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Horoscopes 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 Jack Benny (excerpt)
Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky February 14, 1894 - December 26, 1974) was an American comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and film actor. Benny was known for his comic timing and his ability to get laughs with either a pregnant pause or a single expression, such as his signature exasperated "Well!"
Biography of Jacqueline de Romilly (excerpt)
Jacqueline Worms de Romilly (March 26 1913 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) – December 18 2010) was a French philologist, classical scholar and fiction writer. Of Jewish ancestry, she was the first woman nominated to the Collège de France, and in 1988, the second woman to enter the Académie Française.
Biography of Graham Greene (excerpt)
Henry Graham Greene, OM, CH (October 2, 1904 – April 3, 1991) was an English playwright, novelist, short story writer, travel writer and critic whose works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world. Greene combined serious literary acclaim with wide popularity.
Biography of Pamela Travers (excerpt)
Pamela Lyndon Travers OBE (9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996) was an Australian novelist and journalist, popularly remembered for her sequence of novels about Mary Poppins. She was born Helen Lyndon Goff in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, to bank manager Travers Robert Goff and Margaret Agnes (née Morehead).
Biography of Stewart Granger (excerpt)
Stewart Granger (May 6, 1913 – August 16, 1993), born James Lablache Stewart, was an English film actor, mainly associated with heroic and romantic leading roles. Tall, dark, dignified and handsome, Granger was a popular leading man in the 40s, 50s and 60s.
Biography of George Sanders (excerpt)
George Sanders (born George Henry Sanders) (July 3, 1906 – April 25, 1972) was an Academy Award-winning English film and television actor. Early life Sanders was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, of British parents. In 1917, at the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, when Sanders was 11, the family returned to Britain and, like his brother, he attended Brighton College, a boys' independent school in Brighton.
Biography of Grant Lewi (excerpt)
William Grant Lewi II (June 8, 1902 – July 14, 1951) was an American astrologer and author. Best known for his books Astrology for the Millions and Heaven Knows What, Lewi has been described as "the father of modern astrology in America".
Biography of Lanza del Vasto (excerpt)
Lanza del Vasto, (Giuseppe Giovanni Luigi Enrico Lanza di Trabia), (September 29, 1901 – January 5, 1981) was a philosopher, poet, artist, and nonviolent activist. He was born in San Vito dei Normanni, Italy and died in Murcia, Spain. A western disciple of Mohandas K.
Biography of Gaston Lenôtre (excerpt)
Gaston Lenôtre (20 May 1920 (birth certificate n° 8) – 8 January 2009) was a French Pastry Chef and caterer. Childhood Lenôtre's mother, Éléonore, was one of the first women chef's in Paris during the 1900. She was the chef of the Rothschild family.
Biography of Francis Poulenc (excerpt)
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (7 January 1899 – 30 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include songs, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music. Among the best-known are the piano suite Trois mouvements perpétuels (1919), the ballet Les biches (1923), the Concert champêtre (1928) for harpsichord and orchestra, the Organ Concerto (1938), the opera Dialogues des Carmélites (1957), and the Gloria (1959) for soprano, choir, and orchestra.
Biography of Theda Bara (excerpt)
Theda Bara was the stage name of Theodosia Burr Goodman (July 29, 1885 – April 13, 1955), an American silent film actress. Movie executives made promotional claims that her stage name was chosen because it is an anagram for "Arab Death.
Biography of Alain Bernardin (excerpt)
Alain Bernardin (Jaunuary 9, 1916 in Dijon - September 15, 1994) has opened Le Crazy Horse Saloon in 1951. It has been personally operated by him for decades until his death by suicide in 1994. The Paris Crazy Horse occupies a portion of a traditional Parisian building at 12 Avenue George V (with the Roman numeral "V" spoken in French as "Cinq").
Biography of Madeleine Renaud (excerpt)
Madeleine Renaud was a distinguished actress and a major figure in French theater in the 20th century. She was born on February 21, 1900 in Paris and died there on September 23, 1994. In 1940 Madeleine Renaud married the actor-director Jean-Louis Barrault (1910-1994).
Biography of Diana Vreeland (excerpt)
Diana Vreeland (December 29, 1902, Paris (birth time source: his birth certificate. Wikipedia is wrong), – August 22, 1989, New York City) was a noted columnist and editor in the field of fashion. She worked for the fashion magazines Harper's Bazaar and Vogue and as a special consultant at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Biography of Michèle Alfa (excerpt)
Alfreda Bassignot, best known as Michèle Alfa (sometimes Michèle Alpha) born August 20, 1911 in Gujan-Mestras, died August 24, 1987 in Le Vésinet, was a French actress. Filmography (extracts) 1932 : La Poule de René Guissart 1932 : La Belle Aventure de Reinhold Schünzel et Roger Le Bon : Jeanne
Biography of Madalyn Murray O'Hair (excerpt)
Madalyn Murray O'Hair (April 13, 1919 – September 29, 1995) was an American atheist and activist. She is best known for the lawsuit Murray v. Curlett which led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling and ended the practice of daily prayer in American public schools.
Biography of Peter Townsend (excerpt)
Group Captain Peter Wooldridge Townsend, CVO, DSO, DFC and Bar, RAF (November 22, 1914 – June 19, 1995) was Equerry to King George VI 1944–1952 and held the same position for Queen Elizabeth II 1952–1953. He was born 1914 in Rangoon, Burma and educated at Haileybury School.
Biography of Henry de Montherlant (excerpt)
Henry de Montherlant (April 20, 1895 (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate) – September 21, 1972) was a French writer of essays and novels. His early successes were works such as the tetralogy Les jeunes filles (1936–1939) and Les célibataires (1934).
Biography of Félix Labisse (excerpt)
Félix Labisse (March 9, 1905 – January 27, 1982) was a French Surrealist painter, illustrator, and designer. He was born in Marchiennes. He divided his time between Paris and the Belgian coast from 1927. In Ostend he met James Ensor, who influenced his work.
Biography of Edith Stein (excerpt)
Edith Stein (October 12, 1891 (birth time source: birth certificate) – August 9, 1942) was a German philosopher, a Carmelite nun, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church, who died at Auschwitz. In 1922, she converted to Christianity, was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church and was received into the Discalced Carmelite Order in 1934.
Biography of Jim Thorpe (excerpt)
Jacobus Franciscus "Jim" Thorpe (22 May 1887 – 28 March 1953) was an American athlete. Considered one of the most versatile athletes in modern sports, he won Olympic gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon, played American football collegiately and professionally, and also played professional baseball and basketball.
Biography of Bangalor Venkata Raman (excerpt)
Dr. Bangalore Venkata Raman, born August 8, 1912 in Bangalore, was a most renowned astrologer, especially for his predictive skill. He was the author of numerous books of instruction and research papers in the field of Indian Vedic Astrology (Jyotish), and traveled all over the world giving lectures.
Biography of Guy Lux (excerpt)
Maurice Guy, best known as Guy Lux, born June 21, 1919 in Paris, died June 13, 2003 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French former actor, producer and TV host. He was famous also with the Schmilblick. The Schmilblick is an imaginary object created by the French humorist Pierre Dac during the 50s.
Biography of Maurice Estève (excerpt)
Maurice Estève, born May 2, 1904 in Culan (Cher), died June 29, 2001 in Culan, is a French painter of School of Paris. Modern School of Paris The School of Paris describes, not an art movement or a learning institution, but instead is more indicative of the importance of Paris as a center of Western art in the early decades of the 20th century.
Biography of Jean Galtier-Boissière (excerpt)
Jean Galtier-Boissière (b. December 26, 1891-January 22, 1966) was a writer, polemist, and journalist from Paris, France. He founded Le Crapouillot and wrote for Le Canard enchaîné. Bibliography (extracts) Croquis De Tranchées. 1917 Loin De La Rifflette. Baudinière, 1921 La fleur au fusil.
Biography of Noël Roquevert (excerpt)
Noël Bénévent, best known as Noël Roquevert, born December 18, 1892 in Doué-la-Fontaine (Maine-et-Loire), died November 6, 1973 in Douarnenez (Finistère), was a French actor. Filmography (extracts) 1921 - 1939 1921 : Les Trois Mousquetaires, de Henri Diamant-Berger - Rôle : Une figuration à confirmer
Biography of Yvette Chauviré (excerpt)
Yvette Chauviré the great French assoluta was born on April 22, 1917 in Paris (birth time source: Astrotheme, birth certificate n° 3289) and died on October 19, 2016. She goes to celebrate her 90th birthday 2007, April 22. She is possibly the greatest French ballerina of her time.
Biography of Immanuel Velikovsky (excerpt)
Immanuel Velikovsky (June 10, 1895 (NS) – November 17, 1979) is best known as the author of a number of controversial books on prehistory, in particular, the US bestseller Worlds in Collision, published in 1950. Earlier, he played a role in the founding of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was a respected psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
Biography of Pauline Réage (excerpt)
Anne Desclos (September 23, 1907 - April 27, 1998) was a French journalist and novelist who wrote under the pseudonyms Dominique Aury and Pauline Réage. Born in Rochefort-sur-Mer, Charente-Maritime, France to a bilingual family, Desclos began reading in French and English at an early age.
Biography of Mario Altéry (excerpt)
Mario Altéry, born Philippe Altare September 12, 1900 in Nice and died in 1974 in Hyères, was a French singer (tenor), the father of singer Mathé Altéry.
Biography of Mila Parély (excerpt)
Mila Parély (7 October 1917 (source for her birth time: archives of Paris) – 14 January 2012) was a French actress best known for the roles of Belle's sister in Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête and as Geneviève in La Règle du jeu.
Biography of Jascha Heifetz (excerpt)
Jascha Heifetz (IPA: ) was a Jewish violin virtuoso born in Lithuania (February 2 1901 – December 10, 1987) who was one of the most pre-eminent violinists of the 20th century. Early life Heifetz was born of Jewish descent in Vilnius, Lithuania, then part of the Russian Empire.
Biography of Nedo Nadi (excerpt)
Nedo Nadi (June 9, 1893 – January 29, 1940) was an Italian fencer, widely regarded as the most versatile ever. He is the only fencer to win a gold medal in each of the three weapons at a single Olympic Games and won the most gold medals ever in fencing at a single Games - five.
Biography of Martin Niemöller (excerpt)
Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller (January 14, 1892 – March 6, 1984) was a prominent German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor. He is best known as the author of the poem First they came. Although he was a national conservative and initially a supporter of Adolf Hitler, he became one of the founders of the Confessing Church, which opposed the nazification of German Protestant churches.
Biography of Enlai Zhou (excerpt)
Zhou Enlai (5 March 1898 – 8 January 1976), Wade-Giles transliteration Chou En-lai, was the first Premier of the People's Republic of China. From October 1949 until his death in January 1976, Zhou was China's head of government. Zhou served under Chairman Mao Zedong and helped the Communist Party rise to power, later helping consolidate its control, form its foreign policy, and develop the Chinese economy.
Biography of René Fonck (excerpt)
René Paul Fonck (26 March 1894 – 18 June 1953) was a French aviator who ended the Great War as the top Allied fighter ace. His 75 (72 solo and three shared and a further 52 'probable' victories) victories also ranked him second only to Manfred von Richthofen, (80 planes confirmed shot down) as the top ace of the conflict.
Biography of Fritz Lang (excerpt)
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (December 5, 1890 (birth time source: Jacques de Lescaut) – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-German-American film director, screenwriter and occasional film producer. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the BFI.
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Biography of Charles Laughton (excerpt)
Charles Laughton (1 July 1899–15 December 1962) was an English Academy Award-winning stage and film actor, screenwriter, producer and one-time director. He became an American citizen in 1950. While best known for his historical roles in films, he started his career as a remarkable stage actor.
Biography of Fulbert Youlou (excerpt)
Abbé Fulbert Youlou (July 19, 1917 – May 5, 1972) was a Brazzaville-Congolese political figure. He served as Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo between 1958 and 1960. He served as the first President of the Republic of the Congo, from 1960 until 1963, when he was deposed.
Biography of Brassaï (excerpt)
Brassaï (pseudonym of Gyula Halász) (9 September 1899 (birth time source: Romanian National Archive - Brasov, exatract at http://www.astrotheme.fr/images/Brassai_time_of_birth.jpg – 8 July 1984) was a Hungarian photographer, sculptor, author, and filmmaker who rose to international fame in France in the 20th century.
Biography of Rafael Trujillo (excerpt)
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina (October 24, 1891 – May 30, 1961) ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961. Officially, he was president only from 1930 to 1938 and again from 1942 to 1952, ruling for the rest of the time as an unelected military Dictator.
Biography of João Jorge Saad (excerpt)
João Jorge Saad, born July 22, 1919 in Monte Azul Paulista, São Paulo, died October 10, 1999 in São Paulo, was a Brazilian impresario and businessman, the founder of Grupo Bandeirantes de Comunicação, a Brazilian media conglomerate, headquartered in São Paulo and headed by himself.
Biography of Jonas Salk (excerpt)
Jonas Edward Salk (October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995) was an American biologist and physician best known for the research and development of the first effective polio vaccine (the eponymous Salk vaccine). During his life he worked in New York, Michigan, Pittsburgh and California.
Biography of Jacob Levy Moreno (excerpt)
Dr. Jacob Levy Moreno (born Bucharest, Romania, May 18, 1889; died New York, USA, May 14, 1974) was a leading psychiatrist, theorist and educator. During his lifetime Dr. Moreno was recognized at Harvard University as one of the greatest social scientists in the world.
Biography of René Laurentin (excerpt)
Abbé René Laurentin, born October 19, 1917 in Tours (birth time source: Didier Geslain, birth certificate), died on September 10, 2017 in Paris, was a French theologist, historian, journalist, writer and priest. Books (extracts) Vie de Bernadette (1978), Vie authentique de Catherine Labouré, (1981),
Biography of Julien Green (excerpt)
Julian Hartridge Green, or Julien Green (September 6, 1900 – August 13, 1998), was a French born American author of several novels including Léviathan and Each in His Own Darkness. He wrote primarily in French, but was not a French citizen.
Biography of Régine Pernoud (excerpt)
Régine Pernoud (17 June 1909 in Château-Chinon - 22 April 1998 in Paris) was a historian and medievalist. She received an award from the Académie française. She is known for writing extensively about Joan of Arc. She is the aunt of French TV host Georges Pernoud ("Thalassa").
Biography of Christiane Rochefort (excerpt)
Christiane Rochefort, born July 17, 1917 in Paris, died April 24, 1998 in Le Pradet, was a French writer. She has also written with another name, Dominique Féjos. Works (extracts) Novels 1956 : Cendres et Or, Éditions de Paris 1957 : Une fille mal élevée, Éditions de Paris sous le pseudonyme de Dominique Féjos
Biography of Fritz Perls (excerpt)
Friedrich (Frederick) Salomon Perls (July 8 1893, Berlin – March 14, 1970, Chicago), better known as Fritz Perls, was a noted German-born psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He coined the term 'Gestalt Therapy' for the approach to therapy he developed with his wife Laura Perls from the 1940s, and he became associated with the Esalen Institute in California in 1964. |
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