mentorship of Angelo Battelli, whom he assisted until 1911.
Biography of Martin Dibelius (excerpt)
Martin Dibelius (Dresden, September 14, 1883 – Heidelberg, November 11, 1947) was a German Protestant theologian and biblical scholar, professor of New Testament at Heidelberg University. The son of pastor Franz Wilhelm Dibelius and cousin of Otto Dibelius, he studied theology and philosophy at renowned universities before becoming a professor in Heidelberg in 1915.
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 Mariano Ruiz-Funes (excerpt)
Mariano Ruiz-Funes García, born on February 24, 1889, in Murcia and died in 1953 in Mexico City, was a Spanish criminologist and politician. After studying law at the Central University of Madrid, he became a professor at the University of Murcia, specializing in criminal law, and received the Lombroso Prize in 1927 for Endocrinología y criminalidad.
Biography of Kurt Schwabach (excerpt)
Kurt Schwabach, born on 26 February 1898 in Berlin and died on 26 October 1966 in Hamburg, was a German lyricist and composer. From a wealthy family, he served as a pilot in World War I. After the war, he began his career as a journalist and author for Berlin cabarets.
Biography of Jean Grenier (writer) (excerpt)
Jean Grenier (February 6, 1898 – March 5, 1971) was a French philosopher and writer.Born in Paris, he spent his childhood in Brittany, where he befriended Louis Guilloux and Max Jacob. A philosophy graduate in 1922, he taught at the Algiers high school, mentoring Albert Camus, who dedicated several works to him, inspired by Grenier’s Les Îles (1933).
Biography of Rodolfo Oroz (excerpt)
Rodolfo Oroz Scheibe (July 8, 1895 – April 13, 1997) was a Chilean writer, professor, and philologist of German descent. Graduating in pedagogy from the University of Leipzig in 1920, he returned to Chile to teach Latin, English, grammar, and linguistics. Between 1933 and 1944, he directed the Pedagogical Institute of Santiago and founded the Chilean Institute of Philology in 1944.
Biography of Peretz Naftali (excerpt)
Peretz Naftali (March 19, 1888 – April 30, 1961) was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician who held several ministerial positions in the 1950s. Born Fritz Naftali in Berlin, he joined the German Social Democratic Party in 1911 and served in the German Army during World War I.
Biography of Karl Daeves (excerpt)
Karl Heinz Daeves (born April 24, 1893, in Cologne – died May 2, 1963) was a German metallurgist. He studied metallurgy at TH Aachen and Breslau, earning his doctorate in 1920. After a brief period in industry, he became a specialist in 1921 for the Verein Deutscher Eisenhüttenleute in Düsseldorf, where he developed the "large-number research" concept for quality control and materials development.
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 Georges Charensol (excerpt)
Georges Charensol, born on December 26, 1899, in Privas (Ardèche) and died in Paris on May 15, 1995, was a French journalist, art, literary, and film critic, particularly known for his participation in the radio show Le Masque et la Plume, alongside Jean-Louis Bory, from 1964 to 1979.
Biography of Cesare Fantoni (excerpt)
Cesare Fantoni (1 February 1905 – 15 January 1963) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Born in Bologna, Fantoni began his acting career in Luchino Visconti’s stage proses until making his first on-screen appearance in 1937.He made his debut film appearance in Doctor Antonio.
Biography of Tamie Tsuchiyama (excerpt)
Tamie Tsuchiyama (May 8, 1915 – May 12, 1984) was the only Japanese-American to work full time for the Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement Study during World War II. While interned at the Poston War Relocation Center, she produced detailed sociological journals and ethnographic reports.
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 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 Mauricio Magdaleno (excerpt)
Mauricio Magdaleno Cardona (13 May 1906 – 30 June 1986) was a prominent Mexican screenwriter during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, and occasionally worked as a director. He was nominated for six Ariel Awards and won the award in 1949 for his screenplay Río Escondido.
Biography of Vincent Persichetti (excerpt)
Vincent Ludwig Persichetti (June 6, 1915 – August 14, 1987) was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, he was known for his integration of various new ideas in musical composition into his own work and teaching, as well as for training many noted composers in composition at the Juilliard School.
Biography of Richard Cromwell (actor) (excerpt)
Richard Cromwell (born LeRoy Melvin Radabaugh, January 8, 1910 – October 11, 1960) was an American actor. His career peaked with roles in Jezebel (1938) alongside Bette Davis and Henry Fonda, and Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) by John Ford, again with Fonda. He first rose to fame with The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935), starring Gary Cooper.
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 Jeanne Mammen (excerpt)
Jeanne Mammen (21 November 1890 – 22 April 1976) was a German painter, illustrator, and printmaker. Her work is associated with the New Objectivity, Symbolism, and Cubism movements. She is best known for her depictions of queer women and Berlin city life during the Weimar period.
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 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 Roger Birkman (excerpt)
Roger Winfred Birkman was an American organizational psychologist, born on February 1, 1919, and died on March 26, 2014. He is best known as the creator of The Birkman Method, a workplace psychological assessment. After studying at the University of Houston, he became a B-17 bomber pilot during World War II, where he developed an interest in psychological differences and their impact on performance.
Biography of Harald Heide Steen (excerpt)
Harald Heide Steen (11 January 1911 – 3 January 1980) was a Norwegian film actor, and son of Harald Martinius Steen and Signe Gunhilda Heide. He appeared in more than 30 films between 1933 and 1977.He was the father of actors and singers Harald Heide-Steen Jr.
Biography of Gilles Margaritis (excerpt)
Gilles Margaritis, born on March 13, 1912, in Paris and passing away on November 7, 1965, was a French director, stage director, actor, and television producer, best known for his work on the show La Piste aux étoiles. He began his film career in 1934 with small roles in Les Affaires publiques by Robert Bresson and L'Atalante by Jean Vigo.
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 Nando Bruno (excerpt)
Nando Bruno, born Fernando Bruno (Rome, October 6, 1895 – Rome, April 10, 1963), was an Italian actor. He began performing at a young age in Rome's avanspettacolo and variety shows. After a long theater career, he was cast by Mario Mattoli for the film L'ha fatto una signora (1938).
Biography of Roger André (French resistance fighter) (excerpt)
Roger André, born on December 13, 1914, in Saint-Laurent-des-Eaux (Loir-et-Cher) and passed away on February 28, 1999, in Lyon, was a French resistance fighter. He was one of the twelve Companions of the Liberation from the 22nd North African Marching Battalion (22e BMNA).
Biography of André Dunoyer de Segonzac (excerpt)
André Dunoyer de Segonzac (6 July 1884 – 17 September 1974) was a renowned French painter and graphic artist.Born in Paris, he initially attended the Free Academy of Luc-Olivier Merson before moving to the Académie de La Palette. His independent approach to art began in 1906, leading to his first Salon d'Automne submission in 1908.
Biography of Pierrette Madd (excerpt)
Pierrette Madd, stage name of Paulette Poggionovo, was a French actress from the silent film era, born in Charenton-le-Pont on August 9, 1893, and passed away in Cannes on August 22, 1967. An actress and operetta singer, Pierrette Madd—the younger sister of Jane Pierly—had a brief film career during the 1920s, exclusively under the direction of Henri Diamant-Berger.
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 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 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 Bill Carey (songwriter) (excerpt)
William D. Carey (May 21, 1916 – January 27, 2004) was an American songwriter, actor, and author. Born on May 20, 1916, in Hollister, California, he appeared in films such as Roberta, Old Man Rhythm, Freshman Love, and A Yank at Oxford.
Biography of U.G. Krishnamurti (excerpt)
Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti (9 July 1918 – 22 March 2007) was a radical Indian philosopher who challenged the notion of spiritual enlightenment. In his youth, he explored religion but later claimed to have undergone a biological upheaval at age 49, an event he called “the calamity.”
Biography of Élisabeth Casteret (excerpt)
Élisabeth Casteret (born Élisabeth Martin on May 13, 1905, in Paris; died on May 6, 1940, in Saint-Gaudens) was a French caver and the wife of Norbert Casteret. She moved to Saint-Gaudens after her father’s retirement and met her future husband, Norbert Casteret, there.
Biography of Raymond Appert (excerpt)
Raymond Appert (Saint-Quentin, October 10, 1904 - Saint-Mandé, April 17, 1973) was a resistance fighter in the Free French Forces, a French brigadier general, and a Companion of the Liberation.
Biography of Martín Ramírez (artist) (excerpt)
Martín Ramírez (* January 30, 1895 – † February 17, 1963) was a self-taught Mexican artist, now regarded as one of the 20th century's masters of outsider art. Biography Born in Tepatitlán, Mexico, he emigrated to the U.S.in 1925 to work on railroads, leaving his family behind.
Biography of Joe Funk (excerpt)
Joseph Funk (March 19, 1914 – February 2, 1981) was an American artist, printmaker, and educator, known for his quiet but key role in reviving fine art lithography in the United States. Trained at Otis and Chouinard, he worked on WPA murals in the 1940s and served in Korea, where he developed a lasting interest in Asian art.
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 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 Corrado Alvaro (excerpt)
Corrado Alvaro (15 April 1895 – 11 June 1956) was an Italian journalist and writer of novels, short stories, screenplays and plays. He often used the verismo style to describe the hopeless poverty in his native Calabria. His first success was Gente in Aspromonte (Revolt in Aspromonte), which examined the exploitation of rural peasants by greedy landowners in Calabria, and is considered by many critics to be his masterpiece.
Biography of Ignacio Trelles (excerpt)
Ignacio Trelles Campos (31 July 1916 – 24 March 2020) was a Mexican football player and manager.As a player with Club Necaxa, they won three Mexican championships.Later he coached amongst others the Mexico national team. A seasoned and decorated manager, Trelles managed 1083 club matches, with 463 wins, 319 draws and 301 losses.
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 Geneviève Callerot (excerpt)
Geneviève Callerot, born on May 6, 1916, in Paris and passed away on January 16, 2025, in Saint-Aulaye-Puymangou (Dordogne), was a French resistance fighter, farmer, activist, and novelist. During World War II, she, her father, and her sister helped over 200 people cross the demarcation line clandestinely.
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 Joe E. Brown (actor) (excerpt)
Joseph Evans Brown, born on July 28, 1891, and died on July 6, 1973, was an American actor and comedian, known for his elastic-mouth smile, comedic timing, and friendly on-screen persona. He was one of the most popular American comedians of the 1930s and 1940s, enjoying a long career in both film and radio.
Biography of Jacques-Paul Bonjean (excerpt)
Jacques-Paul Bonjean (born April 3, 1899, in Paris 15ᵉ, died November 18, 1990, in Paris 8ᵉ) was a French art dealer, antique dealer, and collector. In 1927, he co-founded La Maison des quatre chemins with Maurice Sachs, publishing luxury editions of works by Max Jacob and Jean Cocteau, and later opened galleries with Pierre Colle and Christian Dior.
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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