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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 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 Jeanne Bates (excerpt)
Jeanne Bates (May 21, 1918 – November 28, 2007) was an American radio, film, and television actress. She began her career in radio serials before signing a contract with Columbia Pictures in 1942. Her filmography includes roles in both minor parts and significant appearances in horror and noir films such as The Return of the Vampire (1943) and Shadows in the Night (1946).
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Biography of Roger François (weightlifter) (excerpt)
Roger François, born on October 7, 1900, in Romans, Drôme, and died on February 15, 1949, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, was a French weightlifter. He became the world light-heavyweight champion at the 1922 World Championships in Tallinn. Placing sixth in the middleweight category at the 1924 Summer Olympics, he went on to become the Olympic champion in the same category at the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Biography of Leopold Abraham Ries (excerpt)
Leopold Abraham Ries (born 15 April 1893 in Groningen, died 10 July 1962 in New York) was a Dutch senior civil servant, appointed Treasurer-General in 1935. A talented jurist from a wealthy Jewish family, he was close to Eelco van Kleffens and an early quiet supporter of gay rights in the Netherlands.
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Biography of Miguel A. Catalán (excerpt)
Miguel Antonio Catalán y Sañudo (9 October 1894 – 11 November 1957) was a Spanish spectroscopist born in Zaragoza. He earned his chemistry degree there and completed his doctorate in Madrid in 1917 on spectrochemistry. His time of birth comes from the journal Cuadernos de Aragón, Issues 14-17 (1981).
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Biography of Salvador Novo (excerpt)
Salvador Novo López (July 30, 1904 – January 13, 1974) was a Mexican writer, poet, playwright, translator, and the official chronicler of Mexico City. A member of Los Contemporáneos and the Mexican Academy of Language, he significantly influenced Mexican politics, culture, and society.
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Biography of Warren William (excerpt)
Warren William, born Warren William Krech on December 2, 1894, and died on September 24, 1948, was a Broadway and Hollywood actor, immensely popular during the early 1930s. Nicknamed the "King of Pre-Code," he was the first actor to portray defense attorney Perry Mason on the big screen.
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Biography of Norbert Casteret (excerpt)
Norbert Casteret (19 August 1897 – 20 July 1987) was a famous French caver, adventurer and writer, and is one of the most recognisable names in caving worldwide. Following Édouard-Alfred Martel (the "father of modern speleology", although Casteret sometimes also enjoys this title), Casteret, along with Robert de Joly, became a leading figure of French speleology between the world wars and into the middle of the 20th century.
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Biography of Juan O'Gorman (excerpt)
Juan O'Gorman O'Gorman (born July 6, 1905, in Coyoacán and died January 17, 1982, in Mexico City) was a Mexican architect and painter. Born into a family of Irish descent, he was the brother of historian Edmundo O'Gorman.He studied architecture at the Academy of San Carlos and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
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Biography of Luigi Cacciatore (excerpt)
Luigi Cacciatore (1900–1951) was an Italian socialist politician who served as the minister of posts and communications in 1947.He was a member and one of the leaders of the Italian Socialist Party. Cacciatore was born in Mercato San Severino, near Salerno, on 26 July 1900.
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Biography of Wilhelm Röpke (excerpt)
Wilhelm Röpke (10 October 1899 – 12 February 1966) was a German economist and social critic, one of the spiritual fathers of the social market economy. A professor of economics, first in Jena, then in Graz, Marburg, Istanbul, and finally Geneva, Röpke theorised and collaborated to organise the post-World War II economic re-awakening of the war-wrecked German economy, deploying a program referred to as ordoliberalism, a more conservative variant of German liberalism.
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Biography of Lion Feuchtwanger (excerpt)
Lion Feuchtwanger (7 July 1884 – 21 December 1958) was a German Jewish novelist and playwright.A prominent figure in the literary world of Weimar Germany, he influenced contemporaries including playwright Bertolt Brecht. Feuchtwanger's Judaism and fierce criticism of the Nazi Party, years before it assumed power, ensured that he would be a target of government-sponsored persecution after Adolf Hitler's appointment as chancellor of Germany in January 1933.
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Biography of Ormond McGill (excerpt)
Ormond Dale McGill, born on June 15, 1913 in Palo Alto, California, and died on October 19, 2005, was an American stage hypnotist, magician, and author, known as the "Dean of American Hypnotists." His time of birth comes from him, in his book "The Amazing Life of Ormond McGill", by Ormond McGill (Crown House, 2005).
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Biography of Tex Beneke (excerpt)
Tex Beneke (born Gordon Lee Beneke, February 12, 1914 – died May 30, 2000) was an American saxophonist, singer, and bandleader best known for his work with Glenn Miller. He performed the sax solo on In the Mood and sang on Chattanooga Choo Choo, iconic hits of the big band era.
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Biography of James Denis (aviator) (excerpt)
James Denis (February 1, 1906 – June 21, 2003) was a French military officer and Compagnon de la Libération.A skilled pilot, he joined the Free French Forces in 1940, flying to England with five companions. He fought in North Africa and the Middle East, serving with the Royal Air Force before forming the Escadrille française de chasse n°1.
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Biography of Manuel Cabré (excerpt)
Manuel Cabré, born on January 25, 1890, in Barcelona and passed away on February 26, 1984, in Caracas, was a renowned Venezuelan painter, especially celebrated for his landscapes. The son of sculptor Ángel Cabré i Magriñá, he grew up in Venezuela and joined the Caracas Academy of Fine Arts at 14, where his father taught.
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Biography of Doris Kenyon (excerpt)
Doris Margaret Kenyon (September 5, 1897 – September 1, 1979) was an American film and television actress. She grew up in Syracuse, New York, where her father, Dr. James B. Kenyon, was a Methodist minister. Doris studied at Packer College Institute and Columbia University, singing in church choirs.
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Biography of Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (excerpt)
Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (Gustaf Adolf Oscar Fredrik Arthur Edmund; 22 April 1906 – 26 January 1947) was a Swedish prince who for most of his life was second in the line of succession to the Swedish throne. He was the eldest son of Gustaf VI Adolf, who was crown prince for most of his son's life and ascended the Swedish throne three years after his son's death.
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Biography of Eleanor Keaton (excerpt)
Eleanor Ruth Keaton (née Norris; July 29, 1918 – October 19, 1998) was an American dancer and variety performer. She became an MGM contract dancer in her teens. At age 21, she married silent film legend Buster Keaton, becoming his third wife. She played a key role in reviving his personal life and career.
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Biography of Princess Chichibu Setsuko (excerpt)
Setsuko, Princess Chichibu (born Matsudaira Setsuko, September 9, 1909 – August 25, 1995), was a member of the Japanese imperial family and the wife of Prince Yasuhito, the second son of Emperor Taishō and Empress Teimei. She was the sister-in-law of Emperor Shōwa and aunt by marriage to Emperor Akihito.
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Biography of Francisco Asorey (excerpt)
Francisco Asorey González, born March 4, 1889, in Cambados, and died July 2, 1961, in Santiago de Compostela, was a prominent Spanish sculptor of the 20th century.As a child, he showed talent for carving wooden Christs and saints. He studied with the Salesians in Sarrià and later taught drawing in Baracaldo, where he opened a religious sculpture workshop.
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Biography of Kurt von Kleefeld (excerpt)
Kurt von Kleefeld (born 16 October 1881 in Kassel as Kurt Kleefeld, died 1934 in Berlin) was a German lawyer, executive director of the House, President of the Chamber and executive director of the princely mines and industrial activities of the princely Hohenlohe family.
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Biography of Richard G. Colbert (excerpt)
Richard Gary Colbert (February 12, 1915 – December 2, 1973) was a four-star U.S. Navy admiral renowned for fostering international naval cooperation during the Cold War. He served as President of the Naval War College from 1968 to 1971, and then as Commander in Chief of NATO's Southern European forces from 1972 until his death in 1973.
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Biography of Mary Eccles (excerpt)
Mary Eccles, Viscountess Eccles, born Mary Morley Crapo on July 8, 1912, and died August 26, 2003, was an American-British author and renowned literary collector.She was also known as Mary Hyde during her first marriage. She assembled one of the greatest private collections of 18th-century literature, focused on Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, which she donated to Harvard.
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Biography of José Diez Canseco Pereyra (excerpt)
José Diez-Canseco Pereyra (born October 6, 1904 in Lima – died March 4, 1949) was a Peruvian writer and journalist, regarded as a pioneer of urban realism in Peruvian literature. He began publishing under a pseudonym as a teenager and gained recognition in local and national literary circles.
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Biography of Heinrich Jacoby (excerpt)
Heinrich Jacoby (3 April 1889 – 25 November 1964), originally a musician, was a German educator whose teaching was based on developing sensitivity and awareness.His collaboration with his colleague Elsa Gindler (1885–1961), whom he met in 1924 in Berlin, played a great role in his researches.
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Biography of Barron Patterson McCune (excerpt)
Barron Patterson McCune (February 19, 1915 – September 10, 2008) was a U.S. federal judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He earned a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1938, practiced privately, and served in the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1948.
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Biography of Victor Bourgeois (excerpt)
Victor Bourgeois (born August 28, 1897, in Charleroi; died July 24, 1962, in Ixelles) was a Belgian architect and urban planner, a leading figure of the modernist movement. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, he co-edited the 7 Arts magazine (1922-1929) with his brother Pierre, focusing on the seven arts, including cinema, and co-founded the Club des Amis du Septième Art (CASA).
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Biography of Francisco Eppens (excerpt)
Francisco Eppens Helguera, born on February 1, 1913, in San Luis Potosí, and died on September 6, 1990, in Mexico City, was a Mexican artist known for his paintings, sculptures, and murals that showcased Mexican identity. He gained international fame for his modern designs of Mexican postage stamps (1935-1953) and for redesigning Mexico’s national emblem in 1968, which is still used today on official documents, coins, and the national flag.
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Biography of Gert Heinrich Wollheim (excerpt)
Gert Heinrich Wollheim (September 11, 1894 – April 22, 1974) was a German expressionist painter later associated with the New Objectivity.He fled Nazi Germany and settled in the United States in 1947. Born in Dresden-Loschwitz, he studied at the Weimar College of Fine Arts before serving in World War I, where he was wounded.
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Biography of Jean Rouverol (excerpt)
Jean Rouverol (July 8, 1916 – March 24, 2017) was an American actress, screenwriter, and author who was blacklisted by Hollywood in the 1950s. Born in St.Louis, Missouri, she was the daughter of playwright Aurania Rouverol, creator of the Andy Hardy character.
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Biography of Vern Olsen (excerpt)
Vern Jarl Olsen (March 16, 1918 – July 13, 1989) was an American professional baseball player and a left-handed pitcher for the Chicago Cubs (1939–42; 1946). Born in Hillsboro, Oregon, Olsen excelled in the minor leagues (23, 19, and 18 wins from 1937 to 1939).
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Biography of Arthur O'Connell (excerpt)
Arthur Joseph O'Connell, born on March 29, 1908, and died on May 18, 1981, was an American actor known for character roles in film, stage, and TV during the 1950s. He earned two Academy Award nominations for Picnic (1955) and Anatomy of a Murder (1959).
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Biography of Léon Langeron (excerpt)
Léon Langeron (December 5, 1888 – June 29, 1963) was a French professor of medicine. A graduate of the University of Lyon, he became a hospital physician in 1926 before joining the Free Faculty of Medicine in Lille in 1927. For 35 years, he led the medical department at the Hôpital de la Charité, shaping both research and medical education.
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Biography of Ferdinand von Bredow (excerpt)
Ferdinand von Bredow (16 May 1884 – 30 June 1934) was a German Generalmajor, head of the Abwehr, and deputy defence minister in Kurt von Schleicher's cabinet. He was killed during the Night of the Long Knives, accused of plotting against Hitler.
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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.
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Biography of Christian Caillard (excerpt)
Hugues Christian Caillard (July 26, 1899 – September 18, 1985) was a French painter known for his poetic style and lifelong attachment to his studio in Paris’s 9th arrondissement. A grandson of Catulle Mendès and Augusta Holmès, he turned from science to art after World War I.
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Biography of Polly Ann Young (excerpt)
Polly Ann Young, born October 25, 1908, in Denver and died January 21, 1997, in Los Angeles, was an American actress.She was the sister of fellow actresses Loretta Young and Sally Blane. From 1917 to 1941, she appeared in over 40 films, many in minor or uncredited roles.
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Biography of Peggy Shannon (excerpt)
Peggy Shannon (born Winona Sammon; January 10, 1907 – May 11, 1941) was an American actress.She appeared on the stage and screen of the 1920s and 1930s. Shannon began her career as a Ziegfeld girl in 1923 before moving on to Broadway productions.
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Biography of Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (excerpt)
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (31 July 1884 – 2 February 1945) was a German conservative politician, monarchist, executive, economist, civil servant and opponent of the Nazi regime.He opposed anti-Jewish policies while he held office and was opposed to the Holocaust. Had the 20 July plot to overthrow Hitler's dictatorship in 1944 succeeded, Goerdeler would have served as the Chancellor of the new government.
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Biography of Adriaan Morriën (excerpt)
Adriaan Morriën (Velsen, June 5, 1912 – Amsterdam, June 7, 2002) was a Dutch poet, writer of short prose, essayist, translator, and critic.Morriën made his debut in 1935, shortly before its closure, in the magazine Forum, led by Menno ter Braak and E.
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Biography of Kurt Hirsch (excerpt)
Kurt August Hirsch (12 January 1906 – 4 November 1986) was a German mathematician who moved to England to escape the Nazi persecution of Jews.His research was in group theory.He also worked to reform mathematics education and became a county chess champion.
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Biography of Adrien Turel (excerpt)
Adrien Turel (born June 5, 1890, in Saint Petersburg and died June 29, 1957, in Zurich) was a Swiss writer.His time of birth comes from him, in his autobiography "Bilanz eines erfolglosen Lebens: Autobiographie" by Adrien Turel (Moderne, 1989). He grew up in Switzerland and Germany, studying Germanic studies, Romance languages, and history before abandoning his studies to focus on psychoanalysis.
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Biography of Franco Rasetti (excerpt)
Franco Dino Rasetti (August 10, 1901 – December 5, 2001) was an Italian-born (later naturalized American) physicist, paleontologist, and botanist. A collaborator of Enrico Fermi, he contributed to key discoveries about nuclear fission but refused to work on the Manhattan Project for moral reasons.
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Biography of Ed Walker (American veteran) (excerpt)
Edgar Walker (August 28, 1917 – October 28, 2011) was an American World War II veteran, businessman, publisher, and writer.He was a member of "Castner's Cutthroats," an elite reconnaissance unit in the Aleutian Islands. Born in San Juan Bautista, California, he enlisted in the Army in 1937 and developed a passion for Alaska, where he joined Castner's Cutthroats.
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Biography of Peggy Ahern (excerpt)
Peggy Ahern (March 9, 1917 – October 24, 2012) was an American actress best known for appearing in eight Our Gang films between 1924 and 1927. Born in Douglas, Arizona, she moved to Culver City in 1921 and made her film debut at age six in The Call of the Wild (1923), followed by roles in several 1920s productions.
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Biography of Leroy Edwards (excerpt)
Leroy Harry Edwards (April 11, 1914 – August 25, 1971), nicknamed "Cowboy" and "Lefty", was one of the greatest basketball players of his era. He was an NCAA All-American at the University of Kentucky and also one of the most lauded professional players in the United States' National Basketball League's history.
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Biography of Georges Lepape (excerpt)
Georges Lepape (26 June 1887 – 15 February 1971) was a French fashion illustrator, poster artist, engraver, and designer, closely associated with the Art Deco movement. A student at the Académie Humbert, he gained early fame in 1911 with Les Choses de Paul Poiret, considered his masterpiece.
Biography of Dan Wickenden (excerpt)
Leonard Daniel Wickenden, an American author and editor, was born on March 24, 1913, in Tyrone, Pennsylvania, to English parents, and grew up in Long Island. He graduated from Amherst College in 1935 and began publishing stories in Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.
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Biography of Tonino Guerra (excerpt)
Antonio "Tonino" Guerra (16 March 1920 – 21 March 2012) was an Italian poet, writer, and screenwriter who collaborated with renowned directors such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Michelangelo Antonioni, Theo Angelopoulos, and Federico Fellini. Born in Santarcangelo di Romagna, Guerra began writing poetry during his internment in a German prison camp during World War II. |
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