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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 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 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 Adolf Reinach (excerpt)
Adolf Bernhard Philipp Reinach, born December 23, 1883 in Mainz and died November 16, 1917 near Diksmuide, was a German philosopher, phenomenologist, and legal theorist linked to the Munich school. A student of Theodor Lipps, he was deeply influenced by Husserl’s Logical Investigations.
Biography of Giovannino Guareschi (excerpt)
Giovannino Oliviero Giuseppe Guareschi (1 May 1908 – 22 July 1968) was an Italian journalist, cartoonist, and humorist, best known as the creator of Don Camillo. Born into a middle-class family, he abandoned university after financial hardship and turned to journalism. He edited the satirical magazine Bertoldo until 1943, served in the army, and was later interned in a German camp for nearly two years.
Biography of Angelo Hesnard (excerpt)
Angelo Louis Marie Hesnard, born on 22 May 1886 in Pontivy and died on 17 April 1969 in Rochefort, was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, influential in 1930s French sexology. Coming from a modest background, he educated himself through the French navy.
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.
Biography of Ernst Torgler (excerpt)
Ernst Torgler (April 25, 1893 – January 19, 1963) was a German politician who successively joined the SPD, USPD, KPD, and later returned to the SPD. After training as a salesman, Torgler served in World War I.He joined the SPD in 1911, switched to the USPD in 1918, and to the KPD in 1920.
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 Keyes Metcalf (excerpt)
Keyes DeWitt Metcalf (April 13, 1889 – November 3, 1983) was an American librarian, recognized as one of the 100 most influential leaders in the field. His time of birth comes from him, in "Random Recollections of an Anachronism: Or, Seventy-five Years of Library Work, Volume 1" by Keyes DeWitt Metcalf (Readex Books, 1980).
Biography of Johannes Post (excerpt)
Johannes Post, born on 4 October 1906 in Hollandscheveld, was a key Dutch resistance leader during the Nazi occupation.A farmer in Nieuwlande, he hid Jews in his home and led part of the Landelijke Knokploegen, a resistance combat group. In 1942, after learning of the Jewish persecution, he began organizing a local rescue network with Arnold Douwes, expanding it to include much of the region.
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.
Biography of Pierre Naville (excerpt)
Pierre Louis Pyrame Naville, born on February 1, 1904, in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, and died on April 24, 1993, in the 6th arrondissement of the same city, was a French writer, politician, and sociologist. A surrealist from 1924 to 1926, a member of the French Communist Party until 1928, and later a Trotskyist before joining the PSU, he pursued a parallel career as a sociologist of labor alongside his political commitments.
Biography of Pamela Wedekind (excerpt)
Pamela Wedekind (born December 12, 1906 in Berlin – died April 9, 1986 in Ambach) was a German actress and translator.She was the daughter of playwright Frank Wedekind and actress Tilly Newes. She began her theatrical career in the early 1920s alongside Erika and Klaus Mann and actor Gustaf Gründgens, performing in Anja and Esther and Revue zu viert.
Biography of Eyre de Lanux (excerpt)
Eyre de Lanux, born Elizabeth Eyre on March 20, 1894 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and died September 8, 1996 in New York, was an American artist, writer, and designer. She became known in 1920s Paris for her lacquered Art Deco furniture and geometric rugs.
Biography of Helen Andelin (excerpt)
Helen Berry Andelin (May 22, 1920 – June 7, 2009) was an American author and founder of the Fascinating Womanhood movement, which promoted traditional marital roles for women. Her 1963 book of the same name sparked controversy among feminists but sold over five million copies worldwide and was translated into several languages.
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 Erich Unger (excerpt)
Erich Unger (1887-1950) was a Jewish philosopher known for his wide range of writings on topics such as poetry, Nietzsche, political theory, and Jewish philosophy, mainly published in German. Born in Berlin, Unger showed an early interest in intellectual debate.He attended school in Berlin-Lichterfelde, where he met Oskar Goldberg and became a founding member of the Expressionist literary movement in Germany.
Biography of Jean Clarieux (excerpt)
Jean Clarieux (April 3, 1911 – February 11, 1970) was a French film and television actor. Generally a supporting actor appearing in smaller parts, he played a more substantial role in René Clément's 1946 resistance film The Battle of the Rails.
Biography of Norman Chaney (excerpt)
Norman Chaney (October 18, 1914 – May 29, 1936) was an American actor best known for playing "Chubby" in 19 Our Gang short films from 1929 to 1931. He won a nationwide contest to replace Joe Cobb and quickly became a fan favorite in the early sound era.
Biography of Cläre Jung (excerpt)
Cläre Jung (2 February 1892 – 25 March 1981) was a German journalist, writer, and political activist. Born into a middle-class family, she became involved with Berlin’s expressionist poet circle and the journal Die Aktion, where she worked with her partner Franz Jung.
Biography of Frank Palumbo (excerpt)
Frank Palumbo (born May 22, 1911 – died February 12, 1983) was a Philadelphia entrepreneur, political insider, and philanthropist. He owned Palumbo’s entertainment complex, the Click Club, and Nostalgia’s Restaurant, shaping the city’s cultural and political landscape. Expanding his grandfather’s 1884 boarding house, he turned it into a popular entertainment hub that defined Philadelphia’s pop music scene in the 1940s and 1950s.
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 Soup Campbell (baseball) (excerpt)
Clarence "Soup" Campbell (March 7, 1915 – February 16, 2000) was an American professional baseball player, serving as a backup outfielder for the Cleveland Indians from 1940 to 1941.A left-handed batter and right-handed thrower, he stood 6 ft 1 in and weighed 188 lbs.
Biography of Tjalling Koopmans (excerpt)
Tjalling Charles Koopmans (August 28, 1910 – February 26, 1985) was a Dutch-American mathematician and economist. He was the joint winner with Leonid Kantorovich of the 1975 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on the theory of the optimum allocation of resources.
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 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.
Biography of Charles Brink (excerpt)
Charles Oscar Brink FBA (born Karl Oskar Levy; 13 March 1907 – 2 March 1994) was a German-Jewish classicist and Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge University. After an education and an early career as a lexicographer in Weimar Germany, Brink emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1938.
Biography of Isabelle Rivière (excerpt)
Isabelle Fournier, née Rivière (July 16, 1889 – June 18, 1971), was a French writer. The sister of Alain-Fournier, she was the daughter of schoolteachers Marie-Albanie Barthe and Augustin Fournier. She married Jacques Rivière, a writer and director of the Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF).
Biography of José M. Cabanillas (excerpt)
Born on September 23, 1901, in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, José M.Cabanillas entered the U.S.Naval Academy in 1920 after prep studies in Alabama.He served on various vessels and earned a Master of Science from Yale in 1932. During World War II, he was executive officer of the USS Texas, leading key operations in North Africa and on D-Day.
Biography of Walter Fyrst (excerpt)
Walter Fyrst (né Fürst; 6 July 1901 – 23 February 1993) was a Norwegian filmmaker.He was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), the son of the physician Valentin Fürst and Margarethe Christiane Dedekam.His first film was Troll-elgen from 1927, based on two novels by Mikkjel Fønhus.
Biography of Jorge Cáceres (pentathlete) (excerpt)
Jorge Cáceres (14 April 1917 – 3 December 1975) was an Argentine modern pentathlete and army general.His brother, José Rafael Cáceres Monié, served as Minister of Defense under Roberto Levingston and Alejandro Lanusse. Born in Paraná, Entre Ríos, he entered the Colegio Militar de la Nación in 1925 and graduated as a second lieutenant.
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 A.M. de Jong (excerpt)
Adrianus Michiel de Jong (Nieuw-Vossemeer, March 29, 1888 – Blaricum, October 18, 1943) was a Dutch writer, also using pseudonyms like Frank van Waes. Born in a farming family, he grew up in Nieuw-Vossemeer and Rotterdam. His youth inspired the series Merijntje Gijzens jeugd en jonge jaren.
Biography of Raymond Callemin (excerpt)
Raymond Callemin, born on March 26, 1890, in Brussels, and guillotined on April 21, 1913, in Paris, was a French anarchist and member of the Bonnot Gang, nicknamed "Raymond the Science" for his passion for reading. Coming from a modest family, he grew up with figures like Viktor Kibaltchich and Édouard Carouy.
Biography of George Butterworth (excerpt)
George Butterworth, born on July 12, 1885, in London, died on August 5, 1916, in Pozières.He was a British composer known for his simple, lyrical style. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he worked with Ralph Vaughan Williams and helped collect English folk songs.
Biography of Ricardo Palmerín (excerpt)
Ricardo Palmerín Pavia, born on April 3, 1887, in Tekax, Yucatán, and died on January 30, 1944, in Mexico City, was a Mexican composer. He is best known for composing the music for Peregrina in 1922, at the request of Governor Felipe Carrillo Puerto, to honor American journalist Alma Reed.
Biography of Pierre Palué (excerpt)
Pierre Palué (May 13, 1920, Bordeaux – March 29, 2005, Chavannes) was a French painter. Early Life From a modest background, he joined the army in 1939 but was captured and escaped in 1940.He then discovered drawing in Saint-Donat. Artistic Beginnings After the Liberation, he exhibited at the Surindépendants salon and settled in the Drôme.
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.
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 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).
Biography of Milly (actress) (excerpt)
Milly, born Carla Mignone on February 26, 1905, and died September 22, 1980, was an Italian singer, actress, and cabaret performer. Her father abandoned the family in 1910, and she was raised by her mother.As a child, she performed with her brother, comedian Totò Mignone, and her sister Mity.
Biography of Barthold Theodoor Willem Van Hasselt (excerpt)
Barthold Theodoor Willem van Hasselt (7 November 1896, Leiden – 5 August 1960, Wassenaar) was a Dutch business executive in the Dutch East Indies and served as CEO of Royal Dutch Shell from 1949 to 1951. The son of Marie Elise Prins (1875-1949) and physician Sjoerd Folkert Willem van Hasselt (1868-1934), he married Elisabeth Henriette Versteegh (1898-1957) in 1920 and Marion Elizabeth Davidson (1892-1992) in 1938.
Biography of Olan Soule (excerpt)
Olan Soule (February 28, 1909 – February 1, 1994) was a prolific American actor with nearly 7,000 radio credits, over 200 television appearances, and 60 film roles. He was the only performer to appear in both the radio and TV versions of Captain Midnight.
Biography of Alfred Newman (composer) (excerpt)
Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900 – February 17, 1970) was an American composer, conductor, and arranger, considered one of the founding fathers of film music.A child prodigy, he became a major figure in Hollywood’s Golden Age. He scored over 200 films and won 9 Academy Awards out of 45 nominations.
Biography of Enrico Mainardi (excerpt)
Born on May 19, 1897, in Milan, Enrico Mainardi was an Italian cellist, composer, and conductor. He began touring Europe as a cello prodigy at just thirteen, gaining acclaim as a virtuoso performer. He later taught at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, mentoring notable cellists like Siegfried Palm and Miklós Perényi.
Biography of Jan Olieslagers (excerpt)
Born on May 14, 1883, in Antwerp, Jan Olieslagers came from humble beginnings. After losing his father at age 11, he worked in shipyards and bicycle workshops, where he developed a passion for speed and mechanics. He became a cyclist and then, in 1902, world motorcycle speed champion.
Biography of Dodie Smith (excerpt)
Dodie Smith, born Dorothy Gladys Smith on May 3, 1896 and died November 24, 1990, was an English novelist and playwright best known for I Capture the Castle (1948) and The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956). Her children's novel was adapted by Disney into an animated film in 1961 and a live-action version in 1996.
Biography of Marion Dönhoff (excerpt)
Marion Hedda Ilse Gräfin von Dönhoff (December 2, 1909 – March 11, 2002) was a German journalist and publisher who resisted Nazism alongside Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, and Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg. Born into Prussian nobility, she grew up in Friedrichstein Palace, which was destroyed by the Red Army in 1945.
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.
Biography of Frank Graham (voice actor) (excerpt)
Frank Lee Graham (November 22, 1914 – September 2, 1950) was an American radio announcer and voice actor active during the 1940s. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he was the son of attorney Frank L. Graham and opera singer Ethel Briggs Graham, with whom he toured during his youth. |
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