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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 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 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.
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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.
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Biography of Ethelene Crockett (excerpt)
Ethelene Jones Crockett (1914–1978) was an American physician and activist, the first African-American woman in Michigan to be board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology, and the first woman to serve as president of the American Lung Association. Born in 1914, she studied at Jackson Junior College and the University of Michigan, then earned her medical degree from Howard University.
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Biography of Bernard Boutet de Monvel (excerpt)
Bernard Boutet de Monvel (born August 9, 1881 – died October 28, 1949) was a French painter, sculptor, engraver, fashion illustrator, and interior decorator. Initially recognized for his etchings, he later gained renown for his geometric paintings of the 1900s and his Moroccan-inspired works during World War I.
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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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Biography of Raúl Anguiano (excerpt)
José Raúl Anguiano Valadez, born February 26, 1915, and died January 13, 2006, was a prominent Mexican painter of the 20th century. Part of the “second generation” of muralists, he carried on the legacy of Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueiros while developing his own stylistic voice.
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Biography of Wilfred Talbot Smith (excerpt)
Wilfred Talbot Smith, born Frank Wenham on June 8, 1885, and died April 27, 1957, was an English occultist and ceremonial magician.He was a key figure in spreading the religion of Thelema across North America. His time of birth comes from the book "The Unknown God: W.
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Biography of Alex Golden Oblad (excerpt)
Alex Golden Oblad (November 26, 1909 – September 19, 2000) was an American chemist and chemical engineer, recognized for his pioneering work in catalysis and catalytic chemistry. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, he grew up in Sugar House and studied at the University of Utah before earning a Ph.D.
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Biography of Carlos Monge Alfaro (excerpt)
Carlos Monge Alfaro (born May 22, 1909 in Cervantes – died April 8, 1979 in San José) was a Costa Rican educator, historian, writer, and political thinker. He was one of the founders of the University of Costa Rica, serving three terms as its rector from 1961 to 1970. ![]()
Biography of David Bruce (actor) (excerpt)
Born on January 6, 1914, in Kankakee, Illinois, as Marden Andrew McBroom, David Bruce was an American film actor.He began on stage with Peninsula Players Theatre in 1939 and adopted his stage name upon arriving in Hollywood, thanks to agent Henry Willson.
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Biography of Sorley MacLean (excerpt)
Sorley MacLean (* October 26, 1911 – † November 24, 1996) was a Scottish Gaelic poet, regarded as one of the major modern Scottish poets. Born into a strict Presbyterian family on the Isle of Raasay, he was immersed in Gaelic culture and literature but later embraced socialism.
Biography of Nellie Campobello (excerpt)
Nellie Campobello (November 7, 1900 – July 9, 1986) was a Mexican writer known for Cartucho, a rare chronicle of the Mexican Revolution from a woman’s perspective. The book recounts her childhood in northern Mexico amid the clashes between Villistas and Carrancistas.
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Biography of Heddy Astrup (excerpt)
Hedevig (Heddy) Stang Astrup, born on April 21, 1904, and died on August 23, 1978, was a Norwegian philanthropist known as “the mother of child aid.” In 1931, she founded a local charity that became Oslo Red Cross Child Aid. She supported vulnerable children and disabled people, establishing the "Tomtebo" center in 1944 and significantly funding the Bakkebø institution and its chapel.
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Biography of David A. Burchinal (excerpt)
David Arthur Burchinal (April 17, 1915 – August 17, 1990) was a four-star general in the United States Air Force.He served as Deputy Commander in Chief of the United States European Command from 1966 to 1973. A Brown University graduate, he began pilot training in 1939.
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Biography of Friedrich Karl Georg Rumpf (excerpt)
Friedrich Karl Georg Rumpf, known as Fritz Rumpf (* January 5, 1888, in Berlin Charlottenburg; † May 13, 1949, in Potsdam), was a German draftsman, folklorist, and Japanologist. The son of painter Fritz Rumpf the Elder, he learned Japanese at the age of 15 and studied at the Königliche Kunstschule Berlin.
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Biography of Adrienne Dore (excerpt)
Adrienne Dore, born Elizabeth Himmelsbach on May 22, 1907, and died November 26, 1992, was an American actress, model, and beauty queen.She was Miss Los Angeles and first runner-up at the 1925 Miss America pageant. Educated at a convent in Seattle, she trained in theater and dance, later performing in musical revues in New York.
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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.
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Biography of Arthur Froehlich (excerpt)
Arthur Froehlich (May 17, 1909 – October 3, 1985) was an American architect based in Beverly Hills. He founded his own firm in 1938 after working on the Santa Anita Racetrack, and gained fame with the design of Hollywood Park Racetrack.
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Biography of George Toley (excerpt)
George Andrew Toley, born on April 23, 1916, in Los Angeles and died on March 1, 2008, in Pasadena, was one of the most accomplished college tennis coaches in American history. He led the USC men's team from 1954 to 1980.
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Biography of Alexander Kanoldt (excerpt)
Alexander Kanoldt (29 September 1881 – 24 January 1939) was a German painter associated with New Objectivity and magic realism. Born in Karlsruhe, he was the son of Edmund Kanoldt, a Nazarene-style painter.After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, he moved to Munich in 1908, where he interacted with modernists like Alexej von Jawlensky and Wassily Kandinsky.
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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.
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Biography of Evelyn Keyes (excerpt)
Evelyn Keyes (November 20, 1916 – July 4, 2008) was an American actress best known for playing Suellen O’Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939). Born in Texas, she grew up in Georgia after her father’s death and later disclosed being sexually abused as a child.
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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.
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Biography of Richard Löwenthal (excerpt)
Richard Löwenthal (April 15, 1908 – August 9, 1991) was a German journalist and professor specializing in democracy, communism, and world politics.Born in Berlin, he was influenced by Max Weber and Karl Mannheim.A member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) until 1929, he left due to disagreements with Comintern tactics.
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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 Gabriel Figueroa (excerpt)
Gabriel Figueroa Mateos (April 24, 1907 – April 27, 1997) was one of the most renowned cinematographers of Mexico’s Golden Age of cinema.He was known for his mastery of chiaroscuro, precise framing, and painterly aesthetics. Trained in painting and violin, he began as a photographer before entering film in 1933.
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Biography of François Neuens (excerpt)
François Neuens (September 6, 1912 – August 27, 1985) was a Luxembourgish professional road cyclist. He won two stages of the 1939 Tour de France. During World War II, he claimed two victories in the Tour de Luxembourg. Neuens also competed in the individual and team road race events at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
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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 Gloria Campobello (excerpt)
Gloria (Soledad) Campobello Luna was born on October 21, 1911, and died on November 1, 1968.A prominent Mexican ballerina and choreographer, she was the younger half-sister of famed writer and dancer Nellie Campobello. Her birth name was likely Soledad, and she may have been born in 1911.
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Biography of Jane Rose (actress) (excerpt)
Jane Phin Rose (February 7, 1913 – June 29, 1979) was an American character actress, perhaps best remembered as Audrey Dexter, the gently befuddled mother-in-law of Cloris Leachman’s character (Phyllis Lindstrom) on the CBS sitcom Phyllis (1975–1977). Career Rose appeared in the original Broadway productions of The Time of the Cuckoo (1952–53), Orpheus Descending (1957), and The Gazebo (1958–59), as well as a revival of Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House (1959–60), in which she played Nurse Guinness.
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Biography of Norman Granz (excerpt)
Norman Granz (August 6, 1918 – November 22, 2001) was an American jazz record producer and concert promoter.He founded Clef, Norgran, Down Home, Verve, and Pablo labels, and launched the Jazz at the Philharmonic concert series. A champion of racial equality, he insisted on integrated audiences at his events.
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Biography of Wilber Brotherton Huston (excerpt)
Wilber Brotherton Huston (October 2, 1912 – May 25, 2006) was an American scientist and NASA mission director who coordinated seven satellite launches.He won the first Edison Scholarship Contest at the age of sixteen.Huston died in Fountain Hills, Arizona.
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Biography of Yvonne Dornès (excerpt)
Yvonne Dornès (born April 19, 1910, in Paris – died September 10, 1994, in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French high-ranking cultural official and co-founder of the Cinémathèque française in 1936 with Henri Langlois. She also played a central role between the French Family Planning Movement and Freemasonry.
Biography of Philippe Olive (actor) (excerpt)
Philippe Olive, born Philippe Jean-Pierre Olive on January 10, 1908 in Pantin, France, was a French actor who died on June 28, 1981 in Paris’s 13th arrondissement. Active in 1950s French cinema, he often played supporting roles. Notably, he portrayed the coroner in Minuit, quai de Bercy (1953) and Porthos in The Vicomte of Bragelone (1954).
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Biography of Eduard Heimann (excerpt)
Eduard Heimann (born July 11, 1889 – died May 31, 1967) was a German economist and social scientist who advocated ethical socialism combining social justice with a regulated market economy. He came from a Jewish family and was influenced by Christian socialist thought.
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Biography of Gustave Brickner (excerpt)
Gustave Adolph "Gus" Brickner was a famous swimmer hailing from Charleroi, Pennsylvania in the United States.Born Feb.10, 1912 to Gustave Adolph Brickner Sr.(1889 - 1918) and Philamena "Minnie" Buchrop (1885 - 1968).One of Five siblings, Gus's father died at age 29 when Gus was 6 years old.
Biography of Arne Thomas Olsen (excerpt)
Arne Thomas Olsen (3 December 1909 – 26 June 2000) was a Norwegian actor, stage producer, and theatre director.A central figure at Studioteatret, he helped launch the group in 1945 after secretly studying Stanislavski’s work during the Nazi occupation. Originally trained in mathematics, Olsen worked in insurance for fourteen years before committing fully to theatre.
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Biography of Johnnie Davis (actor) (excerpt)
John Gustave Davis (April 11, 1910 – October 28, 1983) was an American actor, singer, and trumpeter.Born in Brazil, Indiana, into a musical family, he began playing trumpet young and joined local orchestras as a teenager. By 1933, Davis was living in New York City, where he formed his own trio and developed a talent for scat singing.
Biography of José Manuel Fortuny (excerpt)
José Manuel Fortuny Arana (born March 22, 1916 – died March 18, 2005) was a key communist leader in Guatemala and a close adviser to President Jacobo Árbenz during his government from 1951 to 1954. Active in leftist politics since the 1940s, Fortuny founded the Guatemalan Communist Party and later led the Guatemalan Party of Labor (PGT) until the U.S.-backed coup of 1954.
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Biography of David Alfaro Siqueiros (excerpt)
David Alfaro Siqueiros, born José de Jesús Alfaro Siqueiros on December 29, 1896, and died January 6, 1974, was a major Mexican muralist, known for his innovative large-scale public artworks. He stood alongside Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco as one of the most iconic figures of the Mexican muralism movement.
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Biography of Fred Vlès (excerpt)
Fred Manuel Raoul Vlès (born January 22, 1885, in Le Havre and died July 2, 1944, in Dachau) was a French zoologist and biologist. He earned a doctorate in science and was a professor of biological physics at the Faculty of Medicine in Strasbourg from 1922 until his deportation in 1944.
Biography of Belford Hendricks (excerpt)
Belford Cabell "Sinky" Hendricks (June 11, 1909 (Wikipedia has May in error) – September 24, 1977) was an American composer, pianist, arranger, conductor, and producer, who also used aliases like Bill Henry. He is best remembered for his soft-R&B hits of the 1950s, co-written with Clyde Otis and Brook Benton, and for his refined, versatile arrangements.
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Biography of Charles de Noailles (excerpt)
Charles de Noailles (26 September 1891 – 28 April 1981), Viscount and French art patron, was a key figure of the interwar avant-garde. He married Marie-Laure Bischoffsheim in 1923 and commissioned architect Robert Mallet-Stevens to build the iconic Villa Noailles in Hyères.
Biography of Josefina Niggli (excerpt)
Josefina Niggli (13 July 1910 – 17 December 1983), born Josephine Niggli, was a Mexican-born Anglo-American novelist and playwright.She was the first—and for a time the only—Mexican American writing in English on Mexican themes, before the Chicano movement. Her work dealt progressively with gender, race, and cultural identity.
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Biography of Daniel J. Terra (excerpt)
Daniel J. Terra (June 8, 1911 – June 28, 1996) was an American chemist, businessman, and art collector of Italian descent. He earned a degree in chemical engineering in 1931 and founded Lawter Chemicals in Chicago in 1940. The global success of his ink and chemical firm enabled him to support his deep interest in art and culture, building a major art collection and supporting Chicago art institutions.
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Biography of Albert Johan Kramer (excerpt)
Albert Johan Kramer (Amsterdam, 15 June 1897 – Amsterdam, 4 April 1976) was possibly the tallest Dutchman of all time, with a reported height of 2.42 meters. He performed worldwide as a variety artist under the stage names Lofty and Jan van Albert.
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Biography of John McGraw (brigadier general) (excerpt)
John Robert McGraw (January 4, 1912 – June 19, 1976) was a U.S.Air Force brigadier general and flight surgeon during World War II.Born in Pennsylvania, he earned his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1934. After briefly practicing medicine, he joined the Army in 1937.
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Biography of Pier Giorgio Frassati (excerpt)
Pier Giorgio Frassati, born in Turin on April 6, 1901, and deceased there on July 4, 1925, was a student, mountaineer, and member of the Dominican Third Order.Coming from a bourgeois family, he devoted his youth to faith and charity, secretly helping Turin’s poor.
Biography of Dorothy Morrison (actress) (excerpt)
Dorothy Morrison (January 3, 1919 – October 18, 2017) was an American stage and screen actress. As a child, she appeared in several silent-era Our Gang short films created by Hal Roach. She was part of the series during the 1920s alongside her older brother Ernie Morrison, famously known as Sunshine Sammy. |
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